Xbox 360 Japanese Blades Dashboard on Real Hardware (60fps)

Опубликовано: 28 Сентябрь 2024
на канале: handymanshandle

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Yes, you're reading the title right. Here's a bit of a walk around of the Xbox 360's Blades dashboard. In Japanese. On a Japanese console. It's been about 15 years since I've used this dashboard, so I get to traverse it again, in a language that I don't understand, no less.

The story of how I even ended up with an Xbox 360 still on its Blades dashboard is much stranger than the end result here. This Xbox was purchased a few months ago from a Japanese Mercari listing. I was looking for a Japanese Xbox 360 to play imports on - which ironically consists of predominately American and European games that were released in Japan. I found a 60GB Xbox 360 Pro that looked to be in pretty nice shape. It came with all of the original packaging and accessories, plus an HDMI cable. I didn't think anything of it and I never got to check the hardware out until a day or so ago.
Enter the first boot. I noticed the original Xbox 360 bootup screen, but I didn't think anything of it initially, as I was messing with OBS Studio. Then I noticed that it had booted into the Blades dashboard. Then I realized that I had stumbled upon a time capsule of a console that probably hasn't been used in a decade (and given that the only two save games on it before I used it were of a Star Ocean game from 2008 or so and some other early Japanese game, this console probably has sat in a box for a few years now). I was genuinely stunned that this console had this dashboard, even moreso because its manufacturing date is listed as March 16th, 2009. Anyone with more insight on why an NXE-era console would have a Blades dash on it, please tell me more. I'm truly wondering why this console has this dash on it.

Hopefully you enjoy this bit of footage of the Blades dashboard in Japanese on a real HDMI-equipped Japanese 60GB Xbox 360 Pro. It's as stunning to me as it might be to you. As an aside, this is also a test of AV1 encoding on my Intel Arc A750. Seems like it turned out nicely!