Axe man Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 I do not have a XBOX 360 but have an old XBOX gathering dust and as the title suggests, can this be done. Love Halo 1 still on multiplayer as well as Brute Force team deathmatch. Just wondering if this can be done or would it be best to get a $79 XBOX at EB games for this purpose?
AVroom Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 you can link an old xbox to a 360 as long as the game is backwards compatible (Halo is for sure). I presume you have a sys-link cable (funnily enough, saw an original one in Domayne yesterday for $29.95) and of course you'll need 2 copies of the game.
Axe man Posted May 13, 2008 Author Posted May 13, 2008 (edited) you can link an old xbox to a 360 as long as the game is backwards compatible (Halo is for sure). I presume you have a sys-link cable (funnily enough, saw an original one in Domayne yesterday for $29.95) and of course you'll need 2 copies of the game. Awesome thanks for that. All the sale droids i've talked to could not confirm this. Edited May 13, 2008 by Axe man
Sicarius123 Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 I'm guessing an Xbox syslink cable is just a crossover network cable with a premium price tag?
ascl Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 I'm guessing an Xbox syslink cable is just a crossover network cable with a premium price tag? correct.
Mr Flibble Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 I do not have a XBOX 360 but have an old XBOX gathering dust and as the title suggests, can this be done. Love Halo 1 still on multiplayer as well as Brute Force team deathmatch. Just wondering if this can be done or would it be best to get a $79 XBOX at EB games for this purpose? As others have said, when running Xbox(1) games on a 360, it is emulating the original Xbox & can 'system link' to other Xbox(1)'s. Some Xbox games don't work 100% when run on the 360. I have tried Halo successfully but can't remember if it was Xbox - 360 or Xbox - Xbox. Brute Force however doesn't play nice with sytem link using a 360. The game would start up ok but drop out within a few seconds of playing. This was in the co-op campain but maybe multiplayer works better? Can't hurt to try. I'm guessing an Xbox syslink cable is just a crossover network cable with a premium price tag? ascl beat me to it but yes, the Xbox network port is just a standard ethernet port. Use a crossover cable for direct connection or standard patch leads into a switch.
varvs Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 The 360 should be able to detect what type of cable you have plugged in and change its network ports config to suit the cable, so any regular cat-5 cable should work. Cant say what the gen 1 xbox would do though.
ascl Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 The 360 should be able to detect what type of cable you have plugged in and change its network ports config to suit the cable, so any regular cat-5 cable should work. Cant say what the gen 1 xbox would do though. Wow thats pretty neat too. If the 360 can effectively 'cross-over' its port, then it should work (only one end needs to swap the send/recv lines).
varvs Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 Wow thats pretty neat too. If the 360 can effectively 'cross-over' its port, then it should work (only one end needs to swap the send/recv lines). Any network adapter made in the last 2yrs or so should be capable of this. the original xbox may well be but im not aware of it as i never owned one.
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