lack of competency. I'm poor (natch) and didn't have resources to go buy another XBox if I screwed up the hardware mod. Once the software...

...mod was available, it was a no-brainer. Took me FOREVER to find the right version of Mechwarrior though.

heh, yeah.. half the blog posts i read warned me about picking up the exact right MW/splintercell disc.

The only identifier is teeny-tiny little text on the outer edge of the disc. I had to keep asking to see the disks at gamestop.