How to Soft Mod a Xbox

Series Summary

The video gaming industry has continued to grow throughout the history of video games themselves. From the first version of pong, to 8-bit systems like Atari, all the way to intense and graphically advanced gaming systems like xbox360 and playstation 2, video games have fostered a major money-making industry and significant job market in the United States and the world. For better or worse, it's apparent now that video games are here to stay.

In this free video series, our expert Dustin Staat will show you how to soft mod an xbox. He will show you what you will need to soft mod you xbox, the first steps, how to locate an IRC client, download the software, and load the software on a card and on the xbox itself. He will even tell you how to load, install, and use the new operating system before offering some safety tips for xbox modding.

Video Transcript

"DUSTIN STAAT: Hi. I'm Dustin on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'll be teaching you how to softmod an Xbox. The benefits of softmodding your Xbox, you'll be able to save games, movies, and music to the hard drive. In the past, to do this, you used to have to open up your hard drive, solder, etc. These days, you don't even need to open up your Xbox to mod it. You can do it all using software, basically loading up fake game saves and changing the operating system from there. Watch our next segment on warnings."