MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Questions about an original Xbox

> Thanks for the answers.
>
> It bothers me to not know if it's any good without having to go through the trouble
> of finding an Xbox gamepad to try, and worse, paying for it. If I knew it works, I
> wouldn't mind spending a bit in a gamepad, but I'd hate to have to go somewhere fishy
> for something this old and outdated just to discover that the console doesn't work
> anyways and I have no way to return the gamepad...
>
> I would try to find someone with an Xbox to lend me a gamepad to try, but around here
> the Xbox wasn't popular at all around here and everyone I know with consoles had a
> PS2.

I was in the same boat earlier this year; I found an Xbox in a roadside hard waste collection back in 2012 or so, which had nothing with it except for the DVD remote sensor still in the P3 controller port (funnily enough, along with a faulty PS2 Slim in the same plastic tub, which surprisingly still had the AV cable and the power brick with it). I finally bit the bullet and bought a controller and AV plug so I could see if it actually worked or not, along with a random game (Sonic Heroes). Turned out the Xbox worked fine, as did the PS2 once I picked up a replacement laser unit (before that, the PS2 would only read CD media like audio CDs, PS1 games, Tekken Tag Tournament etc.; in fact, I only used it for playing Tekken Tag back then).