installing xbmc on an original xbox

smallBiscuit

Hi, I got my hands on an original xbox purely for the purposes of installing xbmc on it.
Following the howto's in threads here and elsewhere, I can seee how to do it, but I have a bit of a problem, the dashboard is an old one 4.x I think (cant remember what it is and i'm not near it to check)
I went to xbox live to update it, but I cant get in, it says that live is done, probably because it is an ancient xbox. How can i get xbmc onto it?

I haven't got any games except spy vs spy, which doesn't upddate the dash for me. Is live down for good for the orig xbox? or what games will update my dash?

Any help? Please

craze7

Halo 2 and far cry as far as i know.. I'd imagine there is loads!

witnessmenow

I have one ridiculous way to update your Dash without needing a game.

I wrote the guide for it during the week, its not really 100% finished (needs pictures) but it should be clear enough to get through

Its here

smallBiscuit

witnessmenow wrote: »

I have one ridiculous way to update your Dash without needing a game.

I wrote the guide for it during the week, its not really 100% finished (needs pictures) but it should be clear enough to get through

Its here

Looks easy enough, but ......
The link to the cd image just points to imgburm.com, a mistake me thinks

witnessmenow

This is why you should never release anything that isnt tested properly


Sorry about that, Link is now fixed, thanks for the feedback

bazwaldo

I updated my old xboxs dash last night. It had kernel and dash 4817 or something. Put in a game wchich supports live. Loaded game, selected live, and then create. It installed something and rebooted. I did the same again and this time it downloaded something from the web and rebooted again. Took the game out, rebooted and checked the dash again. Kernel still the same, and dash is now 5960 I think.

Hopefully get to try the hotswap mod next week.