modchip

plural modchips

1. A computer chip or similar hardware device used to modify the behaviour of a games console.

   The goal of this hack is to install a modchip into your Xbox.

   2004, Joe Grand, Frank Thornton, Albert Yarusso, Game console hacking: have fun while voiding your warranty

   2 more examples

   Installing a new hard drive would require a modchip that can reprogram or bypass the hard drive lock.

   2003, Andrew Huang, Hacking the Xbox: an introduction to reverse engineering

   Sony argued that the access code reader was a 'technological protection measure' and that the 'modchip' was a 'circumvention device'.

   2006, Dennis Campbell, The Internet: Laws and Regulatory Regimes