The RGH thing works on any dashboard. My banned one had rrod a few years ago (it's fixed but not being used). My second one never went online (except on the day I got it to get the divx license thing), but was stolen. My third and current one has never been online since being flashed.
Picked the box up tonight, and while Freestyle Dash certainly has some very rough edges, it's remarkably capable and intuitive.
So far I've ripped some games from original DVDs, transferred some via (FAT32 :S ) USB hard drive, and FTP'd some Arcade games over. Not really practical on wifi given the size of these things.
I think the next step is to replace the 60gb internal drive with something a bit more modern and throw all my discs out.
Not looked into home brew or emulators yet, that can wait for the weekend.
So you believe it's worth it?
For the convenience factor alone, yeah.
You can swap out the internal drive for any size you want now. Not sure if I'll do that or just plug an external one in (easier for copying things across).
I wonder if XBMC has been ported...
Can you even remove the drive from the external caddy thing? I have an original shape model.
Yeah, you need torx 10 and 6 to get into it, and it's just a standard 2.5" drive inside. If it's a full height drive (12.5 mm?) you're putting in then you need to bend off 4 retaining clips, but no biggy.
I have a phat one. The slim ones can only take 9.5mm high drives from what I've seen.
And does yours now have a chip of some sort?