On a new play through I'd tie a rubber band around the jump button and walk away. Come back an hour later and be able to jump from one side of Balmora to the other in a single leap lol.
@@producerevan88 well oblivion did have the “acrobatics” skill” - as well as “athletics” THE ONLY nice thing about those two, is it gives a benefit to not fast traveling/using a horse... Although going back and playing oblivion, the fact you can’t attack off your horse REALLY hurts... I swear I could remember being able to attack while riding the horse... Must’ve been mount ‘n’ blade...
Back in the 2004 when I was a child I was in the same boat. My parents couldn't afford to get us a new pc, so me and my brother saved money and bought second hand ps2 just to play san andreas and nfs most wanted. Best gaming times in my life. No memory card at the beginning so console was running 24/7 lol
I'm gonna be honest, out of all the tech channels I watch you're my favorite one by far! You're the most entertaining, you teach many things and I love your accent ngl ♥️
For the price, I think I would go with the original Xbox... As long as you have the ability to soft mod it, and the component cables. I have a 250GB hard drive in mine and it's just lovely. Look up something called Ninja Massive and it's just epic. On the PC side of things, 10 pounds (like 15 dollars?) will not get you much... Probably pretty close to the same specs lol
that was a bargain. you now have one of the cooler looking models and a decent game library. I may have a retro colection one day assuming o dont emulate everything and this would be a worthy addition.
I enjoyed this showdown, watched both your video and techwen's. After watching both I want to get a cheap xbox and a cheap PC :) Great videos and great collaboration
I got my Xbox for $10 too, and I've had it now for about 10 years. Mine also had a "stuck" drive, but I immediately took it apart and gave the belts a good cleaning and it has been working fine ever since. I also paid $10 for my Windows 98 SE PC with a 933MHz Pentium 3 and 9600XT...I think I'd choose the Xbox, between the two...but barely.
Hmmm, totally clear case. Techmoan did a video in which he found that clear case gear is often used in US prisons where it is required. He showed this really swish clear case CRT as well. I think one of those would go nicely with this.
14:37 - I wonder how they've managed to launch HL2 on Pentium 3. If I remember correctly, the game requires SSE2, which was implemented since Pentium 4, and was not present in Coppermines and Tualatins
Been trying to find good deals on older consoles like this and it has been a real challenge. It must have taken ages for you to stumble across a listing that good.
Look for "for parts" and listings saying untested. Usually means they couldn't be assed to test it first. If youre looking for Xbox look for untested that mentions orange and green lights. Usually means they just didnt plug it into a TV.
9:15 that looks like an extremely early version of HawKen pretty legit game from 2012-about 2017 RIP on PC tho😥 i think you might be able to crack it with out the servers online? they made an XBOX ONE conversion, but its 5h!t and none of my content i bought to support the free to play game transferred or my stats i have a video on my channel and a whole collection i might upload a few
Rockstars The warriors on the OG xbox was just mind blowing.. well it was back in the day lol. It can actually run at 720p and the texture quality was in a whole other league compared to the PS2
One day if you ever redo this video, or have another reason to show off the power of it, you should really use DOOM 3! It was a technical marvel on the console and in my opinion, even more so than Half-Life 2 as it actually ran with an almost flawless 30FPS with beautiful graphics and physics :) The DLC even has a gravity gun!
I'm a hardcore PC lover, but I have to admit the original xbox at the time was incredible. There wasn't many PC games that looked as good as Halo (when it first game out), Then you add in the softmodding and it really open it up. It's the only time in my history where I enjoyed playing on Xbox a little more than PC, but now I'm back on PC as these new consoles are just shite.
Budget-Builds Official If I’m not wrong xbmc is based on kodi or the operating system behind kodi right? I Remember that last year I installed a costom version of Netflix on kodi...I’ll try to see if I can find the original post and check if it still works. Not sure how well it’ll run on the Xbox but it seemed to work on really low end devices
PS2 had san andreas multiplayer. I remember playing it at my friends house. Was annoying as hell cause you had to stay next to each other and if one person hopped in a car and drove away it was over
V1.6, the one that can't be softmodded anymore. EDIT: Should add that i mean the little jumper mod one needs to do to the flash to write on it in v1.5 and lower. You need a modchip on the v1.6 to install a different dash.
I wonder if someone in the US would be unfair competition because it might be easier to find old parts in various warehouses as well as online. I would imagine it's more difficult finding hardware in Europe
you forgot to deinterlace your san andreas footage! T~T 0 OUT OF 10!!! jk jk, its alright xD. its the vibe im going for xD. but perhaps some mild feedback on the deinterlacing part! so far so good regarding the rest! no stupid loud or badly mixed intros, no annoying other loud shit! very awesome!
That box with the xbox things in could not be sent for less than around £7 in the UK?!? You found someone insane apparently if they shipped this for £10 total. I wish I knew where all the cheap Xboxs you see are. Boxed decent quality ones are never below £50-£60 in my experience, and decent quality unboxed ones are around £30 average (maybe £20 if you are lucky) with nothing else included.
What do you use to convert videos for xbox? I've used the built in handbrake xbox preset but the quality is a bit blocky. Should I stick with mpeg 2 if I'm playing it all on a 480i crt tv?
If you really want dedicated Xbox Encoding look for DivX encoding, it’s far easier on the Xbox as just believe it’s fully hardware accelerated. I think you can even squeeze 720p encoded properly.
If you need consoles, just look for yard sales, I got a 20 dollar ps3 that lasted me 3 years so far and a Wii with games and Wii sports physical addons for a single dollar
Best thing about the OG Xbox for me was soft modding. Once you rip your games to the HDD, load times become almost non-existent (and in some cases better fps), most games can be modded with PC mods, San Andreas you can even edit configs, like increase the amount of traffic on screen at any time as Xbox games are pretty much just PC games with a different executable. Only limit to mods I found were they had to be under 300mb because of the Xbox's cache size limits. But yeah used to blow my mates minds by having a GTA SA where there were General Lee's, V8 interceptors and Batmobiles cruising the streets. Soft modding essentially made your Xbox into a PC. Xbox 360 was meant to be capable of modding but they dropped that for some reason. (Guessing because DLC's became a thing thanks to the OG Xbox) Heck even managed to get the PC version of Quake III Arena running on it. Wish they still made consoles like this.
Yes, lke for pc’s u only need 60fps 1080P to run games fine so about 250+ money (U.K. for me) or go with a ps3 for... I think 100?? I’m not too sure. So I do feel like consoles are better for games but a pc can do much things
I am still pissed that we never got a original xbox in South Africa 😠. The few that have been imported by people are expensive af. (compared to other countries) Maybe I will get one in the UK when I get the chance to visit.
@@gregoriomariano5070 Interesting just recently watched a video on Brazil's video game grey market. Eish, you guys have it rough. Last time I found a xbox it was about £60. And the new series X that costs $499 will be $731. 36. Talk about a markup,the country needs to get every last bit of tax out of the people to pay their rising dept. 🤦♂️ Also the series S that is $299 will be $426.69. I thought I might get one next year but nah just gonna wait 3 years like I did with the Xbox One
"We're going against a £10 PC, so I'd expect that to be fairly powerful." God sometimes I love the future. My first PCs HDD in the early 90s cost me around $350 ($657.45 with inflation) which google says is roughly £245 (€413.04 with inflation). And that was the cheapest HDD I could find at the time, had maybe 120 MB of storage lmao
I love how on-brand this is. I knew before clicking that you'd end up with an Xbox and that you'd show us Fable and Phantom Crash. Fantastically biosed 😍
I still have my original XBOX back from 2006 when I first moved out. It was a moving home gift from my brother. It only came with an 8GB HDD but was pre-modded when he got me it. Sooner after, I upgraded the HDD to a 500GB IDE type. This used to be my go to media center to be fair. I never really played games back then. I tend to use either my mini PC or my Raspberry Pis for media nowadays. I certainly couldn't part with my XBOX, holds so many memories.
is there anyway i can increase the dedicated vram on my laptop? it has 8gb of ram but it runs games awfully because it has intel uhd graphics with only 128 mb of dedicated vram. any way i can increase that number?
An OG Xbox. I got mine in 2013, and I had a lot of fun with it Jet Set Radio Future, Conker, Black, some racing games, etc. Played the hell out of it. Mine wasn't in the best shape (could not run some games for some reason, despite me taking it apart a few times to see what tf was going on), but it was a nice little machine. Gave it to my sister and her kids a couple of years back so they can have fun with it :)
When i left my bipolar ex i left behind the games collection i picked up off of ebay from age 21 to 25, it had, Crystal clear xbox, Psone, Nes Boxed, Sega Dreamcast,ps2, Multiple controllers for all systems ( Had a boxed nes advantage, different coloured ps1 controllers,crystal xbox controllers,ps1 guns i had about 4) all together i spent about a grand on it and it all fit in two massive IKEA blue bags... to whomever got my stuff afterwards in London, i hope you enjoy them as much as i have
I first played HL2 on Xbox and found no other version matches the melancholic quality of the lighting in the first third or so of the game (up the end of the hovercraft section).
