How To Upgrade An Old OG Xbox Softmod To The Latest Rocky5 Variant

[@molotov2634]

I just turn on my old Xbox just to see it it woks, it does, now I'm using your video to update my old softmod, thanks dude!!!

[@ArchadesGames]

Happy gaming!

[@djm9937]

i'd be terrified of messing things up. I'll keep mine as is. You have however made it look effortless. Great Video :)

[@ArchadesGames]

No real risk of messing anything up but always do what works for you!

[@Determinator21]

Coward

[@bizzybee3021]

Great job. I somehow screwed up and I'm gonna try the burnt extras disc fix before the full eeprom restore. Of coarse this is the Xbox I'm currently upgrading everything. So one tiny hiccup is to be expected. Nothing ever goes easy.

[@micksterminator3]

Thanks for this! I got an Xbox from goodwill for 20usd with no cables. Tested it out at home and realized it booted to xbmc. Almost wanted to start over cause there's a ton of junk. Later noticed my perfect looking mech assault copy I bought a year ago doesn't boot, nor do I have a 4gb usb. Found a blank DVD and burnt the iso. Couldn't get it to boot past it stating the bios. Would get a black screen. I loaded the preloader and was able to boot to a certain app off the disc then back out to the appropriate menu. Worked like a charm! Just need to upgrade the storage and get component cables and I'm set 😁

[@ArchadesGames]

Nice! Glad you got it working!

[@Ragnheiour]

Burning iso to a dvd works too (i had to use a dvd cause my xbox wouldn't read that iso when i burned it a cd,)

[@ufoguy]

I ate burgers today. Cheers !

[@ArchadesGames]

I am jealous

[@AntpoteatX]

I was running EvoX before I did this and after I was done everything seems to work fine except all my games disappeared. I wish there was a mention of this in the video.

[@ArchadesGames]

It doesn't make your games disappear so why would it be mentioned

[@Fabios__]

Great video! Anyway hey man, what do you think about windows m.u.g.e.n.? Is there a chance to see a project on xbox?

[@toolsofpwnage5936]

when I load the burnt cd into my xbox it says unofficial/hacked bios mode. There's no menu for me to upgrade old softmod

[@XfromDarkHorse]

Nice!

[@NebLleb]

So, as someone who needs to upgrade his dashboard, I'd like to ask: is it easy to just upgrade the dashboard or do I need to upgrade the softmod, too?

[@ArchadesGames]

Should just need to place a new one in the current directory of the old one for a dash upgrade. If features like XISO loading are important to you then you would need to update the mod.

[@Sancheeeeeez]

I received a message that "Retail 44 BIOS detected" and just rebooting the console.

[@Herotruth]

Is this possible for a broken disk drive? I softmodded my xbox without the drive, and I even upgraded the harddrive. But my harddrive bork, so I put the original back which has the older rocky5. I don't even remember how I did the upgraded drive which had the modern Rocky5.

[@SuperWildYoshi]

Hey! I want to get insignia on my xbox. I softmodded in 2015. Is there a way to just upgrade the dashboard?

[@MadDogSolo]

I have a question, I tried this about 2 years back with the softmodding tool and it would give me a bios error, don’t really know what to do either, bios also shows up as unknown on the evolutionx menu.

[@ArchadesGames]

Sounds like a tsop flashed chip to me if the tool doesn't know which BIOS it is.

[@MadDogSolo]

@@ArchadesGamesI forget it might’ve said retail bios or something but I know it’s a bios error, but the menu of the softmod says the unknown part. Don’t know what to do about that if that’s the case.

[@leek1010]

What if I have an xbox with an old softmod that also has a bigger hdd installed, are there any issues when upgrading?

[@ArchadesGames]

This video was done with an Xbox using a 250 gig HDD. As long as it was all working properly before there should be no issue. But as with all mods it is an at your own risk type of deal.

[@Silver_and_the_Matrix]

I burned the disc, but whatever softmod I have installed won't see the disc. I checked the drive with a game disc, and that worked fine. Any thoughts?

[@ArchadesGames]

It might not like your burned disc depending on the model of the drive. Older Thompson's won't read anything burned usually.

[@Silver_and_the_Matrix]

@@ArchadesGames I had used a CD-R to make the disc that wouldn't read. Tried a DVDR and it worked fine. I have a version 1.6 with a Samsung DVD drive.

[@ArchadesGames]

That's good!

[@FormulaSumo]

Is there a way to do this with a usb drive? My dvd drive isn't working and my old xbox is also on xbmc. Have no idea how to update it rocky5.

[@FormulaSumo]

Figured it out, just ftp the files to xbox and run it.

[@ArchadesGames]

Yup, you got it

[@mrpunjana4019]

Great video, I need to lock / unlock a Xbox HD from another console, can this be done using another softmodded console using chimp do you know or any other utility I don’t have a way of connecting ide to a pc so hoping this can be possible. Thanks

[@ArchadesGames]

You can only unlock a drive with the system/eeprom that locked it originally

[@mrpunjana4019]

@@ArchadesGames thanks for the reply, I bought a motherboard and matching hd set on ebay but when put together it has error 06 I am assuming the owner didn’t relock the drive?

[@ArchadesGames]

Error 6 is the inability to unlock the drive so it probably didn't belong with that board originally.

[@mrpunjana4019]

I see, thank you is there any way around this of getting them both to work? Thanks for the help so kind.

[@alvinbalatbat]

Would this work with a unit with a modchip?

[@ArchadesGames]

This isn't related to modchips

[@Determinator21]

Does it accepts modern CDs like CD rw?

[@ArchadesGames]

Depends on the drive

[@brutapode8939]

Why "Only for", in fact?

[@ArchadesGames]

It's a spoof on an N64 box

[@ZIonDaWolfo]

Where do i find the disk image?

[@ArchadesGames]

In the description as said in the video

[@ZIonDaWolfo]

@@ArchadesGames for me there is nothing. Can you send me a link?