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Edit: To clarify, while legal concerns were raised, we were not directly threatened. They have reached out professionally in the past to express their concerns without any DMCA or legal action. We have worked with them to resolve those issues. Due to ongoing disputes over IP infringement claims, we have decided to attempt to stop all discussion of Xbox HDMI HARD mods on this site. We will not be discriminating based on brand. All discussion is hereby banned in an effort to not be sued. The HDMI mods are really for people trying to build the ultimate modded Xbox. The results yielded by the HDMI mods are very slightly sharper than the component to HDMI converters by reputable brands. They are almost indistinguishable and so are hard to justify for many due to their expense and installation difficulty. If the truth were really told, the installation difficulty is the main reason anyone has them... so they can show off their skills. The quality of the video output simply isn't that much better than component. (These comments are specific to the Original Xbox. Other consoles can actually have a dramatic improvement.) Component to HDMI adapter discussions are allowed. Hard modded adapters that intercept the raw video signals prior to the built-in video encoder discussions are disallowed. The threat of lawsuit against us is that we allegedly choose what can and cannot be published on our site. We are actually protected by law as media and exempt from most litigation due to our First Amendment rights to publish whatever we want as long as we are not directly providing something unlawful. We aren't, but this is also a public forum. We don't have the time to constantly monitor it nor are we attorneys. We don't intend for anything unlawful to be published on this site or to allow it to remain, but we simply can't catch everything and even if we could we do not know what is in compliance with the law and what isn't. Quite frankly, if you're not an attorney, neither do you. I'm referencing section 230 here. Section 230 protects this site from most things third parties (people posting to this board) could expose us to. One thing it doesn't protect us from, are claims of intellectual property theft. I have no idea who owns what intellectually property, who may or may not have used it unlawfully, etc. So, we've had to look at what to do about this. We can't continue in the current state because I cannot afford to be sued simply because I chose to create a site covering a topic I once loved when the main site had gone offline or was about to. So since we have no protection from this specific claim and since there is no clear indication of what is right and what is wrong I have only this one option to protect this site. The only reasonable thing for this site to do is attempt to stop all discussion regarding the HDMI mods creating all of the controversy, the company threatening litigation, the main person behind said company, any products they offer, AND any competitors to those products. I don't know what HDMI HARD mod is legal and what isn't, so the best way to protect this site is to block discussion of all of them. If you can sue us for (passively or unintentionally) allowing certain discussion, then we will attempt to comply and attempt to disallow all of it. There is absolutely no way for us to find every mention of every HDMI device that happened in the past. Please report those if you find them and if they are indeed HDMI HARD mods we will take them out of public view after we see the report. There is a lot of content on here and we can only do so much. -HARD mod means some part of the adapter installation requires the original hardware be modified in some way. HARDware was added to the circuit board somewhere OTHER than a port designed for devices to be plugged into it in order to modify the behavior of the device. Usually this means soldering was required, or traces on the circuit board were cut in order to intercept or redirect certain signals to make that modified behavior possible. -HARD mods vs SOFT mods. Hard mods mean hardware was added. Soft mods mean the mod was achieved via some form of software exploit. Soft mods aren't relevant here, but to understand the term HARD MOD it's important to understand the distinction.

Time to do some capacitor replacments and have a question about ripple current.. The way I understand it generally higher ripple current capacity is better as caps will last longer.. But on digikey ripple current has 2 measurments.. Low frequency @120hz High frequency @ 100khz I am assuming these different specs would be for different use cases like basic power delivery vs power smoothing? Is that correct? I am switching to polymer caps so esr is low. Should I be focusing more on the 100khz ripple rating?

After seeing lots of suggestions, usually for capacitors that aren't readily available, discontinued, or are marked "last chance to buy", I thought I'd try to put together some lists on Digikey of current/active caps for the Xbox. It might be good for people asking about caps, experiencing option paralysis, or even people who do this a lot and don't want to have to think about it. I would appreciate feedback, let me know if there's some better option or cheaper equivalent to something in one of these lists. Any dupes across revisions are the same model cap. Xbox v1.0-1.1 Capacitor Set Xbox v1.2-1.4 Capacitor Set Xbox v1.6 Capacitor Set Clock Cap (All revisions) Also, incase you're a prepper: v1.0-1.4 Capacitor Set, All Revisions Capacitor Set

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Forgive me if this is something that can be found by searching, but I haven't found it: Is there currently any chip in production that supports the X3 bios? It seems like the only ones around have 256k flashes, unless I'm mistaken

Hi - I have a 250GB IDE hard drive with Coin Ops 8 Massive on it along with a few of my games backed up to the hard drive using dvd2xbox. I also have a few other emulators - NES, SNES and Sega Megadrive. This is the perfect setup for me and I don't really need to add anything else to it. Is it possible to add the xbox origins dashboard to my current setup and if so does anyone have a link or details on how to do it? Any help greatly appreciated.

Current development of the XBMC4Gamers can be found by following the source link. Source Download Readme Some Background Info: Ok so this started out as a project for my kids, I wanted to give them a dashboard for just loading games and to allow them to have there own saves, as they were fighting over saves and also to not allow them access to anything they should be accessing. Yeah so you can have profiles that have there own save directory on the Xbox, you have a load of views, synopsis support and a crap load of other features that you can see if you check the change log. All done via XBMC source edits, custom skins and python scripts. Youtube Video Game Posters, banners, fanart, icons, thumbs and tbn files all ready for your Xbox. This is a copy of my Game Posters _resources Directory. It consists of banners for all my games as well as thumbs, icons, posters and fanart where available. It's been setup to work with Origins (as well as the default.xml synopsis format that maybe getting added back in) so compatibility with other skins is paramount in my eyes. Game Resource pack

Current development of the XBMC-Emustation can be found by following the source link. Source Download Readme Some Background Info: Ok so this started out as a pet project, basically I wanted the look and feel of Retropie on the Xbox. So I used XBMC as the means to do so. Now the XBMC source has been modified to fit my needs for this project and incorporates a few of the changes I made for XBMC4Gamers, like the full screen splash, faster games menu loading, synopsis script support in the context menu and a load of more changes. I also created a few python script to do all the crappy tasks of creating ,cut files for your roms that XBMC loads for emulators or any xbe for that matter but these are used to pass commands to emulators that support this feature. ( most do ) Now I also added layout support for each emulator, there are 3 variations: default ( layout.xml) Synopsis ( synopsis_layout.xml ) Thumb ( thumb_layout.xml ) I will go into more depth about these files in its own thread. I also have included a few emulators ready out of the box so you are up and running as fast as possible. I also make the folder layouts as simple as I could and also matched them to retropie, so porting themes should be easier, as the folders will match up.

Current development of the XBMC-Emustation can be found by following the source link. Source Download Install Instructions After extraction, please use the chimp folder located in the E Partition folder. Some Background Info: Basically I wanted to make this simpler to use as I was sick of helping folk that unlocked there HDD and it kind went on from there. It now has faster cloning, simpler interface and more features than any other chimp out there, so this should make cloning HDD’s easier. Oh yeah you can Fix Error16 with this version if you have the eeprom.bin from your arsed Xbox. ( if you null all your HDD keys then you don’t ) You place your eeprom.bin on the Y partition ( all lowercase ) and launch Chimp Loader, you can now use that eeprom to lock the slave HDD.

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Current development of the Xbox Softmodding Tool can be found by following this link. Some Background Info: The reason I started the project was to stop my kids from breaking there Xbox. As you know kids get into everything and all it would take is for one of them to hit Xbox live in a game and bam, I need to fix the softmod. So I setout to make a softmod that was simple to install and secure or as secure as I could make it, and the 2014 Softmodding Tool Kit was born. Fast forward 2 years and I picked it up again as life was a bit crappy so needed something to drown it out, this is when the 2016 Softmodding Tool Kit was created, I took with I done with the 2014 version and built upon it to make it even more simple and safer for the end user. But to cut the story short, I never finished it or it wasn’t how I wanted it to be, so I rebranded it and fixed it up and made a few ( hevely modified Configmagic source ) apps to do processes and a crap load more. Let’s just say it’s the most advanced softmod installer to date, and probably for the foreseeable future.