Soft-Modding My Xbox 360

Within the last year, a soft mod called ABadAvatar emerged for the Xbox 360, allowing the system to play ROMs of games, all while maintaining access to your Xbox account. It's pretty impressive and can run entirely from a flash drive. Having purchased an Xbox 360 two years ago, and then replacing it with an emulation PC I put together earlier this year, I really didn't pay much attention to it. To be honest, my experiences with modding haven't been all that great. The amount of work it typically takes just isn't worth the end result. My Xbox 360 had made its way into a Goodwill box, where it's resided for the last three months. The other day, I saw the latest release of this mod and how quickly it booted up, and I decided, "What the heck." So, I sat down to see if I could pull this off, and within a couple of hours, I was up and running. The mod is rather simple to use, but it does require a PC. I wasted a lot of time trying to get things working on my Mac before realizing this would…