Post by: 49er on November 26, 2003, 04:03:00 AM
| QUOTE (SolidSnake @ Nov 26 2003, 01:55 PM) |
| do u think im better off with mxm or evolution x? what do u guy reccomend? |
I'm sure this (and other dash comparisons) have been done a million times before, but here's my 2p anyway...
If you want a basic, no frills dash that you can use to quickly select whatever game or app you want, you can't go wrong with EvoX.
If you want something a little special - something highly customiseable with as many bells and whistles as you'd like, MXM is the way to go.
(In fact, I'm spending more time on MXM than I am my games right now... once I get everything the way I want it - which will probably mean making 3-4 skins - my Xbox will be complete).
Post by: DrunkPenguin on November 26, 2003, 06:17:00 AM
I agree with 49er. I modded my xbox originally just as an experiment, because I could and I wanted all my games stored inside, if thats all you want evox is great. But then i discovered i could do more than just play games with my xbox. then i discovered MXM and discovered not only could i do all these things but i could make the xbox look cool at the same time.
If you want an xbox that will make your friends with unmodded xboxs jealous, install MXM!! I highly recommend choosing a skin with intro and outro videos.
DrunkPenguin
PS - I only had evox a couple days before discovering mxm, so if your just starting to learn this stuff, mxm is not that difficult to adapt to.
Post by: angelfly on November 26, 2003, 07:12:00 AM
Post by: mrRobinson on November 26, 2003, 10:25:00 AM
Post by: Be Absentminded on November 26, 2003, 11:36:00 AM
-Jameson
Post by: Kthulu on November 26, 2003, 06:20:00 PM
1. as you browse through your menu, you can set it up to show screenshots or preview videos of whatever is currently selected in the menu
2. you can have whatever background music you want playing while MXM is up and running and you are wacking
etc.3. MXM has a scripting language and community of scripters. The best thing about this is that there is a script that will let you 'backup' games to your hard-drive within MXM. It will create/name the directory it copies the game to according to the name of the game. meanwhile, your favorite background music is playing
all the while you are wacking 4. MXM will allow you to set up help screens/vids for each item in your menu. To me, these 'help screens' are a great place to store cheat codes and important but often forgot info from game manuals.
The intro and outro videos of MXM play when ever MXM is loading/unloading itself and they are cool and great for wacking
, but after awhile, they're just a waste of time. Don't get the wrong idea though. MXM may run and boot a little slower than EvolutionX because of all it's multimedia and wacking features, but MXM is NOT slow!MXM offers everything that EvolutionX has, plus multimedia and wacking
features mentioned above. Although I must admit, I still use EvolutionX to flash my bios because, to me, there's less chance of something going wrong because there are less bells and whistles, etc. and also because EvolutionX has been around and flashing bios longer than MXM has...so to me it is the experienced, professional bios-flasher, HDD installer, and boot-disk util Even if you use MXM as your default dash as I do and recommend, I would never get rid of EvolutionX. To me, EvolutionX is like DOS and MXM is like Windows.
P.S. Please realize that the 'wacking' stuff is a joke. The dude who first mentioned that in this thread is a 'wacked-out' pervert
but, hey, different 'strokes' for different folks 
Post by: ravage73 on November 26, 2003, 06:28:00 PM
| QUOTE (CaTcHa @ Nov 26 2003, 09:59 PM) |
| "do u think im better off with mxm or evolution x? what do u guy reccomend? " My View is..... Most of the time you will want to just load a game or util off your HD and Evox will be MUCH better and quicker for this (MXM to much fussing about to get reliable) MXM looks good to show your friends but not much use to you when you want fast access to your stuff when no ones looking!!!. However you can as has been said put mxm into its own dir and run from evox and get best of both worlds , you will soon get bored of MXM unless you wish to W*!k to porno skins or are a geek who never plays games or watches videos. Geek , Professional masturbator or Evox user the choice is yours Quote.."In fact, I'm spending more time on MXM than I am my games right now... " Do you REALLY want this to be YOU in a months time? !!! SAD SAD SAD , play your games from evox , watch your videos from evox and come here once a day for laughs all the way. In a a year or so time the Xbox 1 will be old hat and will have gone the way of the NES , ST , Amiga ,SNES , Dreamcast etc do you want to remember it as the months you spent arseing around with skins and talking about MXM.xmls? , course you dont , you want to remember all the good games you played. I still have a mate who talks about all the intros he made on the Amiga boot up screens for LSD on the Amiga how sad is that?? GO EVOX plain simple useable and IGR works . |
so in your opinion mxm is unreliable? and mxm users are geeks that watch video's and never play games? evox is outdated. mxm is the future of dashes. so deal with it.
Post by: Jezz_X on November 26, 2003, 09:34:00 PM
Post by: CaTcHa on November 27, 2003, 12:19:00 AM
Your watching too much Jerry Springer| QUOTE |
| so in your opinion mxm is unreliable? and mxm users are geeks that watch video's and never play games? evox is outdated. mxm is the future of dashes. so deal with it. |
Hey dont misquote me I never said MXM users WATCH VIDEOS more that they spend most of their waking life looking at or arseing around with skins .
The dude that started the thread asked for an opinion , I gave mine .
You deal with it!!!
Post by: SolidSnake on November 27, 2003, 02:25:00 AM
Post by: SolidSnake on November 27, 2003, 02:50:00 AM
Post by: 49er on November 27, 2003, 04:13:00 AM
| QUOTE (CaTcHa @ Nov 27 2003, 02:59 AM) |
| ...you will soon get bored of MXM unless you wish to W*!k to porno skins or are a geek who never plays games or watches videos. Geek , Professional masturbator or Evox user the choice is yours Quote.."In fact, I'm spending more time on MXM than I am my games right now... " Do you REALLY want this to be YOU in a months time? !!! SAD SAD SAD , play your games from evox , watch your videos from evox and come here once a day for laughs all the way... |
Hmmm... you've taken what I said way out of context.
I finished the sentence "right now..." because I'm new to MXM and I'm still realising its potential. I've nearly finished my skin, including some actionscripts (copy dvd game to HD, etc) and when it's done, I'll have the complete package. I don't see myself substituting MXM for games or indeed my social life!
EvoX doesn't play soundtracks and it takes maybe 3 seconds more to load MXM.
Post by: geniusalz on November 27, 2003, 06:11:00 AM
Post by: ravage73 on November 27, 2003, 08:27:00 AM
| QUOTE (CaTcHa @ Nov 27 2003, 05:19 AM) | ||
ravage73 > Deal with it??? Your watching too much Jerry Springer
Hey dont misquote me I never said MXM users WATCH VIDEOS more that they spend most of their waking life looking at or arseing around with skins . The dude that started the thread asked for an opinion , I gave mine . You deal with it!!! |
im not misquoting you, read your own thread again! and i dont watch jerry springer.
Post by: ravage73 on November 27, 2003, 11:49:00 AM
Post by: ravage73 on November 27, 2003, 12:32:00 PM
so your questioning if your reply was smarter?
if you think evox is better, then have fun with it.
Post by: geniusalz on November 27, 2003, 01:48:00 PM