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For softmodding, the Rasberry PI W configuration is a lot more expensive than a small compatible USB flash drive and Xbox controller-to-female USB connector cable. Edit: Continuing the work to get it to act as an ogXbox ODE that's another thing.

No as once the Xbox boots from the LPC that is the only thing it looks at so to flash a TSOP it needs to boot from the TSOP. The easiest is a just use a mod chip as to flash a non working TSOP there is a modded M7 BIOS that needs to boot from a mochip while there is 2 points on the mainboard held to ground and then disconnected from ground in the correct order and time, Thats where a Xblast lite chip helps as it does that for you automatically. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

I'm very wary of the quoted specs for the chinese pico style psu's, from experience of other cheap chinese items I expect them to be extremely optimistic in what they say. I suppose at the low price it might be worth a punt though. That Inter-Tech psu does look promising though. If it really can deliver 12A (even if that's just peak, for the first 60 seconds whilst the caps charge) then no capacitors should need removing at all. Good find, I think I'll get one and give it a go.

hi all, made progress it seems that the main issue with dvd drives on the xbox is due to spin down mode, the xbox wont tolerate that but in terms of using a compact flash or other solid state device its good news, all the lines on the xbox dvd power plug are either grounds, voltage or high or low at a particular interval. any off the shelf unit like an arduino, raspberry pi or other small board computer could be programmed to do what we want, the pi may be overkill for our needs, unless we go the whole hog and make one stop shop add in board that does disk drive, but also takes our video signals and gives us HDMI, it could do other things too reading eeprom springs to mind. but that would require quite a few of us getting our heads together, so for now i'm concentrating on just the drive. iv'e got teenseys, arduino nano's, a pi pico, coolrunners and other boards here to play with, i'm going to start with a compact flash to ide adapter first to hold the data mainly due to it basically being an ide type drive, but i have got 44 pin laptop ide to 40 pin ide converters, so have options. just going to take time and energy to do, but i'm up for it. but i want to make things clear, i'm not interested in selling this i dont even plan to make and sell boards, what i learn and get working will be posted freely here, so you can do it too, if that means adding a pc dvd drive ok, if its using an ode thats cool too. i am going to use off the shelf parts as much as possible, its not about just getting it to work i want it as easy as possible for people to replicate. as an aside a mate of mine has ordered a mode ode for his dreamcast, this unit is already running on saturn, dreamcast and playstation 1 with playstation 2 being worked on by others if the possibility exists of using a ready made solution i may jump that way, it all depends what will be the easiest for users to replicate. thanks, aly.

i am playing with an lg dvd drive its not the one that used to be converted to read xbox disks but very similar, i have found 3.3v, 5v, 12v, eject, cd/dvd and data lines for the xbox power plug. grounds are easy the problem ones are tray in, tray out, the reason i mention this here is because its all relative if we want to make a working ode we need to get ordinary dvd drives working on an xbox first, i'm not talking about reading games disks(yet) as that requires new firmware which according to my IT mate the known lg firmware can be made to run on this drive with tweaking. i'm hoping someone knows the pinout of the ide/atapi/pata socket on the back of the drive, since a pc knows when the tray is open or closed and can in fact eject the disk the required lines must be in the ide socket, i want to get this drive running so i can reverse engineer the drive connections, then when i know where and how the dvd connects and talks to the xbox i aim to substitute the drive for another device, maybe a raspberry pi to run emulation using the sdcard, or the mode used in the saturn/dreamcast/playstation, but thats later on first things first. lets not try to run before we can walk. thanks, aly.