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Fun little project, recreated the casing for the pro switch used by the x3 modchip. Done in Fusion 360

Format the ipod nano again using FATXplorer 3.0 beta then copy the two save files / numbered folders to the root / top-level folder. Edit: Forget that you ever knew that the old buggy Xplorer360 application ever existed.

I'm not saying no...

I recently got asked for some tips on this upgrade and figured others could benefit from the info as well. So for posterity, here's what I recall as being the most relevant info, condensed. There's 2 important topics to get right which require some strategy: alignment needs to be dead-on, and the interposer needs some help to be mounted flat. I'll explain why. For alignment, generally you can be just under half a pitch off with your BGA alignment and it'll work out fine when the chip settles. So, the BGA pitch on this motherboard of 1.25mm suggests alignment is very forgiving. However, vias centered within groups of pads are not nicely tented, and instead take up most of the leeway you'd normally have with alignment. I'd say you don't have ~0.6mm of tolerance, but rather about 0.15mm. To assure I get good alignment, the first thing I do is eliminate the possibility of bridges forming between the BGA pads and nearby vias. You can simply tent these vias manually using UV curable solder mask. Takes about 10-15 minutes, and with this, a lot of alignment margin is recovered. At the same time, I place some 0603 resistors near corners of the BGA array and interposer outline. See the red marked circles below. The BGA pads on the underside of the interposer do not cover the entire interposer area, so the interposer tends to tilt/slant during reflow because it's gravity center is off. When the interposer is tilted, BGA balls can get too compressed and are unnecessarily stressed. Now the 0603 resistors just happen to have a height very similar to properly compressed 0.76mm solder balls, so this very simple approach ensures the interposer will get mounted flat. Next, my definitive way to get perfect alignments, after a number of less precise prior attempts: I drilled through the corner BGA pads on the underside of a sacrificial interposer. See circles in picture below. The resulting holes allows to see the xbox BGA pads underneath, and thereby align the sacrificial interposer perfectly. Then, I tape it down temporarily. The next step is to fix this interposer in place. The idea is that by placing e.g. 0805 capacitors along the edges of this interposer, we can lift it up and replace it with a fresh interposer in exactly the same position. Furthermore, because the interposer cannot move laterally, the interposer won't "dance", and therefore balls cannot join with the vias centered within groups of pads either. With the alignment also being spot on, there shouldn't be a "snap" when the BGA aligns itself due to surface tension either. I believe this thoroughly eliminates everything that could potentially yield faulty mounts. The very last optimization I added was to place a single case screw diagonally over the interposer as depicted above. This counteracts the weight imbalance due to the BGA pads being off-center underneath the interposer. The positioning I found is determined experimentally and results in the interposer settling down perfectly straight, i.e. all 4 corners go simultaneously. This isn't super important since we already guarantee flat mounts due to the 0603 resistors acting as standoffs from a prior step. Running short on time for this writeup so I'll conclude with the only other vital step: use a bismuth compound solder paste for the CPU itself. Bismuth solder has much lower melting point than normal leaded, so this allows soldering of the CPU without inadvertently reflowing the interposer (but with a lot of added weight on top, potentially squashing the balls!).

I'm trying to put together the best collection of Xbox games that will fit on a 1TB drive so I can make a 1TB image to speed up my modding process. I can get 1TB drives much cheaper than 2TB drives and there are really a decent amount of Xbox games that MOST people have no interest in so I figured trying to squeeze everything out of a 1TB HDD would be a fun challenge. I wanted to post this first before I got too in-depth to know if: 1. Discussing something like this would be against the rules? I'm not trying to sell anything nor will I be sharing links to where I got any of the games being discussed. 2. If anyone would be interested in taking a look at what I have so far? I have all the Xbox games available to me on a google sheets document that I have recorded how critics and users have reviewed/ rated them and a list of the top games I have come up with so far to be critiqued. If this or something similar has already been done I'd love to see what someone else came up with and also bash my head against my desk for spending the last 2 or 3 weeks making this spreadsheet when I probably should have posted this first.

This tool is released, it's called Repackinator. You can download repackinator from the team resurgent github page. https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/Repackinator Just use untouched redump iso files and the program will do the rest. It will also create the attach file. the main repacklist.json in repackinator is fully tested and is build like so: all usa games + pal exlusives + jap exlusives. If you wish to convert another version of the game for some reason you can add it to the repacklist.json (you can find the alt games in altRepacklist.json) Here is a compatibility list for xiso with cerbios: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTsVPLdUJvc0R8oYXbx5xVSEBHW98VH2xM5XkvODvC01Sbcj9b3I2laWD3ZxN-Yklm4qJR2jF4nXuiu/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true And here is the compatibility for CCI (cerbios compressed images): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSewa5ynfmFC6Dg9FeF9nBF511dGgHc6VwtmR5AH3yyba-bqXO2OAvR-_xxPSLk84xCiM8LxntTYzHX/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

Dustin/MakeMHz, has stated that they’re working on compatibility with the old XLCD screens AND, the STL has been released for the faceplate along with the X3CP board being successfully cloned. I think it’s safe to say that It’s only a matter of time now. Glad I still have the old X3 lying around. In other news, my Stellar just arrived today.

Not 100% on this, as was not even aware you could do this with a nano. It sounds a bit like file permissions, the NT file system which fatx is based on can be a bit picky. What you could try is make a real splintershell save by playing the game enough to get to a save point. Then on your computer delete all the files in side the save, not the folders just the files then from your hacked save copy all the contents into their respective folders. Pop that into the XBox and see if it likes it. He folders will grant the implied permissions on your transplanted files.

This would be good I'd love another but I'd imagine it would get quite expensive to actually produce

Then HELL yeah. Let's do this. Maybe a CP if this is successful?

One of the current limiting resistors must be damaged or missing on the motherboard or a wire disconnected from the motherboard to the front panel. (Flashing orange but the right side's RED LED is not coming on.) There's a signal for the RED and the GREEN LEDs coming from the PIC processor to turn them on / off. These signals go to two transistors that power the RED and GREEN LEDS on both the left and right-hand side of the front panel Eject ring. The output of the drive transistor goes through two separate current limiting resistors. One for the left and right side tri-color LED's green and red half. When ORANGE, both the RED and GREEN LEDs are lit. Edit: Make sure the resistor that connects to pin 7 of the FPIO connector is present and not broken on the motherboard and that the wire to pin 7 is still connected. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20180818113253/http://modzone.dk/forums/showthread.php?threadid=252

That's coming, although not from me. This was a sort of commission job, for a well known scene guy. He's doing that side of it

I'm almost there, I have X, Y and Z left to convert. Kinda got side tracked with other projects for a while. But I will finish it. As per a post back up the thread there are a few incompatibilities with CCI and a few games so I will be going through and making sure the torrent includes the best version of those games affected whether that be xiso or extracted folders.

So finished some tests - Cerbios doesn't work. Can't see your games etc. Titan with a 4TB worked and in game reset works now on Titan. Gonna test some more things out.

Vimms lair gives you the option to get either the full redump .iso or an .xiso for most Xbox games. There's a dropdown box to choose the download format near the download button.

Hey, Hope this helps I personally have had success with this site https://romsfun.com/roms/xbox There is also Vimms lair which has some good ones ive not found elsewhere thats on https://vimm.net/ The download is an iso so i use xdvd Mulleter to extract the iso and ftp it over to my xbox also not sure what difference it makes but I have adblocker not sure what the ads are like so to be sure if you dont already id visit with an adblocker to be safe Hoping this is allowed Im kinda new but im guessing it is ok if other folk are giving their sites too, Hope it helped

Kudos for choosing the openXenium over a god damn Aladdin chip. You made my day. Happy modding.

ShinGoutetsu If youre looking for someone that can laser cut/etch en masse, I know a guy. MBN LLC does Laser cutting/engraving, full color prints on just about everything too. I work with him and, am learning more and more on the CNC and lasers.

ByAlvro's 1fichier.com Microsoft repo. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRs56u1DiQy4EBB8rWrk1r-yvkYgatv9h0IbKKDh1HyPXueiaS06aVdovdF_nHe9SJrPwfkYRMif_mG/pubhtml# There are ad sites that open up along the way to the files.

Makes you wonder how nobody has cracked this after 20+ years. It's a whole new era of console modding now. One could have the right mind to say if it was possible it would've been done already. But then we get Cerbios, Titan, StellarOS, etc all in the last few years. I love this community

The cerbios discord has an ongoing list of hdd/xiso compatability. It is however cerbios specific; but should make a good jump off point. Alternatively do as I'm doing: get a full redump set, convert to xiso, folder them with the xbmc4gamers script, then test. Any that havent worked as xiso, have as an hdd folder. 1G1R set is coming in at around 2.5Tb

I respect that. Modding for the sake of modding. "Because I can" commonly ends up being the reason for a LOT of the things I do.