xbox vs wii mod

[kingjohn3]

Iv just recently crawled out from under a rock and found out that you can mod an original xbox and play all sorts of games on it and apparently you can do the same with a wii. Does anyine have any experience with this and if so whats the deal?

[Superchop]

What exactly do you want to know?

The Wii's softmod is a lot easier to do but the only emu's I've ever used on it were NES, Genesis and SNES.  The controller options for the Wii turned me off from using it for anything besides wii/gc games.

The Xbox softmod can be a huge pain.  There's a couple different ways to do it so it'll come down to personal preference and whichever you feel more comfortable with.  Coinops is what I have on my Xbox and I couldn't have asked for anything better.  Although, upgrading the hdd is another huge pain, and transfering the coinops files over is a lengthy process...It was well worth it to me in the end.

[irvgotti452]

Both have their own flavor. As far as emulation I'd give it to the XBOX since it emulates a lot of the older consoles and arcade games perfectly.

Also soft modding an XBOX is as easy as a copy of Splinter Cell and a save on a memory card. Upgrading the HDD only requires an older PC that anybody can find in their closet (Dell Dimension 2400 is the old PC I used).

I personally never used a WII for emulation much, but mine is soft modded, and the emulators I tried have worked well. Plus I like that the WII plays many of the N64 games flawlessly with the GameCube controllers (big plus for me).

My finial thought. Get em both they are cheap as f**k now. XBOX $20 (component cable $10-$15) and a WII >$50.

[wiggy]

What exactly do you want to know?

The Wii's softmod is a lot easier to do but the only emu's I've ever used on it were NES, Genesis and SNES.  The controller options for the Wii turned me off from using it for anything besides wii/gc games.

The Xbox softmod can be a huge pain.  There's a couple different ways to do it so it'll come down to personal preference and whichever you feel more comfortable with.  Coinops is what I have on my Xbox and I couldn't have asked for anything better.  Although, upgrading the hdd is another huge pain, and transfering the coinops files over is a lengthy process...It was well worth it to me in the end.

100% with this guy.

The Xbox mod is the way to go if you want diversity, and especially arcade.  The original Xbox is essentially a PC crammed into an ugly-as-sin shell.  It'll do what most any PC from that generation with a nice graphics card (from that generation) will do, just in a clean package with a simple console interface versus having to deal with Windows or the like.  Plus I think that the slim Xbox controllers are better suited to the task.

Although I don't recall getting the arcade ROMs onto the machine being all that tough.  I recall being able to burn them to a disc and just rip them to the appropriate folder via the menus.

[kingjohn3]

are the graphics from 8/16 bit games upscaled?

[FritzWhite]

Just keep in mind that with some (if not all) of the CoinOps emulator programs for Xbox you can't delete too many games from the list or it will crash the program. That's what happened to mine when I started removing sports and other games I didn't like.

Now they do give you an option to make a 'favorites' list of games that you like which in retrospect is what I should have used to separate good games from bad.

[Doom]

Wii modding is far more mature than Xbox modding. The only thing it has going for it over the Wii is XBMC but at this point you're better off with some other XBMC device.

Wii modding is great. Don't miss Project M.