Your Original Xbox Can Play This (And Much More) 

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at some point in Mexico arcade cabinets went from having a machine with every CPS1,CPS2 and NEO GEO game to having a OG xbox inside with a bunch of games and emulators, being a kid with those around was pretty cool

Note: For as important as removing the clock capacitor on most Xboxes is, there is one very important detail that needs to be clarified: You *don't* need to remove it on 1.6 revision Xboxes, and in fact, if you remove it, they'll stop working all together

Super Mario 64 was always my favorite game to play on the original Xbox, so glad Nintendo finally decided to start porting their games to other consoles during this generation =)

My best friend has four OG Xbox's, I bring my little 14" component CRT and a case of beer over and we do Halo 2 LAN parties. Feels like 2004!

I remember couple years ago getting my childhood xbox modded by somebody local to me and it was the most amazing thing I've ever experienced. OG Xbox is absolute gold and is very underrated

I’m one of those weirdos that likes physical media still, so I bought a replacement laser on eBay for the disc drive. It was about $20 and only took 30 minutes of work to get it installed. Very little soldering required, just some patience. Great to see the modding community is still going strong with this awesome console!

Just the fact that Half-Life 2 runs on the Xbox at all is freaking crazy considering the console generation that was just before the Xbox. Imagine going from Resident Evil on PS1 to Half-Life 2 in a single console generation... (It's also the very same engine that still runs CS:GO)

I'd argue that PSP is the homebrew king but that could be because I was deep into that scene

My dad had a beefed up xbox with a custom case and 4 harddrives in it back in the day, and pretty much every retro game known to man! N64 emulation was kinda of fishy back then, but everything below it ran flawlessy! He still has it, he's looking to fix that capacitor ASAP.

Point to note: that clock capacitor will make the board literally unrepairable because the cap juice causes corrosion very fast. Super important to replace it

MY DUDE YOUR EXCELENT CHOICE IN MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS ITS OUTSTANDING i loved every second of this video keep it up

I like the part where there's never another console like the original Xbox.

Even though disc media is trash; a fun party trick the xbox has is playing physical Sega CD (genesis addon) discs with a certain homebrew application (possibly just using an emulator. I was modding xboxes in 03-09 and some things are fuzzy.) This is how i had played alot of my classics without busting out the CD itself. For ease, nowadays, just emulate the games.. but still a fun party trick As always, great video!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was deathly afraid of the og xbox boot animation and home screen when I was little lol. It feels so alien and other worldly, which I think is why I was so scared of when I was younger, defiantly the best home console ever made though. I have fond memories playing lego star wars and battlefront 2 when I was about 6.

They were selling an OG Xbox for $70? I wish we had deals like that today!

Fun fact I grew up with a modded Xbox. It's really cool, when you turn it on it always has the red ring of death but it works just fine. It has a disc that allows it to play NES, SNES, and Atari I think

4:40 Lucky me, I had the 1.6 model Xbox growing up. Which that version requires the clock capacitor (even if it no longer works) in order to turn on. In this xbox Original's case, it has a gold clock capacitor that doesn't leak. It just swells up at the top of the nob and stays like that. Still I might one day replace the capacitor with a new one (if I'm feeling bold enough).

This is a certified homebrew moment

HOLY CRAP THAT MADAGASCAR MINIGOLF GAME You have no idea what you've revealed to me. This is a sequel to the minigolf game in 102 Dalmatians Puppies to the Rescue that I had NO IDEA existed.

8:27 note if you have the original system boot with softmod , YOU NEED A DVD DRIVE for the system to boot or you gonna meet a boot error screen , mine the dvd drive was dead and just put a regular dvd pcb work fine for me and can boot on unleashed perfectly

1:19: I appreciate the use of “I Am… All of Me” from Shadow the Hedgehog. If you have no idea what I’m talking about then this should jog your memory: “Where’s that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?”

dude i dig your style so much that im willing to go with your sponsor! that and the fact that im actually writing in english (que apesta) can tell you that +1sub here!

Got me an XBOX for just being a media center back in 2006, from my side it ever saw just one game, Mech Assault and after that its gigantic for the time 200 GByte harddisk got shoved full of movies i totally ripped from original DVDs i own. :)

My favorite 2000’s console, so happy you made a video

Man this intro story is like me getting to upgrade to a SNES from a 2600 or from that SNES to a PS1 because of the PS2 release... I'm aging...

I had just upgraded my hdd in my original childhood xbox this week, I’m having a blast

This was my early teenage heaven man, I played through almost every SNES game on the Xbox, almost every Genesis game, and then there was Ninja Gaiden Black which makes Dark Souls look like a game for pussies. God what a machine.

Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 are always used at the first examples for a console that "can emulate n64" because they always run smoothly when the rest of the n64 library will play at like 8fps. Same for the PSP, Pi Zero, etc

Modding my Xbox back in the day is some of my best memories.

Dude i was too old for that Madagascar game but when my younger siblings were playing that mini golf game, I was hooked lol

Dear Mr Bringus. Its nice that you took on the challenge of making an Xbox video. I know something about the Xbox, or rather, my Xbox I had that no one has ever touched on before. When I was a teen, I would be really lazy, and turn my Xbox on with a Snooker cue (UK sport device). I found out that if you repeatedly tap, and occasionally jam, the power on button, it would squeal. I used to show my friends. I have never known anyone to touch on this point ever. I have been meaning for a long time to dig it out and go for round 2 (or 38), but as you are an interesting person to watch, I thought I would share my hopefully interesting story.

The PS2 had a pretty good scene as well. Modern consoles are just specialized PCs or phones nowadays, so it's not nearly as interesting to hack at those.

Even after I got a 360, the OG XBOX just has some magic to it. It was just so fun to play. Don't even know why. Years latter? STill have 3 of them, and need to get rid of at least 2 of them. Along with my 360. I don't really play games anymore. And I'm still trying to find the ultimate way to experience Grand Turismo 2 under emulation with all the mods you can do today. Sad thing is? Even if I built my ultimate Xbox OG? I think it would get little use. Most of my memories were playing games with my family. That's long over. Oh well.

My friend and I recapped and softmodded my Xbox a couple years ago. We didn't know about the TSOP method at all. I remember something about getting a key off the original drive (which I know I have backed up) and applying that to the new drive. Maybe it was Chimp? There was no hot swapping involved as I remember though.

Dude is a legend...🤘...bloody hilarious and informative at the same time...Nice one mate..Nice one..

40seconds bro i feel this so much, i was still hyping the megadrive and 64 in like 2004 hahah, i had no idea what people were into by then, once i got an xbox it was modded for me right away and i still missed so much cuz then i was just oversaturated with games n content

I love the original Xbox port of Half-Life 2!!

Just found this channel, love this guy

But physical media isn't bad, it's a vibe! Great video by the way.

Just discovered your channel and subbed dawg!

Love the fact we did an almost identical silver spray job on the xbox. I also has the xicuter 3 mod and lcd. So replaced it with an original.

Ok, I don't know if it was intentional, but great X360 joke. "It's the hot new thing." Red Ring of Death due to overheating issues was going on at that time.

Nice to hear someone else besides me say that they don't need to put a 2TB hard drive in their xbox and fill it up with absolutely everything possible. I have a 500GB in mine and it's plenty. Who would want or even have enough time to play through even half of the xbox library?

if Half-Life 1 had gotten an official port to the Xbox it probably would've been able to run with all textures included, I'm saying this because the PS2 and Dreamcast can run Half-Life 1.

I feel you on that I grew up with the NES in the 90's then got a N64 after the ps1 came out I never got a ps1 so I rocked the N64 until the ps2 came out got one of them and thought I was playing real life lol everything looked 100000 times better you could do so much more in games so many games had voice getting to see GTA 3 move into the 3D world for the first time was crazy. Sad games and gaming don't hit like that anymore. But I picked up a vita about a month ago and I've been getting that old school feeling about gaming again since modding it.

5:47 I remember trying the hotswap method when I was like 15-16, 12+ years ago, this part gave me such nostalgia. Ended up locking the drive and giving up lol. Still have it somewhere, not sure if the drive issue is fixable without a backup image.

So everyone keeps mentioning the various issues plaguing the original Xbox, but I don't know if my brother and I were lucky, but the only issues we encountered with our old console was 3 controller ports no longer working and some games being unreadable. Other than that, it still works really well. Though recently we bought a crystal limited edition OG Xbox from a local retro store and it feels like it's brand new.

Now that you’ve covered the OG Xbox, I feel like you gotta make a video about the 360. I remember looking into softmodding it back in the day but it just seemed too sketchy. Hearing your take on it would be really interesting, and I’m curious if stuff like Sega Saturn or Dreamcast are playable.

You forgot about Cerbios, XBMC4Gamers, XBMC Emustation, Insignia, XLinkKai and some more also you might be using an old build of Half Life X, the 64 MB version has working textures. You can also upgrade your 1.6 revision's Xbox's ram aswell. Also Optical Media shouldn't be tossed, it's the last physical media we have that can be manufactured cheaply on a large scale, because we're all heading to the "every thing is digital and you own nothing" territory.

This actually sounds like a lot of fun

I'm keeping my OG Xbox for life. 👊🏽🔥🇧🇷

Optical media is history man. It's been a long road getting from there to here. It belongs in a museum.

I played on a GameCube from 2o14-2016 early 17 then I played on the 360 until December 2022 slowly over time leaning more and more abt the Xbox and the different consoles and the diff mode;s they had until I got my first Xbox 1 s and I still play my Xbox 360 to this day

I think someone loved the 360 so much they built a sleeper pc but the case was the housing from I believe the 360 arcade edition

Pop OS sighted! Very nice!

I don't even have a Xbox, yet your voice is a nice background for whatever I am doing rn

I got a used old Xbox for Christmas somewhere around 2007-2008. I still have it. Somewhere, I think I moved it up to the attic a few years back. The memories of that thing..

Bro you posted this like the day after I decided I wanted to get my Xbox back up and running

Had no idea Kodi used to be XBMC until you said it and I’m like… that’s why it’s the same 🤦🏻‍♂️

I got a 4tb cerbios running 93+ platforms on mine it was costly but worth it considering ive got a ps1 cals sic modded with a 2tb runnin a bunch of stuff and a fat ps3 running 1,2,3 and almost complete physical library of ps2 and 3 so thus being said of xbox was the way to go since its got some pretty good titles and a modded jtag 360 and a series X for everything else...

I was a MASTER @ XboxHDM; I still have Compressed Eeproms in old server HDDs I just recently found. My Pimped-out Xbox I made in 2k4 had a 750GiB Hdd Maxxed out; Had Access to an Almost complete US collection lol: Gotta find which Eeprom matches the 750Gig Locked HDD...🤣 Armed with my Dual Pentium 3 Win2k Server I had Everything: (IT Job after HighSchool, RePurposed a Ton of "Old" computers for Games) Then a Killer Xbox Matching Pentium III 733Mhz MicroTower with 1 Gig Ram & 8x DL-DVD Burner for my On-the-Fly Modding!🔫

14:21 Nice detail playing a song from Black & White over a clip that's inexplicably in black and white.

i Shelled out for a 128MB Pre flashed Mainboard that has been properly refurbished so i dont have to ever deal with the Capacitor crap again.... Paired it with a 1TB SSD and a Proper Component to HDMI Adapter and i was amazed at how good some games looked.

That CRT at around the 0:18 mark kinda looks like mine. I have the Sanyo HT30746 HD CRT I got for free. I got it mainly for older game consoles, the PS3 and SNES specifically. Going to be connecting the PS3 to the only HDMI input and the SNES to S-Video. One of the Component Video cables once they arrive, will be used for my DVD player I use for older movies and TV series that look like garbage on my OLED, as until I get a Panasonic DP-UB9000, all I had for watching physical media is my Xbox Series X which has piss poor upscaling of DVD’s, especially older ones like North and South from 1985 with Patrick Swayze. Plus DVD’s just look better on a CRT running 480i anyway. After connecting the SNES, PS3, and DVD player, I’ll have one Component Video input open. Anyone have any recommendations for classic consoles with great games and the ability to properly and or natively run Component Video output? I’ve been thinking on the N64 as I never had an N64. I didn’t have a Nintendo of my own until the Wii U. As there’s games on the N64 that I would love to play again, as I played them on a friend’s N64. The games I did play were Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and Goldeneye 007. However I’m open to just about any older consoles especially if they have really good games. I’d also would love a genuine NES, as my CRT has in total, 1 HDMI, 2 Component Video inputs, One Composite/S-Video combination input, and 2 RF inputs. So I could legitimately connect a NES to the analog RF input like we did back in the 90’s.

8:51 finally someone that gets my taste in games

Once full linux is usable on the xbox, I want to see a Steam Box

Psa do not use conductive glue unless you want a broken xbox. Had a terrible experience when modding one years ago. But the Xbox is still a beast in emulation and I'm always happy to own one.

8:15 YOU CAN DO THE HOTSWAP trick on a new pc, you just need an ide to usb converter

You don't need to remove the clock capacitor on Xbox v1.6. But in the event that it's damaged, you have to replace it, not remove it.

That's a good thumbnail.

The original xbox is strange, Its 23 years old, but i still love both Examples of mine, Somebody modded the arse off mine back in the day, it says 2004 was the last proper use

0:34 I literally just got a ps3 just over a year ago, im 18, I grew up with an n64, nes, and the orange vtech V. Smile console 😭

when i had my OG Xbox (actual no joke), i thought this could be a brand new gaming console, then i had a lot of xbox games but its just a white blank disc with a red marker on it, when i hook up my xbox and load some random game like GTA: San Andreas before it shows up, i discover something odd about the whole thing, it does have an old and popular homebrew called avalaunch. this mod or a homebrew does works on games (likely a burned dvd rom games) and DVD playback i really miss the old days so badly

It would not surprise me if our IT guy get Windows 10 running on it. He got it running on Pentium PCs from that time at work.

Don't know of any good fully homebrew games but Freefall 3050AD is pretty cool. Nuon game with xbox port planned but cancelled fairly late in development. MVG got the source and finished it a few years ago

I get that discs are outdated but I will continue to fix my disc drive on my original Xbox until it is actually fried I have too many physical games now to want to get rid of them

Bringus is the best youtuber also can we get a bringus studio bgm playlist

It was because the OG Xbox that I really found out about emulators and dumping games

You don't need to pull the clock capacitor on the last revision. I believe it version 1.6. Modded my xbox years ago and recently modded it again with a sata drive and with the new online method called Insignia. To be fair though I can't go back to those graphics anymore, lol. Also the Rocky5 method is by far the best, why solder when there is no need?

Someone chucked an Xbox 360 at the IT place I worked at, it had a bad disk drive with some cod game in it. I got it working and everything, but just let it get thrown out without bothering to get the disk drive actually working. Should've kept it. Also don't use conductive glue, grow some balls and solder because you'll only burn yourself the 8th time you do it when you get cocky and it's way harder to bridge a bunch of gaps and make a mess with molten metal than silver ink, especially since a cheap iron and solder is literally 1/3 the price. Makes for a fun skill and hobby too!

Ngl, I want that disc on the thumbnail so bad lmao

I played heretic many years ago on the original xbox, I played the Quake 1, Quake 2 expansions and the remaster didn't exist at the time.. I also played rise of triad, duke nukem.. I always wanted to play Blood, but apparently they never ported it for xbox...

God, I was never an Xbox kid growing up since I've generally always been a PC gamer. But after playing Morrowind I actually fantasize about wrapping my fingers around a duke pad and experiencing it through the Xbox on a bigass CRT.

PS1 emulation is actually pretty good on Xbox. You just need to use the correct settings for each title. I have a video on my channel showing it in action.

woo the fan noise was so captivating..............

Xbox OG has changed for the best now with Cerbios and new advanced mod chips 😎👌

The new title suits the other videos of your channel better. ❤

The Saturn, Dreamcast and og Xbox are the only consoles that i want in my sarcophagus when im buried : D

3:49 hey I've had that drive!

You're likely not going to catch your house on fire with a soldering iron. It doesn't get THAT hot. UNLESS - you have one of those cheap Chinese solder/rework stations. You know, that same Chinese model with 100 different China names. I have personally witnessed one burst into smoke and flames.

AHA I get it. you played Pokémon Black and White music in the parts where your recording was in black and white

Bruh I remember my pops traded in my gameboy and GameCube to get a 360 , that thing red ringed out the box! I cried for days ! Rip 8 yr old me

I use my kindle fire 8 to play ps1 ,snes and sega games . no problems

Love the Half-Life references. W video!

For me the wii u is the best retro emulation console. It's so much easier to softmod as well. Only thing I hate about it is you cant use legit gc controllers for wii games that have gc controller support. Which makes the wii version of maramusa not that great on a wii u lol. Though I guess eventually there will be mods to get every wii game with gc controller support working on a wii u like what we have for brawl or mario kart.

8:46 isn't that the Truth. I can barely think of 5 games I'd like to have from the Classic Xbox. I have two xboxes. Modded them specifically for XBMC and retro games.

I bought that same xbox deal that year

3:34 had me crying LOL

XBMC4Gamers looks the most modern thing now. It’s so good.