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Nothing of much hoohaa, just interest really. I sold an openxenium years ago to funnily enough, one of the original team He was friendly, totally at ease and just happy to get a new chip without having to make one as he didn't really do soldering either. Was quite funny. He got fed up chasing an original ICE, didn't have time.

There are no 1.5's. I've opened and tested over 100 xbox's over the years and have never seen one. I've also never known anyone who has ever seen one. Anyone online who has ever claimed to have one has never provided proof, and when asked too would either disappear or do more thorough testing and find they really had a 1.4. I wish there was some way to remove all information about this "revision" from the internet as it seems to confuse a lot of new people trying to get into the hobby. As for which revision is the best, I would say the 1.1. You get all the positives of the 1.0 with none of the negatives, such as the bad gpu fans and flimsily attached daughter board of the 1.0s. Also, as for the power supplies, I have come across many foxlinks in the 1.0s as well as the 1.1s. They both had the power socket solder problems. I actually come across delta power supplies most often in these revisions, rather than foxlinks. The rarest power supply is definitely the Minebea though. I've actually only seen two of them and actually kept one as my 1.0/1.1 test PSU. They are by far the best PSU ever built for any revision of the xbox. They have the best build quality and the largest amount of capacitors for voltage ripple reduction on any PSU. You'll notice that microsoft started cheaping out on later revisions and leaving a lot of capacitors unpopulated on the boards, particularly around the CPU. This is likely why later revisions always have those 3300uf caps leaking(they are being overtaxed) and I rarely see the earlier ones leaking or out of spec in that area. Finally, for the DVD drives. I always hear that Thomsons are the worst but in my experience the Samsung revision B drives are the worst. Almost every thomson I've ever run into has either still worked or required minimal tweaking to get fully working again. The opposite is true for the Samsungs, they either work or are unfixable. No amount of capacitor replacement, resistor array replacement, pot tweaking or even laser replacement seems to fix them. I have only a few thomsons laying around that are unfixable, yet I have an entire box of maybe 30 or so samsungs which are completely broken beyond repair. If I were to rate the DVD drives from best to worst I'd say Hitachi>Philips>Thomson>Samsung F>Samsung B. I've only ever seen a hitachi drive once in person so they may as well not exist if you are looking for one, so I'd probably advise getting a Philips drive.

I've been designing and selling xbox mods for the better part of 3 years now. I was keeping things rather low key so I could avoid registering as a business. But it's time to decide either to fade away or go all in coming financial year... You can check out my previous works over at EmuXtras: https://www.emuxtras.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=6786&sid=092ae8a1ea7b8d5f5ae4b33f3ea1de69 I've been busting my **s over the last 3 months working on projects. Feeling really burnt out I could use some motivation from the community. Below are my 3 main projects for Version 3.0... **Will post images shortly (1) Dual 80mm Fan Caddy Convertion (Beta) - including redesign of the HDD Caddy, etc. - would like to do a PWM fan controller based on CPU and MB temps via I2C. (2) XeniumICE Redesign (Beta) -inspired by the XeniumGOLD 24k modchip. -extra connectors for more specific tasks. -edge connector pads for fast programming. (3) XeniumHD+ Standalone HDMI Mod (WIP) - can't say too much just yet as it's still a work in progress but hope to have a working prototype within the next month or two. I'm sure there will be many questions for a variety of reasons... PS. I'm looking for testers within Australia preferably people who contribute alot to the xbox community. Cheers, NeMesiS

OGXBox Installer 2021 (EOL) Created by Sweetdarkdestiny THIS INSTALLER DISC ONLY WORKS FROM A BURNED DVD DISC, NOT MOUNTING THE DISC IMAGE SAVED TO THE HARD DRIVE This version is EOL and should only be useful for archival purposes. The newest version of this installer can be found here. Sweetdarkdestiny: "Why use this this instead of HeXEn/TruHeXEn or Slayers? Well, good question and here is the answer: It's faster than all of them. It doesn't have faulty bioses on it. It's up to date and it offers way, way more to install than any of the others. So you have plenty of Apps, Dashboards or Emulators to install and a huge amount of bug free bioses (ModChip and TSOP (incl. Winbond). It's a simple build without any fancy code or the need of copy stuff over and over again. It's clean by default which means no temp files will left behind. You have plenty of live apps you can use or just test before you install them." Bowlsnapper: I had to put these discs in my Xbox, rip them to the HDD, then take out the HDD, mount it with FATXplorer, copy the files to my PC, Create ISOs with Quix, then upload them to Mega. I only have the PBL versions, as those are the only discs I ever downloaded and the original ISOs are gone. I rebuilt the ISOs to the best of my ability as I feel that this is the best installer out there and puts Hexen and Slayers to shame. As I said, these are PBL (Pheonix Bios Loader) versions. This means that you must have a preformatted HDD for the BFM to load properly. If your HDD is new/blank, it will freeze upon loading and not work. I do not know why. It's a glitch, I guess. If your Xbox is sitting at a red LED and a black screen THIS IS WHY. Format your drive using the Slayer's Installer if necessary, or FATXplorer. As long as the partitions are there and the HDD isn't totally blank, the installer will load correctly. So stock HDD setups should work fine. If I had the non-PBL versions, I would post them, but I do not. We are lucky that we have them at all. It is a shame that Sweet pulled the links but I feel that this is something that should be shared and used for a very long time, at least until another installer shows up. Credit for this installer goes to Sweetdarkdestiny. He worked hard on it and it shows. I am STILL finding new things on this installer disc every time I load it up. Every other installer is a waste of time, in my opinion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OGXbox Installer 2021: https://mega.nz/file/QjkhyRKR#Wxd3RTFiKS3l7gSqsGDVkbM03bscWXn_RTQGx7lyKck OGXbox Installer 2021 Extras Disc: https://mega.nz/file/lmcREZjQ#VfzXvJiKAAdNb0oNvmOW_kBgEOBTQpNNWMV1LlVt5QI 1.5.4 EOL Mirror: https://1fichier.com/?cmclnzvvd4gufvt90j4d

For the sake of argument and since MakeMhz keeps insisting that I'm stealing he's firmware. Hypothetically If the community wanted to use he's firmware they should be able to in accordance with the GPL license that Dustin refuses to honor. However, the below article sums things up perfectly... How Narcissists Blame and Accuse Others for Their Own Shortcomings (psychcentral.com) There are some interesting key points under "Manipulation Tactics" Deflecting - By deflecting focus from their own wrongdoings, the manipulator expects that others will forget about them and will ignore or even forget about what happened. Putting Others into Defense Mode - Instead of addressing peoples concerns, admitting fault, or examining their own problematic behavior, the manipulator attacks others. Lying to Look Better - Narcissistic manipulators try to make themselves look better by putting others down. But after a while it's clear that most, if not all, of the things coming out of their mouths are blatant lies. Victim-Blaming and Playing the Victim - If you challenge them about their lies or stand up for yourself, they immediately start playing the fragile victim.

You'll need an online component that requires a unique login to stop people from pirating it.

Please keep going! I'm very impressed!

Yes, still I'm working on it! i'm that a short on time and resources on moment, but I'm firm and strong! You can wait and one day The Orange Box will still be Complete on Xbox and with new and unusual features!

I was wondering if you were still working on this. Nice work!

The game, In A Creation, is still in my head and will continue development even if my Xbox Series S games are of higher priority. Currently in question how to implement the A* system into the engine in an optimized way (Tho I still have an idea for how) and are about to add my first physics object into the game to check if it'll lag. I shouldn't use this topic anymore since it was a question if homebrew games can sell originally. But I'll reveal as little as possible anyway!

Half-Life 2: Episode Two Original Xbox port

Framerate Enhanced Half-Life 2 Xbox

The Orange Box Xbox port UI

In response to: History of breaking licenses of open source projects. I can only assume that he's referring to my XeniumICE design of which I did before there was even an OpenXenium GitHub... Should I clone the "Xenium Ice" - Page 3 - www.emuxtras.net

MakeMHz is currently having a PR nightmare... Being so desperate that he will literally say anything as this point. I will be addressing these accusations he made towards me.

You only have MakeMHz to thank for the toxic environment he created for himself by doing stuff like this: Official Statement on Recent DMCA Actions – MakeMHz The xbox community went nuclear with this announcement... He's been scrubbing he's GitHubs and modifying licenses to justify he's actions after having already issued the DMCAs without any prior notice to the authors.

You'll need to be proficient in C++, DirectX calls, and you'll need the source code from the emulator you want to port. Start here: https://xbdev.net/tuts/tuts.php

Available Soon: Further information to be announced...

Did the Xecuter 3 box.

Just a little heads up. You steal your self room to work with. You don't need any wire and there is also no need to cut the housing. Bent the pins of the LED to your needs and strip them down as mutch as needed. It will also become more stable if you solder the LED like you did. You could also turn arround the LED so the light up the metal housing. That way you have a more smooth lightning without a spot. But other than that, good first job. E: VHS for scale? E2: Pic : https://imgur.com/a/Zp7mLL0

End result is pretty... Especially with diffused LEDs which reflect off the inside of the metal housing and add to the effect.

When I first thought about doing this I never expected it would come together... None of this would have been possible without Ryzee119's work on the CPLD firmware! For more details please visit my Main thread over at EmuXtras: https://www.emuxtras.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=6786 Quick demonstration of adding bios from a USB device, dimming feature and full RGB front panel and controller ports. NOTE: Due to poor lighting it is difficult to distinguish between some colors: "Green and Amber", "Cyan and White"... Sales/Pre-Orders Payments made through PayPal... Standard Xenium Bundle: $60 AUD + Shipping ($40 USD / €37 EUR *approx.) Premium Xenium Bundle: $80 AUD + Shipping ($54 USD / €49 EUR *approx.) Massive Xenium Bundle: $100 AUD + Shipping ($86 USD / €62 EUR *approx.) * Prices may vary depending on international exchange rates. For sales and general inquiries you can contact me via, Email: [email protected] Discord: https://discord.gg/g9RJnRb Shipping Local postage within "Australia": Standard Postage = $8.95 AUD Express Postage = $11.95 AUD International shipping from "Australia" available! Shipping to the USA\Canada: Standard Shipping = $24.00 AUD Express Shipping = $39.00 AUD Known Issues Links to Ryzee119's GitHub in regards to known issues... XeniumOS hangs without DVD drive (Ryzee119) XeniumOS graphical issue on v1.6 Xboxes (Ryzee119) Guides/Manuals Below are a collection of links that I thought are still relevant for various installations, The "Quick Solder Install Manual" is included even though I wouldn't recommend it. Would like to create some new manuals particularly for the RGB and LPC mods... Xbox Version Detection Guide (Xbox-Scene) BIOS Variants and Features (Reddit) Xenium - Total Noobs Guide (cap269) Creating Bios CD Manual (TeamXodus) Locating the LPC & D0 Point (TeamXodus) Pinheader Install Manual (TeamXodus) Quick Solder Install Manual (TeamXodus) v1.6 Install Manual (TeamXodus) Xenium Update Manual (TeamXodus) Xenium v2.0 User Manual (TeamXodus) Availability Bundle Availability: Standalone Bundle = 16 sets Premium Bundle = 15 sets - 2 sold Massive Bundle = 14 sets - 4 sold Mod-Chip Color Availability: Blue Mod-Chip = 25 pieces - 3 sold Black Mod-Chip = 10 pieces - 2 sold White Mod-Chip = 10 pieces - 1 sold Xenium Bundles The below bundles include everything one would need for a complete installation, A basic 30 to 40 watt soldering iron should be more than enough for the job. The RGB controller ports require some cutting, I would really recommend a cheap Dremel knock off from your local hardware store with a cutting wheel/blade... Standalone Xenium Bundle 1x Xenium ClassicICE Modchip (Blue, Black or White) 1x 2x6pin Male Pin Header 2x SH 2pin 100mm "DIY" Cables 1x XeniumUSB Adapter (Blue Only) 1x XeniumLPC, either for v1.0-1.5 or v1.6 (Green Only) 1x Complementary "Xenium" Sticker Premium Xenium Bundle 1x Xenium ClassicICE Modchip (Blue, Black or White) 1x 2x6pin Male Pin Header 2x SH 2pin 100mm "DIY" Cables 1x XeniumRGB Front Panel (Blue Only) 1x SH 10pin 300mm Cable (White Only) 1x SH 6pin to PHD 2x10pin Cable 1x XeniumUSB Adapter (Blue Only) 1x XeniumLPC, either for v1.0-1.5 or v1.6 (Green Only) 1x Complementary "Xenium" Sticker Massive Xenium Bundle 1x Xenium ClassicICE Modchip (Blue, Black or White) 1x 2x6pin Male Pin Header 2x SH 2pin 100mm "DIY" Cables 1x XeniumRGB Front Panel (Blue Only) 1x SH 10pin 300mm Cable (White Only) 1x SH 6pin to PHD 2x10pin Cable 2x XeniumRGB Controller Ports (Blue Only) 2x SH 4pin 100mm "DIY" Cables 2x 150mm Lengths of Kynar Wire 2x XeniumUSB Adapters (Blue Only) 2x XeniumLPC, both for v1.0-1.5 and v1.6 (Green Only) 2x Complementary "Xenium" Stickers Accessories XeniumRGB Is a set of modules for RGB lighting with the aim for an easy install which should look like the above demonstration. The front panel also acts as a breakout board for the RGB ports and other mods, the RGB controller port modules are design to be directly soldered to the shielding. RGB Front Panel (Front) RGB Controller Ports (Pair) XeniumUSB A cable-less alternative way to convert a xbox port to USB which will be a standard inclusion with the modchip. XeniumLPC Are a pair of modules to aid with the installation of the modchip, also a standard inclusion. LPC for Xbox versions 1.0-1.5 (Left), Rebuild LPC for Xbox version 1.6 (Right) Original Comparison