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Shadow Hog @ShadowHog5/21/2024, 3:07 PM

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gravis again @cathoderaydude5/20/2024, 5:12 PM

Video: The Niveus Edge Resurrection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbDgSgHfcZw

i cannot comprehend how this thing went from an embarrassing mess to a genuinely really cool device, nor my role in doing so

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/21/2024, 6:24 AM

aahahahahahahhaha OKAY SO,

I've just been informed by a commenter on this video that, although I would never have tried this anyway, if I had decided to attempt to upgrade the Edge from 2007 firmware all the way to present in order to download games from Live, it would have bricked the machine.

With firmware that old, one of the stages in the upgrade process would have been to apply a patch to the DVD drive to allow it to read a new disc format MS introduced late in the machine's life, and when it hit that point it would have hung forever and never worked again.

Beautiful

#DRM is highly effective and in no way consumer hostile

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NeckSpike @neckspike5/20/2024, 5:32 PM

Congrats you unfucked the 360 they fucked up and now it will probably live longer than any other 360

Ghostpaw Snowmiaux @snowmiaux5/20/2024, 6:10 PM

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.

@VinDuv5/20/2024, 7:45 PM

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.

Kauko @kauko5/22/2024, 12:38 AM

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

Kodi Kabuto @lineum-cyanide5/20/2024, 7:53 PM

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.

ninee!@0x9E015/20/2024, 11:22 PM

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

Mateus Auri @MateusAuri5/22/2024, 7:33 AM

just ran across this sensory hell, it seemed appropriate here
meme saying "run, he's got the xbox 360 power supply"

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Plum @plumpan5/21/2024, 6:27 AM

I hate the 360 so much

So many games I love on it but shit like this

EDIT: too sleepy to remember if the 360 forced firmware updates if it had any kind of network connection and thus would have bricked anyone's niveus edge that was still being used in the early 2010s????? I think it wouldn't if it wasn't on live ????

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/21/2024, 6:35 AM

I'm almost certain I remember seeing playstation 4 type messages along the lines of "you can either update or sign out of Live" which obviously anyone would hit yes on

Plum @plumpan5/21/2024, 6:37 AM

I'm asuuuuuming that the average Niveus Edge Owner wouldn't have been signed in to begin with,

But, if they were, it would be VERY ironic if the original reason of discarding the DVD drive was to prevent bricking the system from thermal damage, when in fact the thermals were perfectly fine but the lack of DVD drive would have bricked them instead.

porolive @CCKaren5/21/2024, 12:07 PM

i love seeing people discover in real time how horrible and pointlessly hostile microsoft's console hardware is.

that idiot who has bad opinions on things @daemonspudguy5/21/2024, 4:13 PM

Fucking durm always having to ruin everything.