Buying a 2nd xbox?

do eet.

No, I'd just pay the £18. Well, I'd check game/gamestation first - they are selling them at £10.

Cash Converters/Generators/other pawn shops usually have them at well under £10 too, and I've been given an xbox for free at a bootsale before, so maybe try there. Unless you are in a rush, of course.

Exchanging games is a false economy (unless you get a game very cheap and are offered more than you paid for it).

I would keep some of them games like GTAIV, Ratchet and Clank and maybe Mirrors Edge and just put in the money yourself.

your getting ripped off on trade in values, dont do it

Well I would if I had the money, which I do not.

It's ultimately your own decision, but you're not getting a lot of money for these games, while some are quite good/popular. Don't you have a job or something? Earning 18 pounds shouldn't take too long and you can keep all your games then.

He can backup his PSP games.
Fifa 8 is just old.
Mirrors Edge is old.
And he can download GTA4 for PC.

Have you got the link for the Linux for the X-box?

I have a couple one Soft Moded and one Xecuter 3 Pro.

Would it work on both?

Cheers

Wish I found myself in a place near you guys- upon seeing this thread I burned into town (foolishly wearing the coat I wandered in with this morning) with the intention of netting myself a new media player: £25 and up if they had them at all.
I know £25 (probably £30 by the time I found another remote) is still stunning for an XBMC grade media player but £20 was my limit.

@Mikeypr http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page is the jumping off point but auto installer deluxe has a few precompiled ones. They can be replacement dashes or they can be "regular" homebrew applications and softmod/hardmod matters little beyond say those LED and scrolling text things you can add onto the box and more general hardware expansion (hardmod/TSOP being able to do it more effectively).

@OP you say linux- if you mean that you could probably net a better PC (certainly a more extensible one). XBMC I already praised.

Do you not have a CeX near you?

Yeah I went in one on the loop around town (nothing in there), I probably could get something if I went to the outskirts but it is way too hot for that today.

There is a fair bit of tech industry/some BT labs around here though so I can understand them being in short supply.

Indeed.
I'd be willing to sell it to you for like £20 with XMBC but the postage would probably would not make it worthwhile.

Whilst I love my xbmc xboxen (three of them), I wouldn't pay much more than £5 for one these days. XBMC for xbox has been discontinued (at least by the official dev team) and is pretty much useless for watching contemporary content (I still have lots of SD xvid stuff, so they come in handy for that).

Finding remotes is the hardest part about it, I bought quite a few when gamestation were selling them off at 99p preowned, and I bought up a few of the brand new argos £2 ones when they cleared out but I've since given most away - wish I'd kept more spare, just in case.

For contemporary stuff I've moved onto using a SFF c2d 1.8ghz I picked up for £40, sold the monitor for £15 which paid for me a MS HD-DVD drive (had no real use for the drive, but it came with a xbox360 BT remote), a BT dongle and a wlan card. Got it dualbooting ubuntu (XBMC) and osx. Works fantastically, and after using the very sluggish xbox xbmc for so long it is like a breath of fresh air. So snappy and responsive.

XBMC for xbox served me well for many years though - glad they didn't stop developing it all together after the death of the xbox, and moved onto other platforms.

I recently got an Xbox packaged DVD kit for £5, but without internet connection and a big hard drive you realize how hard it is to use XBMC.

One of my xbox only has stock 8gb hard drive (other two are 500gb each, but they are for games more than media) and works fine - you can just setup a share on your PC and watch everything over the network. Would be too much of a hassle copying to the xbox via ftp all the time when you can just stream from a NAS or your PC.

I would do that, but my Wireless router is downstairs, and my PC and xbox are upstairs.

So run a length of cat5 between the xbox and PC.

"My" wireless router is in a neighbours building, my xboxen, PC and switch are in this building. :>

Yeah, but can I still access the net on the PC if the Xbox is on the net at the same time?

Is your pc wireless? or is that wired? If the pc has wireless you can just enable ICS and the xbox can share the net connection from the PC. Just enable ICS and create a user account (loads of guides on the net showing how to do it).

Both PC and xbox can use the net, and the xbox will be able to play any videos you have stored on the PC.

Yeah, my PC has wireless.
I might do that then.