I took the plunge, bought the necessary supplies, and gave it a shot. Despite having 0 soldering experience everything worked out great thanks to this thorough tutorial
@@arxs8like a 6 or 7. There’s just a lot of places u can screw up, and u could do everything correctly but depending on ur model it might not even work. Slims boot more reliably tho
There's a small, but very important mistake in this tutorial, but everyone with a decent brain will probably notice: @43:07 you tell the viewer to disconnect the nand programmer (in my case it was the Pi Pico) from "the console itself", which will end up not working. I'm sure you were trying to say, "Disconnect it from the pc.", which is what I did and it did indeed work and boot into Xell. If you disconnect (or in my case would've had to unsolder) it from the console, it probably will end up not booting at all. It's also a better idea to reattach the cpu cooler before soldering the nand programmer wires onto the console, so that you don't risk for them to fall off in the process. Other than that this is an excellent tutorial, thank you very much for that!
Your tutorials are a life saver. There's not a lot of hand holding in the 360 modding community. Its kept me out of the game for quite some time, but your videos have always been there to try and bridge the gap.
Superb tutorial, many thanks. Flashing using pi pico worked. In JRunner some buttons have been renamed. For example: Create ECC -> Create XeLL or Write ECC -> Write XeLL. But the button placement is still the same.
I think it's really great that you take the time to credit those who developed this method. It really shows your integrity and I think it's just all around a great thing to do. This was a really exciting development and I'm so happy you made such an easy to follow tutorial. Thanks again MrMario2011!
@@MrMario2011 I just tried this and now my Xbox doesn’t boot up at all just a green light for like 1-2 seconds then red light the fan shuts down and the system doesn’t boot… pretty sure I bricked it😂 anyways any idea where I went wrong? What to check? What to do? I followed the video step by step and got all the way to the point where you unplug the xflasher from the console to get the cpu key from xell… Xell never popped up and I never was able to get the cpu key so what do I do now? I’m not about to give up when I’ve come this far…
@@MrMario2011 I got so lucky! I accidentally bridged like 4 of the points from post and was able to unbridge them, I wrote the ECC and next thing I know, Xell was on screen. Although I did accidentally plug the cooling fan into where the dvd drive goes to, I cooked the fan but did I do anything to the motherboard?
@@yngproduct6617late, but xell may not have been flashed properly since the Xbox will start giving red light if the cables are soldered but it's running stock firmware
My girlfriend got me a trinity and xflasher for Christmas just so I could try this. I stayed up all night soldering and flashing and it WORKS!!! 😁😁😁 you're the king Mr.Mario! Thanks for this awesome video 👍
I dunno how often it's mentioned, but people should put a disclaimer about how one routes their wires and why. I wasn't paying too much attention to how I placed them, and it caused my Xbox to constantly free on Aurora menu. I opened up my Xbox to double check and decided to move some wires because I figured there was some noise being introduced. I also redid my solder points and now my Xbox is not freezing anymore. Whereas it used to freeze consistently after a few minutes.
bought all my supplies a few days ago and over the course of using both this tutorial and the rgh3 website i was able to get all the necessary soldering and wiring done and mod the console on my first go round, thank you for your high quality tutorials for this sort of thing
Managed to do this successfully on my trinity a few days ago as a first timer. I found the PLL_BYPASS surprisingly okay, I was slow and careful, constantly cleaning it and seeing progress. A magnifying glass or a good close-up camera is really helpful to see what you’re doing. I found the NAND soldering the most challenging because the ends of the Dupont wires I used with my Raspberry Pico were clunky and awkward to solder to the motherboard. I had to re-solder the connections a few times in order for J-Runner to detect the console.
If you planned on doing a second console, I would recommend some breadboard jumper wires. I did this and it was super simple. You can get male to male so each end is a solid metal peg you can easily solder, or you have male on one end for the console and cut and solder the end for the pi. Congrats on your success!
@@MrMario2011 i just wanna ask if there is performance difference between this rgh 3.0 no chip vs using a modchip rgh like ace modchip.. if there is i just wanna know, something like booting time? or is there any game freezing experiences? im really choosing whats best between before deciding what mod i can use for my slim.. thanks a lot!!!
I used a standard pin header to which I soldered small long wires (about 15cm). I had my pi pico plugged in a breadboard. The pin header was then also plugged into the breadboard. No additional jumper wires are needed. The bare wires now need to be soldered to the NAND and the flashing can start. This way the header can be reused by desoldering the wires from the NAND when everything is finished.
Mr Mario, I want to thank you for making this video. I am someone who has not had a lot of experience modding. In fact, some years back I tried to do one of these mods with a glitch chip and it didn't go well. I didn't have the confidence to fix the trace that I messed up. I sent the system out to get fixed and modded. I don't think I'll have to do that again. I have a little bit more experience now fixing traces so it left me feeling more confident. Of course having one of those magnifying headsets helped quite a bit. Especially with the hardest part of connecting the two wires in the back. I use a craft knife and a brand new blade and I was able to knock it out in no time. I don't have a steady hand, but I was like a surgeon. I followed everything step by step. Ironically, as soon as I opened up my bag of resistors I found the 10K resistors too. I also had the same wrapping wire you had, and shrink wrap. So it made the installation a breeze. You were a great help and thank you again.
A quick thank you again, in scenes with so many different spurces of information your videos have been an excellent resource. Great quality guides that are easy to follow and aren't overwhelming yet still pack a lot of information. You are doing great work for the console modding scenes.
The release of RGH3 motivated me to finally dust off my old Resident Evil 5 Jasper and get it modded. I haven't had so much fun with my 360 in a while! It gave a second life to a console with a temperamental disc drive that pretty much was useless. Boot times are often less than 10 seconds so I'm happy.
Awesome! I've performed it only on one phat that I have, didn't have much value assigned to it so it was a good guinea pig to try RGH3 on. Pleasantly surprised with it, Falcon board working well and boot times average about 7 or 8 seconds.
If you are getting “Header is Wrong” using the PicoFlasher and maybe other flashers… it’s because your wires from the flasher to the Xbox are to LONG. I made this mistake, my wires were around 20inches long and I was get this error. They are now around 6-9 inches long and it works perfectly fine now. Please pass this along, that the NAND wires need to be short…. Maybe at most 10 inches long. P.S. Thank you for sharing this video with us all.
Done! Thanks, turns out I enjoyed the learning experience so much more than I thought I would. That C5R35 nod had me scared but once you get it...instant gratification.
Thanks for the video, I was wondering when you would be getting around to this. I have a trinity sitting here waiting for me to do this mod, I wnated to watch a few more videos from different people before tackling it. This is probably the best and most indepth guide I've seen on RGH3
I really appreciate these videos man... Thanks to you I was able to do this to both my Jasper and my cousin's Trinity systems. If not for your high depth tutorials, I would have never been able to pull this off.
Now this is something I can do! I’ve always wanted a modded Xbox 360 but never had the money, but this is maybe the cheapest and easiest (I think) hard mod I’ve ever seen!
I have 0 experience soldering, I picked up 2 trinity consoles and 2 jaspers for £50, got myself all the stuff I needed, a £15 soldering iron and got straight to work, first try... successful! I put the console back together and boom... didn't boot. Took it apart and I snagged a wire when I rebuilt it. Second attempt today, resoldered all the wires, it's working perfectly! For someone with 0 experience and just a lot of determination, I'd recommend giving this a go if you're confident enough, the feeling at the end when it's all successful is amazing!
Glad it worked for you! Although I don't recommend this so I'm going against the grain. I had your same confidence and determination, which killed several consoles when I first learned how to solder.
Thanks so much for this! Was my first time ever modding any console. After a couple small issues with my soldering not being too great on the headers, I managed to get it working! Now to backup all my games to my HDD. Cheers Mr Mario :-)
@@MrMario2011 To be honest it wasn't too bad. I've just started soldering in the past month or so and seen this vid and thought I'd give it a go. I had some magnifying glasses on so that definitely helped a tonne too!
Dude, what a ride! Thanks for your video, you can not imagine how I sweated and shook with my Xbox while following along. The PLL soldering point was wild and of all things the yellow wire from the NAND would not hold with me at all. I was in sheer despair until I found out that yellow is only ground and I can solder it literally anywhere else. And despite all that, miracles happened, the Picoflasher and J-Runner kicked in and I still can't believe it, I have a RGH-Xbox! Hopefully I don't ruin it while desoldering and assembling! Haha. Thanks for your great video, it really helped me extremely!
bro I have literally been fighting with that f_____ng wire since 830 pm its currently 1:20 in the morning, I had called it quits and gave up until I just read your comment CAN YOU PLEASE tell me where you soldered it ? dude I was literally about to be done its my last wire LOL! thank you.
@@550sng8 You could solder the wire to the shielding of the usb ports or the AV port for example. That's what I did. Good luck and don't give up, you're almost there buddy!
Small bit of advice when you have the motherboard exposed, look for any blown or domed capacitors. They're are two main types of electrolytic capacitors on the board and the ones we're looking at are the ones above the white sticker at 50:00 If you have any that look like they're bulging or rounded at the top then they're most likely failing, any that are burst, broken, or leaking are definitely dead. While not crucial to the function of the system they can cause issues with it and should probably be swapped with new ones. Good news is they're dirt cheap, easy to find, and easy to swap out using the soldering tips described in this video, just make sure the polarity is the same as the old ones (it's marked on the side of the capacitor).
Great tutorial... I have done two Trinity RGH3 based on this. I have lots of experience with OG Xbox (Xtender from leaked code done very first evening actually was my first). However, this RGH3 requires some intermediate to advanced soldering skills. I purchased an inexpensive digital Microscope in order to do things like this, and I cannot imagine how it could be done without one (maybe with magnifier glasses) - wow I wish I would have had this technology 20+ years ago!!! The footage in video makes it appear much larger and easier to do than it is in real life, and I just don't see how someone can go in with a cheap soldering iron and perform the mod without a magnifier - especially PLL_BYPASS. Maybe it is my old eyes, but even with reading glasses I would not do. For those who managed to do this mod with naked eye, I applaud them!
You know? I was talking to someone about this just yesterday who did tons of PS2 chip installs. He could do those with no magnification, but age hit him and he can't see those points very well anymore with the naked eye. We talked about how it would have been so awesome to have digital microscopes back then.
Just fineshed installing RGH on my 360 from my childhoodm, i was going to keep it og, but since microsoft pulled the plug on it i modded with RGH. Thanks for the guide MRMario!
side note mr mario, the xclamp removal tool is perfect for lifting those tabs on the side panels without removing that black piece under the grates... the sharp end just goes into those holes to lift those tabs
Hey mario glad to see you still around haha... I see everyone from the old modding scene trying the rgh3 method even after years. Glad the scene hasnt died completely. I been following mr mondello for awhile on fb and seen when he first tried and and was mind blown. I still got some gems in my 360 collection not sure if ill ever let them go.
I've been watching your channel for awhile now since I always wanted to do soldering but I was intimidated with it but now this is first time that I managed to do a hardmod after getting a soldering iron and sacrificing two 360 motherbords, thanks MrMario!
BOOM, that's how it goes! I'm excited for you, because I was in the exact same spot years ago before delving in. Had to destroy a few things in the process, but I got there. I understand the feeling 🙂
Really makes me want get an Xbox 360. I had a PS3 that generation and a Wii, but never got around to getting an Xbox 360. Very cool mod that is just a couple of wires. Great video as always.
I was in the same boat but getting a modded 360 well into the Xbox one generation was a big deal. There's tons of good stuff on the 360 and given you don't need an extra install it saves space storing the games on the console
Hey everyone - just fyi a better way to shrink the heatshrink tubing is a hot air rework station/hot air gun/hairdryer as the open flame can desolder the wires (as MrMario said) or burn the heat shrink. Either way awesome tutorial, thx and peace ✌️
Unrelated, but knicked some traces after using a flat head to undo the X-clamp on a different console, needless to say I immediately purchased the recommended x-clamp tool, was able to do some trace repair and revive it luckily, I'll just save the trouble and heed your warning next time
I just got done waiting for some resistors to arrive from Amazon to realize... I was following the CORONA TUTORIAL! Currently waiting for the correct resistors and feeling like an idiot.
it's kind of crazy how we went from drilling into a chip in the dvd drive to play burned discs, to only needing 2 wires for entire unsigned code running.
The drilling on a 16D4S drive is still a thing, that never got easier if you have a drive you need to drill to flash. It would be more accurate to say that we went from all of those glitch chip revisions to 2 wires for unsigned code.
Just wanted to thank you for this tutorial. I succeeded on my 3rd try luckily the consoles are only about £25 at the moment, and i think my 2nd attempt will be fine when i do the soldering again.
After flash, mine would boot for 1sec, and auto turn off. I thought I bricked it. I shortened my wires, and changed from a 10K to a 5K resistor (did not touch any solder points on the board), and so far it's working good. Thanks for the great guide. It helped a ton.
After almost a week, it stopped working. Opened trinity unit again, and wire under processor disconnected… assuming solder was weak on that very small point and being under processor where its hot it eventually let go… resoldered it and seems much better connection now…. Im assuming this is maybe why the lower resistor value initially fixed it for me because connection was weak and wasn’t letting as much power go through… it’s working again now, but very curious if I switched back to the 10K now that my connection is better, if everything would still work.
If this is the case, and you had to lower the value of your resistor to make it work, it may be the sign of weak solder points… cant tell for sure without more testing, but thought id throw that out there in cases it can help anyone that is having problems w their setup.
Thank you soooooooooo much for this tutorial!!! I followed it to a T, and managed to get it running on my trinity. I will say this though, that PL bypass had me stuck for unbelievably long 😅 I was in the process of quitting 4 separate times but kept persevering. (the solder and wire would just not stick to that point and kept on bridging with another connection) I honestly dont know how I got it to glitch, but I did. And I am not complaining that it worked XD. So for everyone our there, keep trying and dont give up! I learned my lesson today haha. Thanks again MrMario
Thank you so much for making your videos! You've helped me learn so much about moding I really don't think I'd be as far as I am without your videos. I just did my first ever successful rgh on my trinity. Please keep making these videos! If I may make a suggestion, I'd like to see a video on how to make the consol have custom start up sounds using a jq6500 mp3 controller. It would be a big help!
Thanks for these guides! successfully modded my X360S Trinity. first attempt had some few issues like the resistance on the 10k resistor. but i fixed it. ur guide is very helpful. btw im using the Pico flasher method and it works!
I ripped one of the trace during soldering, but glad that it can be fixed using a jumper wire. Btw, Im glad with the end result, as a first timer doing this mod
For people still watching this video. I did not watch fully through but if you decide to solder lead free make sure to buy flux too! Will make your soldering way more easier and quicker
i recently found a trinity at a thrift store, and this will be my first time modding any 360, (lots of experience modding og xbox), i've just done the wire setup using 30 gauge mag wire and a 3.9kohm resistor i had lying around from when i made a eeprom reader for the og xbox, just need to buy a flasher and hopefully everything works out
update, i just got my pico and successfully flashed the console. for some reason though the wifi does not work, it fails the connection test at the network level when i try to connect it, wired works well though, this was happening before i modded the console though, i tried swapping the wifi card but it still wont work, so maybe its some network setting or for some reason the wifi signal cant make it up to the second floor, the building is made of concrete but my other devices connect just fine to the network so i'm not entirely sure
At this point the next thing I see for the Xbox 360 is a soft mod which would make it soooo much easier to mod I used 3.0 and am loving it but I still think people who want one modded feel less motivated due to the circumstances so hopefully sooner or later we will see a soft mod for the xb360 as it rightfully deserves
@@MrMario2011 ik but still imo its totally worth it to put in the work but the hb community is amazing and finds cool shit all the time but I must agree this could be the closest we get sadly
Massive thanks for this tutorial. Gave it a try as my first soldering project and it went without a hitch. Only problem I ran into was I didn't know that I needed to plug the power into the xbox console before plugging in my pico flasher to usb. Otherwise it would not see the console.
I'm so glad you made this vid, my application is simply to verify readabilty of discs since a pc dvd drive can't see the 2nd track on an xbox/360 disc. I have no interest in piracy, I'm not dumping discs to play the backups, I just need to verify that every bit on the disc is readable 🖤
That's cool, although you can do that with a standard retail console as well? And if you're looking to dump EVERY bit, it's best to rip using Xbox Backup Creator and a 0800 flashed DVD drive.
Nice. I bought a bunch of Pi Pico boards to bump up the price to get free shipping months ago. I finally have something to do with at least one of them.
Big thank you to Mr Mario!!! Easy to follow tutorial, i used to jtag years ago and thought id give the rgh3 a go , cant wait to get it loaded up , thank you once again!
i found a alternative to soldering to a via below the APU if you prefer DB5R4 is the Reference Its the Through hole Point With the big trace next to the Diode Trinity
this was awesome! I have an older 360 I pick3ed up just for this I just haven't picked up the nand flasher and that tool for the pressure clamp..... I WAS gonna get the old one you showed but this seems easy enough... I just have to get around to it (kinda busy with my ps4 pro JB and rasp pi zero doing all the work lol)
Hey Mr. Mario, you just inspired me to build my own RGH 360 for Trinity. I was looking over the video and I heard you say 10 K resistor so I ordered that part over 3K but I’ve also heard 3K is the easiest to use. Have you had any issues with boot times or have they been the same with 3K and 10 K?
It depends entirely on the console, every single one is different! I've used 10K and 3K on different consoles, been lucky enough to have them instaboot.
Just one thing to note from when I RGH my console using this tutorial if you have a Pico programmer or raspberry Pi with Topeka programmer installed you can turn the console on when that's fully connected I've done it it still works had no issues with it
Thanks for this great vid! When in Xell, if your console got an IP address via DHCP click on Scan IP in J-Runner ....it'll find the console and pull in the CPU Key automatically.
aw darn, this could've been really useful 2 weeks ago when I rgh'ed my 360, all the other video tutorials on yt are trash lol istg first thing I searched up was "mrmario rgh 3 tutorial" anyways another great hq tutorial, keep it up
Unfortunately I didn't mod a trinity I modded a 4gb corona. This video helped with understanding how to flash it and from there It was easy thanks for the time you spend on how to properly flash the console. I did have to learn how to solder the SD tool and about the crystal wire and the RGH3 Install image but other than that your video did the rest.
at 43:07 what happen when i not disconnect my nand programmer? And at 48:35 , when i want to go to full retail version, how do i flash the retail image? and what is retail image? is it nand dump 1 & 2? I'm sorry, i didn't know much about this thing😅 but i hope you guys be good enough for telling me about this things. please reply :) Thanks!
@@MrMario2011 Hey, thanks for the fast reply. but does the thing that got scratch have not affect anything when i get to full retail ? and how to reflash the nand dump? if you have a video for it that would be nice!
I have problem with this mod. I have trinity 16mb. First one was that I was not getting any signal on tv. Removing 10k resistor solved the problem. Next one is that Console boots to xell but not to dashboard. It freeze right at the begining on xbox logo.
Here is a handy tipp for exposing the PLL_BYPASS much simpler and risk free. Get yourself an Fiberpen, then you can scrub away the coating without risking to damage the traces. Be careful with the dirt that the pen is leaving and clean it away with an paper towel. Never use your bare hands as the fiber leavings can get stuck in your skin and hurt.
@@MrMario2011 I have had my xbox360 for awhile now and the harddrive in the console never could be recognized so I had to buy a usb adapter until I did this to my console I had an extra empty harddrive lying around put in and booted xell reloaded and its recognized by my xbox again.💯😊
Good vid bud....but to make the work even more neat, use the SMD version of the resistor, but normally I don't use the resistors at all. Just the two wires :D
Thanks for the tip, dude! I've seen that recommendation, not at all a bad one. I bought each resistor needed in a pack of 100, so I'll be sitting on these ceramic ones for a long time :P
I have pretty much everything I need to get started, however I do just have on question about the PLL_BYPASS via, I have a fibreglass scratching pen, can I ask if this is safer to use instead of an x-acto knife or similar. Also great tutorial you explain everything perfectly which is great when I have little experience with soldering.
I took the plunge, bought the necessary supplies, and gave it a shot. Despite having 0 soldering experience everything worked out great thanks to this thorough tutorial
That's amazing! Thanks for sharing!
LOL DID THE SAMEEEEEEE THING
@opticwater3414 how hard is this? Like on a level of 1-10 one being Lego set skill level and 10 being put an engine together from the block up
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@@arxs8like a 6 or 7. There’s just a lot of places u can screw up, and u could do everything correctly but depending on ur model it might not even work. Slims boot more reliably tho
There's a small, but very important mistake in this tutorial, but everyone with a decent brain will probably notice:
@43:07 you tell the viewer to disconnect the nand programmer (in my case it was the Pi Pico) from "the console itself", which will end up not working. I'm sure you were trying to say, "Disconnect it from the pc.", which is what I did and it did indeed work and boot into Xell. If you disconnect (or in my case would've had to unsolder) it from the console, it probably will end up not booting at all.
It's also a better idea to reattach the cpu cooler before soldering the nand programmer wires onto the console, so that you don't risk for them to fall off in the process.
Other than that this is an excellent tutorial, thank you very much for that!
So your saying don’t disconnect it from the motherboard but only disconnect from the pc
So your saying don’t disconnect it from the motherboard but only disconnect from the pc
@@Xqmsc That's right.
Your tutorials are a life saver. There's not a lot of hand holding in the 360 modding community. Its kept me out of the game for quite some time, but your videos have always been there to try and bridge the gap.
Hope that helped! Still making Xbox 360 content, love the system, got a new one coming up today 😄
Superb tutorial, many thanks. Flashing using pi pico worked. In JRunner some buttons have been renamed. For example: Create ECC -> Create XeLL or Write ECC -> Write XeLL. But the button placement is still the same.
OMFG thank you!!! This comment was helpful!
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@@witchway8927 Happy to help.
@@NotGeoWild_ Seems like your mod is working?
thank you mr fella!!
I think it's really great that you take the time to credit those who developed this method. It really shows your integrity and I think it's just all around a great thing to do. This was a really exciting development and I'm so happy you made such an easy to follow tutorial. Thanks again MrMario2011!
All thanks to those awesome people, I'm just a talking head hah. Thanks for hanging out!
@@MrMario2011 I just tried this and now my Xbox doesn’t boot up at all just a green light for like 1-2 seconds then red light the fan shuts down and the system doesn’t boot… pretty sure I bricked it😂 anyways any idea where I went wrong? What to check? What to do? I followed the video step by step and got all the way to the point where you unplug the xflasher from the console to get the cpu key from xell… Xell never popped up and I never was able to get the cpu key so what do I do now? I’m not about to give up when I’ve come this far…
@@MrMario2011 I got so lucky! I accidentally bridged like 4 of the points from post and was able to unbridge them, I wrote the ECC and next thing I know, Xell was on screen. Although I did accidentally plug the cooling fan into where the dvd drive goes to, I cooked the fan but did I do anything to the motherboard?
@@yngproduct6617late, but xell may not have been flashed properly since the Xbox will start giving red light if the cables are soldered but it's running stock firmware
My girlfriend got me a trinity and xflasher for Christmas just so I could try this. I stayed up all night soldering and flashing and it WORKS!!! 😁😁😁 you're the king Mr.Mario! Thanks for this awesome video 👍
Now that's an awesome girlfriend! Good job on getting her and getting the work done 🙂
I followed most of your tutorial and I just wanted to say thank you! This modification works like a charm on my 360. Keep up the good work!
Great to hear!
I wish we had this 7 years ago!!! Lol
Thanks for showing it off, & your camera and videos are flawless.
I appreciate that! And wouldn't we all have preferred this long ago?
I dunno how often it's mentioned, but people should put a disclaimer about how one routes their wires and why. I wasn't paying too much attention to how I placed them, and it caused my Xbox to constantly free on Aurora menu. I opened up my Xbox to double check and decided to move some wires because I figured there was some noise being introduced. I also redid my solder points and now my Xbox is not freezing anymore. Whereas it used to freeze consistently after a few minutes.
Always check the continuity on the solder joints
bought all my supplies a few days ago and over the course of using both this tutorial and the rgh3 website i was able to get all the necessary soldering and wiring done and mod the console on my first go round, thank you for your high quality tutorials for this sort of thing
Enjoy!
Managed to do this successfully on my trinity a few days ago as a first timer. I found the PLL_BYPASS surprisingly okay, I was slow and careful, constantly cleaning it and seeing progress. A magnifying glass or a good close-up camera is really helpful to see what you’re doing. I found the NAND soldering the most challenging because the ends of the Dupont wires I used with my Raspberry Pico were clunky and awkward to solder to the motherboard. I had to re-solder the connections a few times in order for J-Runner to detect the console.
Congrats!
If you planned on doing a second console, I would recommend some breadboard jumper wires. I did this and it was super simple. You can get male to male so each end is a solid metal peg you can easily solder, or you have male on one end for the console and cut and solder the end for the pi. Congrats on your success!
@@MrMario2011 i just wanna ask if there is performance difference between this rgh 3.0 no chip vs using a modchip rgh like ace modchip.. if there is i just wanna know, something like booting time? or is there any game freezing experiences? im really choosing whats best between before deciding what mod i can use for my slim.. thanks a lot!!!
I used a standard pin header to which I soldered small long wires (about 15cm). I had my pi pico plugged in a breadboard. The pin header was then also plugged into the breadboard. No additional jumper wires are needed. The bare wires now need to be soldered to the NAND and the flashing can start. This way the header can be reused by desoldering the wires from the NAND when everything is finished.
Mr Mario, I want to thank you for making this video. I am someone who has not had a lot of experience modding. In fact, some years back I tried to do one of these mods with a glitch chip and it didn't go well. I didn't have the confidence to fix the trace that I messed up. I sent the system out to get fixed and modded. I don't think I'll have to do that again. I have a little bit more experience now fixing traces so it left me feeling more confident. Of course having one of those magnifying headsets helped quite a bit. Especially with the hardest part of connecting the two wires in the back. I use a craft knife and a brand new blade and I was able to knock it out in no time. I don't have a steady hand, but I was like a surgeon. I followed everything step by step. Ironically, as soon as I opened up my bag of resistors I found the 10K resistors too. I also had the same wrapping wire you had, and shrink wrap. So it made the installation a breeze. You were a great help and thank you again.
Glad this helped!
A quick thank you again, in scenes with so many different spurces of information your videos have been an excellent resource. Great quality guides that are easy to follow and aren't overwhelming yet still pack a lot of information. You are doing great work for the console modding scenes.
Glad this helped 😁
The release of RGH3 motivated me to finally dust off my old Resident Evil 5 Jasper and get it modded. I haven't had so much fun with my 360 in a while! It gave a second life to a console with a temperamental disc drive that pretty much was useless. Boot times are often less than 10 seconds so I'm happy.
Awesome! I've performed it only on one phat that I have, didn't have much value assigned to it so it was a good guinea pig to try RGH3 on. Pleasantly surprised with it, Falcon board working well and boot times average about 7 or 8 seconds.
If you are getting “Header is Wrong” using the PicoFlasher and maybe other flashers… it’s because your wires from the flasher to the Xbox are to LONG. I made this mistake, my wires were around 20inches long and I was get this error. They are now around 6-9 inches long and it works perfectly fine now. Please pass this along, that the NAND wires need to be short…. Maybe at most 10 inches long.
P.S. Thank you for sharing this video with us all.
Done! Thanks, turns out I enjoyed the learning experience so much more than I thought I would. That C5R35 nod had me scared but once you get it...instant gratification.
Thanks for the video, I was wondering when you would be getting around to this. I have a trinity sitting here waiting for me to do this mod, I wnated to watch a few more videos from different people before tackling it. This is probably the best and most indepth guide I've seen on RGH3
Thanks for the kind words 😊
Thank you very much! This was my first hardmod (corona 16mb) I ever did. This video helped me immense!
Woo!
Nice work. Great to see your skill in action. Not a mod I’d attempt myself. Thanks for the video.
Thank you!
come on man, why not?
I really appreciate these videos man... Thanks to you I was able to do this to both my Jasper and my cousin's Trinity systems. If not for your high depth tutorials, I would have never been able to pull this off.
All you, dawg.
Now this is something I can do! I’ve always wanted a modded Xbox 360 but never had the money, but this is maybe the cheapest and easiest (I think) hard mod I’ve ever seen!
Definitely affordable, but also not the easiest. Be sure to look at how small the points are if you attempt this yourself!
@@MrMario2011 yea, I just checked on my corona, and the points look way bigger on camera, but I think I can still do this :)
rgh cost like 100 bucks now lmao your that poor?
For the PLL point I just used some tweezers to scrape the board. Worked great. I had a spare 4.7K Ohm resistor and it instaboots every time!
I have 0 experience soldering, I picked up 2 trinity consoles and 2 jaspers for £50, got myself all the stuff I needed, a £15 soldering iron and got straight to work, first try... successful! I put the console back together and boom... didn't boot. Took it apart and I snagged a wire when I rebuilt it. Second attempt today, resoldered all the wires, it's working perfectly!
For someone with 0 experience and just a lot of determination, I'd recommend giving this a go if you're confident enough, the feeling at the end when it's all successful is amazing!
Glad it worked for you! Although I don't recommend this so I'm going against the grain. I had your same confidence and determination, which killed several consoles when I first learned how to solder.
Thanks so much for this! Was my first time ever modding any console. After a couple small issues with my soldering not being too great on the headers, I managed to get it working! Now to backup all my games to my HDD. Cheers Mr Mario :-)
Perfection! How difficult was the PLL point for you as a newcomer? I'm not sure what your soldering experience so far is.
@@MrMario2011 To be honest it wasn't too bad. I've just started soldering in the past month or so and seen this vid and thought I'd give it a go. I had some magnifying glasses on so that definitely helped a tonne too!
Dude, what a ride! Thanks for your video, you can not imagine how I sweated and shook with my Xbox while following along. The PLL soldering point was wild and of all things the yellow wire from the NAND would not hold with me at all. I was in sheer despair until I found out that yellow is only ground and I can solder it literally anywhere else. And despite all that, miracles happened, the Picoflasher and J-Runner kicked in and I still can't believe it, I have a RGH-Xbox! Hopefully I don't ruin it while desoldering and assembling! Haha. Thanks for your great video, it really helped me extremely!
Congratulations, and thanks for sharing!
bro I have literally been fighting with that f_____ng wire since 830 pm its currently 1:20 in the morning, I had called it quits and gave up until I just read your comment CAN YOU PLEASE tell me where you soldered it ? dude I was literally about to be done its my last wire LOL! thank you.
@@550sng8 You could solder the wire to the shielding of the usb ports or the AV port for example. That's what I did.
Good luck and don't give up, you're almost there buddy!
Thank you for making this! Hell yeah! Good job labeling the soldering points too, those are legit!
Thank you for the feedback 😁
Small bit of advice when you have the motherboard exposed, look for any blown or domed capacitors. They're are two main types of electrolytic capacitors on the board and the ones we're looking at are the ones above the white sticker at 50:00
If you have any that look like they're bulging or rounded at the top then they're most likely failing, any that are burst, broken, or leaking are definitely dead. While not crucial to the function of the system they can cause issues with it and should probably be swapped with new ones. Good news is they're dirt cheap, easy to find, and easy to swap out using the soldering tips described in this video, just make sure the polarity is the same as the old ones (it's marked on the side of the capacitor).
Always a good tip!
Great tutorial... I have done two Trinity RGH3 based on this. I have lots of experience with OG Xbox (Xtender from leaked code done very first evening actually was my first). However, this RGH3 requires some intermediate to advanced soldering skills. I purchased an inexpensive digital Microscope in order to do things like this, and I cannot imagine how it could be done without one (maybe with magnifier glasses) - wow I wish I would have had this technology 20+ years ago!!! The footage in video makes it appear much larger and easier to do than it is in real life, and I just don't see how someone can go in with a cheap soldering iron and perform the mod without a magnifier - especially PLL_BYPASS. Maybe it is my old eyes, but even with reading glasses I would not do. For those who managed to do this mod with naked eye, I applaud them!
You know? I was talking to someone about this just yesterday who did tons of PS2 chip installs. He could do those with no magnification, but age hit him and he can't see those points very well anymore with the naked eye. We talked about how it would have been so awesome to have digital microscopes back then.
Just wanna say, I have the same beat machine that's making a certain sound in this video. Also thanks for making such a thorough tutorial 👏👏👏
Glad it helped!
Just fineshed installing RGH on my 360 from my childhoodm, i was going to keep it og, but since microsoft pulled the plug on it i modded with RGH. Thanks for the guide MRMario!
Have fun!
side note mr mario, the xclamp removal tool is perfect for lifting those tabs on the side panels without removing that black piece under the grates... the sharp end just goes into those holes to lift those tabs
Good idea, thanks!
Hey mario glad to see you still around haha... I see everyone from the old modding scene trying the rgh3 method even after years. Glad the scene hasnt died completely. I been following mr mondello for awhile on fb and seen when he first tried and and was mind blown. I still got some gems in my 360 collection not sure if ill ever let them go.
Still a fantastic console!
I've been watching your channel for awhile now since I always wanted to do soldering but I was intimidated with it but now this is first time that I managed to do a hardmod after getting a soldering iron and sacrificing two 360 motherbords, thanks MrMario!
BOOM, that's how it goes! I'm excited for you, because I was in the exact same spot years ago before delving in.
Had to destroy a few things in the process, but I got there. I understand the feeling 🙂
Really makes me want get an Xbox 360. I had a PS3 that generation and a Wii, but never got around to getting an Xbox 360.
Very cool mod that is just a couple of wires. Great video as always.
I'd recommend it, but I'm also biased as I have a lot of love for the console hah
I was in the same boat but getting a modded 360 well into the Xbox one generation was a big deal. There's tons of good stuff on the 360 and given you don't need an extra install it saves space storing the games on the console
Get it I just got one and I love it and this is coming from someone who has the new consoles like PS5 and series x and I use my old consoles more lol
You put a lot of time into this and want to thank you for your hard work on youtube!
I appreciate that, thank you!
I find that a small pair of diagonal cutters works great to grip the x-clamp right at that narrow points where it bends down at the ends 🖤
THANK YOU! You helped me! :D
After a bit of a hiccup with J-runner I was able to successfully finish the mod thanks to your video! First hard mod I've done too.
Nice work!
Hey everyone - just fyi a better way to shrink the heatshrink tubing is a hot air rework station/hot air gun/hairdryer as the open flame can desolder the wires (as MrMario said) or burn the heat shrink. Either way awesome tutorial, thx and peace ✌️
Best video I've seen on RGH3. Looking forward to "How to RGH3 a Xbox 360 Slim (C-word)"
my Xbox is from June 2010 just one month and a year (I think) before they went to corona's. So, nice!
Fantastic guide, thank you. The header wires were much more painful than the 2 back wires. :)
Unrelated, but knicked some traces after using a flat head to undo the X-clamp on a different console, needless to say I immediately purchased the recommended x-clamp tool, was able to do some trace repair and revive it luckily, I'll just save the trouble and heed your warning next time
You won't regret that little device!
I just got done waiting for some resistors to arrive from Amazon to realize... I was following the CORONA TUTORIAL! Currently waiting for the correct resistors and feeling like an idiot.
Same thing happened to me 🫠
it's kind of crazy how we went from drilling into a chip in the dvd drive to play burned discs, to only needing 2 wires for entire unsigned code running.
The drilling on a 16D4S drive is still a thing, that never got easier if you have a drive you need to drill to flash. It would be more accurate to say that we went from all of those glitch chip revisions to 2 wires for unsigned code.
Nice video. Been meaning to install this on my 360 slim, which also happens to be a Trinity model. Very fitting hah.
Thanks, dude! If you decide to tackle this, let me know how it goes! Hope you've been well, man.
Just wanted to thank you for this tutorial. I succeeded on my 3rd try luckily the consoles are only about £25 at the moment, and i think my 2nd attempt will be fine when i do the soldering again.
After flash, mine would boot for 1sec, and auto turn off. I thought I bricked it. I shortened my wires, and changed from a 10K to a 5K resistor (did not touch any solder points on the board), and so far it's working good. Thanks for the great guide. It helped a ton.
Great troubleshooting!
After almost a week, it stopped working. Opened trinity unit again, and wire under processor disconnected… assuming solder was weak on that very small point and being under processor where its hot it eventually let go… resoldered it and seems much better connection now…. Im assuming this is maybe why the lower resistor value initially fixed it for me because connection was weak and wasn’t letting as much power go through… it’s working again now, but very curious if I switched back to the 10K now that my connection is better, if everything would still work.
If this is the case, and you had to lower the value of your resistor to make it work, it may be the sign of weak solder points… cant tell for sure without more testing, but thought id throw that out there in cases it can help anyone that is having problems w their setup.
Thank you soooooooooo much for this tutorial!!! I followed it to a T, and managed to get it running on my trinity. I will say this though, that PL bypass had me stuck for unbelievably long 😅 I was in the process of quitting 4 separate times but kept persevering. (the solder and wire would just not stick to that point and kept on bridging with another connection) I honestly dont know how I got it to glitch, but I did. And I am not complaining that it worked XD. So for everyone our there, keep trying and dont give up! I learned my lesson today haha. Thanks again MrMario
Glad it worked for you!
Thank you. Your tutorial helped me mod my 360 and now I'm having fun with it.
Have fun!
Thank you so much for making your videos! You've helped me learn so much about moding I really don't think I'd be as far as I am without your videos. I just did my first ever successful rgh on my trinity. Please keep making these videos! If I may make a suggestion, I'd like to see a video on how to make the consol have custom start up sounds using a jq6500 mp3 controller. It would be a big help!
Thanks for these guides! successfully modded my X360S Trinity. first attempt had some few issues like the resistance on the 10k resistor. but i fixed it. ur guide is very helpful. btw im using the Pico flasher method and it works!
I ripped one of the trace during soldering, but glad that it can be fixed using a jumper wire. Btw, Im glad with the end result, as a first timer doing this mod
For people still watching this video. I did not watch fully through but if you decide to solder lead free make sure to buy flux too! Will make your soldering way more easier and quicker
I would always recommend flux here, even with leaded solder.
i recently found a trinity at a thrift store, and this will be my first time modding any 360, (lots of experience modding og xbox), i've just done the wire setup using 30 gauge mag wire and a 3.9kohm resistor i had lying around from when i made a eeprom reader for the og xbox, just need to buy a flasher and hopefully everything works out
update, i just got my pico and successfully flashed the console. for some reason though the wifi does not work, it fails the connection test at the network level when i try to connect it, wired works well though, this was happening before i modded the console though, i tried swapping the wifi card but it still wont work, so maybe its some network setting or for some reason the wifi signal cant make it up to the second floor, the building is made of concrete but my other devices connect just fine to the network so i'm not entirely sure
At this point the next thing I see for the Xbox 360 is a soft mod which would make it soooo much easier to mod I used 3.0 and am loving it but I still think people who want one modded feel less motivated due to the circumstances so hopefully sooner or later we will see a soft mod for the xb360 as it rightfully deserves
Don't be surprised if this is the closest we will ever get to a softmod.
@@MrMario2011 ik but still imo its totally worth it to put in the work but the hb community is amazing and finds cool shit all the time but I must agree this could be the closest we get sadly
Massive thanks for this tutorial. Gave it a try as my first soldering project and it went without a hitch. Only problem I ran into was I didn't know that I needed to plug the power into the xbox console before plugging in my pico flasher to usb. Otherwise it would not see the console.
That'll throw anyone off!
I'm so glad you made this vid, my application is simply to verify readabilty of discs since a pc dvd drive can't see the 2nd track on an xbox/360 disc.
I have no interest in piracy, I'm not dumping discs to play the backups, I just need to verify that every bit on the disc is readable 🖤
That's cool, although you can do that with a standard retail console as well? And if you're looking to dump EVERY bit, it's best to rip using Xbox Backup Creator and a 0800 flashed DVD drive.
Outstanding video tuturial. Just followed this to RGH 3 a Trinity board and it works a charm. Thank you kind sir :)
Woo! Thanks for confirming!
Was it your first mod?
i saw what the tool for removing the x clap looked like and ended up taking a fork and bending it in a certain way and it worked just fine
Great Video. I used two 1.6k in series and it worked with instant boot. Thanks.
After doing the ace v3 2/3 years ago to this. Holy crap this is a lot easier than I thought it would be
Nice. I bought a bunch of Pi Pico boards to bump up the price to get free shipping months ago. I finally have something to do with at least one of them.
Woo!
was only thinking when you'd make a video on this!! well done man!
Thanks!
Big thank you to Mr Mario!!! Easy to follow tutorial, i used to jtag years ago and thought id give the rgh3 a go , cant wait to get it loaded up , thank you once again!
Have fun!
i found a alternative to soldering to a via below the APU if you prefer DB5R4 is the Reference Its the Through hole Point With the big trace next to the Diode Trinity
Another quality tutorial from Mr. Mario.
Thanks!
this was awesome! I have an older 360 I pick3ed up just for this I just haven't picked up the nand flasher and that tool for the pressure clamp..... I WAS gonna get the old one you showed but this seems easy enough... I just have to get around to it (kinda busy with my ps4 pro JB and rasp pi zero doing all the work lol)
Hey Mr. Mario, you just inspired me to build my own RGH 360 for Trinity. I was looking over the video and I heard you say 10 K resistor so I ordered that part over 3K but I’ve also heard 3K is the easiest to use. Have you had any issues with boot times or have they been the same with 3K and 10 K?
It depends entirely on the console, every single one is different! I've used 10K and 3K on different consoles, been lucky enough to have them instaboot.
Just one thing to note from when I RGH my console using this tutorial if you have a Pico programmer or raspberry Pi with Topeka programmer installed you can turn the console on when that's fully connected I've done it it still works had no issues with it
Thanks! Completed my first RGH3!
Thanks for this great vid! When in Xell, if your console got an IP address via DHCP click on Scan IP in J-Runner ....it'll find the console and pull in the CPU Key automatically.
Hey, that's cool! Thanks!
Great tutorial, i was able to get my trinity xbox 360 modded just by following your video :)
Nice work!
Successfully modded my Trinity that I got for free. Thank you for the guide.
Enjoy!
Thank you so much for making this tutorial, it worked perfectly first time.
Glad it helped!
Success!!! Confirmed working with nandx had it since 2012 lol. Thanks to the weekend for nandx win 10 drivers and thank you Mr Mario!!!
Woo!
Nice, my trinity takes like 45 seconds to boot with it's current chip. Might be doing this soon.
Just got a slim. Will be doing this now that the store is gone.
Good luck!
Thanks Mario just got this done, video was a big help.
Glad this helped!
after writing ecc I connected to tv through hdmi nothing showing on the screen green light is blinking on the console
Yeah same here!!!
Soldering issue or soldering quality issue with your RGH3 points.
@@MrMario2011i have checked all the soldering is good
can be a resistor problem?
I have used a 4k resistor
Went very smooth. Thanks for the video!
Woo!
I really need to get a microscope. I look like Mr. Magoo whenever I scrape back the PLL point under C5R35
The microscope is a game changer.
@@MrMario2011 mind sharing your model?
Trinity chipless?!? When did it happen? It's a miracle!
November 2021 I believe?
Using this video and written guides (because the points don't line up) to RGH3 my Falcon!
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thank you for the video, always enjoy your easy to follow step by step.
this vid has been very informative, thanks for showing.
Glad it was helpful!
aw darn, this could've been really useful 2 weeks ago when I rgh'ed my 360, all the other video tutorials on yt are trash lol
istg first thing I searched up was "mrmario rgh 3 tutorial"
anyways another great hq tutorial, keep it up
I want to know if my xbox 360 is rgh or jtag can you tell me how
Unfortunately I didn't mod a trinity I modded a 4gb corona.
This video helped with understanding how to flash it and from there It was easy thanks for the time you spend on how to properly flash the console.
I did have to learn how to solder the SD tool and about the crystal wire and the RGH3 Install image but other than that your video did the rest.
Woo!
at 43:07 what happen when i not disconnect my nand programmer?
And at 48:35 , when i want to go to full retail version, how do i flash the retail image? and what is retail image? is it nand dump 1 & 2? I'm sorry, i didn't know much about this thing😅 but i hope you guys be good enough for telling me about this things.
please reply :) Thanks!
Undo RGH3 wiring and reflash the original NAND dump.
@@MrMario2011 Hey, thanks for the fast reply. but does the thing that got scratch have not affect anything when i get to full retail ? and how to reflash the nand dump? if you have a video for it that would be nice!
I have problem with this mod. I have trinity 16mb. First one was that I was not getting any signal on tv. Removing 10k resistor solved the problem. Next one is that Console boots to xell but not to dashboard. It freeze right at the begining on xbox logo.
i too am stuck at no signal on tv. checked my solder points and they are fine. im stuck here sadly
Here is a handy tipp for exposing the PLL_BYPASS much simpler and risk free. Get yourself an Fiberpen, then you can scrub away the coating without risking to damage the traces. Be careful with the dirt that the pen is leaving and clean it away with an paper towel. Never use your bare hands as the fiber leavings can get stuck in your skin and hurt.
Wouldn't recommend the fiberpen since those are much bigger than the via that has to be exposed.
Thank you man💯 I got my console wired up and running on the first try.😊
That's how you do it!!!
@@MrMario2011 I have had my xbox360 for awhile now and the harddrive in the console never could be recognized so I had to buy a usb adapter until I did this to my console I had an extra empty harddrive lying around put in and booted xell reloaded and its recognized by my xbox again.💯😊
I always love your tutorials
Glad you like them!
Somebody really needs to make a pogo pin adapter for this to speed up installs
Get on it!!
Worked perfectly, thanks Sir.
You're welcome!
This gonna be my first time soldering
I don't recommend tackling this for a first time soldering experience.
@@MrMario2011 gotta start somewhere
@@MrMario2011 I’ve got a console banned 360 slim in a cupboard collect dust so not to bothered if it breaks
@@MrMario2011 worse comes to worse I can just reheat the solder and clean it off and try again
Scraped the pll point to low , it’s holding solder but not enough , any work around or am I sol?
Sounds like you'll need to go with another method like S-RGH
@@MrMario2011 is your older video on that the most recent method or are the steps different nowadays
excellent tutorial
Glad you liked it!
44:03 was the nand flasher connected to the board while typing the ip or cpu key? Thank you for this man
I always disconnect it whenever I turn on the console.
@@MrMario2011 when you type in the ip of console to jrunner it will generate the cpu key while the system is turned off? Thanks
Good vid bud....but to make the work even more neat, use the SMD version of the resistor, but normally I don't use the resistors at all. Just the two wires :D
Thanks for the tip, dude! I've seen that recommendation, not at all a bad one. I bought each resistor needed in a pack of 100, so I'll be sitting on these ceramic ones for a long time :P
I have pretty much everything I need to get started, however I do just have on question about the PLL_BYPASS via, I have a fibreglass scratching pen, can I ask if this is safer to use instead of an x-acto knife or similar. Also great tutorial you explain everything perfectly which is great when I have little experience with soldering.
Not recommended, it would scratch much too large of a surface area.