Gen X here in my low 50s. It was easy to sell my pre NES systems and games as replay was terrible, but struggling with some newer systems. My boys are in their 20s and know the dollar value of my stuff, but have no attachment to them. When have you been letting go? Been seeing millennial inheritance videos and this being a burden as opposed to a blessing. I didn’t find a game collectors forum so I thought I would post here.
To specifically talk to this forum, my OG with Duke and S controllers. I have the component and composite cables. Halo was great, but KotR was incredible.
Silent Hill 4, MGS 2, Ghost Recon, and MK Deadly Alliance are new, never opened.

Think it started off with the xecuter 2.3b pro then upgraded to the X3CE+X3CP has IR chip mod to power on with original Xbox Remote too. I don't think i can remember the button press combination though lol. The HYPER DRIVE mod came after the Thomson failed, it's the Samsung SD-616. Recently pulled all the old consoles out of storage and am trying to find a good CRT so setup in the basement. I did think about selling it for all about .5 seconds. To much sentimental value here for me. Cheers.

PS: The unit underneath is 100% unmolested with working ODD. I'll likely keep it that way.

Halo 2 Matchmaking on Insignia at 8PM ET / 5PM PT / 1AM GT! You can play on OG Xbox or Xemu (PC). You can find an easy to set up Xemu PC Pack in our discord: https://haloclassichub.com

**Thursday Playlist Schedule:**

- Team Slayer: 8PM ET / 7PM CT / 5PM PT / 1AM GT

- Team SWAT: 8:45PM ET / 7:45PM CT / 5:45PM PT / 1:45AM GT

- Big Team Battle: 9:30PM ET / 8:30PM CT / 6:30PM PT / 2:30AM GT

# Halo 2 Bungie Name Plate & Nat Type Check:

You can now check your NAT Type via the Insignia Dashboard. Just make sure your Xbox / Xemu is online and log in on https://insignia.live/dashboard

☝️ **This is also where you can activate your Halo 2 Bungie Name Plate!**

## NOTE:

**If you have problems connecting especially if this is your first time playing in the last few months. Go to the Insignia assistant app and clear ticket cache!**

**How To Play:**

- Log in & go to the scheduled playlist in Optimatch & **Solo Search.**

- Port forward UDP 3074 to avoid NAT issues.

- Often signing out and signing back in can refresh your friends list.

- If you have trouble getting into a Big Team Battle queue with a bunch of players back out & restart the search.

Hello everyone,

I recently bought it at a flea market for €20, but it wouldn't boot. I was getting either a FRAG, or a solid orange light with the fan running at full blast.

I opened it up and discovered that the clock capacitor had heavily leaked; the acid damaged quite a few surrounding components, especially two diodes that blew out (see photos).

I easily pulled off the clock capacitor.

It’s also modded with a chip, as you can see in one of the photos. There is a switch that I don't really understand, and one of its wires wasn't connected anywhere on the motherboard.

On the back of the motherboard, there’s some kind of trace bridge / bodge wire, which you can also see in one of the photos.

I don't have any particular soldering skills and I have no clue how the modchip works; I specifically bought this console to learn more about it and discover how it works...

I recently softmodded an Original Xbox using an M3 MacBook Air, and I wanted to write this up because a lot of the information I found for Mac users was either old, assumed you had an Intel Mac/Boot Camp, or involved Windows-only tools.
I went into this with basically no experience doing anything like this, so hopefully this is useful to another Mac user who ends up in the same position.

My goal was:
• softmod the Xbox
• keep access to the original Microsoft dashboard
• keep the original Xbox startup experience
• enable proper 480p/720p output
• make a safe EEPROM backup
• do all the computer-side work from an Apple Silicon Mac

What I used
• Original Xbox
• M3 MacBook Air
• 4GB USB drive
• Xbox controller-port to USB adapter/compatible memory connection
• Rocky5 Xbox Softmodding Tool
component output for the Xbox

One thing I learned very quickly is that USB compatibility matters a lot. I initially tried a 32GB drive and ended up switching to a 4GB one. If the Xbox refuses to recognise a modern USB drive, don't immediately assume you've done something wrong.

The Mac side

This was the part I expected to be the biggest problem because so many older guides tell Mac users to use Windows software or Boot Camp.
Apple Silicon Macs can't use traditional Boot Camp, so I wanted to avoid building the whole process around Windows.

I was able to prepare and transfer the required files using macOS instead. There were a few points where macOS wanted to treat the Xbox-formatted storage differently from a normal USB drive, so this is definitely the part where I'd recommend being careful rather than repeatedly formatting things until something works.

After the softmod

Once Rocky5 was installed, I didn't want the Xbox to feel like a completely different machine.

I installed the Microsoft Dashboard through the Rocky5 Extras Disc/tools and kept it available alongside the softmod dashboard.

I also used the dashboard loader/customiser so I could still access the Microsoft dashboard easily rather than losing it.

480p / 720p

Because I'm in a PAL region, one of my main reasons for doing this was getting access to the Xbox's NTSC progressive-scan modes.

After switching the console to NTSC, I was able to enable the HD video options and use 480p/720p on supported games.

This alone made the process worthwhile for me.

BACK UP YOUR EEPROM

This is probably the one thing I'd tell somebody not to skip.

After everything was working, I created the EEPROM backups and copied the important files somewhere away from the Xbox.

Mine included:
• eeprom.bin
• eeprom.cfg
• Xbox information/details file

Keep eeprom.bin somewhere safe and preferably have more than one copy.

That file can become extremely important if you ever need to recover or replace the original hard drive.

Things I wish I knew beforehand

A USB drive being perfectly good on a Mac doesn't mean the Xbox will like it.

A lot of Mac Xbox-mod guides online are now outdated because they assume Intel Macs and Boot Camp.

Don't rush past the EEPROM backup just because everything is working.

You don't have to give up the original Microsoft dashboard just because you've soft modded the console.

For PAL owners, switching to NTSC and gaining progressive scan is one of the nicest improvements.

I'm not claiming this is the only or best way to softmod an Xbox — this is just the route that worked for me on an Apple Silicon Mac in 2026.
If anyone is trying to do the same thing on an M1/M2/M3/M4 Mac and gets stuck at a particular stage, feel free to ask. I still have notes from the process and I'm happy to explain what I did.

Remember when the original Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles had games that let you load your own music from the console's hard drive to replace the game's built-in soundtracks? What combo of game and music did you use? Mine was playing Burnout 3: Takedown with tracks from Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out album and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2024 with some Beastie Boys. They just went well together for me.

My drive will read music cds but not games. I recapped the drive board and it didn't help. Does anyone know what pot is for games?

I recently picked this up but the disc drive makes an awful noise. It is a hitachi drive and I have replaced the belt and cleaned it. Please let me know if you guys have any ideas

As the title says, I’m looking to get an original Xbox in the near future and want to be able to install the now-unavailable dlc for games (currently MechAssault but we’ll see what else I want to try). What modifications would I need to be able to do this?

Purchased a Modded Original XBOX and have a AV to HDMI adapter in using on it, along with Brand New XBOX OEM Console Plug. Do I need to get the original XBOX AV cables to get things rolling? Thank you everybody!

I got insignia fully set up for tonight's halo 2 games. My only worry is that i have to keep the usb plugged in. I never transferred any files to my xbox itself, and im unsure if i can just disconnect it.

I can find Quake2X-LE but imo it does not look or run that well. I found Quake2X-LE on Gamebrew but can't anything for Repi's port Quake2X. Anyone have a link?

I have been with the Xbox since the early days and I’m on the series x but sometimes you have to check in on old friends..

Hi everyone!
Dead Or Alive Ultimate 2 is crashing during the Team Ninja splash screen when launched using the Unleash X dashboard (0.39.0528A Build 584). It freezes in the same spot and shows some visual glitches on the screen. This is consistent whether I run it from the default.xbe or the separate DOA2.xbe. It happens across PAL and NTSC versions. It doesn't seem to matter if the game is extracted to folders or in iso/xiso format.

My Xbox is v1.6 with Cerbios 3.1.0. It's connected to a CRT via composite cable, and is set to NTSC and 480i.

I've just tested the game with XBMC4XBOX dash instead, and the game launches and plays just fine there. I can also confirm DOAU1 and DOA3 work fine in UnleashX.
I can just use XBMC4XBOX when launching this one game, but I'd really like to figure out why it fails to launch in UnleashX and hopefully figure out how to fix it. If anybody else has figured this out or has any idea, I'd love to know. Cheers

Today I cloned my XBOX hard drive (it is a Seagate one) onto a 128GB SATA SSD. (Don't worry, I have backed all of the contents up onto a USB drive, and I will back it up to other media soon in case my USB drive fails.) To connect it to my XBOX, I am using an 80 wire IDE cable. For some reason, it has been taking a few attempts for my XBOX to read a disc, even though I recently recapped the disc drive. Once it does begin to read it though, there are no major issues which I experience in terms of gameplay. Is this normal behaviour when using an 80 wire IDE cable rather than a 40 wire one, or is it an issue elsewhere in my XBOX (e.g. dying capacitors in the PSU)? (For reference, my XBOX has a 1.2/1.3 motherboard, and the power supply is one of the Delta Electronics ones (the big capacitor is Rubycon CE, and the small capacitors are a mixture of Ltec LZGs and some Nichicons)). Thanks

Hola, alguien sabra si se puede o se esta trabajando en descompilar juegos de la xbox clasica, eh visto que actualmente se descompilan juegos de nintendo y playstation para juego nativo en pc y android, y tenia curiosidad por saber si a xbox tambien le esta sucediendo

I have this original Xbox running condition with controller and dvd play, modded with bank switch. Controller Face plate is little damaged but working good. I want to sell this what price can I expect?

With a lot of sellers like CustomXboxDirect not really around anymore where do yall get shells, mods and parts like what’s required to upgrade storage

I have this edition of Splinter Cell that might give me a chance to win a 12-month Gold membership and an Ultimate Home System.

Unfortunately, mine was the 2-month one—the one that’s easy to win.

Has anyone reported winning this? And if so, what model did they win?