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With the Adafruit Feather board I linked, you plug the USB C end into the Xbox with an Xbox to USB adapter, then your controller into the USB type A port. If you wanted to use the normal Pi Pico board, you'd need to attach another USB port to it for your controller, here's a diagram of that Firmware for both boards is in the Releases section of the Github. There's no wireless functionality on either of these boards so a wireless adapter like an 8bitdo or the Xbox 360 PC adapter is needed for that

Finally figured out supports with FDM.

1. Correct. Get those things out of the 1.0-1.1 and 1.3-1.4 boards ASAP. 2. Just do it beforehand. It’s not like they’re going to blow up the Xbox, but might as well since it’s in the game plan anyway. 3. There’s been some recent changes to how soft mods operate. FTP could be possible, but I’ll let someone else chime in on this one. There are no alterations made to the HDD besides adding a couple of files to support the mod. You can much more easily grab the data off of them after they’re modded. Wether soft or hard mod. 4. Answered in #3 5. If you have SSDs lying around then go for it. I personally wouldn’t recommend going to buy one. This is a huge debate within the community. I’ll let you delve more into that with a YouTube video or something. At the end of the day, XBOX was made in 2001 for IDE drives. They’re just not made to utilize the full capabilities of an SSD. The rest is sort of user preference. Hard mods are all around a better type of mod, but soft mods are excellent for casual users that are only going to play emulators and some Xbox games. Nulling your HDD key is an easy way to not forget your password and give the ability to use that drive in another nulled console with little to no issue. As long as the drive is locked(Soft mods require a lock). If you label the drive for the Xbox it came out of, then there is no real advantage to nulling. It’s also worth noting that nulling the drive can render some existing game saves, useless. That can require another process of resigning your game saves to get them to work again. Edit: I forgot to say DEFINITELY backup those drives. There is a community database with tons of game files for extra content like DLC for maps and other cool stuff. I don’t know where right off hand, but there is a list of things that are still being looked for and you may have some of it.

These fit Startech adapters perfectly. I had to lightly file back the area shown in order for the cable to lay properly.

Yeah, I know about this. Pretty amazing that that community is so strong. I have never participated in it, but I have lingered since sbc.pippin.us through steelbattalion.org, lineofcontact.net and now Discord.

You can buy a break away cable on ebay for about $5 U.S. If you cut off the end of it and solder the wires onto the Pico/Adafruit Feather board you could have a direct connection to the Xbox. Make a little 3D printed case and you could have a dedicated Xbox adapter for around $15

If not already, check out the Steel Battalion Online subReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/steelbattaliononline/ and Discord server for online multiplayer gaming: https://discord.gg/steelbattalion IIRC, they use XLink Kai to play with others on the Internet: https://www.teamxlink.co.uk/

Many people say this; however, the cap has leaked all over the motherboard. Please post/share a picture of the motherboard and/or area around the clock cap.