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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: unbiased on February 19, 2012, 01:40 pm
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Anyone interested in hacked video game systems? XBox, XBox360, PS2, PS3, and Wii, with upgraded drives where it makes sense.
Cost would be new hardware cost plus additional hardware plus around $100. So, a Wii with a new drive, would be about $150+$100+$100 = $350.
Yes? No? Maybe?
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Anyone interested in hacked video game systems? XBox, XBox360, PS2, PS3, and Wii, with upgraded drives where it makes sense.
Cost would be new hardware cost plus additional hardware plus around $100. So, a Wii with a new drive, would be about $150+$100+$100 = $350.
Yes? No? Maybe?
there will definitely be a demand for video games if done professional and correctly. I think you could make a decent profit from selling hardware and software ;-).
Good luck and if you need advice get in contact with me
fly
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Interesting. I need to know if the consoles are NTSC or PAL though, or will you offer both?
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Interesting. I need to know if the consoles are NTSC or PAL though, or will you offer both?
In my experience, the hack removes the checks, so they end up running both. The problem is, depending on the system, it's neither cheap nor quick. And to make it worth while, I'd almost have to pre-order half a dozen in order to make the account purchase (and my time) worth it.
Hmmmm.....
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from personal experience, generally hacking consoles sadly doesnt make you that much money, then you have issues with people complaining when a dash update comes out or another protection method drops, then people tend to expect you to update their system at no cost (people seem to think paying £20 for a hack entitles them to a lifetime of free service and updates.) plus i dont mean to hamper your business any but in many cases these things are quite easy to do, so most people know someone locally who can hack a console for them and save them the hassle of sending it off (or buy a console and get it done locally if they cant do it themselves)
the only thing i can think may get you decent business could be jtagged 360s and ps3s which may well sell if you could do it at a reasonable enough price, many people are scared to death of touching a soldering iron so doing the job themselves is out of the question and finding someone capable of doing the job properly locally is a little more difficult. another thing you could think about as you mentioned including a new drive may be to pack the drives out with games, it saves people the hassle of downloading a load of games themselves and may help to make the hacked systems that bit more desirable.
also unless youre jtagging the console in the case of the 360 the region lock is not removed, many games now are region free when released (or at least ntsc-u/pal, ntsc-j tends to be locked on its own) but a drive firmware hack on a 360 wont remove the region locking. oh and finally if you do go through with it you may wish to add some r4 cards to your lineup too, i know theyre generally fairly easy to get but they are technically illegal and generally have to be ordered from china so if you could provide a decent cart at a reasonable price then you could possibly shift a few of them too. im still not sure if this would bring in enough business to make it worth your while but i thought id throw a few thoughts out there that may be of use to you