Your Original Xbox Can Play This (And Much More)

the year is 2006. the Xbox 360 has been the hot new thing for about a year at this point people are ditching their original Xboxes in droves in favor of the 360. fight a baby I trade my baby in for this thing little did they know they would also be ditching their 360s in droves in just a couple years as well but you know and luckily all this Mass upgrading had made it make sense for my family to finally pick up an original Xbox at an affordable price six-year-old me couldn't care less about the fact that it was technically last gen within my little world which had been dominated by nothing but a snes-up to that point the Xbox was Advanced alien future technology as far as I was concerned and who could even blame me for thinking that have you seen the boot animation on this thing nightmares about the green blob getting me aside just navigating through these cryptic looking menus and hearing this mysterious background Ambience was so incredibly captivating to me up until now it had never even occurred to me that a game console could have a menu let alone have one that I could just be content sitting down and exploring in the big menacing stature of the console itself really tied everything together both the hardware and the software seemed like they were built specifically to appeal to every Gamer's as dumb as it sounds darker bad guy side and to me the Xbox represented an outstretched arm beckoning me to leave the warm and fuzzy Cocoon of Nintendo games it was time to put down the SNES pad pick up a Duke and see what Microsoft's new world had to offer but you know what they definitely didn't offer Factor are you tired of toiling away for hours in the kitchen chopping prepping and Searing your eyeballs in the process do you wish you could spend hours in the kitchen cooking but you're absolutely skillless with a skillet and what are you gonna do when there's no time to go out or make something from scratch anyway yeah you've got that emergency military grade mozzarella 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kind of starting to have 22 year old Pentium 3 PC issues now most notable being this clock capacitor leakage which can spill this yummy capacitor fluid all over the motherboard and turn your Xbox into an x Xbox and if a clock capacitor blowing up doesn't get it that spinning rust of a mechanical IDE hard drive probably will and you know those controllers that you've been wrapping up the wrong way for 22 years yeah well that leads to the wires inside cracking and breaking apart and next thing you know you're either soldering together a cable to fix it or you're playing twister to get the connection stable every time you want to use it hey how about that belt in the DVD drive drying out and falling off oh that's kind of an important component to break considering not only do you have to open up the Xbox to fix it but then you'd also have to go and open up the DVD drive too that sucks I think the Xbox may have accidentally gotten cc'd in the email about how DVD drives are now considered vestigial organs in the modern era it kind of just decided huh well I guess I don't need this anymore and next thing you know you're reliving your six-year-old life of doing nothing but navigating through the menus except this time it's not nearly as entertaining but what if I told you there's a better way there's a Greener pasture than the one you're about to put your dying Xbox down into a magical world where you needn't worry about ancient hard drives or rely on these outdated media formats it's the world of Homebrew and the Xbox has a vast one although I do want to say that you do still need to yank the clock capacitor regardless because Homebrew cannot fix that and if you haven't taken that thing out already it's probably already blown up in your Xbox causing all kind of havoc in there as we speak so if you haven't done that yet and you want to learn more about what you can do to get rid of it I'm going to link this video in the description where they show you how to remove it and then clean the motherboard up it's not that hard if you have the right stuff but you do have to do this it will destroy your Xbox you don't want to be like this this is disgusting and you know while you've got this whole guy open to take care of that let me show you something this is the SATA to IDE adapter and it's the key to replacing this old 8 gigabyte hard drive drive that's in there an 8 gigabyte hard drive that that is insane to think about anyway there are some hoops you have to jump through to get a new Drive installed since by default the Xbox is very particular about locking and unlocking the drive that it boots from and it can be very temperamental about it there's a lot of guides out there at this point that go over the whole upgrade process and there's a few different routes that you can go down they're pretty much sorted based on How likely you are to burn down your house if you have to pick up a soldering iron in mine I've got this 320 gigabyte three and a half inch IDE hard drive that I installed probably like oh man like 10 years ago at this point when I upgraded mine I opted to do the extremely convoluted Xbox HDM method which requires a decrepit computer and some sketchy hot swapping Shenanigans between the Xbox and the computer it was horrible but it didn't require any soldering and at the time I absolutely was someone who would burn their house down if they had to pick up a soldering iron so this was great that was the most accessible method that I had to get it done 10 years ago and I haven't had to upgrade my hard drive since luckily from what I can gather about it nowadays days you're probably best off doing something called a t-sop flash it'll rewrite the BIOS in a way that lets you just kind of plop in a new hard drive and be on your way for the most part there is some other stuff you have to do to get the OS back installed but it's not that bad and when it comes to soldering you only have to bridge one connection on the motherboard which is nice however if you're still looking at your soldering iron and thinking wait how much does my renter's insurance cover again there's also this middle of the road option which doesn't require any soldering there's a tool called chimp it does still require a Molex power cable splitter and more hot swapping but no computers needed just a soft modded Xbox and I do want to note that by far the best option if you want to upgrade the hard drive is The t-soft Flash if you're truly that scared of soldering then either a use this as a character building exercise and do it anyway or B some people have had success using something called conductive glue to bridge those solder points I have never used this but I do see it recommended sometimes there's also all kinds of dedicated mod chips out there that do all kinds of crazy stuff including the functionality that a t-sop flash would effectively give you but I really have no experience in that field at all I've never messed with them so instead of regurgitating some stuff of dubious accuracy that I read on some Forum to you guys I'm Gonna Leave the coverage of those to the people that actually know what they're talking about okay so you've got your Xbox open you've got your clock capacitor removed you've got your shiny new hard drive installed but what about that pesky broken DVD drive here's a super easy way to deal with it don't worry I didn't actually throw in the garbage it's just a joke don't get mad at me in the comments I swear to God when you have a Modded Xbox you can finally let go of that horrible flawed media format say it with me everybody Optical media bad but wait there's a plot hole in this story if the DVD drive is broken then how did this Xbox get soft modded in the first place because you need an exploitable game like Splinter Cell and you can only boot that game from the DVD drive but it doesn't have to be this particular DVD drive if you have a mod chip for the most part you can toss in any old IDE optical drive and barn a copy of Splinter Cell with your PC and then boot it that way which is another pretty cool use case for mod chips but the main character of this story can't solder in a mod chip not anymore so what can he do well his best bet is probably to try to repair the one that he's already got if he's lucky it's just the belt in here that needs replacing if he's unlucky and it's the laser or one of the motors or the controller board he might just be better off buying a used drive on eBay and hoping that works well enough for one last use after all all you need to do is boot one stupid game and then the drive can go in the garbage because with his newly Modded Xbox he's going to be playing games off his hard drive baby that's the reason I upgraded my hard drive and even soft modded my Xbox to begin with even a small 320 gigabyte drive like this one will hold around 60 or so Xbox games which is way more than enough for me but I didn't film my hard drive with Xbox games I couldn't even think of 60 games I would want to play on the original Xbox anyway honestly all I really need is Madagascar up to the point here where you can play the mini golf game then I'm pretty much set that's all I need but either way once you mod your Xbox you can play a hell of a lot more than just Xbox games NES we got those Super Nintendo we got those two with the original Xbox it becomes more of a question of what can't you emulate the Xbox has been a Titan of game emulation for a really long time now it's pretty common to see them used in both home and real arcade setups thanks to the nearly off-the-shelf Pentium 3 CPU that's in the Xbox Homebrew developers had a fantastic starting point to Port over most existing emulators that were already running on PC from what I've gathered listening to videos from the likes of mvg some of the hardest parts of doing this were implementing virtual RAM management trickery to get around having 64 megabytes of ram to work with I'm sure it also helped to have illegal SDK access but you know I'm sure none of the good folks over in the Xbox Homebrew Community would leverage that to their advantage right all the Homebrew on the Xbox's clean room right right guys uh oh uh okay real quick two questions for you do you know what historical revisionism is and on a scale of one to ten How likely are you to be willing to collude on something with me fantastic anyway yes all of the emulators and Homebrew on the original Xbox are developed by devs who use only legally obtained code and tools in reality it doesn't really matter anything that gives The Homebrew scene higher quality software gets a pass by me believe me I wouldn't even be surprised if Microsoft couldn't care at this point anyway back to what I was saying emulation on the Xbox is great so real 64 is one of the best examples of this not everything is going to work right off the bat but you've got a few different cores to choose from based on the game that you're playing to widen the compatibility of it it combines a handful of different emulators all into one in a console even being able to emulate its competitors previous gen Hardware it's just such a huge flex and I love it when this happens this is even how I played Super Smash Bros 64 for the longest time believe it or not I also had a modded Wii at this point that I could have run it on but I hadn't quite drank the GameCube controller Kool-Aid yet at that time I preferred this monstrosity instead and as great as N64 can be on here I do still prefer the Wii the Wii seems like it has just an Ever So slight Edge over the Xbox but hey it's not done yet not only can the Xbox emulate N64 it pulls the same trick off on Sony 2. 2. the performance for PS1 is pretty Hit or Miss though to be honest I mean because you can see right here Resident Evil runs perfect unless you pull out your gun which for some reason then the FPS goes to like seven and then you put it away and it's back to 30 I don't know and then Crash Bandicoot here uh runs I guess I don't know and Gran Turismo I mean can you even say it runs if we're measuring it in seconds per frame here still though the fact that it's doable at all is pretty sick it's not the best way to play PS1 games but for a select few titles that do run really well this is a pretty dang good way to experience them it's just gonna be way too hard for me to go over all the best parts of emulation on this thing because well there's just too much to cover any system that you can think of Under the Sun that was made before the Xbox probably has an emulator on it and you're not even limited to traditional home consoles either you want to emulate the Wonder swan sure why not it doesn't even have to be a game console you want to experience the Macintosh Plus stuff finally immerse yourself in [Music] well with the Xbox reality can be Stranger Than Fiction just for you the arcade machine emulation scene is also pretty huge here again think of any system made before the Xbox and it's pretty much here when it comes to older emulation I'd almost argue that the Xbox is the best console out there to mod to do it it's really close between the Xbox and Wii for me emulation aside another gigantic draw to the Xbox at the time was its media center potential ever heard of Cody it's a pretty popular media center Front End I'd say well Cody started life out on the Xbox as XBMC it hasn't been updated since 2016 on the original Xbox but it's still the most modern looking thing on the Xbox today I would argue they can even still stream content from my Plex server too which is kind of crazy I mean not very well 64 megabytes of ram doesn't get you very far these days but for the lower bitrate stuff it actually does work obviously you're not going to be seriously consuming your entire 4K Content Library on this thing but back in the day it was the killer app for Modded Xbox boxes I mean think back to 2002 the practice of ripping DVDs to store movies digitally was just getting started Netflix was a small movie rental company that only served up DVDs and watching a decent quality video let alone a movie over the Internet required a whole day of premeditated downloading depending on your internet connection so playing back your digital library was going to have to be done locally on the machine that's connected to your TV you're not going to be streaming that and if you didn't have an Xbox to do it all on playing your ripped DVD files on your TV would require hooking up your PC to it which is not nearly as simple to do as it is today with HDMI then you have to clunkily navigate around in Windows to play pause enable subtitles and stuff with your movie and if your PC just wasn't near your TV well tough [ __ ] you're not watching your movie without burning it back to a DVD and then sticking it in your DVD player which entirely defeats the purpose of trying to play back your digital copies without Optical media so you can probably understand why people chose not to live in that hellscape and instead they just modded their XBox installed a bigger hard drive ripped all their DVDs to it and enjoyed their awesome all-in-one Media Center solution but say you're just not into watching movies on your Xbox for those committed to not living a life of leisure there's also Linux on the Xbox because why wouldn't there be it's not very usable I couldn't really tell you one thing you could do with this but if it wasn't here it wouldn't really feel right you know what I mean also correct me if I'm wrong but I think that the hard drive utility chimp that I was talking about earlier that also relies on Xbox Linux so let's see we've gone over the hardware emulation Homebrew Media Center apps and what would a Homebrew console be without ports there's a handful of pretty cool games that reported over to the Xbox and we'll get this one out of the way yes it runs Doom very good yes Doom okay moving on something way cooler in my opinion is half-life and it's working uh actually you know don't get distracted by the missing textures on the NPCs and weapons this runs really good and it's not my install here that's messed up this is just a known limitation with the port the dev just barely couldn't get everything working here with only 64 megabytes of RAM and textures on the NPCs and weapon had to get sacrificed to get it to run there is a build for Xboxes with upgraded Ram which does work better but I've heard that it's also slightly unfinished anyway other than these guys repping Tyler mcvicker's merch store this port runs pretty good it's locked to 60fps the entire time it plays like it was just made for this thing and after all the Xbox did have an official release for Counter-Strike which from what I can see also runs pretty well so I'm not all that surprised man it runs a lot better than Half-Life 2 does on the Xbox that's for sure in another game that I'm really enjoying checking out every time I make one of these Homebrew videos is Super Mario 64. not under emulation but running natively Super Mario 64 has been reverse engineered for a few years now and it can be natively ported to just about anything it's like the Next Generation version of can it run Doom at this point and the Xbox here runs Mario 64 pretty dang good I was able to get it running in 720p as well which is great it does cause a bit of a Slowdown in some areas but overall it was fine and I checked out the Wii Port of Mario 64 previously and this is how that went and I've been told that the Wii Port has had some work done since I last looked at it though so a lot of these issues have been fixed like the Wii version though I did have to also compile this version myself but the dev for the Xbox version just like the Wii also has a Docker that takes care of pretty much everything for you all you got to do is provide a ROM for the assets and you'll be playing your favorite plumber on the Xbox the Xbox really just is one of the greatest consoles for modding of all time I think it's super cool how devs are able to utilize this outdated PC Hardware I mean 64 megabytes of ram like come on dude that's insane anyway sorry if this video is a little bit shorter than you might have expected I usually like to look at original Community made games when I make these Homebrew videos but for the Xbox I couldn't really find any that was worth sharing plus it's been pretty busy with all these sticker packs that you guys have been buying thanks again for that oh that reminds me I just launched a spring store that you can find in the description there's all kinds of stuff in there from bringus hoodies to Grandma on the PSP and whatever this is it'd mean a lot to me if you checked it out plus LTX is coming soon and I gotta get ready but I hope you guys enjoyed the video nonetheless thanks to all my patrons for the support join the Discord and keep on trucking gamer [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Bringus Studios

Views: 503,563

Keywords: xbox, original xbox, unleashx, xbox homebrew, xbox emulation, bringus, bringus studios, gamecube mini, wii mini, half life xbox, half life 3ds, 3ds homebrew, 3ds mods, xbox mods, xbmc

Id: b5igi0f5vjk

Length: 17min 35sec (1055 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 15 2023