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While standard Xbox owners were limited by retail discs and official marketplace updates, the JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) and RGH (Reset Glitch Hack) crowd lived in a different world. On these consoles, the "Pets" expansion represented one of the most technically demanding titles of its era, pushing the aging 360 hardware to its limits to render furry textures and open-world AI simultaneously.
Savvy users would use "Overclock" plugins or custom fan profiles to keep the console cool, as the "Pets" pathfinding AI was notorious for making the Xbox 360 run hot.
Instead of the standard dashboard, players launched the game through custom interfaces like Aurora or Freestyle Dash (FSD) .
JTAG/RGH users could easily bypass regional locks, meaning a player in Europe could enjoy the NTSC version weeks before its local release.