I decided to clean out my xbox 360 because ive been having issues. I opened the dvd and noticed this. Is the glue supposed to go that far out?
>>52517644
of course, silly anon.
you want to be a good goy and keep from being tempted to circumvent all that nice DRM, don't you?
all that epoxy is just to make sure no mod chips accidentally fall on the motherboard.
>>52517700
So it's not damaged or anything? This is the first time I've taken apart a 360.
>>52517700
jesus christ, kid. grow up.
>>52517714
Yeah, it literally is there to stop you getting access to the pins on the chip because drive modchips used to be a thing.
>>52517891
That's fucking hilarious, fuck consoles
>>52517714
IIRC, that's the controller for the DVD drive, and at some point people started making chips that intercepted and injected signals that allowed using burned disks, so they just started slathering epoxy over the pins to discourage people from easily chipping their consoles.
you can of course remove all that shit, but it's daunting and error prone enough that a lot of would-be modders don't try.
>>52517716
Except, he's right
>>52517716
fuck of shlomo
>>52517700
>consolecucks get hardware thats poorly designed on purpose to prevent mods
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
>>52517700
thats hilarious as fuck
>>52517700
This.