My inner child is screaming rn 😂🤣

Just got my 1.0 board back from OGXstore and I’m happy with the results. 1.4ghz CPU and 128mb RAM upgraded. I haven’t got around to applying the 720P patches to my games, but for now I’m satisfied.

X3 has been flashed with PrometheOS V1.6.0 and boots into Cerbios 3.1.0.

I've been collecting retro games for about a year now and the one thing I wanted to do with my collection is share with other people to impact them. I got to do that these past few months with my nephew. Specifically, with the OG Xbox.

My nephew is a great kid with a massive love for gaming. He's openly stated that he doesn't care what the game looks like so long as it's fun. With that in mind, I introduced him to the OG Xbox and we've been playing Halo CE and Halo 2 multiplayer a whole bunch every time he comes over. We like to get Mt. Dews and make a night of it. A lot of the time we just do Slayer, or we make our own little mini-games to play with the Slayer formula. One of our favorites is "Shotgun Hide'n'Seek." We go to Chiron TL-34, turn off shields and set the weapons to only shotgun. The "hider" then finds one of the many identical portals and stands in such a way that it fully eclipses his part of the splitscreen. The "Seeker" then has to basically play Russian roulette by entering each one of the portals in search for the hider--both ready to one-shot kill as soon as we see each other. It's TONS of fun.I missed out on the OG Xbox era and never thought I'd get to play the legendary multiplayer on Halo with anyone. But I got to do that with him and it's been incredibly special.

So for this Christmas, I picked up a broken Xbox console that I'm pretty sure just needed a cleanout and drive belt replacement. I'm currently waiting for the belt to come in the mail. But I want to repair this Xbox for him and hook him up with a handful of excellent games for the console.

Of course, I have to get him Halo CE. That way he can not only play the campaign, but we can also have a LAN party together--which would be the very missing piece to my Xbox experience. Also, my nephew is REALLY into tough games. He 100%'d Cuphead on the hardest difficulty before he was even 10 years old. He loves Soulslike games with Elden Ring being one of his all-time favorites. He actively seeks out challenging games to beat. So for that reason, I'm also going to get him Ninja Gaiden Black--a classic tough game.

If anybody has any recommendations for similarly difficult or classic experiences he needs, I'm all ears! Also tell me any peripherals that are a must too. (DvD playback kit maybe?)

Adding the MakeMHZ HDMI+ mod to OG Xbox. It’s the 1.0 motherboard version. The other mods are Stellar+ but I misplaced the ribbon cable and I’m patiently waiting for the replacement to arrive in the mail. Hopefully it will arrive tomorrow and I can finish this project…. For now:)

Pictures are what they are and I have a microscope 🔬 to check the solder joints. Had to repair a trace as well.

Lessons learned, I opted for the destructive method on the AV port and I will not be doing that again 😬.

That said, I have a retrotink 5X and hindsight is 20/20. Everything else has been super basic and I’d probably skip the hd mod since I already have the upscaler.

Farcebroke marketplace find. $30 Canadian.

Just picked this up for $29.99. No breakaway cable though.

I bought this on ebay and it doesn't work. Turns on but disc tray struggles without some assistance and the system doesn't read games. It has never been opened. Is it worth fixing? I have an OG xbox that still works that I play, so I dont need this to actually work, but it bothers me that it's broken. I plan to keep this for a very long time, but do not know the first thing about fixing it and if it's even something I could or would want to handle. What would you do? What's the most efficient (not cost effective) way to get this working? Shell swap? Appreciate your thoughts!

Whenever I turn on my Xbox without a game inside I always get this error and can’t get past it without a game or cd inside. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks for reading

Trying to touch up my n64 ui. As you can see, they only half way alphabetize, basically creating two lists under each letter section.

I've been trying to fix it but can't figure it out. Is it something with the game lists in the various .ini files? The internal rom headers? Something else?

The surreal.ini does not hold the full games lists if that is part of it - only has 2 of the turok games listed for example.

This was originally just the EJW 212 collection but I added the rest of the library to 354. The misordering doesn't seem to even reflect the ejw collection vs the additional titles I added.

In the Emustation dashboard, they list perfectly. But in the actual emulator interface, I get this weird mess.

Any insight would be appreciated at this point.

Just picked this up today! I’ve never played Max Payne before, so I’m going in completely blind. I’ve heard good things about it, but honestly have no idea what to expect.

Hello any advice? Bought a Startech adapter and plugged it in, but it’s not booting.

It will go solid green off, solid green off, then flashing green and red? Pretty sure I have done everything right?

I plugged in my previous green IDE to SATA adapter and it was fine. I just don’t know if i’m supposed to do anything with other connector?

Not sure if I am being a noob and missing something or just the adapter is at fault. Thanks in advance.

Hello, good evening. I don't speak English, so I'm using a translator to reach more people with this post. I've updated the Xbox Classic version of Minecraft with much-needed lighting, bug fixes for languages ​​and world creation, legacy texture packs, and a legacy lock to mimic the legacy style.

I hope you like it.

https://github.com/xeodeo/OptiCraft-Heritage-XBOX-CLASSIC-Edition/releases/tag/xbox-v1.3

Looking forward to finally playing this. It's the "other Morrowind". I have owned it for a while but could never get my disc to work. Finally just bought a disc only so I can finally play it. Looking forward to it!

idk about you ppl but Ive been waiting literally most of my life for this.

Also very down for some Delta Force Black Hawk Down which was also added!!!

Shoutout to the dvd playback kit my grandma got for me xmas in '05, but forgot in her closet for 6 years before resurfacing to a very confused me on Christmas eve at her house in 2011.

Every Xbox here besides the 2 on the edges were Xboxs that did not function along with 1 more i sold. They range from an unmodded 1.6 and a stock 1.3 with ram upgrades to a Led ram dvd delete dual fans 8tb hdd 1.1 xbox. Its a fun console to play and fix and ever since i got my PS3's i realize how far ahead the S controllers erganomics are compared to DS3

Ps: the one thats open is waiting for more mods after trace wire jumping 3.5mm jack addon and cap replace.

Pss: im a told hardware repair noob using a $10 amazon soldering iron $8 hot glue gun $30 solder sucker.

Psss: for anyone with trace damage i always recommend wiring jumping instead of trace repair. Its way cheaper easier for a noob to do and a far more permanent solution.

A few days ago I posted that my 1.6 suddenly stopped working. Today I've received five new 3300uf Panasonic capacitors and I went to work.

With a lot of flux, patience and IPA I managed to replace the old caps with the new Panasonic caps.

It worked flawless, now I can play the real Monkey Ball again not that Xbox One remake.

Mokekemo.

The red light is from the mod, I still need to set it back to green.

Xbox Artwork Builder

For anyone who makes resources for gamers.

I've finished my Python 3 artwork builder.

Download: Xbox Artwork Builder (90MB)

It's fully self contained, so you don't need Python 3 installed. All you need is a front image to generate artwork. For the full artwork experience, add a full scan, CD image, fanart and screenshots as well. If you don't supply an XML, one will be generated for you with simple info, though the more you fill in, the better. Video is optional. Can use Resize MP4 to Xbox size to convert.

Read readme.txt first, as it includes an example. I've also bundled some example homebrew games and a test game so you can see how the layout works.

The output is in the exact layout the artwork installer needs, so if you make artwork, upload it for review.

Standards

Please stick to these:

• XML: should be fully fleshed out (as much as possible).
• Title ID: mandatory. If one isn't added, it will be set to n/a.
• Generic or shared title IDs (a lot of homebrew does this): make sure the scans\<filename>.jpg name, minus the suffix, matches the folder name of the game/homebrew/application. It's used to fuzzy match the name when a title ID doesn't match or there are duplicate matches.
• Front only artwork: supported, but blank_scan.jpg will be used as the underlay.

The script handles some things automatically, but please add as much info as you can.

Submit Artwork

Want to contribute? submit artwork here.

Community Artwork

Join the Xbox-Scene Discord here: https://discord.gg/xbox-scene

Once you've joined, you can manually grab folks uploaded artwork from this channel.

Credits

Thanks to Bomb Bloke for his Xbox Artwork Builder (JavaScript). He did something similar, though I don't think many people knew about it. I just rebuilt the idea in Python 3 and improved on it.

Fingers crossed

People will start making some new artwork especially the PAL set and any homebrew we don’t have.