I normally don’t comment on videos but this has to be the best tutorial I’ve ever watched. 1st time try worked on soldering, even the point I had to scrape off on my V2. I honestly think the 4GB NAND points are easier to solder than the 16MB because they already have a decent amount of solder on them and accept new solder with ease. IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH JRUNNER NOT RECOGNIZING THE NAND AS “REMOVABLE TYPE” UNPLUG POWER TO THE CONSOLE! As simple as it sounds I was stuck for 30 minutes thinking I bricked my system because Jrunner would see the device, but not the allocated space or drive letter. When plugging the Xflasher into your PC, If your computer doesn’t assign it a drive letter and give the pop up to format the drive, you need to unplug power from the console and give it a few seconds and plug in the console, then the Xflasher. I had to repeat this twice after writing the ecc for my computer to recognize it again correctly. The only thing I missed the first time was writing the ecc. I forgot to check the RGH3 option and thought I bricked it when I couldn’t get a video signal. Just plugged Xflasher back in and wrote the correct ecc and I saw Xell this time! A RECENT UPDATE TO JRUNNER has changed the labels of the buttons from that shown in the video, but they are still in the same place and do the same thing. They just say “Write Xell” now instead of write ecc.
I have zero solder skills and looking at investing in all the kit to do this on my old Xbox 360. But I just have to say, watching you work and how easy you make it look which I'm 110% sure it is NOT easy. This is a masterpiece of a video.
Thanks! In regard to difficulty, indeed it might look easy on camera thanks to the shots I got, but it is all much smaller and more difficult in person. I would only recommend someone does this after good practice.
@@MrMario2011 Any advice on what I can practice on to develop the skills needed before I move onto the Xbox 360? Also are you using some sort of magnifying glass or do you just have very sharp eyes?
@MrMario2011 Hey there, I have a question I can't find anywhere. Do I need to factory reset before RGH3 install? Like do I have to back anything up on my personal console before taking apart and adding things to the drive? Please lmk as I'm lost on this question.
Hey man, just gotta say... Didn't have much prior practical soldering experience and was actually going to do practice projects up to eventually having this mod done. Watched this and decided to just go for it. Following along and taking my time (~4 hours from first cracking the console open), I got everything soldered and flashed first try, and now have it all running on Aurora with a fully loaded 1TB drive as we speak! Even followed your other video to get the backwards compatibility portion fixed as well. Much much appreciated for these guides! Having me want to dive into other projects like this..
Another thing to mention, the process does differ a bit from your guide if you're doing a 4GB Corona with the Picoflasher. You don't see the drive on the computer, just read the NAND in JRunner like the 16MB.
Went through a viciously troublesome period with a 0031 error on a Corona 360 E. Figured out that there was a bridge between the PLL point and the resistor next to it! The point is so incredibly small! But now that I resolved the bridge, I was able to perform the RGH 3! I just want to give my thanks to you for your incredible guides and to Octal for all his brilliant resources.
When you see him shaking while soldering, you can really appreciate and see how hard of a ducking job this is to solder, it's classified as an advanced soldering job. Props to you, i will follow this guide as a reference. Saw some other videos of yours and can't recommend enough.
No ducks here, my hands aren't steady and I've been open about it. Nothing wrong with it, most people don't have steady hands, but that hasn't stopped me from doing intricate work with some slight shaking!
@@MrMario2011followup. Thanks to you i now have a Slim R2D2 with RGH3. I cannot stress enough how hard it is to solder all those tiny points. I'm the Average modder but with your help i did it!
Mr Mario and everyone who contributed towards the RGH3 project i thank you to the moon and back god bless you for these guides and all the information. I successfuly modded my first trinity today and i used kapton tape around the point we have to scrape did not scratch a thing thank you man it worked
Thank you so much for this guide - clear, easy to understand and the close up shots were really useful, particularly demonstrating how to position the postfix adapter.
Hey mate, I went into this with minimal soldering experience and pulled it off without a snag on a 4gig and a pico. I cannot thank you enough for making such a well though out tutorial, you are a gentleman.
MrMario to the rescue. My 360E would not boot after the RGH3 mod. Then I watched your video and discovered WINBOND! Thank you for noting that in your comprehensive video. It saved my sanity.
SUPER glad that tip helped you! A big shout-out to Octal for that one, I've never run into a Winbond console but he watched an early cut of this video and suggested putting that in. Looks like you're the first person it has helped out 😁
Total beginner at soldering here. Managed to finish the tutorial great job. I had lots of problems, my soldering was so shit but I persevered and got better at it and finally it worked. I'm so happy right now thank you
Successfully rghed my trinity using your video on it and I recently picked up a corona and I went to watch this guide aswell. It didn’t disappoint at allll. The quality and thoroughness of your videos is so good. I was lucky to have a corona v1/v2 so it wasnt harder than the trinity and was pretty similar and it all worked successfully. Thank you!!
I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but if you are going to be playing Guitar Hero on your fancy RGH, DO NOT mod a Corona, due to desync issues that make them unplayable! There are fixes that have been made, but only for the on-disc songs. None of the DLC have gotten Corona fixes. And even then, they don't always prevent the desync problems.
Just to clarify. If I understand this problem properly, you got it wrong. It is not the rgh mod which causes this problem, it is problem with Corona consoles themselves, even without the mod. Isn't that right?
@@FusioNUsuaL correct, this is the issue with Corona mobo itself that prevents Harmonix engine to load songs properly. For Guitar Hero and Rock Band you want to skip Corona entirely, there's plenty of Trinity consoles in the wild unmodded. There are title updates that fix the issue, but not for all games, and on RB3 this update disables compatibility with custom songs.
It’s crazy how over the years modding has just gotten so much better people are smart to figure out things like that , imagine if this was found in 2012
just did it on an E with a corona postfix adapter and pico flasher, haven’t done much soldering before, it was incredibly difficult but i managed to do it :) thanks for the great guide
I'm so confused on the post fix install, @MrMario said you can solder to pretty much any point on there, but on my V1 adapter none of the points share continuity, point 1 goes right to the spring post which i THINK is what i need to solder to, and do you actually solder to all the little caps or diods or whatever they are to the left of the post? I saw one guy soldering all those to the adapter, but there was no mention of soldering these down on any other videos. I'm on a 16mb Corona V6 I believe with no traces
Barely ever soldered before thought id give it a try for a bit of fun seeing as this video is so well put together. Completed it without a hitch, hats off to you sir!
thanks for the guide! picoflasher didn't want to work for me on a corona v2 4gb, had to go the sd card route. luckily had one that i knew it was gonna work since i used it for reading 3ds nands. btw, i used a 3.3k resistor for the ppl wire since that's what i had at hand and it worked just fine.
Got it all done thanks to this guide. My earlier issue was soldering related. Went in, re-did it, tore a pad, did trace repair and it all works. Thank you!
Holy crap I found a disassembled (but everything is there) corona buried in my closet from back in my 360 modding days. I'm so excited. I haven't worked on a 360 in forever! EDIT: OH MY GOD I HAD NO CLUE RGH3 EXISTED UNTIL NOW. I ONLY EVER DID JTAG, 2, and 1.2 WOW EDIT 2: WHATTTT YOU CAN DIY A FLASHER WITH A PICO?!?!??! WHY DID I EVER LEAVE THE MODDING SCENE WTF
I didn't have a post fix adapter, and I was unwilling to wait... so I found some wire with heavy strands, cut one off, cleaned and tinned it, slid it under the APU touching ball 4 from the right corner, heated it up a bit until it slid under a tiny bit more... works great! I will admit I have some experience (and I took a big risk), but this was more about me being impatient and cheap. Thanks for all you do!!
SUCCESS! The corona board ended up being unusable, but I found a trinity with a dead DVD drive in my stack of consoles and was able to mod that one using your other guide. Now I just need to flash a new drive with the DVD key from it lol.
I also ran into a weird issue with JRunner, XeBuild kept saying there were problems with my NAND, but it just wasn't pulling the lockdown value properly, I knew it was 6, but it kept trying to put in 1 when I ran XeBuild, so I used the Donor creation tool to force it to use 6 instead and just used the extracted files from the NAND dump to create the "donor"
Installed this a while ago having never modded a console before, Corona 16M model, got it from 0 to Aurora in about 2-3 hours. Zero issues. Easy to follow & excellent tutorial
Just a suggestion, sometimes even the 30AWG wires cant solder properly on the tiny pads, especially the PLL via, so the best way to do it is to take one of those stranded wires, cut a small piece of it and slice it open, then take about 3 to 5 strands and twist them until they become one very thin wire, make 4 of them. now solder each of those thin wires to the tips of both wires, make them short so that you dont have lots of exposed conducting wires, put a little solder on the tips of those thin wires then solder them on the pads. you will notice that its much easier to solder them on the pads and you wont risk yanking those pads out of place if you move the wires in the wrong direction, as the thin wires at the tip are very soft and will just break if you pull on it, keeping the pads intact. also dont go with a very high temperature on the soldering iron, start at 280C then slowly go up, those pads/vias are so delicate to the point the iron would basically burn them. i learned it the hard way after destroying the SMC_PLL point on my trinity, so I had to connect the points on both sides of the SMC_PLL with thin wire strands
Excellent tutorial. Brings new life to my dusty xbox 360. Thanks a lot. Tips for beginners: practice soldering on any old pcb to solder wires at least an hour before attempting on actual console. Use pencil type soldering iron and quality flux. Soldering iron should be below 25watts
Thank you! This tutorial was awesome, I've never modded an XBOX 360 and today I was able to successfully do so. Awesome video! I didnt even know how to solder until today!
Just worth mentioning.. to read/write 4GB nand on Coronas you don't even need a programmer, a cheap 1$ sd card reader can do. You can either solder wires directly to the reader or to sd/micro sd adapter.
For people watching in the future: To avoid cutting the trace PUT A STRIP OF KEPTON TAPE ON THE TRACE The tiny via to scrape is no joke one should consider using a microscope for that Great video thanks so much
A decade ago I would've had to cough up nearly $100 for the X-Flasher and glitch chip, and now all I needed was an $8 pi and $2 adapter. How far 360 modding has come is a massive W
Finally a vid that answered all my questions. Very detailed and easy to follow. Thank you so much. A quick question tho, if I'm using a pico flasher do I need to remove the wires from the console or the pico itself? I feel like it's annoying to have to desolder and resolder the wires.
With the help of your videos I have successfully RGH3'd 2 Trinity and one Corona V1/2 4GB. had minor issues each time but it was usually my own mistakes or lack of soldering skill, luckily I have a good magnifier i can hold in my eye like a monacle, made that micro-soldering possible, although having my face that close to the iron was... exciting. On the corona I forgot to check off the RGH3 box and i spent over an hour troubleshooting that thinking I'd killed it!
Great tutorial as always! Although I'm having an issue and maybe you would be able to tell me a few things to check; I followed your instructions, then wasn't able to boot in xell after writing the ECC with the Pico Flasher. The nand reads were fine. I checked the solder points and everything seems fine, the multimeters shows continuity. I also tried with AND without the resistor... The console powers on, with a normal green indicator as well.... I really don't know what to check at this point...... thanks! btw, I have a Corona 4gb, no need for QSB according to your information in the video. Another detail, somehow, I haven't seen any pop up asking for a format when I plugged my pico falsher...
@@angelobuoro I did use the Pico and it worked well. The thing you have to remember is to disconnect it completely from the board when you first start Xell. You plug it back when you are ready to flash the mod. It seems obvious but since the Pico doesn't come with 'plug n play' wires, it's easy to forget and leave it connected/soldered to the board. In order to make this step easier, I used Dupont connexions.
@@angelobuoro I think it's annoying to have different needed diodes or resistors for each type of MB though lol But it's better than having to buy a chip i suppose
I did ISO hot swapping a lot and I got really good at taking apart the Xbox 360's, that will be the the easiest part of this experience. I am doing as much research as I can. I almost bought the 10 k resistor and you are recommending the 1 k resistor for this revision, I watched the the Trinity revision guide first... Glad I did more research!
Hey MrMario2011. MANY Thanks for the video . But i have some problem. I can't use my Picoflasher or Raspberry Pi Pico to read nand no matter what i do. i think all viewer that have tried using Picoflasher also facing this problem. Maybe the software doesn't fully support 4GB Corona. But if you have something on your mind that maybe the solution, please reply for all your viewers. And again, THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!
I didn't have much luck on that front with my own 4G, although I do know it's possible. Best to report it to balika011 on his GitHub repo for it if it can be replicated.
For those stupid reverse faced clips on the end shrouds, you can use a hook to lift the tab from the back side so they pop off super easy. A hook can be made by grinding down the end of an old trash screwdriver and then shaping the tip with a bit of heat. Quench it then you've got a new pick tool. Have to say hooks are seriously underrated tools for console modding. I've got three coronas sitting next to me and theyve been collecting dust, you've inspired me to pull out the ol kit and throw some of my older aliexpress chips in.
Something to note for anyone having a solid green light no display issue after writing Xell, not all POSFIX adapter pads are connected to the pogo pin, you will need to meter each pad to find out what ones are connected, the cheap Chinese one I got only had one pad connected even though there was like four present and I tested from the pogo pin initially instead of the pads.
Great tutorial again! I've only done it once, about 7 months ago on a phat, with a Falcon motherboard. The NAND programmer was a old PC with a parallel port (yikes!). So next time I definitely invest in a Pico! 😀
@@MrMario2011 oh yeah man i was 13 when i first found out what an rgh was and what it could do now im 20 finally able to afford to do what i want when i want to. also thanks to you this is gonna make my life easier tomorrow when i get to install it all and hopefully have my first ever rgh thank goodness for one day shipping on amazon.
I just bought a Raspberry Pi Pico to do it! Great video, I knew hacking for Xbox 360 slim was possible but I didn't find a good video explaining it... Until now! Thank you very much!!
Your the 4th TH-camr to like my comment on a video already got brennen Taylor Sam and Colby faze teeqo and mori you are literally one of my favorite TH-camrs there is only a select few I watch and man you are high on that list keep up the great work have you ever thought about opening an online shop for people that want to get their Xbox’s rgh’d or jtagged like your work is amazing anyways Mario we all love and support you some more than others lol
21:55 you don't need to touch that black plastic plane at all. All tabs are accessible as is. You just need some thin tweezers because of very narrow tab on the left from HDD tray. To access the tab on top of HDD tray you need to slightly move down plastic from the frame UPD: 24:30 you can first remove 5 long black screws with big flat cap to unlock the top of console without stressing the tabs on front and your neurons
i got it working. i found out the problem was i was using very thin laminated cable and i guess the wire has too much resistance. i changed it out to 30awg wire and now its working well. of course i had to repair the pad i pulled out. thanks you again for making such detailed video on how to do this mod.
Good Vid! Tip: if you've wired your 360 to your LAN you don't need to enter the IP address to pull the CPU key into JRunner from Xelll...use the 'Scan IP' button.
I've done almost 4 Xboxs now. I think I am gonna make my own tutorial for zephyr. I got one working. Rgh2 with eh boot times but they're consistent. I only found 2 video tutorials. The one had horrible pictures and video quality so you can't even make out what you need to do. Then the other one is completely in Spanish. Surprisingly it was the better video to understand due to way better picture quality. Hopefully it helps people as much as your videos have. I learned rgh 3 from you so I wanna pay it back!
1:16:53 - 360E Winbond RAM when you said that XELL and XEBUILDwill NOT work unless you check WB 2K, this is partially true. XELL will still work perfectly without WB 2K However you will be unable to boot into any dash after Xell, unless you write NAND with WB2K. i initially missed this part, didn’t do it for XELL and it booted up, but after writing XEBUILD, it would stay on a solid green light with no video. took me forever to realise i did NOT enable WB 2K… assumed i didn’t need it since XELL worked. excellent guide thanks ❤
I'm having this issue with reading the NAND - Checking Console... Version: 10 Flash Config: 0xFFFFFFFF Unrecongized Flash Config IoTimedOut IoTimedOut:No more bytes! Wrong Version
We got scammed like 7 years ago with my late dad and bought an S 360 with a destroyed CD Drive that ejected itself and wouldn't read disks. Also the tech guy that had a look told me that the previous owner attempted to JTAG it and ripped everything away before selling it, rendering it non-modable through the disk drive. I didn't have the heart to give it away for parts etc. I now study electronic engineering and just came across your videos, I will surely give this a go for science, thank you very much! Just one question, during the last steps before getting the cpu key, is it necessary to "unplug" the raspberry as well?
I personally don't unplug the Pico. I just unplug the USB cable from the computers side and that is more than enough. Have you tried the hack already? Good luck anyways.
ok, so i did some diving you cant use j-r programmer v2 on this so i bought a pico. Now u didnt show the step for how to do the pico when ur doing the j-runner program so when u gotta tur on the xbox an u disconnect the j-r would u just have the pico unpluged from the pc an thats it?
im modding my Xbox 360 slim (corona V1) obv but in this video you never mentioned a need of a glitch chip My console boots but no display after writing XeLL? I need help lol been trying for a week chat gpt says I needed a glitch chip (I used chat gpt because there's limited info on this) Is it true or does my xbox just suck
AI can be used for good, but I'm going to love you enough to tell you the truth which AI has failed to do: Your soldering on your RGH3 wires is either poor or incorrect.
@@MrMario2011 i couldn't get my corona motherboard working, and I had a spare trinity so I followed the trinity guide again everything was good but same thing no display I think there could be a problem with my pico flasher because my soldering is good. You're videos are great I just think either I'm doing something wrong or the pico flasher sucks. Thanks for the tutorials keep it up!
Thank You MrMario, I was lost with the Seven Sins guide, it was so unclear about the resistor values and the fact that they just say if you have a corona v4 you need a post fix adapter (and not a single clue on how to install it nor a pic of it installed or anything) I usually avoid video guides but this one is well done, with the timestamps etc so you can skip the other configurations parts. I successfully glitched using a JR Programmer, it was way slower than your chip and the drivers installation gave me a headache ( and i had a very suspicious message when finishing the NAND write ) But it turned out fine. Next step i’m doing my switch OLED. Cheers
honestly me as a novice when it comes to soldering and a total amateur with micro soldering and i did it fairly well without too much issue. however i did bump that trace a little while exposing the pll but didn't blow it out
You mentioned the resistor is optional on corona boards. Why does every other guide mention a resistor is REQUIRED? I'd like to not purchase another thing for this mod if I don't have to, can I just solder the wire directly? What's the difference with the resistor? Thanks.
I'm not speaking on other guides, only the ones I've made. I went according to the RGH3 documentation, which states a resistor on Corona boards is optional.
3rd console RGH3 of the day for me and I was about to just walk into the ocean with all of my clothes still on, until I remembered that my Corona was a V3 and I didn't bridge resistor 6 & 7.Wouldn't boot at all until I did and when I remembered about the bridging, I realized that the NAND was still write-protected. No probs after that, but next time mod first and THEN drink beer....great tutorial!
Cool to hear! However with RGH3, bridging resistors 6 and 7 doesn't matter since those are for i2c glitch chip methods such as S-RGH. Anything that relies on PLL like RGH 3.0 or RGH 1.2 doesn't use the pads those two resistors are connected to, you just need resistor 10 bridged, which I covered in the video.
@MrMario2011 I used a pico pi and for some reason, it just wouldn't boot until I did that. It would turn on automatically and not do anything and then turn itself off after about 30 seconds and wouldn't come on again until I removed the power. No telling, honestly, but it's working at least!
Amazing video as always! thannk you for your time and attention to detail! I was wondering where you got those NAND wire extension things at. I could really use those! thanks again!
MrMario, What microscope do you use? do you use one of those blue cameras with a big lens that plugs to a PC? or do you use a trinocular microscope with a camera attached to it?
Hey MrMario2011! I'm trying to mod a Corona 4gb xbox 360 s. i have been using the pico flasher in combination with jrunner. When I plug in the pico flasher it does not pop up as a drive, but the nand reads just fine. I can write the stock nand back to it, but when i write the Ecc/xell, it does not boot. it shows the green light, but no video or audio. I tried using the Ethernet method as well, to no avail. From my understanding, I gathered that it must be the pico flasher firmware, due to my problem matching several other commenters. I believe that the pico flasher needs some more develeopment with the corona 4gb nands. Is there anything I can do in the meantime? its impossible to get an xflasher, and I tried and failed to make a working sd tool out of a micro sd card adapter. Is it really just the pico flasher? thanks!
Thanks for mentioning R2C10!!! I was getting nowhere with the readings and already quadruple checked my NAND soldering. (I was following weekendmodder's guide and guess that he maybe forgot to mention the resistor.)
@@MrMario2011 Octal is great. I might try his ext_clk on a xenon that I have. I read through weekendmodder's site and he didn't mention the resistor on the guide page, but did on the pico flasher page. (Hopefully someone will be able to add the ability to flash glitch chips with the pico.)
I just RGH3'd my 360 E with absolutely no soldering skills whatsoever, even tho it did take a few attempts to get the RGH wires right and i managed to get RROD once, but in the end it finally managed to boot into xell and i could just finish the job from that point. I didn't use any resistor on the wires tho, according to consolemods and other sites its not a necessity on coronas since they use lower voltages anyway and as of now it works fine and instaboots every time. Thanks again for the tutorial though, it wasn't easy at all but after all it wasn't that super hard either, even if my hands were probably shaking more than yours
This is by far the best tutorial on how to mod the 360, I really appreciate this video! I'm not sure if you still assist with questions but I hope you do, here's mines. After I was able to successfully flash to the motherboard, when it comes to plugging it to the tv, it turns on but no picture. I've tried multiple HDMI cables and different monitors. Any assistance would be great and thank you again for this amazing tut!!
I'll definitely use this tutorial to get my Xbox 360 RGH'd. Don't know when, but once I do, I'll follow this. I know someone who can solder and he said he's happy to help me out with the mod.
@@MrMario2011 Alright, update time! I've finally gotten all the parts I need. I managed to find most of the parts really easily at my local hardware store. It was mostly just a waiting game because I had to order some of the things on Ebay. I'll try and get the mod done this weekend!
Where can I find more info on hooking up to Post on newer Corona models without the Post Fix adapter? I did order the adapters from aliexpress, but I was wondering if I could try the other method while I wait. I see the image you put in at 10:50 but I wonder if there's any info to go along with it, like gauge of wire or measurement from the nearest corner in mm or something. edit: ended up waiting for and using the adapter
After connecting the wire on R2C10, J runner detected the motherboard... Should i read nand, RGH3, Create xell then right xell....or there are other things to do...talk about the specific motherboard with R2C10
Excellent tutorial. Detailed and easy to understand even for a noob like me. I have just one question that isn't clear for me. When having a WINBOND memory the patch WB 2K needs to be aplied ONLY for XBOX 360 E or in all the boards with winbond memories? I have a SLIM with winbond and not sure if that's needed.
Hello sir, such a nice tutorial I will be using to jailbreak my 360 but here is a important question: What do you mean by kernel version we choose on the J-Runner? Is it my Xbox 360's version? Is it important which version I use my Xbox 360 on? Because I did not update it for a long time and its old version.
Thanks for the fast response. So it will be fine to have old firmware on my xbox 360 and this kernel version is something different then my xbox's kernel right?
I normally don’t comment on videos but this has to be the best tutorial I’ve ever watched. 1st time try worked on soldering, even the point I had to scrape off on my V2. I honestly think the 4GB NAND points are easier to solder than the 16MB because they already have a decent amount of solder on them and accept new solder with ease.
IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH JRUNNER NOT RECOGNIZING THE NAND AS “REMOVABLE TYPE” UNPLUG POWER TO THE CONSOLE! As simple as it sounds I was stuck for 30 minutes thinking I bricked my system because Jrunner would see the device, but not the allocated space or drive letter.
When plugging the Xflasher into your PC, If your computer doesn’t assign it a drive letter and give the pop up to format the drive, you need to unplug power from the console and give it a few seconds and plug in the console, then the Xflasher. I had to repeat this twice after writing the ecc for my computer to recognize it again correctly.
The only thing I missed the first time was writing the ecc. I forgot to check the RGH3 option and thought I bricked it when I couldn’t get a video signal. Just plugged Xflasher back in and wrote the correct ecc and I saw Xell this time!
A RECENT UPDATE TO JRUNNER has changed the labels of the buttons from that shown in the video, but they are still in the same place and do the same thing. They just say “Write Xell” now instead of write ecc.
All little oddities of working on a Corona right here, glad you got it working!
thank you for the note, threw me off seeing XeLL
I have zero solder skills and looking at investing in all the kit to do this on my old Xbox 360. But I just have to say, watching you work and how easy you make it look which I'm 110% sure it is NOT easy. This is a masterpiece of a video.
Thanks! In regard to difficulty, indeed it might look easy on camera thanks to the shots I got, but it is all much smaller and more difficult in person. I would only recommend someone does this after good practice.
@@MrMario2011 Any advice on what I can practice on to develop the skills needed before I move onto the Xbox 360? Also are you using some sort of magnifying glass or do you just have very sharp eyes?
@@etienne18777 theres fake pcbs with a bunch of solder joints on them to pratice with that you can buy
Yeah if you've never soldered, the PLL point is expert level. I had to use a microscope.
@@chadblowsI got it on my second attempt but yeah that was extremely difficult getting the solder to stick to the point on the board
I’ve been modding consoles since my preteens and this BY FAR is the most thought out, thorough, and enjoyable guide. Really, thanks a bunch:D
Glad it helped!
@MrMario2011
Hey there, I have a question I can't find anywhere. Do I need to factory reset before RGH3 install? Like do I have to back anything up on my personal console before taking apart and adding things to the drive? Please lmk as I'm lost on this question.
@@PRMWeldzi might br a little late 😅 but i don't believe so, but if you want to it cant hurt !
and a factory reset i believe is not necessary
Hey man, just gotta say... Didn't have much prior practical soldering experience and was actually going to do practice projects up to eventually having this mod done. Watched this and decided to just go for it. Following along and taking my time (~4 hours from first cracking the console open), I got everything soldered and flashed first try, and now have it all running on Aurora with a fully loaded 1TB drive as we speak! Even followed your other video to get the backwards compatibility portion fixed as well. Much much appreciated for these guides! Having me want to dive into other projects like this..
4 hours to go from little/no soldering to having your first hardmodded 360, and a Corona at that? Congratulations! Well deserved props for that 🙂
Another thing to mention, the process does differ a bit from your guide if you're doing a 4GB Corona with the Picoflasher. You don't see the drive on the computer, just read the NAND in JRunner like the 16MB.
Went through a viciously troublesome period with a 0031 error on a Corona 360 E. Figured out that there was a bridge between the PLL point and the resistor next to it! The point is so incredibly small! But now that I resolved the bridge, I was able to perform the RGH 3!
I just want to give my thanks to you for your incredible guides and to Octal for all his brilliant resources.
@@the2ds 100% necessary.
When you see him shaking while soldering, you can really appreciate and see how hard of a ducking job this is to solder, it's classified as an advanced soldering job. Props to you, i will follow this guide as a reference. Saw some other videos of yours and can't recommend enough.
No ducks here, my hands aren't steady and I've been open about it. Nothing wrong with it, most people don't have steady hands, but that hasn't stopped me from doing intricate work with some slight shaking!
@@MrMario2011followup. Thanks to you i now have a Slim R2D2 with RGH3. I cannot stress enough how hard it is to solder all those tiny points. I'm the Average modder but with your help i did it!
Mr Mario and everyone who contributed towards the RGH3 project i thank you to the moon and back god bless you for these guides and all the information. I successfuly modded my first trinity today and i used kapton tape around the point we have to scrape did not scratch a thing thank you man it worked
Good idea!
Damn that would’ve been smart lol
Thank you so much for this guide - clear, easy to understand and the close up shots were really useful, particularly demonstrating how to position the postfix adapter.
Glad it was helpful!
Hey mate, I went into this with minimal soldering experience and pulled it off without a snag on a 4gig and a pico. I cannot thank you enough for making such a well though out tutorial, you are a gentleman.
Nice work!
MrMario to the rescue. My 360E would not boot after the RGH3 mod. Then I watched your video and discovered WINBOND! Thank you for noting that in your comprehensive video. It saved my sanity.
SUPER glad that tip helped you! A big shout-out to Octal for that one, I've never run into a Winbond console but he watched an early cut of this video and suggested putting that in. Looks like you're the first person it has helped out 😁
What an absolute beast of a video! MrMario delivers the legendary content the people need, even in the face of adversity. We’re not worthy 🖐🤓🤚
LOL, I appreciate you, my dude 🖤
2nd xbox 360 guide of yours ive tried (1st was a failed 1.2 rgh falcon) and this actually worked! thank you so much!
Glad it worked!
Total beginner at soldering here. Managed to finish the tutorial great job. I had lots of problems, my soldering was so shit but I persevered and got better at it and finally it worked. I'm so happy right now thank you
So glad you persevered! Trust me, you excelled where many others couldn't continue.
Literally just finished an RGH3 install on a Corona V1 unit with a Pi Pico. Your post RGH3 install guide was most helpful. :)
Woo!
Successfully rghed my trinity using your video on it and I recently picked up a corona and I went to watch this guide aswell. It didn’t disappoint at allll. The quality and thoroughness of your videos is so good. I was lucky to have a corona v1/v2 so it wasnt harder than the trinity and was pretty similar and it all worked successfully. Thank you!!
Glad it helped!
I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but if you are going to be playing Guitar Hero on your fancy RGH, DO NOT mod a Corona, due to desync issues that make them unplayable! There are fixes that have been made, but only for the on-disc songs. None of the DLC have gotten Corona fixes. And even then, they don't always prevent the desync problems.
Just to clarify. If I understand this problem properly, you got it wrong. It is not the rgh mod which causes this problem, it is problem with Corona consoles themselves, even without the mod. Isn't that right?
@@FusioNUsuaL correct, this is the issue with Corona mobo itself that prevents Harmonix engine to load songs properly. For Guitar Hero and Rock Band you want to skip Corona entirely, there's plenty of Trinity consoles in the wild unmodded. There are title updates that fix the issue, but not for all games, and on RB3 this update disables compatibility with custom songs.
It’s crazy how over the years modding has just gotten so much better people are smart to figure out things like that , imagine if this was found in 2012
Excellent guide, MrMario! Successfully modded 16Mb Corona X360E. Thank you very much!
just did it on an E with a corona postfix adapter and pico flasher, haven’t done much soldering before, it was incredibly difficult but i managed to do it :) thanks for the great guide
Nice work!
Thanks, the postfix positioning explanation was exactly what I was looking for!
Glad it helped!
I'm so confused on the post fix install, @MrMario said you can solder to pretty much any point on there, but on my V1 adapter none of the points share continuity, point 1 goes right to the spring post which i THINK is what i need to solder to, and do you actually solder to all the little caps or diods or whatever they are to the left of the post? I saw one guy soldering all those to the adapter, but there was no mention of soldering these down on any other videos. I'm on a 16mb Corona V6 I believe with no traces
Barely ever soldered before thought id give it a try for a bit of fun seeing as this video is so well put together. Completed it without a hitch, hats off to you sir!
thanks for the guide!
picoflasher didn't want to work for me on a corona v2 4gb, had to go the sd card route. luckily had one that i knew it was gonna work since i used it for reading 3ds nands.
btw, i used a 3.3k resistor for the ppl wire since that's what i had at hand and it worked just fine.
Ik this comment is a year old, but I'm working on a Corona right now and was wondering. Is your console with the 3.3k resistor is still working?
bought a slim from a game shop for $50 with the intention to mod. My first RGH3! Took about 3 hours. Thanks mr mario for your work
Nice! Glad it worked!
Got it all done thanks to this guide. My earlier issue was soldering related. Went in, re-did it, tore a pad, did trace repair and it all works. Thank you!
Glad it helped
Holy crap I found a disassembled (but everything is there) corona buried in my closet from back in my 360 modding days. I'm so excited. I haven't worked on a 360 in forever!
EDIT: OH MY GOD I HAD NO CLUE RGH3 EXISTED UNTIL NOW. I ONLY EVER DID JTAG, 2, and 1.2 WOW
EDIT 2: WHATTTT YOU CAN DIY A FLASHER WITH A PICO?!?!??! WHY DID I EVER LEAVE THE MODDING SCENE WTF
The real time reactions here are great 😂
I didn't have a post fix adapter, and I was unwilling to wait... so I found some wire with heavy strands, cut one off, cleaned and tinned it, slid it under the APU touching ball 4 from the right corner, heated it up a bit until it slid under a tiny bit more... works great! I will admit I have some experience (and I took a big risk), but this was more about me being impatient and cheap. Thanks for all you do!!
Nice work!
I have a corona v1/2 that needs a SB reflow anyways, so I'm going to try and mod that with a picoflasher. Super cool that this works without a chip!
SUCCESS! The corona board ended up being unusable, but I found a trinity with a dead DVD drive in my stack of consoles and was able to mod that one using your other guide. Now I just need to flash a new drive with the DVD key from it lol.
I also ran into a weird issue with JRunner, XeBuild kept saying there were problems with my NAND, but it just wasn't pulling the lockdown value properly, I knew it was 6, but it kept trying to put in 1 when I ran XeBuild, so I used the Donor creation tool to force it to use 6 instead and just used the extracted files from the NAND dump to create the "donor"
I'm now waiting on a postfix adapter for my corona v4 lol
Installed this a while ago having never modded a console before, Corona 16M model, got it from 0 to Aurora in about 2-3 hours. Zero issues. Easy to follow & excellent tutorial
Fantastic!
Just a suggestion,
sometimes even the 30AWG wires cant solder properly on the tiny pads, especially the PLL via, so the best way to do it is to take one of those stranded wires, cut a small piece of it and slice it open, then take about 3 to 5 strands and twist them until they become one very thin wire, make 4 of them.
now solder each of those thin wires to the tips of both wires, make them short so that you dont have lots of exposed conducting wires, put a little solder on the tips of those thin wires then solder them on the pads.
you will notice that its much easier to solder them on the pads and you wont risk yanking those pads out of place if you move the wires in the wrong direction, as the thin wires at the tip are very soft and will just break if you pull on it, keeping the pads intact.
also dont go with a very high temperature on the soldering iron, start at 280C then slowly go up, those pads/vias are so delicate to the point the iron would basically burn them. i learned it the hard way after destroying the SMC_PLL point on my trinity, so I had to connect the points on both sides of the SMC_PLL with thin wire strands
I did it perfectly fine with solid core 30 AWG and 350° C a little over a year ago and it worked great.
Excellent tutorial. Brings new life to my dusty xbox 360. Thanks a lot.
Tips for beginners: practice soldering on any old pcb to solder wires at least an hour before attempting on actual console.
Use pencil type soldering iron and quality flux. Soldering iron should be below 25watts
YOU ROCK ... thank you so much for this legendary , detailed tutorial
Thanks!
Thank you! This tutorial was awesome, I've never modded an XBOX 360 and today I was able to successfully do so. Awesome video! I didnt even know how to solder until today!
Fantastic!!!
Just worth mentioning.. to read/write 4GB nand on Coronas you don't even need a programmer, a cheap 1$ sd card reader can do. You can either solder wires directly to the reader or to sd/micro sd adapter.
How do I do that?
@@pompuyoytspunbytails9907 i.imgur.com/B710P4Jm.jpg
It's far easier with a programmer, if it's hard or expensive to get one a Raspberry Pi Pico will get the job done
Tried so many ways with SD & been very hit & miss.
For people watching in the future:
To avoid cutting the trace PUT A STRIP OF KEPTON TAPE ON THE TRACE
The tiny via to scrape is no joke one should consider using a microscope for that
Great video thanks so much
I did RGH3 on trinity using previous tutorial Now I will get corona XBOX 360 for this tutorial.
Have fun!
A decade ago I would've had to cough up nearly $100 for the X-Flasher and glitch chip, and now all I needed was an $8 pi and $2 adapter. How far 360 modding has come is a massive W
The wild thing is even that's overpriced in the current day, the Pi goes for $4 if you can get it locally from an authorized seller 🤣
This guy is a Wizard!
I'm no wizard, I just have a camera hah
Thank you. I managed to do it based on your video. It took 2 hours, but it worked. You are a king.
You're killing it, great job!
Finally a vid that answered all my questions. Very detailed and easy to follow. Thank you so much. A quick question tho, if I'm using a pico flasher do I need to remove the wires from the console or the pico itself? I feel like it's annoying to have to desolder and resolder the wires.
Glad it helped! And I'd only desolder the Pico if the console isn't booting up after flashing it.
@@MrMario2011 Ok. Thanks a lot man!
Dude , this tutorial is by far the best tutorial i ever watch in youtube history !!! THANK YOU !!!
You're welcome!
I DID IT! thank you so much for this easy to follow tutorial!
Woo!
With the help of your videos I have successfully RGH3'd 2 Trinity and one Corona V1/2 4GB. had minor issues each time but it was usually my own mistakes or lack of soldering skill, luckily I have a good magnifier i can hold in my eye like a monacle, made that micro-soldering possible, although having my face that close to the iron was... exciting. On the corona I forgot to check off the RGH3 box and i spent over an hour troubleshooting that thinking I'd killed it!
Good to hear you got it!
Great tutorial as always! Although I'm having an issue and maybe you would be able to tell me a few things to check; I followed your instructions, then wasn't able to boot in xell after writing the ECC with the Pico Flasher. The nand reads were fine. I checked the solder points and everything seems fine, the multimeters shows continuity. I also tried with AND without the resistor... The console powers on, with a normal green indicator as well.... I really don't know what to check at this point...... thanks! btw, I have a Corona 4gb, no need for QSB according to your information in the video. Another detail, somehow, I haven't seen any pop up asking for a format when I plugged my pico falsher...
@@angelobuoro i haven't found anything that works yet on this 4gb Corona; in the meantime i had success with 3 other type of motherboard....
@@angelobuoro I did use the Pico and it worked well. The thing you have to remember is to disconnect it completely from the board when you first start Xell. You plug it back when you are ready to flash the mod. It seems obvious but since the Pico doesn't come with 'plug n play' wires, it's easy to forget and leave it connected/soldered to the board. In order to make this step easier, I used Dupont connexions.
@@angelobuoro I think it's annoying to have different needed diodes or resistors for each type of MB though lol But it's better than having to buy a chip i suppose
I did ISO hot swapping a lot and I got really good at taking apart the Xbox 360's, that will be the the easiest part of this experience. I am doing as much research as I can. I almost bought the 10 k resistor and you are recommending the 1 k resistor for this revision, I watched the the Trinity revision guide first... Glad I did more research!
You are taking all the right steps so far, I applaud you for that!
Hey MrMario2011. MANY Thanks for the video . But i have some problem. I can't use my Picoflasher or Raspberry Pi Pico to read nand no matter what i do. i think all viewer that have tried using Picoflasher also facing this problem. Maybe the software doesn't fully support 4GB Corona. But if you have something on your mind that maybe the solution, please reply for all your viewers. And again, THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!
I didn't have much luck on that front with my own 4G, although I do know it's possible. Best to report it to balika011 on his GitHub repo for it if it can be replicated.
I had no such issue with Picoflasher on my 4gb corona v2, perhaps the issue is with newer revisions?
@@buddyjojo1948 I tried it with my Corona V2 and it has failed over 10 times, only solution is the homemade SDCard Nand Reader🧐
@@TipsYkelele Huh weird, now I'm wondering why I didn't have a problem lol. Are you guys using the new pico w by any chance?
@@hugomatos1999Yeah that could be why. I only did one read from what I remember.
Love you man, even watching this now is still up to date, and useful
Glad it's still helpful!
Thanks!
Dawgggg, you're too sweet, thank you!
For those stupid reverse faced clips on the end shrouds, you can use a hook to lift the tab from the back side so they pop off super easy.
A hook can be made by grinding down the end of an old trash screwdriver and then shaping the tip with a bit of heat. Quench it then you've got a new pick tool.
Have to say hooks are seriously underrated tools for console modding.
I've got three coronas sitting next to me and theyve been collecting dust, you've inspired me to pull out the ol kit and throw some of my older aliexpress chips in.
Something to note for anyone having a solid green light no display issue after writing Xell, not all POSFIX adapter pads are connected to the pogo pin, you will need to meter each pad to find out what ones are connected, the cheap Chinese one I got only had one pad connected even though there was like four present and I tested from the pogo pin initially instead of the pads.
Sounds like the V1 adapter is what you got? The V2 I noticed has them all connected, but the V1 only has one pad connected.
@@MrMario2011 Silkscreen says its a V2 but who knows, cheap knockoff more than likely.
Best tutorial I've seen on TH-cam on this topic.
Thanks!
@@MrMario2011 I flashed my xbox 360 16mb corona v3 with picoflasher according to your guide, thanks again
Thank you MrMario after many many years of wanting a rgh console I finally have one thanks to this guide also great tutorial overall
Enjoy!
Great tutorial again! I've only done it once, about 7 months ago on a phat, with a Falcon motherboard. The NAND programmer was a old PC with a parallel port (yikes!). So next time I definitely invest in a Pico! 😀
Hey, at least it worked!
Another excellent tutorial. Just RGH 3'd my 4GB Corona with picoflasher and it works perfectly. In depth, but easy to follow tutorial. Thanks.
Awesome to hear!
watching this over and over again while waiting for my new thermal paste , 30 awg wire and raspberry pico got me excited😜
Oh man, I remember that feeling before my first RGH, it's exciting 🙂 Best of luck!
@@MrMario2011 oh yeah man i was 13 when i first found out what an rgh was and what it could do now im 20 finally able to afford to do what i want when i want to. also thanks to you this is gonna make my life easier tomorrow when i get to install it all and hopefully have my first ever rgh thank goodness for one day shipping on amazon.
I just bought a Raspberry Pi Pico to do it! Great video, I knew hacking for Xbox 360 slim was possible but I didn't find a good video explaining it... Until now! Thank you very much!!
Have fun!
Dude this is cool can’t wait to watch this man great work
Your the 4th TH-camr to like my comment on a video already got brennen Taylor Sam and Colby faze teeqo and mori you are literally one of my favorite TH-camrs there is only a select few I watch and man you are high on that list keep up the great work have you ever thought about opening an online shop for people that want to get their Xbox’s rgh’d or jtagged like your work is amazing anyways Mario we all love and support you some more than others lol
21:55 you don't need to touch that black plastic plane at all. All tabs are accessible as is. You just need some thin tweezers because of very narrow tab on the left from HDD tray. To access the tab on top of HDD tray you need to slightly move down plastic from the frame
UPD: 24:30 you can first remove 5 long black screws with big flat cap to unlock the top of console without stressing the tabs on front and your neurons
You're an absolute legend.
Thank you so much for your tutorials!
You helped me make my childhood dreams come true!
Glad you like them!
dudeee i was trying to find this so badly yesterday, you're a godsend. thank you so much!!
Well you're here now!
Hey, just wanted to check back in! I owe many thanks, managed to RGH my 16MB corona smoothly. Once again, thanks for the tutorial!
Beautiful!
i got it working. i found out the problem was i was using very thin laminated cable and i guess the wire has too much resistance. i changed it out to 30awg wire and now its working well. of course i had to repair the pad i pulled out. thanks you again for making such detailed video on how to do this mod.
Finished one corona console with the pico flasher. Thanks for the great video tutorial!
Have fun!
Once again you nailed it dude 👌 Keep it up!
Thank you, it means a lot!
Good Vid!
Tip: if you've wired your 360 to your LAN you don't need to enter the IP address to pull the CPU key into JRunner from Xelll...use the 'Scan IP' button.
I've done almost 4 Xboxs now. I think I am gonna make my own tutorial for zephyr. I got one working. Rgh2 with eh boot times but they're consistent. I only found 2 video tutorials. The one had horrible pictures and video quality so you can't even make out what you need to do. Then the other one is completely in Spanish. Surprisingly it was the better video to understand due to way better picture quality. Hopefully it helps people as much as your videos have. I learned rgh 3 from you so I wanna pay it back!
I'm all for it!
1:16:53 - 360E Winbond RAM
when you said that XELL and XEBUILDwill NOT work unless you check WB 2K, this is partially true. XELL will still work perfectly without WB 2K
However you will be unable to boot into any dash after Xell, unless you write NAND with WB2K.
i initially missed this part, didn’t do it for XELL and it booted up, but after writing XEBUILD, it would stay on a solid green light with no video.
took me forever to realise i did NOT enable WB 2K… assumed i didn’t need it since XELL worked.
excellent guide thanks ❤
That was all thanks to Octal who let me know of that issue 🙂
Followed guide and it was a success! Thanks!
I'm having this issue with reading the NAND - Checking Console...
Version: 10
Flash Config: 0xFFFFFFFF
Unrecongized Flash Config
IoTimedOut
IoTimedOut:No more bytes!
Wrong Version
I Just wanted to say thanks! another happy customer. My 16mb 250gb xbox 360 s is up and RUNNING!
Great to hear!
42:22
what happens if I (accidently***) exposed the pin path in the top left (when looking at it of C5R 35 and is there an easy fix......)
Why expose the wrong one?
@@MrMario2011 accident
We got scammed like 7 years ago with my late dad and bought an S 360 with a destroyed CD Drive that ejected itself and wouldn't read disks. Also the tech guy that had a look told me that the previous owner attempted to JTAG it and ripped everything away before selling it, rendering it non-modable through the disk drive. I didn't have the heart to give it away for parts etc. I now study electronic engineering and just came across your videos, I will surely give this a go for science, thank you very much! Just one question, during the last steps before getting the cpu key, is it necessary to "unplug" the raspberry as well?
I personally don't unplug the Pico. I just unplug the USB cable from the computers side and that is more than enough.
Have you tried the hack already? Good luck anyways.
ok, so i did some diving you cant use j-r programmer v2 on this so i bought a pico. Now u didnt show the step for how to do the pico when ur doing the j-runner program so when u gotta tur on the xbox an u disconnect the j-r would u just have the pico unpluged from the pc an thats it?
I've been waiting for this since i scored one of the coronas very recently
Hope it helps!
im modding my Xbox 360 slim (corona V1) obv but in this video you never mentioned a need of a glitch chip My console boots but no display after writing XeLL? I need help lol been trying for a week chat gpt says I needed a glitch chip (I used chat gpt because there's limited info on this) Is it true or does my xbox just suck
AI can be used for good, but I'm going to love you enough to tell you the truth which AI has failed to do: Your soldering on your RGH3 wires is either poor or incorrect.
@@MrMario2011 i couldn't get my corona motherboard working, and I had a spare trinity so I followed the trinity guide again everything was good but same thing no display I think there could be a problem with my pico flasher because my soldering is good. You're videos are great I just think either I'm doing something wrong or the pico flasher sucks. Thanks for the tutorials keep it up!
Thank You MrMario, I was lost with the Seven Sins guide, it was so unclear about the resistor values and the fact that they just say if you have a corona v4 you need a post fix adapter (and not a single clue on how to install it nor a pic of it installed or anything)
I usually avoid video guides but this one is well done, with the timestamps etc so you can skip the other configurations parts.
I successfully glitched using a JR Programmer, it was way slower than your chip and the drivers installation gave me a headache ( and i had a very suspicious message when finishing the NAND write ) But it turned out fine.
Next step i’m doing my switch OLED. Cheers
Glad this helped!
15:47 I used a small diamond file when I followed your Trinity video. Worked well.
honestly me as a novice when it comes to soldering and a total amateur with micro soldering and i did it fairly well without too much issue. however i did bump that trace a little while exposing the pll but didn't blow it out
Fantastic job as usually brother. Cheers.
Thanks!
just finished all the rgh3 wiring, just need to wait for the pico to arive!
Woo!
I absolutely love that you have lil peep in your recommended videos. 😍 great video by the way!
Peep Forever 🖤🖤🖤
You mentioned the resistor is optional on corona boards. Why does every other guide mention a resistor is REQUIRED? I'd like to not purchase another thing for this mod if I don't have to, can I just solder the wire directly? What's the difference with the resistor? Thanks.
I'm not speaking on other guides, only the ones I've made. I went according to the RGH3 documentation, which states a resistor on Corona boards is optional.
@@MrMario2011 Gotcha. What's the benefit to having the resistor?
as someone with 10 raspberry pi pico boards lying around with no clue what to use them for, safe to say im doing the picoflasher method 😅
3rd console RGH3 of the day for me and I was about to just walk into the ocean with all of my clothes still on, until I remembered that my Corona was a V3 and I didn't bridge resistor 6 & 7.Wouldn't boot at all until I did and when I remembered about the bridging, I realized that the NAND was still write-protected. No probs after that, but next time mod first and THEN drink beer....great tutorial!
Cool to hear! However with RGH3, bridging resistors 6 and 7 doesn't matter since those are for i2c glitch chip methods such as S-RGH. Anything that relies on PLL like RGH 3.0 or RGH 1.2 doesn't use the pads those two resistors are connected to, you just need resistor 10 bridged, which I covered in the video.
@MrMario2011 I used a pico pi and for some reason, it just wouldn't boot until I did that. It would turn on automatically and not do anything and then turn itself off after about 30 seconds and wouldn't come on again until I removed the power. No telling, honestly, but it's working at least!
inroducing mr mario the most hard cored jailbreaker in the world, every device fears him
thanks for the effort man legend
LOL I'm far from that, but thanks 🤣
@@MrMario2011 your most welcome bro
Just a hint for safely removing the x clamp - use a pair of scissors exactly as the tool in the Video!
Good tip!
Amazing video as always! thannk you for your time and attention to detail! I was wondering where you got those NAND wire extension things at. I could really use those! thanks again!
I have a video covering how to upgrade nand wires, give that a watch.
@@MrMario2011 Will do thank you!
MrMario, What microscope do you use? do you use one of those blue cameras with a big lens that plugs to a PC? or do you use a trinocular microscope with a camera attached to it?
I have it linked in my Amazon shop, linked in the description with the soldering supplies.
@@MrMario2011 Thanks
Hey MrMario2011! I'm trying to mod a Corona 4gb xbox 360 s. i have been using the pico flasher in combination with jrunner. When I plug in the pico flasher it does not pop up as a drive, but the nand reads just fine. I can write the stock nand back to it, but when i write the Ecc/xell, it does not boot. it shows the green light, but no video or audio. I tried using the Ethernet method as well, to no avail. From my understanding, I gathered that it must be the pico flasher firmware, due to my problem matching several other commenters. I believe that the pico flasher needs some more develeopment with the corona 4gb nands. Is there anything I can do in the meantime? its impossible to get an xflasher, and I tried and failed to make a working sd tool out of a micro sd card adapter. Is it really just the pico flasher? thanks!
Thanks for mentioning R2C10!!!
I was getting nowhere with the readings and already quadruple checked my NAND soldering. (I was following weekendmodder's guide and guess that he maybe forgot to mention the resistor.)
Glad it helped! Octal was a HUGE help on giving the knowledge for taht.
@@MrMario2011
Octal is great. I might try his ext_clk on a xenon that I have.
I read through weekendmodder's site and he didn't mention the resistor on the guide page, but did on the pico flasher page. (Hopefully someone will be able to add the ability to flash glitch chips with the pico.)
I just RGH3'd my 360 E with absolutely no soldering skills whatsoever, even tho it did take a few attempts to get the RGH wires right and i managed to get RROD once, but in the end it finally managed to boot into xell and i could just finish the job from that point.
I didn't use any resistor on the wires tho, according to consolemods and other sites its not a necessity on coronas since they use lower voltages anyway and as of now it works fine and instaboots every time.
Thanks again for the tutorial though, it wasn't easy at all but after all it wasn't that super hard either, even if my hands were probably shaking more than yours
Great work!
It is so good it has a full movie length! 🍿
I had to get EVERYTHING in there
This is by far the best tutorial on how to mod the 360, I really appreciate this video! I'm not sure if you still assist with questions but I hope you do, here's mines. After I was able to successfully flash to the motherboard, when it comes to plugging it to the tv, it turns on but no picture. I've tried multiple HDMI cables and different monitors. Any assistance would be great and thank you again for this amazing tut!!
Issue with soldering or soldering quality, not an issue with cables or monitors.
@MrMario2011 thank you for the response! I'm guessing that it's soldering of the 2 wires under the motherboard that I'll have to redo?
Hi Mr Mario.
So I pulled out the post pad accidentally. I should be able to connect to the other side by scraping the motherboard correct?
I'll definitely use this tutorial to get my Xbox 360 RGH'd. Don't know when, but once I do, I'll follow this. I know someone who can solder and he said he's happy to help me out with the mod.
Best of luck!
@@MrMario2011 Alright, update time!
I've finally gotten all the parts I need. I managed to find most of the parts really easily at my local hardware store. It was mostly just a waiting game because I had to order some of the things on Ebay.
I'll try and get the mod done this weekend!
@@BX56_YT update?
Where can I find more info on hooking up to Post on newer Corona models without the Post Fix adapter? I did order the adapters from aliexpress, but I was wondering if I could try the other method while I wait.
I see the image you put in at 10:50 but I wonder if there's any info to go along with it, like gauge of wire or measurement from the nearest corner in mm or something.
edit: ended up waiting for and using the adapter
After connecting the wire on R2C10, J runner detected the motherboard... Should i read nand, RGH3, Create xell then right xell....or there are other things to do...talk about the specific motherboard with R2C10
Shown in the video.
Excellent tutorial. Detailed and easy to understand even for a noob like me.
I have just one question that isn't clear for me. When having a WINBOND memory the patch WB 2K needs to be aplied ONLY for XBOX 360 E or in all the boards with winbond memories? I have a SLIM with winbond and not sure if that's needed.
I know of it for E models, but worst case try both? Enable the patch and build, if that doesn't boot then disable and rebuild.
Hello sir, such a nice tutorial I will be using to jailbreak my 360 but here is a important question:
What do you mean by kernel version we choose on the J-Runner? Is it my Xbox 360's version? Is it important which version I use my Xbox 360 on? Because I did not update it for a long time and its old version.
Choose the latest version J-Runner has available.
Thanks for the fast response. So it will be fine to have old firmware on my xbox 360 and this kernel version is something different then my xbox's kernel right?
@@user4gent416 Yes, this is done with JTAGs all the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if these videos start blowing up with the 360's store closure
Ew!!!!!