Watch: How to mod your Xbox 360 to play imports

By Spencer . November 21, 2006 . 12:00pm

360mods.net has a detailed video explaining what you need to do to mod your Xbox 360 without using a modchip. Instead they use modified firmware to alter what the Xbox 360 can play. Before you breakout the screwdriver realize that the process is hard and messy. Also you’re going to lose your ability play games over Live and playing pirated games is illegal. Probably the biggest benefit of this is going region free, but since many Asian releases are already region free this might not be worth risk for most gamers. Still it’s an interesting watch just to see how it is done.

TAGS: Homebrew, Microsoft, Xbox 360

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Textbook

I made the video and own the website mentioned. There is an error in your posting. The modification shown is the DVD drive firmware hack. It allows you to play games backed up to DVD+R DL. It does not bypass any region protection though. If your game is region-locked, it will not play , no matter what you try. The modification shown in this video will not help you play region-protected imports.

Snake

Hey Textbook,
Thanks for the clarification otherwise i would have gone into much trouble as i never opened it before.I heard somewhere that Play-asia is selling mod chips which makes 360 region free.Is it true?

blobby

hahahaha

Jess

when you get banned for life... how will they know you won't just make another account? i've always wondered that...

mark420

because, they dont flag your account, u can still use your account, they flag your xbox, i got banned a few months ago, and discovered they were continuing to charge me for live, so now i just loaded it onto another xbox, and its fine. out of luck on the getting your live back on that orginal modded box, i have heard of some drastic measures of re-flashing the chip that flagged you, but i have never found someone technical enough to do it. let alone for within the price of buying and modding a new xbox.