/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8978417
>Super cheap, Easily modded
In what FUCKING way? (Pic not yet related, don't have a hernia.)

I picked one up cheap during my garagesaling days around ~2015-2016 and it's been an enormous pain in my cock ever since. See, disc drive wouldn't spin up, and even after hours and hours of 'how to softmod' searches on a dozen occasions over the years, every god damn result is
>Use the disc drive to start exploit game
>Use the disc drive to boot burned CFW loader
>Buy our modchip and bust out the soldering iron, lol!
>Also something about having to fucking hotswap the hard drive in the process, which is probably on its last legs, so go out and buy SATA adapters for IDE cabling and shell out for a 500gb+ hdd too :^)

No fucking way to mod it without the drive - and, oh, what do you know, there were multiple different models of them and most were infamous for dying over a decade ago. How about you buy another one instead? Oooh, but sorry - no combo of 'original xbox drive', 'OG 2001 xbox samsung dvd drive', 'not fucking 360 or xbox one drives you absolute fucking CRETINS' will actually find you ebay listings - and even if you DO find one, it'll cost you as much as a fucking system itself.

Which brings us back to that pic: I spent such an UNGODLY amount of time trying to work my way into the thing (including four separate instances of trying pot tweaks, before buying a potentiometer, doing it again with actual readings, and STILL failing to get a working drive) that I finally just said fuck it a few months back and bought myself out of the pain.

I'm actually reverse engineering/copying the thing's filesystem RN in prep for once again diving into my original system, now with a confirmed working drive to swap over, just to finally, god willing, get it modded too and be free of this albatross. Still, I've modded PSP, Wii, Vita, PS2, 3DS; literally nothing has been even 10% of the pain of OG xbox, and I fully expect it to be yet another nightmare in waiting.