Nate2905

I wish to go back in time and tell the engineers all about X clamps. The flimsy plastic XBOX clamps barely apply pressure and not equally. I think this is why the OG stock thermal paste is like thick super glue and you can move around the clamped heat sink with new thermal paste.

Should have brought project back to its roots and installed Kodi (formerly Xbox Media Center). There are a ton of fully customizable skins and plugins to fit your needs to make your build so much more personalized to fit the XBOX theme. The program was so good that Microsoft gave up making their own Windows Media Center which am pretty sure was around before XBMC came to PC.

You have struck Xecuter gold. The only thing that will top this would be a Blue Halo 2 Special Edition XBOX with a matching X3 panel, Coppermine CPU, 128mb of RAM, and with prototype transparent green XBOX Duke controllers or a pair of Xenia Gamepad V2s to use with a ogx360.

RGB mods seem to be the worst when it comes to hot glue. Probably the latest mods I have seen that use hot glue in place of heat shrink and electrical tape.

There was hot glue an every soldered trace. Am trying to learn all about how to install a RGH 1.2 onto another Xbox 360 so I can have the experience encase this Xbox 360 decides to not boot. Luckily I have some experience with PCB and surface mount resistor soldering from some XBOX TSOP and PlayStation chip modding and a lot of broken XBOX controller cord replacements. Console modding then was all about trying to get free games to work and was much less of an art now so you see a lot of cut corners and hack jobs when opening up a system that was modded a decade prior. Electrical tape can be place of all hot glue blob wires but I guess people don't trust the non permanent nature of tape, so we gotta make it a pain to remove if something goes wrong.

This should have been posted in the Rumble Pit but oh well.

I took apart the Xbox 360 my uncle modded in around 2010 because the GPU temperature was always over 75C* and I saw hot glue under the GPU die. It was like that since I had it and I thought it was normal until I realized how hot that really is. The GPU heat sink literally oxidized because it was running so hot for a decade. I hate hot glue!!! What is it with amateur console modders and hot glue? Please don't put hot glue in your console and especially don't use it as thermal paste. This is why I don't want to work on or to buy a previously modded system. My uncle isn't stupid but that was the dumbest thing I have ever saw. I don't think it was on purpose because the old thermal paste was still on and the X clamps where not tampered with. No clue how it got there though. I would have showed off the GPU die but it didn't look much different except for clear yellow bits around the die. It really felt like rubbery hot glue when peeling it off. The CPU die was untampered with completely and ran 20 degrees cooler than the GPU too. The console was also filled with dust because of this issue. The fan speed always idled at 100% and sometimes crashed because of the heat. I now have proof that heat isn't the issue with red ring of death consoles because the console was a Jasper with the favored updated GPU die and it should have cooked itself by now if the GPU die was heating up more than a untampered console and it was used for more than 10 years. Now I replaced the hot glue thermal paste with actual thermal paste and now the idle fan speed is so low I can't hear it. It also idles under 50C* so now so I can enjoy the console without the console shutting off because it going over 80C. Worst part is that the Xbox 360 had genuine Xecuter boards and had a genuine Coolrunner chip too and there was hot glue everywhere around it.

I borrowed a large 2006 Sanyo picture tube that was sitting in a yard for weeks at the bad side of town, got rained on but works mostly fine. Hard to find a living room sized picture tube for free/worthwhile price these days so I take what I can get. Has S video and component but only 480i component, not like I would notice the difference between 480i and 480p on a picture tube anyways. Not like am not hoping someone will drop off a perfectly pristine Sony 50 inch rear projection widescreen TV on their yard for the taking but it's not like the anyone could afford a $4000 TV and then just drop it off in a ditch when it gets old, especially today when even junk food reaches the price of fine wine.

Some Dashboards that detect component automatically force 720p so I have to connect my Vizio flat panel to switch it to 480i. The Microsoft dashboard usually doesn't really effect it. I will see if this causes me issues once a playable demo comes out.

I use component for my Sanyo picture tube but the TV only supports up to 480i. Any way to force the resolution to 480i through a settings file?

Will there be a 480i-480p release of the game collection? Most 720p mods are pretty laggy and I usually play on my Sanyo picture tube or Intec portable screen when am going places. Most displays I have don't have both component and HD resolutions so I don't want to stick to the only component flat panel I have in the house which is a Vizio mounted high up to the wall. Thanks for creating this project because I always wondered if I will ever see other Valve Source games on the XBOX and you are doing much more than that, porting most of the Orange Box catalog and trying to make it work under 64mb. The homebrew developer for Half-Life for XBOX tried to do almost succeeded (the only 64mb port I can find has missing textures). As a Source and XBOX fan, am fully on board with your project and hope it gets reviewed by MVG one day once it's finished.

I always wanted to play the Orange Box on the XBOX, this is my dream come true. I hope I can see game play soon. How does the maps work on the added games? Did you split the maps or simplify the geometry/textures? What steps did it take to get portal running?

As long as the solid state drive isn't eMMC, the drive should last long as a hard drive. Don't guarantee that though, especially if the drive isn't reputable, very cheap, or used. Since SSDs are expensive, some use their spare early generation SSDs for their XBOX or other devices and it goes bad. I used 10gb of virtual memory on my old computer's SSD and it didn't die or start having issues, and virtual memory often read and writes a ton of data. Some games benefit because a hard drive has a harder time seeking for smaller files around 1-2kilobytes but the speed is nearly identical. The only real benefit is that the XBOX will be much quieter. As long as you have your XBOX's HDD key, saves, homebrew, and dashboard are backed up, which anyone should do with any storage medium and other technology regardless, you should be fine. This is my speculation but I hope it makes sense.

If anyone is having trouble connecting through Insignia, do not use the HDD ready archives. Those rips are not 1:1 and have a lot of trouble connecting with Insignia. I had good luck extracting xisos with Qwix.

Modded one of my spare keyboards to be used exclusively for the XBOX. Would like to document because any search results for XBOX keyboard support would lead to slim and unrelated results. Any practical uses for it aside from typing faster in XBMC4XBOX? Tried homebrew like Half-Life but even that didn't any drivers which I think would have been added since the Playstation 2 port did have full support for USB keyboards. I heard Fantasy Star Online for XBOX supported USB keyboards through an adapter and the Insignia closed beta is conveniently close so I will get to see if my keyboard would work or if the Fantasy Star USB adapter is proprietary. I do know about XDSL and Xebain and it does have plug and play USB drivers but my XBOX is not 128mb or CPU modded so there wouldn't be much to do that I could think off the top of my head. Used a replacement XBOX controller cable I ordered from Aliexpress so no worries about wasting a hard to replace XBOX controller cable. Was my best option actually since the Aliexpress cables where unshielded and not grounded. Also didn't have the AV light gun wire so that would cut many opportunities for controller modding if I used it for any of my broken controllers. Demonstration video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5nhtzi5a4blypfa/xkeyboard.mp4?dl=0