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  1. Nice work! Definitely going to check this out. Thanks for sharing.
  2. It's a really cool and valuable item... just not that valuable. But then again, it just takes one guy out there with more cents than sense to come along and buy it for it to work.
  3. My experience with the dual fan + dvd elimination kit mod- Overall feedback is that I very much enjoy having this mod in my main build. I haven't played an actual game disc in years at this point, so the DVD drive was just taking up space. The Xbox I installed the fan kit into has an upgraded motherboard, with 1.4ghz CPU/128MB RAM, and I wanted to run a more quiet exhaust fan without sacrificing cooling. I installed a 60mm Noctua fan as the main fan and paired that with two stay quiet! 80mm fans. The system is extremely quiet, even at 100%, and I'm not seeing CPU temps go uncomfortably high, as was somewhat the case before. I haven't done temp testing yet (though I intend to), so I can't speak too much about the cooling difference with the mod yet, but so far so good! I also got a fan splitter and cut it down to a small size, then stuck it on the caddy. I didn't want to solder things together so that I could plug in the stock fan while working on my Xbox and be able to remove the fan caddy completely. I wasn't sure if the stock fan header would be able to drive 3 fans instead of one, but I haven't noticed any issues, even with all at 100%. I wanted to wire the 80mm fans off the regular CPU fan header to be able to control it in software. Quiet in XBMC and loud in games. Both parts are very well made and drop in place effortlessly. I spliced together a molex connector onto a DVD power cable. Works quite well and looks tidy. Praise: Very well made parts. Nemesis dialed the design in so that it all fits together effortlessly. The sturdiness of his prints are top notch. And they even manage to look good. His design lets you swap in different colored faces to the top of the fan shroud, which is a nice touch. Fitment is great. No alignment issues. Parts just drop in as if they were stock. Does what I expected. Blasting air directly down onto the CPU and PSU helps keep parts cool. I'll have to get a thermocouple and dig into it more, but seems to work, even if the 80mm fans might be recirculating some warm air. Well thought out / well laid out. The fan caddy has channels for running wires, and with my fans routing their wires was easy. Nem included a bracket for mounting SATA-IDE adapters with my kit, and it holds the adapter in place. It's not a cheap mod, but you get what you pay for. It's a niche product for enthusiasts, and it is well suited at its price point. I'm very happy with it and would get another in the future. Suggestions: Offer alternative way of mounting DVD bezel. Screw posts can break if you're not careful. Removing your DVD drive includes moving the DVD bezel from the drive to Nem's included mounting bracket. The bracket then screws into the Xbox's front screw standoffs. This has the side effect of allowing for situations where if you have the top case taken off and accidentally bump the DVD bezel, it puts pressure on the screw standoffs at an angle, instead of the usual lateral or downward pressure. This can lead to the screw posts breaking. Offering a DVD power cable would be helpful! After moving the HDD, the molex wire is no longer near the HDD. Running the power to the drive's new location requires an extension cable or similar otherwise. I made a cable by splicing a DVD connector to a molex connector, but it would be convenient if something like that could be offered/included. More room for running fan wires. This is more feedback for the 60mm fan bracket, but with dual-80mm fans mod too, there's probably going to be wires running between the fan caddy and the 60mm fan bracket. It's a bit tight and maybe would benefit from leaving an open channel in the 3D print for wires to rest in. Some means of powering the fans. Maybe also controlled via temp curves. I know Nem is working on a different method to power the fans (PWM, etc) so this may be a moot point later. Other Parts Used: Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX, Premium Quiet Fan, 3-Pin - https://a.co/d/3mci3zu be quiet! Pure Wings 2 80mm Premium Low Noise Cooling Fan | Black | BL044 - https://a.co/d/cok8ECZ FBHDZVV PWM Fan Hub Splitter 4-Pin/3-Pin pc 5 Way Splitter - https://a.co/d/8jixxL4
  4. Correct. Higher bitrates mostly, which leads to less macro-blocking artifacts in HD videos. It's mostly the CPU upgrade that helps with this. My 1.4ghz / 128mb Xbox still has about 70MB of RAM free when using this profile, so it's not hitting a memory limit.
  5. Version 0.2b: Added initial support for starting playback partway through a video. When playing a video that was already in progress, XBMC now starts playback at the correct time. This doesn't seem to affect all videos, further testing is needed to determine why and target those codecs/containers/etc. XBMC now displays the correct length of the currently playing video. XBMC can now fast-forward/rewind in currently playing videos. Transcoded videos are delivered over TS streams (instead of MKV). Changed profile identification. New builds of XBMC in the future (beyond 3.5.3) should now work with this profile. Beginning to add support for Photos. Doesn't work yet. To-do: Fix thumbnails for media in XBMC. Not sure if thumbnails being sent by server are too large or what. Profile has a spot for "MaxAlbumArtWidth" and I tried setting this to 192 (the size XBMC uses for its own thumbnails), but I'm pretty sure this only affects music. I don't see an overall thumbnail size setting. Figure out why DLNA folder browsing doesn't work. Jellyfin handles "special" libraries in a certain way that XBMC doesn't like, including Movies, Shows, Music. Browsing Photos directories (and other basic library types) works. Settings RequiresPlainFolders and RequiresPlainVideoItems to true doesn't seem to help. A lot of testing is still needed. There is a huge variety of content that JF supports. Need to dial in exactly what XBMC supports and ensure transcoding or direct-play happens properly. Need to test: HDR, high framerate videos, high bit depth videos, Atmos, and many others. Create versions of profile targetting 1.4ghz / 128mb upgraded motherboards. Testers needed! XBMC4Xbox-v0.2b.xml
  6. Github says it's compatible with modern Xbox gamepads (one/series). I assume that's wired, correct? Wireless adapter would be amazing.
  7. Very nice! I have a few Picos lying around and will definitely give this a shot soon. Thanks for sharing.
  8. SEVEN GRAND?? Not saying it's not worth that much, but holy damn... y'all got money to throw around.
  9. Reporting a comment is a good way to let mods know about spam instead of commenting/tagging folks
  10. There used to be separate versions for debug/retail. Then with version 2.03 they combined both into one BIOS and added more settings in the config file to support this. The NFO file for 2.03 refers to this new combined version as "hybrid". In v.2.1.0 they added support for v1.6 Xboxes.
  11. Yes. I have a xenium rgb massive in my xbox. Updated to PrometheOS and lights all work as expected.
  12. Thx. It took a lot longer than I expected getting everything installed properly. I probably spent way too long making the fan splitter neat and tidy compared that ugly Y-splitter in my last photo.
  13. Update- got one of my own. This just might be my favorite color variant I've owned.
  14. Pure CCI is about 1.7TB right?
  15. I flashed it onto my Xenium and it's working great. A step up above the old XeniumOS. I can't wait to see what else they do with it in the future.
  16. What's the size savings by zipping them?
  17. Harcroft is doing great work here. He's also been doing it lately while recovering from being sick. Dude's a tank.
  18. Great work. This thing is getting better and better!
  19. The parts on Stellar are different. It has an FPGA and an ARM processor, not an STM32 (I'm not sure which of these handles communication with the HD+ board). And the Legacy addon is a recent addition, so maybe parts have stabilized since then? If the old HD+ were changed back to having the STM32 onboard again, while Stellar is fully capable of doing that workload on its own, it would be sort of redundant.
  20. For the record, Dustin claims the XboxHD+ change (making it reliant on Stellar) was due to parts shortage a while back. I asked about it in their Discord the other day and he replied: "This is one of the many backorders I made for the part. Ordered in April of 2021 and it didn't ship until April 2022." source (via Discord) So when he couldn't source the STM microcontrollers for HD+, he dropped the requirement for that part and made Stellar handle the workload. I guess instead of supporting two SKUs of HD+ once parts stabilized, he made a separate add-on board that adds back in the STM chip for non-Stellar users. Apparently, project Tepache, was in the works prior to XboxHD+ Legacy being announced. Folks noticed that MM's flashing guide (available on the MM website) could be applied to any off-the-shelf STM32 board, which of course sparked controversy because MM didn't want his firmware he developed for his Legacy product to be used elsewhere, as mentioned in the license for the firmware. This lead to MM sending a DMCA takedown notice to ConsoleMods and their hosting provider, Cloudflare. Speaking of licenses, according to Milenko, the XboxHD+ firmware was originally licensed under GPLv2, but that was later changed (and apparently history of the change was scrubbed?). More info here. Also, just want to add that being "locked in" to only using Stellar OS is a bit disappointing, but I also get why they don't put time into supporting other BIOSes. If your goal is just to load Cerbios, Stellar is overkill. Doing so would negate the work done that lets Stellar operate the way it does; injecting kernel patches on the fly instead of just loading a baked BIOS image, also negating the need for the ARM processor that's on board. Hopefully we see more features in the future that take advantage of its hardware capabilities, like the SD card slot and the HS expansion port. Btw Cerbios is compatible with Stellar when using its BFM mode. So you're not totally locked in, thanks to the work done by the Cerbios team. On a separate note, they released firmware v1.4.0 today. This adds support for unlocking locked hard drives without needing their original keys, which is nice. For folks who want to recover locked drives without using Stellar, Harcroft has been spearheading (along with Skye and Siktah) a method to recover drives using drive commands that should be out soon. https://x.com/OGX_Harcroft/status/1740869258060415280?s=20
  21. Oh yeah, that would be much more straightforward. I was assuming the chips were an unusual/outdated standard.
  22. Notice the ">" in my reply, meaning greater than 128mb I'm not sure what the plan is to achieve that. Maybe stacking RAM chips, like with v1.6 motherboards. That would be handy for emulators/Linux/XBMC.
  23. Yeah, the firmware has existed for some time, it's just still in beta/prototype. Still needs some work to be feature-complete. Audio jack: yes, a lot of modern laptops that have 3.5mm headphone jacks will double as a digital optical (toslink) jack too. You just plug in a mini-toslink cable and the jack starts outputting an optical signal instead of an electrical one. There's a little laser diode in the back of the jack that turns on if it detects a mini-toslink cable. This lets laptops (and this xbox hdmi project) output surround sound using the same small connector without taking up space with a separate connector.
  24. Network loading of ISOs/virtual HDD images over LAN >128mb RAM support Xbox gamepad support was added a few weeks ago, so that one at least is crossed off. In general, I was also expecting by now to see more features added. It's presented as a platform, not just a way of running a modified BIOS. This should allow for new fancy features we haven't seen in other modchips. Things like multi-tasking, for example, where the onboard CPU can run background processes, maybe leading to something like an in-game dashboard (similar to Xbox 360's). Like even a simple music player would be an awesome new addition. The Xbox gamepad and 1.4ghz updates have been nice additions to see. I guess I was just expecting a bit more by now, a year later.

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