I love how these kinds of videos start off with … “oh this is incredibly simple to do” proceeds with an incredibly difficult set of instructions in the video.
They seem to think that anything short of manufacturing your own silicon is easy 😂 Easy is hit these three buttons and unplug this, and bam there you go. Or just plug in this USB and watch it go lol 8:24 He said“I made that sound easier than it is” bro I couldn’t even keep up with that 😂
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e ~$125-$150 depending on the customizations made, not too bad when mostly all retro consoles have ballooned into costing nearly as much on its own.
Moding/hacking I had this person try and sell me a hacked account Nintendo DSI for $160 and I told him straight out I don’t buy hacked systems, especially for that price and I said straight out if I buy I would only pay $60 and he was freaking out and told me it’s a thing now I just said not my thing so if you really want me to buy it would only be $60 to days later he messaged me and sold it to me for $60 but then I turned around and gave him $100 he asked me why because he didn’t understand. I said straight out. You treat me right I’ll treat you right that’s why it says $60 in the beginning. And because he understood that’s why he was willing to sell it to me for $60 and the reason why I gave my hundred is he did take his time to work and get it right no he didn’t get $160 that he wanted, but he did get what I thought his service was good for so when it comes to 100 and over no thank you it’s not worth it. I don’t care if it a thing or nostalgia
How’s the Halo 2 scene? I have a modded Xbox but I haven’t checked out anything online yet. I used to play it all the time back then but don’t play online anymore since last gen. It’d be cool to check it out back on og Xbox, I figured the people there are people who actually want to have fun.
@@systematicallyshocked it’s been a ton of fun on Halo 2. Feels like a crazy bit of nostalgia and me and my buddy found matches on Team Slayer consistently. We won about 2 matches and some people you can tell have been playing non stop since it’s online again. It’s free to play and the process is relatively simple to play on live through insignia. Adding friends works again as well as sending voice messages and voice chat it’s been a chill experience and no cheaters of course just people wanting to relive the glory days of Halo and Xbox. I highly recommend it as it’s the main reason I’m playing my OG Xbox right now
@@systematicallyshockedjust last week the xbox halo 2 multiplayer servers have been rebooted by a 3rd party tho I think u need to set it up somehow Generalkidd made a video on it
@@systematicallyshocked On the OG Xbox: Insignia just came out which plays the same as the original Xbox Live. Unfortunately it doesn't work on 360/Xbone/Series S/X. But Insignia also works for other games there's just a small population.
Soldering is actually a good thing to practice. You get better with time and when you can get better tools you can get to do many difficult things. I manage to install an X-Station on a PSX, and believe me, it's not easy AT ALL.
I suggest taking a board from like an old remote or something and practicing on that. Also not sure what you’re into as far as games go, but I cut my teeth on a custom hitbox style controller for fighting games a learned a lot from that experience.
@@WeneedaplagueExactly, you dont get pushed out the womb with these skills. I was selling 10-15 jtagged Xbox’s a month (before slim model came out)before that I was hosting 10th prestige lobbies. I learnt how to tag an Xbox when I was 12 cuz I wanted to be in 10th prestige lobbies but said hey let me learn It myself.
It’s also dependent on how much you think it’s worth doing. Meaning what will you actually do and play? If there is a large library you’d want to get to then go for it, why not? Don’t look back later and say “man I wish I…”, but if there isn’t a ton and you’re happy stock, that’s also cool. Lots of 360 games are still inexpensive. I buy physically still for 360. But if you’re too worried best bet would to find a cheap 360 somewhere and work on that so you feel more comfortable not messing up your own. Trust me, I don’t have steady hands worth a heck, but I was able to solder (a different console). It’s not as worrisome as you might think, and once you get the hang of it, it becomes more natural.
If there were any softmods for the Xbox 360 that DIDN’T require physical modification, I would do so in a heartbeat. Granted, soldering isn’t THAT difficult but you REALLY need to know what you’re doing. Half-assing it isn’t an option, it has to be on point
I have a Phat Falcon that I RGH3'ed for my kids and for nostalgia purposes. Reliability on boot can be hit or miss, but I find that when the TV is on and set to the correct input before powering on the 360, it seems to work more often. I have their TV set up to allow HDMI CEC so that they don't have to search for inputs using the remote. So they typically turn on a console, then the TV just comes on and goes to the correct input automatically.
360 doesn't support CEC. Xbox One doesn't support CEC. Xbox One X doesn't support CEC. Series S and X didn't support CEC when first released. HDMI handshake might be the issue you're seeing.
I kinda want to buy a second 360 to mod it and keep one "legit". Still have an account with tons of delisted games (I even have Simpsons Arcade demo on my account, which can still be redownloaded, all those files are still on Xbox servers. I regret never buying the full version, didn't expect it to get delisted so quickly), NFS MW 2005 probably the most rare digital game I own, and other valuable stuff that I don't want to lose access to, as well as an option to earn achievements and play online. With store closing in July, I'm planning to buy a lot of digital-only titles and move to retails discs.
I just re-did mine a few weeks ago as well. I hadn’t touched it in years and decided to format and start from scratch. A lot of the DLCs are hard to find now. But yes, XBLA is the main highlight of hacking it
Taping very precisely around PLL before trying to expose it can save you if you were to slip as it might save you from cutting through the trace that is right next to it. If you cut that trace it's all over and the system is dead unless you do a trace repair. Also advisable to heat shrink around the resistor in case of shorting against the shield. If you destroy post 1 you can recover by tapping in on the otherside of the board with a postfix adaptor. I don't think there are alternative points for the other three unfortunately. Trinity is the easiest install, early corona not too bad either.
Looks awesome. Thanks for the appetizer. 😊 I’ve also been wanting to do this mod for a long time. So far, I have only non-slim 360s. Maybe, now is a good time to get a slim 360 and try out this mod. 🙃
I picked up a RGH back in January of this year and I've been having a blast playing games from my childhood and games I never got to play. It's been a fun couple of months!
Easiest Mod I found and done personally was to flash the disc drive, and then download ISO files and then patch the games, and finally burn via ISO Burn on DL discs. Definitely a good mod which was also simple by probing the drive.
I don't remember having to use a chip when jailbreak the Xbox 360 and I did a bunch of them. It was just wires and resistors. Sure, there were manufacturered ribbion type circuit boards that you could buy, but that was just to make it easier. I always used cat 5 cable wire and resistors on all different versions of the Xbox 360.
I missed the boat on getting a lot of legacy Xbox 360 Arcade games before they were delisted because of licensing issues like the TMNT arcade game, the remade Turtles in Time and The Simpsons Arcade game so I would love this.
It’s pretty amazing that Microsoft has basically gone 2 generations at this point without their console getting exploited. There was a time when it seemed like every console would be hacked eventually.
So little reason to. No real big exclusives, there's Dev mode to put on homebrew and emulation already. Microsoft won by giving everyone what they wanted
It's great that they give people ways to run homebrew. Though I wonder how Xbox One and Xbox Series will be emulated in the future. How will we dump our games, DLC, and title updates?
3:11 Actually, the last revisions of the original models, Jasper and Tonasket have proven to be the most reliable Xbox 360s you can get. They are more reliable than Slims. I have seen many Slims fail recently while I have yet to see a Jasper or Tonasket suffer a GPU failure.
Modded 360's were always so fascinating to me, I had like 3 friends growing up around 2008-2010 that had modded Xboxes and I remember seeing their custom interfaces and thinking "man, I want one of these". The hardware modifications is what always held me back though. 😅 I have a bit more experience now with hardware mods though! I might have to give this a shot eventually.
Back in 2008 you couldn't mod an Xbox if it was updated past the blades dashboard. So anyone who went on Xbox live made it impossible to mod it ever again until many years later when they found a new method to mod them.
I thinks it better modifying a PS3 than a Xbox 360. Mann that's a whole lot of hassle to get to the point of having it modified. Thanks for your commitment in showing us how you made it tho!
Doing the RGH 3 mod is the ultimate way to preserve and play xbox 360 titles. With subscription services and streaming being the norm, soon you won't be able to purchase/own games, only rent them indefinitely. I for one, want to own my games FOREVER. As it should be. Mark my words, the gaming industry as a whole is trying to create a monopoly. They're already a good chunk of the way there by making the Series S and PS5 digital.
The trend is everything being released for Windows. PS and XBOX are PCs. There's little to nothing custom about them other than security so Sony and MS don't lose their shirts selling the hardware below cost.
Used this exact mod method myself a month ago with my Corona and added a 2tb internal drive, so much content to go through after the mod not just games but collecting all Avatar items and gamer pics as well as each games DLC and title updates 😅. Also @ 10:37 ripping discs is alot easier when you use Auroras GOD disc extract script found within Auroras script install section.
I did this 3 months ago because as a kid I had a ps3 so I didn't get to play games like halo and gears, It was the hardest soldering project I've finished but worth it. also its great because I get free games lol
I remember getting console-banned for doing something similar to this when the 360 was current, but I don’t recall there being a custom os at the time. This looks amazing; I kinda wanna pick up a 360 now.
It all depends. I had 2 modded Xbox 360s back in 2008. First one was just a DVD mod that made it possible to play burned games, that you could play online with. The second was a jtag modded Xbox and it had custom backgrounds,homebrew games, the ability to have all the Xbl arcade games for free and you could also run all your disc games off of a external hdd. This was NOT ok to go online because you risked it getting banned and if you updated the system it would unmod your Xbox because you needed a Xbox that still had the blades dashboard since the firmware updated a patch to stop xboxs from being jtag modded. Unfortunately it got RROD and I havent bothered to fix it but I want to at some point.
Freestyle Dash has an option to insert the disc & start copying the disc contents without highlighting all files, it's an older custom dash I personally think it looks nicer than Aurora.
i really wish i could do this myself now, there are alot of games you just can't get anymore and id love to play them again the way i did back in the day, even some that weren't released in Australia properly would be nice to get too
I'm not sure if I missed it, but did you mention that once you mod your xbox like this, it can never go back online, or it will get console banned? Not really even sure if that matters anymore...
Seems the Xbox 360 is still one of the most complicated consoles to mod. Ninja Blade is a fun game. Definitely comes across as a Ninja Gaiden clone, but not quite as good. Better than NG3 though.
I was never really able to prioritize gaming and getting the latest console or playing the coolest new online games with my friends, i was still on the ps2 and Xbox 360 up till 2018. I basically played three or four games and that’s it, like tony hawk underground, ratchet and clank, and assassins creed. So it’s really cool to be able to grab these older consoles and get all the games i never got to play and go through them with my kids now. My first mod was a psp1000, always wanted a psp and never had one so i grabbed one when i found out i could mod it and get pretty much every game i ever wanted for it for free. Thinking I’m gonna have to do this to my old 360 that i gave my son a couple years ago
7:34 I used a fibreglass pen to remove the silk screen on mine. I was paranoid I was going to slip with the exacto knife and cut other traces or knock small components off the board if I did slip
I want to mod mine just to play Shoalin Monks. That is one of the best beat em ups ever. It's sad that it's not on backwards compatibility in an official capacity
Guys give me advice. I have a rog ally. But i was gonna buy retro consoles. I want to condense my set up. I already have xbox sx and ps5. I was gonna buy a wii, wii u. Gamecube. Ps2, ps3, psp, ps vita, 2dsxl 3dsxl, xbox 360. And og xbox. Which consoles can i skip? Me and my wife are into gaming and really love the classics all offer
I prefer original hardware too, and using mods to load backups of games to play them. I’ve had too many problems with emulation so I stopped even trying that!
Interestingly, I just got myself a 360 slim with a Kinect for $20 at a local thrift store, did the RGH3 mod, and while inside, discovered it was eerily clean !! IMO it's worth it 😊
The phats are just as good. It depends on which motherboard revision you get. Ideally you get a tonasket, not a xenon/zephyre. As you said though, RGH 3 is extremely hit or miss on phats, so you want to do RGH 1.2 using a mod chip. I've used coolrunners on both my tonasket and xenon (xenon got all new capacitors and is the good gpu). You can also use dirtypico to flash the mod chip timings. The trinity slims are the easiest to RGH tbh.
10:45 pure nonsense, you can rip the disc in the original dashboard and it's all automatic and it's then also accessible in both dashes then as well, the way you're showing is long-winded and then won't be accessible in the original dash
TLDR: I recommend the Xbox 360 Elite over the Slim. In terms of which 360 model is best for modification, here's my experience for what it's worth. I've modded two 360's, a Slim and an Elite. The fat elite has a Jasper mobo and the Slim is Trinity. I tried to set them up as similar as possible and from my experience the fat old girl is better than the slim. It runs far cooler (I changed the thermal paste in both), and therefore quieter. Although the slim has quieter fans than the fat, they obviously need to run faster to keep it cool. Aurora dash loads faster and runs more smoothly on the fat, and I also had some difficulty getting some XBLA games running on the slim due to security checks. This might vary for other people and perhaps I set things up wrong on the slim, or maybe that matches other people's experience.
Jaspers have actually proven to be more reliable than slims in more recent years. afaik the eDRAM wasn't made as well and is starting to go bad on some of them, which causes E82 (E74 for slims).
I feel if there was a way of soft modding the 360 it would have been discovered long before now. considering we have had 2 gens release after this, it would have been out already. I do have my og Xbox soft modded and it's great. Would def love to be able to do it with my 360 but I don't have any tech knowledge to solder etc
There’s a way you can run and install an emulator on the newer gen xbox ( series s / x ) for those that dont wanna solder a pico chip to their 360 motherboard ( you have to pay a fee to run your console on dev mode though )
I know of a couple but I'm trying to see what people consider the best send-in service company! What company provides the best send-in service for 360 modding?
I'm not up to the mod so I just bought a jtag modded one for like $150ish USD on eBay. Well worth it. So awesome. Aurora is super clean and easy to use. Awesome system.
with a stealth server yes you can get online with xbox live. but there are paid stealth servers that require a subscription with many great addon features. and there are free stealths aswell but one i would recommend (proto)
Aurora has scripts in the menu to rip games, you don't have to do all that manually. You also don't have to have all your xbla and og Xbox games showing with your 360 games. Using the bumpers on the controller can switch what types of games you want to play. You also can setup title updates if you want to get online with it.
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I love how these kinds of videos start off with … “oh this is incredibly simple to do” proceeds with an incredibly difficult set of instructions in the video.
Yes I am wanting to mod my WiiU but I just haven’t the time or energy to do it right now 😂
They seem to think that anything short of manufacturing your own silicon is easy 😂
Easy is hit these three buttons and unplug this, and bam there you go. Or just plug in this USB and watch it go lol
8:24 He said“I made that sound easier than it is” bro I couldn’t even keep up with that 😂
He's flexing on us forsure 😂
@@sandman8920WiiU is soooo easy tho
@@isaacddestroy3674so og xbox endgame softmod
The lack of a softmod really meant the homebrew scene would never get very large for the 360
For what it’s worth, getting one that’s already modded costs about as much as a refurbished unit.
@@damian9303How much are we talking
@@user-vi4xy1jw7ecan easily find them for >$100
ttg or 7s to find people who have been making them for decades
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e ~$125-$150 depending on the customizations made, not too bad when mostly all retro consoles have ballooned into costing nearly as much on its own.
Moding/hacking I had this person try and sell me a hacked account Nintendo DSI for $160 and I told him straight out I don’t buy hacked systems, especially for that price and I said straight out if I buy I would only pay $60 and he was freaking out and told me it’s a thing now I just said not my thing so if you really want me to buy it would only be $60 to days later he messaged me and sold it to me for $60 but then I turned around and gave him $100 he asked me why because he didn’t understand. I said straight out. You treat me right I’ll treat you right that’s why it says $60 in the beginning. And because he understood that’s why he was willing to sell it to me for $60 and the reason why I gave my hundred is he did take his time to work and get it right no he didn’t get $160 that he wanted, but he did get what I thought his service was good for so when it comes to 100 and over no thank you it’s not worth it. I don’t care if it a thing or nostalgia
I did this exact mod back in Oct last year. Its totally worth it if use a 2Tb drive cause you'll be able to put 250-400 games on it.
Is the 2tb drive compatible with the old Jasper models...?
@@ahsanvirk130I’d assume so because the operating system (software) would be the one reading it. But yeah it’s always good to double check.
I have 2tb with Aurora and have about 800 xboxlive arcade games
its available on ebay.. ?
I attempted it and ruined the motherboard. I’m jealous of people who can do it successfully.
I have a modded 360 and just recently modded my OG Xbox for playing Halo 2 online and man it has been a blast this week!
How’s the Halo 2 scene? I have a modded Xbox but I haven’t checked out anything online yet. I used to play it all the time back then but don’t play online anymore since last gen. It’d be cool to check it out back on og Xbox, I figured the people there are people who actually want to have fun.
@@systematicallyshocked it’s been a ton of fun on Halo 2. Feels like a crazy bit of nostalgia and me and my buddy found matches on Team Slayer consistently. We won about 2 matches and some people you can tell have been playing non stop since it’s online again. It’s free to play and the process is relatively simple to play on live through insignia. Adding friends works again as well as sending voice messages and voice chat it’s been a chill experience and no cheaters of course just people wanting to relive the glory days of Halo and Xbox. I highly recommend it as it’s the main reason I’m playing my OG Xbox right now
@@systematicallyshockedjust last week the xbox halo 2 multiplayer servers have been rebooted by a 3rd party tho I think u need to set it up somehow Generalkidd made a video on it
@@systematicallyshocked On the OG Xbox: Insignia just came out which plays the same as the original Xbox Live. Unfortunately it doesn't work on 360/Xbone/Series S/X. But Insignia also works for other games there's just a small population.
@@hamcheese3532 thanks! I’ll check it out.
I just picked up Dante's Inferno for my X360 its such a underrated game.
That Super Bowl trailer for Dante's Inferno is still in the back of my head all these years later lol
Dantes Inferno is masterpiece series.
@@XBX1MASTERseries? It's a single game
@@randybobandy9828 I meant it belongs in a group of masterpiece titles. I have more than 1 game I consider a masterpiece.
Great game even if it is a God of War clone.
Soldering is definitely where I checked out
Soldering is actually a good thing to practice. You get better with time and when you can get better tools you can get to do many difficult things.
I manage to install an X-Station on a PSX, and believe me, it's not easy AT ALL.
It’s a pricey in terms of mistakes but very worth it
I suggest taking a board from like an old remote or something and practicing on that. Also not sure what you’re into as far as games go, but I cut my teeth on a custom hitbox style controller for fighting games a learned a lot from that experience.
That's the easy part. Downloading shit correctly is hardest
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I did this mod specifically to play DLC that’s already been taken down years ago. Really worth it for me in that regard.
May I ask for direction on where to look for Dlc?
One of the Best reasons
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I opened a never before used xbox 360 last year and it was so cool unboxing an older console. It was also my first time seeing the blade menu
That’s amazing
My first 360 had the blade menu and I got that in I believe 08 or 09? Was a great dash but I prefer NXE
I miss my launch Xbox 360
I wish I had the skills to do this. I love my 360 and have been interested in this for years.
Just buy one that's modded.
You have the ability. You lack the confidence. Soldering is super simple all things considered
@@WeneedaplagueExactly, you dont get pushed out the womb with these skills. I was selling 10-15 jtagged Xbox’s a month (before slim model came out)before that I was hosting 10th prestige lobbies. I learnt how to tag an Xbox when I was 12 cuz I wanted to be in 10th prestige lobbies but said hey let me learn It myself.
If you love your 360, you'd keep it stock. Enjoy it's limitations, if you had a device that could do anything, where is the fun in that
It’s also dependent on how much you think it’s worth doing. Meaning what will you actually do and play? If there is a large library you’d want to get to then go for it, why not? Don’t look back later and say “man I wish I…”, but if there isn’t a ton and you’re happy stock, that’s also cool. Lots of 360 games are still inexpensive. I buy physically still for 360.
But if you’re too worried best bet would to find a cheap 360 somewhere and work on that so you feel more comfortable not messing up your own. Trust me, I don’t have steady hands worth a heck, but I was able to solder (a different console). It’s not as worrisome as you might think, and once you get the hang of it, it becomes more natural.
If there were any softmods for the Xbox 360 that DIDN’T require physical modification, I would do so in a heartbeat. Granted, soldering isn’t THAT difficult but you REALLY need to know what you’re doing. Half-assing it isn’t an option, it has to be on point
I have a Phat Falcon that I RGH3'ed for my kids and for nostalgia purposes. Reliability on boot can be hit or miss, but I find that when the TV is on and set to the correct input before powering on the 360, it seems to work more often.
I have their TV set up to allow HDMI CEC so that they don't have to search for inputs using the remote. So they typically turn on a console, then the TV just comes on and goes to the correct input automatically.
360 doesn't support CEC. Xbox One doesn't support CEC. Xbox One X doesn't support CEC. Series S and X didn't support CEC when first released. HDMI handshake might be the issue you're seeing.
@@espressomatic this aged well didn't it..
I kinda want to buy a second 360 to mod it and keep one "legit". Still have an account with tons of delisted games (I even have Simpsons Arcade demo on my account, which can still be redownloaded, all those files are still on Xbox servers. I regret never buying the full version, didn't expect it to get delisted so quickly), NFS MW 2005 probably the most rare digital game I own, and other valuable stuff that I don't want to lose access to, as well as an option to earn achievements and play online. With store closing in July, I'm planning to buy a lot of digital-only titles and move to retails discs.
You can do a dual nand set up. Which lets you swap between modded and unmodded on one console by pressing a button
You can absolutely dump the discs like normal. You go into the plugins section, I think, then you download the app for dumping 360 games.
One of my favorite things from X360 was the indie game section. Games like Castle Miner Z and Murder Miners was xbox 360 for a lot of us
I still have Murder miners but it’s dead.
I just re-did mine a few weeks ago as well. I hadn’t touched it in years and decided to format and start from scratch. A lot of the DLCs are hard to find now. But yes, XBLA is the main highlight of hacking it
Yes @@AndyTolly123
Nope. A Ps3 jailbreak is childsplay compared to this shit.😂
Taping very precisely around PLL before trying to expose it can save you if you were to slip as it might save you from cutting through the trace that is right next to it. If you cut that trace it's all over and the system is dead unless you do a trace repair.
Also advisable to heat shrink around the resistor in case of shorting against the shield.
If you destroy post 1 you can recover by tapping in on the otherside of the board with a postfix adaptor.
I don't think there are alternative points for the other three unfortunately.
Trinity is the easiest install, early corona not too bad either.
Looks awesome. Thanks for the appetizer. 😊 I’ve also been wanting to do this mod for a long time. So far, I have only non-slim 360s. Maybe, now is a good time to get a slim 360 and try out this mod. 🙃
I picked up a RGH back in January of this year and I've been having a blast playing games from my childhood and games I never got to play. It's been a fun couple of months!
Easiest Mod I found and done personally was to flash the disc drive, and then download ISO files and then patch the games, and finally burn via ISO Burn on DL discs. Definitely a good mod which was also simple by probing the drive.
Didn’t realize the pico was able to do this now. Appreciate videos like this, got a new project now!
I don't remember having to use a chip when jailbreak the Xbox 360 and I did a bunch of them. It was just wires and resistors. Sure, there were manufacturered ribbion type circuit boards that you could buy, but that was just to make it easier. I always used cat 5 cable wire and resistors on all different versions of the Xbox 360.
I missed the boat on getting a lot of legacy Xbox 360 Arcade games before they were delisted because of licensing issues like the TMNT arcade game, the remade Turtles in Time and The Simpsons Arcade game so I would love this.
For those new to board level work, a little hot glue is great on wires left in place. Hot glue comes off with isopropyl too
It’s pretty amazing that Microsoft has basically gone 2 generations at this point without their console getting exploited. There was a time when it seemed like every console would be hacked eventually.
So little reason to. No real big exclusives, there's Dev mode to put on homebrew and emulation already. Microsoft won by giving everyone what they wanted
@@redmage08Exactly. You can easily mod everything
There's no point at having an xbox, so there's no point modding one.
It's great that they give people ways to run homebrew.
Though I wonder how Xbox One and Xbox Series will be emulated in the future. How will we dump our games, DLC, and title updates?
@@nkjellmanit's called PC gaming lol
3:11
Actually, the last revisions of the original models, Jasper and Tonasket have proven to be the most reliable Xbox 360s you can get. They are more reliable than Slims. I have seen many Slims fail recently while I have yet to see a Jasper or Tonasket suffer a GPU failure.
I just found out that i have a jasper model but thing is, i dont know how to solder :( really wanna do this tho
It transcribes as him saying "hit" that like button, but I only hear... that like button.. 😂
The thing is that with the hard mod getting easier, that means send in services will get cheaper since the labor isnt as taxing as before
"I used a cliché video title format in the current year. Here's why."
Modded 360's were always so fascinating to me, I had like 3 friends growing up around 2008-2010 that had modded Xboxes and I remember seeing their custom interfaces and thinking "man, I want one of these". The hardware modifications is what always held me back though. 😅 I have a bit more experience now with hardware mods though! I might have to give this a shot eventually.
Back in 2008 you couldn't mod an Xbox if it was updated past the blades dashboard. So anyone who went on Xbox live made it impossible to mod it ever again until many years later when they found a new method to mod them.
I thinks it better modifying a PS3 than a Xbox 360. Mann that's a whole lot of hassle to get to the point of having it modified. Thanks for your commitment in showing us how you made it tho!
Word of advice: Make sure to always have an extra hard drive. I ended up getting 2 of them boot looped after playing around in dashlaunch
Doing the RGH 3 mod is the ultimate way to preserve and play xbox 360 titles. With subscription services and streaming being the norm, soon you won't be able to purchase/own games, only rent them indefinitely. I for one, want to own my games FOREVER. As it should be. Mark my words, the gaming industry as a whole is trying to create a monopoly. They're already a good chunk of the way there by making the Series S and PS5 digital.
The trend is everything being released for Windows. PS and XBOX are PCs. There's little to nothing custom about them other than security so Sony and MS don't lose their shirts selling the hardware below cost.
I have 2 RGH Xbox 360 slim both with 2tb hdd. I bought the first one for $350 and the second one for $100 Canadian.
I knew many guys who were buying them and having no understanding how to update them.
The Raspberry Pico is like a swiss army knife. I just soldered some pins to the thing and use wires with male/female dupont connectors.
I considered doing this but then I looked over the games and realised I could just play them all on PC, so didn't bother.
Used this exact mod method myself a month ago with my Corona and added a 2tb internal drive, so much content to go through after the mod not just games but collecting all Avatar items and gamer pics as well as each games DLC and title updates 😅.
Also @ 10:37 ripping discs is alot easier when you use Auroras GOD disc extract script found within Auroras script install section.
I did this 3 months ago because as a kid I had a ps3 so I didn't get to play games like halo and gears, It was the hardest soldering project I've finished but worth it. also its great because I get free games lol
I remember getting console-banned for doing something similar to this when the 360 was current, but I don’t recall there being a custom os at the time. This looks amazing; I kinda wanna pick up a 360 now.
It all depends. I had 2 modded Xbox 360s back in 2008. First one was just a DVD mod that made it possible to play burned games, that you could play online with. The second was a jtag modded Xbox and it had custom backgrounds,homebrew games, the ability to have all the Xbl arcade games for free and you could also run all your disc games off of a external hdd. This was NOT ok to go online because you risked it getting banned and if you updated the system it would unmod your Xbox because you needed a Xbox that still had the blades dashboard since the firmware updated a patch to stop xboxs from being jtag modded. Unfortunately it got RROD and I havent bothered to fix it but I want to at some point.
buy a modded one. it sounds like it needs to stay offline though.
@@majorgear1021it doesn't. You can use a modded 360 online no problem using a stealth server
Freestyle Dash has an option to insert the disc & start copying the disc contents without highlighting all files, it's an older custom dash I personally think it looks nicer than Aurora.
Had one of these back in the day, wish I never sold it. If I can find my old harddrive I might need to pick another one up
i really wish i could do this myself now, there are alot of games you just can't get anymore and id love to play them again the way i did back in the day, even some that weren't released in Australia properly would be nice to get too
I need someone to do this for my Xbox 360 slim. I I do it, I know it'll never work again.
wise choice. I have already ruined two trying this mod out.
I modded mine a few years ago. Hardest part was the NAND read/write. Installed a RGH chip and works great, boot cycle is low as well.
Would this work on a Xbox 360 E? I bought the e 500 gb as it was it great condition and was manufactured in 2015 .
No, Those had the Winchester motherboards which cannot be hard modded. You will need another earlier console if you want to hard mod a 360.
@@brettanderson6743 thanks man it is what is i enjoy the look of the e 360
Model Es are only moddable if made in 2013 (corona motherboard) the end of 2013 (iirc november?) and on were winchesters and unmoddable
I'm not sure if I missed it, but did you mention that once you mod your xbox like this, it can never go back online, or it will get console banned? Not really even sure if that matters anymore...
Pretty sure you wouldn’t get banned unless you cheated/hacked online yet
@@itselijah535 My modded 360 got banned and I never played online with it, let alone cheat or do any hacking.
Yes the console can get perma banned but there are ways around that
It's a concern but much like the PS3, not much you'll miss out on
Just don't use your main account.
This is awesome. While we like the news stuff....this is what the channel use to be....you need to get back to more hands on stuff.
I'd love some clean install kits for the 360 like Project Stellar for the OG Xbox
Nice video! I want to mod mine too now! Is it straight away replace the lens with exact same one or does it needs calibration? Never tried it before 😁
Seems the Xbox 360 is still one of the most complicated consoles to mod.
Ninja Blade is a fun game. Definitely comes across as a Ninja Gaiden clone, but not quite as good. Better than NG3 though.
Bought mine today, xbox 360 is too good to die, RGH for the win
I've had a jtag 360 for years now, best way to play games from that generation
Great video! I've been trying to rip my og xbox Games disc to the hdd, but I can't figure out how?
Hate to break it to you but Ninja Blade was released on PC for a while on steam before it got pulled from the store
Video starts at 2:25
i got two my self but man it takes forever to download and transfer games to them
I was never really able to prioritize gaming and getting the latest console or playing the coolest new online games with my friends, i was still on the ps2 and Xbox 360 up till 2018. I basically played three or four games and that’s it, like tony hawk underground, ratchet and clank, and assassins creed. So it’s really cool to be able to grab these older consoles and get all the games i never got to play and go through them with my kids now. My first mod was a psp1000, always wanted a psp and never had one so i grabbed one when i found out i could mod it and get pretty much every game i ever wanted for it for free. Thinking I’m gonna have to do this to my old 360 that i gave my son a couple years ago
Having marble blast ultra back on 360 would be sweet
I might pick one up for all the rpgs I missed in the xbox era
Love your channel.. awesome work.. Soldering is definitely where I checked out.
All the white 360's didn't have issues. The Jasper version of the white Xbox 360 was very reliable.
7:34 I used a fibreglass pen to remove the silk screen on mine. I was paranoid I was going to slip with the exacto knife and cut other traces or knock small components off the board if I did slip
Might try this. Thanks for the suggestion!
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, beats an RGH XBOX 360.
I wish the xbox one would have some kind of breakthrough in the modding scene.
Love your channel.. awesome work.
I've been thinking of doing this for awhile and the Pico flash method you did with pins is actually very smart. I may have to try that!
I want to mod mine just to play Shoalin Monks. That is one of the best beat em ups ever. It's sad that it's not on backwards compatibility in an official capacity
Any chance you do a video on must download 360 games that are not BC before the store gets shutdown in June?
*BC ? WHAT DO YOU MEAN*
trueachievements dude.
His 'must play' does not necessarily mean your 'must play'.
The Slims are reliable, but they aren't as reliable as late Falcon/Jasper/Tonasket fat revisions and those are just the coolest
I had my white Falcon RGH'd awhile back and love it. But now regret sending in a 320gb drive instead of a 1 or 2 tb drive.
Did I just see the "Spawn MicroWave......" in the sponsored video part?
Guys give me advice. I have a rog ally. But i was gonna buy retro consoles. I want to condense my set up. I already have xbox sx and ps5. I was gonna buy a wii, wii u. Gamecube. Ps2, ps3, psp, ps vita, 2dsxl 3dsxl, xbox 360. And og xbox. Which consoles can i skip? Me and my wife are into gaming and really love the classics all offer
I prefer original hardware too, and using mods to load backups of games to play them. I’ve had too many problems with emulation so I stopped even trying that!
Interestingly, I just got myself a 360 slim with a Kinect for $20 at a local thrift store, did the RGH3 mod, and while inside, discovered it was eerily clean !!
IMO it's worth it 😊
The phats are just as good. It depends on which motherboard revision you get. Ideally you get a tonasket, not a xenon/zephyre. As you said though, RGH 3 is extremely hit or miss on phats, so you want to do RGH 1.2 using a mod chip. I've used coolrunners on both my tonasket and xenon (xenon got all new capacitors and is the good gpu). You can also use dirtypico to flash the mod chip timings. The trinity slims are the easiest to RGH tbh.
the Xbox 360 generation was so great
10:45 pure nonsense, you can rip the disc in the original dashboard and it's all automatic and it's then also accessible in both dashes then as well, the way you're showing is long-winded and then won't be accessible in the original dash
If you want to upgrade the HDD storage, can you clone it and fully restore it to a new one without losing the custom OS and games?
TLDR: I recommend the Xbox 360 Elite over the Slim.
In terms of which 360 model is best for modification, here's my experience for what it's worth. I've modded two 360's, a Slim and an Elite. The fat elite has a Jasper mobo and the Slim is Trinity. I tried to set them up as similar as possible and from my experience the fat old girl is better than the slim. It runs far cooler (I changed the thermal paste in both), and therefore quieter. Although the slim has quieter fans than the fat, they obviously need to run faster to keep it cool. Aurora dash loads faster and runs more smoothly on the fat, and I also had some difficulty getting some XBLA games running on the slim due to security checks. This might vary for other people and perhaps I set things up wrong on the slim, or maybe that matches other people's experience.
Jaspers have actually proven to be more reliable than slims in more recent years. afaik the eDRAM wasn't made as well and is starting to go bad on some of them, which causes E82 (E74 for slims).
Yeah the OG Xbox and the Wii are the two kings of the homebrew scene.
“I’ve been using factor for years now to skip the grocery store line”-I haven’t waited in a grocery store line in years what are you talking about?
THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I own two. And I feel stupid for not owning more.
I'd love to hack my 360, but I have no experience with soldering. Even just taking it apart looks scary.
the Xbox 360 is still the best console ever.
If you are a goldeneye fan, that goldeneye remaster is worth buying a 360 and doing this mod for by itself.
I'm hoping that eventually, a soft mod method is discovered
I feel if there was a way of soft modding the 360 it would have been discovered long before now. considering we have had 2 gens release after this, it would have been out already. I do have my og Xbox soft modded and it's great. Would def love to be able to do it with my 360 but I don't have any tech knowledge to solder etc
@@Klynch111 you're probably right, but I'll hold out hope
Fiberglass pen works great if you don't want to scrape off. Great video
Damn bro almost a mil. I was your 14th sub 😂
There’s a way you can run and install an emulator on the newer gen xbox ( series s / x ) for those that dont wanna solder a pico chip to their 360 motherboard ( you have to pay a fee to run your console on dev mode though )
Dev mode is amazing!
Great TechWave Video Jon(SW).
Defo too much for me too do lol.
Definitely a brilliant Mod, especially for the Xbox Arcade Games alone.
I know of a couple but I'm trying to see what people consider the best send-in service company! What company provides the best send-in service for 360 modding?
That would be be.
World class designer now making arcades.
I'm making 4 player units right now.
Ghostbusters led console theme
Man this reminds me of the darknet diaries podcast. The 'xbox underground'. They just got lucky with DEV kits haha!
I did this to my 360 elite and never looked back
I'm not up to the mod so I just bought a jtag modded one for like $150ish USD on eBay. Well worth it. So awesome. Aurora is super clean and easy to use. Awesome system.
I recently modded my Phat Falcon Xbox 360 with RGH3 and it works perfectly.
Can you still take it online? How about local system link with XB1 or XSX?
Local YES - MP no
with a stealth server yes you can get online with xbox live. but there are paid stealth servers that require a subscription with many great addon features. and there are free stealths aswell but one i would recommend (proto)
Aurora has scripts in the menu to rip games, you don't have to do all that manually. You also don't have to have all your xbla and og Xbox games showing with your 360 games. Using the bumpers on the controller can switch what types of games you want to play. You also can setup title updates if you want to get online with it.
I've got a modded Mw3 console me and the misses gonna be smashing out some Simpsons 🎉
Where can I just buy it already modded
does it matter if you use PAL or NTSC backups for a modded Xbox 360?
No depends how you get the file iso or disc?
I want to do this specifically for goldeneye xbla I wish they just officially launched that version 😢