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[JPizzle]

Even though the X360Key has not been released yet we already have two new products that have recently been announced fighting for the top spot in the Optical Disc Drive Emulator market. The first new product is the Wasabi 360 which has 2 different models, one for the phat 360 and one for the slim 360. Not very much is known about this product just yet but the following quote has been taken directly from their webpage :

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Wasabi X360 and X360S - coming soon!

The ultimate ODDE (Optical Disc Drive Emulator), allows you to emulate your 360's optical disc drive and run Xbox 360 or Xbox 1 ISO's from HDD. No more hunting for game discs, simply execute your favourite ISO's from any ESATA HDD. Easy, fast, safe and convenient.

Features include:
Solderless installation
Selection of your favourite ISO's via our intuitive user interface
Support for AP25 enabled ISO's
ESATA interface is used in place of USB providing superior performance, since data is transferred directly between the ESATA HDD and Xbox 360 resulting in impressively high bandwidth, many times faster than reading from a real DVD disc
Elegant and streamlined console inspired case design
Versions available for both fat and slim consoles
NTFS file system natively supported
Powerful embedded CPU running performance tuned Real Time Operating System
Regular firmware updates available free for download
Fully updatable hardware (MCU and FPGA's) from ESATA HDD including a failsafe recovery mode
No need to modify your original ODD
Hardware selectable pass through mode - providing access to the original ODD

Features coming soon:
Xbox Live compatibility
Dumping of X360 ISO's from original discs

The second product is named BoxZii, the people behind BoxZii have put out a lot more information on their product and have even included installation pictures. This product also comes in two different models but they are not differentiated by the model of Xbox 360 you have like the Wasabi360, The BoxZii has 2 models for you to choose from depending on how you intend to use the device.

Model 1: Internal Mainboard + USB PC Control Dongle

• Xbox 360 XDG2/XGD3 Compatible
  
• Supports Dash (2.13599) included
  
• Supports FAT Consoles / AP25 Emulation
  
• SLIM support by Simple USB software Upgrade
  
• Plug and Play/Requires DVD Key
  
• NO FLASHED DRIVE or JTAG EXPLOIT required
  
• 100% SOLDERLESS
  
• USB 2.0 and ULTRAFAST LOADINGS
  
• Avoid Overheating and >75% 3 Red lights of Death posibilites
  
• Avoid tedious drive fw reflash
  
• DVD/DL/Multigame compatible
  
• Full upgradeable by USB/JTAG

Model 2: External OLED Control Panel for USB HDD/Pendrive (No PC required)

• OLED control panel
  
• USB HDD/Pendrive supported
  
• Supports ALL Motherboards
  
• USB & Jtag upgrades
  
• Easy Installation

As you can see model one uses a dongle to communicate with your PC where you can control the device with a PC side app however, with this model you can only read ISO's from your internal 360 harddrive.

Model 2 has a standalone OLED control panel so you do not require a PC and it can also read ISO's from an external USB harddrive.

For more information on these two products please visit their official websites.
** WARNING ** None of these devices have been proven to be real, order at your own risk.

BoxZii.com
Wasabi360.com

[J3rk My Turk3y]

Let the game's begin!!! Who will come out ontop? x360 key is late on realese and these two are fast on its heels

[EsQueue]

Avoid Overheating and >75% 3 Red lights of Death posibilites


With BoxZii making a claim like that. I automatically assume that they are a scam.

[J3rk My Turk3y]

Well the reseller for the BoxZii is Albanian and you cant even translate from the site. I dont think this one is legit, if anything has to do with Albanian's it will be a scam.