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Xbox 360 consoles must be kept clean and free from grime to perform at optimal levels. Here are 4 quick steps on how to clean your Xbox 360 gaming console.

Step #1 - Turn Off Everything except Power Source

First, disconnect everything except the main power source used to open the disc tray. All openings, ports and sockets will be cleaned as well to maintain optimal performance levels.

Step #2 - Wipe Away All Dust & Grime

Get a soft towel, or use your care Kit and start wiping away all dust on the exterior of your Xbox 360.

That includes wiping away the vents, underneath the Hard Drive, and cleaning out all the power sockets & memory card slots.

Step #3 - Clean out the Disc Tray

Next, wipe the disc tray clean, and remove grime & build up from the interior part of your Xbox 360. By touch up, I mean wipe away any dust particles visible, and use air to blow out hidden dust particles inside your Xbox 360 console.

Step #4 - Remove Game Disc Scratches As Well

If your game discs carry any scratches, use the soft cloth and scratch solution provided in the Xbox 360 Care Kit or a soft cloth & hydrogen peroxide to work at eliminating any disc scratches. Used games with scratches will cause damage to your Xbox 360 console over time.

If you want to prepare for further cleaning duties, please see my resource box to purchase your Xbox 360 Care Kit.

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There are now programs that allow you to play your favorite Nintendo 64, Sega, gb, gbc and other console games on your PSP. Even though you can't insert a Nintendo 64 cartridge on your PSP, there is a software that emulates it which are called emulators. Let us first discuss emulators. An emulator duplicates (provides an emulation of) the functions of one system with a different system, so that the second system behaves like (and appears to be) the first system. This focus on exact reproduction of external behavior is in contrast to simulation, which concerns an abstract model of the system being simulated, often considering internal state. Most emulators just emulate a hardware architecture - if operating system firmware or software is required for the desired software, it must be provided as well (and may itself be emulated). Both the OS and the software will then be interpreted by the emulator, rather than being run by native hardware. Emulators are specialized for a given system to emulate, meaning there are emulators specified for playing Nintendo 64 games on your PSP and another emulator for playing Sega games.

Now that you know what an emulator is, let us now go to the second step, which is the actual installation of the emulator on your PSP. Before we can start the installation process, you'll first need an emulator. There are many different kind of emulators out there in the internet and most are free for download but before you download, make sure to read the specification of the emulator to make sure that your system is compatible with it. (These emulators are home brewed and will mostly run on systems using a 1.5 firmware and may or may not support newer versions.)

Installing an emulator is easy but installation process may vary according to the emulator used. These following steps are based for the Daedalus emulator:

Nintendo 64

* Name: Daedalus

* speed: Slow, most games run around 10-15 FPS

Basic Install Instructions

1. open the .zip and extract it.

2. If on 1.5 copy the contents of the 1.5 .zip to PSP/GAME.

3. If on 1.0 of custom firmware copy the contents of the 1.0 .zip to the

PSP/GAME folder.

Roms installation:

Finally Copy ROMs to the ROMS folder in the Daedalus folder, The installation process is most likely the same on other emulators.

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