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I recently acquired a Development Kit (DVT4) and decided to take some high-quality photos of the daughter boards from this console. They're pretty rare and obscure and I wanted to take some good photos for preservation's sake. I'm going to get a Raptor PCI card soon, so I'll add photos of that too later. More info- These boards were in development kits and consisted of two parts: DVD emulation board. When paired with a Raptor XDK PCI card installed into a computer, it allows a developer to master a game disc before sending a final copy to Microsoft for review, and later into production. This allowed them to test loading scenarios and figure out where certain files for the game should be physically located on a disc in order to reduce load times. When loading a level for a game, for example, all the files needed for that level could be grouped together on the disc to reduce the amount of skipping around the laser needed to do, which decreases load times. There is also a USB port on this card. While it uses a USB connector, it's actually a JVS port. This was used for hooking up arcade sticks and special components built for Sega Chihiro arcade cabinets, which is based on the Xbox's motherboard. Serial debugging port This allows a developer to get debugging information from the Xbox to see how their code is behaving on real hardware. When writing software, it's useful to see technical info about when and how a bug happens in order to fix it. This board connects to a PC's serial port to read diagnostic info from the console in real time. More info: https://xboxdevwiki.net/Development_Kits Photos taken with a Canon 5D Mark iii, touched up in Lightroom. Link to photo album (includes high-res copies of the photos below): https://imgur.com/a/YRb11os

I'm on my second slim right now. The pic shows it after i cut the case. I'm now cleaning the front panel (removing the "MIcrosoft" logo and the "1,2,3,4" Logos above the ports). I think i will get that done today incl. the final paint job. I hope to get the xbox done by end of the next week. Also you can see my first one here if you like (but the second one will be so much better): https://www.ogxbox.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3815-just-another-slim/

Okay so its been a while since I've last posted so I'll give a quick update. At the moment I was able to create a new CPLD image for the OpenXenium I'm dubbing the dumbXenium. This effectively transforms the xenium into a generic 1mb modchip with no special features. After testing it with a couple bioses (stock 3944 and X2 5035) I was able to get it working on a retail board. After flashing it with the bioses packed in with the XDK 5849 (or whatever the number is) I tried it out with the DV6 and Xblade labeled bioses. Nothing. Ill try it with a bios that KaosEngineer suggested earlier but at this time its not looking to good for the dev board. I might try and just give it a good cleaning with some iso and distilled water and just inspect the hell out of the board. As well Im planning on soldering some wires to one of the xenium modchips I made, specifically to the LPC data pins so I can try and monitor if any data is even transferring through to the MCPX. The logic analyzer I have isnt technically rated for that bandwidth, but it should be able to at least show some activity on the LAD lines. Im getting tired.

Up to 10 split ISO files will be mounted, so you don’t even need to think about it.