i cannot comprehend how this thing went from an embarrassing mess to a genuinely really cool device, nor my role in doing so
So, you want to preserve the Niveus Edge's Xbox 360 Blades dashboard interface??
YEAH
But, you also want to see the Niveus Edge play Xbox 360 videogames without a DVD drive?
YEAAAAH
Congrats you unfucked the 360 they fucked up and now it will probably live longer than any other 360
I am only halfway through so this might get addressed, but I will totally forget if I don't comment now -
I am sure that there are some machining dorks out there who will happily reface those abhorrent copper slugs for you after your experiment is run.
Congrats on making this weird thing more useful!
I was kinda surprised by the HD DVD drive’s inability to handle game discs. It feels weird to me that something that says “Xbox 360” on the front and plugs into an Xbox 360 would only be a movie player.
I think they were so worried about security that they didn't want to risk game disc data being something that ever touched an external IO
Between this thing and the Cybernet keyboard PC you upgraded with a sound system, you seem to have a real knack for turning technological dead-ends into treasures.
Someone should give the same treatment to Phoenix Hyperspace's neat "dashboard" GUI, I'd totally download a HDD dump and somehow coax it into running in a VM or commodity PC.
if niveus could low-volume produce something like this in the mid-late 2000s i'm 100% sure the modern modding community could come up with a better one if there's any demand for it
