Insignia is a free, non-commercial server that has restored the functionality of Xbox Live for the original Xbox.[3][4] Insignia was created via closed-source reverse engineering of the original Live server software, hosted on Insignia's own servers, and its aim is to support every game that had Xbox Live support. Insignia is currently in public beta. Some games are either not supported yet or are supported on a limited basis. Games published by Electronic Arts used their own servers that were primarily not based on Xbox Live. Support for games by EA are actively being worked on by the Insignia developer team. The 200th supported game, while also being the first game with EA support, will be Need for Speed: Underground 2. No date of release has been given.[5]
Insignia can work on both unmodified and modified Xboxes, as well as Xbox emulators, such as Xemu. To play online, a console has to be registered to Insignia's servers via the registration tool which can be done on unmodified consoles with the one-time "endgame" exploit that is run via USB.