XBox Hardware:
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Submitted by: Aleks Sornic

You can play burnt DVD's on your Xbox! All you have to do is to
make sure the burnt DVD has a Menu!

Reset parental controls
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Go to "Settings" and highlight the "Parental Control"
option.

Press X, Y, L, X, at the passcode screen to reset the
parental control setting to the default value.

Xbox Dash: View music animations
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Insert a music CD and play it on the music screen.
When the music plays, you can see an animation in
the jewel (that plays with the music). To make this
full screen, press Y then press X. To return to the
track selection, press any other button.

Note: You can make the jewel full screen when using
the DVD remote by pressing Info.

Xbox Dash: Hear voices
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When the dash is started, leave it alone for a short
time. The screen will eventually get dark, and you
will begin to hear sounds. One of these is an electronic voice.

Playing burned music discs
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Burn music onto a CD-RW (not a CD-R) disc, and close the
session when you burn the CD. Place it in your X-Box and
rip away.

Note: This also works with .MP3 files. The Xbox can
store .MP3s and replay them later and saves a lot of
space when compared to the .WAV files that are standard
on audio discs.

Console name
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Each Xbox console has a "name" assigned to it at the
time of manufacture. To view the name of your system,
play Halo link it to another Xbox and choose a linked
play party. The Xboxs will have names above their symbols
in the pre-game stat screen. To change your name, play
challenge mode in Dead Or Alive 3. Successfully complete
challenge mode and you will be prompted to enter a record
name. Enter the name that you wish to change your
pre-assigned Xbox name to. This will now be the title
your Xbox is referred to during linked play. Note: This
will only work one time, so be sure that you enter the
name you wish to permanently have for your console.

To see your Xbox name easily, start Halo, go into
multi-player mode, choose "Split Screen", "Profile",
and "Location". After all that is done, there will be
a screen that reads "Waiting for more players". The
picture of the Xbox is directly above your profile
name, and above your picture will be a word. That word
will be used as your name when XBox goes online. This
works best when there is only one controller plugged
into the Xbox, so the multi-player game will not start
before you see your name.