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Wow. i guess i did all the things i needed to do then. Yeah when i had the mobo out the last time to TSOP it, i was curious as when i was gaming with it, i noticed the temps were over 60C which seemed hot for the little PIII. i couldn't find my arctic silver 5 so i grabbed the ole Cooler Master paste (the cheap stuff in the purple tube). That old "compound" was completely dried up and was a pain to remove. I was able to get the bigger chunks off with a plastic spudger and the remaining was gone with the help of Goo-B-Gone. Thanks for keeping me honest, guys. Now I'm 10C cooler and the compound is barely broken in yet. The only mod i wasn't interested in doing at this time was the 12V fan. I'm still considering doing the slim mod so if I end up doing that i'll do the fan too. I probably have a box of old brushless PC fans that i pulled from old PC's. I'm just having too much fun actually playing these games (most for the first time)

oh yes. I did that when i soft modded. got pretty good at removing the mobo as i did the tsop a week later after playing it softmodded.

Hello all. I am the proud owner of a v1 OG Xbox. I picked it up at a thrift store a couple weeks ago for $23 CDN taxes in. Didn't come with any accessories or cables but those were easy to find. I had never owned an Xbox previously so everything was all brand new to me. I managed to soft mod it the next day, but wanted more so upgraded to 40gb IDE that I had laying around but wanted more, TSOP'd it and upgraded the HD to a 200gb IDE. Fixed up a crystal S controller as the cord had a break it in. Added a white LED in it just because i thought it looked cooler. Glad to have found this great site. I'll lurk around and chime in from time to time.

I agree with everything both Big F and Wikati said. With Nintendo confirming there won't be a VC for the switch, that leads me to believe that whatever IP they're trying to protect will be released on a classic console system or more likely as part of Switch Online. The problem I foresee is a matter that only time will tell -- Will there be individual games released for download or is it basically a streaming service for the games? The website for Switch Online says there will be 20 titles available (all the staple Mario games of course) and you can play them anytime anywhere. How they implement that we'll have to see when it's released. Of course they say the ubiquitous "more to be released in the future" I'm purely speculating and honestly haven't done that much research on this but i'm guessing it's going to be the typical "you can play the as long as you're an online subscriber" the same way that Playstation does it with their free game per month. Personally I'd rather pay a dollar here or there to purchase an individual title (and in most cases this would be at least the 2nd time purchasing it). That way I'd own the Rom and could do with it as I see fit. I'd even be ok if they threw some DRM on there to stop the pirates from distributing the ROM that I bought. For people like me who are not serious collectors, aside from forking out $500 how else am I going to enjoy Bonk's Adventure on the NES. Even the NES and SNES classics that Nintendo graciously produced without a stock means of adding/removing sofware... what happened with those? Nintendo held back production (claiming there were manufacturing issues/shortage of parts) only to artificially inflating demand. Then the ones that were purchased were snatched up bu hardware scapers charging 5 times retail to the foolish few who have never heard of a raspberry pi and emuparadise. The used market is frankly disgusting but completionism being what it is for collectors I can understand it to a point. People who illegially download ROMs aren't collectors. They're average people who occasionally want to play an old game for nostalgia's sake. The developers don't make money from sales of used games nor does Nintendo. It's all just a big mess when companies get up in arms about piracy 20+ years later. Just because you CAN shut down a website that's distributing ROM's doesnt mean you should or HAVE to. It's just a bully tactic. Every console Nintendo's released has had some form of anti-piracy. Smart people figured out how to allow for homebrew and ROM's to be played on them. With the exception of the Wii U, I don't think many people even pirated any of their games while the consoles were still current. It's only after that generation sales have died that people seem to get interested in modding and picking up the units on the used market. I watched a really well done youtube vid about this where the presenter went through all the sales figures and it showed that if anything, the ROM's and console modding HELP sales of the next generation. The same as mp3 downloads hurt record sales but improved concert sales. It's all to do with industries not understanding what the market wants and sticking to old distribution and marketing ways.