You can mod your Xbox 360 with just two wires!
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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I've always been surprised with how small the 360 modding scene is. It feels like the end-all be-all system for modding. A powerful system that can emulate most OG xbox games pretty well seems like the xbox og plus. Hopefully it'll become more popular in the coming years.
I think if someone ever found and published a softmod, it would bust the doors wide open for a modding scene. It's just that soldering is too high of a barrier for entry for too many people; not only is it a new skill you have to learn and practice in advance, it also means you can't just mod it with stuff lying around the house (e.g. an SD card or flash drive).
RGH 3 improves things in that it lowers the cost and greatly simplifies the installation, but I don't think the scene will ever be as big as the Wii/PS3/etc until there's a no-solder solution. Maybe one day someone will find one...
The PS3 is much easier to mod and can play PS1/2/PSP games + its own library of games. So, that's the 7th gen system of choice for most console modders. (except the Wii of course). The 360 just doesn't really offer much over the PS3 for people who want to mod.
pretty sure it doens't emulate OG Xbox but runs those games natively
@@CrocoDylianVTit does emulate. OG is x86 whilst 360 is PPC
Probably because laughing stock consoles like the Wii U and 3DS are in super high demand and have some really powerful albeit immature CFW. And can both play 3 generations of games natively (AGB, DS, 3DS, GCN, Wii, WiiU) and emulates the others handily. 360 is very hard to mod unfortunately and doesn't really have these features
I can only hope that the 360 Marketplace closing next year means that more people will work on creating a softmod for the 360. I don’t exactly fancy taking apart my 360e.
Same here im almost tempted it do a send in to get it modded
Lol, in your dreams buddy
@@parknich081actually one can in deed create a soft mod for 360. How ever the hyper visor is the problem hence why soldering is still the most effective way of modding the 360. … the soldering bypasses the hyper visor and the keys to the console.
@parknich081 you think people cant find a way to softmod? people will do it lol. it takes time but people will
@@TylerTMG I feel like they would have by now so I've kind of given up hope on it. Then again the ps2's dvd hack came up 19 years after the ps2's release so who knows.
I just wanna say, this could absolutely have been a main channel video. I'm glad I subscribed to the bytes channel to not have missed it!
Thought it was until looking closer. Huh
Something to note is, because you were already RGHed you could pull the nand and reflash entirely through software before tearing it down, bypassing the extra soldering.
If only you could remove it it easlily
Dude i was gonna say i don't remember RGH being this easy, and ofc hes fucking leaving shit out so he can have his clickbait title
@@seadffsa I mean, the RGH itself is still 2 wires, you just need something else to flash the chip.
@@tOSdude how does that fucking change anything? You can’t make a one step title if it’s not a fucking one step project that’s just fucking bait
@@seadffsa OP was just suggesting an easier method since Matt already had his Xbox modded, but Matt did it the hard way, and did all of the necessary steps that anyone just getting into RGH3 would have to do. Don't get mad until you actually understand whats going on. I do still agree its a clickbait title though lol.
It's interesting seeing the 360 running outside of the case. Not something you see very often.
@@bentbk it's the most common use case since nowadays almost all Xbox 360 are modded and is so easy to fix the tiny cooling issue by just taking off the top part
My RGH 1.2 had good boot times, but recently it started to take longer to boot. I've planned to resolder the chip and clean it to see if it makes boot times better again, so I'm glad I came across this video because I'm gonna get rid of the chip and do this. Great video!
If its a phat, keep the chip and use the latest method for RGH 1.2 V2. Same boot times as RGH 3 when you get the timings right, which doesn't take long at all
If Slim Trinity do RGH 1.2 V2 with a matrix chip if Phat do RGH 1.2 with a coolrunner
did you do it? how did it go? I have a coolrunner chip and it takes upto 15 min sometimes to boot
@@grady8658why the RGH 1.2 for Trinity? Does RGH 3 not work for it?
I remember my first RGH success, it was the morning of Christmas Eve 2013 and it was weirdly one of the most confidence boosting experiences of my life. Ten years later and I now do some really cool stuff with Pi’s that I wouldn’t be able to do if I never wrecked 3 xenon’s and 1 corona before getting a successful corona. Still works and gets played regularly for Skyrim.
I was hoping you were gonna show the new pi pico RGH but this one’s better. Gonna try it later.
Pico rgh is real bad in terms of boot times and reliability. It only works on 1 motherboard revision and nobody is working on it. The only way it can be a good alternative is when people work on it and make it boot more reliably and add more motherboard support, and even then it would only be usefull on phats because rgh3 can be real funky on them
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Sounds like me but with the og Xbox I still have but doesn't boot to xbmc or Kodi as they call it now. Funny how it went from softmodding software to every damn platform out there. I knew I found gold back then. It was streaming before streaming was a thing. Man those were the days I learned so much. Never messed with a Pi but I want to now
I recommend ticking the optional box for usbdsecpatch when flashing back the modified NAND at the end (so not at the xell install step but the one after that). Lets you use unauthorized controllers. Everything from DIY arcade controllers to any third party controller (e.g. 8bitdo, gulikit) with an xinput mode and you can even use the Wii Guitar Hero guitars if you get an adapter for them, then use them to play Rock Band. You can also set your disc drive to play movies (not games) from any region instead of just the region you're from in one of the deeper settings areas, so I started doing that as well before flashing, though admittedly I've never taken advantage of that feature.
Can this be used to connect modern xbox controllers to it? I got an Xbox One controller to turn an unmodded console on but it doesn't do any more than that
@@Mr_Lesbian I don't have an Xbox One controller to test with but I have an Xbox Series controller and it sadly did not work without an additional adapter. You can use a Mayflash Magic NS 2 set to Xinput mode and then connect wired and then it will work. There are probably other adapters that would work too, but I tested with that one specifically. You can also use these adapters to make something like a DualShock 4 work.
From what I can tell you just want something that pretends to be an Xbox 360 controller when you plug it in, and with the controller security disabled it can't tell it's not a real one. Luckily that's already how a lot of third party and custom controllers work on PC.
holy crap thats awesome to know especially for the guitar hero controllers!!!
Would be interesting to see if it supports stuff like Nacon PS4 Controllers (Many of their controllers use XInput, despite being a PS4 controller)
not that it's hard to update your flash using xell, but there's always some risk to doing so (say your power goes out or you flash a bad image). done it enough times to feel "safe" doing so but we get wanting to do it right the first time :P
I have always wanted a modded 360 ever since I was a kid. I'm glad you talked about the difficulty at the end, because this video made it seem relatively easy at first 😂
Right there with ya. I did an og Xbox with soft mod n a mech warrior disk
Ive never been an xbox guy but i got a deal on a jtag 360 and it changed me
Yes & u can buy them for 40 bux im certanly gonna get a few
@@mikejett2733 if that were true then I would have already
Being an RGH installer years ago, this is absolutely an amazing find! I'm surprised the scene are still finding new ways. Time to get out my RGH installs & convert them. 😁
You are the guy to ask! If I purchase a 360 with RGH already installed can I download any 360 game or can I just play the ones the seller has installed?
@@LimitzX1 You can download a 360 game, transfer it to the HDD & play it on your RGH, your can copy games from the original disk to the HDD also & play them without the disk. Google is your friend. 🙂
Watching this 15yrs later after going through JTAG mod on my 360. Cool to see that the scene is still trying to make it easier to mod the 360.
Just last week I did RGH3 on my own Corona 360. Installed a 2tb HDD and added loads 360, XBLA, and OG Xbox games on it. I absolutely love it.
How ?
@@carlmorgan688I mean bro basically showed ya in the vid without showing if you really pay attention 💀
@@EndlessNoChillwhere?
So two wires plus a resistor plus a bunch more wires and a programmer. Got it.
the nand flashing equipment is reusable and is much more convenient than buying a custom chip that has to stay inside the console at all times. the contacts you have to solder to are also very accessible and easy to wire up compared to the other points in the project. basically rgh 3.0 is still a purely superior hack in every way
@@AndrewDevourer I couldn't care less how much easier and better it is. Title says two wires. I expect two wires and nothing else. That's basically like saying you can drive to Alaska on just gasoline! (But you need a car, money, passport and maps)
@@joblessalex Thank goodness for DeArrow
tell him lol
@@joblessalexChrist, yall can learn how to do some basic electronics work. Its a valuable skill for repairing these old systems anyways, and you get a reward of a jailbroken xboc
Very cool! I used to make and sell RGH consoles over a decade ago. Very interesting to see folks still advancing and simplifying the process. I saw this hit my feed. I had to click it because I could not believe a two wire mod. Very interesting to see after all these years. If only it was 2011 again.
I Believe A More Appropriate Title For This Video Would've Been: "You can mod your Xbox 360 with two wires, a resistor, a NAND reader, and more wires!"
rgh3 is fairly easy to perform, but take it slow, dont rush and just be aware of what you are doing, be careful with you iron placement, use flux and good leaded solder wire, use a nicely small tip at a higher temp (325 C), and just be careful.
Then it’s not fairly easy
@@itsjuankit isn't easy or hard it's sort of meh. What is hard is having patience to do it.
@@palehound1100 That really depends on your experience.
I've heard some horror stories of people trying to mod their 360, because they just didn't have any experience of using a soldering iron.
Man! I remember opening my Xbox 360 slim up, to mod gta 4 via hot swapping. I was 12 years old at the time and had no clue how to connect wires to a motherboard. Man time sure flies as I’m 22 now. Thanks for the video!
If you want to save some time converting an RGHed console to RGH 3, just use the existing retail NAND dump to build the RGH 3 XeBuild image and then install it with Simple 360 NAND Flasher via USB. That way you just have to install the RGH 3 wiring, and you're done
I came here to say this and I would definitely recommend doing this over an external flasher for those who don’t want to solder additional wires or those who don’t have a flasher because they purchased their console premodded.
I have to say I love the Video. Great explaining all around! I've modded 50+ 360s in my time and just felt like I needed to share my 2 cents.
Sadly not all 360 models accept RGH 3 that readily, but the Slim Models are usually a good bet. Depends on which one you got of course, if you got a late Corona Revision, the Post Point on the Board will not be there, because Microsoft wised up and put it under the CPU. You will need an adapter to solder to that clamps onto the CPU and punches a small needle into the new point. Also the newer models (The 360 E) are not moddable, because the Winchester Board is built pretty much bulletproof. Best 360 to Mod currently is a very early Corona or a Trinity Model (the first Slim). They accept the RGH 3 almost all the time and you can use a Raspi Pico to flash custom Firmware on them.
Some older Models like Zephyr are a major pain in the backside to mod, they will still need a Modchip to work, if they work at all. If you want an older 360 to mod, try to get one of the very latest models like Opus or Jasper, they are usually a safe bet for RGH 3. You can tell the older models apart by the power plug on the console, if they have an HDMI Port and the Manufacturing Date on them.
I wouldn't bother with an Opus. Jaspers are really the only phat consoles worth modding, or maybe a Falcon. RGH 1.2 V2 is recommended on those over RGH 3, too. Glitch chips can be had for less than $10 these days, but you do need a JR Programmer or equivalent to program the timing file
@@Harmonic14 An Opus IS a Falcon with no HDMI afaik.
@@safetyzone2962So a Falcon V1 would be fine?
can you check ur slim mb revision using software if u have already rghed xbox?
asking cause u cant check it by power supply plug like phat ones
You're wrong on the E, there are a fair few Corona E models. I had one. The 500GB is definitely the Winchester, not sure about 250, maybe some are, mine was definitely not.
This video gave the motivation I needed to mod my 360, this two-wire setup (plus the NAND solder points) is not easy, but is simpler than using a glitch chip, I used a Raspberry Pi Pico for NAND write and it worked flawlessly. Thanks a lot for the video! 👨🏻💻
I do these mods, the title makes it sound easy, only 2 wires! but is anything but easy lol. Great video
the og xbox mod *was* really easy, the old PS2 ones were harder than this (these days you don't even need hw mod..)
There is a pinhole right where the small xbox 360 sticker is. Sim eject tools can pop it open. Makes it a lot easier.
For anyone reading this, the pins below the CPU, diagonal circled set of pads he soldered too.. if you plan on attempting to do any kind of RGH method be VERY delicate with that pad in particular.. it will cause an INSTANT RROD if the trace is damaged or burned.. also @MattKC i would recommend toning down the heat on the iron you where getting pretty hot on that pcb
The case is actually pretty easy to take apart if you know what you're doing, there's a good video about it from Josh Davison (aka that guy that works on jrunner). Also the resistor is there because pll (that small point under the cpu that you had to scrape soldermask off) isn't designed to take that much power. Resistor is not needed as the power is there only for a couple of miliseconds but it's better to be safe than sorry.
I did this whole modding process like 8 times and by the end taking them apart was fairly quick/easy, but at the start I had just as much trouble as him even after watching tons of videos. You can see where the clips are, what they look like, which way to pry, but for whatever reason it just wasn't working out at first. It was like trying to recreate a magic trick. It's like you need to learn to feel it in your bones before it starts going well. I also found that once I managed to get past the clips entirely and look at them closely in person I was able to understand a bit better how they worked. It's tricky when you're doing it blind at first. I also had a couple 360s I worked on that were pretty gross and were probably held together tighter with years of gunk in the seams which doesn't help. I then took the chance to clean all the case parts in a big sink since I had things apart anyway.
@@SoundToxinWhen I started I also had some issues but if you practice enough you'll be able to open them no problem
5:00 ahh so the tittle is a lie
Best thing that RGH3ing my thrifted 360 taught me is that the RPi Pico that I bought to act as a flasher is a wonderfully useful device for a million other things. The console, on the other hand, I reopened again to add an audio line-out. That was like six months ago, my motivation petered out in the middle of the operation and it's still in pieces waiting for me to complete it...
Been sitting on a corona board and an ACE chip not going anywhere, I feel your pain. Don't give up or cave into buying someone else's work. The information is all out there.
@@CIA-CYBER-CRIME-DIVISION I'm the someone else whose work people buy so there's no risk of that ever happening to me :D just gotta wait till my stupid ADD brain is in the right mode again... got into tinkering on e-scooters lately and everything else sorta faded in the background
I've considered doing console modding as a side hustle in the past, I might revisit it now that the Xbox360 mod is more reliable.
Nice inside into XBox modding. For me, who never owned any console in youth, running a PC emulator like Xemu or Xenia does the trick just fine. Of course saving old original hardware is always great :)
I actually did this on my Trinity model a few weeks ago (took a total of 2 weeks to get it done, as I had to keep taking breaks to think and relax when something wasn't going right). I ended up actually accidentally soldering the wire to the wrong pin that you scrape the silkscreen off, and took so many days trying to troubleshoot to figure out why I was getting a red ring of death. I also ended up tearing the socket out of one of the pins (I think it's the one closest to the corner) and ended up needing to patch a bunch of wires to re-complete the circuit that was damaged. All in all though, once I figured out my mistake I got the xbox put back together and my Frankenstein-esque xbox that needed to be resoldered multiple times finally started working. The xbox gets a little warm, I might need to redo the thermal pasta again lol.
I super appreciate how concise you made the video. I know a lot of youtubers want to get extra ad rolls for extra revenue. You gave us all we need to know and the links to the really technical aspects. You should make a yt short for it too. you start pumping those out and you can grow this second channel alot. cover some of the stuff that macho nacho studio shows, but make it in shorts format and you should grow quick. thanks for the content. I already have an RGH3 360 but if I run across a cheap corona, Ill prolly attempt this mod myself, Im far from the best solderer, but Ive done the LCP rebuild on 1.6 regsboxes a few times, so getting a 360 under my belt would be cool.
The timing is hilarious. I’m about to rgh3 my Xbox 360 this weekend
How did it go?
@@majorgear1021 this is hilarious timing lmao. I basically had no experience when going into it, and had a fixed temperature soldering iron, which really fucked things up. furthermore, the solder did not melt at the tip (since it was a cheap soldering iron), which caused me to burn the motherboard irreparably.
But two months later, I’m trying it again. Like genuinely as I write this. I’ll keep you updated haha, wish me luck.
Update: After doing the entire process on another console, it finally worked!
@@VeryCuul Congratulations!
The one goldmine industry for ‘buyers’ over sellers in the modern day is stuff like this.
Guys like me, Matt, and probably almost every other enthusiast put their blood sweat and tears into mods like this, but resell pre-modded consoles for pennies on the dollar. Cause even though it was hard work, no one’s willing to pay what modded consoles are worth in parts and labor.
Grabbing a console that someone’s already done this to for like $200 on eBay is a tempting option when it takes the cost of the console, mod chips, and soldering/mod process to get this working in the first place.
Wow, the simple elimination of the reset board is huge savings! All you need is a JR Programmer! Neat!
I also recommend using a small coax/uf.l cable (from an old laptop for instance) to shield the signal. It really does help making it super consistent.
you don't even need any specialized programmer, you can program it with a $10-15 raspberry pi pico (which you can then use as a modchip for a gamecube if you want, since you only need it to program the 360 initially then remove it)
@@coopercummings8370If you don’t mind taking forever you don’t even need that, just a computer with a parallel port.
This video made me finally look into modding my 360. Didn't know about RGH3 was a thing, and is well within my skillset to install. I didn't want to rgh since it can be fiddly with timing. My rgh3 system is pretty much instant boot.
This also made me learn how small and disjointed the scene is
FYI, the super difficult to reach tab has a pinhole under the sticker, you can push a SIM card eject tool in that pinhole to release the tab super easily.
My issue with the whole Xbox 360 modding scene is that nothing is streamlined enough for a straight up beginner. People just assume you already know how to solder electronics and/or modify the firmware which a vast majority of people don’t and even this videos comes with a caveat.
Granted, modding an Xbox 360 isn’t THAT difficult but the process is just far too daunting and intimidating for someone who just simply wants to install homebrew for the sake of preservation.
Compared to the PS2 and GameCube modding scene which have become staples of the medium, the Xbox 360 scene barely a blip on the radar which is shame because the 360 has the potential to blow up the way the GameCube did with its plethora of mod support. It’s just a shame that the 360 modding scene all but gatekeeps to fully flourish and expand
Love your modding videos and retro tech restorations
After watching this i went on ebay and got me a 360 slim 😅 hope this one doesn’t end up collecting dust like the PS3 ss i got for $40 (incl 2 original controllers) after watching a video on how to install HEN on it.. it seems that the jailbreaking is the interesting part for me these days, not so much gaming itself 😢
Update: console arrived, did the hack, but broke something when assembling the heatsink 😢 that X-clamp is the worst. The console would show some image on the TV and then glitch out in blue or red squares. I assumed i had cracked the solder under the CPU somehow. After watching one tutorial i decided to try reflowing with a heat gun and lots of flux. And it worked! 😄
Now I am afraid it will crack again if I put the bracket back on and screw it down. The front USB ports are sitting quite high because the bracket is bottoming out. If I screw it down, the tension would be really bad. I am thinking of leaving it with no bracket, or modifying the bracket somehow. Decided to delid the cpu, temps are around 60C while playing…
Haha man that last sentence is so accurate it hurts
I'm liking it Matt. I'll surely be ordering the parts and modding my X360 once my I have a little more experience from soldering kits.
I remember playing GTA V for days and days when it came out on my cousin's modded 360 with the Freestyle dashboard, such nostalgic memories... When I finally got my own 360 it was the "e" model so modding wasn't really possible, maybe it is now but I passed it on to my little brother long ago and whenever I game I pretty much only do it on PC
I've modded two xbox360's with rgh3. First was my bros trinity slim, went perfect. Second was my personal corona 16mb with the postfix adapter(because it was a newer model), on mine i cut the trace next to the via and it didn't boot in xell but did with the og firmware. But it turned out fine bc i botched the trace and it worked. I used mrmario's tutorials for both consoles. I'm 12
Grrr. Your video made me remember my 360 phat days... i used to buy very cheap ones that were RRoD, then reflow then with overheat, and then use the JTAG hack on them... was fun!
So today i bought a cheap Trinity slim, one i never owned, and i will try the RGH ! Thanks Matt!
Cool. I had a modded Xbox 360 back in 2009. Unfortunately it red ringed. It did give me a chance to test out allot of games however. Kind of like game pass does now. I've considered doing mods on more of my consoles. I did softmod my PS2 just for the fun of it. However I generally end up collecting allot of games at the end of a generation so I have all the games I would have played on the system had I modded it. Except emulators of course, but I have that covered on PC :D
"Thankfully alcohol cleaned it all off"
Alcoholics: NOOOOOOOO
Wow! I had no idea RGH3 was a thing. My RGH consoles all generally instaboot but I may have to try this out for some fun! Thanks.
This might finally convince me to actually mod my 360 😅, im not great at soldering yet, but this might be good to try
Same here. Waiting for enough courage😅
You know, when you played multilayer games back in the day it didn't really feel like the 360 had a "small" modding community 😂
Man the joy my RGH gave me as a kid was insane. I remember charging people for bo2 prestige master and diamond camo when I was literally 11 years old. The stealth servers and KV's, I do not miss though lmao.
"Just two wires"
"You then need to solder seven additional wires."
That's for flashing the nand. You remove those afterwards at the end of it. Have you never modded an xbox 360?
@@no-ld3hz you still have to solder em
I used to have a 512mb Jasper Jtag before RGH consoles started getting popular. I absolutely loved that thing, I extremely regret parting ways with it.
For the difficult side of the case where the label/warranty seal is, there is a pinhole in the plastic case behind the label you can push a bent paper clip through to pop the second clip. This has made opening slims so much easier for me. You just have to run your finger/thumb over the label to find the intention and puncture it first with the paper clip. It’s smooth sailing after that.
your flair for video creation is simply unmatched!
Always wanted to mod mine as a kid but thought it was too difficult. Had no clue it got this easy.
If you test the slim out of the case, like in the video. Make 100% sure the power cable is the right way... I fried a brand new slim back in the day when i was trying to muffle the sound of the disc tray/power chime, lol.
My whole family had modded 360s I remember playing gta5 2 weeks early and getting prototype 2 on my 7th birthday lol I had any game I had wanted back then
Cool, a $7 dollar mod that can be immediately spun off into a homebrew gamecube
Damn i wish rgh3 existed back in the day, i glitched about 10 machines and it was a pain in the ass, having to try different cable lengths and thicknesses to get a working glitch was a nightmare.
4:19 Matt scratching off part of the PCB with a kitchen knife like a truly refined gentleman.
THis is like reading stereo instructions.. you lost me but luv ya bro!!!
I still have my RGH modded Falcon model Phat 360 with a Coolrunner-ii CPLD I installed 10 years ago. When following the forum suggestions I came across someone who used an old coaxial cable to connect CPU reset wire and got good results. I did the same and was surprised at how fast it booted compared to what others had experienced. Still boots to this day on first reset still going strong over 15 years since manufacturing despite being one of the cursed original model, though I did replace the Xclap with washers and bolts, unlike others I spent extra time getting the correct sized nylon spacers and didn't bend the motherboard with excess force.
I don't know if I speak for most of us but I think it's It's not the soldering that turns us off, modding a console. It's the fact, that we don't like hard modding our consoles. I prefer to not touch anything that is not software related.
The xbox 360 rgh3 was my first hard mod i ever done. I destroyed 2 of my xbox 360s before me and my friend finaly made it.i Love the 360
I remember flashing the DVD drives with these huge 8GB DVD+R DL (double layered) disks. I used the flashed games to do GTA 4 mods. Great times. Then i got a JTAG. I used that thing online in MW2 every single day for months. I remember buying "keyvaults" from people who took them from RROD xbox's. Then I made an RGH console. I used it online in BO2 for modded maps and menus. The services like XBL Live and NiNJA to get online. I still have all my 360 consoles. Sitting in my closet collecting dust. 😢
Its crazy that after 18 years, the 360 is still one of the few consoles that doesn't have a softmod at all. I have a Slim with a broken DVD drive that I literally can't repair because of the stupid decision of locking the drive to the console and nobody in a driving distance even want to attempt an hardmod because they're so annoying to do.
If the circuit board on your original non-working DVD drive is good, just transfer the original circuit board to the new DVD drive and your Xbox will recognize the drive just fine. The only reason you have to hard mod to do an optical drive repair is if the circuit board on the optical drive is dead or you got the system and the drive was missing entirely
@@coolsnake1134 That what I wanted to do, but it was cheaper to buy a new console than to find a compatible drive. Also, the console is probably the most complicated I've ever seen, I've opened iMac that were less annoying than that.
I had my 360's drive modded. The best part was getting games 2 - 3 weeks early . Just needed to not play online.
Would love a video about the technical reasons why a softmod is not feasible for this system
At 3:34 there is a hidden release button under the sticker there you have to poke through to release that hidden clip. My GameStop refurbished console had it already poked out. Btw this is for a trinity version 360 slim.
I've disassembled my 360 Slim twice since i got it in 2010 and i have to say the only reason i haven't been doing it lately is because of those retention clips on the inner housing of the case, i've cut myself almost 10 times trying to unlatch them before it's infuriating but the next time i do atleast it will be worth while when i finally mod it
My corona is rgh 3 and it boots up literally instantly every time. I love it. My old falcon jtag was cool, because I liked the look more, but this thing runs so cool and boots instantly.
Oh years later I finally understand why my 360 used to take like 5 mins to boot lol
a new mattkc video after a tiring day is just so refreshing
I just sent my console off to be RGHd and I’m so unbelievably excited. I am pretty good with computers but installing it was above my level. Keen to get as many games as possible on I t
I had an rgh 2 from 2013-2023 when. it died I bought a 4gb corona with 500gb hddfor 50 bucks did rgh 3 and I was blown away that it was an instant boot like I’ve been hearing. For someone dealing with rgh 2 you’ll benefit sooo much from rgh 3. It made me realize I was selling myself short rgh2 is so bad in comparison I will never go back. My rgh 2 wasn’t that bad but it was hit or miss for me, sometimes I could take 5 secs sometimes it could take 30 secs
I got an X360 this year and tbh I paid for the mod because I don't trust my welding skills, but it was really good like for $30 they provided the newest RGH, they installed it, changed the thermal paste and cleaned the console and left it up and running with Aurora and all the bells and whistles and even some games installed for a good measure, can't complain at least when you can find reliable shops to do that job for you.
Doing this right now to my 360E. The soldering is the easy part for me - being in the electronics industry, having a Metcal soldering iron, and an inspection microscope works wonders. By the way, try using a nice 0603 surface mount resistor instead of that giant through hole one. Right now having issues because it seems Picoflasher doesn't like Corona 4GB boards all that much. Probably going to try a homebrew SD-tool made from a micro SD card adapter instead, since weekend modder seems to think that's the way to go on those boards.
While you're at it you should remove the 6 0ohm resistors near the CPU fan, they are known to fail on that board and force the CPU to think it's always overheating.
I just soldered jumpers instead of replacing the resistors but that's up to you.
@@atlucas1321 Thanks for the tip. Will have to look into that.
@@atlucas1321How on Earth can a zero ohm resistor possibly fail? It's literally just a brick of metal..
@@nikkiofthevalley I imagine that it was bad solder imo. Checking them with a multimeter and 2 of the 6 were 37+ so I imagine they bacame "infinite" resistance.
Again I just removed them and made jumpers
Other people theorize planned obsolescence as well considering how prominent this fault is.
@@atlucas1321 Yeah, I'd doubt this is planned obsolescence. 0 ohm resistors are such a common thing in PCB design and it would be such a pain to try to design something like that to fail in just the right way, I really doubt they'd do that. Not like game consoles don't have planned obsolescence in much more predictable ways (shutdown of Xbox Live, release of a new console and no more new games for the old, etc). It was probably either just bad solder joints for whatever reason or 0 ohm resistors that were a bit less tolerant to heat than they should be (and no, even 0 ohm resistors aren't just a chunk of metal).
wake me up when i can install homebrew on it, and then proceed to use homebrew to install every single frickin game on the xbox and install mods and themes on it, using only a usb stick and a pc.
I remember modding my PS3 to run challenge lobbies on MW2 back in the day. I thought i was some elite hackerman for it, even though from what I remember, it was fairly easy.
Boy do I kick myself in the ass for trading all my old consoles in when I was younger. Had I i not, I would still have my fat PS2, OG Xbox, Xbox 360 Slim, and a PS1. Now theyre stupid expensive for one in good nick.
There's a small hole in the security tag where you push inwards designed to release that clip!
Octal published several tutorials regularly since two years ago. The best method for the rgh 3.0 is to use voltage regulators at 1.2v so there's no chance of the gpu or the hana frying each other.
tip: since you had an old RGH install, you can boot and dump and flash the nand through software, which would've actually made it a 2 wire mod. Unless it was really bad and wasn't booting, you don't need the nand flasher
I’ll never forget the first time I flash my 360 drive & made a business out of it. Started flashing other people’s drives & selling burnt games
The banned wave of 2009, yall may remember if you were in the modding scene. Where 10s of thousands accounts & consoles were ban.
I flashed 100s of 360 & always said to customers I’m not liable if anything happens to your console. They never cared just wanted cheap games. After the ban wave I had many angry parents blowing up my phone lol
Confirmed: Lego Island port to Xbox 360
You are a constant source of enjoyment, you make my insomnia the most entertaining hours of my life when i am not severely depressed.
I keep wondering if this console is really impossible to softmod, or if no one has ever tried hard enough.
Technically you don’t need a jr programmer if you dump the nand from the console modify it for 3.0 and right it back then do the rewire might have been an easier process especially for the 4g corona consoles
You can use and MCU like a Pi Pico to do this if you already dabble with this kind of stuff which is convenient. The 360 isn't that difficult to take apart, admittedly, I have taken the 2 360s I've owned apart like a dozen times so I know how to do it fairly quickly. The most annoying part for me is the damn x-clamp, I'm always a little afraid when taking it off or putting it back on that I'm going to drive my screwdrivers straight into the PCB and break it.
Also no donkey kong outro 😢. Maybe you can make a new one that says the same thing but with Microsoft SAM saying bytes right at the end for future videos.
Great videos as always though.
You should get an X-clamp removal tool. They're only a few dollars
It’s really easy to get the Xbox one to run homebrew. You just pay $20 to enable dev mode and then you can run homebrew.
You didnt need to install the nand reader again.. you could have used jrunner to create your RGH3 nand from the original or dump from your rgh, then flash it with Xell or simple nand flasher, then just run the RGH3 wiring and your done.
I have modded probably 20 or so original Xbox's and just recently got back into playing with the 360. The only issue with the 360 is that it is a bit more complicated to do. It is way easier now with the simple two wire mod, but you still need a JRunner tool or similar device to program it. Homebrew is lacking on the 360, but some things can be emulated to work through the OG Xbox emulator. I am more interested in the emulation of the OG Xbox games on 360. If I can upscale all of them to 720p and still have system link support then I am considering modding 6 or so to host some LAN parties.
im really digging this channel, feels a lot like Patricia Taxxon's Puppyhelic Triangle channel. great stuff, I love this uber-compact format
I went through a phase of buying 360's for cheap and ended up with 7 in total, some trinity slims and a couple of jasper phats and a falcon phat too. I RGH'd the phats with the chinese clone chips which was a pain in the arse tbh and when I found the chipless RGH on the slims I cranked those out so quick, they were so simple to do and cheap aswell.
I did enjoy this one. It was exactly the right length
opening the slim is one of main reason i wished a softmod exists for the 360
Dude! I literally was just planning on modding my old childhood Xbox 360 and have been doing a ton of research on RGH 3 this past week. I just got all the stuff I need for it and then suddenly you made a video about it! Thank you so much
The 360 never getting a softmod despite having a far bigger userbase of broke college students and highschoolers than either the WII or PS3 (anecdotal)
- the types to be invested in “backups” and emulators, is crazy
It feels like a system that should’ve had one by like 2010
3:42 Which is funny, because controller-wise it's kind of the opposite in regards to the PS3 and 360. For putting it back together, the 360 controller is pretty easy (stuff kinda flails about, but you can put it back in place easily enough) and the PS3 controller *sucks* (putting it back together is next to impossible so replacing the battery is a flipping NIGHTMARE, I'd rather just throw away my old PS3 controllers than try to repair them).
and with coronas you might need a postfix adapter if there are no traces below the cpu anways if you want to do this go for trinities they are the easiest and don't require a postfix adapter
also as far as glitch chip timing, it has gotten much better in the years.. also the install is VERY important for timing wire lengths etc. ive had all of my x360's boot first start up with x360 ace chips and Coolrunner clones :)
I was very surprised by how easy the 360 slim is to open up and disassemble. Way easier than a Wii
Quite a nice coincidence this video popped up in my recommends.
I'm planning on doing this mod probably in the next few months. Got the wire and found a supported resistor in the basement. Just gotta get a Raspberry Pi Pico to act as the NAND flasher and I'm ready to go!
I recommend a NAND-X or a xFlasher 360 for convenience sake. Yeah you're only gonna use it once, but it's way less of a headache this way compared to the pico.
@@massgrave8x Both are over $30. I'm going for the pico more for price than convenience. Plus the pico can be re-purposed for some other project after, so it's not e-waste to me after a one time use. Appreciate the advice though!
@@massgrave8xpico is fine. Just need to make sure the pico is a genuine one and that your wire lengths aren't too long
I am also going for the pico, i like a good challenge 😊 but not too good to where stuff gets destroyed 😅 won a 360 slim on ebay for €90, but it has 3 original controllers and like 14 games. Just the console without a controller seems to be going for around 25. which is cheap, but not compared to those crazy goodwill deals
Just beware the Pico has mixed results with Corona 4GB boards. Might work for you, but alot people (myself included) have had issues with it.