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I will have a look and see if I have a very old backup of the 8160b tutorial with the quad nand gate on one of my drives, prolly take some hunting. In the meantime here are the xbox drive firmwares... and also the flash tools.... Samsung_SDG-605_firmware.zip SS_Dumper_FW_605b.zip Philips_firmware.rar HitachiLG8050.rar 8050L_FW_Flasher_FIXED.rar Mediatek-MtkFlash_1.55.zip Mediatek-MtkWinFlash_1.5.3.3.zip sdg605bv2.rar

If peeps are after a really nice conversion of the component to HDMI, well there is the Extron DSC-301 HD. I have one. Also a Kramer 7 series. It is as good and has the same ADV chip as a very costly Crystalio II upscaler. I have it because I am also into Laserdisc and AC3 THX etc, so it is a bit of overkill maybe for Xbox, but the Shmups lot also use it. Because it's become, sort of popular under the radar, prices have risen a bit, but I actually picked up a brand new box unused one for £35 plus post. So you can find them reasonable occasionally. Kramer also do some good ones too in the 7 series. These devices used to cost heaps, but can be now picked up cheap. I bet the picture may even surpass the digital hdmi mod because of it's features. Not that I've bothered to compare it as I'd have to make the cable up for it. Just another option to consider that's not much more than a pound cable. My Kramer was the same price, it's a bit big though

Pity the blue consoles are also ridiculous prices! Probably that "Retro Gaming Pricing" or "Collectors Gaming Pricing" that Bowlsnapper is keen on.

I dunno, in this instance you have to accommodate the people who think "arse if I can't be sure of winning the chip, then I can't be arsed bidding on the faceplate". Tough call either way. Make sure you get it listed on an eBay listing offer though if you can get one. They usually ping you early hours Friday if one is on.

Ha, megga. I was thinking of that the other day, trust you! Looks superb. Them 'Startech' red ones have almost got that....... what's the phrase....?...... (where's Bowlsnapper) 'Retro Gaming Price' now haha

Damn that's a shame.

I’ve bought a couple of 850mhz 100fsb coppers dirt cheap to fling on as tests to see what they will go up to overclocked. Just for a laugh... if it will work.

None really, since those 479’s are also pinned, so a double bga op same as traditional and they only go to 1.33ghz at 133fsb. Plus they are rare, I could only find a single 1.2ghz 479 for sale.

Only seen the 1.0’s tops in the bga version myself. Is there a spec list of the coppermine p3 bga somewhere?

Yeah, coz they work with nintendo stuff as well Bad as ‘retro gaming crt’ and the rest.

Yeah, I said in the edit. All I could find was, like you, that 1.2ghz cpu. What I’m saying is its prolly not worth your time doing the interposer for 479 mobile cpu’s. Like I said the 1ghz coppermine drops right on and will overclock. If you wanna do it then yeah sure, but seems like a lot of unnecessary work for ya is all.

Had a look at the processors you are referring to, the mobile ones, they are actually already bga495 (same as xbox), you just reflow them off their small adaptor board and they fit right on, direct swap. Same as the slot 1 P3 version chip. Only issue with the mobile ones is the 100fsb, so need to adjust that down using the cpu app. Also the max cpu was 1ghz. Might get an overclock on it though by raising the fsb a bit. edit: found those fixed pin PIII-M at 1.2ghz @133fsb, dunno if they went higher than that, can only find the odd one on ebay. As I say, think the 495 bga 1ghz p3 mobile @100 fsb will get near that anyway with no interposer needed.

I've got pictures of one I did on another drive somewhere so will add them here for ref. for peeps. Will attach the fixed flash file too from wherever I've stored that as well. These files probably need more places available as other sources dwindle.

Smaller form factor, neater. Can prolly add both interposer and cpu in one profile like this > https://blog.ret2.io/2023/08/09/jtag-hacking-the-original-xbox-2023/

Very interesting read and ultimate kudos to Markus Gaasedelen. Talented, very.

I done a fair few of these 8163b's, all been perfect for me. I can't completely remember, but vaguely remember there being 2 flash files and one being a duffer, it had a marker in the name to say it was the 'fixed' version - this is the one I use. Don't know if that's the one you have? If so ignore that then. Also, another guide mentioned to keep the cables short to the yellow cable, which I do, and also watch what the wires are passing over and resting on and as they come out the back too. Use the smd resistors on the pcb. Try a second flash, chip is old, just like the flash chip in an xbox, sometimes its not a bit perfect flash on these things. Just had two more 8163b's delivered, so have probably quite a few now that I need to do at some point soon. I use a USB stick on a tiny old 1ghz industrial pc board (complete with bulging caps about to pop!) think it is with dos on the stick and just load up the tool in dos.

Actually, that's just made me think that maybe Gaasedelen might want to help with the opensource HDMI firmware for the HDMI mod by Ryzee, where Ryzee left off. This is the board I have to assemble, but still have not done, but noticed the STM chip is the same just a diff package and wondered if *cough* somebody elses *cough* firmware from the first type err *cough* board might work on it or do what you have and change up the PCB for the other package stm chip. Either way, as Ryzee said, he's quite happy for anyone like Gaasdelen to improve it further and keep it opensource to fix the various bios issues etc. He seems to like solving stuff!

openxenium firmware... https://github.com/Ryzee119/OpenXenium/issues/6

Believe it was Gaasedelene (Titan) who was working on it and got an updated cromwell from Haxar too and it was merged by Ryzee.

Bought mine ages ago. Years I think. Always an issue these days getting hold of decent stock, was another reason why I gave up making stuff. Hopefully you get some good ones this time.

The xbox dvd drives are old as we know, I have stacks of them and have seen very odd behaviour from various models. Odd partial ejects and re-closing by itself. The carriage mechanism is usually geared so that on eject the cradle is forced down out the way to avoid collisions as the tray starts to move. I've seen Samsungs try to get this out of sync, but the cradle is slotted, so it goes bonkers instead. Usually firmware corruption... PCB caps etc and other stuff. The only way to get those perpendicular marks is the disc stopped and the laser is trying to over focus occasionally once its started reading a genuine disc (not your clear test disc) then increments the carriage at the same time, hence leaving a small mark like that. To be honest, it's not worth the faff. You'd get more benefit just either swapping the drive out and junking it or delete the DVD totally or find an LG 8163 DVD and flash that, they are great and its what I do. Junk it and move on.

When I make these I use the same OS support jed file for the CPLD. There are other options though on Psycho's repo for bank application like possibly 4x256 and 2x512 besides the OS version IIRC. Have a look.

Confirmed, had a look in a drawer, found some, dunno where the others are. Should have 4 spots.

Hmm yeah, does look a bit suss that ADV chip compared to the ones I have IIRC. Think they have 4 top dots, one in each corner, though might be a batch difference. But looking at the top of yours it appears to be a re-grind and re-mark as the top has lost its curved edge and the other 3 spots probably. Chinese twerps.

As said, the 'recovery feature' of the Xblast Pro/Lite versions is a bit of a misnomer as it's more hassle than its worth in reality. Best to just flip the tsop off as sweet says and flash it. FWIW here's the details on the Xblast Pro/Lite... Link to instructions.