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Due to threats of litigation and ongoing disputes over IP infringement claims, we have decided to attempt to stop all discussion of Xbox HDMI HARD mods on this site. We will not be discriminating based on brand. All discussion is hereby banned in an effort to not be sued. The HDMI mods are really for people trying to build the ultimate modded Xbox. The results yielded by the HDMI mods are very slightly sharper than the component to HDMI converters by reputable brands. They are almost indistinguishable and so are hard to justify for many due to their expense and installation difficulty. If the truth were really told, the installation difficulty is the main reason anyone has them... so they can show off their skills. The quality of the video output simply isn't that much better than component. (These comments are specific to the Original Xbox. Other consoles can actually have a dramatic improvement.) Component to HDMI adapter discussions are allowed. Hard modded adapters that intercept the raw video signals prior to the built-in video encoder discussions are disallowed. The threat of lawsuit against us is that we allegedly choose what can and cannot be published on our site. We are actually protected by law as media and exempt from most litigation due to our First Amendment rights to publish whatever we want as long as we are not directly providing something unlawful. We aren't, but this is also a public forum. We don't have the time to constantly monitor it nor are we attorneys. We don't intend for anything unlawful to be published on this site or to allow it to remain, but we simply can't catch everything and even if we could we do not know what is in compliance with the law and what isn't. Quite frankly, if you're not an attorney, neither do you. I'm referencing section 230 here. Section 230 protects this site from most things third parties (people posting to this board) could expose us to. One thing it doesn't protect us from, are claims of intellectual property theft. I have no idea who owns what intellectually property, who may or may not have used it unlawfully, etc. So, we've had to look at what to do about this. We can't continue in the current state because I cannot afford to be sued simply because I chose to create a site covering a topic I once loved when the main site had gone offline or was about to. So since we have no protection from this specific claim and since there is no clear indication of what is right and what is wrong I have only this one option to protect this site. The only reasonable thing for this site to do is attempt to stop all discussion regarding the HDMI mods creating all of the controversy, the company threatening litigation, the main person behind said company, any products they offer, AND any competitors to those products. I don't know what HDMI HARD mod is legal and what isn't, so the best way to protect this site is to block discussion of all of them. If you can sue us for (passively or unintentionally) allowing certain discussion, then we will attempt to comply and attempt to disallow all of it. There is absolutely no way for us to find every mention of every HDMI device that happened in the past. Please report those if you find them and if they are indeed HDMI HARD mods we will take them out of public view after we see the report. There is a lot of content on here and we can only do so much. -HARD mod means some part of the adapter installation requires the original hardware be modified in some way. HARDware was added to the circuit board somewhere OTHER than a port designed for devices to be plugged into it in order to modify the behavior of the device. Usually this means soldering was required, or traces on the circuit board were cut in order to intercept or redirect certain signals to make that modified behavior possible. -HARD mods vs SOFT mods. Hard mods mean hardware was added. Soft mods mean the mod was achieved via some form of software exploit. Soft mods aren't relevant here, but to understand the term HARD MOD it's important to understand the distinction. -
Thinking of doing a 128mb mod for shits'n'giggles. I know you need a certain bios to access the extra RAM on startup but is that only for the dashboard? Like once a 128mb application or game is launched does it just, see it? I ask because I want to stay with the current EvoX bios I have flashed to my Aladdin, it just works for me. I don't like Cerbios because of the lack of the classic intro and hacking one in increased boot times dramatically last time I tried it. Forgive me if this has already been answered elsewhere. Couldn't find any info on this specific question.
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Saw this on Reddit this evening and thought it was pretty cool. Figured I’d share it for anyone who had not seen it already. An interactive display on the Xbox controller. https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/s/KuX90kCI1E
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This HDMI mod replaces the AV port completely and offers an HDMI port instead for convenience. The Installed HDMI mod does look like this: The HDMI mod does offer 5.1 sound through the HDMI port. If you don't need 5.1 (or your TV might not support it) you can simply disable 5.1 audio and get digital stereo audio instead. For those who want to add an optical output to there Xbox the HDMI mod does offer 3 solder points to add a TOTX178 optical transmitter. To get the HDMI mod installed you first need to get the AV-port removed. To get it removed you could either use a hot-air station or a heat-gun to remove it at once. But that would put a lot of thermal stress on the board! The better and recommended alternative is to disassemble the Port and remove it one part at a time. First desolder the Metal Tab holding it in place by heating them and prying the metal tab up to pull it out. When the metal tab is removed take a sidecutter and clip off all the pins from the video port as they are what keeps the Port in place. When they are clipped off you can take the port cover off by simply pulling it upwards. Next step is to remove the remaining plastic piece and desolder the rest of the pins and clean up the area a little. Position the first Adapter exactly as show in the photo. The red arrow marks the PTH that has to be alligned centered. Once Positioned solder all the marked points down and make sure they are properly connected before continuing with the second adapter! After soldering all the necessary points insulate the 2 soler points shown in green. A piece of kapton tape works well. You should do this to be sure there's no unwanted connection occuring between the 2 adapter pcbs. Next up is the second adapter. Just position it above the first adapter using the 2 big holes to allign them and solder down the marked points. Again check continuity before continuing with the next PCB! Last PCB is the HDMI mod itself. You need to position it slightly off centered on the second PCB. The HDMI ports pins will be position it correctly. Just solder down the points that are marked with the red arrows and the install is almos done! Last up is setting the Video mode. You need to add 2 small bridges on the bottom side of the PCB. Just solder in the 2 bridges and the video mode is set correctly! If you want to use the optical out you can easily add a toslink port to the HDMI mod by simply soldering a Transmitter to the 3 marked pins.
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I've got an admittedly silly and redundant but possibly useful mod/repair idea for the Xbox. Hear me out. PLCC or other flash chip ribbon adaptor with a socket that replaces the stock bios. I came up with the idea when I was fixing yet another Xbox with a dead TSOP last night. After installing the header and fitting a modchip it came back to life no problem. But what if we could just replace the bios directly by removing it from it's socket and reprogramming the flash chip like on a PC? Without the modchip stuff. I imagine most people wouldn't attempt a soldering job like this. But for someone like me who regularly repairs Xboxs it would be great. Bit of future proofing too, those old TSOPs are dying increasingly more lately. If I had the means I'd get to work creating it but I don't know the first thing about designing or creating ribbon cables. I've brought it here in case anyone else wants to use the idea Feel free to tear my idea to bits or agree with it. Just wanted to test the waters by presenting it. I've attached a crudely drawn diagram to show what I mean.
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i've tried the brook wingman 2 and the Plug and Play OGX-Mini (OGX360). both have their issues with precision. i tried the game "black" today on my xbox series x and og xbox. i used the same xbox series controller and kept swapping between the systems while using the ogx-mini to connect to the og xbox. when connected to the ogx mini, the controller had a larger deadzone which makes it difficult to play shooters with. it's fine for a game like marvel ultimate alliance but not a shooter. has anyone found a truly good solution yet? -
There's a tutorial I found on Wayback, but Wayback wasn't able to find all the pages for this mod. It's for using a PC drive on an XBOX. The DVD drive is an LG DRD-8160B. It's not similar in layout to the 8163B that there are drawings for. What I need are to locate the X and Z points on the DVD's pcb. This is all I've got...
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Hello, guys! I just have a quick inquiry regarding loading into a retail kernel for a modded Xbox separately from loading Cerbios. I assume it's flashed onto bios options somehow? I'm using an Open Xenium mod chip on all the systems work with; and I have a premade 1tb SSD I've been cloning my Team Resurgent dashboard, games, emulators, etc for quite a while now. I had a customer reach out who was wanting to use Insignia for live service and one of the steps requires loading into the retail kernel to log in to Xbox live again. I personally never use the retail kernel with my mods anyhow so I don't know hot to make the system able to load into the retail kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated, or possibly a way to circumvent needing to use the retail kernel for Insignia maybe? -
Hello everyone, I am creating this post to make every one aware that there is now public info about a 256MB ram mod that was created by @Prehistoricman. Tito has released a video about it here.
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Hello I couldn't find any help by searching "VGA" in OGXbox.com ,Apparently since "VGA" has 3 characters Search engine doesn't register it as a credible word to search for, so I had to make a thread , to Make it worth it, I will publish my work result afterward. My questions are: 1-For enabling VGA mod after flashing the Cerbios (forcing 480p and patching for VGA) which pins should be grounded?( in the picture below it shows that I have to ground all 3 of mode pins) 2- Is It Sync on Green or as the picture shows should I use a sync separator and feed the raw c-sync to H&V sync input?(and if its sync on green should I feed the green on H&V too or just feed three colors without worrying about H&V pins since my Monitor can do the rest?) 3- Can I use two Bios on a 512kb chip on Aladdin chip to hover between VGA and Component?(this is a bios question rather than a VGA mod question)
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A couple of weeks ago I decided to do a removable LCD screen mod that plugs into the controller ports. I'm thinking of raffling this to help support the website. What are your thoughts?
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My next mission is to TSOP flash a 1.4 Xbox that has an Alladin mod chip, from memory with the mod chip disabled the Xbox just frags so I wired it with the mod always on. I'm guessing at some point a TSOP flash was attempted on it and failed or something went wrong with the original bios. Is it going to be possible to recover the TSOP on this one, can I flash with the mod chip installed somehow? Thanks for any advice. -
I've recently got back into my Xboxes after years of them being untouched, I've got boxes of old stuff I've got to go through to find everything but I'm gradually doing it, this forum's been so helpful in my endeavour. I have a crystal 1.6 Xbox, it's softmodded but I want to try and chip it, I've never done a chip before myself but I guess back in the day I bought a few of them. I found a bunch of new ones that I've not used, although one of them has a wire with some solder on it that doesn't look original so maybe it's one, I did have used at one point and it was removed from it's Xbox, maybe when the Xbox died it was thrown out and I kept the chip, I have no idea, so long ago! I found this bag of mod chips The one with Aladdin Advance written on it looks like it can be used on a 1.6 seeing it says so, what about these Duo X2 chips? Is there a guide somewhere how to install these on a 1.6? I think on any further Xboxes I find that are below 1.6 I'll just TSOP them as I've done two now the past couple of days and doing a TSOP is very easy with some conductive paint, as I'm no soldering expert, very basic skills there. Thanks in advance.
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does anyone know them Colors from the original Xbox cable as connected to the Wii HDMI adapter. The member MisterED has provided the housing but also how it is soldered and which color goes where. sorry for the translation.(google)
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Hey guys, made an instruction for the "Analog2HDMI" mod from Electron Shepherd LLC. 1. Remove AVIP Socket from your Mainboard: 2. Modify AVIP Socket: 3. Add Analog2HDMI to AVIP Socket, make sure to flip Analog2HDMI otherwise you might have problems with the Mainboard. 4. Use hot glue to attach Analog2HDMI and AVIP Socket, just leave the space for the wires between Mod and Mainboard. 5. Solder your Mod to the Mainboard, use this digram: IMPORTANT: Use all the Ground (GND) i use! Add an extra wire (GND) between HDMI Socket of Analog2HDMI and Mainboard if the RF shielding doen't touch the HDMI Socket, otherwise you will most likely get image error. 6. Congratulations to your new HDMI mod! Hope you can work with this!
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I am making the 128 mb mod to my console, I guess this situation is happening to me, I soldered the first memory and when doing the ram check, when starting the xblastOS the screen turns into pure frames or as in the attached image it looks distorted, what is this about? The memories are Samsung and are from another Xbox.. HELP!! I have carefully checked the pins to verify that I do not have jumpers or tin balls, in addition to that there is no short.
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FIXED SEE BOTTOM OF POST Hi peeps, I have just added a blue LED halo to my Xenium modded crystal. Its looks great, the ONLY issue is that its a bit too bright... Its a 12v halo for car headlights. Here's the link to the exact one I bought. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G59CHT3?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Here is what it currently looks like on my console.... And the view from above.... Its so bright that it leaves rings in your vision for a good 10 mins if you look at the console LOL I'm thinking that I should be able to add a resistor or similar to reduce the voltage a bit. It does have a little box half way along the wires which I think is to help with fluctuating voltage on a car. See pic below FIXED with the below.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MFH9J2D?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Can be dimmed right down, made bright as fuck or set to epilepsy mode -
Hello everyone, I have a !.0 MOBO that I have recently installed Project stellar on along with the HD+ kit from MakeMhz. I had the ribbon cable to the video encoder professionally soldered on but the rest of the install I was able to complete myself. once i reassembled the unit I was able to get it to post with only the mod chip with no DVD or HDD drive but I had no audio only the splash screen. I then completely reassembled to see if it was an issue with no hard drive (shouldn't be i thought to myself) so unsurprisingly it still had no audio (but the picture is OUTSTANDING). anyway I took everything apart to check my work and now seem to have narrowed down the sound issue to hopefully a bad wire included in the kit or a setting issue on the MS DASH feel free to let me know your thoughts on the audio issue as well. BUT when going to try the MS DASH first i reassembled and now the mod chip itself (project stellar) wont boot idk if the xbox is bricked now or what, I seem to get power to the chip as seen by the little green indicator light on the bottom of the chip but the tiny screen does not display anything not even an error code. So I reconnected the chip to my PC and found that the screen itself does in fact work it displays "PC Mode" so I know the screen didn't die and all of the firmware and bios seem to be on the chip and website tells me that the chip is ready for install now. I figure I should get the chip working first before I can do anymore diagnosing on this thing. At this point I am lost. I'm just trying to make a good birthday present for my little brother. please any help is appreciated TIA!
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I've had these ol' boys stashed away for a really long time now. I wonder if they still work? I also have all the cables, switches and everything for a few of them still.
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Hello, I’m trying to repair an Xbox Ver 1.1 for a friend. It has a Xenium 0449 05 M2 MT mod installed with a 160 GB HDD. I’m getting a 05 error on boot up. So, I’m assuming its booting with xbox original bios and 05 error has to do with the unlocked 160GB HDD. My question is, what options do I have here. I don’t know if Mod is bad or the HDD has an error. The mod has a red led always on and I don’t know if this is normal. If mod is ok, what options do I have to repair HDD to work with existing Xenium mod.I have checked the D0 wire and it is ok. Thanks
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Lost all my consoles when my basement flooded, anyone have a console with 128mb ram & a makemhz hdmi kit installed they are willing to part ways with? Thanks!
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After the 128mb installation, I get no sound. I tried testing everything and still no luck on sound. It plays all the games fine and no other issues. This is a v1.4 board. Let me know if you guys know anything I should look out for. I tried wiggling wires and pressing down on certain areas where the av is. I also tried reflowing the joint for the av port but still no luck. Any advice would be great. Thanks!
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This guide and pictures taken from: http://www.biline.ca/xbox_solder.htm TSOP Flashing Unlock points if you are unsure which Xbox version you have click Here TSOP unlock points for version 1.0/1.1 Xbox This is the top of the motherboard Connect the two solder pads at R7D3 as in photo above. This is the bottom side of motherboard Connect the two solder pads at R7R3 as in photo above. All Ver 1.0/1.1 Xbox's with a 'SHARP' TSOP chip must also connect the additional red wire as in the photo above. All other TSOP's DO NOT require this step. TSOP Unlock points for all Versions 1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5/ Xbox's This is the top side of the motherboard These Xbox's have both points located on the top of the motherboard, for the first point connect the two solder pads at R7D10 as in photo above. For the second point locate the junction between R7D2 and R7D1 and connect the two solder pads as in the photo above. After the solder points are completed you should re-assemble your xbox (but leave the top cover off) when the power button is pressed it should boot normally as it did before you started. Note if you get the message TSOP write protected while attempting to Flash the TSOP you might need to check and resolder the points to ensure a good connection was m while attempting to Flash the TSOP you might need to check and resolder the points to ensure a good connection was made. To split Split a 1MB TSOP (v1.0, v1.1) into 4 banks of 256k, the following picture explains how to accomplish this: Note: If you have a 1.6/1.6b Xbox, it has no TSOP and therefore you cannot flash it. You will have to install a modchip or softmod.
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I was given an xbox without a hard drive, when I turn it on, this screen appears. I'll buy hard drive. What else do I need to do to get it working again?
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Hi friends! as title says I get error 16 every time I boot with Cerbios , and i get that error with m8+ too when i turn on Xbox with eject tray ,everything were fine before I decided to give 128mb ram upgrade a shot on my 1.6 OGxbox , I have deleted and formatted all the partitions and installed everything from scratch still i am getting that error , I dont know that if it is hardware related or not please help me I am out of patience by trial and error
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Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48