Is the Xbox 360 Kiosk (found in most game stores) capable of playing debug games (preview, review codes)? I know they have a different dashboard.
They are just retail machines. I heard rumors in the first role out they used some debug/review kits but I never seemed to find one. The Kiosk disk has a emulated dashboard that is why they seem different
Yeah I remember hearing that and its odd because all the ones round me in the UK have changed since it first came out so they all have either got red ring of death or the rumor was right all along
When the 360 first released I bought a kiosk off ebay with a big sticker saying not for retail use. It came from one of the electronic deaprtment stores that shut down. I was hoping for a debug but it ended up being retail with 1888 on it. Otherwise than a great conversation piece nothing more than retail
Also I heard the early ones had the eeprom configured different meaning it could not connect to live and also the hdd was partitioned different.
The Kiosk machines are retail machines with two of the rubber feet removed so the unit can be locked into the unit. There is a USB box which plugs into the Xbox 360 which does the following things. Acts as a hub allowing 2 wired Joypads to be plug in Allows a memory card to be used Allow headphones to be be used Turns the machine on as soon as power is connected Reset the machine via a reset buton Via dip switches it can Allow the Xbox 360 to run for a limited amount of time before reseting and restarting Prohibit the use of Xbox button on the pads (so you can't reset the game to the title screen). Prohibit the use of live (if enabld then online games can be played with a fixed xbox account on the unit) Prohibit the use of the memory card Prohibit the user from going back to the title screen at all But the machine won't play debug discs nor imports.
