Those dongles on the Xbox are IR receivers for the Xbox Media Remote! It was a kit that would allow you to control media playback on the Xbox with said Xbox Remote (like a TV remote, NOT a controller). If you knew more about consoles, I'd recommend sorting the consoles by revision. Many of these consoles have different board revisions, and ways of identifying them. This information is important for homebrewers (like me) because it defines which types of mods are available. PS3 Slims for example have several revisions. Depending on which model you had, you would need to install CFW (custom firmware) or HFW (Hybrid firmware). Installing the wrong type on the model can brick the console. The Xbox 360 also has Trinity and Corona style boards, which determine which solder pins you need to jump for installing CFW.
The point of this was for Microsoft to save money on DVD licensing. Instead of every single Xbox having a license to play DVD media, that fell on the dongle instead. I'm not sure if it worked by way of a specific chip/IC or what. People that wanted to play movies on their Xbox were pretty upset, obviously, but it was a business savvy way of cost cutting on a console that they were already losing money on.
Good job on saving those consoles. Hopefully they can get repaired and perhaps one day find new homes instead of getting scrapped and destroyed making it even harder to find them.
Xbox consoles are extremely resilient. I'd say that only a small percentage of them are not salvageable. It all depends on how much time/money you want to spend on them. The DVD drives on the other hand, are troublesome, often needing new lasers. I've been able to resurrect about 95% of the Xbox consoles I've refurbished, and maybe 66% of the optical drives. Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles, specifically the earlier models, are less likely to be repaired unless you reball the CPU/GPU, which is quite a bit of work, and a lot of skill (way outside my wheelhouse).
the original xboxs lower then version 1.6 tend to have those clock capacitors that leak acid all over critical parts of the board though, best to get those out asap.
16:00 damn that's crazy that people are throwing away the "New" 3ds xl's, they are worth a lot nowadays (more than switch lites) and they are such cool and unique devices with the 3d effect
The Xbox One and One S are still current. Meaning there are still modern, just released games that play on them. I still have one in the spare room my boy plays Fortnite on.
Hey love your content keep it up!! Also heard you say Minneapolis... Im down in Mankato and have the special edition controllers that go with your different Xbox360 consoles. Let me know if youd like them.
Cool! Thanks for the offer I couldn’t really pay you a fair price for them though. And I don’t even know if these work so they may or may not be worth making complete
Nice! The S, or Slim models of the Xbox 360 better then the original ones, because Microsoft had fixed the Red Ring of Death issue. I don’t know if you remember reading about that in the late 2000s. Do you game on PC at all? I’d love to build my own gaming PC; it’s actually looks pretty easy to do.
It's not a good idea to just arbitrarily keep all the machines for 10 years. Some of them are the most common victims of the capacitor plague and are already being eaten alive by leaking caps. For instance, there's a 95% chance that GameGear is already dead. If you leave it another 10 years it will likely not be recoverable. Some stuff will be fine, sure, but by not checking this stuff now you're actually going to end up with more e-waste.
@@RDKLInc If you do, that's great. But you said yourself you've never turned a lot of it on, which is something you'd do as part of routine testing after having changed the caps in a device. Of course, it's your stuff and you should do what you like with it. I just think you should be prepared for some items to be worthless in 10 years if you're not doing basic testing now.
@@domramsey powering on the stuff is the absolute worst thing that could be done before long term storage -- it activates otherwise dormant defective capacitors and introduces the possibility that they might leak in coming weeks or months, whereas otherwise that would not happen. That is a newbie mistake
I'm not usually actively selling the stuff. Check out my video on buying from recyclers -- that's where everyone should be getting them from, just as I did
Thank you for saving those consoles you don't understand yet.
Those dongles on the Xbox are IR receivers for the Xbox Media Remote! It was a kit that would allow you to control media playback on the Xbox with said Xbox Remote (like a TV remote, NOT a controller).
If you knew more about consoles, I'd recommend sorting the consoles by revision. Many of these consoles have different board revisions, and ways of identifying them. This information is important for homebrewers (like me) because it defines which types of mods are available. PS3 Slims for example have several revisions. Depending on which model you had, you would need to install CFW (custom firmware) or HFW (Hybrid firmware). Installing the wrong type on the model can brick the console. The Xbox 360 also has Trinity and Corona style boards, which determine which solder pins you need to jump for installing CFW.
The point of this was for Microsoft to save money on DVD licensing. Instead of every single Xbox having a license to play DVD media, that fell on the dongle instead. I'm not sure if it worked by way of a specific chip/IC or what. People that wanted to play movies on their Xbox were pretty upset, obviously, but it was a business savvy way of cost cutting on a console that they were already losing money on.
Good job on saving those consoles. Hopefully they can get repaired and perhaps one day find new homes instead of getting scrapped and destroyed making it even harder to find them.
As usual, compelling content. There is a lot of value in the Nintendo consoles strewn on the floor. Working or not.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Xbox consoles are extremely resilient. I'd say that only a small percentage of them are not salvageable. It all depends on how much time/money you want to spend on them. The DVD drives on the other hand, are troublesome, often needing new lasers. I've been able to resurrect about 95% of the Xbox consoles I've refurbished, and maybe 66% of the optical drives.
Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles, specifically the earlier models, are less likely to be repaired unless you reball the CPU/GPU, which is quite a bit of work, and a lot of skill (way outside my wheelhouse).
the original xboxs lower then version 1.6 tend to have those clock capacitors that leak acid all over critical parts of the board though, best to get those out asap.
16:00 damn that's crazy that people are throwing away the "New" 3ds xl's, they are worth a lot nowadays (more than switch lites) and they are such cool and unique devices with the 3d effect
check out the table, whooaaaaaa - shayan
What a score!
The Xbox One and One S are still current. Meaning there are still modern, just released games that play on them.
I still have one in the spare room my boy plays Fortnite on.
Hey love your content keep it up!! Also heard you say Minneapolis... Im down in Mankato and have the special edition controllers that go with your different Xbox360 consoles. Let me know if youd like them.
Cool! Thanks for the offer I couldn’t really pay you a fair price for them though. And I don’t even know if these work so they may or may not be worth making complete
Nice! The S, or Slim models of the Xbox 360 better then the original ones, because Microsoft had fixed the Red Ring of Death issue. I don’t know if you remember reading about that in the late 2000s. Do you game on PC at all? I’d love to build my own gaming PC; it’s actually looks pretty easy to do.
Thanks! Good to know about the s
It's not a good idea to just arbitrarily keep all the machines for 10 years. Some of them are the most common victims of the capacitor plague and are already being eaten alive by leaking caps. For instance, there's a 95% chance that GameGear is already dead. If you leave it another 10 years it will likely not be recoverable. Some stuff will be fine, sure, but by not checking this stuff now you're actually going to end up with more e-waste.
Why do you assume I don’t check the stuff?
@@RDKLInc If you do, that's great. But you said yourself you've never turned a lot of it on, which is something you'd do as part of routine testing after having changed the caps in a device.
Of course, it's your stuff and you should do what you like with it. I just think you should be prepared for some items to be worthless in 10 years if you're not doing basic testing now.
@@domramsey powering on the stuff is the absolute worst thing that could be done before long term storage -- it activates otherwise dormant defective capacitors and introduces the possibility that they might leak in coming weeks or months, whereas otherwise that would not happen. That is a newbie mistake
ooo that xbox one dev kit can go for good money thats one of the rarer ones!
Yes like I mentioned I sold them each for 6-800. Paid for everything else in the van!
@@RDKLInc damn nice! Hopefully they can get them working
Is your Ebay the same name as your business? Would be nice to check out whenever you're selling PS2 or 60GB PS3s
I'm not usually actively selling the stuff. Check out my video on buying from recyclers -- that's where everyone should be getting them from, just as I did
Are these for sale?
8:28 sadly he is battling with throat cancer.
military bases
lmao why though? So you can go into your storage room and look at them on their wire shelf?
Watch the video, it’s clear you haven’t
@@RDKLInc No thanks. I filtered your channel instead.
@@OGUA-camEnjoyer what are you, 12 years old? Good riddance
Hy wollen sie verkaufen nintendo s ??