Post by GeekVarietyCustoms on Aug 2, 2015 9:30:07 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone knows or cares, but I'm a pretty big gamer. I use to work for gaming website Destructoid before they went to shit, and I wrote, I guess you could say 'professionally' (?), for their toy site Tomopop. I mean I got paid to write for them and I wasn't doing anything else at the time so haha, yeah. My bona fides aside, I am pretty hardcore into gaming and have in the paste tried my hand at doing some console mods. Some turned out better than others, while many turned out like total crap haha.
So about two weeks ago I got an original xbox again from a local games store I just found out about that is in the area. I hadn't planned on picking it up for anything other than doing game streams of what is now considered "retro" gaming. I thought it would be fun to go back and play older games and stream those as well as newer PC and XBOXONE and XBOX360 games, just to shuffle things up a bit and get a bigger variety to my channel that I'm putting together.
Anyhow last night after I came home from Comicon here in Richmond, I was so damn tired from walking around for nearly 6 hours shooting pictures of cosplayers and such for my friends website that I fell asleep almost instantly upon getting home. When I woke up I had an idea I thought was basically me reinventing sliced bread, but like all good ideas, someone had this one first.
My idea was to take an original xbox and mod it into a slim line xbox.
So I wanted to make one of these...
into one of these...
Like I said, I thought I had this brilliant idea that hadn't been done, but after doing some research today I found an entire forum of people that had done this mod to varying degrees, with the picture above being almost exactly what I plan on doing at some point. In the end I'm not as concerned about the button color, but I do plan on removing some of the details on the front, cutting it down and painting it white and adding a large fan in the middle of the top to keep the thing cool. The fan will be inside the case mind you and the xbox logo piece will just be basically a speaker grill also painted white.
Currently I'm looking for an extra case to work on. I don't want to start this project on the only case I have, were something to go wrong and I screw the damn thing up beyond repair.
So about two weeks ago I got an original xbox again from a local games store I just found out about that is in the area. I hadn't planned on picking it up for anything other than doing game streams of what is now considered "retro" gaming. I thought it would be fun to go back and play older games and stream those as well as newer PC and XBOXONE and XBOX360 games, just to shuffle things up a bit and get a bigger variety to my channel that I'm putting together.
Anyhow last night after I came home from Comicon here in Richmond, I was so damn tired from walking around for nearly 6 hours shooting pictures of cosplayers and such for my friends website that I fell asleep almost instantly upon getting home. When I woke up I had an idea I thought was basically me reinventing sliced bread, but like all good ideas, someone had this one first.
My idea was to take an original xbox and mod it into a slim line xbox.
So I wanted to make one of these...
into one of these...
Like I said, I thought I had this brilliant idea that hadn't been done, but after doing some research today I found an entire forum of people that had done this mod to varying degrees, with the picture above being almost exactly what I plan on doing at some point. In the end I'm not as concerned about the button color, but I do plan on removing some of the details on the front, cutting it down and painting it white and adding a large fan in the middle of the top to keep the thing cool. The fan will be inside the case mind you and the xbox logo piece will just be basically a speaker grill also painted white.
Currently I'm looking for an extra case to work on. I don't want to start this project on the only case I have, were something to go wrong and I screw the damn thing up beyond repair.
