The Original Xbox is still awesome - Softmod, BIOS Flash, Compact Flash HDD, Games, Emulators 

This video sure brings back a lot of memories. Can't believe it's been over a month already.

No *Rolls Eyes*

Moose you know it

Yea lol been a while since I've seen one of these

Moose me and I can't get ours to work 😣😣😣

Crack Bandicoot being evil is fun. Try the lost chapters version for another playthrough

Fable 1 has to be one of the most enjoyable games I've ever played

Nice name

@Ezera 3Tb for a 2001 game lmao dude sorry but ur dumb older games don't even reach to 500mb

@@faruktta3151 a fool and his money are easily parted.

@Ezerascrubs, mine has 8GB and still has the capacitor that might start leaking.

I did get mine for 15 with 3 games though so I think I probably got the best deal here.

Can you tell me how to make the modifications for my classic xbox please and what items you used.

It's my ringtone also lol

Mr. Rex crazy stuff

JSRF is a classic. PGR is a great game too but i was more into Rallisport Challenge 2 back then : ) Awesome that you had that record , i dont think i ever cracked top 10 in any leaderboard in any game ever ;)

RetroManCave m

Be great if there was away to replace the DVD Xbox drive with bluray not to play new games but to watch movies lol but hey this mods great sounding I wish this guy was local I'd go to him and ask him to do it since he's got a video showing us how I'm sure he would do it for a small fee

Modern Vintage Gamer how come i had all these. Jeez. I was 7 and bloody picked the best games at random. Lol

The max resolution that the xbox has would not do the blue ray drive justice. You would need a different console that can support a higher resolution. The max that board can do is 1080i Where blue ray movies can do up to 2160p You wouldnt be doing your movie justice. Not to mention blue ray players are cheap now. for like 80 bucks you can get a 4k blue ray player for your tv.

ThEcRaZ3dGaM3R ThEcRaZ3dGaM3R yes! I had it on my modded one. It dropped a couple frames during heavy fire fights, and you better have a modded xbox to run the game off the hdd or else serious load times. I remember when i got my 360 i replayed it on the orange box and it was smooth as glass.

Hlaf-Life 3 also runs decent, you have to us the video options to turn down vsync but other than that, great!

Just imagine if the retail version of the Xbox had the 128mb of ram that the Development Kits came standard with... The game would have run even better and widescreen would probably be possible in a lot of other games...

It's kind of a bummer, but the PS2 didn't have the CPU power to be able to handle all the physics in the game. Maybe if you used the original HL physics system you'd increase the FPS and reduce the stuttering you'd encounter but then you're taking away the most important element of HL2 which separated it from every other game of its time. that awesome physics engine!!

I bought a used xbox to play it cuz i couldn't afford a pc to run it at the time. was a terrific game, amazing port considering the xbox only had 64mb or ram!

The button layout was also a bit more ergonomic too.

The dpad looks dreadful though

wales2k yea ok President Trump

Even when I was 12 I was fine with it. Still think it's the best

wales2k Compatible xbox games the first xbox the first series go on the playstion 3

Jay Merritt I came to the comments to say nearly the exact same thing! I never heard of this channel before but this video was suggested and after he said he made those emulators that I still use 10 years later I instantly subbed. I still have a hard and soft modded Xbox on standby so I can play them at a moment's notice!

I agree with everything you have said. The only thing I don't like is the xbox controllers. Is there anyway I can play with an snes controller on the original xbox?

If u softmod the Xbox, can u still install emulators??? I have everything to softmod my Xbox. Biosflashing seem a little too complex for me, is it really necessary?

I had the good fortune to stumble on a modded Xbox back in the day. It’s been a lot of fun ever since and I still boot it up when I have time. The emulators are great and quite functional. And introducing my daughter and her friends to classic games, whether Xbox titles, console emulators or MAME, is icing on the cake. Thanks for good work! :)

Edgar Aristondo From my knowledge, the BIOS flash was only done so that he could add the new drive. However, you may want to do some more research just to be sure.

Usama Shah umm no

dinojdub28 what game ?

GameCube as well

Dreamcast & PlayStation 2 >>>>>> Xbox & Game Cube *Games Wise* imo I don't care about tech specs

Dreamcast was the prototype for the xbox, or think of it this way xbox = dreamcast 2 | xbox 360 = dreamcast 3 | xbox one/x = dreamcast 4/4.5, the clue was is in the controller. yes ps2 and gc/wii was great too, shame about ps3/wii u onwards, while sony still go same direction, nintendo just lost the plot

Dreamcast was and is still one of, if not still is the best console ever, the gamecube will always have a special place in my heart as well and now that I have an X-Box it has quickly replaced my PS2, a console I barely ever touched even back in the day =-P

Completely agree. My two favorite consoles ever.

Robot voice* My brain has malfunctioned. Lol

Damn i woulda thrown in the towel if I bricked a console back then.

Mark Zola81 the real one

The Real XBox One X :P

I bet the most kids today don't remember the original xbox.....SO THIS IS THE REAL XBox 1 guys

Daniel Hummel I do I'm 27

+Daniel Hummel agreed and Im 24.

Unfortunately only Jet Set Radio is for sale and not Jet set Radio Future

I have the jsrf/sega gt combo disc as well as original case

Jet set radio future needs a remake or remaster, it was so good and they only remaster the original, not the future

U can get that on Xbox one :D

Orestis Papadopoulos The good old days

Gun is one of the best games ever

The Author same

The Author only Sony fanboys found the excuses to bash on the original Xbox because of the size of the controller.

For relatively big hand i can see why one would like the original. However for my hands i prefer the smaller S version

Same!!! I need the new one when I get the One and for my og all my controllers kill my hands

I always used the small version of it so this wasn’t an excuse to bash on the console. Since the first time I played Xbox, I became a big fan of it and I will never regret to supporting Microsoft. OG Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox one. All in the same room 😁

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The CPU can be upgraded?! Very interesting... but I'd have to send the board off somewhere to have that done. There's nobody anywhere near here with that kind of equipment.

Yes, it can be upgraded to the 1,4ghz PIII. That was the maximum that is/was available as a replacement for the Celeron BGA Package that was soldered in. Basically anybody who owns a BGA Soldering Station could probably do it. Beside that i did upgrade the RAM as well cause most revisions of the OG Xbox have the motherboard layout of the dev kit just missing the Ram Chips. You can patch the games than so the use extra Ram.

You worked on Surreal64? :o I have a new found respect for you. Sorry for my mild rant on your Framemeister vs OSSC vid. hehe I do like the Xbox as well, but I've been neglecting it lately. I have a 250GB HDD in both of my Xboxes, but I believe my older box no longer boots, as the Supercap is dead. I don't think it was leaking too badly, but I need to fix that soon. I think you might be able to "lock" most CF cards in the same way as an HDD btw? Also, I'm not sure, but I think some soft mods might even allow it to boot with the HDD unlocked? Maybe not though, as I can see how the stock BIOS will be expecting it to be locked with the key that matches the serial etc. My very first Xbox mods were the TSOP Flash version. (two solder points, then flash with EvoX.) Since then, I've just used the soft mod (font mod), by using the 007:AUF exploit. I loaded CoinOps 7 onto the working box recently, but still not really played on it as much as I should. I was thinking of doing a proper HDMI mod on the OG Xbox for a long while now, but it would seem a bit like putting a newer graphics card into a vintage PC. lol I guess it would still be cool though, and ideal for streaming.

yes i did i ported Surreal64, U64x (killer instinct emu), xSnes9x, FBA-X and many more..went by Lantus-X back in those days..cheers!

what version of surreal 64 do you have, and what team are you talking about?

Slime... nasty. ☺

Earned a sub!

Found mine for $15 and I already had halo 2 and opened the disc drive and it had starwars battlefront in it.

@@keenanwengert423 score

Is the little battery corroded though?

@@keenanwengert423 lol, at least that is a pretty good game

Just found one the other day for $5 with crimson skies in it

Preach!!!

yeah !

When you flash it, you can no longer play games on it. It is funny how they used windows me on this thing, when it wasn't really just a pc. Also when the hard drive is unlocked, you find xbe files. These are compiled in c+ by windows which is also software code. You can run them on any pc if you want.

GoodGuyGaurav jsrf is the best. I hope it gets a remaster or reboot one day.

Indeed it's 🙄

*Amazing!*

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Thanks for the tip Gadget! I still have several original xbox consoles laying around, and one has a failing drive. I was wondering how I was going to replace it without going through hoops and bounds.

So what does one need to do to do this? I want to use a 250GB drive. Does the drive need to be prepped first?

jim b What do you mean by exploited game?

jim b Ok, thanks. So developers made these games to mod the console? Or its just a coincidence?

jim b Damn you guys know your shit.. I just play the games and would have never noticed the difference in loading games lol. But this looked interesting. Thanks for the info, but it sounded like some rocket science shit. lol. Keep doing your thing man

Oh, and OG XBox games are so cheap at the moment (although starting to climb) so it's the perfect time to start collecting before it gets too crazy.

yep totally agree!

It was a while ago that I did it, but I dont remember there being any tricks to it. Just FTP across the XBox-specific port of SoRR. www.theisozone.com/downloads/xbox/homebrew-games/xstreets-of-rage-remake-v5-final-homebrew-port-for-xbox/

Agreed. I usually play SoRR on PC, but Xbox is way more convenient for multiplayer.

Was just dusting off my old modchipped Xbox (i’ll need to wait a while as both my gamepads, one original and one 3rd party or the cables seems to be dead) i used it mostly as a Media Centre with XBMC, with my music library on the 2TB (or maybe it was 1TB) drive and movies streaming from my Mac. I also streamed radio, video services like RU-vid and others until HD movie playback became choppy (sure, with some encoding wizardry, you could make it stream without frames dropping out, switched to WD TV Live Media Player Gen 3, wich had some of the hackery and homebrew magic from the Xbox hacking/mod/homebrew community (now Apple TV gen 3). Also had all the emulators (most used was the Nintendo and Sega emulators alongside MAME for all the Street Fighter titles alongside Darkstalker aka Vampire Saviour and crossover fighting games like Marvel vs Capcom and similar). The original Xbox games, wich was (even then), and is now (at least in Sweden) dirt cheap on the second hand market, was saved to the internal drive. Favourites: Jade Empire, Halo (1 & 2), Fable, Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Wars Knight of the Old Republic, Star Wars Revenge of The Sith, The GTA games, Dead or Alive 3, Max Payne, Harry Potter, Blazing Angels: Sqaudron of WWII (looks almost the same as the 360 version!), FIFA titles & PES, the Mortal Kombat titles (crappy game mechanics, but fun!), the later Need for Speed titles, Spartan: Total Warrior (button smasher!), SSX (3, On Tour, Tricky. Great design that still holds, crazy fun snowboard physics), Top Spin (Tennis)… Except you could have most of the games installed on the drive, you could use trainers as well. Now, trainers isn’t for just cheats, but also unlocking features or other stuff that is disabled for different reasons. But yeah, i’ll admit. It’s fun to play some titles in “god mode” to find new things, or to conquer some bug or really hard part (when you tried for months to pass a boss, you take actions of the cheating kind). Game saves! I have it connected to my 42” LCD TV, running XBMC on 720p/1080i (some games, very few, runs in 720p/1080i) using component cables. Now, as soon my new game pads is here (i which i could use my PS3/PS4 or PC USB game pads while waiting), i will fill up the drive with emulators again and my favourite original titles. Is Slayers EvoX (ISO) still the way to go to install all the toys?

FiddleSticks It was better on the PS2. 😒

Psycho Surfer so true

blast2fire ™ hopefully there is the ability to add dreamcast emulator and PS2 emulator and you could pretty much relive your entire past on the machine that was most superior in comparison.

It hade 4 player halo right? Same has the great 360 right but Xbox one is like no we can't handle that just buy 4 xboxs and 300 dollars of Xbox and your good for 3 months fam

Gary Stinten in power the Xbox was better than the ps2, but the ps2 was the better console mainly because it had the better games. And it’s been like that since.

Jason Jennings wow u just struck a cord. Never played RF2 but I fuckn lived Red Faction Guerilla.

John Hillis He didn't code shit. All he did was make a tutorial.

CrazyRoadblock he made the emulators that he's showing so have a seat.

Well, at least the dongle comes with a remote control, so it is not completely useless otherwise. Would have been a shame if it was _only_ a dongle.

I may be wrong, but at least in the case of the wii, I think it had something to do with the licensing fees involved in officially supporting DVD movie playback. It would have raised the selling price of the console, and the low price was one of the wii's main selling points

nope, its factual. will definitely look into that!

yep the Wii is an awesome machine for this too without question.

Can wii do cps3 games and killer instinct arcade? Might be more suited to me as i live in an ultra small studio apartment

Don't think so: wiibrew.org/wiki/List_of_homebrew_emulators

RETRO GAMING ARCHIVE what does living in small apartment have anything to do with what system you have??

john lacy probably has to do with space limitations and getting the most out of one console.

retrostansolo its nice, but the composite video kills it.

Kolgrim1988 Mine looks great because I have the HD mod. I have the Microsoft official HD box and it looks amazing. 720p/1080i

Yep, I love my modded Xbox also (also 500GB HDD). I still need to track down the official component box. I have third-party component cables, but I want official.

Rig it's about time there was a hdmi mod for the Xbox just like the one on N64, how cool would that be.

I use my awesome flat screen samsung CRT to play all games up to xbox. I will never change it, the saddest day of my life will be the day it dies :(. The difference of playing on a CRT vs on a LCD/LED panel is astonishingly different, I just simply can't go to a new screen to play the old stuff.

linoxyard or you could do that flash trick for the bios and use sdcard and even faster again.

@@garystinten9339 You can't with a 1.6 motherboard revision. Only 1.0 to 1.5 have the Bios on a TSOP chip. The 1.6 has instead a chip called "Xyclops", which contains the bios on a non flashable rom. The easy way around though is to install a modchip, like mine had. An Akira 2 SE chip in my case.

Also remove the clock compasator. It can LEAK

@@ZebulonYT. …the capacitor is fine for now on 1.6s

Heard that too! Nice touch ^_^

schizogony I thought was fake, I never seen or heared of anyone winning from taco bell

My friend worked there and gave me a stack of like 20 entry forms.

Your friend is chill af

What!!!!! Nice!!!!!!

you peaked

I just bought a softmod bundle on ebay: Splinter Cell (even though the PS2 version was donated to me in a bundle in 2013), a USB flash drive and an adaptor cable (the seller says he tests before sending). I don't normally like to mod consoles, especially since my friends' chipped PlayStations all died and I had an unfortunate experience trying to region-free my SNES in 2002, but I GOTTA make an exception for the Xbox if I want to prolong my console's life! I also plan to get the lockout chip in my NES disabled.

well... mine has a 160gb ide hdd and works perfect

JSP Producciones!! Where’d u get yours? I’m having trouble finding a replacement hard drive or CFC-IDE adaptor I KNOW will work on the console.

great list ! Murakumo is very underrated!

Modern Vintage Gamer Thanks, It sure is.

My top 10 1. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2. Halo 3. PGR 2 4. Rallisport Challenge 2 5. Moto GP 6. Sega GT 7. Jade Empire 8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 9. COD Finest Hour 10. Head Hunter

steel battalion nuff said

Here are some more for you... =D . Jet Set Radio Future . Splinter Cell Chaos Theory . Need for Speed Underground 2 . Psychonauts . GTA San Andreas . Blinx the Time Sweeper ( Blinx the Cat was the Xbox's original mascot ) . Street Fighter Anniversary Collection . Oddworld Stranger's Wrath . Crimson Skies High Road to Revenge