help Who has real experience flashing an LG GDR 8163?

[Bowlsnapper]

7 minutes ago, trencherfield said:

Yeah, coz they work with nintendo stuff as well

Bad as ‘retro gaming crt’ and the rest.

Oh my fuckin god... don't even get me started on that compulsive, dead-brain, "Retro Gaming" shit in the CRT listings...

[Tartarus]

14 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

Good! Old computers are always good to collect. You can tell that these people are gouging. Some of them know what they have and some of them just follow the prices on ebay. These same drives, one model off and unusable in an xbox, are 30 bucks, probably. That's fucked up, man.

a lot of the old school computer stuff is actually pretty cheap it's not that bad for two computers one that I built and the other one pre-built Dell done which I have $200 flat in both of them and that was also building one

just don't do what the YouTubers tell you to do because then you're going to pay out the ass

[trencherfield]

Here is the fixed flasher.

8050L_FW_Flasher_FIXED.rar

[trencherfield]

The other drives firmwares and tools in case anyone finds the thread in future...

sdg605bv2.rar Mediatek-MtkWinFlash_1.5.3.3.zip Mediatek-MtkFlash_1.55.zip Samsung_SDG-605_firmware.zip SS_Dumper_FW_605b.zip Philips_firmware.rar HitachiLG8050.rar

[Tartarus]

Excellent now all I have to do is pay some scalper $150 for the drive awesome

[soilengreen]

Hello, I use FreeDOS and the DVD drive with a 40-wire cable. I have flashed at least a dozen without any problems.
Luckily in my country Spain you can still find them for less than €10, even for €5
I have also tried the 8164B model but the results are poorer, it has less compatibility and does not work on XBOX no hack

 

 

 

 

[sweetdarkdestiny]

14 minutes ago, soilengreen said:

I have also tried the 8164B model but the results are poorer, it has less compatibility and does not work on XBOX no hack

In my case the 8164b works way better ofc with a mod-bios. The only + for the 63b is that it work on stock xboxes but who wants a stock xbox anyway?

[Tartarus]

I don't know what my luck will be revisiting of this project and it will be soon as I like to pick these things back up in the winter so we'll see what happens..

I have to admit I have not looked at the prices of the Optical drives for the better of 2 months now when I go to pick up the project again I imagine that they'll be at the same price if not greater regardless to whichever model I go with

sometimes you'll find one under $80

regardless this project will go slow for me as the drives are not exactly cheap so it will be one drive at a time tell I have success with at least one then I'll give it a break for a little bit

till I have success with at least one I might as well be smashing my own kneecaps with a hammer

 

[Marty]

9 hours ago, soilengreen said:

Hello, I use FreeDOS and the DVD drive with a 40-wire cable. I have flashed at least a dozen without any problems.
Luckily in my country Spain you can still find them for less than €10, even for €5
I have also tried the 8164B model but the results are poorer, it has less compatibility and does not work on XBOX no hack

Do you have a wiring guide you could recommend?

[soilengreen]

11 hours ago, Marty said:

Do you have a wiring guide you could recommend?

I really don't have a specific guide, the most I can do is post a picture of how I do it "my way."

 

[sweetdarkdestiny]

11 hours ago, Marty said:

Do you have a wiring guide you could recommend?

See attachments.  The pic shows how you di it on the 8164b and the PDF is for the 8163b

XBOX DVD Drive Retrofit LG GDR 8163B.pdf

Edited October 3, 2023 by sweetdarkdestiny

[soilengreen]

In almost all the tutorials, they cut the piece of plastic that you grind from the root, it is really not necessary to cut it completely, so the functionality of the screw is not lost.

 

[Marty]

17 hours ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:

See attachments.  The pic shows how you di it on the 8164b and the PDF is for the 8163b

I was hoping for guides for the 8160B, there are guides I've found but they are incomplete.

[sweetdarkdestiny]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

I was hoping for guides for the 8160B, there are guides I've found but they are incomplete.

I hoped to score big in a lotttery but hey, we can't always get what we want. 

[Bowlsnapper]

Just now, Marty said:

I was hoping for guides for the 8160B, there are guides I've found but they are incomplete.

I think there is actually quite a bit of this info on the OGXbox installer discs. Pretty full on there. Not sure if it has what you need, though. Might be worth a look.

[sweetdarkdestiny]

1 minute ago, Bowlsnapper said:

I think there is actually quite a bit of this info on the OGXbox installer discs. Pretty full on there. Not sure if it has what you need, though. Might be worth a look.

Nothing on there about the 8160b. 

[Bowlsnapper]

Just now, sweetdarkdestiny said:

Nothing on there about the 8160b. 

..... "This" being guides and photos of drive modifications. Glad we saved Marty the trouble.

[Marty]

52 minutes ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:

Nothing on there about the 8160b. 

The only partial guide I found on Wayback has important sections missing....specifically solder points on the DVD PCB.

[soilengreen]

fix

 

[ILK_Fraiser]

On 6/8/2023 at 3:14 PM, Hendi48 said:

For anyone wondering, the 8163to8050flasher.exe in the 1fichier link above is from my GitHub repo: https://github.com/Hendi48/gdr-tools/tree/master/Flashers

I created it 2 years ago after being frustrated that I couldn't get the DOS-based flasher to work on my hardware since my IDE controller was too new. Flashing from Windows is much less of a hassle anyway.

Thank you dude. Sorry I took so long to reply. Life got in the way.

Still did not work lol. I started the program and it stopped and threw a "System failure error" at 2%.

Regardless I appreciate the help from you and everyone else in the thread. I will keep fucking around until I get results. 

[Bowlsnapper]

3 minutes ago, ILK_Fraiser said:

Thank you dude. Sorry I took so long to reply. Life got in the way.

Still did not work lol. I started the program and it stopped and threw a "System failure error" at 2%.

Regardless I appreciate the help from you and everyone else in the thread. I will keep fucking around until I get results. 

That's a HUGE bummer!

[ILK_Fraiser]

SO HERES A FUCKING UPDATE.

After wallowing I remembered I bought a second 8163b incase the first one was corrupted. Flashed on the first try. BIOS reads it as GDR8050L.

Next step is to install OpenXenium and I'll finally have my Xbox back, and better than it was!

I'm so happy I could cry. Thank you everyone again. This community is awesome.

Edited November 7, 2023 by ILK_Fraiser

[Bowlsnapper]

5 hours ago, ILK_Fraiser said:

SO HERES A FUCKING UPDATE.

After wallowing I remembered I bought a second 8163b incase the first one was corrupted. Flashed on the first try. BIOS reads it as GDR8050L.

Next step is to install OpenXenium and I'll finally have my Xbox back, and better than it was!

I'm so happy I could cry. Thank you everyone again. This community is awesome.

GOD I wanna do this... I want to finally make use of the 3 616T drives I have. I HAVE to get an old PC... Did you use one, or were you able to flash using windows 11?

[ILK_Fraiser]

1 hour ago, Bowlsnapper said:

GOD I wanna do this... I want to finally make use of the 3 616T drives I have. I HAVE to get an old PC... Did you use one, or were you able to flash using windows 11?

I had to get an old PC. Sony Vaio something or another running XP sp3. This is after getting a couple of garbage PCs. Having to restore the computer. Having to reinstall Windows, which includes calling the activation number because the online activation no longer works.

I was attempting this on and off for 3 or 4 years and stopping each time because of frustration. But sunk cost fallacy and all that.

Check eBay for a PC. Facebook Marketplace refurbishers burned me too many times.

[Bowlsnapper]

4 minutes ago, ILK_Fraiser said:

I had to get an old PC. Sony Vaio something or another running XP sp3. This is after getting a couple of garbage PCs. Having to restore the computer. Having to reinstall Windows, which includes calling the activation number because the online activation no longer works.

I was attempting this on and off for 3 or 4 years and stopping each time because of frustration. But sunk cost fallacy and all that.

Check eBay for a PC. Facebook Marketplace refurbishers burned me too many times.

Oh god. I would a just used an activation hack. I don't think MS cares anymore.

How did you get burned on marketplace?