Convert your Retail Original XBOX to a Development DEBUG Kit | MVG 

Other consoles can be converted to Debug/Development from retail such as the Xbox 360 and PS3. Interested in seeing more?

Dude you put so much effort in all your videos

This channel is simply amazing. Literally every upload has been very interesting. Keep up the good work!

Love the honesty about developing on the console being a pain, hah. I've heard of this being done a few times but good to see a nice video guide has been made for it!

A good idea for a future video is about HEX-editing the default.xbe - to make 4:3 games into native 16:9 widescreen. It's really easy and so worth it!!!

XBOX neighborhood? That sounds like a great place to live.

Still hands down the best channel i've found in the last few months. Keep up the fantastic work MVG!

Really love your Xbox content MVG! I have a softmodded xbox loaded with CoinOPs that is tons of fun. So much quality goes into all these videos, there's even PC-98 Touhou music in the background!

I wish I had enough talent to make Xbox homebrew :( your amazing and I am sure I have played some of your emulators at some point :) So much fun and enrichment to my life, and now your video's entertain me to no end! Thank you!!! :)

When I watch your videos its like flawless art the way you work with systems I love it

Thanks for providing such excellent information as always. I really loved the original Xbox it was one of the first systems I owned that was not my older brothers hand me down and surely impressed me. I appreciate you sharing this info because I'm interested in console devolopment and I see this as a great way to practice the skills in a well supported and documented development environment that's cheap to access and obtain these days. Your channel provides me with constant inspiration, smiles, and deeper appreciation for something I already love so dearly Gaming. Thank you for being such a great member of the gaming community Modern Vintage Gamer, you rock!

I was lucky enough to have 2 debug kits when the scene was hot, making trainers for games was a breeze with it.

Love the videos. and how in depth they are. Channel always continues to blow my mind.

Man! You have the best you tube channel ever , i always enjoy your videos

awesome video mate, even though most of the details go over my head I still find them crazy interesting.

Great video! Out of the 1000+ Xboxs I modded I had 1 debug kit conversion request for a game reviewer that wanted to take frame buffer screenshots. I recall starting a game and watching the code fly by live in visual studio

Awesome video. Would love to see more content on developing for the original Xbox!

Thank you for your great well-made content. Greetings from Czech Republic.

Fantastic Video! I wish this was available back in the early 2000s when I was modding my Xbox!

I wish I met you years ago online m8! Ya know I’m sure all us gaming fans and moddders would love to make videos but i just never got around to it, you have great knowledge sir. I’m glad you continue to keep the scene alive! I would like to chat with you if possible sometime. Thanks!

Managed to mod a v1.0. It is awesome, already poking around with the base project coloring the triangle and background. Thanks a lot! :)

Great video! I've been meaning to add a tutorial like this to the /r/OriginalXbox wiki since I did it myself exactly how you did it and took notes.

Really loving this Xbox videos you've been uploading. I really should try and pick one up again as I had a lot of memories of fun with my old Crystal xbox that I softmodded with UnleashedX.

Another great video man! I really enjoy watching your videos, especially your Xbox ones.

I remember having some of this stuff installed on my PC back then. I mostly used it just so I could take screen shots or capture some video of gameplay. It was a handy to have. I have a Xecuter 3 ModChip installed on my XBOX which I still own. So it was really easy to toggle debug mode on/off in the X3 Bios.

Fantastic work, as always!

Your videos have inspired me to dig out my trusty old 1.6 Xbox and softmod it. I took it apart a few days ago to clean everything. Thankfully I don't have to worry about the clock cap. I'm going to use the Splinter Cell method since I can't do a TSOP flash with my board. Sadly my DVD drive wouldn't read discs anymore. I was kinda bummed since it was a Hitachi drive and those are supposed to be more reliable. Thankfully though a friend of mine was getting rid of 3 Xboxes plus a bunch of accessories, so I swapped a Philips DVD drive into my Xbox, and everything is back up and running again. I forgot how much I missed this console.

Awesome bro, I remember used the same method back on 2005 with my retail XBOX using mIRC chat software to get all programs I needed, it was awesome to press the Play button on the Visual Studio and see the result directly on TV :D Thanks a lot dude

Oh boy, MVG and RCR uploaded simultaneously, my lunch hour is going to be awesome!

I am not a developer, but this video has provided many information/ideas to get into this business. Thank you for all the good work.

Amazing work as always.

Love the "Super Mario War " at 07:59 😀 used to play this game so much back in the day

I had so much fun experimenting with the XBOX back in the days.. People like you have inspired people like me to always learn more, diversify and master that diversity, and give the gift of giving itself. Thank you for your contributions! I recall one of the popular dashboards had a creepy picture of a black-eyed kid. Have you seen it? If so, where can I find that again?? I'm going to build the debug box. I still have my XBOX stash and now I have a hot air rework station, so adding the RAM will be a snap. Time to dig out the ol' Xecuter 3 mod chip and my special version of Mech Assault. It's time to play with this hobby again. BTW - I didn't know that a hard drive could be locked at the firmware level until I got into this stuff. What a really neat thing to know and add to the concept of digital privacy.

I love that you posted this in 2018, years after the scene was big. I can only hope this inspires some folks to get into OG Xbox development. Personally, I'm a web developer and am seriously considering setting up a dev environment and giving it a go. Thanks for the quality videos. They're always very interesting and well made.

The original Xbox is amazing, after watching your videos I might pick one up again!

Hopefully some new homebrew will emerge from this video

I appreciate the old PC-98 FM synth Touhou music usage. So criminally underrated compared to the newer songs, which are still masterpieces themselves don't get me wrong. Great video btw, I was always interested to see how technical the original Xbox was for it's time back in the day.

Damn man your the original xbox guru!

Great video, very informative

Great content on your channel, thanks a lot!

This was really interesting to watch. I knew about this and I remember when I modded my Xbox I was about to purchase two memory chips. Eventually I skipped this as I had virtually zero experience on soldering and didn't want to ruin my machine. I assume soldering those chips would make 100% "original" dev kit? I mean that would have to be easiest dev kit conversion ever? Afaik every other platform have generally speaking very exotic hardware. I'm not programmer but always been fascinated about it. Thanks anyway for the video.

I just realized ive been watching your videos for months now, only to find out i'm not even subscribed. I am now

Great video you are the man when it comes to hacks and coding on consoles especially the Xbox

Nice touch, using the Touhou 4 - Lotus Land Story main menu theme. Always happy when I see or hear Touhou at something completely unrelated. Also: #metoo

love it! thanks for the help :)

I just realized that you using Touhou 4 main menu soundtrack here

We sure have come a long way since then, with the Xbox One allowing you to simply enable dev mode with an app.

Thank you very much for this.

Good job Microsoft Studios 2003 guess I'm going to have to download that and get virtual Windows XP. Everything you mentioned sounds pretty good except for the part of it only having half the ram of the original debug. Nice job on the video keep up the good work

Looking forward to you making a simular video, converting xbox 360 into a devkit using "Fusion". 😘

This is awesome. Makes me wonder if anyone who has either an actual Xbox dev debug system or has this method setup can create actual Original Xbox games instead of homebrew just like people are doing for the Dreamcast? That would be cool.

If only you uploaded this 2 weeks earlier. I botched soldering to try and flash my tsop and haven't had the heart to test my console

@Modern Vintage Gamer Thank you so much for this video, I tried to do this with mine but ended up with no video on boot, tried it again and I have done it! It's doing me wonders in allowing me to continue to debug some dashboard xexes modified to start off the original xbox live rebuild. If you're interested please PM me, Your knowledge is key!

This is so awesome I am going to do this today :D While i am thinking about it, would you have any Xbox 360 Recoveries? anything pre 1888? We are trying to get the G5 Alpha Mac Units to boot into a Xbox 360 Recovery but we just need a early recovery

I'm so happy xbins is still around

Good video!

I would play oldschool xbox with this dude

Great Video!!!!

I mainly dabble in building PC's and installing windows or Linux or the occasional Hackintosh,and I know I will never gonna do this, nor own a org. Xbox but I find it extremley interesting to watch :D

You are brilliant. For sure. I’m good with computers/mechanics but you simply put me to shame. Keep up the good work! I Always look forward to your content

Really interesting! please go on with x360 and PS3 .. as i'm mainly using emulators for homebrew dev, would be also nice to turn them as debug development emulated devices!

fun thing, you CAN solder in the extra ram, and there is a patcher that CAN patch games to use the extra memory of the system. some games freak out, some of them however work far better, like DOOM3 , thatone specially loves it :)

I am watching from Iraq this channel is going to gave a bright future

Thanks man

Well it seems like its relatively easy to develop for the xbox, I think that some windows games could be ported with small changes. I feel kind of tempted to make some homebrew, to bad I have not too much free time.

A M A Z I N G content as always. I was indeed in need of an MVG fix. But this surpassed all expectations as always: Pretty neat job!

underrated channel

Hi, I have seen some of you videos and they are great. I was wondering if you ever got into reading the eeprom on the xbox? I have seen videos of alot of people flashing the eeprom (TSOP). If so, can the same thing be done to the eeprom on the Apple TV 1st gen?

hmmmm i still have an OG chipped xbox (with the dip switches on the front). i might look into this.

Are you Australian?

I actually still have my legit copy of Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise from when I worked on this "new thing" called C#... wonder if the XDK was ever included in MSDN...

Can you please make a video on how to upgrade the ram from 64mbit to 128mbit? 😊

MVG - what's the model of that DELL monitor you use in this video. Is that the 19"?

VERY COOL! :-)

I do wonder how I might be able to dump the bootrom, that's something I'd like to look at.

Im curious. How did people get access to actual debug kits back in the day?

Question, is it possible to add additional 64mb of RAM to a retail xbox? 128mb of RAM, if even usable for games, would be a huge advantage for frametimes and framerate in some cases. Games like Half-Life 2 struggle to maintain even 20 FPS in some scenes and RAM is probably a huge factor in this.

Anyone have a link to that old school Gentoo wallpaper?

Yeah, you lost me. 😅 I guess this is not for me. Great video, though, like always. 👍

😊 Dope!

"I can't link it..." *Shows you exactly where to look* Well played.

One thing I've always been curious about, since the whole bleem thing. Are there still people who still use actual code from hardware anymore or is it just something that no one would dare to do any more? :)

Would this be classed as "Alpha Development hardware"? I really want to play "The Simpsons Road Rage" E3 2001 Xbox Alpha Build. As far this can only be played on the the original Alpha Development hardware, but really expensive

Well this is somewhat inspiring. But what can I develop for the Xbox that hasn't already been done and would be useful?

how did you obtain Original XBOX Debug Kit and Xbox 360 Debug Kit BTW: what is the diference between Debug and Development Kit?

I keep getting a black screen every time I try to launch the debug dash.

I was a prominent member of the ASSEMbler forum years back and helped with a few projects. One thing I was told but never checked myself was that beyond the 64 vs 128 MB RAM difference between retail and other consoles like debug, dev, and Chihiro there was one other difference all 128 MB boards had. The system security. I was told retail had an extra security bit the 128 MB boards did not have thus meaning the debug BIOS could not be direct loaded on retail due to lack of code for the security bit. Either the Phoenix BIOS Loader gets around this or that bit is not true. Someone here with more experience in OG Xbox coding care to set me straight on this? Just curious. I had a debug console for some time but never compared the BIOS files.

Great video however can you turn the x box back into a retail one?

How do you like those creative speakers on your TV?

Would it be possible to convert the solder-only RAM slots to standard DDR RAM slots?

I just soft modded my xbox and I installed vs.net + the xdk. Just too bad it turned out to be a v1.6 model so no pads to solder the additional memory chips on to.

i am wondering, are there any game engines available for making games for the xbox? maybe the old unreal engine 2? ^^

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime... " Thanks for this mate..

You can also use the XDKRecovery tools if you can obtain them which will let you either use an ISO or Remotely update the XBOX to a debug kit and have a more recent version of the debug kit available and if you want you can also use it to revert back to a retail console :) I have a copy of the ISO and remote installs if anyone is interested and the installer comes with all the tools needed to debug networking and other features + samples. imgur.com/a/DEj2NqP It's a much much easier way to approach it and does all the heavy lifting for you.

I love your videos. I don't always know what you are talking about. I'm more of a hardware man than software. Need a mod chip installed or cool lighting, I can do that. Need the tx chip replaced, no problem. Soft modding, writing code, its like beating my head with a brick. I've modded a bunch of Xboxes over the years and I apparently used a lot of emulators you made. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the original Xbox. One night at a Halo CE LAN at my house we played on four Halo Edition Xboxes that I had modded. Yes, it was cool. I miss those days, back when I was 49, ten years ago. ;)

you mentioned "Turning off your xbox will revert you to a retail system" I'm assuming this means reverting back to the UnleashX/Softmod dash, correct? If yes, any way to have the system autoboot to the debug dash?

I hear touhou music.

folowed what you said in the video but getting a blank screen after pbl loads

Still waiting for the original xbox private server for live...

Does this work on v1.6 xbox's? I tried it on mine a few years ago and was able to get into the XDK dash just fine, the only thing that I couldn't get working (arguably the most important thing to have working) was network connectivity on the debug IP :L