It's amazing how you could grab the attention of people who doesn't even own an Xbox 360 like myself! Your videos are so informative that I can't help but listen all the way through it. Amazing Video as always and it made me a bit more knowledgeable to boot!
Indeed! Here in Brazil until this day there's a huge scene in modding the xbox 360 and to be honest, even with a few consoles here in my personal collection my JTAG 360 Slim still is my favourite console to emulate a lot of old consoles! Awesome Video !! Greetings from Brazil MrMario2011 and MVG!
Modern Vintage Gamer Yes. Your videos are exhaustive. I immediately subbed after watching the original Xbox vid. Question. I have been looking into an “Xk3y,” do you think you might cover that in regards to the 360?
i remember hearing the term "jtag" all the time and never actually knew what it was. i really wanna try downgrading a 360 to the original dashboard, thatd be cool
This is probably the most well made video on the modded XBOX 360, considering how much I enjoy my modded OG Xbox, it might be time for me to finally have a go modding the 360. Brilliant Video man.
This is so strange. I started watching videos about the original xbox today to see if I could add some neat emulators and software to my own. Then I saw my 360 in the corner of my room and wondered what kind of mods and homebrew stuff exists for it. I already know how much stuff there is for the original xbox, so I wanted to see what was possible with the 360. I search for it on TH-cam, but couldn't find any modern videos about it. Everything was either years old or guides about how to do very specific things. So I quickly give up on that and continue watching videos about the original xbox instead. Then out of nowhere, this pops up and it's EXACTLY what I was looking for and uploaded less than an hour ago. How cool is that? Haven't finished the whole video yet but so far this is just wonderful. Really appreciated, thanks!
not all of them could be modded though. yes, the majority can be; you are only unlucky if yours is made after 2014/july. anyway these mods existed since he end of 2011... so nothing new here ;) the ps3 is better in some ways as there is a new mod for it that works on all machines, called ps3exploit. Emulators, retro gaming, everything works, and (homebrew) stuff is still being developed for it, which could not be said of the 360.
Hey man, I just wanted to say thanks for these videos. I myself have been doing Xbox modding for many years, and did my first xenon jtag when I was 15, later owning a few dual nand consoles. I still have my original xenon jtag. When I was that age I was a little obsessive about the Xbox boot process. Reading as many forum posts and read almost every page from the free60 wiki. I actually had my console reballed with lead solder (lead free solder is very brittle, prone to cracking under heat stress) I used to mod Xbox 360s for some spare change when I was younger. I'd tell the people which parts to order, they would come to my place and I'd install it for them. I'm so happy to see someone like you with high quality production, and most importantly a passion for the mod scene and intellect.
My favorite console of all time is the 360,to this day it still has amazing graphics and a wonderful controller that fits like a glove in your hand.A great library of games and with the modern engines being designed in games with awesome 3rd party support this console would still be going strong even today.
The original XBox is a superbly versatile and bizarrely undervalued machine. Not by me I hasten to add! It's good to know that the 360 is adaptable too!
Since every console can emulate each others games and all you need is a stick of gum to mod them for free games, I don’t see the need to own an Xbox 360 physically if you own an Xbox One and an Xbox OG. I don’t see the point in owning a PS2/PS1/PSP if you own a PS3/Vita/PS4. Lol
Batt Mann I have a lot of good memories with that console....I used to play Counter Strike for hours and GTA vice city and I miss the option that you could play your own music in GTA while driving a car, something that gta5 on Xbox1 can’t even do today which is crazy.
@@hyperpengu8722 If Wikipedia says anything except what people mean when they say "boi" then Wikipedia is wrong. Slang is defined entirely by how it is used by people, you can't tell someone that they're using it wrong because however they're using it is necessarily the right way.
Why I own one 1) Forgot to sell it 2) liked it again 3) adds suspense “will it die today?” Edit: beat my old record of 10 likes by 53. Also, it has a Jasper motherboard but it still gets occasional red lights.
Unlucky! I’ve never seen a RROD Jasper 360 in my life, especially after a repaste. I’ve had two 360 Jaspers, both from 2009 and still going strong today! Imo, the best 360!
Well 1) forgot to sell it. Where do I sell my Slim?? It's modded. I use it for homebrew apps, not for pirated games (I have a decent game library I don't need piracy), but it is still modded anyway... Ebay is off limits I guess. How do I do
@David Chatterton CPU/GPU temp are not the only causes for RROD. blown caps, shorted MOSFETs, cold solder joints, bad HDD, bad disk drive, bad update, all of these and much more may trigger RROD
@@nah7793 From my experience the open tray issues is because of the belt in the drive. I had the same issue on my Jasper box, but replaced the belt, and no more problems. Ebay for $1 USD each belt.
There are actually two main types of Xbox 360 mods. A) Custom DVD drive firmware to play burned games. B) JTAG/RGH modchip to execute homebrew software.
the memories of flashing Hitachi drives and burning unpatch games and not getting banned but then mw2 the whole ban wave hit everyone was trading in their banned consoles at gamestop to get the elite
CAhacks orXBOX bro i did them all, samsung, benq, then the lite ons where a bitch with the probe, then the slims with cutting and using the pulse tool by lizard
treefitty0350 cause there was only one major ban wave after thT c4eva figured out how to get dvd drives to read the extra security check to burn the games correctly
Gather 'round children. Gather, and listen to my tale of the journey to own a modded Xbox 360 in 2018. So I thought this would be a fun thing to have. I decided to try a DIY job of it, and I learned some VERY important lessons about them. 1. No one seems to care about the Xbox 360 in 2018. The modding community is tiny, and compared to the PS3 and OG Xbox community, pretty uninformed about how to do it. Team Xecuter seems to have abandoned it, so there's not really anyone trying to make it better. 2. Modding tools were designed way back in the Windows 7 era. Drivers and tools struggle to work in Windows 10. 3. Phat consoles are all destined to die. ALL OF THEM. I bought a Jasper, the supposedly most durable, and it died in 3 days. Slims are overpriced as all hell if you get them pre-modded, and if you even THINK about modding one yourself, refer to 1 and 2. The few good guides out there are riddled with outdated instructions and compatibility issues. I bought a Zephyr. After failing to find any information on a reliable way to flash it, I decided to keep it stock and buy a Jasper in a MW2 special edition Super Elite. It arrived with busted plastic, no power supply, and after following all modding instructions to the letter, and no solder bridges or bad connections, it RROD'd and died anyway. I still have plastic coming in the mail for a dead motherboard, a Zephyr I consider past-date milk, and still no modded console. After the living hell I've went through trying to get my hands on a modded Xbox 360 you couldn't GIVE me one of these damn things. By all intents and purposes they seem to be haunted by a gypsy curse, and if I were to ever touch one everyone I love would probably spontaneously die.
If you find one for sale, definitely buy one. I would completely advise against trying to DIY at the moment unless the modding community grows active again. I'm mostly just recounting my own tale of how my life sucks though :(
Mupen-360 is a port of Wii64 (mupen64 0.5 port to GameCube/Wii). It's using the dynarec we wrote for the GameCube/Wii and there were some bugs at the time gligli ported it to the Xbox 360 (which is why Conkers Bad Fur Day and Turok 2 are broken). Might be worth me taking a stab at updating it if I can easily set up libxenon as there have been a number of improvements since.
Claudiu Orian mine survived the red ring like 3 times lol, I always just unplugged it and left it alone and plugged it back in a few hours later and it worked fine
down in mexico we have had modded xboxs since they first released and have "arcade" joints where all my friends would go and system link and get full lobbies ahhh good times
Hell yea my tia owns her own shop in my rancho and she got her hands on some Xbox 360’s for the arcade area in her store i remember playing nothing but fifa 07 with my cousins when we had nothing to do ah good times
Bit of a late reply here but this is technically MVGs second go at it. His original alias was Lantus and he did a massive amount of work around emulators and homebrew on the Xbox and PSP
Tiger White I have verified check mark beside my name that makes up for it. Don’t act like a big shot then use a furry profile picture, you’re begging to get harassed because of that ugly thing
If it's so easy then why don't you go and do it then? Don't use a cancerous profile picture from a hated community and then act surprised when you get called out over it
I had my original 360 flashed back in the day. My buddy did it for me no charge. It allowed my 360 to run games that he ripped off the internet. Charged me $10 for games. Unfortunately, the games would crash occasionally. He warned me tho. "Do not get on Live"
My Xenon and Jasper already got the RROD years ago. I opened them, and removed the heat sinks and removed the stock thermal paste using the arctic 5 acetone remover then reapplied new arctic 5 thermal paste. Air cleaned the inside of the system... Both are still working ever since.
I just got my elite falcon modded (I know) but since then the amount of things you can do is amazing. I loved my original modded Xbox but the 360 is a beast.
It's nice to see Someone, that knows exactly what the hell hes talking about, Stays on the subject, doesn't get political, and doesn't spout fanboy crap!
Agreed! It's horrible some TH-camrs go out of their way to condemn emulation or fanboy the big N to death. At least here it's honest, to the point info.
I'd like to get one and mod it. The real reason I would mod it would be to have all of my games on a hard drive instead of wearing down the disc drive. Every disc-based system will eventually fail because of those dang moving parts.
@@masterofdragons82 can i connect my xbox 360 jtag to internet only to update games like gta 5? i have no intention of going xbox live and im worried if i connect mine it will break or something
@@masterofdragons82 xbox 360 jtag mean also cheap games so i heard once that if i connected to internet i might not be able to play my cds anymore but idk how much this is true
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Pcsx-R 360 Original Playstation emulator for Xbox 360. The compatibility is amazing and it uses pixel shaders, scanlines, a dynamic recompiler, savestates, you name it. It's probably the best emulator available on the system right after FBA Next. It plays full speed, and pretty much runs any game you throw at it perfectly. As a matter of fact, it's so good that the emulator that this is ported from, Pcsx Reloaded, is the emulator used in the playstation classic console!!
This video is amazing so much so today I managed to successfully RGH my slim. and yes in 2021 you still need a modded xbox 360. Keep up the great content.
Big Supes actually its my fav modern console of all times, the emulation scene on it is enormous! i run arcades, psx, ps2, ps3 nes,snes, Amega , sega genesis and neo geo on it ! how can i call it yukky 😄
Just a heads up for anyone that sees this in time... GameStop has 4GB Xbox 360 S consoles for free after mail in rebate (pay $69.99 up front, get $69.99 visa card back in the mail).
It's so cool to be seeing many of the games I played when they were released. I owned NES, SNES, PS, N64, and PS4 with free mcboot however I threw a party and things got kinda hairy......someone threw a beer bottle through my fish tank which flooded down into my ps4..... > Then i got busy with life and put gaming to the side. Man I remember when Super Mario Bros 3 was released and it was so popular that it couldn't be found anywhere. My Pops chased it down and gave it to me under the condition that I did all my homework. Later I ended up getting a XB360 which I couldn't resist taking apart. I used Jungle Flash on it's Ben-q drive. That probably tells you I got into the modding scene late for the 360. But It bricked. Oh well.
Nasty Hydro Look fucko, Team-Xecuter X360USB Pro v2(~$60.00), Molex Power Brick (~$15.00), VIA 6421 SATA PCI Card (~$16.00). Xbox 360 console goes for about $50. You didn't do any research. "fuk outta here" indeed. Source: www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/█▬►►nooberts-flashing-guide-phat-slim-burner-max-payload-burn-games◄◄▬█.1150969/
The Xbox 360 was released in 2005, they were trying to compete more with Sony. They rushed out units and didn’t focus on production quality which is why the red ring of death issue exists in the first place. Although, in some regions it did release in 2006.
*I had my PS1, Xbox & 360 ALL modded...now it feels like ... “Days Gone Bye” and its kinda sad...when the mod scene of was taking off my dad was alive, he always made sure that I downloaded the newest Medal of Honour for him :/ miss those days miss you dad*
Digital preservation is a real thing, having the chance to directly backup your games and DLC, is the reason why I am looking to mod a xbox360. Also, having the possibility to had a up to 2TB hdd is quite fantastic
If you want to buy a 360 and use it as an emulation device, why not instead buy a cheap, older pc and use that as an emulation device? A lot less complicated.
littlelittle boiboi It's a thing that you don't really want to get used and cost of it depends on where you live. In my country it's 30 dollars with wireless adapter for PC. Considering that you can get modded X360 for a bit over 100 euros with controller, HDD, PSU buying PC for such a low price is waste of money and even 20 dollars at such a low budget is a big price increase.
I don't even play video games anymore . Closest interest I have anymore is Smartphones. But the MVG produces I find it quite fascinating and very entertaining. 👌👍& subbed
I've had three 360's with the RROD and kept getting new ones, but after the third I ended up not bothering anymore. I just really want to play my old 360 games again. Already have the original Xbox hooked up to an HDMI converter and plugged into my PC monitor. When I finally got that, I played Xbox games only for two weeks straight. Now I need to buy a 360...
Honestly, in my case, I'm waiting for Xenia to be stable enough to be able to run Forza Motorsport 2 at 60 FPS without sound issues or freezing mid-game, and its said that online servers are possible, like an alternative to Xbox Live.
I just got my PS3 & XBox 360 jailbroken after watching your vids m8. I watch them and get hell g'd up. I modded my Wii earlier this year and loved it. Really enjoying the mod scene or hack scene or whateva. Thanks so much for your sweet vids, keep it urrrp!!!!
@@rob831 Sorry I meant jtag or whatever. Some people say mod n jailbreak as the same thing I get mixed up what the difference is. I dont have wifi at home atm so I havn't been able to take advantage of it but in other peoples vids it looks so good. Pretty much do anything on it. Emulation n copy games.
It’s the easiest to get cfw or hen on ur ps3 u just gotta have a ps3 that’s compatible and it’s that simple it only takes me 10 mins to jailbreak a ps3 and get everything setup
Its all good and fun till you realize you need to solder the console to perform an RGH, and you're too poor to afford risking the console bricking. LT 3.0 forever then :(
Sharp X68000 emulation on Xbox backwards compatibly emulator is a bit of emulator inception :) Curious after Xbox 360 homebrew. I got quite a few Slim systems, I should perhaps indeed delve into using one for emulation purposes.
I should have kept my Xbox 360! Well, I could always buy a used one from Gamestop. They have used Elite systems for $40. I’d like to have access to all those arcade games!
Can you do an updated video on the 360 RGH scene? I understand its somewhat "niche" but the JTAG kit died years ago. And its really hard to find it for sale. I am about to flash my falcon 360, I feel like your channel is the most informative. I am fine to solder, But I feel like a video like this would be perfect for your channel.
I remember my first 360, 1st gen - Xenon board (production date 2005). I got it in 2008. It apparently broke in 07 and got fixed. I had the DVD drive flashed in 2012 because all of my original discs got so scratched that it had problems reading them. It worked until december 2014 when after sitting on the home screen for a while it started throwing artifacts and after a restart I got the red ring of death. Code 0102. I decided that was it for that console and got myself a new Xbox 360 E.
It's not his emulator. Anybody can get it for free, so whoever is buying it is dumb. Nobody should be selling emulators, or modding systems for money anyhow. That's why there are so many videos of how to do it for free. Spread the word, don't buy ROMs, ISO's, CSO's, Emulators, or modded consoles they are fee if you just look for a few minutes you'll find what your looking for, and how to do it yourself.
that's because it's a jasper. It will run for another 10+ years. If anything fails, it will be the disc drive lens, disc drive belt or disc drive dust build up
Wiis are great little machines, get an older model and you can run wii and gc games off an external hard drive, and a 32gb sd card will hold most of the nes snes genesis gba gb/c etc. library and the pro controller can be bought cheaply, i got a pair of them for $10
Yup, do all this shit to run games that are abysmal by today's standards, I don't get it at all. Gaming nostalgia should stay as that imo. I remember being blown away by PacMan on my Atari 2600 a few *cough* years ago. I wouldn't play it today if you paid me.
Oh my god, I haven't heard "JTag" since yeah around 2009/10 in middle/high school. We had a kid in our grade that knew how to do the mod and we literally called him "J Tag" for a nickname, I don't even think I knew what it meant back then lol. Didn't expect that kind of memory clicking on this. Great video as always.
Yeah you can use a stealth server but you'll get a lot of hate as I was a modder and I quit recently but I would recommend using NiNJA or xbOnline. NiNJA is expensive for it's stealth and xbOnline is just as good for like half the price. But you will have to worry about a KV (Keyvault) Seller whenever you get console banned. They're are a lot of scammers out there and the one I normally wen't to to buy KVs from was @CheapKVs on Instagram. He sells them cheap unlike a lot of other sellers sell them for like $6 for 1 but then again there are only so many KV's as you can't make or generate them. But no you really don't need a console in 2018 waste of money you will be putting so much money into your stealth and KV's for what? A good 2 month fun of modding? People say "You'll be able to make money off of modding" not anymore as no one buys because too many people scams and they're a lot of free modders.
It's amazing how you could grab the attention of people who doesn't even own an Xbox 360 like myself!
Your videos are so informative that I can't help but listen all the way through it.
Amazing Video as always and it made me a bit more knowledgeable to boot!
Note: Some corrections. The Xbox 360 was released in 2005 , not 2006
lol i need to lay off the coffee this morning. corrected
Great Work!! Amazing content #Cheers #ViDEOGAME #HiSTORY
A Spawn What it came out in the US in 2005, but Australia had to wait until March 2006
late 2005 but still good job
The latest DVD drive flash is safe, but JTAG or RGH consoles without a good stealth server will almost definitely be banned.
Definitely the most detailed video I've seen on emulators for the Xbox 360 out there, another awesome watch!
thanks brotha !
What would y'all pic? Jail broke PS3 or modded 360?? That would be a cool comparison vid I think.. I'm interested in that video..
Indeed! Here in Brazil until this day there's a huge scene in modding the xbox 360 and to be honest, even with a few consoles here in my personal collection my JTAG 360 Slim still is my favourite console to emulate a lot of old consoles! Awesome Video !! Greetings from Brazil MrMario2011 and MVG!
john lacy Jailbroke PS3, it can do more as far as emulation. The 360 has shotty N64 emulation over the PS3, but that’s it.
Modern Vintage Gamer Yes. Your videos are exhaustive. I immediately subbed after watching the original Xbox vid. Question. I have been looking into an “Xk3y,” do you think you might cover that in regards to the 360?
i remember hearing the term "jtag" all the time and never actually knew what it was.
i really wanna try downgrading a 360 to the original dashboard, thatd be cool
antsolja its pretty cool tbf
You can't, the console blows E-Fuses and locks it from going back to a unsafe version
@@theforerunnerreclaimer jtaging disables the e fuses
This is probably the most well made video on the modded XBOX 360, considering how much I enjoy my modded OG Xbox, it might be time for me to finally have a go modding the 360. Brilliant Video man.
It truly is man. This is my go-to video for this purpose.
People say having a modded 360 is pointless these days but I disagree completely.
ay still use my xbox 360 for minecraft
I wish my 360 was moddable, but it's an Xbox 360 E with the latest firmware, and I don't think that's moddable. :(
Razor MAN just go online and buy a modded one. They aren't that expensive, go to mercari app and search rgh tons of them for sale right now
This is so strange. I started watching videos about the original xbox today to see if I could add some neat emulators and software to my own. Then I saw my 360 in the corner of my room and wondered what kind of mods and homebrew stuff exists for it. I already know how much stuff there is for the original xbox, so I wanted to see what was possible with the 360. I search for it on TH-cam, but couldn't find any modern videos about it. Everything was either years old or guides about how to do very specific things. So I quickly give up on that and continue watching videos about the original xbox instead. Then out of nowhere, this pops up and it's EXACTLY what I was looking for and uploaded less than an hour ago. How cool is that?
Haven't finished the whole video yet but so far this is just wonderful. Really appreciated, thanks!
not all of them could be modded though. yes, the majority can be; you are only unlucky if yours is made after 2014/july. anyway these mods existed since he end of 2011... so nothing new here ;) the ps3 is better in some ways as there is a new mod for it that works on all machines, called ps3exploit. Emulators, retro gaming, everything works, and (homebrew) stuff is still being developed for it, which could not be said of the 360.
Check top comment, seems it's still being developed for.
You made this comment 5 years ago.
My original 360 never red ringed ever
you got a unicorn. i probably went through 6 phats
Modern Vintage Gamer X clamp change would save an old Xbox, the heat warped the motherboard, clamping it with bolts solved it.
ive xclamped a ton of 360's. they will all fail eventually
Still got my 360 in regular use from many ears ago. Never had a problem with it.
They all fail. Your's just hasn't failed yet.
Hey man, I just wanted to say thanks for these videos. I myself have been doing Xbox modding for many years, and did my first xenon jtag when I was 15, later owning a few dual nand consoles.
I still have my original xenon jtag. When I was that age I was a little obsessive about the Xbox boot process. Reading as many forum posts and read almost every page from the free60 wiki. I actually had my console reballed with lead solder (lead free solder is very brittle, prone to cracking under heat stress)
I used to mod Xbox 360s for some spare change when I was younger. I'd tell the people which parts to order, they would come to my place and I'd install it for them.
I'm so happy to see someone like you with high quality production, and most importantly a passion for the mod scene and intellect.
I would like to mod my Xbox 360 to play GameCube... Is it possible?
My favorite console of all time is the 360,to this day it still has amazing graphics and a wonderful controller that fits like a glove in your hand.A great library of games and with the modern engines being designed in games with awesome 3rd party support this console would still be going strong even today.
The original XBox is a superbly versatile and bizarrely undervalued machine. Not by me I hasten to add! It's good to know that the 360 is adaptable too!
Since every console can emulate each others games and all you need is a stick of gum to mod them for free games, I don’t see the need to own an Xbox 360 physically if you own an Xbox One and an Xbox OG. I don’t see the point in owning a PS2/PS1/PSP if you own a PS3/Vita/PS4. Lol
Batt Mann
I have a lot of good memories with that console....I used to play Counter Strike for hours and GTA vice city and I miss the option that you could play your own music in GTA while driving a car, something that gta5 on Xbox1 can’t even do today which is crazy.
Batt Mann sub 4 sub
Who would win: A specialized security system with Programatticaly blown fuses built for nothing to ever get passed it
Or: One Hacky boi
One Hacky boi. :)
One hacky boi
you are all wrong also, look up the word "boi" on wikipedia, y'all might think its a slang way of saying "boy" but its alot different than you think
@@hyperpengu8722 thats the funny thing about slang... Its slang. Its always changing.
@@hyperpengu8722 If Wikipedia says anything except what people mean when they say "boi" then Wikipedia is wrong. Slang is defined entirely by how it is used by people, you can't tell someone that they're using it wrong because however they're using it is necessarily the right way.
Why I own one
1) Forgot to sell it
2) liked it again
3) adds suspense “will it die today?”
Edit: beat my old record of 10 likes by 53. Also, it has a Jasper motherboard but it still gets occasional red lights.
Unlucky!
I’ve never seen a RROD Jasper 360 in my life, especially after a repaste.
I’ve had two 360 Jaspers, both from 2009 and still going strong today!
Imo, the best 360!
@David Chatterton damm lucky
Well 1) forgot to sell it. Where do I sell my Slim?? It's modded. I use it for homebrew apps, not for pirated games (I have a decent game library I don't need piracy), but it is still modded anyway... Ebay is off limits I guess. How do I do
@David Chatterton CPU/GPU temp are not the only causes for RROD. blown caps, shorted MOSFETs, cold solder joints, bad HDD, bad disk drive, bad update, all of these and much more may trigger RROD
@@nah7793 From my experience the open tray issues is because of the belt in the drive. I had the same issue on my Jasper box, but replaced the belt, and no more problems. Ebay for $1 USD each belt.
There are actually two main types of Xbox 360 mods.
A) Custom DVD drive firmware to play burned games.
B) JTAG/RGH modchip to execute homebrew software.
the memories of flashing Hitachi drives and burning unpatch games and not getting banned but then mw2 the whole ban wave hit everyone was trading in their banned consoles at gamestop to get the elite
Wow bro you just bought back 2010 for me lol
CAhacks orXBOX bro i did them all, samsung, benq, then the lite ons where a bitch with the probe, then the slims with cutting and using the pulse tool by lizard
CAhacks orXBOX even spoofing the drives, best drive was always benq and best discs where verbatims then i started using the xkey
I never got caught with a flashed dvd drive and burned games haha
treefitty0350 cause there was only one major ban wave after thT c4eva figured out how to get dvd drives to read the extra security check to burn the games correctly
14:44 I love that you included a glimpse of a music tracker software at the very end. Nice!
Emulating an emulator... Now we're getting really meta 😂
Emuception
Jesso Besso lmfao, that was my first thought!
We live in an age where we can buy dlcs for dlcs so it shouldn't be that surprising
GBA’s PocketNES on Windows.
emulating a Emulator which emulates another emulator which is playing a eboot file of backwards compatible game... a day in every Vita owners life
Gather 'round children. Gather, and listen to my tale of the journey to own a modded Xbox 360 in 2018.
So I thought this would be a fun thing to have. I decided to try a DIY job of it, and I learned some VERY important lessons about them.
1. No one seems to care about the Xbox 360 in 2018. The modding community is tiny, and compared to the PS3 and OG Xbox community, pretty uninformed about how to do it. Team Xecuter seems to have abandoned it, so there's not really anyone trying to make it better.
2. Modding tools were designed way back in the Windows 7 era. Drivers and tools struggle to work in Windows 10.
3. Phat consoles are all destined to die. ALL OF THEM. I bought a Jasper, the supposedly most durable, and it died in 3 days. Slims are overpriced as all hell if you get them pre-modded, and if you even THINK about modding one yourself, refer to 1 and 2. The few good guides out there are riddled with outdated instructions and compatibility issues.
I bought a Zephyr. After failing to find any information on a reliable way to flash it, I decided to keep it stock and buy a Jasper in a MW2 special edition Super Elite. It arrived with busted plastic, no power supply, and after following all modding instructions to the letter, and no solder bridges or bad connections, it RROD'd and died anyway. I still have plastic coming in the mail for a dead motherboard, a Zephyr I consider past-date milk, and still no modded console. After the living hell I've went through trying to get my hands on a modded Xbox 360 you couldn't GIVE me one of these damn things. By all intents and purposes they seem to be haunted by a gypsy curse, and if I were to ever touch one everyone I love would probably spontaneously die.
Lmmfao...
So should I get one mate?
If you find one for sale, definitely buy one. I would completely advise against trying to DIY at the moment unless the modding community grows active again. I'm mostly just recounting my own tale of how my life sucks though :(
Justin Oakes I just want to try it out, I used to be so fascinated for some reason.(I was kidding initially btw ahah)
LMAO@@l.1588
Mupen-360 is a port of Wii64 (mupen64 0.5 port to GameCube/Wii). It's using the dynarec we wrote for the GameCube/Wii and there were some bugs at the time gligli ported it to the Xbox 360 (which is why Conkers Bad Fur Day and Turok 2 are broken). Might be worth me taking a stab at updating it if I can easily set up libxenon as there have been a number of improvements since.
Do it, do it, do it!
I still have my Nov2005 made Xbox 360, it survived the death rings and sits on his throne as the King of Consoles!
Claudiu Orian wow respect
Claudiu Orian PS3 is better
CynicalSheep you mean shitier
Cigarette Jones Demon's Souls.
Claudiu Orian mine survived the red ring like 3 times lol, I always just unplugged it and left it alone and plugged it back in a few hours later and it worked fine
Nice and well educated review and discussion. A breath of fresh air to have a technically oriented person doing one of these.
Well done video! 😁
Ripped Robby what’s up Robby.
Ur views and subs are way different.
Hey Robby
Love you videos bro
Ohh, You Modder You.
down in mexico we have had modded xboxs since they first released and have "arcade" joints where all my friends would go and system link and get full lobbies ahhh good times
John Flores sounds lit lmao
Leggend Is Boss the shit talk was dope lmao
Broooo same omg
Hell yea my tia owns her own shop in my rancho and she got her hands on some Xbox 360’s for the arcade area in her store i remember playing nothing but fifa 07 with my cousins when we had nothing to do ah good times
John Flores now I want to go to Mexico, damn
You had my attention at "running linux" :D
I use pop os
Linux
I'll be honest, I don't know the names of homebrew developers, but seeing MVG and GeoHotz growing into something big is just amazing
Dark_AleX was the shiznit from the PSP era.
Bit of a late reply here but this is technically MVGs second go at it. His original alias was Lantus and he did a massive amount of work around emulators and homebrew on the Xbox and PSP
A wealth of knowledge
lol
Hey gunman! Awesome to see you here. Hope the shoo and cars are bringing you good work.
Tiger White you have furry profile pic your opinion is worthless
Tiger White I have verified check mark beside my name that makes up for it. Don’t act like a big shot then use a furry profile picture, you’re begging to get harassed because of that ugly thing
If it's so easy then why don't you go and do it then? Don't use a cancerous profile picture from a hated community and then act surprised when you get called out over it
1:02 “As long as you stay off of Xbox Live”
Me: *Laughs in stealth server*
How do u use stealth servers?
Cheater!
@@jpesicka492 A lot of people who use stealth servers don't cheat. A lot of those people also use Proto :).
@@tlberium is it okay to connect my xbox 360 jtag live internet only to update games like gta 5? i dont want to break it or something
@@nadeshikoorlando7187 you must have a stealth server if you wish to connect to xbox live in general. better safe than sorry
I had my original 360 flashed back in the day. My buddy did it for me no charge. It allowed my 360 to run games that he ripped off the internet. Charged me $10 for games. Unfortunately, the games would crash occasionally. He warned me tho. "Do not get on Live"
If it was just a CD drive hack you could have gone online fine
Some buddy Chad. Sounds a right one
@@Jakker271 $10 for a game that freezes "occasionally" was a good deal in my eyes.
Chad Pugh just buy another KV for 3 bucks and your back online :)
If you burn using verbatim brand disc and burn at a slow speed the disc worked great....
My Xbox 360 phat from 2007 still works! Awesome to still play Guitar Hero :)
My Xenon and Jasper already got the RROD years ago. I opened them, and removed the heat sinks and removed the stock thermal paste using the arctic 5 acetone remover then reapplied new arctic 5 thermal paste. Air cleaned the inside of the system... Both are still working ever since.
doesn't matter which thermal paste you use
I always played online with my modded 360.. never got banned
SonicNights I used to alternate with which box I played with... Maybe that's why
I played with a modded 360, with pirated games, while squating in a vacant house and stealing the neighbors wifi.
never got banned
There is something called a "stealth server" this hides your "modded console" to the MS security servers. They are expensive tho, just google for it.
Cool what’s your gamer tag
Bro i was playing online on my modded 360 from 2009-2014. Never got ban
I just got my elite falcon modded (I know) but since then the amount of things you can do is amazing. I loved my original modded Xbox but the 360 is a beast.
I kept my 360 even though I moved onto the PS4 its still nice to look at in 2019
It's nice to see Someone, that knows exactly what the hell hes talking about, Stays on the subject, doesn't get political, and doesn't spout fanboy crap!
Aaron Greenfield IKR?!
Agreed! It's horrible some TH-camrs go out of their way to condemn emulation or fanboy the big N to death. At least here it's honest, to the point info.
98 92 7 34 71 13 16, Yeah, I have thousands of comments over hundreds of channels, I'm all over TH-cam like so much bread crumbs!
Makes a comment that gets off subject and gets political
I'd like to get one and mod it. The real reason I would mod it would be to have all of my games on a hard drive instead of wearing down the disc drive. Every disc-based system will eventually fail because of those dang moving parts.
Z3rostar on the xbox slim u can download without rgh or jtag
I am not going to rgh my Xbox because I scared I will get banned on Xbox Live.
@@GTAbestplayer123 u wont if u use ur main account or goin go online without a stealth server, unless u know what u doing
Unfortunately, at least for me, 75%+ of the fun was online multiplayer like MW2, Halo, etc.
oh the Gold era of halo reach multiplayer..
P i n e s halo 2 still has people online on pc
CaldTheLad_SLG I got myself a copy of eldwrito before it got shutdown. It’s great. I still have the google drive file just in case anyone wants it.
MeatusBeatus Eldwerito is still up, I play it everyday, There is tons of servers with tons of people!
CaldTheLad_SLG I know but the download got taken down.
I still play my original...
NO RED RING HERE, YES!
same
Samuel Gregr same
how?
@@needlessrelic luck I guess
I’ve gotten a red ring before, I just got it fixed lol.
After working on the XBox is comes at no surprise that you had your hands in some of the 360s killer emu apps as well. Bravo.
I've had one for nearly 5 years, still going strong.
Same here! I've had it since 2013? Maybe 2012. Had a few red rings but it haven't died yet
@@masterofdragons82 i got one for 300$ i downloaded so many games now i wanna try Skyrim
@@masterofdragons82 can i connect my xbox 360 jtag to internet only to update games like gta 5? i have no intention of going xbox live and im worried if i connect mine it will break or something
charbel nassar Honestly I’m not a Xbox tech nerd I’m just a causal but why would it break?
@@masterofdragons82 xbox 360 jtag mean also cheap games so i heard once that if i connected to internet i might not be able to play my cds anymore but idk how much this is true
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Pcsx-R 360 Original Playstation emulator for Xbox 360. The compatibility is amazing and it uses pixel shaders, scanlines, a dynamic recompiler, savestates, you name it. It's probably the best emulator available on the system right after FBA Next. It plays full speed, and pretty much runs any game you throw at it perfectly. As a matter of fact, it's so good that the emulator that this is ported from, Pcsx Reloaded, is the emulator used in the playstation classic console!!
is a clown to not mention it.
This video is amazing so much so today I managed to successfully RGH my slim. and yes in 2021 you still need a modded xbox 360. Keep up the great content.
i would like to see an episode on modded ps3
amazing work as usual👌🏻
EgyptianDarknessTeam PS3.... Ewww what a yucky console that was. Go take a shower! lol
Big Supes actually its my fav modern console of all times, the emulation scene on it is enormous! i run arcades, psx, ps2, ps3 nes,snes, Amega , sega genesis and neo geo on it ! how can i call it yukky 😄
EgyptianDarknessTeam never managed to get ps2 working on it rip
I would wait for rpcs3 because the price of a ps3 slim 500gb is still too high
Fuck the PS3 slim, get a used phat, bang a big harddrive in it, mod it and you'll have a very capable consoles with loads of exclusives
"Coast to coast"in the intro, I like that song.
Another awesome video, dude. Forwarded to everyone I know. I think my mom's watching it.
I've had a modded xbox since 2017 but I watched the video anyway because I like your voice lmao
Hahahaha
Just a heads up for anyone that sees this in time... GameStop has 4GB Xbox 360 S consoles for free after mail in rebate (pay $69.99 up front, get $69.99 visa card back in the mail).
Seriously?
?????
Way cool, but you better be at-least relatively handy with a soldering iron or willing to learn because softmodding isn't gonna happen.
wait explain better pls
I know this is late but my xbox 360 has 200GB i am not joking
Edit: and it can be modded
Still have my 360 slim gears of war edition :) dual boot rgh, flashed drive. Love it.
You have convinced me to get a PS3. Thanks.
But you can't hack xbox one also Ps4 can be hack So yeah
Dante and halofan he said PS3 not ps4
It's so cool to be seeing many of the games I played when they were released. I owned NES, SNES, PS, N64, and PS4 with free mcboot however I threw a party and things got kinda hairy......someone threw a beer bottle through my fish tank which flooded down into my ps4.....
> Then i got busy with life and put gaming to the side. Man I remember when Super Mario Bros 3 was released and it was so popular that it couldn't be found anywhere. My Pops chased it down and gave it to me under the condition that I did all my homework.
Later I ended up getting a XB360 which I couldn't resist taking apart. I used Jungle Flash on it's Ben-q drive. That probably tells you I got into the modding scene late for the 360. But It bricked. Oh well.
3:16 Just bought a jasper so thats nice to hear
It costs more money to flash an Xbox 360 than it does to buy an Xbox 360 - even in 2018
BlackOverBlueSkies its littery $20 fuk outta here ur not a modder
Nasty Hydro Look fucko, Team-Xecuter X360USB Pro v2(~$60.00), Molex Power Brick (~$15.00), VIA 6421 SATA PCI Card (~$16.00). Xbox 360 console goes for about $50. You didn't do any research. "fuk outta here" indeed.
Source: www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/█▬►►nooberts-flashing-guide-phat-slim-burner-max-payload-burn-games◄◄▬█.1150969/
Nasty Hydro also, It's spelled "literally", dumbass. Delete your comment. Go back to school and learn how to spell past a 5th grade level.
here we have game stores, who mod your xbox360 for just $15-25, just ask around lol
One User umm yes. check the previous comments before you comment. I already proved my point... "gaytard" indeed
you basically convinced me to stick with a modded Xbox or modded Wii.
The Xbox 360 was released in 2005, they were trying to compete more with Sony. They rushed out units and didn’t focus on production quality which is why the red ring of death issue exists in the first place. Although, in some regions it did release in 2006.
My xbox 360 got the red ring of the death 4 times still didn’t break :) still works
Salad MODz I doubt it. You know what the red ring of death is?
CardboardwolfJD what I did to recover it was get frozen pees and rapped them and the Xbox in a beach towel for 2 hours
He's deadass serious too. That shit really works.
Mine never malfunctionned, but it's a 2010 Slim... why did Microsoft waited so long to make a reliable product ?!
Salad MODz My Xbox 360 has never gotten the red ring of death. But isn't the red ring caused by the motherboard overheating?
My day one 360 still works. Never had the rrod. Still works flawlessly
I still need it in 2019 and beyond.
*I had my PS1, Xbox & 360 ALL modded...now it feels like ... “Days Gone Bye” and its kinda sad...when the mod scene of was taking off my dad was alive, he always made sure that I downloaded the newest Medal of Honour for him :/ miss those days miss you dad*
xbox 360 was released in 2005. fsd3 is also outdated and unsupported by now. Aurora is much better imo.
i'll need to check out Aurora. thanks for the tip !
inst aurora just an updated version of fsd3
MGS2 Tanker Chapter music in the background ❤️
Mac Canma hell yeah
Mac Canma sub 4 sub
life of Troy fuck you.
I have the old model of the xbox 360 and up to this I still don't have the red ring of death
Mine red ringed once but i managed to fix it and it hasnt happened since
Digital preservation is a real thing, having the chance to directly backup your games and DLC, is the reason why I am looking to mod a xbox360. Also, having the possibility to had a up to 2TB hdd is quite fantastic
No matter what you think about console hacking, this is an important part of console history.
Adam Baxter actually, I hacked my Wii and my PSP and I use them more pften than I thought I would
I fukin love these videos, really good video editing and very informative! 10/10
If you want to buy a 360 and use it as an emulation device, why not instead buy a cheap, older pc and use that as an emulation device? A lot less complicated.
Because cheap PC will not play all X360 games for free and doesn't have great controller with it.
Mantas Jurksa you can connect a controller to a pc easily
UnchartedKnight01 Controller is extra money.
Mantas Jurksa A 360 contoller can be used and its $20 at most
littlelittle boiboi It's a thing that you don't really want to get used and cost of it depends on where you live. In my country it's 30 dollars with wireless adapter for PC. Considering that you can get modded X360 for a bit over 100 euros with controller, HDD, PSU buying PC for such a low price is waste of money and even 20 dollars at such a low budget is a big price increase.
I don't even play video games anymore . Closest interest I have anymore is Smartphones.
But the MVG produces I find it quite fascinating and very entertaining.
👌👍& subbed
My phat halo 3 edition finally kicked the bucket around 3 years ago.it was a good run
F
I've had three 360's with the RROD and kept getting new ones, but after the third I ended up not bothering anymore. I just really want to play my old 360 games again. Already have the original Xbox hooked up to an HDMI converter and plugged into my PC monitor. When I finally got that, I played Xbox games only for two weeks straight.
Now I need to buy a 360...
Please never stop making videos.
My PC and the emulators I have on it still blows all this away.
Honestly, in my case, I'm waiting for Xenia to be stable enough to be able to run Forza Motorsport 2 at 60 FPS without sound issues or freezing mid-game, and its said that online servers are possible, like an alternative to Xbox Live.
The format of your videos reminds me of the 8-bit guy.
Just saying.
Great videos keep it up!
2019 and my phatboy is still going
Have a drink every time you hear "Xbox 360"
I’m in hospital now, what do I do and what did I do wrong :p
i'mgrrihj hupoqso drink! :p
My liver hurts ..
I just got my PS3 & XBox 360 jailbroken after watching your vids m8. I watch them and get hell g'd up. I modded my Wii earlier this year and loved it. Really enjoying the mod scene or hack scene or whateva. Thanks so much for your sweet vids, keep it urrrp!!!!
@@rob831 Sorry I meant jtag or whatever. Some people say mod n jailbreak as the same thing I get mixed up what the difference is. I dont have wifi at home atm so I havn't been able to take advantage of it but in other peoples vids it looks so good. Pretty much do anything on it. Emulation n copy games.
The only time I got a red ring, was when my mom threw my Xbox for playing MW2 instead of doing my homework lmao.
Mine was due to heat and a lighting problem.
Your mom was right
good times
@@luisalbertoarenasaraya4579 mine was this guy's mom
Definitely not as easy as getting CFW on a PS3. Found a 1.6 OFW 60gb model, and loaded CFW on it since it was below 3.55 and it was a done deal.
It’s the easiest to get cfw or hen on ur ps3 u just gotta have a ps3 that’s compatible and it’s that simple it only takes me 10 mins to jailbreak a ps3 and get everything setup
Its all good and fun till you realize you need to solder the console to perform an RGH, and you're too poor to afford risking the console bricking.
LT 3.0 forever then :(
I like how you feature the only reason I want a modded 360, the CAVE games
I wanted to try out the Idolm@ster Saga.
Sharp X68000 emulation on Xbox backwards compatibly emulator is a bit of emulator inception :)
Curious after Xbox 360 homebrew. I got quite a few Slim systems, I should perhaps indeed delve into using one for emulation purposes.
Can it run Geograph Seal though?
Any link to the X68000 emulator ive had no luck finding it
digiex.net/threads/x68000x-v5-download-x68000-emulator-for-xbox.13738/
I should have kept my Xbox 360! Well, I could always buy a used one from Gamestop. They have used Elite systems for $40. I’d like to have access to all those arcade games!
Can you do an updated video on the 360 RGH scene? I understand its
somewhat "niche" but the JTAG kit died years ago. And its really hard to
find it for sale. I am about to flash my falcon 360, I feel like your channel is the most informative. I am fine to solder, But I feel like a video like this would be perfect for your channel.
I remember my first 360, 1st gen - Xenon board (production date 2005). I got it in 2008. It apparently broke in 07 and got fixed. I had the DVD drive flashed in 2012 because all of my original discs got so scratched that it had problems reading them. It worked until december 2014 when after sitting on the home screen for a while it started throwing artifacts and after a restart I got the red ring of death. Code 0102. I decided that was it for that console and got myself a new Xbox 360 E.
5:43 "I play them for the shooting, I swear"
**faps intensify**
THEOPDESTROYER 777 Jesus Christ
For shooting my load lmao.
To be fair, the CAVE Xbox 360 shmups are very dope.
@hwhehe hehehe yes
Mom: Why do you want an Xbox 360 so bad?
Me: Because a bald person on the internet said I NEED one
Mom: Damn fair enough. Buy me one too.
Somebody is selling your emulator on a USB stick with a full arcade romset, idk if you're okay with this or not but I thought I'd mention it
It's not his emulator. Anybody can get it for free, so whoever is buying it is dumb. Nobody should be selling emulators, or modding systems for money anyhow. That's why there are so many videos of how to do it for free. Spread the word, don't buy ROMs, ISO's, CSO's, Emulators, or modded consoles they are fee if you just look for a few minutes you'll find what your looking for, and how to do it yourself.
@@blankanonymous5214 can you provide some links mate I would really appreciate it
@@manny2386 google
@@blankanonymous5214 It's fine to buy a modded console tho, you're paying for someone doing the modding, instead of risking bricking the console
I got my xbox 360 in 2009 and never had one single problem with it. Its still lookin shiny today
that's because it's a jasper. It will run for another 10+ years. If anything fails, it will be the disc drive lens, disc drive belt or disc drive dust build up
Coming up: why you need the original apple 1 in 2018
lol, there is an original Apple 1 in the room next to my office. I cant believe it still works.
nice
You made one tiny error. You said it was released in 2006, it actually came out on November 22, 2005.
Who cares only a minor error
“I have my original 360s for years and never got RROD” yeah it’s called a jasper motherboard
Mine RGH 3.0 with Aurora 0.5
It's 2019 and my first gen xbox 360 still running strong 👍
You rock mate
Wii homebrew is the way to go ;) but this seems sweet too
Wiis are great little machines, get an older model and you can run wii and gc games off an external hard drive, and a 32gb sd card will hold most of the nes snes genesis gba gb/c etc. library and the pro controller can be bought cheaply, i got a pair of them for $10
A modded Xbox 360 is better then OG XBOX modded since it’s more powerful and it has HDMI input built in!
diggin the MGS music in the background
I still have my modded Xbox 360 it sitting in dust next to my Xbox one
Yup, do all this shit to run games that are abysmal by today's standards, I don't get it at all. Gaming nostalgia should stay as that imo. I remember being blown away by PacMan on my Atari 2600 a few *cough* years ago. I wouldn't play it today if you paid me.
@@cbr9296 umm i just have a good question why you BULLY ME
Bullying you? I was agreeing with you ?
Me to lmao
Wanna sell it??? Text or call me at 81265365833 call any time keithdingman23@gmail.com
I've been meaning to make one to use as a TV media center/emulator.
medumdum ya This is my thinking also
I've had an original Xbox 360 for 8 YEARS and not ONCE has it red ringed.
Just a guy on a 3DS I hope I get a reliable one too
RWL2012 Y get the slim model
You probably have a jasper
Same
Or you play 100hours totaal lel
Oh my god, I haven't heard "JTag" since yeah around 2009/10 in middle/high school. We had a kid in our grade that knew how to do the mod and we literally called him "J Tag" for a nickname, I don't even think I knew what it meant back then lol. Didn't expect that kind of memory clicking on this. Great video as always.
You wouldn't believe how rare they are today, I have 2 jtags. Try finding an Xbox with the old blades dashboard, extremely hard, but I had some
Lost me when you said "as long as you stay off xbox live" 1:01 that's like 99% of the fun, having multiplayer on xbox live.
Thats what a stealth server is for...
lifehackertips that’s not true
SN0WMAN
Single player games are considered to be some of the best games ever for a reason.
Yeah you can use a stealth server but you'll get a lot of hate as I was a modder and I quit recently but I would recommend using NiNJA or xbOnline. NiNJA is expensive for it's stealth and xbOnline is just as good for like half the price. But you will have to worry about a KV (Keyvault) Seller whenever you get console banned. They're are a lot of scammers out there and the one I normally wen't to to buy KVs from was @CheapKVs on Instagram. He sells them cheap unlike a lot of other sellers sell them for like $6 for 1 but then again there are only so many KV's as you can't make or generate them. But no you really don't need a console in 2018 waste of money you will be putting so much money into your stealth and KV's for what? A good 2 month fun of modding? People say "You'll be able to make money off of modding" not anymore as no one buys because too many people scams and they're a lot of free modders.
or you can get a ps3 and jail break cuz on ps3 jail break you dont have to pay for stealth servers
Yeah but 360 modding is better
Take a shot everytime he says "360"
Hammered by 6 minute mark
Dead by end of video
Are any of you kids even old enough to drink? Lmao
Mr- Dyed do a 360 Everytime he says 360
Mr- Dyed welp lets get the tequila ready
I had no idea anyone was able to get emulators working on the 360!? This is awesome, I need to look into this. Thanks for this info!