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PCB files and BIOS patcher can be found on github: https://github.com/Prehistoricman/Xbox256MB/tree/master Upgraded Xblast OS can be found on bitbucket: README and Downloads The new Xblast OS comes with a RAMTESTER variant that lets you test the stock set of 4 chips. This can be useful even for a typical 128MB mod when things go wrong and the Xbox won't boot normal Xblast. MachoNacho already did a tutorial on installing this upgrade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2hvSL30Rlg So here's a brief tutorial for installation. Tutorial Be aware this is an advanced mod and while it does grant quadruple the memory, there is a performance disadvantage. The memory clock speed must be reduced to make this memory stable (this is handled in my BIOS patcher). Tools required: Hot air station (recommended for removing stock chips) Precision soldering station Microscope suitable for soldering Flux Solder Solder wick IPA Multimeter Hardmodded Xbox Spare Xbox to be able to reflash your modchip if necessary Steps: Flash the Xblast OS 0.63 RAMTESTER 256Mbit BIOS to your modchip If your modchip has only one bank, you can still access the normal Xblast menus by pressing eject to power on the Xbox. If your modchip runs an OS BIOS (like PrometheOS, Xenium or Xblast), patch it and flash it first Remove the stock memory chips. Use hot air to desolder it - I like to place tinfoil on the board to protect the other components and plastic from the heat. Or just cut the pins if you don't care about the stock memory chips. Solder in the new memory modules Start with bank 1 in the stock memory layout. See this diagram Precisely align the module on the motherboard Solder 1 pin in a corner to anchor the module Make sure you get the orientation right. There is an arrow in the corner of the module that should align with a dot on the motherboard. That's pin 1. Solder the opposite pin Check the orientation again! I got this wrong twice :((( Solder the rest of the pins on the module Power on the Xbox to test it with the BIOS If you got it right, the LED code will indicate that bank 2 has failed. See README for LED codes. If the LED code shows bank 1 failed, there may be a short circuit or open circuit. Check your soldering. If the Xbox powers off very quickly and doesn't reboot, you have a short circuit. Check your soldering. If the Xbox reboots 3x and FRAGs, there may be a short circuit or open circuit. Check your soldering. Repeat for banks 2, 3, 4 in order. Try booting Xblast using the eject button, or any other 256MB compatible BIOS. Install the rest of the banks, using the memory test in Xblast OS's Tools menu to check if they are working. Flash a 256MB compatible BIOS X2 and X3 BIOSes are known to work and have the full 256MB usable Cerbios support is not good yet, but they are working on it. EvoX will boot, but needs additional patches to be able to use the extra memory. Do nothing with the additional memory Interposer assembly One way to do this upgrade is to buy the loose memory chips and interposer PCBs and assemble them. You need to be confident with BGA soldering. The memory chip is HY5DU573222F-28 which you can find on Alibaba and maybe other places too. The -28 is the speed bin and I don't recommend going any slower such as -33. The interposer PCB designs are on Github and I've included gerbers in the release suitable for ordering from PCBWay.

There's a tutorial I found on Wayback, but Wayback wasn't able to find all the pages for this mod. It's for using a PC drive on an XBOX. The DVD drive is an LG DRD-8160B. It's not similar in layout to the 8163B that there are drawings for. What I need are to locate the X and Z points on the DVD's pcb. This is all I've got...

The once king of modchips that circles around still to this day with 'legendary' status and of course it's sought after front faceplates and other accessories. Unfortunately somewhat prone to miss-handling, reverse pin header accidents and cpld failure meant people have been left with the Xecuter kit, faceplates and such, but with a blown chip. This sucks. So alas, I had two blown purples myself, acquired in non-functional state that came in with Xbox's. Now after building the new R3dux X3 replacement, I thought lets see what we can do with these. This tutorial seeks to help those with the time, tools and patience to bring their Xecuter 3 setup back from the dead. -- Usual obligatory: If you blow yourself up and it doesn't work or whatever transpires therein, it's at your own risk! -- ***Tutorial difficulty rating: at least 3.75 out of 5 chainsaw rating!*** Tools. Decent temp controlled soldering iron with changeable tips (goes without saying here, your gonna need an asian sized winkle for this job!) BGA flux - something like RMA-218 Good solder, not naff stuff - something like 63/37 rosin activated leaded. Temp/Flow controlled Hot Air station - doesn't have to be some arty farty high end bumph. Preferable silicone mat for above so your desk doesn't RIP. Magnification of some sort - if you have eye's like me & Mr Magoo then some scope would be great. Solder braid - 1.6mm wide is fine. Tweezers - point tip/fine/stainless. Some stranded fine AWG wire - we want just the tiny strands. IPA/cotton buds - cleanup. Replacement chip: Lattice LC4256V - usual sources. JTAG programmer suitable for Lattice 4000 series. Some sodding peace & quiet! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PART 1 Right enough faff, lets see what's up with the damn thing. Usual scenario ... with it setup/installed as per Xecuter guide, we don't get the correct operation upon starting the Xbox power button with a 'quick press'. Either continual fragging, no matter what switch position, switch unplugged, nor pressing eject & power (backup). Switch light either just staying red, some times blue, but chip itself won't 'hot swap' to flash either and tried the hotswap method to use the X3erase.xbe. Still nothing. Zip, nothing working. We've exhausted all those guides.... In the first case then, we will give it a visual under magnification for any damages that may be spotted by chance (stray previous solder blob/wire generally anything). Nope nothing, well lets give it a clean & IPA wash and fire up the soldering iron. Initially I started to remove and replace most of the small SMD parts for higher quality new parts, like better ESD 10K resistors, filtered 0ohm jumper, new double mosfets etc as I have them on hand for building new chips. Simple answer here was, that none of this worked or improved things on test. So also then removed the switch out of the way and fitted a new eeprom too. Same again - nothing helped. I'd changed virtually everything including the mosfets as they control D0 etc. I'm purely adding this here just for info. Well okay, maybe if we can connect the X3 chip to ispLever lattice suite we'll see if we can get any info. To do this we need to get the 4 JTAG points to the Lattice chip. Xecuter had pads made on the PCB design for programming, you will see them around the chip. Match them up off the chip PDF or redux repo. My programmer is setup for the redux Xecuter 3, so it connects to the 4 unused pins inside the LCD connector. So I needed to solder those JTAG pads to the 4 LCD connector pins. This is where I started to solder the wires to the LCD connector. Now I'd done this in the anticipation I'd later be removing the CPLD chip, you on the other hand can just solder 4 wires to the pads later on and skip this above process if you wish. You will notice since I removed the large flash protect switch, I was able to utilise the large vias which were close to the other JTAG pads. (I cut the protect trace by the hole) Then brought them through across the back within kapton tape laid down first and over the front LCD pads to avoid possible shorts. Then covered again in kapton for protection. Now we can connect this sucker up to ispLever...

Intro Since the beginning of time (2004) it was known that the 1.6 was missing the unpopulated footprints for the extra 4 RAM chips and this made the upgrade impossible. I was thinking recently that if all the signals for the extra RAM chips are still available on the board, we can add RAM to the 1.6 by just connecting all the necessary signals. After the tutorial segment I'll go into why this mod works. I'll also post a video on YouTube at some point. Be warned: this is more difficult that a 1.0 - 1.5 RAM upgrade Tutorial Required items Everything mentioned in the 1.0 - 1.5 RAM upgrade tutorial: https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:RAM_Upgrade 4x 90mm long mod-wire. I used enamelled wire from a transformer. ~8 hours spare time Step 1: flash the modified XBlast OS BIOS XBlast OS (as a BIOS) is super helpful in doing this install correctly. It will boot with any number of extra RAM chips and includes a test for the additional RAM. XBlast OS will not show the 128MB test option on a v1.6 Xbox, so I've gone ahead and rebuilt it from source with that check removed. xblast_os_v0.60.bin Alternative Download Link: https://mega.nz/file/eeAwTZKQ#aaFcbACj3htA6cEtKwoiy1L7uK93o4YwUSqkGBEsUz8 If you don't trust my build, this is the line of code that needs removing: At this point, I suggest booting it up and running the test. The test is under Settings > Tools > 128MB RAM test Step 2: Remove the motherboard from the Xbox Step 3: Place the new RAM chip on top of an existing chip You'll want to solder down the corner pins first to get a good mechanical bond and so that you can adjust the alignment. I do this by pushing down pins 30 and 31 and soldering them down to the chip below. Then I check the alignment of the rest of the pins. If it's bad, then the chip can be nudged into position while reflowing the two pins. Then solder the two pins opposite. Step 4: Push down the rest of the pins Except pin 28! That is the chip select pin and it is unique for each RAM chip. Leave this pin floating in the air and don't solder it yet. Pin 30 is marked on the PCB. The pins come in a kind of ‾‾\__ shape. When you push them down, the whole pin will rotate around this end -> ‾‾\__ . I like to also push down the tail ‾‾\__ <- of the pin to get more contact with the chip below. Step 5: Start soldering all the pins Very little extra solder is required. Use lots of flux. I like the tacky flux that usually comes in syringes. I also like the drag-soldering method. If there's any excess solder, you will get shorts between pins and this extra solder can be wicked away. The new pins won't naturally touch the pins below even after pushing them down. Step 6: Check for shorts and missing connections For the first pass, I like to go in with a microscope and nudge each pin (of the new chip) with a cold soldering iron tip. If the pin moves easily, it is not soldered. Also check for shorts at the same time. If you have the patience (and want it to work first try without frying your Xbox), check for shorts and continuity with a multimeter. I skipped this the first time and got bitten! Best to clean the pins and pads with IPA before checking with the multimeter. Step 7: Add the chip-select wire First, figure out which bank you are adding: Then, find the chip-select solder point: Bank 1 CS is left of the label for C4P10 Bank 2 CS is between the labels for C4R12 and C4R13 Bank 3 CS is left and above the label for C4P21 Bank 4 CS is between and above the labels C4R1 and C3R1 For banks 2 and 3, the chip-select wire can go through the hole to the left of the GPU. For bank 2, 90mm may be too short, so check the wire length and cut it as short as possible. I removed the GPU heatsink to access this hole. At this point, it should look something like this: Step 8: Reassemble and test in XBlast For a quick test, I don't bother with adding the fan, GPU heatsink, HDD, or DVD drive. The test in XBlast should look like what I first posted on reddit: If the Xbox reboots twice and FRAGs, check the bios selection (if you have one available). A normal BIOS will not accept between 1 and 3 extra RAM chips. If the Xbox reboots three of four times (and it's faster than a normal FRAG sequence) check for shorts. This happened to me. Step 9: Repeat for the other 3 chips The first one is the hardest. Step 10: Reflash with your favourite BIOS Some 1.6 BIOSs won't support 128MB. The X3 BIOS works just fine and it's the only one I tested so far. xblast_os_v0.60.bin

Requirements.Working Xbox with a Pinheader Install and a Working Modchip with a Hacked BiosHackDaBox Re-Flash DiscWith the working Xbox turned off Remove the lid , the screws from the hard drive bay and DVD-ROM drive. Remove the hard drive (still connected ), lift it up and over slightly, now lift the DVD-ROM drive up ( still connected) and spin it around to face the opposite way. So now the DVD-ROM is facing the wrong way round but still connected . Support the DVD with something underneath, so it sits level. Now put the hard drive bay back where it used to be ( covering up the power supply ).WARNING NEVER TOUCH THE POWER SUPPLY AREA AS IT CAN KILL YOU !This procedure is safe the way I have described above because you have access to the Modchip area . The chip should be plugged onto a pinheader ? If not you can not re-flash this way.Now remove the wire that goes to the D0 pad on the Modchip itself. Unscrew the screw near the LPC area and put the D0 wire under the screw and carefully tighten it up. You can solder the wire to the circle around the screw if you wish. remove any wire you have connecting the chip to the Xbox motherboard but leave the chip plugged into the pinheader.Now depending on your chip type you need to make the chip enabled all the time.On DuoX 2 solder a wire between the BT pad on the chip and pin 9 on the chip (This is point G on the official Duo diagram) see the picture below coutesy of cubistproject.On Aladdin solder a wire between BT pad on the chip and Pin 2 on the chipOn Spiderchip simply leave off the switch.Note : You need to do this to the good chip in the Xbox and the ones you intend to Flash.Turn on the Xbox with the good chip in and let it boot up and then load HackDaBox Re-flash Disc Choose Re-flash Spiderchip ( it works fine on DuoX 2 and Aladdin ). Choose the Xbox version you wish to use the flashed chip on. E.g. 1.0 - 1.5 or V. 1.6 but don't hit A to flash yet.Note Evoxdash or Slayers or your preffered Flash utility can be used with this method.Now carefully pull the Modchip off the pin header with the power still on ( note only 3.3 volts goes into the Modchip so it will not electrocute you.Now carefully line up the chip you are going to flash and then push it on the pinheader. Never try and force it on , double check it's lined up properly and it should slide onto the pinheader easily.Now go ahead and flash the chip now. The Xbox should turn off after the successful flash. Once it turns off ,turn it back on and the previously bad flashed chip should now boot the new flashed bios that you just put on it.If you picked Xbox V.1.6 and your Modchip is not in a V.1.6 it may not boot reliably so try it in the V.1.6 box.Remember to put all the original wires back to the chip, and remove any links you have made. In other words put the install back to the manufacturers recommendation.

I made my first OG Xbox related video on my youtube channel and a good tutorial on how to overclock the xbox, take a look at the video.

Hi all , I have an original xbox , I have the softmode kit ( usb cable , usb sprinter cell game pen ) and I would like to install it on my original xbox XBMCGames : is there a guide for non-experts? I searched on you tube but couldn't find it. thanks

I have downloaded Beats Of Rage from XBMC-EmuStation using the built in Downloader. I had to swap the default.xbe with (default_samba.xbe) by swapping the names around. this enabled me to use the BOR as an emulator instead of just playing Beats Of Rage. I filled the PAKs folder with games and nearly all of them run. You can find the games on Google. Unzip them and just use the Title.PAK (small and uppercase names don’t matter) the only 4 games that don’t work are •Evil Dead •He-Man Masters of the U • Mortal Kombat •Justice League Legends I have a 128mb 1.3 Xbox tested with XBlast and using IND-Bios 5003.06 I have used the xResizer.xbe that comes with BOR to shrink the screen to help on Resolution stretching but the two games won’t play! HE-MAN just freezes the whole Xbox and a hard reboot is required Evil Dead /Mortal Kombat /Justice League Legends will let you start the game and use the menu but when the game boots the overlays are corrupted and it soon force-exits when you try and continue game play. All 4 of the listed games work on my PI-3 using EmulationStation. But the PI has a GPU frequency of 1.2 GHz. And the XBox is only 733 MHz. my list of compatible games that I found in raw PAK extensions are Alien Vs Predator Art of Fighting Astrix Beats Of Rage Castlevania Crisis Evil 1 & 2 Destruction 2 - Street Fighter Double Dragon Reloaded Dragon Rage Ed Ed’s n Eddy Final Fight X Golden Axe Legends Kill Ryu Volume 2 Kirby Nights & Dragons : the endless quest Simpsons : monster mash Streets Of Rage 4: by dawd

I made a quick and simple tutorial on how too Softmod your Xbox with the splinter cell exploit using Softmod installer deluxe

Came across a X3 box with LCD ad BIOS bank switches. The problem is the clock Cap leaked. I want to move it to a known good motherboard but the LPC wiring to the chip differs from this link. https://team-xecuter.com/x3/tutorials/x3pin1015.htm Is this the most up to date install manual for a X3 chip ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyfbxuMgI4M&t=480sHello everyone! First post, and happy to be here. I want to share something that will add value to the community. I've put together a video tutorial on how you can install games directly to the XBOX HDD through the internet and FTP. All you'll need is your softmodded XBOX, an Ethernet cable, and the HDD Ready games you want on the HDD. You'll be up and running with it in no time. Full how-to video is below. Please let me know if this video helps you so that I can make XBOX content that makes your gaming experience more enjoyable. Thanks, Blaine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyfbxuMgI4M&t=480s

Hello, fellow OGers! That thermal compound from the factory is failing in our beloved consoles. It can lead to rising temps and possible chip failure. It's s pretty straightforward process to replace it, and I've put together a tutorial video to help you out if you haven't done it yet. Enjoy, and please share any comments you have. Thanks!

I've actually seen a few people talking about this all ready here and on facebook but just wanted to share it for those who haven't. A full tutorial on how to install a custom LCD screen in your original Xbox (NON-X3) that has a temperature monitor so you can constantly see what temp your console is running at to help prolong the lifespan and keep things cool! You can see it on my website by clicking the link below: Tutorial on how to install an LCD screen in your original Xbox console

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBf0iuQA1g Grab XDSL 7.0 here: https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=566&sid=219102806e3e01a7ce84724c64a77321 Once inside XDSL go to "mydsl" and then inside "System" install Wine. Now go into the systems panel and go to sound, click yes to deactivate whatever is running, this will make sound work, it seems it doesn't work by default. open firefox and download https://archive.org/details/GrimFandangoDemo go into the file manager, rename .exe to zip and unpack, right click on grim demo exe and pick run with wine. Simple as pie, most games will not run using this wine method cause the wine in Xdsl is ancient and there doesn't seem to be any 3d acceleration in wine (maybe somebody can port the latest wine to xdsl?) so grim runs i think in some sort of 3d software mode, but it's full speed. You will need to solder usb ports to your fourth joystick port to use a keyboard/mouse to play grim fandango (thats what I did aeon ago) or buy a joystick2keyboardmouse adapter.

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Hey guys just made a new video of how to ftp to your original xbox hope you guys enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nw6L2D7lkg

Hello all! here is my Softmod Tutorial...! Originally made in 2006, uploaded to torrents, updated and reborn in 2018 as an OGXbox.com Exclusive! anywhore... its written in an easy to follow "noob-blog-style" just in case you are wondering why its so lame... UPDATING FILES FOR DOWNLOAD!! also additionally here are some essential xbox tools for modding/softmodding that are extremely hard to find these days due to most xbox scene sites and forums being dead. I have had them for over 12 years on a unused backup drive. UPDATING FILES FOR DOWNLOAD!! As always all files have been scanned for security threats by VirusTotal.com to rule out any contamination, with the exception of one false-positive in "Xplorer360 v0.9 Beta 6.zip". ** Keep in mind that these tools were made on and for xp/7 32bit windows, they may or may not work or work properly on 32 or 64 bit win 7/8/10, I recommend win xp/7 32bit virtual installation via VMware or virtualbox. Enjoy!