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Hello ladies, gents, chaps and chapesses! It gives me great pleasure to announce that my first ever batch of self assembled modchips is ready to be unleashed amongst the community. For those that don't know, the Jafar modchip is an open source project that you can build yourself should you have the resources and the inclination to do so. Required resources can be found in the github repository, GitHub - Kekule-OXC/Jafar: Aladdin chip reimagination. Massive thanks to @Kekule for his work on this. Thanks must also go to EqUiNoX of Team Resurgent, for the updated CPLD code which allows correct booting of the TSOP. This updated firmware is available on the Team Resurgent github: GitHub - Team-Resurgent/Aladdin-Lattice. Finally, thanks also go to Lonnie @LonWay Tech. I reached out to him after seeing he had some Jafars for sale on his website and he was only too happy to help point me in the direction of how to program the CPLD using an FT232RL, which I already had a few of lying around doing nothing. He also gave me the idea of using solder paste and a hot plate for the smd components, leaving only the pin header connector requiring manual soldering. My version is the 1mb variant, flashed with the latest version of PrometheOS (1.4). The single 256Kb flash bank is pre-flashed with my own very slight customization of the latest version of Cerbios (2.4.2). This has the drive mode set to "HDD & No DVD Legacy", the Cerbios logo set to an amber colour to match the amber LED I chose to install on the board, and the dash paths set to dashloader (C:\evoxdash.xbe) followed by XBMC4Gamers (E:\XBMC4Gamers\default.xbe) as I figured these two are the most popular and I wanted it to have the greatest chance of just working right off the bat. Of course, it's very easy to flash your own version of Cerbios or any other 256Kb BIOS you'd prefer to use. It's also set to UDMA 2 (default) again just for better chance of it working out of the box. *** Note: Soldering is required *** You will need to solder in the pin header (included) to your LPC port location on your xbox motherboard if it doesn't have one there already. If you have a 1.6 version xbox you will need to rebuild the LPC port first - there are plenty of guides around on how to do this. You will also need to either ground the D0 point to enable the chip permanently, or solder D0 to the D0 pad on the Jafar, to enable booting from the TSOP if you wish to use that feature. Power on with the eject button to load PrometheOS, power button to load Cerbios. If your xbox is connected to your router / local network you can use the web interface of PrometheOS to easily flash your required BIOS file to the 256kb flash bank, if the version of Cerbios I have pre-flashed for you isn't quite to your liking / requirements. Price: 1 or 2 - £10 each plus postage. 3 or 4 - £9 each plus postage 5 or more - £8 each plus postage. Based in UK but happy to ship overseas if you're happy to cover the postage. 48 available for now, happy to produce more if there is a demand for it. Reminder: Jafar is free and open source. Please respect the licenses available in their respective folders. Hardware is shared under the CERN OHL version 1.2. Firmware is shared under GPLv3. Payment via Paypal or bank transfer. PM for questions / enquiries. Thanks!

Hi all, I'm relatively new to the original Xbox modding scene, and if you read my recent post in the welcome section you will be aware that I'm currently making up a batch of Jafar modchips. I know there are better chips with more features, but I wanted to start with something simple and work my way up to the more complex things if that makes sense. It's been going well and I've learned a lot but I'm curious about a small issue I've come across and wondered if anybody in the community has come across the same thing and created a work-around... I ordered 100 SST49LF080A chips from aliexpress (yes, I know, but I'm not made of money and 50p each vs £3 - £4 each from somewhere like digikey I figured it was worth the risk!). Anyway, out of these 100, 93 of them work absolutely fine. In Xgecu Pro, the device ID is shown to be BF 5B. These all flash perfectly and work perfectly in the Jafar modchips. 6 of the 7 that don't work, show a device ID of BF 5A instead. The 1 remaining chip shows a device ID of 3B 3B. The 6 "BF 5A" ones will flash absolutely fine in Xgecu Pro providing I untick the device id check first, and the contents of the flash chip are read back absolutely fine also (again, with device id check unticked). This leads me to believe that although the device ID is slightly different, the pin outs etc and the way the device operates must be the same, since I can both read and flash using the SST49LF080A@PLCC32 profile in Xgecu Pro. HOWEVER, when I put any of these in a Jafar and install in the Xbox, I get the 3 boot attempts and FRAG. This leads me to think that the Lattice CPLD code has been written to specifically target device IDs BF 5B and wont work with anything else even if the pinouts etc are the same. Am I wrong in making that assumption? So, since the VHDL coding for the Lattice CPLD has been released and is open source, I thought I may be able to inspect it, find the reference to BF 5B and possibly modify it to include BF 5A aswell. I clearly have a lot to learn because I cant find reference to that device ID anywhere. Furthermore, the ispLever classic software required to compile the CPLD code is no longer free, its something ridiculous like $600 per year and I don't have that kind of money. So I was wondering if anybody else who is familiar with building the Jafar modchips, had come across these chips branded as SST49LF080A but with the slightly different device ID's, and had managed to make an updated CPLD code that would allow them to work? For reference, I've been using the 1MB_LPCmod_OSSupport_MosfetD0 from https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/Aladdin-Lattice It's a shame Lattice have made the software so expensive because I would have liked to have learned how to make my own code etc and would love to learn how these modchips work, so that one day I may be able to make meaningful contributions to projects myself. As for the one chip identified as 3B 3B - it doesn't even read, flash or erase in Xgecu Pro using the SST49LF080A profile, so that one must be some completely different chip altogether, unless it's just corrupted somehow and that's causing a false ID to be read?. As I say, I don't really fully understand how these things work yet - but I'd like to learn, just not sure where to start!

If interested, i have a few OpenXenium Modchips for sale. *Green pcb. *No cheap/fake smd's (DigiKey) *Flashed with latest Prometheos or EvoX (just tell me what you want) Cost: 30eu + shipping ___________________________________________________________ Jafar Mod-chip, XblastOS and Cerbios v2.4.2 preinstalled (pm me if you want autoboot on cerbios) Cost: 20eu + shipping Location: Sweden Just PM me if you are interested.

Hi everyone, i still have plenty of stock on custom jafar chips. By default i set these up with xblast OS but i can certainly flash PromotheOS onto the SST chip. Just shoot me a message here or via email on the store site and i'll be happy to customize. Also international buyers (Im USA based). Sometimes the freight is nutty, contact me and I can often find better rates using 3rd party shipping (not via shopify). Tracking will be updated and provided via the store but i've found this really helps people out who are getting a few items at a time. https://gameroomcustoms.com/products/jafar-modchip

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know the store has some new inventory on xblast chips. https://gameroomcustoms.com if you have any questions, please let me know!

hi so as you may know my X2.6 chip for my 1.4 xbox is bricked I since got a jafar chip off ebay I snipped the plastic plug for my X2 off to expose the wires for solidering as far as i know i have 2 wires (one green one red) no i read on the github you can also "ground" D0 instead of soldering it, ground it to where a pin or what? trying to avoid solidering as much as possiable also used PiPROM to fetch my hdd key (this is a retail unit though im missing a dvd drive so it error 12's if all else fails i'll find a thompson at least to get ti up and running next month

I have Jafars programmed with os support and XblastOS for sale. It functions the same as an Xblast Aladdin, it's just better looking. Right now I have Clear/Copper + Black substrate + ENIG for $25 but I'll have some cheaper boards in other colors later in the month. Includes the needed 2x6 pin header, I also have LPC correctors for $2