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[IntelMiner]

A lot of original Xbox games had that feature. It was super unique at the time

They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it

Playing Halo 3's campaign to Queen was a great experience back in 2007

[ascagnel_ → IntelMiner]

> They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it

The Xbox 360 expanded on the feature in some neat ways -- if you had an iPod or other portable player, you could plug that in via USB, it supported generic DLNA shares (so you could play music from Kodi/XBMC running on a PC), and some (most?) games would flag cutscene audio vs. in-game audio, which would allow the system to pause the user-provided audio and fall back to the game's soundtrack for cutscenes.

[crtasm → ascagnel_]

That's fantastic, I'll have to try it out next time I get my 360 plugged in.

It also had global settings for controller vibration, inverted camera.. perhaps some others? I really miss those in future generations and on PC.

[goosedragons → crtasm]

What's crazy is those 360 profile settings still apply to 360 games on modern Xboxes. I was really surprised to see it remembered something I set on my old 360 like 10 years back.