The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨PriorityMotif@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrogaming@lemmy.world⁩

The Xbox 360 just had it’s 20th anniversary. I’m not sure how I feel about it as a console today as most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives. I guess most of the nostalgia will be from playing online, which I never got the chance to do.

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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
why you gotta go around spreading so much hate around dude…

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LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

most of the games are available on pc

Well not Kinect games…

So uuhhhhh checkout this Dance Central 3 decompilation project that’s currently going on and with due time and a bit of luck we should be liberate the only Kinect game worth playing from it’s jail

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drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The NES having released in North America in 1985, this means that the 360 is now roughly as old as the NES was when the 360 came out.

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- UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I remember getting my NES for Xmas…
  
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  - drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So for you I guess the proper comparison would be that the Xbox 360 is now as old as the IBM System/360 mainframe was when the NES released in NA. Image
    
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t need this kind of negativity.

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VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s worth picking one up just to play Fable II, imo.

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billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Way to make me feel old… I mean I am but you didn’t need to rub it in.

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emb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Definitely have nostalgia for a lot of the early games, mainly the ones coming out before PS3 support basically hit parity.

Underrated aspect that I really miss was the old interface. The Windows 8 stuff they updated it to is so inferior to the blades.

Wonder if there’s any homebrew fix to keep the old UI but be able to play all the games?

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- LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can get the old Dashboard’s running using the Proto stealth server, after the plugin is loaded in DashLaunch you can just launch the .xex file of the old dash and it should work, and if you want it by default you can set your Xbox to launch it by default with DashLaunch.
  
  I wish I could link you a proper write-up but I haven’t found one, just stuff scattered around random YT vids and Discord.
  Also, no clue if DashLaunch works with Bad Update, be careful.
  
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SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No, it came out a couple of years ago

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LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I just modded mine after not playing it for years. I forgot just how insane the library is for it and how great the graphics hold up in 2025.

Its also so nice to actually own games and not have them taken away from some license BS.

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- burrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How is the modding on it these days? I have a modded one from a long time ago and I did a modded firmware on the dvd drive in the 360 so it would ignore protections and another mod on a Liteon dvd burner in an old Windows XP computer for writing the games.
  
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  - LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s really easy. I had no microsoldering skills before, but Ive soldered many other parts so I have experience. I’ve modded 6 Xboxes for friends and family and now I can do one in about 30 minutes including flashing the NAND.
    
    Many people are going the bad update route where you must softmod the Xbox Everytime you turn it on. Sometimes it takes 20 seconds, sometimes you have to try 10 or 15 times to get the mod to work. The people behind bad update are working on it constantly, so who knows, they may find a way to make it boot instantly 100% of the time.
    
    But for now hard modding and soldering are the best permanent ways to mod the Phat and Slim models of the Xbox 360.
    
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  - Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s gotten better thanks to the softmods coming out lately like BadUpdate and BadAvatar.
    
    I remember reading and watching videos about the DVD firmware hax. C4Eva, right?
    
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rozodru@pie.andmc.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Think I went through 5 or 6 360s due to RRoD. Remember trying EVERYTHING to get those things to work when it happened. Like wrapping it in a towel and turning it on.

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- gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The towel trick worked on mine and it still works as of yesterday
  
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yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

most of the nostalgia will be from playing online

It is. We’ll never get that feeling back. It was a whole vibe and now its over.

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- kratoz29@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  We’ll never get that feeling back.
  
  What are you talking about? Console gamers still need to pay to play online!
  
  Source I am a console gamer :(
  
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- k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What was so different about it compared to now? I only played SFV online.
  
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  - yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Basically everyone had a microphone because they came with the console. People actually spoke in the lobbies, party chat was rare and discord wasnt a thing yet. There was an excitement around it because its all fairly new, and pro gamer / content creator / videogame influencer etc didnt exist as career paths. Most vocal people were still racist x-phobic slur-slinging hate-jockeys, but everybody was there purely to have fun.
    
    Lots of tiny tiny differences that by themselves are inconsequential, but added up to something big.
    
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AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
360 is definitely my favorite retro console, hands down, due to nostalgia. Feels kinda weird calling it retro, but that’s neither here nor there for me. I never had xboxlive, so playing online was never a thing for me.

Out of any console out there, it’s absolutely the one I’ve played the most, by a pretty bug margin if I had to guess. Somehow I’ve played it more than my 2nd favorite retro console: PS2.

I might make some people feel old, but I was in elementary school when my family somehow got a white model with the hard drive attached to the top whatever year that was, that December. I also don’t remember how we got our black 360 with the seemingly safer internal removable hard drive, but I absolutely LOVE it all these years later.

I think I would absolutely cry if I lost the hard drive for it because of just how much memories are on it. It would be worse than the feeling I got when I realized I lost the memory card for the family PS2 because I didn’t pack it in my backpack before being forced to move.

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daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Damn, that’s crazy the 360 is old enough to fuck.

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- DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The 360 is old enough to die in war but not drink alcohol in the US!
  
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  - LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I often wonder if the US is wrong for keeping drinking age at 21 or if we’re the wrong ones with it at 18
    
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  - Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s funny because they did send 360s to the troops in Iraq (and later Afghanistan).
    
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UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I loved my many Xbox360s! Either the build quality was poor or I was just very unlucky.

I went through at least five machines I think. It started on day one where I got home and started playing Just Cause 2 but the machine kept locking up after 20 minutes of playing.

Two machines suffered from the red ring of death and another had the DVD drive go bad.

However, I have great memories of playing Battlefield Bad Company 2, especially when I got my 5.1 surround sound system.

Was that the game that also had the Vietnam DLC? Love that too.

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v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How dare you lie on the internet

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9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was a student during the 360s life

So much split screen Halo

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smeg@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The 360 era was the only time I remember xbox being ahead. I knew nobody who bought a ps3, but spent plenty of time playing halo on various friends’ machines.

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- Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I was on PS3 :) I loved Uncharted, Motorstorm, and Little Big Planet, but I was super jealous of my friends who had 360s for a while.
  
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treno_rosso@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For me personally the best console of all time.

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LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I saved up to buy a 360 just so I could play Deadrising. Totally worth it.

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- Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Deadrising runs great on PC tho - played it on my Steam Deck
  
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  - PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    At the time it would have been worth it to pick up a lot of games over an expensive pc. I’m not sure I would go out of my way to buy one today since most of the good games are on pc and can play on a pc without a gpu. If you find one for $20 at a garage sale then I would probably get it if you’re into collecting games.
    
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EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hello fellow LGR watcher!

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- PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m so glad that he showed some games that aren’t shooters/sports or pc games. I found there’s a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up. I’ve had a 360 collecting dust that I picked up cheap years ago and never really played it. I’ll probably pick up a few more games for it if I find them for cheap.
  
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  - papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I found there’s a combo Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts / Viva Pinata that I decided to pick up.
    
    Oh my God. This combo came with my 360. I never played the pinata game but banjo kazooie nuts and bolts is an actual masterpiece of a game if you’re in to vehicle building. It has to be the best game I’ve ever played in that genre, and it’s not even close.
    
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borf@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
crumbles into dust

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Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives

Let me play Lost Odyssey on PC you cowards

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- ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I miss Kaim and Sarah
  
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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Xenia does pretty well these days and keeps getting better
  
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- Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Emulation General Wiki
  
  Just look at the Xbox section. You got this :)
  
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  - A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lost Odyssey is playable on Xenia, but unfortunately it still requires some work arounds. It would be nice to just play the game.
    
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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I miss Xbox Live Arcade with the requirement that all games have free demos.

Remember demos? Or magazine demos? Or magazines? 😉

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- DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I remember getting CD demos in cereal boxes lol
  
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  - ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Demos? I think I still have my full version of Roller Coaster Tycoon I got from a cereal box somewhere.
    
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- weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We still have demos, on Steam anyway.
  
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  - chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Steam has a lot more demos these days than it used to, and it’s great. I do not like buying, trying, and refunding games. But demos? Hell yeah. I’ll try those on a whim.
    
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- NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I miss my stack of PlayStation magazine PS2 demo discs
  
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