On the XBox, some commercial games could run third party fan-made mods (provided the XBox was modded), which was amazing. I remember games such as Morrowind, the Grand Theft Auto games, Star Was Battlefront 2, etc, supporting this. The big limitation was memory, of course, as the XBox only had 64 MB of RAM (which was also used for video RAM), but I have had my XBox upgraded to 128 MB, so I was wondering in anyone had released a patch for any of these games to allow the game to access more than 64 MB of RAM, and so allow more mods to be used with applicable games. Also, or course,...

I'm a long time original XBox fan for more than twenty years now (my favourite genre is the first person shooter, for which the XBox was the indisputable king of it's generation), and when I bought my first model I had it chipped at the same time, to play homebrew on it. For years it also doubled as my media player, until high definition files came along that the otherwise superb XBMC was too slow to play. I upgraded the hard drive a couple of times, and it ended up with a 500 GB IDE hard drive full of XBox games, emulators, music videos, etc. The original XBox is a superb emulation centre...

New user here, so my apologies if I've posted this in the wrong sub-forum. What is the best utility boot disk for an (modded) original XBox, please? So that if your Xbox won't boot because of a problem with the hard drive, then you can download and burn a disc image containing things like an XBox file manager, a utility to lock/unlock the hard drive, (re)-install a specfic dashboard (such as Evo-X), etc. Then put this disk in your XBox, boot up, and you then get access to the utilities so you can fix the problem just using the botable utilities disc. I vaguely remember Slayers and...

Last couple of months I have tried to update my v1.4x to the latest version using the url downloader. But I've been getting google link errors Is this function not working ? Do i have to install the latest v2xx manually ?

Hi there, I updated to Cerbios a few month ago and installed a 3tb, now my xbox refuses to boot this one up, cerbios says it can't find the dashboard. Prior to this the xbox froze while playing games and hung while scrolling the menu. The 2tb hdd which i was using before refuses to boot completely without an error code, just black screen - no signal whatsoever. Both hdds load fine on fatxplorer. Using 40pin80wire and startech adapter. My even older 1tb is the only hdd being recognized by the xbox. Could this be a bios problem or are the drives just fubar? Any help is appreciated

Hey all. Years back I softmodded my Xbox and installed a 500GB WD Blue IDE drive. That drive recently failed and I'm trying to rebuild a new HDD using the FatXplorer 3 beta. I built the drive using my own backup files, but when I try to boot, I get Error 16. And now that the drive is locked, Windows (and FatXplorer) are no longer able to find the drive. It does not show up at all in Disk Management. I've resigned to the fact that this hard drive is probably unrecoverable. I've got a few more drives to work with but I wanted to consult here before aimlessly bumbling around and needlessly...

The silicone wire is rated for 200 C and the Kynar is rated for 105 C. What is best for soldering traces, modchip lpc etc... What is your experience when using one or the other?

Hi, i have a hardmodded version 1.6 xbox running xbmc4gamers as the dashboard, and when im in the dashboard and navigating through menus everything is fine, however when I select a game you can clearly see it switch to like a mode that makes the picture horrible like a purple and green hue over everything and the resolution is blurry and it only occurs in game, the second I back out of the game and return to the dashboard the graphics are fine again. Ive replaced all the caps around the power connector, could it be a gpu issue? Ive reapplied thermal paste to both cpu and gpu, im using...

Hi I’m starting my second fix and this is something I’ve never encountered before. The Xbox is a 1.6 and does boot normal without the mod chip. I have tried several mod chips from working consoles. When I connect the modxo it wil start then shutdown and start again to successfully load prometheos 1.4. What could cause this?

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum, and after recently moving I've finally gotten my collection out of storage and into my new place. I'm slowly going through boxes and taking inventory as I go, so I figured I'd post some photos of the current set, along with some plans I have for a few of the units. First one I pulled out was the one I started with is a 2002 model, rocking an old xecuter 2.6ce chip with unleashx. I've swapped it into a crystal case, added a random Nvidia gpu fan, green led case fan, and a swanky asus IDE cable I found. The disc drive is out so I can...

I have a 1.6b xbox with a duo x2 modchip which has recently started failing to boot. Upon normal (power button) startup it will freeze on flubber, animation and sound all freeze. If I boot using the eject button to bypass the chip I get the service required message with error 06 which I'm led to believe is failure to lock/unlock the hard drive. I've checked all the connections for the modchip and they seem quite secure, no loose cables. Could it be my modchip failed or something else? Is there any particular troubleshooting steps I can take to narrow it down? I may or may not...

I've been working on these files. A few are finished, and I plan to make one for each revision of Xbox, along with many of the DVD drives and PSUs. You can import these files into Mouser's website. The capacitors are properly spec'd, and the quantities are already listed. If anyone happen to notice anything I could improve, please let me know! I tried my best to pick the highest quality, best fitting components. Attached are the lists I have completed so far. If anyone has lists of their own for the other revisions, Drives, or PSUs I would be interested in seeing them....

Hi guys. I have been working on getting my first Xbox hardmodded and restored. The Xbox is a revision 1.0, modded with a Xenium chip. My main question boils down to, how do I truly identify a bad capacitor? First, I would like the explain the mistake that lead to this point. 1.) The revision 1.0 Xbox has the 12 pin PSU header. My Xbox had just been recapped, and I was testing different components. In-between tests I removed the PSU and on the next boot, I had improperly wired it. As shown in the first attached video. 2.) Resulting from this, after fixing my mistake and...

I was honestly just curious if anyone has tried to get any of the emulators working with RetroAchievements? Or if it was even possible. Sorry if this has been asked before.

My xbox is moded with AladinXT 2 plus and Cerbios, i have a 80 conductor ide cable with a marvel 88sa8040 chip look exactly like the startec ones but got them on aliexpress for 2$ a very long time ago. I wonder why XblastOS report a 40 conductor wires. With some hdd im able to set udma 6 but find it slow when entering games folder on xbmc4gamers... maybe i juste expect too much for this old xbox.

Is there a kinds person who has access to this trainer? The webpage is wonky and i cant register (dont get the activation email) https://www.xpgamesaves.com/threads/splatterhouse-3-trainer.99891/page-3#post-1174987 Best regards

Hey guys. I’m making another console for someone that wants all emulators and Roms. I don’t much with Emustation and Roms these days so I’m obviously a little out of the loop. The scanner recognized the games however, they are an absolute mess in the games list and unfortunately don’t even work. I’ve tried putting all files into one folder named after the .cue file, but that just reboots Emustation as well. How in the world do you get this game list organized and rid the list of many multiple files?

A new open source installer for XDK_5933 has been released and made public by TeamResurgent along with SDL2.0.10 Port that anyone can use on modern OS(s) with Visual Studio 2019 and higher without the need of running Windows XP Virtual Machines! (Announcement message from Xbox Xscene Discord): Links: RXDK: https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/RXDK SDL2.0.10: https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/RXDK-SDL2x (Posted here for those who are not in the discord)

I got an OG Xbox with a Samsung Ver B drive that won't spin up when I put a disc in the system. It doesn't give me any error messages and I can still access the dashboard menu and files, but the disc just sits there and the drive won't spin the disc. I'm not too familiar with the insides of the drives, but is there any way to replace whatever motor controls that? I tried looking up a replacement drive and all I could find were "not functioning" or "not tested" drives.

All the maps work except for tombstone. It loads after countdown and then goes to black screen and then back to the halo 2 party screen.

Hi all. Try my first post here and give my best to be as precise as possible. Setup: XBOX OG 1.0, Aladdin Chip, Cerbios, 1,5TB Drive, XBMC4Gamers, default Dashboard. Technically all works quite well, but my graphics seems flawed. I activated PAL, 720p, widescreen, but compared to other videos I saw, my dashboard graphics seem a bit blurry, mushy, sometimes with weird approx. 1cm regular vertical "shadows" depending on the screen brightness. No real broken graphics or artefacts, though. Did anybody have similar effects and clues on how to solve them? Capacitors on board? XBOX to...

I started off soft modding my v1.4 Xbox with Rocky5 via old jump drive. My disc drive is a Samsung brand and does not work, (I have a working Philips drive but for some reason it will not work in this Xbox). I decided to do the TSOP flash by soldering the points on the board. I have a Winbond chip and flashed it using Xblast OS via FTP. I recently learned not to Hardmod a softmodded Xbox and this may be why I am unable to boot past the Bios splash screen. Since my drive cannot read discs I am unable to format the drive with the Hexen disc I have so I am not sure what other options I have. I...

This is my last post and I will consider replacing the hard drive, but will a bad hard drive cause the game disc to not load properly at all? The only issue I be having is that when I start project Gotham racing two it won’t let me skip, but once it gets to the second part of the intro it’ll freeze until I restart the console and then start the game up again and then it’ll let me skip The in game radio and stuff will also cut out So I just wanna know y’all opinion that well a bad heart drive cause that’s even though I have the original game disc

Hi All, I have a long holiday coming up and to fill the time and challenge my self I bought some broken mainboards from eBay. As you can see from the photo, this boards is butchered! I was wondering if I can use the 1.6 upgrade method to add the missing memory ic?

What format dvd can I use with the Philips because I used the verbatim dvd+r with the RW logo and every single time it won’t boot a game at all. Unless I have original disc