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Old guy here, that picked up a Xbox at a thrift store because the wife wanted to play games like she did when kids were young. Finding out all that can be done to the console is what has me excited. Came here to learn more,Thanks for having me.

But I'm not gonna. Greetings everyone! I'm ttsgeb. I've been messing with xboxen for years, mostly on my own, and have finally decided to join this little community you've got here. I'm big on hardware mods, even running a (really bad) website for "Portablizing", or taking consoles and building them into handheld, or at least easily luggable, forms. My goal is to build the ultimate xbox portable. As such, I have a lot of research to do. It won't do to just put the xbox motherboard in a smaller case, I'm going to have to learn how to trim it down to a smaller size, something that can easily be held between the hands. I have a few ideas on how this might be possible, but I'm going to need to sacrifice a few xboxen for science before I can start really trimming things down. As such, I'm always in the market for dead motherboards (working ones, too). To further my plans to build a handheld, I'm working on a couple of big projects: Digital video output via DVI and a custom DC-DC PSU to directly replace the original one. I hope that these projects can be knocked out relatively soon so that I can move on to finishing my laptop projects and starting the adventure of figuring out how to literally take a dremel to the xbox to make it smaller. XboxPSU: XboxDVI: Xbox Laptop v1: http://forums.modretro.com/index.php?threads/gebbys-slim-xbox-laptop.9731/ (sorry all the pictures are broken, RIP old forum threads) Xbox Laptop v2: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/gebs-xbox-slim-laptop.3309/