/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10502319
Just put a modchip in it, you can buy one for less than $10 with firmware preinstalled on Aliexpress, the installation process is simple as well (you can thank M$ for that)

>>10502335
Pardon my retard question but I have to solder it right? (I have shakey hands and am prone to fucking things up).

>>10502340
just rip open whatever old piece of broken electronics you have and practice soldering for half an hour

make sure to do it in a ventilated room and have a fan blow the fumes away from you tho. there are excellent vids on youtube about it

>>10502319
There is a way to softmod an original Xbox but it's kind of a pain now because you have to buy an adapter which isn't hard to find but also a usb flashdrive from around that time which is a bitch to find these days. I had to use my PSP to do it.

>>10502364
you can also do the IDE hotswap softmod which just requires some screwdrivers and an old XP shitbox PC with IDE header

>>10502364
You can do the whole thing with a gameshark adapter (assuming it comes with its cable) and Splinter Cell. The flash drive is just one method seeing as it's just about moving a save file over.

>>10502364
It just needs to be formatted as FAT32

>>10502821
Not true. First anon is right, certain usbs will not work.

>>10502364
psp works?
Legit?

I soft modded mine using a diy usb adapter and splinter cell

>>10503570
yep, or drivedroid if you have an android phone (its how i did it). still gonna need to buy/make a controller port to usb adapter

consolemods <DOT> org/wiki/Xbox:DriveDroid

>>10504021
Oh sweet I didn't know about that. I haven't softmodded an xbox in about a decade so I'll try this out in the future.

>>10502340
My man I literally have hand tremors and I can still solder this shit. It's extremely easy if you have any practice, it's a hell of a lot easier than welding.
If you want some advice brace yourself against a desk, table, whatever to help stabilize yourself and practice on random junk from goodwill before you mess with the seXbox. These aren't mega tiny chips micrometers apart but old school fatties with plenty of room for amateurs.

>>10502454
the true way to hack your xbox

>>10502340
Pay someone else to do it if you're too much of a fucking pussy to do it yourself.

>>10502364
My man, I used my PSP too. It worked perfectly.

>>10504384
Soldering an og Xbox is pretty easy, but use a good soldering iron. Don't use some $15 radioshack POS.

is a soldering gun the same as a soldering iron

>>10504384
>My man I literally have hand tremors and I can still solder this shit.
Anon is a manlet who's literally shaking right now. Nothing can help him but the sweet embrace of tidepod. Also odds are someone will lose an eye if he starts waving around a hot pointy thing. Do you want to be responsible for encouraging that?
>>10505089
>Pay to win works everywhere
lol. no.
>>10505109
Guns are generally shaped like, well, a gun, and more powerful. Also, since they keep generating heat as long as you hold the trigger they're technically soldering assault weapons.

>>10505109
anon your melting electrical solder not welding down a bulkhead

>>10504021
>drivedroid
doesn't that need a rooted phone?

>>10505109
no. soldering guns are intended more for shit like pipes, not delicate electronics.

>>10505417
I replaced all the caps in my gaming monitor with a soldering gun and it works like new now

Is there a practical difference between a hardmod, a softmod, IDE hotswap mod in this day and age or should I just get Splinter Cell and an adapter? I was just going to burn DVDs until the laser shits itself.

>>10505704
>I was just going to burn DVDs until the laser shits itself.
I wouldn't recommend it because it will probably shit itself sooner rather than rather. That's 20-year old hardware with moving parts we're talking about. Just softmod using Splinter's Cell and IDE hotswap (none of those things are mutually exclusive). Make sure to replace the PATA HDD with a newer SATA HDD (or maybe even a SATA SSD, considering how cheap they've become) with PATA adapter and set the encryption key to all 1s or something else you can remember easily to restore it to a different HDD easily in case things go south. That way you can load ROMs from HDD and your Xbox doesn't become a brick when the DVD drive or HDD fail.

>>10505751
Thanks for the advice, man.

IDE Hotswap looks simple enough and I'll probably go that route but just to consider my options, if I used this Xbox controller female USB to Xbox controller plug adapter and plugged it into a controller port, formatted right and with the right kind of USB stick (or drivedroid), it would recognize it as a memory card wouldn't it? - or does it need to go in through a memory card USB slot adapter?