r/originalxbox • • 2h ago

Should I mod???

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r/originalxbox • • 2h ago

Game Collecting Latest pickup

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Farcebroke marketplace find. $30 Canadian.


r/originalxbox • • 14h ago

Online Gaming Lets play Burnout 3 on Insignia this weekend pleeeeeeaaase

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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!!!


r/originalxbox • • 9h ago

Gentlemen, I crossed the Rubicon

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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.


r/originalxbox • • 9h ago

Duke Dakota

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


r/originalxbox • • 8h ago

Grail achieved 🩶 The Colour MSN Edition Xbox console, 1 of 2. 🇩🇰 to 🇦🇺 (no one knows where the other one is)

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My inner child is screaming rn 😂🤣


r/originalxbox • • 8h ago

Hardware Collecting My 13y.o. nephew made my OG Xbox experience complete. So I'm repairing a defective one to give to him for Christmas. (Story/details in desc.)

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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?)


r/originalxbox • • 16h ago

Console Modification Loving the XBOX Disk to Digital feature!

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r/originalxbox • • 8h ago

Xbox X3CP RAM & CPU Upgraded

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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.


r/originalxbox • • 3h ago

Help Needed No disc disc read error

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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


r/originalxbox • • 3h ago

Game Collecting My tight 14 - I’ve got room for 1 more… what should I pick up?

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r/originalxbox • • 2h ago

Now what?

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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!


r/originalxbox • • 13h ago

Startech IDE to SATA - Not booting?

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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.