I decided today that I'd finally bite the bullet and get an XBox (the original one -- I'm behind the times, I know) so I could play the exclusive games from Sega, Breakdown, Riddick, etc... Went into Gamestop, bought a used system and a stack of games, got it home and hooked it up. Power on, and...what the hell is this menu?
Turns out they'd sold me a modded system with a replaced BIOS and Halo 2 on the HDD (which I deleted -- games were telling me there was no room for saves). I'm curious about this for two reasons:
1. Aren't systems tested when they're traded in? I'd assume the person testing the system would notice that the menu was completely different.
2. Don't all these systems get sent back to Microsoft anyway for wiping the user and Live data on the HDD?
It's nice that I can change the region on my system at will, but...seriously. Anyone else ever had this happen to them or someone they know?
(Also sorry if this topic's been posted before but the search wasn't working for me!)