Insignia eh? I guess I don't need to invent the kai box then. What is the Kai Box? It was an fpga powered box that I designed but never built. What was it's job? It was a way to use xlink Kai without a pc, so you could do link games online. I never built it though, but thanks Jeff, cause your bit about insignia allowed me to remember and finally get credit for it nearly 20 years after in designed it! Anyone is free to make the kaibox to augment insignia if they'd want, I'd like a shout-out if you do....
Nothing has come close to the feeling of booting up your Original Xbox, hearing/seeing that iconic intro, hearing/seeing that menu, and playing Halo: Combat Evolved, Brute Force, Halo 2, and etc. What a time all of that was.
Too bad there's 4000 registered users and you'll be lucky to find 10 people online. Since i registered 30days ago i was barely able to play some games with Counter Strike or Unreal and literally ZERO with other games (and i checked it daily if people do play them, even asked to play on its discord). It's a great project, damn great, but apparently people do not give a f being there and play with others. Also, searching and asking players inside the discord does not help find you people play, because there's no real care in it.
@@Davo_1991 They rebuilt the entire network from the ground up using their own code. I don't know if Microsoft could issue a cease and desist even if they wanted to.
I just played with you on Battlefront 2! It was fun being able to play with the guy whose tutorial I followed to perfection and everything worked! Thank you so much for the fun!
Xbox live during that era was insane. I can't even describe it. My mom was a single parent, raising 3 kids, and we lived in a tiny cramped apartment that was technically a duplex. We had close to no money, but I begged my mom to get my xbox live, that woman not only got it for me, but let me use the internet modem to play (this was before the popularity of routers to allow wifi) and it was the best thing i have ever experienced. It was addicting how much fun it was.
I know that this video is mainly about restoring the old wild West era of Xbox live before everything was so heavily monetized, but I feel the need to point out that I really miss the old Xbox sound design. Just the aesthetic in general. All those futuristic beeps and robotic noises were so cool. I'll never understand why newer Xbox consoles never stuck with that.
They were trying to appeal to "the whole family", all that weeb counter-culture crap that had everyone trying to make their console more like a media center + Wii. But OG Xbox represented an era that was dark and gritty and real; games had good writing and even better multiplayer, and... man, I'm an old man. But it was all corporate looking over the shoulders of the design team / artists and saying "No, I know how to make art better than you do. Make it look friendlier."
@@Vagabondobiondo Thats exactly how it went too. I still have my old Xbox and cant wait to get it back online again... I ran so many things on my Xbox and even had the samsung drive all hacked to run any game copies. I had a dualboot so i could run Linux on it too just because I could lol. Good times.. XBMC paved the road for Kodi too
I didn't know much about online multiplayer back in the day so I missed out on it on Xbox/Ps2 days. This is really awesome and I hope insignia continues to grow more and more!
I started playing online with Halo 2 back in 2005 and it's crazy how beating the games on Legendary actually helped when playing online against real people
@@MichaelM28 looked/felt cheaper as well and the specs also reflected that lol love ps2 games but they most multiplatform games look and run a bit bad compared to xbox & gamecube.
@@MichaelM28 Minus that you had to buy a separate hard drive and a modem connector, which used telephone cables or small ethernet cables instead of actual ethernet cables similar to the first xbox console (Xbox One/Xbox 2001, not to be confused with Xbox One/Xbox Three/Xbox 2013).
wow, thank you so much for sharing this. I spent sooo much of my college years in the early 2000s playing xbox live, splinter cell pandora tomorrow, chaos theory, rainbow six, ghost recon. This was legit my favorite console ever made.
I found my first copy of it my dad bought from a buybacks in 2003 and have yet to stop playing it. Penthouse stealth mission still gives me nightmares though lol
@Dammit Jeff, I am featured in your video in TOCA "Cpl Killa V"... Nice to have met you ingame!. The bit where you are talking about "Live Chat" 15:43 is so funny! We've been trying to understand him for weeks 🤣.... Great video!
I played OG Xbox, in lad partys because the internet was not as good as it is today. We had 5 TV's and 5 Xbox with Halo 2 and Star Wars Blatelfunt 2, good times. Now I can experience it online. Thanks for sharing.
7:07 I'd be interested in a vid like that. As someone who's scared shitless of opening up consoles, but recognizes that it'd be a useful skill, I think your very informative, easy-to-follow style would suit it well.
Thankfully whats nice about our modern time is that there is sooo much information online about how to go about it. definitely pick up an electronics tool set and dont be afraid to try!
@@alexisvillanueva1916my fear is that I’ll loose all my game progress on my Xbox… I’m trying to find a way to copy my game saves to my pc but even then idk if they’ll work on another xbox I get
@@E3T7 You can pull your harddrive/SSD storage device out and put it to the side while working on the console. I dont know if the xbox has built in storage but it would be worth checking to see if you can transfer all your data to a separate USB stick or to your drive inside your xbox and pull it out. You could also try swapping that drive to another xbox and see if it'll boot your information and game saves. The 360 was able to do that so Imagine newer consoles can as well.
They need to get everyone addicted to it and then open up a patron and start earning the money they really deserve for this. This is amazing right here and brings back so much NASTALGIA
@@hankhill5622 yea dude that would be so awesome I’m down too man. These were the days when a game was complete day one, no skins or pay to play perks and shit. No woke shit shoved down your throat just a game and your friends. But on the topic of a patron I don’t see how this is going to be consistently sustainable for the guys who are doing this. Yes they may enjoy and don’t mind doing it for free now but eventually if s bunch of people catch on to this and it becomes popular I would imagine they would have to expand they’re servers and “stuff up” to keep up with the new member approvals as well as having someone managing updates and tweaks to the system. But I’m sure they are already on this
14:40 this part had me throwing my arms up in the air like Chewbacca. Haven't felt an excitement like this in a while, getting to play old games online is nostalgic and new to me at the same time. like I'm taking a dip into a time I wasn't around for.
Great video. Wow, I feel old. Still have my original Xbox that I bought in 2004 (took me a few years to get one) when I was 25. Lol. I'll be 44 this year. Have had to replace the disc drive a few times, but my system still works. Thanks for the tip on the Pound adapter. I run my Xbox system on a CRT tv but definitely want to try that adapter.
Dang, watching this video takes me back. There are times I really wish I never got rid of my original Xbox. I realize you can probably go out and buy them still, but it would have been cooler to have kept mine. I would love to go back and play some NFS Underground 1 & 2, for starters. Also, your comment in the video about not being able to sprint in COD, that happened to me with Halo. After years of not playing it, I hopped back in one day and was blown away that we never had sprinting back then. lol
I was looking through the comments to see if anyone had pointed this out and yeah that's definitely a very unique way of doing product placement, paste your logos while you're playing on a competitor's game system 😂
Great video. I appreciate very much how you focused not just on the multiplayer service, but the *whole experience* , from controllers, to picture output. Well done.
00:25 Haha I remember that hype around Xbox Live's launch back in the day, like "OMG you can play online on a console!!" Meanwhile, Dreamcast owners were like "Uh huh, cool ain't it?" 😂
8:46 It uses USB 2.0 flash drives, so I'd recommend the following: Cruzer Blade from SanDisk (the iconic red and black version) Adata C008 (retractable blue and white) Kodak Mini Metal K122 Hopefully that'll come in handy later.
@@SI0AX the size matters, considering that something more than 4gigs is unrecognizable since flash drives were hella expensive per gigabyte at that time.
I didnt have online back then. Parents didn't want to pay that price then. So i was stuck with playing campaigns but had fun with friends though real time.
Wow! Thanks for all the links and suggestions for an OG Xbox like the HDMI cable and controller cable. I have an OG Xbox and I still use it a lot. Very helpful!
So envious. I had a Xbox with 160gb HDD and lots of games installed, emulators, don't remember the ROM software it was running but it made me the coolest kid on the block when everyone else had Gamecubes and PS2's... My unit sadly stopped working, likely due to the issue power caps that were leaky or something, that I read about just a few years ago? I really miss it. Thanks for this video!
9:23 Couldn't you just make a 1-2 gb partition on any flash drive and leave the rest of the drive unformatted? It would/should still show up the same for the Xbox
Awesome! It's crazy that at 3:43 we remember the original quality looking like the right side, but in reality it looked a lot closer to the left side through those older TVs.
Bro. I have had my Modded Xbox for two years now and it is awesome. And now thanks to your advice for the HDMI adapter for the Xbox, in the adapter to use my Xbox series controller on the OG Xbox it's even better now. I've been hopping online having a great time.
WiFi adapter should work since WiFi routers are backwards compatible with wifi receivers as long as it is on 2.4GHz band (still widespread), but don’t expect speeds to be amazing
A similar thing happens to the psp. We were only able to use ad-hoc features in some games, but some clever boy figured out how to route the traffic to a server to enable online play in games such as monster hunter, Tiger Woods, killzone, nfs. I remember back in the day before 3g when I'd literally have to walk down the streets of a rough neighbourhood just to find a small WiFi signal to download a cheat page or CWCHEAT. Then I became a script kiddy.
14:28 Man... the memories. I had a modded xbox with the EvoX dashboard and a 250gb hdd. I used to play CS on kai link for hours and hours. The only sad thing was for most the day there was 0 people online, and maybe 25 at absolute peak.
OG live was literally the most fun gaming has ever been and even being back now I doubt the feelings can be replicated, because it was so new and amazing on release.
yeah they won’t be the same again in my opinion, that to all of us was “futuristic” and all the game developers was doing something different, now it all just feels like copy n paste n overpriced shit
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EXCELLENT VIDEO! Quality content, as usual from this channel! ---I was 19-20 when OG XBL started up. It was sooo awesome, and for the most part, just worked great. I had busted my ass working 2 FT jobs at the time, and was still living with my Pop. So I had the money. Had a PS2, GC, and Xbox. XBL made the OG XBOX my platform of choice at the time for sure. Especially with it's exclusives, and nearly all 3rd party on it was rivaling the PC of the day for supreme version. Add XBL on top and it was thEE shit. Several XBL games of the era got my attention, but the one I came back time and time again for, was PGR 2. LOVED that game. So disappointed that they haven't figured out a way to reboot/remake the PGR series after Bizarre Creations went out. It's a fun game on it's own, but it was HIGHLY tied into OG XBL. LEaderboards, Time Trials, Lobbies, etc. Despite still being fun, it always felt like 40% of the game was missing without having XBL available any longer...... I've been hearing/reading about this for around a year now. After seeing this, I feel I have to do this now lol.... PGR2 needs me, and I it. An all-time favorite of mine. Crimson Skies was another great, Rainbow Six 3, Battlefront 2 etc. MAKE PGR GAMES GREAT AGAIN! lol. Cheers.
I got a crystal Xbox for Christmas in 2004. It came with Fable and Crimson Skies… crimson skies was so cool but Fable became my obsession for a few years. I learned to beat the game in less than 5 hours. It was something I’d do at sleepover parties when we stayed up all night playing Xbox. We’d also have LAN parties playing Halo 2 with 8 people, 4 to an Xbox and tv, with a sheet secured to the ceiling to divide the room so we couldn’t “screen peak”. Man, we had so much fun.
The pound cable is a bit pricey so, for those who want component hd cables with the xbox. If you take your xbox av cable, and make your own for free or very cheap, from a set of xbox 360 component cables lying around or buy that for cheap. Search DIY Xbox component cables.
The AV2HDMI is using the lowest quality video signal(composite), the Pound converter is internally using the best - Component video(similar quality to VGA), which supports 480p and HD with games that support it(which may be available on more games with a modded Xbox, much like a modded PS2 allows HD output for many more games). It would be impossible for even the highest end composite video converter to match it.
This video just gave me so much nostalgia. I'll never forget coming home one day to my dad showing off the new xbox he bought and he got xbox live the same day. Even though I was already very familiar with video games at this point (N64, Sega Genesis) I believe the Xbox Live Era is what really turned me into a life long gamer. What an absolutely amazing era of video gaming
Xbox supported component cables, not just red white yellow. You can force your Xbox into HD mode as well, which upscales the 480 games into 720. I have uploaded game play of NCCA football that is recorded raw from my console, not an emulator, and they are in 720.
As far as I know, it’s the only console to let you play your own music in games, most notably, as a dedicated GTA radio station (that was amazing!) and to make use of the hard drive as a USP for a game and actually utilised as one of its game mechanics (manipulating time in Blinx the Timesweeper). Pretty cool. I wonder why the music aspects weren’t utilised in any consoles after this one?
That's the best looking game library scroll feature I have ever seen on an OG Xbox. I've never seen that before. What kind of mod is that at 6:27 ???!!!
Thats called the Origins dashboard. The best dashboard you can have for a modded original Xbox that is also an emulator. There's a link to the video in this description where the guy talks about Origins. I just watched it, it's amazing.
I was too young and my family was not well off back when the Xbox was popping, so I never got to play it or any consoles rly; just was watching friends play until the PS4 when I bought it late in it's life cycle. This video is making me consider to get an Xbox and enjoy those legendary multiplayer games I never got to play :') thanks for posting this video!
Jeff you are the freaking best your production to me is and has always been awesome your voice is incredible it's very pleasing to the ears your mannerisms attitude the way you carry yourself is just very professional and cool you deserve a million subscribers because that's how you carry yourself even from earlier days and now and your information is so well documented and well thought out and very helpful for anybody to do anything that you're doing so much love continued success and I support you all the way thank you very much
05:30 Well, another option, the one I use the most, get yourself an 8-port ethernet switcher, which allows you to use ethernet cables to be hooked up to multiple devices through ethernet, just form one ethernet cable hooked up from the router (say a floor above the basement or on the first floor) to another room inside the walls, and then hook it up to any port on the ethernet switcher, grab yourself some ethernet patch cables, hook up your devices with ethernet, and you're done. I can't tell you how much of a struggle WiFi was for me playing the Xbox 360, it was slow as heck. Once I hooked it up to the ethernet, it was a lot easier and much faster connection, and more stable, than wifi will ever be, just saying. Also, I wouldn't recommend playing on TVs that are larger than 54 inches as it introduces a ton of lag, especially if your controller is wireless.
Man getting home after school and hitting the og xbox or ps2 with friends was the best thing around, Halo, gears, smack down vs raw, call of duty and many more💪
Microsoft renamed Xbox live to "Xbox Network" which sounds so corporate and boring. I miss the orange "Live" logo they used back in the original Xbox and Xbox 360 days, it's so nostalgic to me. I still remember the orange dvd cases that the Xbox Live cards came in back in the early 360 days, they looked so cool but also seemed like a waste of plastic haha. (EDIT: I found one I had saved complete with the card inside and everything which is pretty cool) That's probably why they later switched to cardboard cases. (I don't know if the plastic DVD cases was a EU only thing)
I cannot stress enough how important it is to check on your clock capacitor if you're using real hardware. Unless you've got a 1.6 motherboard your Xbox will die if it's not already dead unless you remove or replace that thing.
Got me interested in the pound converters, Ive looked into a few and reviews are hit and miss but the side by side comparison is nice. Currently I have my ps4 on my smart tv and my childhood crt tv next to it for my ps1/ps2 n64 and og xbox. $40 bucks a pop for the convenience of only using 1 tv isnt too hateful. Granted I dont need it since my setup is a matter of sliding over 2 feet to a different screen but still nice to see its an option.
In the mid 2000's, i used to play battlefront II online. I would play on various servers, but i few servers became my home. After llaying for a handfull of months, i started to gain a bit of recognition. I wasnt that great woth the shotty class or the grunt class, but i was getting really good with the sniper class. Eventually i befriended a group of guys who were always good competition, a few of them a part of MOH, a couple from JOD and one of the guys from SOF. Anyways, one day i was in their server hanging out, and these guys were having a conversation about some drama within the clans, and I just happened to be absolutely shitting that day. After that one of the guys said they "should pick me up". I didnt know what they were talking about, but apparently, MOH had been having some fueding. See, MOH was the top clan. They were something like 100 or 200 something and 0. Undefeated in clan battles. Well they were having some feud within their clan, and a couple of their best players left the clan and started their own called COS. They then went on to grab the top players from the other clans and basically made a god squad. Well a couple of these guys were the ones i was talking about. So they had me 1v1 one of the guys, his name was aXle, formally MOH, and i held my own, but didnt beat him. Apparently that was enough though, they asked me to join their team and i said sure. They then proceeded to teach me everything. From gun skill to strats, and then came the day we started our clan battles domination. We would go on to deliver MOH their first loss, and then we went on to win every tournament and monthly team point race. Last i remembered we were something like 302-0. I didnt play in every one of those games, but I participated in probably like 30 of them. But those were my fondest times on that game. I was like maybe 11 or 12, and I owe probably most of fps skill i had after that to those guys.
I will definately be doing this.... the original xbxo was the first console that was all mine, and i never got to play online as we didn't have internet at the time.
@hfgddfdfdh Do you think a man is only the sum of his skeletal system? What a poor summary of what makes a great man. His mind, his heart and his intention speaks volumes towards the greatness within.
I noticed a game you mentioned: Toca Race Driver 2. In Australia, we got a modified version called: V8 Supercars Race Driver 2. It was basically the same game but with Australia - specific add ons like our Aussie tracks, and of course, Australian Touring cars from the V8 Supercars tournament. It was really awesome at the time, because aside from Gran Turismo 4 and one of the GameCube versions of Need For Speed, there had never been any Australian vehicles in a mainstream videogame before. At least none in proper 3D models. It was a big deal over here and lots of people had it.
Dammit Jeff, you should get a group of people together on a server, vote on a game & setup a time so everyone can play together. Insignia only has 20 users active max daily. You could be the reason that number hits 100 in one day.
For me, if you're going to play original xbox, you use the duke. Yeah it's massive but is somehow comfortable and ergonomic while being comically huge and I do have small hands so that says something to how they managed to recover from that blunder when making the PCBs. With hyperkin remaking the dukes I suppose you could have an original and new controller experience still with that adapter which is... interesting actually. I kind of hope microsoft allows for this to somehow work on xbox one, series and as if this is not already a long shot but somehow manages to squeeze in an update for the 360 to work with this method. That would be something to behold.
Syncing up a new controller is next level man. I still have and use .y modded Xbox frequently so this makes me feel better about it since I never knew this trick. The pound cable on a 4k TV makes Xbox look really solid
BRO THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS AND NO ONE HAS ANY HELPFUL INFORMATION YOU LITTERLY SHOW ME STEP BY STEP !! THANK YOU !!! GOD BLESS YOU
Battlefront 2 remains undefeated in 2023 :)
Go to piavpn.com/DammitJeff and get 83% off + 4 extra months FREE!
What if you don't have a PC, but have a Macintosh instead? Any different steps for Macintosh.
Is Project Insignia finally out of beta mode or is this video is what to come
@@realofficialdjdemmerneckgaming not yet it's still in beta mode right now. Hopefully they'll fully release it sometime this year
Insignia eh? I guess I don't need to invent the kai box then. What is the Kai Box? It was an fpga powered box that I designed but never built. What was it's job? It was a way to use xlink Kai without a pc, so you could do link games online. I never built it though, but thanks Jeff, cause your bit about insignia allowed me to remember and finally get credit for it nearly 20 years after in designed it! Anyone is free to make the kaibox to augment insignia if they'd want, I'd like a shout-out if you do....
I'LL SEE YOU THERE!!! THIS IS SO DOPE!!!
The old dashboard always had a mysterious feeling that was made stronger by the sounds.
The creepy ass menu Easter egg lol
The fact Halo and Brute Force were some of my first games made it feel even more alien
Nothing has come close to the feeling of booting up your Original Xbox, hearing/seeing that iconic intro, hearing/seeing that menu, and playing Halo: Combat Evolved, Brute Force, Halo 2, and etc. What a time all of that was.
It was like peering into the mind of a machine. I love it.
i remember the screen going dark when idle and i got so scared i had to hide until my parents came back
Props to the programmers who remade Xbox live. Your passion is appreciated thank you.
Too bad there's 4000 registered users and you'll be lucky to find 10 people online. Since i registered 30days ago i was barely able to play some games with Counter Strike or Unreal and literally ZERO with other games (and i checked it daily if people do play them, even asked to play on its
discord). It's a great project, damn great, but apparently people do not give a f being there and play with others. Also, searching and asking players inside the discord does not help find you people play, because there's no real care in it.
until microsoft probably gives them a cease and desist shortly unless there is some legal loophole they found and can't be touched on this..?.
@@Davo_1991 They rebuilt the entire network from the ground up using their own code. I don't know if Microsoft could issue a cease and desist even if they wanted to.
Absolutely. The real mvps
@@classical_madness5926 MS would be unlikely to win and would probably hire them instead
I just played with you on Battlefront 2! It was fun being able to play with the guy whose tutorial I followed to perfection and everything worked! Thank you so much for the fun!
Great game too, still has space battles unlike its modern knockoff XD
Do the servers get full?
@@UNSCPILOT fr you’d think like 15 years later they would’ve improved but nah the original is just so much better
@@skibiditoiletenjoyer333 Original battlefront is 1000 times better than the new knockoff it just feels so authentic man I miss the early 2000s 😞
Xbox live during that era was insane. I can't even describe it. My mom was a single parent, raising 3 kids, and we lived in a tiny cramped apartment that was technically a duplex. We had close to no money, but I begged my mom to get my xbox live, that woman not only got it for me, but let me use the internet modem to play (this was before the popularity of routers to allow wifi) and it was the best thing i have ever experienced. It was addicting how much fun it was.
Is she still single
@@user-73a no, sorry brother. I'll put in a good word for you though
I know that this video is mainly about restoring the old wild West era of Xbox live before everything was so heavily monetized, but I feel the need to point out that I really miss the old Xbox sound design. Just the aesthetic in general. All those futuristic beeps and robotic noises were so cool. I'll never understand why newer Xbox consoles never stuck with that.
They were trying to appeal to "the whole family", all that weeb counter-culture crap that had everyone trying to make their console more like a media center + Wii. But OG Xbox represented an era that was dark and gritty and real; games had good writing and even better multiplayer, and... man, I'm an old man. But it was all corporate looking over the shoulders of the design team / artists and saying "No, I know how to make art better than you do. Make it look friendlier."
@@Vagabondobiondo Thats exactly how it went too. I still have my old Xbox and cant wait to get it back online again... I ran so many things on my Xbox and even had the samsung drive all hacked to run any game copies. I had a dualboot so i could run Linux on it too just because I could lol. Good times.. XBMC paved the road for Kodi too
I remember the UI update on the 360. There were all these product tiles, it’s been pretty gross since then.
sound isnt an aesthetic. people use that word wrong constantly
I jus turned 34 like Two days ago. This truly was the GOLDEN Age of gaming. Ps2/ Ps3 era and the OG Xbox/ 360. Take me baaaaaaaack
I didn't know much about online multiplayer back in the day so I missed out on it on Xbox/Ps2 days. This is really awesome and I hope insignia continues to grow more and more!
Personally I thought the online experience on Dreamcast was better. People in data deserts could actually play these games, even back in 2001 to 2004
I played PS2 Call of Duty 3 Online in 2009 or so. It was free so i could afford it as a poor kid lol i had young parents
I started playing online with Halo 2 back in 2005 and it's crazy how beating the games on Legendary actually helped when playing online against real people
too bad nobody plays any games there
@ps3kobra yeah barely play anything even halo 2. Even after all that hype it had.
I wasn't alive during the original Xbox era, but it sure looks as one to be highly sought after.
It was the best of times
@@MichaelM28 looked/felt cheaper as well and the specs also reflected that lol love ps2 games but they most multiplatform games look and run a bit bad compared to xbox & gamecube.
Good times those were
@@MichaelM28bruh nobody gives a damn
@@MichaelM28 Minus that you had to buy a separate hard drive and a modem connector, which used telephone cables or small ethernet cables instead of actual ethernet cables similar to the first xbox console (Xbox One/Xbox 2001, not to be confused with Xbox One/Xbox Three/Xbox 2013).
wow, thank you so much for sharing this. I spent sooo much of my college years in the early 2000s playing xbox live, splinter cell pandora tomorrow, chaos theory, rainbow six, ghost recon. This was legit my favorite console ever made.
Same! Pandora tomorrow and rainbow six 3 black arrow was so much fun
I found my first copy of it my dad bought from a buybacks in 2003 and have yet to stop playing it. Penthouse stealth mission still gives me nightmares though lol
@@datgyat the online spy vs merc was where this game was at.
Yooo spy vs merc was AMAZINGGG
@Dammit Jeff, I am featured in your video in TOCA "Cpl Killa V"... Nice to have met you ingame!. The bit where you are talking about "Live Chat" 15:43 is so funny! We've been trying to understand him for weeks 🤣.... Great video!
Is toca race driver 3 work good for multiplayer or nah? That’s the one I have
Halo 2 was a huge part of my childhood. Met some amazing people there.. I miss those days. When party chat was released, everything changed :(
Party chat killed meeting new people
@@taptradingcards1406bad no1 talks anymore
I played OG Xbox, in lad partys because the internet was not as good as it is today. We had 5 TV's and 5 Xbox with Halo 2 and Star Wars Blatelfunt 2, good times. Now I can experience it online. Thanks for sharing.
7:07 I'd be interested in a vid like that. As someone who's scared shitless of opening up consoles, but recognizes that it'd be a useful skill, I think your very informative, easy-to-follow style would suit it well.
Thankfully whats nice about our modern time is that there is sooo much information online about how to go about it. definitely pick up an electronics tool set and dont be afraid to try!
how can opening a device with screws be scary. everything on earth is literally replaceable
@@alexisvillanueva1916my fear is that I’ll loose all my game progress on my Xbox… I’m trying to find a way to copy my game saves to my pc but even then idk if they’ll work on another xbox I get
@@E3T7 You can pull your harddrive/SSD storage device out and put it to the side while working on the console. I dont know if the xbox has built in storage but it would be worth checking to see if you can transfer all your data to a separate USB stick or to your drive inside your xbox and pull it out. You could also try swapping that drive to another xbox and see if it'll boot your information and game saves. The 360 was able to do that so Imagine newer consoles can as well.
@@alexisvillanueva1916 Nah dude this is the Original Xbox, not a newer console.
My man, +1 on every accessory you suggested. Doing a couple upgrades to your setup makes old consoles easier to enjoy.
I could listen to you talk for hours lol you have such a great voice for voice over work! Love your videos!
They need to get everyone addicted to it and then open up a patron and start earning the money they really deserve for this. This is amazing right here and brings back so much NASTALGIA
I would totally be down for a group who regularly plays halo 2 on the og xbox.
@@hankhill5622 yea dude that would be so awesome I’m down too man. These were the days when a game was complete day one, no skins or pay to play perks and shit. No woke shit shoved down your throat just a game and your friends.
But on the topic of a patron I don’t see how this is going to be consistently sustainable for the guys who are doing this. Yes they may enjoy and don’t mind doing it for free now but eventually if s bunch of people catch on to this and it becomes popular I would imagine they would have to expand they’re servers and “stuff up” to keep up with the new member approvals as well as having someone managing updates and tweaks to the system. But I’m sure they are already on this
@@You-gk1el I would figure they're already using volunteer servers.
I wonder if Microsoft would have something to say and file a lawsuit?
@@lildude6906 I doubt they'll bother, as long as the devs aren't getting any
profit, it's not worth the lawyer fees and bad pr.
14:40 this part had me throwing my arms up in the air like Chewbacca. Haven't felt an excitement like this in a while, getting to play old games online is nostalgic and new to me at the same time. like I'm taking a dip into a time I wasn't around for.
Great video. Wow, I feel old. Still have my original Xbox that I bought in 2004 (took me a few years to get one) when I was 25. Lol. I'll be 44 this year. Have had to replace the disc drive a few times, but my system still works. Thanks for the tip on the Pound adapter. I run my Xbox system on a CRT tv but definitely want to try that adapter.
Dang, watching this video takes me back. There are times I really wish I never got rid of my original Xbox. I realize you can probably go out and buy them still, but it would have been cooler to have kept mine. I would love to go back and play some NFS Underground 1 & 2, for starters.
Also, your comment in the video about not being able to sprint in COD, that happened to me with Halo. After years of not playing it, I hopped back in one day and was blown away that we never had sprinting back then. lol
Hey man, there is times that I regret getting rid of my Nintendo 2DS, your not the only one lol
The PlayStation 2 logo on the Audi you were racing with is pretty funny to see
I was looking through the comments to see if anyone had pointed this out and yeah that's definitely a very unique way of doing product placement, paste your logos while you're playing on a competitor's game system 😂
Oh man. This brings back so many great memories. I signed up on launch day and kept the same gamer tag for 15 years.
only real xbox dudes had an account for 20 years
Great video. I appreciate very much how you focused not just on the multiplayer service, but the *whole experience* , from controllers, to picture output. Well done.
Also PS2 online is getting awesome.
I cant believe there is people playing twisted metal black online both from PCSX2 and PS2 in crossplay
00:25 Haha I remember that hype around Xbox Live's launch back in the day, like "OMG you can play online on a console!!" Meanwhile, Dreamcast owners were like "Uh huh, cool ain't it?" 😂
8:46
It uses USB 2.0 flash drives, so I'd recommend the following:
Cruzer Blade from SanDisk (the iconic red and black version)
Adata C008 (retractable blue and white)
Kodak Mini Metal K122
Hopefully that'll come in handy later.
So it's just needs to be 2.0? The size doesn't matter? What about formatting the drive to make it seem like it's smaller to the Xbox?
@@SI0AX the size matters, considering that something more than 4gigs is unrecognizable since flash drives were hella expensive per gigabyte at that time.
Can I take out my old music thats saved with that wire also?
@@bigredmoet I guess yes.
I didnt have online back then. Parents didn't want to pay that price then. So i was stuck with playing campaigns but had fun with friends though real time.
Wow...Man I'm impressed by the quality/information in your channel..it's very professional looking
Man the online looks absolutley perfect ! Everyone talking, laughing having fun playing games just like the good old days
Wow! Thanks for all the links and suggestions for an OG Xbox like the HDMI cable and controller cable. I have an OG Xbox and I still use it a lot. Very helpful!
So envious. I had a Xbox with 160gb HDD and lots of games installed, emulators, don't remember the ROM software it was running but it made me the coolest kid on the block when everyone else had Gamecubes and PS2's...
My unit sadly stopped working, likely due to the issue power caps that were leaky or something, that I read about just a few years ago? I really miss it.
Thanks for this video!
When Dammit Jeff uploads a video:
The Return of The King.
9:23 Couldn't you just make a 1-2 gb partition on any flash drive and leave the rest of the drive unformatted? It would/should still show up the same for the Xbox
Awesome! It's crazy that at 3:43 we remember the original quality looking like the right side, but in reality it looked a lot closer to the left side through those older TVs.
Bro. I have had my Modded Xbox for two years now and it is awesome. And now thanks to your advice for the HDMI adapter for the Xbox, in the adapter to use my Xbox series controller on the OG Xbox it's even better now. I've been hopping online having a great time.
THIS is how it’s done!! Modded + HDMI + Insignia is the ELITE Xbox setup!!
@@DammitJeff My copy of NFL 2K5 looks amazing with this setup as well. Thanks again.
the original Xbox and Xbox Live changed my life. some of my best memories come from those winters learning halo 2 glitches with friends online.
Great vid, I still have the software to rip CDs to the Xbox hdd. Fond memories of renting games from Blockbuster and ripping them after school
14:25 I love how the car has a ps2 logo on it
WiFi adapter should work since WiFi routers are backwards compatible with wifi receivers as long as it is on 2.4GHz band (still widespread), but don’t expect speeds to be amazing
Wow, this is awesome!! I’m so excited to jump back into online :)
A similar thing happens to the psp.
We were only able to use ad-hoc features in some games, but some clever boy figured out how to route the traffic to a server to enable online play in games such as monster hunter, Tiger Woods, killzone, nfs.
I remember back in the day before 3g when I'd literally have to walk down the streets of a rough neighbourhood just to find a small WiFi signal to download a cheat page or CWCHEAT.
Then I became a script kiddy.
14:28 Man... the memories. I had a modded xbox with the EvoX dashboard and a 250gb hdd. I used to play CS on kai link for hours and hours. The only sad thing was for most the day there was 0 people online, and maybe 25 at absolute peak.
THE LEGEND IS BACK
I use CDs and a sharpie for Sega Saturn games with my Phantom modded V-Saturn. Works perfectly with all my BIN/CUE backup CDs.
OG live was literally the most fun gaming has ever been and even being back now I doubt the feelings can be replicated, because it was so new and amazing on release.
yeah they won’t be the same again in my opinion, that to all of us was “futuristic” and all the game developers was doing something different, now it all just feels like copy n paste n overpriced shit
6:34 that dash that guy has looks sooo good
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EXCELLENT VIDEO! Quality content, as usual from this channel! ---I was 19-20 when OG XBL started up. It was sooo awesome, and for the most part, just worked great. I had busted my ass working 2 FT jobs at the time, and was still living with my Pop. So I had the money. Had a PS2, GC, and Xbox. XBL made the OG XBOX my platform of choice at the time for sure. Especially with it's exclusives, and nearly all 3rd party on it was rivaling the PC of the day for supreme version. Add XBL on top and it was thEE shit. Several XBL games of the era got my attention, but the one I came back time and time again for, was PGR 2. LOVED that game. So disappointed that they haven't figured out a way to reboot/remake the PGR series after Bizarre Creations went out. It's a fun game on it's own, but it was HIGHLY tied into OG XBL. LEaderboards, Time Trials, Lobbies, etc. Despite still being fun, it always felt like 40% of the game was missing without having XBL available any longer...... I've been hearing/reading about this for around a year now. After seeing this, I feel I have to do this now lol.... PGR2 needs me, and I it. An all-time favorite of mine. Crimson Skies was another great, Rainbow Six 3, Battlefront 2 etc. MAKE PGR GAMES GREAT AGAIN! lol. Cheers.
I got a crystal Xbox for Christmas in 2004. It came with Fable and Crimson Skies… crimson skies was so cool but Fable became my obsession for a few years. I learned to beat the game in less than 5 hours. It was something I’d do at sleepover parties when we stayed up all night playing Xbox. We’d also have LAN parties playing Halo 2 with 8 people, 4 to an Xbox and tv, with a sheet secured to the ceiling to divide the room so we couldn’t “screen peak”. Man, we had so much fun.
The pound cable is a bit pricey so, for those who want component hd cables with the xbox. If you take your xbox av cable, and make your own for free or very cheap, from a set of xbox 360 component cables lying around or buy that for cheap. Search DIY Xbox component cables.
Nice you have the Xbox 20th Anniversary Controller
This is so great to see the original Xbox still be played online!
I consider this my golden era of gaming.
The difference between the AV to HDMI and the Pound upscale is nuts.
The AV2HDMI is using the lowest quality video signal(composite), the Pound converter is internally using the best - Component video(similar quality to VGA), which supports 480p and HD with games that support it(which may be available on more games with a modded Xbox, much like a modded PS2 allows HD output for many more games).
It would be impossible for even the highest end composite video converter to match it.
Its funny how much xbox has changed over the years, especially considering how Xbox started and the journey to being in such a competitive market.
This video just gave me so much nostalgia. I'll never forget coming home one day to my dad showing off the new xbox he bought and he got xbox live the same day. Even though I was already very familiar with video games at this point (N64, Sega Genesis) I believe the Xbox Live Era is what really turned me into a life long gamer. What an absolutely amazing era of video gaming
I still have my splinter cell for modding my Xbox… from over 15 years ago I think
Awesome video! You should cover the PlayStation 2 online side too! If there even is anyone still playing online over there lol.
This would be nice I bet there is something similar I'm more into emulation on android but looking into this side aswell.
Dude this video was so well done. I dont intend on playing Xbox live and I still watched your video from beginning to end. Nice work 😀
God this brings back memories, I need to dig out my old xbox now!
I sill have my original Xbox, mint condition, still in the box, waiting to be played again. Played Halo online like crazy back in the day.
Xbox supported component cables, not just red white yellow. You can force your Xbox into HD mode as well, which upscales the 480 games into 720. I have uploaded game play of NCCA football that is recorded raw from my console, not an emulator, and they are in 720.
the old crunchy voice chat always makes my day better man. great times they were.
Ps3 is still running as well. Very surprised.
7:09 yes! I love the way u explained things in this video so a separate video about ur take on the modding would be fantastic
As far as I know, it’s the only console to let you play your own music in games, most notably, as a dedicated GTA radio station (that was amazing!) and to make use of the hard drive as a USP for a game and actually utilised as one of its game mechanics (manipulating time in Blinx the Timesweeper). Pretty cool. I wonder why the music aspects weren’t utilised in any consoles after this one?
You could put your own music on Xbox 360 and listen to it while playing games
Wow 5:38 is some valuable information thanks been struggling with WiFi for so long
This was one of the easiest to follow tutorials on how to get Insignia up and running! Thank you! Can't wait to get back online!
Hearing those sounds again.. Gives so much Nostalgia. Appreciate that big time..
That's the best looking game library scroll feature I have ever seen on an OG Xbox. I've never seen that before. What kind of mod is that at 6:27 ???!!!
Thats called the Origins dashboard. The best dashboard you can have for a modded original Xbox that is also an emulator.
There's a link to the video in this description where the guy talks about Origins.
I just watched it, it's amazing.
I was too young and my family was not well off back when the Xbox was popping, so I never got to play it or any consoles rly; just was watching friends play until the PS4 when I bought it late in it's life cycle. This video is making me consider to get an Xbox and enjoy those legendary multiplayer games I never got to play :') thanks for posting this video!
you should make that xbox maintenance video. i knew about the clock capacitors but not about any of the other maintenance stuff
Ive been having a ton of nostalgia lately for the OG Xbox. I remember staying up all night playing Halo 2, conker, splinter cell, R6 online
Jeff you are the freaking best your production to me is and has always been awesome your voice is incredible it's very pleasing to the ears your mannerisms attitude the way you carry yourself is just very professional and cool you deserve a million subscribers because that's how you carry yourself even from earlier days and now and your information is so well documented and well thought out and very helpful for anybody to do anything that you're doing so much love continued success and I support you all the way thank you very much
Crushing
05:30 Well, another option, the one I use the most, get yourself an 8-port ethernet switcher, which allows you to use ethernet cables to be hooked up to multiple devices through ethernet, just form one ethernet cable hooked up from the router (say a floor above the basement or on the first floor) to another room inside the walls, and then hook it up to any port on the ethernet switcher, grab yourself some ethernet patch cables, hook up your devices with ethernet, and you're done. I can't tell you how much of a struggle WiFi was for me playing the Xbox 360, it was slow as heck. Once I hooked it up to the ethernet, it was a lot easier and much faster connection, and more stable, than wifi will ever be, just saying. Also, I wouldn't recommend playing on TVs that are larger than 54 inches as it introduces a ton of lag, especially if your controller is wireless.
Dammit, Jeff why didn't you tell me this sooner
Man getting home after school and hitting the og xbox or ps2 with friends was the best thing around, Halo, gears, smack down vs raw, call of duty and many more💪
Microsoft renamed Xbox live to "Xbox Network" which sounds so corporate and boring. I miss the orange "Live" logo they used back in the original Xbox and Xbox 360 days, it's so nostalgic to me. I still remember the orange dvd cases that the Xbox Live cards came in back in the early 360 days, they looked so cool but also seemed like a waste of plastic haha. (EDIT: I found one I had saved complete with the card inside and everything which is pretty cool) That's probably why they later switched to cardboard cases. (I don't know if the plastic DVD cases was a EU only thing)
I cannot stress enough how important it is to check on your clock capacitor if you're using real hardware. Unless you've got a 1.6 motherboard your Xbox will die if it's not already dead unless you remove or replace that thing.
Got me interested in the pound converters, Ive looked into a few and reviews are hit and miss but the side by side comparison is nice. Currently I have my ps4 on my smart tv and my childhood crt tv next to it for my ps1/ps2 n64 and og xbox. $40 bucks a pop for the convenience of only using 1 tv isnt too hateful. Granted I dont need it since my setup is a matter of sliding over 2 feet to a different screen but still nice to see its an option.
So you’re telling me games fill every night ? I’m back
Amazing dude. Can’t believe people are playing it. Halo 2 on Xbox live back in the day changed my life.
I hope you're prepared for an influx of subscriptions
In the mid 2000's, i used to play battlefront II online. I would play on various servers, but i few servers became my home. After llaying for a handfull of months, i started to gain a bit of recognition. I wasnt that great woth the shotty class or the grunt class, but i was getting really good with the sniper class. Eventually i befriended a group of guys who were always good competition, a few of them a part of MOH, a couple from JOD and one of the guys from SOF. Anyways, one day i was in their server hanging out, and these guys were having a conversation about some drama within the clans, and I just happened to be absolutely shitting that day. After that one of the guys said they "should pick me up". I didnt know what they were talking about, but apparently, MOH had been having some fueding. See, MOH was the top clan. They were something like 100 or 200 something and 0. Undefeated in clan battles. Well they were having some feud within their clan, and a couple of their best players left the clan and started their own called COS. They then went on to grab the top players from the other clans and basically made a god squad. Well a couple of these guys were the ones i was talking about. So they had me 1v1 one of the guys, his name was aXle, formally MOH, and i held my own, but didnt beat him. Apparently that was enough though, they asked me to join their team and i said sure. They then proceeded to teach me everything. From gun skill to strats, and then came the day we started our clan battles domination. We would go on to deliver MOH their first loss, and then we went on to win every tournament and monthly team point race. Last i remembered we were something like 302-0. I didnt play in every one of those games, but I participated in probably like 30 of them. But those were my fondest times on that game. I was like maybe 11 or 12, and I owe probably most of fps skill i had after that to those guys.
Awesome video man. Appreciate the effort you put in to this!
I wish there was an update for Xbox series SX that allowed us to change Home Screen to the og Xbox Home Screen and the blades Home Screen from 360
This is really amazing stuff! I bet the 14 people that do this will really enjoy playing together.
I will definately be doing this.... the original xbxo was the first console that was all mine, and i never got to play online as we didn't have internet at the time.
Dammit Jeff, you truly are a gigachad.
@hfgddfdfdh Do you think a man is only the sum of his skeletal system? What a poor summary of what makes a great man. His mind, his heart and his intention speaks volumes towards the greatness within.
I’d turn on my old Xbox just to play the old Star Wars games online. 😊
I would love a video about making PS2 Online
I have Street Fighter Anniversary Collection. That has online support. What about PSO?
What about a ps3 one science the gte 5 servers are closed
I noticed a game you mentioned: Toca Race Driver 2. In Australia, we got a modified version called: V8 Supercars Race Driver 2. It was basically the same game but with Australia - specific add ons like our Aussie tracks, and of course, Australian Touring cars from the V8 Supercars tournament. It was really awesome at the time, because aside from Gran Turismo 4 and one of the GameCube versions of Need For Speed, there had never been any Australian vehicles in a mainstream videogame before. At least none in proper 3D models. It was a big deal over here and lots of people had it.
Dammit Jeff, you should get a group of people together on a server, vote on a game & setup a time so everyone can play together. Insignia only has 20 users active max daily. You could be the reason that number hits 100 in one day.
I would just stick to XLink Kai since it has nearly 100 active users. The most popular game is Halo 2 on original XBOX 😆
World Series of Poker on the OG Xbox was one of my all-time favorite games. One of the best online multiplayer experiences ever.
For me, if you're going to play original xbox, you use the duke. Yeah it's massive but is somehow comfortable and ergonomic while being comically huge and I do have small hands so that says something to how they managed to recover from that blunder when making the PCBs. With hyperkin remaking the dukes I suppose you could have an original and new controller experience still with that adapter which is... interesting actually. I kind of hope microsoft allows for this to somehow work on xbox one, series and as if this is not already a long shot but somehow manages to squeeze in an update for the 360 to work with this method. That would be something to behold.
Im in awe with those xbox screens I've never seen before. Literally felt like a kid again lol
If this works I trying it
lmao dude that audio clip from Live was hilarious af 15:57
Syncing up a new controller is next level man. I still have and use .y modded Xbox frequently so this makes me feel better about it since I never knew this trick. The pound cable on a 4k TV makes Xbox look really solid
I am so thankful you told us about the Pound HD cable... the quality of the AV adapter was so bad I didn't even want to play my old Xbox
I deliberately didn't skip any adds (all 8 of em') so you'd get the ad rev bruv. Good video M8.
BRO THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS AND NO ONE HAS ANY HELPFUL INFORMATION YOU LITTERLY SHOW ME STEP BY STEP !! THANK YOU !!! GOD BLESS YOU
omg im so happy this pop out in my FYP. Seen this video brought tears to my eyes. Now i can finally play crimson sky once again!