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I've installed Aladdin chips before but I'm just wondering what the difficulty level of installing a xerc2 is like? I was tempted to track down an X3ir as i have an x3 but apparently they're a nightmare

Anyone know if there's a way to use ogx360 to power on/off the Xbox using this? Would be a really nice quality of life upgrade to the OG

Can i ask about that remote control power on off mod? A friend of mine has tried it twice with no success. I'd particularly like to be able to turn on my Xbox using an ogx360

OG Xboxers assemble! Come on guys, how has no one discovered what this Easter egg is? It's just a combination of button presses. Additional info found on Reddit: "That thread points out a section of the Xbox kernel's source code (which contains the startup animation code) which has checks to see if certain controller buttons are being pressed and then it conditionally fires functions to alter how the startup animation looks and behaves. The code has references to changing things like the presence of fog, shadows, the "blob" throbbing effect, and camera placement. There's references to "pause" and "camera under control", which makes me think you may be able to pause the bootup animation and then move the camera around the scene using the controller. The boot animation (and bootup sound) is rendered in real time in 3D and is not a pre-rendered video, which makes this all possible in theory. The presence of this code in the stock kernel indicates that it might somehow be able to be triggered by a user on a stock Xbox, if triggered correctly. Currently, simply pressing buttons during the bootup sequence doesn't seem to have any effect. There might be some missing component to trigger all this. Keep in mind, this is all speculation. Seamus could be referencing something else entirely for all we know. I also don't know for certain that the code in reference made its way into the final shipped kernel. It could have also been only present in certain versions hypothetically. EDIT: the code that handles processing button inputs is not active in retail versions of the kernel from what I can tell. There's a special flag that is basically used to indicate whether or not the build is being used for testing. If this "final build" flag is turned on, inputs aren't processed. Seeing as how you can only do this on non-final development builds, I don't think this is the easter egg he's talking about. I'd still be curious to play around with it though. It looks like a very simple thing to enable so I'm surprised there isn't a version out there currently that has this feature enabled, especially hacked BIOSes. It looks like this is a rather trivial flag to set during compilation."

Put fresh thermal paste on....... looked REEEEEALLY closely....... the tiniest crumb of, I wanna say old thermal paste? It was sitting on the traces around the GPU. Maybe it was a bit of the paste that was on it originally? Is that stuff even conductive? It was so tiny I thought I might've jacked up a trace somehow when removing the heatsink. Seems like it was shorting some traces going into the GPU. My fave old SmartXX OG is back up and running! So for anyone who encounters this problem in the future: Check the traces around the GPU and that there's no thermal paste (especially anything conductive) potentially creating a very tiny short.

Welp... took the GPU heatsink off and looks like about a third of the GPU just wasn't covered in thermal paste. Can't believe I messed up something so silly. Pretty sure something on the GPU is permanently damaged now. May try cleaning and repasting it one more time but RIP this OG.

I have a cut-down slim OG xbox that has worked great, but then I changed the paste a while back and it started going kind of weird. The picture output is barely there, it's really really dark with a strong red tint to it, can barely see the menus but it's definitely outputting a picture. Could I have messed up the GPU somehow? Something being shorted? I'd include a picture but you can barely see anything. I'd be sad to ditch this as I put a lot of time into it. Best,

I was curious what the MXM (Media X Menu) skin would look like but I can't find it, is it this one? Because that is just peak 00's right there Edit: No it's not, it's this awesome totally over the top menu with this intro:

More than welcome! Now that you mention it though, a Google Drive repository of all the OG Xbox skins people come across in random eBay pickups or whatever would actually be pretty cool. There was a handful of skin in there that were pretty cool that i'd never seen before, the GreenBox one for example, and others that I've randomly seen before and liked e.g. the Enterprise D / Stargate SG-1 background but it would be really nice to have a central repository for all the skins and custom backgrounds etc people made back in the day. P.S Probably can leave out the Pam Anderson and Paris Hilton / Animé bondage stuff though ^^

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lWghoehhQm94WcMF_iEztYKCeuStgV7s?usp=sharing BIOSes https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a45VMZaPqzAIs36c_xYbRdzPrfgs3lX5?usp=sharing Skins (Warning: some skins may contain a few spicy titties from the early 00's, no offence intended just sharing as I received the console) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1omeUoJnHJLhOMhmjWaCRwYc8eQnw38AA?usp=sharing Same as above, not sure why this was labelled Xskins rather than lumped in with the others. Possibly from another dashboard as there was a lot of stuff in there. Will check for DLC / Mimesis shortly.

There's definitely some DLC installed i did notice that, didn't think to look for mimesis but will check for this as well in as soon as possible.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post a link to Google Drive but I lucked into an X3 xbox for £16 and it came rammed with skins and old BIOSes, some of which I recognise and many I don't. Perhaps someone would like them for archival purposes? Please let me know

This is one i made earlier using a component cable. The others are just yellow composite and red/white audio like I said.

Thanks my crystal is all shiny blue again now

Thanks buddy, I've got a box of these crappy 360 cables and nothing to do with them then I guess. Sad! I've only got 5 360 component cables left I used your tip about using the yellow video cable for coax digital though - works great! Thanks!

Yes but can't i use 2 composite cables and Frankenstein together another component?

Can i make component cables for the 360 out of them? Or will only 360 component cables work?

Anyone got a good guide on installing LEDs or a cathode tube into an original Xbox? I guess i need to know some good 12v and ground points

You get an OGXbox forum Trophy, which is worth x100 a hugging bear coin.

works! thank you

I want to have coinops 8 massive just appear as a shortcut under Emulators in the main menu, but when I add the folder as a "source" in xbmc4gamers, it scans it and gets stuck on one .xbe called something like default_fpp.xbe and has to be rebooted. I can enter the directory via the file manager and boot coinops from default.xbe no problem, same for coinops ninja too - everything works great - but I just can't seem to get shortcuts working and it sucks having to use the file manager everytime I want to play an arcade game. Anyone know what the fix is for this? I even tried going to the .xbes and highlighting them and adding them directly to the favourites list but that didn't work either.

Yeah i noticed it didn't see the g and f partitions, only good as an emergency backup i guess.

Is this kind of in-BIOS FTP access really useful? Does it feature on many chips? I'd also like to try out the SmartXX Remote Flasher, but while it detected my xbox on the network, and I could select a BIOS, I couldn't get it to flash anything. Very cool nonetheless and just thought I'd share this.

Sadly can't seem to get any light out of it no matter what combination I choose. Have taken it out for now, maybe I could try connecting it to a battery to test it or something.

Hope it wasn't your soldering iron that did that damage!!! If it was, don't even attempt it until you get a desoldering gun or at least good flux and lower temps.