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Just letting you know.. there is a 256mb ram upgrade and a socket upgrade for the CPU also.. just need to find a more modern GPU and it's essentially the most modded console to date.
Dimitri - looking like you've shredded some weight brother. Keep doing whatever you are doing. Also, you didn't mention replacing the 40 pin ide with an 80 pin ide cable. That really should be done to avoid hard drive communication errors in the future.
@@notGeist Indeed, feels like extortion, needing to pay to protect yourself. Not only that, but now, DeleteMe has tapped into a market that only survives if the data brokers are thriving. If they get desperate, could lead to them pumping money into protecting data brokers, or even starting brokers themselves. s.h.a.d.y.(no hate to MVG, Thanks for the video!)
Its plastic can still get very brittle tho ... been restoring and selling a bunch of xbox-es and one of them almost fell apart from just looking at it.
It’s crazy dude. YOU were the reason I got into OG Xbox modding from a video titled “I made the emulators” and “modding the OG Xbox in 2017” way before you had the beard lol Seems like just yesterday man.
The OG Xbox was the first console I ever modded, and I loved that thing. Loading Midtown Madness 3 from hard drive and spamming the A button to get into game via quick race... 8 seconds!
I remember being like 10-11 years old trying to cut up a controller cable so I could splice in a USB type-A female so I could plug in a flash drive and load Linux from it. Never got that far 'cause my mom wouldn't let me but those were good times! PSP was eventually my first modded console
Same. Loved modding that thing. Started out with the soft mods with mech assault then went with a modchip and loaded in a bunch of different bios. Also loved the community changing the boot up lava thing to so many other 3d objects. Was so sick.
Microsoft were going to put 128MB Ram,but decided to cut it to 64MB and add the HDD. However there is still an open slot to add another 64MB Ram to give you 128MB and it really does improve game performance. I think it was MVG actually where i watched the video.
Dimitris, I want to take a moment to thank you for everything you have done for the community. Your ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms and the knowledge you share through your videos are truly remarkable. I am deeply grateful for your contributions. Blessings to you and your family.
Tsop flashed, 128mb ram upgraded recapped 1.0 xbox is still my main console. 2TB hdd of fun with HDMI mod and noctua 80mm fan. Its super quiet and usually when we get to gaming nights. We mostly play OG xbox over new consoles. Hope it will work for few more decades. Had mine since 2003. With my large hands. Duke controller is best damn one i ever used.
It's the ONLY XBOX I ever owned! Setting up custom music on that thing was FREAKIN' AWESOME!!! From Karaoke to Tetris... The Xbox was my ROCK BOX!!! Excellent video!!
My OG Xbox is still front and center of my entertainment system. 2tb, 128mb of ram, Xbox HDMI mod, and most importantly the X360 controller board so I can use any Xbox 360 controllers. Also several full collections of games. Easily one of my favorite things.
@@garystinten9339 256mb ram upgrade is useless for now. But we will see. And CPU one can break some games. Might get 2nd board for them :D and swap if needed.
yea ok sure if you need all the media stuff, I never did and it just made things more complicated than it really had to be . xbmc4gamers I have it setup to autologin and be at the games screen ...simple
I couldn't get the sata ssd I was installing to consistently boot without using an 80 wire, I had the exact same adapter as well. Not sure if it is because it was an ssd, but it booted once every 10 times after installing xbmc4gamers
@machinerin151 as opposed to what? The xbox is 40 pins. He's saying you are supposed to use an 80 wires, 40 pin cable since the higher udma modes the adapter uses will be more suseptible to noise. It will work one minute, then not boot the next. It is pretty much mandatory, idk why it was skipped. Probably did change it but just left out of the video
@@Hadzz95 80 wires means a ground for all 40 live wires. That type of cable mainly reduces crosstalk. It can be used with a stock system to stand in for a bad cable, but to little potential benefit.
@Code7Unltd yes I know, that's why I called it 40 pin 80 wire. Obviously its not necessary for stock drives, but it basically is necessary for these startech sata adapters. Half the time it won't boot without an 80 wire cable, stock bios or otherwise
For those of you afraid of soldering or don’t have the means for a chip, softmodding is very easy and no longer requires a save game exploit. All you need is a controller port to USB adapter and an old flash drive. You’ll want to upgrade the HDD eventually but a bare bones mod will cost you
I bought an OG Xbox last year & got it professionally modded (thanks PencePC!). I got the same setup you got here & I absolutely love it. My favorite game is Jet Set Radio Future
Oh man, I loved that game back in the day when I had mine. IDK if it was lost in a move or it's in my storage unit, but seeing this video makes me miss it. Upgrading it sounds really interesting.
Very true, the only black guy in my school(who was dutch) we made grow an afro in 2000, it became rasta dreads by 2003 graduation, any costume parties he would dress like a pimp
The Aladdin chip in my XBOX still does its job without a hiccup. Works like a charm. And I opted for a different hdmi solution than Electron's X-Out, because the X-Out it's way more expensive if you live in Europe. It's basically double the price, so not cheap at all.
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises If you live in the USA, then grab an X-Out. For me it wasn't an option, since I don't live there. So, I built myself an adapter. However, many people don't have the know-how or the hardware available to build themselves one, so online retail services are the way to go. There are cheaper solutions if you search for them.
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises My comment to you got deleted. Hope at least this one, won't. I did my own HDMI adapter. For someone living in the US, x-out is a good option, but for a cheaper solution, there are options if you care to look for them over the internet (i won't name any places, because I don't want my comment erased again).
The exclusives on the OG Xbox were what made it special....Amped, Topspin, Links 2004, Rallisport Challenge, PGR...if only these franchises were still going today
Sega GT2002 is one of the best racing games ever. That ONLY ON XBOX used to mean something nice about quality. Now it means I don't really want it, lol.
If you're going to use a modchip instead of a TSOP flash, alternatives such as the OpenXenium modchip are infinitely cheaper and allow you to flash different BIOSs such as Cerbios if you so choose rather than being limited to StellarOS only.
Was going to say similar - have been looking into this and Open Xenium is what I'm thinking. For a cheap mod chip getting an Aladdin can be viable too.
Fwiw I don't think the fresh paste gives a lot in most cases. I did it anyway on my old 1.6 I fixed up a couple years ago and the paste was gnarly looking but it wasn't in danger of not doing its job any time soon. Maybe others have had a different experience ofc
@@deepspace6nineit's more of one of those "while you're doing all of this other stuff you may as well" things. I've done it on most of mine. The GPU used thermal cement and I'd suggest not trying to remove this unless you're confident.
I just wanted to say I recently found your channel and I can't stop binging. The PSP homebrew one brought back so many fond memories thank you for all your work putting these together for us!
There was a media streamer that you could use to stream cable and other tv channels to the Xbox. It was a hit and miss but it was indeed amazing. Most versatile console ever made.
Gotta say that I always appreciate your vids :) Always interesting, and I can put on a playlist of your older stuff as great background news while working.
lads, lads, lads. The failure rates are roughly equal across all brands and models of hard drive. Favourite brands are either a hangover from the days when it mattered, or are evidence of personal bias resulting from a few bad experiences. Like people who have two cars from brand X go wrong, and conclude that brand X is rubbish - it's just not meaningful data. The real death factors are vibrations (in particular how they transmit or don't transmit between drives in one rack/case), mounts and power cycles. Source: I have personally retired and scrapped literally thousands of hard drives, there were no overall standouts in brand, model or even RPM (other than those studid 10,000rpm things - I never found 7200 to be less reliable than 5400 on a domestic level). Fun bonus fact: my most unlikely survivor drive is an early 500GB 3.5" 7,200 Deskstar that I pulled out of a customer's old machine, it had over 58,000 power cycles. Not hours - power cycles. It still works fine. I have no idea how.
Please check the contents of the HDD for lost Xbox Live content with either Pinecone or XCAT. For DVD2Xbox I hope you turned off all ACL patching. if you are ripping discs with DVD2Xbox and hoping to use them for Insignia, ACL patches even if the game is packaged as an ISO will cause each game to fail to download Title Updates.
Xbox was the first and only console that I went crazy modding back in the day. I gave it a paint job, I removed the green emblem on the top and replaced it with a clear plastic with LEDs under it. Mod chip, HDD upgrade. I had so much fun with that Frankenstein of a console.
Years back I struggled to sell an original modded XBOX in perfect new like condition. I drove it to the buyer, that accidentally purchased it. No one wanted them.
Decent upgrades, although I would have chosen an OpenXenium chip over the Stellar. I like your choice of dashboard, it’s what I use on my Xbox (which also has 128MB RAM and an LCD display). Lots more stuff coming for this console, you’ll need to do another video in the not too distant future to showcase it.
Hard to believe that the original Xbox is 23 years old. When it was new a 23 year old console would be the Atari VCS which seemed like an antique by 2001.
I like to put a 2-pin header in place of the old clock capacitor, then use an old PC case wire to connect a capacitor that I can keep far away from the mainboard.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="620">10:20</a> Note that when you use a Sata hdd, you also need to replace the 40 wire IDE cable with a 80 wire IDE cable.
It’s crazy dude. YOU were the reason I got into OG Xbox modding from a video titled “I made the emulators” and “modding the OG Xbox in 2017” way before you had the beard lol
The Nintendo 64 and the OG Xbox were my favorite consoles growing up. Discovering Xbox live back in 2002-03 for the first time and being able to talk to people from around the world and play online with each other was so mind boggling and crazy at that time. It really was the first online social media place even before RU-vid, MySpace, Skype, and Facebook existed.
I did these mods on my original Xbox as well and I really love what the guys over at MakeMhz did with their HDMI mod. It's soo good! Feels great to load up some Halo 2 or other favorites and be able to enjoy them on a modern HDTV. 😀
One thing that I didn't see go in that I would highly recommend would be replacing the stock 20 wire 40 pin cable with a 40 wire one. It allows for higher bandwidth on the HDD.
This brought back some memories... I have 2 OG Xbox consoles back home, one soft modded and the other is chipped. I can't even begin to describe the value that I got of these machines, despite owning a good PC back then. Back in the day, we had manually record the HD key and locking the new HD after installation so you can access the OG kernel if you wanted to boot without the mod enabled. It seems things have gotten easier since then. One of my favorite consoles of all time!
I would also recommend the Brook Wingman XB2 adapter along with an original xbox controller cable to usb. This allows you to connect an Xbox one and Series Controllers to the original xbox which work better than the S controller. You can also use that adapter on an xbox 360 as well.
This video was a great watch, really exciting to see old hardware get upgraded for ease of use for modern enviroments. I am quite impressed by the modders that upgraded the RAM aswell as putting a 1.4 Ghz CPU in there. Apparently the performance gains for games are quite noticeable.
Nice video you hooked it up and dvd 2xbox pretty good I still have that on my Xbox since 2004 it still going strong nice video seeing new stuff might upgrade my stuff with the new stuff like just a bigger hardrive
I soft modded mine and it's still working perfectly, I have all games up to N64 and even if I can't run Shadows of the empire, my N64 died before this beast... I did a whole video on soft modding but I got it taken down like 20 years ago... it's awesome, I've used it in the last year, hotkeys (buttons) work and it's pretty much an SNES9x/NES/N64/Sega/MAME/PS1/XBMC workhorse there are others, but I can't believe a $300 machine is still so fun to bring on vacation to play Mario Kart 64 and/or random mods with family. I think it is actually one of the first times my family saw 1080p content downloaded on the TV. It was a proof of concept and the TV didn't have computer input... okay I've made my point. EVERY SINGLE GAME. EDIT: I still can't find Doki Doki Panic rom (the one that Nintendo skinned to make Mario 2 US version... hmu if you have it.
I remember me and my brother modding his Xbox back in the day and playing Halo 2 on Xbox Connect. The lobbies were full of everyone with modified names with buttons in them etc. My favorite map/gun pack back then was the paintball one
Like many others this was the first console I modded simply so I could play retro games. I used to mod these for friends. I still have one in my house. Essential console for anyone who loves games.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="227">3:47</a> The funny thing is that, some years back, I bought a modded Wii 2 HDMI adapter that was modded for an Original Xbox adapter off of eBay, and, to my utter shock, it actually was really bloody impressive, dare I say it looked better on Xbox than on Wii, and seeing that adapter reminded me of that purchase
Love my OG Xbox. Still using the same one i've had since it was new. I finally have to replace my CD drive belt, but other than that just some normal open dusting and its good to go. Its been rock solid. There's also a certain charm in just powering it up, sticking in a game disk, and your ready to play.
I did a soft mod recently. I believe it was a variant of this rocky5 setup but the one I used needed my splinter cell to load a save file. I did however have to go through about a dozen various usb sticks/microSD adapters until I found one that was JUST old enough to work. It was a quirky ancient microSD adapter to usb. Allowed everything to work flawlessly paired with the controller cord to usb input cable I bought. With a softmod and patience for ftp transfers, you probably only need to add a new HDD and you’ll be good to go. Component cable output to RT4K makes for an excellent picture.
I've had so much fun rebuilding my high school/college xbox on the emulator that I bought one to mod and happen to be doing it today. I'll be using the old method of softmod with xboxhdm and ndure. As always, thank you again for all your hard work.
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="430">7:10</a>, should be noted with the new Endgame exploit, specific games are not required to softmod anymore. Just a way to get the save on the Xbox console (USB adapter or Memory Card transfer from another modded Xbox)
its awesome that we can increase the ram of the original xbox now its crazy how good the modding community has gotten with this console upgrading the ram in a consumer base console is unheard of similar to wiimmfi the only game i ever see people play is mario kart wii so only seeing people play halo 2 all the time doesnt surprise me too much to be honest
Thank you for this content - I didn't realize that the stellar mod chip has been updated. My favorite system, I have several that I tinker with. Please keep creating!
The most interesting OG XBOX mod was definitely the HD/VGA mod. I don't know how far it's come since the old days (you used to have to run NTSC BIOS + HomeMade VGA cable) but a refresh of what HD technology is available would be interesting.
Ahh the good old day's. When Halo matchmaking was battle of the mods past level 38ish. Whatever modder got host connection won with their hacks. Non host hacks were broken due to it being the map file served from on the hosts machine.
A little heads up about the HDMI dongle featured in the video: You may see some vertical stationary jail bars on some dark surfaces if you look close enough. According to Shane (the maker of this adapter), it's due to the video capacitors going bad and those will need to be replaced.
I've always used unleash x as my dashboard, but I've also got an old setup. I would love to modernize the console, add more memory, and see if a mod chip can bios switch between standard Xbox and chihiro but I don't even know if that's a thing they can do now. When I was still active and the Xbox scene was in its prime, that was a thing people were rumored to be working on
I got a modded Xbox for christmas in 2003 when I was 10 years old, and I remember being completely in awe at the fact I could just borrow a friend's game and copy it over to mine and have it forever. If I'm honest it still blows me away that you could do that with 2003 technology.
Ah you missed the days of 8 bit when games were on cassette, just put the original in a double deck boombox with a blank in the other and away you go. My whole collection was copied
I remember my OG Xbox,it redringed a few times but it felt like a muscle system,I had between 30-40 games, and that OG controller was enormous... but,it was fun.
Bought one 20 years ago with an xecuter 3, just had it all stripped down cleaner and repaired where needed. Now has a 4TB drive emulating everything from PS1 backwards great console
I modded my Xbox 20 years ago with a solderless chip. I'll have to pull it out again and power it up to make sure it works still. I did recently upgrade the hard drive to a SATA drive with adapter. Mine has EvolutionX dashboard. I wish the websites I used for the information were still around, though I might check the wayback machine. I am amazed that I was able to get my Xbox modded the way it is. I could not tell you where I would have to begin as for the real modding process now. I may look for the clock capacitor though.
