Two things:
1) Fuck off ethic, I'm not pirating so kiss my ass.
2) I could care less about xbox live, I don't pay for it and when I did it was a waste.
When I would get games back in MI a guy there I knew at the time lived a few doors down and he would make a backup of the games for me as I bought them. One of them is Halo Reach, and the original has come up missing after coming back from storage.
I have the backup copy, and want to play but obviously they will not play unless I modify the xbox. Since I am not pirating, I'm trying to avoid opening the xbox just to dick around with flashing the drive, which requires money to be spent on different connectors and crap. I could re-buy the game used for all that.
My Wii I was able to softmod, and googling about this for the 360 lands me in lies, confusion, and endless threads like "stupid newb hacks are for kids".
Has anyone here done a softmod?
Or if you have done the invasive surgery and hardware modified it, how was it?
I would just buy a pre-flashed disk drive, but my understanding is it has to be your drive so it matches the system, some kind of key or something.