guys, i just bought a xbox360 elite from USA coz i went there for holiday in Oct... so i got it modded to play backup games... while buying games, only then i realise that not every game is playable coz i get them to pop into the xbox to see if it runs before i pay... which makes me puzzle as the guy who served me are saying that xbox games are different from wii coz wii games states the region outside on the cover, while xbox are not stated. hence i assume that i can only play USA region games..... but anyway, its no big deal.... er.. i try asking the guy what modchip is installed, but he told me they are using softmod, which i assume is using program to mod.... hmm.. so can i enable it to play all region games?

Another thing i wanna know is how do we play movie with rmvb, avi, mkv extenstion on xbox? i plug in my external HDD, but the only files playable are wmv, as for avi, it does show the icon, but not playable, asking me to go to xboxlive.... or something... so guys, if i were to do the update, will it void the ability to play backup games? And if possible, is there anyway we can get those files on DVD coz i dun have internet connection in my home yet...

oh. another thing guys, i try to hook up my laptop running vista to xbox coz i m thinking of transfering some mp3 to the xbox HDD.. but i have no luck with this... how can we transfer files to xbox?

hmm. can anyone advise if i update using the xbox live, will it refrain me from playing pirated games from then? also whats the best mod out there? softmod or modchip?