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  1. Welcome!  It's a bit scary.  I felt the same way.  Done a bunch of soft modding and I am at a hobbiest level of soldering ability but when you do the tsop soldering correctly and fire up hexen to flash and it works... you feel like to can do anything.  Huge confidence building.  My advice is don't rush, read up and watch all the you tube vids FIRST, then get to work and GO SLOW.  Especially when flashing it's super easy to click through one of the menus and miss a step or flash the wrong size bios because you were rushing or over-confident.  While you have the board out, it's a good time to clean it up and do the clock capacitor removal and/or the fan upgrade.  (depending on which version of board you have). If you have any questions feel free to ask on here and someone will steer you in the right direction for sure.

  2. Welcome back to the Xbox world.  Especially with the 6th gen and up, there really is no substitute for original hardware.  emulation is pretty good on 5th and down (provided you have a beefy enough system) but you're right the OG can do so much.  I am so lucky to have found a nice 1.2 at goodwill that was easy enough for a modding noob like me to be able to TSOP but still challenging enough to keep me interested.  This site is a treasure on the internet and I've learned so much about the console that I passed by back when it was new.

  3. I don't see a reason it wouldn't work.  I just liked the idea of internalizing a cheap HDMI converter rather than purchasing a separate cable.  From what I've seen and read the Pound cable is decent but here in Canada they aren't available.  Have to order them through amazon.com instead of .ca and the price and shipping is just silly.  comes out to around $50 to my door.  hence going with the much cheaper alternative.  plus tinkering is always more fun than plugging in a bespoke connector.

  4. 5 hours ago, N64 freak said:

    And of course i'm still thinking about if i even sell them as kits as it might frustrate a few buyers that they can't get it installed. And it will cost me a LOT off time just to troubleshoot those installs. And i really don't want to go through that hastle as it will reduce my free time even more!

    You're not Walmart, dude.  No one is going to expect you to teach them how to solder, troubleshoot their shit solder job and hold their hand the whole way.  By the looks of your PCB it's fairly straightforward.  No messy bodge wires halfway across the board to some tiny via like an old school mod chip install.  Just be clear that you offer no support on it and no one can complain that you're not helping them.  You're helping the scene immensely by taking the time to create the board in the first place.  No one would think you're a bad person for not wanting to answer 50 emails a day from some kid who bridged solder points on their mobo and fried it.  I realize there's a line between doing the right thing and standing by your product versus just selling something and not taking returns in the unlikely event that there's an actual problem with the chips..  You've been very candid from the start that this is a very doable install for most people but isn't for everyone.  I'm sure no one is thinking it just snaps into the ATX connector and you're done and if they are thinking that as long as you clearly state that's not the case then you're covered.  

    The more I think about it, I do see your reluctance is justified.  It's not a big enough scene anymore to warrant licensing the PCB design to a bigger company and taking a royalty.  That would be good for you in that you wouldn't have to support it, it would be up to the website that was selling it to decide how to handle returns etc.  If even a hundred people purchased it, there's no way a company would bother adding a sku for it... probably?

    Regardless of what you do, just know that at the very least there are people on this board right now that are interested.  Ok maybe don't take out a bank loan to purchase a run of 10,000 units but I could see 15 or so being snatched up by board members.  That's some nice cash depending on what you price them at.

    Just something to consider. 

     

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  5. That's the best thing I've ever seen for a console mod.  I normally don't care for  LED fans but they work perfectly for that application.  Amazing paint work.  Is that a Gamester FPS master controller with backlit LCD there too?  SO MUCH GOODNESS IN ONE POST!

  6. 21 hours ago, Dixie Normous said:

    No explanation needed or should be given. It is not inherently racist even though MANY people try to make it that way these days. Leave it alone. Don't inject racism where there is none. 

    As a Canadian I don't know what it means anymore so I was curious what OP's thoughts were.  My only interaction with the flag has been on the Dukes of Hazzard growing up.  And the fact that he's from MI didn't make much sense as to why he'd be flying the flag.  It's a really well-done paint job and flows great with the lines of the top of the console.  I was mildly curious as to why he chose it and thought I'd ask.  But yeah no worries. 

    I just wanted to explain myself so people don't think i was egging him on to expose a big thing.  That's not how I roll and I don't want you chaps thinking i'm a shit-disturber.

     

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    6 minutes ago, ironsniper1 said:

    if you dont mind me asking why would the converter fail and how long do you think it might last?

    I dunno.  I'm just being paranoid of a cheap product. It very well may last a while.  It ended up that I didn't do the mod yet as I was curious what N64Freak was charging for his board and the fact that my roomate is now using the converter in his room.  I might still pick up another one to try.  If it for some reason fails then I could always hit up N64freak for one of his boards. (assuming he has one available).

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  8. Very cool!  Thanks for the files.  I might check these out this weekend.  As this system is brand new to me (I was a playstation guy at the  time) there's a ton of things like this that i didn't know was possible.  I just recently found out about xbox trainers and this is right up that alley.

  9. 2 hours ago, shawly said:

    LPC Header is on the first pic or what do you mean?

     

    You appear to have something in the LPC location above the header you added.  Appears to be populating the whole LPC and one of the pins doesn't look to be soldered at all on the top left in your picture.  Just curious what's there.  I should have been more clear, sorry.

     

    But yeah if everything works without the chip and stops working with the chip then that seems to point to a bad modchip to me.  I would contact where you got it from and see if they can RMA the thing.

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  10. I think @ironsniper1 is referring to the LPC header soldering as well.  Seems pretty straight forward but can't hurt to see it too.  Did the xbox work perfectly before you installed the chip?  Have you double checked your AV connections and input on the TV... only other thing I can think off the top of my head is the modchip is DOA.  Do you have a spare system to test it on?

    I mean you clearly followed the really good instructions so there doesn't see to be too much to it.  I find at times like this is when the dumbest things are causing the problem.

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  11. 4 hours ago, maethorechannen said:

    Everything I've read about xboxhdm is that the linux version doesn't support USB drives. RPi's don't have IDE or SATA. Sorry, but to me it looks like a non-starter (and that's before trying to track down source code and doing an ARM build - all I've seen are x86 binaries).

    This.  Sadly this wouldn't work with a pi out of the box.  You'd also have to engineer a IDE/SATA converter let alone porting xboxhdm to linux.  I agree that it would be very cool to have an AIO solution for doing these annoying tasks but it would take a special kind of person to have both the know-how and drive (no pun intended) to make this for a system that isn't exactly at the top of the spotlight right now.  At best you could go with an Intel NUC as it natively supports windows and usb drives.  Might be able to work with something like that but those systems in very basic 2ghz celleron configs are still going to run you $100 USD.  A far-cry from a $35 pi3.

  12. Hey guys,  So @N64 freak posted his awesome PCB HDMI converter in another thread.  With luck he will be able to make these available for everyone.  Until such a time I am annoyed with having my DIY Component cable going into a cheap amazon converter.  I figure it would be easy enough to do the "dirty version" where you gut a converter down to the PCB and solder wires to the mobo.  In researching the pinout of the AV connector on the mobo i found a great post from a gent named William Quade.  He did a nice write up on his blog about doing it and I thought i'd share it here in case someone else is interested. 

    https://quade.co/2017/original-xbox-hdmi/

     

    Note:  He admits his hole for the HDMI port is terrible and I recommend anyone who's doing this mod do it properly with a panel mount HDMI or at the very least, cut the hole with a dremel.  His looks like a tiny bear was trying to get into his xbox but the point of the blog post was to show where you need to solder which is the important part.

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  13. Well this got me thinking.  Why am I using my DIY Xbox 360 spliced component cable plugged into a component to HDMI converter?  Why not gut my component HDMI converter down to the PCB, remove the original AV connector, put it in the xbox and wire directly to the AV points on the xbox mobo.  I can easily steal the +5V that the converter needs from the mobo as well.  No more wires into boxes into another wire and have to use my tv's usb port to power the box?  

    Only issue i'm seeing is i bought a cheap amazon converter so I might have to end up redoing the mod down the road when (not if) the converter dies. Really that's not that big of a deal.  Hmmm i may have found my new project for the weekend.  And for once I don't have to order anything to accomplish it.  Love me some $0 mods!

    Having said that, however; @N64 freak you REALLY do need to mass produce these for the community.  Seems like such an elegant solution that isn't being fully realized.  I know you want to make sure the product is good for the long haul and testing is essential to that but i'm sure that if you did a run of the boards at the very least the people on these forums would be more than happy to pick one up to use on a spare system for now.  As long as you can get them reasonably priced I'd definitely be in for one.  In the meantime I think i'm going to try my internal converter mod.  BYE BYE COMPONENT CABLE! :)

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  14. Yeah if the entire Nintendo catalog was available as part of switch online that would be massive.  Even if you only got a few games like they're going to do at least on launch, but gave the option to PURCHASE the ROM that would be huge as well.  This "well you can play it while you're paying your sub fee" nonsense is just a glorified renting and is not what I personally want (and i believe a lot of other people who play ROM's).

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