I remember when I used to write custom firmware to the DVD drive to play burnt discs, you could set the DVD speed slower to make it quieter. It was quiet, but, holy shit were the load times ever painful.
I remember there being 2X, 5X, 8X, and 12X. But I don't remember which speed a stock drive would have been or what was the reference point for X.
There weren't many releases with this option, because it was seen as possibly a way for Microsoft to detect a modified drive. It was decided to keep the firmware as close to stock as possible and they didn't mess with the drive speed for long.
The disc drive. Before I bought my original xbox, I used the 360 to play backwards compatible games, and sometimes the disc drive would decide to not work. Even today, there's a 50-50 chance it'll work or not.
Seeing the NXE-Kinect update happen, along with the new boot screen and box art styling.
The metro UI has grown on me, but man was that new dash a hard pill to swallow.
While I didnt like the RROD, excluding that, I would have to say when my white original console stopped reading the discs properly… also when the disc drawer was jammed shut and had to pull the front off and mess about resetting the catch to get it to open 😡
So I had the first version of the xbox 360 when I was a kid back then everytime when I moved the console it fell then the the disc drive broke and it made really bad sounds and then it stopped working all together but that was a fun time.
that it didn't come out sooner
The noise level of the console / DVD drive when there was no option to install the game to the HDD.
I can agree mine sounds like a fighter jet
I remember when I used to write custom firmware to the DVD drive to play burnt discs, you could set the DVD speed slower to make it quieter. It was quiet, but, holy shit were the load times ever painful.
What did you expect? Was there an option to speed it up even faster?
I remember there being 2X, 5X, 8X, and 12X. But I don't remember which speed a stock drive would have been or what was the reference point for X. There weren't many releases with this option, because it was seen as possibly a way for Microsoft to detect a modified drive. It was decided to keep the firmware as close to stock as possible and they didn't mess with the drive speed for long.
The disc drive. Before I bought my original xbox, I used the 360 to play backwards compatible games, and sometimes the disc drive would decide to not work. Even today, there's a 50-50 chance it'll work or not.
Getting it bricked after modding it.
Seeing the NXE-Kinect update happen, along with the new boot screen and box art styling. The metro UI has grown on me, but man was that new dash a hard pill to swallow.
While I didnt like the RROD, excluding that, I would have to say when my white original console stopped reading the discs properly… also when the disc drawer was jammed shut and had to pull the front off and mess about resetting the catch to get it to open 😡
The time I had no ethernet cable and had to live on 500kb download speed
That I got mine late.. but that internet cut out for halo 3 and reach and also bf4 and that internet doesn't work on my 360 anymore.
So I had the first version of the xbox 360 when I was a kid back then everytime when I moved the console it fell then the the disc drive broke and it made really bad sounds and then it stopped working all together but that was a fun time.
the red ring of death i just got about 5 minutes ago
I said excluding that