Xbox 360 Mods

As a serious player, I like to see games before they hit our shores in North America. But more than that, I'm always looking for the hottest games and the most unique that I can get my hands on. Unfortunately, many of these games do not come from our side of the ocean from Japan. In general, since the days of the NES Nintendo, the Japanese players have been very often unique and sometimes much better than their games in North America Parts Counter. I was very fortunate to play several of these Japanese games while I was living in Japan, but when I returned home to Canada, I could not find many games that I played with so much pleasure in Japan. So I searched and searched and found exactly what I needed to be able to just put the Japanese games console and really start playing again. What I found was a mod chip for my PlayStation. And I've been using mod chips ever since. Having recently bought and installed my Xbox 360 mod chip in my system - and I have games from Japan on the road.

Thus, everything is a mod chip? Let me explain. A modification chip or mod chip is a device used to play import, backup, or sets of home brew. Mod Chips first came into "fame" when die hard, hard core gamers who were tired of the supply of Slim who were available to them in the U.S., wanted to get their hands on the best and most unique Japanese games coming out for their console games. This is not new, even the Nintendo NES has a device that allowed gamers to plug Japanese Famicom cartridges into their USA NES system so they can play this very unique Japanese games, or the last offer Mario was only available (or came out much sooner) in Japan.

Mod chips are available for all major video game consoles, including Xbox 360, Xbox, Sony PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. Almost all modern systems of console games have hardware-based schemes which ensure that only officially sanctioned games may be used with the system and implement regional lockout similar to the method used in DVD movies. The special nature of these DRM systems varies by system, and may include cryptographic signing (Xbox), intentionally unreadable sectors (PlayStation, Sega Saturn), custom optical media (GameCube, Dreamcast), or a combination of both. Modchips are also available for some DVD players, to defeat region code enforcement and user operation prohibitions.

Mod Chips first came into "fame" when die hard, hard core gamers who were tired of the supply of Slim who were available to them in the U.S., wanted to get their hands on the best and most unique Japanese games coming out for their console games. This is not new, even the Nintendo NES has a device that allowed gamers to plug Japanese Famicom cartridges into their USA NES system so they can play this very unique Japanese games, or the last offer Mario was only available (or came out much sooner) in Japan.

Modchips typically require some level of technical capacity to install. Most often, modchips must be soldered on a motherboard console, although no-solder install kits (which instead rely on the precise positioning of electrical contacts in the case) working with some revisions of the PlayStation 2 and Xbox hardware.

As consoles better and better, a series of home brew developers started to make their own software for their consoles. Software like the Xbox Media Center (XMBC) as well as their own little games and programs to stream video and audio. But to play / run this software, users must be able to load unsigned / home brew code onto their system. This is where mod chips come in. Not only do they allow you to play the last game W