WTB or Borrow: Datel Action Replay for Original XBoX

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Kiwi1971

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#72773 2-Dec-2010 13:15

Bit of a strange one but I am looking at turning my old original XboX into a media centre but all of the non-chip instructions include the use of the above Action Replay with a memory card in order to do it as it involves manipulating a save game profile in Splinter Cell or another game off a small list.
I have the games but not the AR Card

On the off chance someone had one kicking around that they can either sell or lend me I am asking here.

Unless someone else knows a better way to do this project

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#412065 2-Dec-2010 13:26

Are you set on doing it non chip?

I used to have one around the place, but probably no way in hell I will find it now. It was just a USB cable and an overpriced memory device. I still have the 007 agent under fire savegame on my xbox so I could copy that to a memory card if you have no luck finding one elsewhere.

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#412075 2-Dec-2010 13:42

richms: Are you set on doing it non chip?

I used to have one around the place, but probably no way in hell I will find it now. It was just a USB cable and an overpriced memory device. I still have the 007 agent under fire savegame on my xbox so I could copy that to a memory card if you have no luck finding one elsewhere.

yes, non-chip. I have 2 of the games that you can use for manipulating save games. Splinter Cell and Mechassult so that is good, just need the Action Replay USB thingy

The guide I am looking at using is this one LINK

It looks very convoluted, especially obtaing some of the files and quite possibly beyond me but I thought it an interesting project. Shame to have an XboX just growing dust in the cupboard and you can't even give them away these days. Especially as mine has a very temporamental AV socket that can take ages wiggling to get a picture.

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#412078 2-Dec-2010 13:50

Kiwi1971:
It looks very convoluted, especially obtaing some of the files and quite possibly beyond me but I thought it an interesting project. Shame to have an XboX just growing dust in the cupboard and you can't even give them away these days. Especially as mine has a very temporamental AV socket that can take ages wiggling to get a picture.

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If you want to give it away Ill give it a home ;)

Ive got a chipped XBox running XBMC for the bedroom, great little unit, except the laser/DVD drive is being a bit picky now and wont read all DVDs..... been watching out for cheap/free Xbox for parts on TM etc but everyone ramps the price up beyond belief.

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#412085 2-Dec-2010 14:03

I know. My one here is starting to get real shakey with crashes often while watching things in XBMC, its not the software since I havent changed that for years and years from back when it was stable.

Probably capacitors or something drying out. In anycase, someone with a modded xbox can probably get any saved game onto a standard memory card, whereas I seem to recall the actionreplay adapter and software would only work on old windows and only read and write to the included memory card.

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#412090 2-Dec-2010 14:10

xpd:

If you want to give it away Ill give it a home ;)

Ive got a chipped XBox running XBMC for the bedroom, great little unit, except the laser/DVD drive is being a bit picky now and wont read all DVDs..... been watching out for cheap/free Xbox for parts on TM etc but everyone ramps the price up beyond belief.

I just looked and you can get one BN for $45, or a modded one with bids starting at $50
I have a stack of titles for it. I wonder if anyone still buys them.

Mind you last week I bought a small IBM ThinkCentre with a 3.0GZ P4 and 1GB Ram from work for $40 before the recyclers took it which I set up as a media server with 500GB internal and 1T ext connected by USB so I may never get round to doing anything with the XBrick. I mostly wanted to see if I could.
The HDD would probably need swapping out before it was really useful anyway.

If you can take it away you can have for $25

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#412100 2-Dec-2010 14:20

They only take PATA drives, and the 2 sata to pata adapters I have tried on them have had seriously slow bootup times - 2 mins till executer shows under the flubber animation on one of them and a decent chance I would get the error screen on the other.

Since pata drives are generally either small, half dead, or usually both there is little you can put in them.

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#412103 2-Dec-2010 14:22

richms: They only take PATA drives, and the 2 sata to pata adapters I have tried on them have had seriously slow bootup times - 2 mins till executer shows under the flubber animation on one of them and a decent chance I would get the error screen on the other.

Since pata drives are generally either small, half dead, or usually both there is little you can put in them.

You have put me off the idea completely now

Nothing to see here.

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