Why You Need To Put A Raspberry Pi Pico Inside Your XBOX Right Now!

[@Hazeno]

Team Resurgent and Xbox-Scene here saying big thanks for the kind words and coverage of this incredible work done by Shal, TR ( Equinox you legend )and Modz. Its a great time for the xbox currently with many passionate projects being worked on. /Wave

[@sneakingelephant]

This comment just made me aware that Xbox-scene still exists and that there is a discord now 😮. Thanks for all the hard work to those that worked on this.

[@Mr_Milenko]

@Hazeno typing this from his bath tub.

[@Hazeno]

@Mr_Milenko How did you guess? 😂😂

[@Johnny_LuvBuckets]

Any support for CPU upgraded consoles?

[@Lifeonwaves]

@@Johnny_LuvBucketsit’s said in the video.

[@alexgonzales89]

Man people who create open source projects are really a god send to the community

[@semibrad]

The entire internet should be open source. You have a right to know what your electronics are made of and what they're doing.

[@Jay-jm1qt]

everyday heros

[@blindsniper9794]

Bro I legit reddit posted like 4 or 5 years ago asking about using a pi to mod-chip the Xbox and I got laughed at

[@hiabst]

Reddit moment

[@stevenbenson9976]

Even at that time it could have been used to read and write the eeprom...

[@grihaspoormachine]

when psnee was made?

[@salpertia]

Womp womp

[@YouShisha1393]

Pi and Pico are different things. Pico is a microcontroller while Pi is an SBC.

[@MrBoop4345]

THIS! Is exactly what I have been looking for the last couple weeks. Tito you always know how to make my wallet lighter. What an amazing time we live in with all these passionate modders creating new mods. Cheers to you for the great video and also to all these talented people doing hard work. 🍻

[@PhurPher]

You kids and your modchips. Back in 2005 we would just use a memory card, one of 3 games, and crossover ethernet cable to connect the PC to the Xbox and run modding software from that. Didn't need no fancy custom BIOS, we just used a slightly modified vanilla homescreen and the built in HDD for storage.

[@rockapartie]

@@PhurPher Well, you obviously didn't follow the scene back then. Modchips for the OG Xbox were extremely popular due to significant advantages over a softmod; there are like a hundred variants from dozens of developers, because they sold like hot cakes. "We" also didn't use a "slightly modified vanilla homescreen"; many of us used XBMC (initially called XMP; still in active development as Kodi).

[@PhurPher]

@@rockapartie No, I don't. I was hoping for a reply like this lol. I never had a need to anything but softmod cause I didn't even know what could be gained with chips that I wasn't already getting from softmodding Never seen XBMC before either. Is that the same Kodi as the windows media center Kodi, or made by the same people rather?

[@MrBoop4345]

​@@PhurPher"You kids and your modchips.". I'm probably older than you are 😅. I've always used mod chips because there is no need to lock a HDD after it's changed out. Also In this age, a lot of CD drives are just dead and throwing error codes on startup. I can easily bypass that and 3D print a drive deleter. There are many benefits to mod chips over soft mods.

[@8bitbros]

Man, I just brought out my OG Xbox last week that I modded with the team executer mod chip like 20 years ago. Still works great! Good to know about the new options!

[@JohnPeter-yf5jf]

Remove the battery cap from the board

[@dw9932]

​@@JohnPeter-yf5jfclock capacitor not a battery capcitior most likely has been already done if it has been modded early in the days of the og xbox they found out the capacitor was defected

[@SirRobinson510]

I got an OG Xbox sitting in my closet, bought it for $20 on FB Marketplace. I’m soo glad this video dropped! You are the most Macho bro ❤

[@VictorKorp1999]

This thing literally saved my Xbox that would not boot without a modchip (for some reason), the previous one broke (one of those cheap alladin clones) and the thing sat on a box for years Now it's going strong with cerbios and tons of games ❤

[@BinToss._.]

Iirc, part of an Xbox's boot code is stored on the IDE hard drive. These hard drives are paired to a motherboard with a password stored in the EEPROM. If the drive's password isn't wiped by a modchip, the hard drive can only be used by a motherboard that passes the correct password. If you don't have a mod chip or your Xbox dies, you can recover the hard drive's password with FATXplorer 3.0 beta 31 or later...if it's a Western Digital disk.

[@BK2Modder]

So glad to see ModXO covered, I think it's fantastic that Shalx has given the community a cheap and easily sourced open-source modchip

[@robinmasters150]

The faculty you have to follow and dig out all those niche projects and to disclose them in such a refined, classy way makes your channel so special. Love it.

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

Yet another open source project, this community just keeps on giving its such a warm feeling

[@toxictraction]

Bro these transitions were beautiful. You have such a talent for editing. You have 254k subscribers but your videos have the production quality of a 10m sub channel.

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@jessragan6714]

He's really good at this. Very professional video production and editing.

[@ledidier15042000]

Man this retro renew intro give me goosebumps every time 😮

[@jakebello7988]

First the GameCube, now the Xbox... What can't the Pi Pico do?!

[@SUBinfinit]

Xbox 360 as well! Not as a mod chip but a flasher!

[@yemepujols9294]

Don’t forget the Switch.

[@caiodaris7064]

They could make for the PS2. It would be great

[@RaenYrtham]

There's a PS1 Pico based ODE as well.

[@KetsubanSolo]

You can also use it for controller firmware (GP2040-CE) if you wanna build your own controller!

[@mizorenight3851]

Seems like I should add an OG Xbox to my consoles in the near future, always exciting to see how much love there is in the community for those consoles.

[@JockoV]

I'm having flashbacks from 20 years ago when it took me 30 minutes of trying to solder my executer mod chip to the dreaded D0 contact using a crappy $15 Radio Shack soldering iron with no flux. I got it soldered and working but the trauma remains to this day. Great memories from the early Xbox-Scene days :)

[@ToneDeeezy]

This video warms my heart, I miss the days where my entire friend group would LAN with our modded xboxes. I still have 4 or 5 OG xboxes in storage...I may have to do this.

[@thewondersock3818]

It's nice to see so many rp2040 based modchips coming out.

[@brianweasner3803]

I don't even have an Xbox, I just watch your videos because of the quality. You never cease to amaze me with how professional your videos look and feel.

[@dzltron]

I absolutely love ModzvilleUSA, dude is so talented

[@WesMakesStuff]

Nice. Got a broken Xbox last week to repair and mod. Perfect timing.

[@Le_Monkey_Dude]

FINALLY!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE THE GAMECUBE ONE!!

[@forestw785]

Oh yeah I really can’t wait for this one to take off. The OG Xbox is really where modding was exposed to me. Not to mention, the Xbox was probably one of the most extensively modded consoles of the era.

[@meatpockets]

Same, the first gen OG Xbox was super easy to open up and solder a modchip. RIP Lik Sang

[@ModzvilleUSA]

Fantastic video brotha!

[@Pandascams]

Literally was thinking about modding the OG xbox and a video from you suddenly drops wtf 😂

[@SviatoslavDamaschin]

Just do a tsop if it's not a 1.6

[@Jason-vl9uz]

do a softmod. I didn't catch him mentioning those in the video but it's a lot easier imo.

[@TehGameRaven]

Yeeesssssss. I'm modding my Xbox soon, so this is perfect timing.

[@pomuhgranate4232]

YES! I've been waiting for a pico-based modchip

[@Screwheili]

I love seeing so many changes to modding the OG Xbox over the years, great video!

[@leonidastankiangaming]

Your channel is honestly one of my favorites.

[@KngKurd]

It’s hilarious that we now adapted almost every console to use the pico for the modchip which cost a couple dollars!

[@jessragan6714]

In technology, versatility is king!

[@Solar_and_Security]

Very nice. With the Pico becoming the platform of choice, I can't wait to see what the future holds. Great Video!

[@markrobertson2301]

Why should I do this over a TSOP flash which doesn't really cost anything?

[@mattrogers6646]

Wondering the same? Other than v1.6, obviously, which can't be TSOP'd.

[@OCDRex11]

Agreed and waiting for valid responses.

[@Dikwili]

You can’t flash Prometheos to a TSOP either. You’re then limited to only one bios, which is fine for a lot of ppl.

[@reminon]

1.0 and 1.1 models have 1Mb bios chips that can have their banks split. ​@@Dikwili

[@ItsTheRealMrMaD]

Much love to Modzville USA ..that man has never ceased to amaze me with the skills he has 🤝

[@rashira9610]

If the community can come up with a way to pair a hard drive to the system without running a burnt disc with homebrew on it (ala Project Stellar) this might be the one for me. My OG Xbox has been out of commission for over a decade because it needs a new power supply, new HDD/SDD, and at the time it needed a new DVD drive to be able to run the app to pair the drive. Apparently you can use any old PC DVD drive with a modded console minus the ability to run original disks (a feature I DON'T need) but it would be great if I didn;t have worry about burning discs at all. As it stands I;ve been procrastinating on buying project stellar because of the price but if ModXo can do the same AND is cheap because it;s running on a Pico, this is the one. Getting a HDD/SDD is dead simple and getting a power supply shouldn't be too hard. The DVD drive was the worst part of the repair because price but if I can just remove it from the equation completely, that would be great. At that point I don't really have any excuses left to procrastinate on getting this thing FINALLY fixed. Edit: 15:59 "Such as Hard Drive set up" SCOOOOOOORRRREEEEEEE! This is the one for me. Hell I already have a regular Pico, but I'll probably just grab a Tiny and a carrier board. that way I don;t have to manually add all the bitty resistors. I'm Okay at soldering but soldering tiny things like Surface Mount Resistors is NOT my forte. Either way though, I might wait for the Prometheos port to have a little more time in the oven, but this is EXACTLY what I wanted. Cheap AND can set up storage without a burnt disc.

[@TOPHATVAMP]

Im so happy we're in the generation where new technology is helping old technology keeping up ... we have psp on ras and now xbox on ras nintendo Switch on ras. This raspberry is such a life saver for these old technologies !!!

[@jedewitz]

This is incredible. I won't be dismantling my xecuters but this is perfect for those lost souls you find in goodwill shops with bad hard drives that code on boot.

[@SuperFlashDriver]

While I have never owned the 2001 version of Xbox (Original Xbox), It's nice to see this console get a modchip that could be the "Be All, End All" for using the hardware on this console to its fullest potential...But of course, years down the road another one will improve over the old one so.

[@hawkfeather6802]

That looks pretty cool! Your solder work always looks so professional 💪🏻

[@harrytsang1501]

RP2040 has became popular not only because it is widely available and cheap, but also that it uses PIO that has 8 state machine to emulate many real-time protocols

[@christophmuller3511]

Very much, the PIOs are what’s allowing this to work in the first place without needing an FPGA or CPLD…

[@karlmee1234]

The Pi Pico has become such a GOAT for some many mods in the past few years. So keen to see what the future holds for PIco base Xbox mod chips, would love to be able to have a LED ring around the Xbox logo or something similar controlled by the same Pico that is running the Xbox bios

[@austinfowler2707]

As someone who has 2 xboxs that need full replacements of the Hard Drive, and since its apparently just easier to mod in a sata hdd/ssd, this felt like a message from above. The pico being cheaper than older mod chips really calls to me.

[@JustinEmlay]

Pro Tip - Add flux to your desoldering braid and you probably wont need to use your pump as often. That combo would have sucked all the solder out of those holes.

[@gatway7347]

Having something available and well priced is going to make it easier for more people to get into the modding community.

[@michelvanbriemen3459]

The Xbox modding scene continues to amaze me even this far removed from the Xbox's launch. Using a Pico as a modchip is very clever. I wonder if that method can be used on PS3s and 360s as well, with a different implementation and the specific software for those systems of course.

[@nathanaelmellis1373]

Love Modsville! Been watching his vids for ages, really chill videos and tutorials. This is such a clean pcb too.

[@d4n93r]

Thank you for the videos Tito. You have inspired me to do my first modded console (GB DMG with Funny Playing IPS). It was my first time soldering and is was daunting but I managed. So thanks and much respect.

[@OriginalMaRulFullStream]

As an electronic engineer I did not want to spend my money on mod chips that where hard to use. This to me sounds amazing and already having a background working with Pis and microcontrollers I am really excited in what you could do with the extra I/O. When this gets stable I might want to take a dive into this one.

[@prozacgodretro]

I wonder if anyone would ever do this, great work to the author!

[@GoTeamScotch]

I cant wait to see what becomes possible once PrometheOS on modxo hits its stride. This is only the beginning, and theres a lot of room for interesting features that werent really possible before. Long live the Xbox scene!

[@Emancipatriot]

Wow. One wire mod chip is something I thought I’d never see. I installed a team xecutor chip in like 2007

[@wettuga2762]

Both my XBoxes are already modchipped, but it's nice to see alternative with open source projects that can be perpetuated by someone else even if the original creator abandons the project.

[@NerdyWeaponXGames]

1:36 - Why is Robin Williams on the back of that chip? 😂

[@JamieStuff]

The OG XBOX modchip scene has been stagnant for many years, primarily due to how easy it is to softmod the console. Now, with other mods being developed that require a hardmod (like Cerbios), demand for something other than the old Aladdin clones has picked up. Thanks to the community!

[@Dikwili]

This couldn’t be more wrong. The last couple of years have been amazing for mod chips and hardware upgrades. You’ve just not been paying attention.

[@KetsubanSolo]

​​@Dikwili on the one hand, fair. On the other, having a much more easily accessible and affordable option definitely should not be discounted

[@FlatEarthDisciple]

This is gonna change the game for all systems.

[@Conchobhar]

5:50 alright so nothing out of the ordinary on this silkscreen

[@JoeHusosky]

Man, this is so much easier than my mod chip from the first year that the console was released. It had something like 35 wires to solder in. I was working at a computer show and found a guy that said he would mod it for me overnight so I ran to Best buy and bought one.

[@suspendedhatch]

The X3 chip I installed in 2005 was the last chip I ever needed. However, I took it out to sell when a collector made an obscene offer for it. I put a Jafar in it’s place and that’s the last chip I’ll ever need. You make a strong case here though. If I ever open my console again, I’ll solder a ribbon cable to the pin header and D0 and run it through a vent, and double-sided tape whatever modchip to the top of the case :D

[@TheTruthBeToId]

As always, great content man. It's always a chill vibe to watch your videos.

[@antftwx]

This is amazing. Makes me want to get back into OG Xbox gaming!

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

This is awesome, especially if it allows for a relatively uncomplicated harddrive swap. Even the newer harddrives in the old Xbox are comming up on their 20th birthday, their lifecycles are definitely nearing the end. And with the harddrive gone, you need a cheap, relatively uncomplicated method to put in a new one, and Chinese pico clones are less than $5 each.

[@Chicomite]

Can't wait until we have the ultimate PS2 with all these mods. I see Stone Age Gamer has new HDMI kits for PS2. If those turn out to be good, then all we need now is an SD card reader and we'll be able to play every PS1-PS2 game on our modern tvs with no lag/quality resolution. Even though PS2 is my favorite console of that generation, there is no easy way to get decent resolution out of it, nowhere near the quality of the OG XBOX and Gamecube progressive scan

[@monchopr3511]

Almost like my nickname Moncho... ModXo. 😁 Amazing Tito! Love this! I wasn't sure to add modchip because of the cost and the propietary software of each one. But this project gives me hope. I can't wait to buy one. Great work as always. Blessings man.

[@Gameboygenius]

Also, almost ModXo Nacho.

[@monchopr3511]

@@Gameboygenius good one 😂

[@retrogaming3gp]

Ok, let’s see what we have here

[@mtohrw]

Would love a video with an actual standard pico since it's in the thumbnail...

[@anon_y_mousse]

This is great for future mods in general across every console.

[@spacedoutbeard5033]

Ive been wondering when a Pico mod would come out for the OG xbox, its such a capable little SOC that has changed console mods forever.

[@UserX-02]

Man the pico can do anything at this point

[@novelezra]

This along with the new CPU's... I think we are on the cusp of doing some WILD shit with the XBOX. Which is appropriate, since it's always been a console that was blown wide open, but this is just on another level.

[@8KilgoreTrout4]

I have a crystal X-Box just a WAITING to be modded! Perfect video for me right now buddy!

[@TechSuperPosition]

This is fantastic! I can now mod my 8 consoles without much effort or money cost.

[@chubakka1980]

I can't wait for more info in the future.

[@brick_m]

this couldn't have come a better time for me, just got an og xbox gifted to me thats been sitting since its hayday lol

[@ninetendopesaitama2107]

Bought a wireless transmitter for n64 controller from Retro Fi and it's using a raspi nano. Two of my hitboxes are also using a 2040. Really impressive what raspi did. It's cheap and available. Amazing hw. ☮️

[@AlbinoSheepDawg]

something not many people seem to do is solder the d0 motherboard wire to the chassis of the console (instead of console to chip) - it will do the same thing and not need to be removed if you remove the chip for maintenance or any other reason. d0 just tells the console to boot form the LPC header when grounded.

[@GoTeamScotch]

Hmm? If you remove the chip with D0 permanently grounded, your console won't boot. Wiring to the chip is fine, and allows the chip to control D0 so you can boot from the TSOP if needed.

[@AlbinoSheepDawg]

@@GoTeamScotch yea, but it's easier to resolder/desolder the d0 to the case than the chip. Just a trick I use. Of course you have to disconnect d0 from ground if you want to boot from the tsop

[@teilanittv]

Every time I hear the intro music, I get Something by Lasgo stuck in my head.

[@NordicDan]

Your soldering music sounds like what you'd hear in a 1980s Garfield TV show 😂 This looks really promising. Once I get around to "re"-modding my OG Xbox, I had planned on a Project Stellar for the HDMI and hopeful future capability of native wireless controller support, but this is one I'll be keeping an eye out for too now.

[@MrBlingBlingNr1]

man a few days ago i put in an aladdin modchip.

[@JohnPeter-yf5jf]

Glad this came out, was looking to mod my other OG Xbox

[@Mark6O9]

That's what you said last time

[@Sky_theidiot23]

???

[@Johnny_LuvBuckets]

​​@@Sky_theidiot23He called stellar a game changer. Which it actually was/is. People just get all butthurt because makemhz is running a business and didn't open source his product.

[@chuckthetekkie]

I already have everything needed. I also like that this does not use any Windows specific software. Considering I used to install modchips into the Wii and Xbox 360 without any kind magnification I think this is very beginner friendly.

[@sumbigboi4386]

Was literally researching modchips to purchase for my og xbox thats fubar, tysm for covering this🗣

[@arbbo1675]

I'm looking forward to seeing LCD/OLED screen support for those that don't want to find rare and costly Xecuter chips and screens. The only con I see with the Pi Pico is future updates requiring reconnecting the chip via USB.

[@emmanuelreynoso5770]

BG music made me feel like I was watching MVG for a second.

[@SoundToxin]

Nice, maybe I'll get an Xbox now. Hopefully the PS2 gets some Pico love as well.

[@nutter-world]

I need this. Remember my first mod (soft) forgot about the floating ground. Pop 🎉

[@AdamTheSlave]

When you said the creator's name, it made me think of Shallax, the creator of GentooX from back int he day.

[@kurtistharp2031]

Would love to see this mod chip make chihiro conversions easier. Being able to switch between home console and arcade functionality would be absolutely huge

[@sjoervanderploeg4340]

If you drive the EN pin low on the TSOP, the system will look for a compatible flash device on the LPC bus instead to read the 2bl from which then loads the kernel. The simplest modchip was just one of those TSOP's in a different package, this is also why for up to v1.5 it was quite easy to simply flash the onboard TSOP with the BIOS you needed. I never owned a v1.6 back then, but I have one rusting away somewhere :D You actually do not need a modchip at all, you can easily get it to boot into Linux to flash the onboard TSOP via known exploits and just be done with it. I have never tried a USB PATA controller to access the drive, but you can hotswap the hard drive IDE cable at the right time to have it unlocked for another PC to access it as long as the XBOX powers it. But hey, it is 2024 and you can probably bruteforce or generate the unlock password these days in mere seconds. But my memories of this old beast are also very foggy from way back when I still studied electronics, I might still have old code somewhere on spinning rust in a shoebox and I should really dust off the two xboxes I still have to replace that capacitor... the third one I have is sadly exposed to the elements :(

[@sjoervanderploeg4340]

I might be wrong now I think about it, there are two points you can reach from the side with tweezers that is the write enable on the TSOP. In case you wanted a "modchip", the single line you pull to ground is one of the data lines as this will cause the 2bl to read the kernel from the LPC bus instead. But like I said before, you do not need a modchip for these systems at all. You can just flash the TSOP from Linux with flashrom on everything that is not v1.6.

[@theglowcloud2215]

That intro music is sampling "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazarus pretty heavily

[@AnthonyTeasdale]

Very nice. I have an OG xbox I need to LPC rebuild and mod. Might wait for this to mature a little and go this way.

[@baherkh1]

Bro that Soldering is insane !!! Great video

[@_LagaKuula_]

I currently have my og xbox, that I bought in 2003 running xecuter 2.3b lite + 2Tb + Noctua fan... Also I have 5 other og xbox's ready for modding. Now a days the way to go was Xenuim, but those cost at least 45€ per piece here, so I just ordered couple of those Rasperry Picos for 5€ a piece to test this mod. I think this ModXo is going to be a gamechanger for xbox modding.

[@BlackDroid12]

I was with shalx trying to put together the xenium but it didn't go well I guess it was my fault but something better came out on his part

[@GabrielRivero4]

Hola Nacho, es increíble las cosas que haces. Felicitaciones y gran abrazo desde Argentina 🇦🇷

[@jeremy__hopkins]

Amazing work and nice to have open source options.

[@jessragan6714]

Macho, meet Mod XO. Mod XO, meet Macho. So... does this work with the last handful of Xboxes with 1.6 firmware? I understand that some I/O pins are missing from the motherboard on the late models.

[@danielcastiblanco8253]

You have to do the LPC rebuild, but, yeah, this is posible with most of the Pi Pico. I have a 1.6b with the LPC rebuild and a 16MB generic Pi Pico and it just works.

[@shazmosushi]

I wish it came installed on the carrier board, and had the USB port directly on the board without that ribbon cable. If it had both of them, it would be perfect.

[@shazmosushi]

Spoke too soon the third-party design at 14:52 had a USB port directly on it. Hopefully that will have the header socket preinstalled too, to minimize installation complexity even further though.

[@GoTeamScotch]

Access to the USB port should only be needed during installation though. Any updates after that should be able to be handled by software. Similar to how it is with other modchips.

[@yangashi]

Nice. Would love to see more videos about this.

[@NSHG]

Man, I'm eager to see PromOS running on the Modxo. More so if there's a way to chain-flash uf2s to run Cerbios along PromOS.

[@GoTeamScotch]

Sounds like that's the plan with PromOS. Using it to boot into other BIOSes, including Cerb.

[@kind2311]

Tito and Voultar's videos are my therapy.

[@annybodykila]

Sweet cant wait for lcd support

[@damian9303]

Pretty insane they ported the PicoBoot to OG Xbox