How to Install Cerbios BFM on a Softmodded Original Xbox!

[@GoTeamScotch]

You've been killing it lately with the og Xbox coverage! 👏

[@MrMario2011]

Thanks, dude! Been a blast.

[@PacMaster]

Awesome video man! Would love to see you continue to cover the OG Xbox and Cerbios in the future. Maybe even a video of you making a Cerbios Xbox build or something like that.

[@johnricharddowling3276]

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you Sir for making it easier for us. Being a good teacher is a talent to be appreciated.

[@deansmith6924]

Nice video as always. The OG and 360 Xbox will never die and new things still coming out for them.

[@XeCuTioNR]

Tbh i might wait for rocky to update his kit for my spare softmod but this is very welcome to see. Thanks homie 💗

[@MrMario2011]

Why wait? He already updated 1.2.1 to support ENDGAME, I doubt he would integrate something like this as he likes to have things pretty standardized.

[@flyingwings4740]

Will be following this as i have a number of xboxes with older softmods i would like to update to CerbiosBFM......Well explained and easy to follow guide...Cheeers

[@MrMario2011]

Have fun!

[@mannduro]

Oh how i miss my OG Xbox. My CF mod. My FAN mod. My USB mod. My great time playing Burnout 3 and Ninja Gaiden on an HD (720p1080i) CRT I regret selling all of my sweet devices

[@MrMario2011]

Never too late to get another one, I bet you can do all those mods even better a second time 🙂

[@CAPITANxMARVEL]

All ways the best tutorials thank you

[@victorias-z5t]

Thia ia great as i have bought like 6 memory cards and splitter cells as losing them. I wanted to max out an og xbox again . Impressive i can still do the hard drive swap without buying a game now. Love this as emulator machine

[@foxylove4436]

11:54 I installed the wrong kernel version, and my XBox was only able to play XBox games. Else my XBox freezes at boot and I couldn't access the the dashboard. So I softbricked my XBox. I was able to connect to my XBox with Fillezilla. The problem came from the "xbox info.txt"; the kernel version was wrong. I edited the file, and I copied the file back to my system. My XBox is able to boot again.

[@BobsChannelYT]

Def emphasis on check your ms dash kernel! It will softbrick you if not! You can recover using a pico to grab the eeprom and an old PC that has IDE support but it's a hell of a process lol. Also tsop flash is your best bet, go for it if you can as first option.

[@MrMario2011]

Absolutely. I believe I saw you post on the original thread? Custom Dashboards and applications might not report the correct Kernel, so the best option is to use the tried and true MS Dash.

[@epia125]

So if I understand it correctly you should update the dashboard to 5960 prior to installing cerbios BFM if you plan on using insignia? What is the order of operations if upgrading to a larger HDD? Install this first on the original drive and then clone to the larger drive or install larger drive and then install cerbios?

[@kghhgkgk6322]

Been messing with this for hours. Trying to upgrade to cerbios from unleashX. Tried multiple ftp clients, all of them fail differently. Whatever files I do successfully get over to the xbox must not be enough because running the installer just gives me a black screen.

[@karlbernd977]

Thanks for the good instructions. I have a question. Could you make a video on how to get from Cerbios back to the original state of the Xbox?

[@LIU-jl9kp]

I did all the steps, but when I restarted the system it gave me a black screen and did not work again. Can you help me?

[@puffinpuffinov8471]

Can you make video how to replace hdd for 1tb(for example) with this softmod?

[@MrMario2011]

Process is the same across Softmod consoles

[@Goodgamer78]

With the latest release of the softmod, UX and XBMC are bundled into one, and XBMC is the default. Do you have an idea of how I can set UX to the default?

[@FeelTheVoid]

Upgrading your drive to a larger drive instructions still the same or different with this soft mod?

[@MrMario2011]

Same

[@FeelTheVoid]

@mrmario2011 Would you happen to know why chimp causes my Xbox to power off when I start it? I upgrade my hard drive because of this.

[@allisoxbox]

Thank You, i have an old v1.6b wich cannot be tsoped. Hopefully with this method I can send over ftp ISO's that currently doesn't let me transfer cuz the 4Gb limit

[@MrMario2011]

I believe that won't change since that would be a limitation of the FATX format? To my recollection, ISO files over 4GB are split.

[@allisoxbox]

@@MrMario2011 I already have an xbox v1.1 with tsop cerbios 1MB, I'm currently sending over ftp ISO's like conker (4.5GB) The Suffering ties thar bond (4.53GB) MC dub Remix (4.5Gb) no problems so far but with this softmodded v1.6b cerbios and xbmc4gmaers last build it will always tranfer only 4.gb in total, even if I touch te option "AutofatX limiter" to off It's weird , tsoped xbox v1.1 let me transfer files over 4GB while the softmodded v1.6b wont.

[@Mchenrygames]

thanks a lot. Much appreciated.

[@MrMario2011]

You're welcome!

[@majestic2876]

Question, even with "No DVD" selected I still get error 12 when booting without it.. am I missing something? Or does this feature only apply to hardmodded consoles

[@MrMario2011]

Correct, you cannot make use of that on a softmodded console.

[@majestic2876]

@MrMario2011 Good to know, guess I'll hop onto a Tsop flash, I'll check out your video on that, appreciate the quick reply

[@linuxuser2012]

Hello sir can you make a video how to upgrade the hard drive whit cerbios softmod thanks in advance

[@MrMario2011]

Same process as before.

[@cien0000]

Good vídeos :)

[@bomb447]

I actually reset my 3TB to factory last night and tried this, and can finally use it all. 2.72TB free after the install. I'm installing the full 1044 CCI set now, am curios how much space will be left for emulator packs and homebrew, or if 4TB is better suited.

[@MrMario2011]

Awesome!

[@CAsh4kiDZ]

Great to hear. My plan as well. Looking forward to your feedback.

[@bomb447]

@@CAsh4kiDZ After installing all my emulator packs, homebrew and the 1058 CCI set, I had 100GB free on F. I plan on making a 4TB build with everything, including every Kiosk and OXM Demo discs.

[@darenturner9661]

hey my kernel is 1.00.5004.67. Im guessing I can't install cerbios then.

[@MrMario2011]

Correct, unfortunately. I would not continue.

[@jasongrubb936]

5004.67 is ind bios so I'm assuming your Xbox is already modded

[@Zenon00007]

Hi,do you know what’s happened to the link for cerbios ???…seems gone..🤔

[@MrMario2011]

Cerbios is still out there with no issue

[@petertribe3202]

Any chance you can cover Setting up PrometheOS?

[@RobertDAmours-g7x]

Can you use the Hazeno drive builds with this after the softmod possibly?

[@MrMario2011]

Nope, those are intended for custom BIOS

[@bomb447]

I used his guide, but instead of preloading C and E in FatX, I made backups of my C and E after I installed Cerbios BFM. Once I formatted the hdd to Cerbios using FatX, I simply moved over my backups and it worked. I tested UDMA 5, and it indeed works on a BFM.

[@everdaywonderz]

So I installed xbox dashboard, how do I load insignia now? Do I do the usb softmod trick while in the original dashboard? This means I would also need to load halo 2 from disc and I can't boot it from the hard drive?

[@MrMario2011]

Watch my Insignia tutorial.

[@everdaywonderz]

@@MrMario2011 ya I have but that tutorial doesn't mention this mod. I worry here because there is a warning here and I'm not sure how to launch insignia safely using this mod. I did install the dash like you recommended. Just not sure what to do exactly to not break the mod but also play insignia

[@everdaywonderz]

@@MrMario2011 okay for example. I done all of this, now when I launch halo 2, it says can't reach xbox live. OKay so I launch xbox dashboard and it says my DNS is the default, so I change it and then it connects to insignia. But once I exit xbox dash to load the custom dash to load h2, it says, it can't connect to xbox live, I then run the troubleshooter, and once again, the dns is set to automatic. So I can't seem to get the DNS to stick.

[@everdaywonderz]

@@MrMario2011 well to give an update, I had to set static ip and dns everywhere

[@mannduro]

Is there any way to reduce the OG OS RAM use ? Intention: make room for larger Arcade roms. and of course for general use.

[@MrMario2011]

Is it possible? Probably. Is it feasible? Most likely not, most folks would rather just increase the RAM on board.

[@mannduro]

@@MrMario2011 I was wondering if there was a solution to inject a tiny OS, so one could get more out of the limitations given by the RAM conditions. I guess nobody would make something like this.

[@bomb447]

If you have 1080i enabled, disabling it would help. 720p looks just fine and 1080i makes the xbox feel sluggish.

[@mannduro]

​@@bomb447yes. That did help actually. I had an HD CRT and 720p was looking pretty fine . Great actually

[@igorvovchanchyn8365]

now my xbox become so loud,.it remember me my fat ps3 when was overheated,. there's a way to undo this?, i can't stand the noise

[@bomb447]

Could be your fan speed. You'd need to modify your Cerbios.ini file on your C partition. Just need Notepad/Notepad++. It's very easy.

[@igorvovchanchyn8365]

@@bomb447 the unleash dashboard has a weird configuration when i put the fan speed in 1x the fan goes to 5x ,. lets see if with the ini i can fix this

[@9899Snake]

Hi... Is there a way to remove cerbios Xbox boot animation?

[@MrMario2011]

Nope.

[@CarsandCats]

Great video! I will save this one for when I upgrade my hard drive. Does anyone know which SSD's are lockable?

[@bomb447]

A modern sata hdd/ssd should have no issue locking, it's gonna be the sata adapter where you'll encounter issues. The Startech is recommended. I put an old 60GB OCZ Agility II in one of mine a few weeks ago and worked fine. Seek times are a noticeable improvement, feels very responsive now.

[@owenthekid2986]

can i use this with uix lite?

[@MrMario2011]

Yep!

[@kwero9924]

the only problem with Cerbios for me, is that it dosn't support scart

[@MrMario2011]

RIP, but why not use Component or one of the many HDMI adapters out there? You can go with those once you unlock HD resolutions on a PAL console.

[@kwero9924]

@@MrMario2011already tought of that, but I wanted to connect my Xbox to my CRT and the one i have currently only has Scart and composite, but now that i think about that maybe it isn't a bad idea after all to connect it to my normal tv via a hdmi adapter like you suggested

[@IceDelight]

Wish I'd known this before I went through the video and installed it. Got a blank screen on my CRT now. If I replace the new 21585554 folder with the old one, will it revert my Xbox back to the old softmod?

[@simmat6419]

OXB..... so much nestalgia

[@MrMario2011]

We out here.