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They will work fine. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

The silkscreen labeling on the motherboard should have a + sign next to the positive lead. Opposite the capacitor's negative lead which is indicated by the thick white stripe with - symbols in it. And, the negative side of the silkscreen has a thick white bar across it as shown below. Here's the link to Nichicon's datasheets for the HD and HE series of capacitors: e-hd.pdf (nichicon.co.jp) [discontinued many years ago] e-he.pdf (nichicon.co.jp) The HD series had a lower ESR (0.023 Ohms) and max ripple current rating of 1840 milliAmps (mA). The HE series has a higher ESR (0.048 Ohms) and a lower max ripple current rating of 1400 mA. They should work. How much the higher ESR and lower max ripple current affects the longevity of their operation is unknown. The original HD series capacitors used may have been selected with specification ratings much better than actually required.

The white stripe with the - is the negative lead and you will see one of the capacitor leads is longer than the other that the positive lead. The red circle you have marked is also the negative side. When you are removing the old caps it helps to apply a small amount of fresh leaded solder and extra flux paste to the pins/leads 1st as it help the solder flow better. Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

There's something weird with the Def Jam FFNY files - as said both the HDD Ready ones work from DVD-RW discs on my primary Xbox (chipped) but DVD2Xbox just won't install them from the same discs. FTPing in a HDD Ready version and it works fine. But I've just been testing DVD-R discs (XISOs created from those same HDD Ready files) with two softmods and the same chipped machine. None of them worked! I was suspicious of the DVD-R batch I was using (Maxell); the first disc gave a verification error with ImgBurn. Only time I've had that is with a bad batch. But I tested two other disc from the batch with a XISO of Xbox game: Black (small size so ideal for a quick burn) and they booted fine on all three Xboxes I'm testing. The bad disc must have been a rogue. I've also proved to my own satisfaction its not the burners (two different lightly used ones tested) or ImgBurn. Wasted five or six discs doing this but all the Def Jam FFNY DVD-Rs using the same XISO that works using DVD-RW on my chipped Xbox's Hitachi disc drive do much the same thing on all three machines (the two softmods use Samsung B and Philips). They take an unusually long time to be recognised and that sometimes fails. But when they are and can be launched (both XBMC and UX dashes tested) they immediately stick at the Def Jam FFNY loading screen and eventually give a dirty disc error. I've never had any DVD-R burn fail to boot except when there was a disc media fault. I just can't explain why DVD-RW burns work from disc on my Hitachi disc drive but you can't install them using DVD2Xbox. It just doesn't make any sense. With that and the other testing evidence I'd say don't try to install or play this game from burned disc. FTP it in only. I'd also suggest that if Shxlx006 use DVD2Xbox at any point he uses a file manager and finds the DVD2Xbox UDATA/TDATA save entries there and deletes them. Delete E:\CACHE too and any temporary game content on X, Y and Z. I'd also remove any Def Jam FFNY game install that has been made and start again cleanly by FTPing in a HDD Ready version. DVD2Xbox UDATA/TDATA ID is 0facfac0 but check that just to be sure they are the correct folders. The TDATA one should contain metai.d2x and a settings.d2x files. If you're not using the default skin doing this will revert it to default but otherwise there's no problem. Both DVD2Xbox's default UDATA and TDATA folders will regenerate on next boot.

In my Github issue post, dzastsed provided a link to a compiled version of LedZeppelin68's DVD Shrinker The Link Explanation for LedZeppelin68's DVD Shrinker can be found HERE