Hello again everyone! It is a beautiful day today in Seattle and I am excited to go home from work! As many of you know, I’ve recently bought myself a sweet new TV. It’s a bit silly to say but the exact thing that inspired me to drop a ton of cash on my 37in LCD HDTV is actually a very minute detail of one particular game. Dead Rising, as I’ve blogged about before, is an AWESOME game. However, it has one terrible flaw. The text in this game is terribly hard to read on older, non HD television sets and though the story and such are not exactly the highlight of this game as much as the gameplay and concept are, I really wanted to experience this game, and all future Xbox 360 games I bought to the absolute fullest… I mean, I might as well right? There’s nothing better I should be saving up for at this age right? Like real estate, investments, ROTH IRAS, car, savings………
Anywhoo, now that I have this amazing system (360) and this amazing tv and amazing sound system, and amazing buddies and girlfriend to enjoy it all with me i’m left with a terrible dilemma. Yes, thats right, my xbox. It’s just taking up space now right? I have a system that outfoxes it in every way shape and form AND all that right? WRONG! Exxie, you’re future is still bright! Here are my plans for you!
- Delete everything off of your hard drive (backup games, pictures, music, whatever… you do have a 120 gig hard drive afterall! Much better than 360’s weak 20 gig)
- Throw away all the games that aren’t *the best freaking games that ever came out for original xbox* – because who the hell needs a bunch of crappy 2nd tier xbox games when you have 3 next gen systems on the horizon?
- Install the latest Xbox Media Center as the dashboard – Best dashboard alternative in my opinion
- Rip all the best games onto the hard drive – only like 4-5 games worth. Only the best.
- Put on all the essential emulator softwares (SNES, Genesis, N64, Mame) and roms (legal backups of course)
- Make sure all the above combined takes up no more than 60 gigs leaving a full 100 for media center capabilities.
- Backup ALL my photo’s and music onto the hard drive.
- backup all my Tv shows onto the hard drive
- Skin the entire interface with MC360. It is a xbox 360 lookalike skin for those who are a fan of the 360 UI.
- Maybe: Get a wireless controller!
Finally , my original xbox will get a complete refreshing and will seem like a commpletely new piece of hardware in my room while doubling as the perfect accompaniment to make up for the xbox 360’s terrible support for media of divx or xvid types.
Until next time!
Austin
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