Building My Ultimate Modded Xbox 360 - Halo 4 Edition with RGH, Dual-NAND, & LTU2 Unlocked Board!

[@Slot1Gamer]

A little tip for cleaning the flux (if that’s ok) Using a ESD safe brush and “clean room wipes” along with isopropyl or flux cleaner Works really well, the wipes don’t leave any lint or fluff and absorb flux very well Soak a wipe in some cleaner then place it over the area you want to clean and then lightly brush the wipe like you are brushing whatever is under it The flux with soak up into the wipe

[@MrMario2011]

Really appreciate the tips, thank you!!

[@JDMRICE]

Nice man i also have a halo 4 console that was for spares or repair but i did a trinity board swap on it as the original corona board was dead but swaped over the sound chip so i still have all of the custom sounds for dvd drive eject and power. i did a rgh 1.2 mod also with the ace v3 on this console absolutely love it. nice to see another one keep up the good work man.

[@MrMario2011]

Thanks so much! Sounds like an awesome console!.

[@leviclark312]

question, i just bought one of these that im swapping the board to my rgh in the shell. where is the sound chip located? is it connected to the RF board?

[@JDMRICE]

@@leviclark312 it is a little chip down at the front of the console underneath the disc drive but you will need a hot air station to remove it or you can use a jr programer to flash custom sounds. Hope this helps

[@legendofcho]

Also, a picoflasher would work for the custom sounds.

[@Goodgamer78]

You have the best soldering videos I’ve seen. The quality is unmatched

[@Michael.Hunt.14-52]

I've had one of these safe in the box for years. This video really made me appreciate having the thing. It really is a gorgeous console.

[@MrMario2011]

Glad this could help out! It's certainly a lovely console, definitely my favorite slim model.

[@Slot1Gamer]

Another little tip, a J shaped tip is actually designed to clear solder bridges, you can get them for any iron

[@MrMario2011]

I've got one but need to actually use it!

[@Hellraiser988]

​@@MrMario2011same I used mine once and forgot it existed

[@TJGames97]

lol I tried to do the demon dual nand setup many many years ago and I remember just giving up after struggling for many hours. Its nice to see that even someone as experienced as yourself can have a hard time.

[@MrMario2011]

I've never installed the DemoN, But I've been told that thing is a pain! I do have a couple systems with it. Installed, USB flasher on there hardly ever worked right. Super disappointing since it was supposed to be a premium feature and make updating easier, but I just had to update both sides the normal ways.

[@MrCoolnicolas]

The solder not flowing well at 47:40 is because of high thermal mass in the pcb, the solution is to simply heat the pad a little longer with the soldering iron.

[@MrMario2011]

Good looking out! Although I swear I haven't had that much of an issue soldering into the other drive PCBs I've worked on.

[@CarsandCats]

Do you want to know how to hide all of the scratches? :) Turtle Wax Ice. It's incredible. Wipe it on, let it haze and wipe it off with a microfiber cloth. 90% of the scratches will disappear!

[@MrMario2011]

Thanks for the tip!!

[@castawayarmy32]

​@@MrMario2011can u please do a rgh 3 on a xbox E slim please 🤗🤗🤗🤗❤❤

[@MenaAzer]

@ 52:32 you get an error in JungleFlasher that says Key Verification Failed Additional extracts not completed. This will result in your games not loading off burnt DVD's or retail discs without toggling the nofcrt flag in JRUNNER. The way you should be building your LTU2 FW is by connecting your original PCB, selecting the LTU2 firmware, then selecting your key.bin and C-R.bin. It'll then extract additional information off the original PCB before giving you your firmware bin file.

[@MrMario2011]

Thankfully it's working successfully since discs have been working wonderfully in both stock and modded sides! Except for audio CDs, of course.

[@Kofi_Mensahs_BurnerAccount]

I had the Gears of War 3 console and preferred that colour scheme.

[@MrMario2011]

That version was awesome! I never owned one, but it's one of my favorites.

[@ronny332]

My XBOX 360 "days" in 2024 are starting to get expensive 🙂The original idea was to dig out my beloved 360, play some games, watch if the other consoles of the collection are fine, but then I watched a lot XBOX 360 videos on this channel. Besides ordering a few glitch chips, doing an RGH3 (just for fun) and other modding utils I didn't have, the last purchase was an HALO 4 special edition 360 🙂. The currently hard to find Viper 2 (in Europe) is in my basement since a few years, just the corona adapter ist missing. So hopefully, in a few weeks, I'm able to reproduce your idea. Thanks for making me broke and sharing this idea! 🙂

[@MrMario2011]

LOL a good reason to go broke it sounds like? Have fun!

[@wolffangalchemist]

So glad I looked at your video, I was flashing a aliexpress knockoff ltu2 board for my 16d4s from my rgh3 Corona console and had no idea about the hidden menu and needing the c-r and keys bin files! I though the Chinese board killed my laser at first, but once I figured this out from watching you and how to install a switch to re unlock the flash now everything works great!

[@MrMario2011]

Glad this helped! I still have everything for a tutorial recorded, I eventually just need to work through all the footage to get it edited into a proper tutorial. The process really isn't hard if you know how to flash a drive, but the lack of documentation makes it difficult.

[@wolffangalchemist]

​@@MrMario2011 no lie, since the TX website and forums disappeared a lot of this stuff is like a lost art with minimal info to do any of it! If you throw a tutorial together, please also cover adding a switch in case of a bad flash on the aliexpress LTU2 boards, it is pretty easy and can just be left on the board if done right with smd components, incase you ever want to re flash to swap the dvd drive to another console. i had to go off a singular picture that was blurry to get the wiring right.

[@writer6006]

love your content, man. this console is super sick and i would love to have one personally.

[@MrMario2011]

Thanks!

[@SkullatorNZ]

Looking forward to consuming this content! I have two of those halo4 360's beside me here, one's a bit cracked tho the other is minty like yours there.. For a while I was thinking I might make one my own.. But then I came across one of the red+black Gears of war 360's and I think the skull logo on top of it matching the old Skullator branding just leaves me no other choice. Hope you're keeping well bro!

[@brownthunder509]

Holy shit Skullator! Your videos a while back helped me to mod my PSVITA, hope you’re doing good man!

[@MrMario2011]

I appreciate the compliment, although I can assure you this one is unfortunately not minty, but it is mine and it is modded up now!

[@gameonuk9169]

Awesome work as always MrMario. I still do a lot of custom cutouts for the 360, still a very popular console. I'd love to show you some of the consoles I've done. Anyway Keep up the great work. 👌👍

[@MetaboxeTV]

This was one of the longest and most difficult RGH that I’ve ever done. It is the same Halo xbox which I took for me personally and it took 3 whole days for me to figure everything out. I just didn’t wanted to boot Xell and glitch. Finally got it done with a Ace V3 😅

[@MrMario2011]

At least it's done!

[@KuraV12]

Great video! I was also looking forward to a modded 360 but i still am stuck bc i don’t know if my soldering skills are good enough

[@MrMario2011]

Practice makes perfect!

[@SlingshotGamer]

Damn jungle flasher brought so many memories while watching this. I remember the good old kamikaze hack for the lite on drives. Drill into them and waiting for the beep sound

[@MrMario2011]

On my last one I did the audio didn't play! Thankfully I could hear the actual high pitched noises the hardware itself was generating and stopped when I stopped hearing that.

[@Swoop.]

This is my dream build as well

[@MrMario2011]

I've been quite happy with it!

[@37Kilo2]

Thanks for the tutorial, dude. You made my life so much easier.

[@MrMario2011]

You're welcome! Although this is not a tutorial.

[@tjwilliams1366]

The r2d2 360 slim also has blue led lights. And makes sounds like r2d2. But I just modded is thanks to you haha

[@MrMario2011]

That's a cool console!

[@Hadzz95]

Nice work! Small thing but something ive learned over the years is you dont actually need to outro in jf at all. Just switching the power off will take it out of vendor mode too. Getting into vendor mode is all done in the devices ram, so when you cut power its left in the exact state it was in before. Its just a qol feature if you wanna use in the pc without manually cycling. Once is plenty btw 😜

[@MrMario2011]

Good looking out! I guess you can say old habits die hard, just some little quirks that show which era people were in :P

[@Hadzz95]

@MrMario2011 oh for sure, I still do things like install new kv's to the actual nand and reflash haha

[@CarsandCats]

Just got my Halo 4 RGH too. LOVE it!

[@MrMario2011]

Definitely a bit of a gem! Have been told by people that it's a really pretty console 😛

[@Dynamit008]

Just a dual Nand LoL, I have a Xbox360S Trinity with triple NAND. Two of the Nand is RGH-JTAG and the original Nand is untouched so Xbox Live was never a problem LoL.

[@will891410]

I put on mine a AK400 cooler instead of the original, now it runs prety cool.

[@DavitTheCore]

I clicked on this vid just to check if Aurora does display the OG startup animation, and it does lol.

[@happyputt9709]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@MrMario2011]

No problem!

[@gameonuk9169]

Awesome as always MrMario, i still do custom cutouts for the 360, still a very popular console. I'd like to show you some samples of my work somehow if you're interested. Anyway keep up the great work. 👌👍

[@MrMario2011]

Still love the console 🙂

[@dripeedrop]

To your point Mr. Mario. I have mines RGH 1.2 v2 using same items with LTU3. Nand 1. Stock, Nand 2 rgh. I switch back and forth between nands. Mines is a trinity, will try same setup on my corona next.

[@MrMario2011]

Nice to have the switching ability, I love it

[@talha7408]

Awesome work 👍

[@MrMario2011]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@gman8217]

i feel like the new kind of super modded console is a fw reversable ps4, would like to do that with mine when i get the time

[@MrMario2011]

I would disagree. There's a lot more you can do with holder systems, and the upgrades are expanding even further with new developments. Something like the OG Xbox for example? Bringing it back online with Insignia, new custom BIOS development, and crazy stuff like 16 TB hard drive support with UDMA 5 is astounding, especially through an HDMI mod! Although if you need something newer, the Switch modding scene has matured wonderfully.

[@FrontoOptimo]

Also i was reading online someone said the LTU2 boards dont read audio discs

[@MrMario2011]

That's correct.

[@rather8948]

Brings back good memories ty

[@MrBlingBlingNr1]

Nice job. I like the dual nand ;)

[@MrMario2011]

Same here!

[@Dumby]

Do I own a 360? Yes. Do I plan on modding it? No. Is Mr Mario’s content just that good? Yes.

[@MrMario2011]

Aw, you're too kind 🖤

[@LeeZhiWei8219]

I still remember, I still have a J-R Programmer, an X360Ace V3, a Post-fix (that I somehow broke into a few pieces whoops), a squirt360 secondary nand PCB from like china, and even a Corona 4GB nand reader (that I made myself with an SanDisk SD card reader)... I should really get back into this. I might find a Trinity or a Corona to put these stuff in from online, also gotta get these stuff outta my cupboard!

[@MrMario2011]

They're fun to work on!

[@LeeZhiWei8219]

@@MrMario2011 Absolutely! Theres a guy selling like an LTU2 board for like $25 SGD here. But yeah, I don't have an X360USB Pro... Might see if the seller has one? Or just dig out my old PC haha... Can't wait to be back with aurora, might try running Linux on the 360 again, who knows...

[@LeeZhiWei8219]

Also... Opening the Slim's casing is a bit of a challenge with all the clips and all...

[@BadTB25]

I have an unmodded X360 slim that I cannot get to connect to my network on a Spectrum 6 router. I've tried the factory default resets, clear caches, resets of the router and modem, manual entry of the SSID without success. If I were to get it modded, would it be able to connect to my network? Is there an alternate route to connect that I'm missing? I primarily want to consolidate my collection of Guitar Hero/Rockband Game songs onto a Rock band 3 deluxe type app as well as finding additional songs. Please advise and any help would be appreciated.

[@MrMario2011]

Modding won't fix that.

[@BadTB25]

Thanks for the reply. Any suggestion for getting it connected? @@MrMario2011

[@brandonhall7759]

May seem too simple but have you tried an ethernet cable to see if it can even connect to internet

[@BadTB25]

It'll connect with an ethernet cable, but where I need to locate it doesn't have any drops (older house). I "fixed" it by using an old wifi extender I had stored in some boxes that I bought from a flea market years ago. The wifi etender connects to the router and my X360 connects to the extender wirelessly. One of the modders actually has a vid that pointed me in the right direction, although he connects the X360 to the wifi extender via Cat5 and then that connects to the wifi router. Similar solution except I skipped the Cat5 cable. @@brandonhall7759

[@heavysmoker7208]

Just done the same, TX dual nand demon with a CR4 LX

[@MrMario2011]

Nice!

[@jonathanriggs6564]

Please do an actual tutorial for this whole thing, for us few who need the ultimate of things

[@MrMario2011]

I'll have to eventually get around to editing it!

[@leviclark312]

yo this is crazy cause i just bought one of these for the shell to put my motherboard in that i just rgh'd last week! my console i rghd was shell-less cause i took it apart when i was kid and neglected the disasambly process 😂

[@MrMario2011]

I'm sure the console looks lovely now!

[@leviclark312]

@@MrMario2011 Yes! Thanks for the rgh tutorial!! i meant to leave a comment, but i successfully rghd for the first time! Suprisingly with no hiccups! I havent had whole lot of soldering experince but once it booted into Xell i felt like a king!! Thanks again!

[@pocketreviewgaming]

I have one of these my friend modded for me it’s so nice only got a 60gb hdd I’ll probably mess with it soon.

[@MrMario2011]

This one is now fitted with a 1TB SSD, loving it!

[@israelcalderon9983]

Hi! Can You tell why did not RGH 3.0 on this one?

[@MrMario2011]

Watch the video

[@joeoliver-eo2uo]

Good build. Sadly xbox 360 online servers are down atm :( No idea when they will return

[@craigstubbings5940]

Exact setup i had with my halo edition. I had the 2 controllers though.

[@MrMario2011]

Halo 4 or Reach?

[@ANTRAXxMoDz]

im having issue booting the s-rgh nand it boot every now and then some times i doesn't boot at all i tried every timing file but to no avail. check my wiring as well i cant seem to find the issue. this my first time doing a s-rgh so i don't know the symptoms of a bad ace v3 chip. retail nand boot fine of the viper v2 doe.

[@MrMario2011]

I have that as well, exact same issue. The only thing that has worked for me is to completely unplug the console from power for about a minute and then plug it back in.

[@TheModShopCO]

A wild LTU2 board has appeared! But you're not really demonstrating the full experience if you don't get stuck in Vendor mode at least once. 😂

[@MrMario2011]

Might have to plug in the molex connector upside down just to feel something.

[@TheModShopCO]

@@MrMario2011 I completely forgot that this was a legitimate issue. So many dead units posted on the forum lmao

[@Darth1994Maul]

Can you use the RF pin 4 on a Trinity as well or will that cause issues?? Trying not to run led wire all the way to RF board… So so I had a perfectly s-RGH trinity with ACE v3 and after installing viper v2 using pin 4 for led and not the console is unresponsive… I can switch between the nannds perfectly fine but nothing happens when I try to power on it acts like it’s not pluged in… any help would be greatly appreciated…. Thanks in advance….

[@MrMario2011]

Best way to test is to undo the the pin 4 wire and wire it up directly to the RF board.

[@Darth1994Maul]

@@MrMario2011 I will try that…. Also does the chip pad need connected to anything on the Trinity or do I leave that pad empty?? Really appreciate the help

[@Darth1994Maul]

@@MrMario2011 update moved the led wire from pin 4 directly to LED itself…. Still nada console acts completely dead but…. I am able to switch between the nannds the led blinks once and then twice… red standby light on ace but power button and eject do nothing…

[@EternallyEmberKin]

Newbie here, What was the reason you couldn't do glitchless?

[@MrMario2011]

There's no glitchless RGH.

[@legendofcho]

Is it necessary to rebuild the clean nand instead of writing the nand that was dumped and updated manually?

[@MrMario2011]

Either way works, neither option is incorrect, I just preferred to build a new NAND.

[@legendofcho]

@MrMario2011 Good to know! I just didn't know if that would mess with anyways of getting banned. Awesome tutorial as always!

[@nicholasjjacob]

Would you have done an RGH 1.2 install with this if the PLL point was good? (since rgh3 /dual nand isnt an option)

[@MrMario2011]

Nope, would have done RGH3 since this is a Corona.

[@nicholasjjacob]

Does the Viper V2 support RGH 3?

[@thewavyshopofficial]

would be cool to see a vid on tripple nand

[@MrMario2011]

Sounds cool, but I have no use for that.

[@thewavyshopofficial]

@@MrMario2011 ok have you ever thot of doing a vid for nandwitch

[@transformer01able]

I have a rgh halo 4 Xbox and I love it 😍

[@MrMario2011]

Lovely edition of the console to have!

[@FrontoOptimo]

Is S-RGH recommended if you mess up the PLL point?

[@MrMario2011]

Yep

[@dropshop9393]

You can make a tutorial of a dual nandwich 🙏

[@MrMario2011]

I don't plan to.

[@dropshop9393]

Because it's difficult 😂

[@JustGore.]

Does this work on 4gb as well?

[@BelowAverageGaming]

That's hot

[@lenincardoso8881]

I don't want hard mod Xbox 360 I want soft mod xbox 360?

[@CarsandCats]

Nor possible