Comment by _fat_santa
4 years ago
I fondly remember flashing my DVD drive on my 360 when I was 15 to play Saints Row (I had an ITCH for a GTA like game). Back then I was scared shitless of possibly bricking it. Now looking back, I laugh because of how trivial the mod was. Pretty sure this was a major contributing factor to me eventually perusing tech in my career.
Modding Xbox/Xbox 360 was for many people. I got started programming with writing CoD MW2 mods.
When I saw that I could fill up my friends list on Xbox live by changing a few variables on the auto aim configuration I learned early on that computers are magic to most people, And if you know how they work that makes you a wizard