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Benefits of Mod Chip over TSOP?


Tingle64
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Hello, I am new to the original Xbox community (Recently picked up a 1.0 and am working on getting it modded) and was wondering if there are any benefits of having a modchip over TSOP Flashing. I know that 1.6 rev. boards need a chip to be hard modded but I've also scene people install LCD's of the front of their chipped consoles, so I was curious as to what kind of info gets displayed on em, and if there are any other chip-exclusive functions.        

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  • 2 weeks later...

The goal of TSOP flashing and using a modchip is to be able to use a custom BIOS. Both methods achieve this. A modchip, however, typically has more advanced features. A lot of them have multiple BIOS banks, letting you switch between different BIOSes. Many modchips also have menus on them that make certain tasks easier, like HDD upgrades, EEPROM backing up, and FTP access.

If you just want to hardmod your console and be done, then TSOP flashing is fine. If you want to tinker with your Xbox more, consider a modchip.

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From personal experience with flashing a tsop with a bad image, a modchip is much safer to test bios images on.  If you somehow brick a modchip (unlikely) you can just replace it.  with a bad tsop flash you can swap the tsop from another console of the same revision.

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