Hey All!

[dbrown1986]

TL;DR - I'm David. I know a few OXBOX tricks.

Hey everyone. I've been busy with work this week, so I haven't had a chance to properly introduce myself. Names David. I'm 32; live at the beach and work at a casino (why I was so busy when I signed up and didn't write this intro thread yet).

I've had a knack for electronics since I was nine. First modded XBOX I ever owned had a X3CE (damn shame I ever got rid of it; as X3CE's can go for a dime these days). The X3 unit was not modded by me, but I'm glad that I had it, as it helped encourage my budding curiosity. I used to do a lot of XBOX discussion on The ISO Zone before the owner pulled the plug on the site. Here's hoping it's successor lives up to the task.

First time I ever modded my own XBOX, it was a softmod, followed by using an old Hewlett Packard AMD-K6 to build an upgraded drive for it. Ended up giving it to a friend some time later, he still has it. That one was a v1.6.

We had a mutual friend who saw my old XBOX; and wanted one as well. He brought me his old XBOX from storage and it was a v1.1. So, with his permission, I went about doing the TSOP bridge and wrote X2 5035 to the onboard BIOS and installed XBMC on a 160GB HDD for him and used x2config.ini to point to E:xbmc.xbe; worked like a charm.

Now, I find myself at it again with a more recent project. This time, I will NOT be getting rid of. I got my hands on an original v1.0 and I have been steadily making improvements.

• V1.0 4034
• Hynix 1MB TSOP w/ X2 5035
• 64MB RAM
• 733Mhz P3 equivalent.
• Removed clock cap (XBMC uses NTP anyway)
• Samsung SDG-605 (had a Thomson)
• 500GB SATA II (PATA adapter)
• 80-wire IDE cable.
• Ghost case (functional as long as you're careful with them)
• Protected Power Cord
• Component Cable
• Minebea Power Supply (on the way)

*In talks with N64Freak about a RAM and CPU upgrade.*

Here is a video of the one that our mutual friend got:

Here is a video of the one I am currently working on:

Yes, the similarities are intentional. The one I designed for my friend was called THE REAPER; but only as a prototype. He later had me change the boot colors and sound to something else. So I have adopted The Reaper as my calling card.

Edited November 1, 2018 by dbrown1986