Playing on the Original Xbox Live 22 Years Later Is Incredible.

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It's been over 12 years since Xbox Live shut its doors for good, as microsoft shut it down on the Original Xbox. But after 2 decades, the Original 1.0 Xbox live is BACK thanks to some incredibly talented devs behind Project Insignia for the Original Xbox. Best part is, it works on both modded xbox, and completely stock xbox! And its just like it was back in 2002. I'm going to show you how to make an xbox live account, what the best playing games on insignia, and how to setup xemu on an emulator and even how to set it up on the steam deck! The original xbox live is nowaccessible to MUCH a wider audience, especially those who grew up with the original Xbox, and I can't wait for you to try it out.
Insignia's site: insignia.live/
0:00 Xbox live is BACK
1:45 What is Insignia?
2:57 Optional stuff to Make Setup Easier
6:04 A warning about Modding your Xbox
7:11 How to Register Insignia
7:38 Things you’ll need to Install Insignia
9:22 Installing the Exploit
11:12 Install Insignia on modded Xbox
11:47 Making an Xbox Live Account
12:54 What it’s like Playing Online!
16:37 How to get Insignia Running on Xemu/Steam Deck
19:26 Join the discord!
Links to optional stuff you might need (Affiliate!)
Xbox POUND Cable: amzn.to/3xsqHn1
Wingman XB2 Controller Adapter: amzn.to/3k22jWt
Powerline adapter (Seriously get the cheapest thing you can find): amzn.to/3YBjs8w
Stuff to do the Softmod:
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: ebay.us/pfMBzJ
Xbox to USB Adapter: amzn.to/3xuttbu
Old Flash Drive (sadly theyre only availible in bulk): amzn.to/3IuXzlq
Insignia Program: github.com/insignia-live/setu...
Xplorer360: www.360-hq.com/downloads-cat6...
If you get a DLL error for Xplorer360: / where_to_get_msvcr71dl...
Xbox Emulator: xemu.app/
Setting up Xemu Tutorial: • HOW TO INSTALL XEMU
EmuDeck for Steam Deck: www.emudeck.com/
Rocky5's softmodding tool: github.com/Rocky5/Xbox-Softmo...
Xbox Dashboard: github.com/Rocky5/Xbox-Softmo...
Filezilla can just be googled to be downloaded. On Steam Deck there's a flatpak in the discover store.
Credit to @KYOTKZbin for the footage: • What a Hard-Modded Xbo...
Join the Insignia Discord!!!
/ discord

[@DammitJeff]

Battlefront 2 remains undefeated in 2023 :) Go to piavpn.com/DammitJeff and get 83% off + 4 extra months FREE!

[@briancieiscki307]

What if you don't have a PC, but have a Macintosh instead? Any different steps for Macintosh.

[@realofficialdjdemmerneckgaming]

Is Project Insignia finally out of beta mode or is this video is what to come

[@driley1988]

​@@realofficialdjdemmerneckgaming not yet it's still in beta mode right now. Hopefully they'll fully release it sometime this year

[@ironhell808]

Insignia eh? I guess I don't need to invent the kai box then. What is the Kai Box? It was an fpga powered box that I designed but never built. What was it's job? It was a way to use xlink Kai without a pc, so you could do link games online. I never built it though, but thanks Jeff, cause your bit about insignia allowed me to remember and finally get credit for it nearly 20 years after in designed it! Anyone is free to make the kaibox to augment insignia if they'd want, I'd like a shout-out if you do....

[@MrPickleTits]

I'LL SEE YOU THERE!!! THIS IS SO DOPE!!!

[@CitrasFlava]

The old dashboard always had a mysterious feeling that was made stronger by the sounds.

[@listenerwhisperer]

The creepy ass menu Easter egg lol

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

The fact Halo and Brute Force were some of my first games made it feel even more alien

[@TheAnonymousIndividual]

Nothing has come close to the feeling of booting up your Original Xbox, hearing/seeing that iconic intro, hearing/seeing that menu, and playing Halo: Combat Evolved, Brute Force, Halo 2, and etc. What a time all of that was.

[@DANRYX]

It was like peering into the mind of a machine. I love it.

[@gmanshairline3060]

i remember the screen going dark when idle and i got so scared i had to hide until my parents came back

[@raymondjack]

Props to the programmers who remade Xbox live. Your passion is appreciated thank you.

[@ManuTheDeath]

Too bad there's 4000 registered users and you'll be lucky to find 10 people online. Since i registered 30days ago i was barely able to play some games with Counter Strike or Unreal and literally ZERO with other games (and i checked it daily if people do play them, even asked to play on its discord). It's a great project, damn great, but apparently people do not give a f being there and play with others. Also, searching and asking players inside the discord does not help find you people play, because there's no real care in it.

[@Davo_1991]

until microsoft probably gives them a cease and desist shortly unless there is some legal loophole they found and can't be touched on this..?.

[@Malyt538]

@@Davo_1991aslong as they ain’t getting payed for it Microsoft can’t do shit

[@classical_madness5926]

@@Davo_1991 They rebuilt the entire network from the ground up using their own code. I don't know if Microsoft could issue a cease and desist even if they wanted to.

[@ronsdad3736]

Absolutely. The real mvps

[@Whifferman]

I just played with you on Battlefront 2! It was fun being able to play with the guy whose tutorial I followed to perfection and everything worked! Thank you so much for the fun!

[@UNSCPILOT]

Great game too, still has space battles unlike its modern knockoff XD

[@ActivateBeastMode1]

Do the servers get full?

[@jackmarquette1351]

@@UNSCPILOT fr you’d think like 15 years later they would’ve improved but nah the original is just so much better

[@driley1988]

I didn't know much about online multiplayer back in the day so I missed out on it on Xbox/Ps2 days. This is really awesome and I hope insignia continues to grow more and more!

[@briancieiscki307]

Personally I thought the online experience on Dreamcast was better. People in data deserts could actually play these games, even back in 2001 to 2004

[@antikz3731]

I played PS2 Call of Duty 3 Online in 2009 or so. It was free so i could afford it as a poor kid lol i had young parents

[@finkamain1621]

I started playing online with Halo 2 back in 2005 and it's crazy how beating the games on Legendary actually helped when playing online against real people

[@SirLightsOut99]

I know that this video is mainly about restoring the old wild West era of Xbox live before everything was so heavily monetized, but I feel the need to point out that I really miss the old Xbox sound design. Just the aesthetic in general. All those futuristic beeps and robotic noises were so cool. I'll never understand why newer Xbox consoles never stuck with that.

[@Vagabondobiondo]

They were trying to appeal to "the whole family", all that weeb counter-culture crap that had everyone trying to make their console more like a media center + Wii. But OG Xbox represented an era that was dark and gritty and real; games had good writing and even better multiplayer, and... man, I'm an old man. But it was all corporate looking over the shoulders of the design team / artists and saying "No, I know how to make art better than you do. Make it look friendlier."

[@user-eg2ko3vx1f]

@@Vagabondobiondo Thats exactly how it went too. I still have my old Xbox and cant wait to get it back online again... I ran so many things on my Xbox and even had the samsung drive all hacked to run any game copies. I had a dualboot so i could run Linux on it too just because I could lol. Good times.. XBMC paved the road for Kodi too

[@petermuller161]

I remember the UI update on the 360. There were all these product tiles, it’s been pretty gross since then.

[@nomercyinc6783]

sound isnt an aesthetic. people use that word wrong constantly

[@Ratm4life]

I jus turned 34 like Two days ago. This truly was the GOLDEN Age of gaming. Ps2/ Ps3 era and the OG Xbox/ 360. Take me baaaaaaaack

[@iliketohike]

Halo 2 was a huge part of my childhood. Met some amazing people there.. I miss those days. When party chat was released, everything changed :(

[@taptradingcards1406]

Party chat killed meeting new people

[@SomeoneWitSkill]

Xbox live during that era was insane. I can't even describe it. My mom was a single parent, raising 3 kids, and we lived in a tiny cramped apartment that was technically a duplex. We had close to no money, but I begged my mom to get my xbox live, that woman not only got it for me, but let me use the internet modem to play (this was before the popularity of routers to allow wifi) and it was the best thing i have ever experienced. It was addicting how much fun it was.

[@jacobbaranowski]

I played OG Xbox, in lad partys because the internet was not as good as it is today. We had 5 TV's and 5 Xbox with Halo 2 and Star Wars Blatelfunt 2, good times. Now I can experience it online. Thanks for sharing.

[@slepyps]

I wasn't alive during the original Xbox era, but it sure looks as one to be highly sought after.

[@TheOldMachines]

It was the best of times

[@hyperhighdrosis]

@@MichaelM28 looked/felt cheaper as well and the specs also reflected that lol love ps2 games but they most multiplatform games look and run a bit bad compared to xbox & gamecube.

[@Redneck_Hero]

Good times those were

[@Redneck_Hero]

​@@MichaelM28bruh nobody gives a damn

[@SuperFlashDriver]

@@MichaelM28 Minus that you had to buy a separate hard drive and a modem connector, which used telephone cables or small ethernet cables instead of actual ethernet cables similar to the first xbox console (Xbox One/Xbox 2001, not to be confused with Xbox One/Xbox Three/Xbox 2013).

[@grumpywolfgaming]

wow, thank you so much for sharing this. I spent sooo much of my college years in the early 2000s playing xbox live, splinter cell pandora tomorrow, chaos theory, rainbow six, ghost recon. This was legit my favorite console ever made.

[@trel4504]

Same! Pandora tomorrow and rainbow six 3 black arrow was so much fun

[@HolyChad]

I found my first copy of it my dad bought from a buybacks in 2003 and have yet to stop playing it. Penthouse stealth mission still gives me nightmares though lol

[@grumpywolfgaming]

@@HolyChad the online spy vs merc was where this game was at.

[@user-ev5md5sz9x]

Yooo spy vs merc was AMAZINGGG

[@bankruptsee]

The PlayStation 2 logo on the Audi you were racing with is pretty funny to see

[@Laynel8]

I was looking through the comments to see if anyone had pointed this out and yeah that's definitely a very unique way of doing product placement, paste your logos while you're playing on a competitor's game system 😂

[@JinzoFiter]

7:07 I'd be interested in a vid like that. As someone who's scared shitless of opening up consoles, but recognizes that it'd be a useful skill, I think your very informative, easy-to-follow style would suit it well.

[@alexisvillanueva1916]

Thankfully whats nice about our modern time is that there is sooo much information online about how to go about it. definitely pick up an electronics tool set and dont be afraid to try!

[@nomercyinc6783]

how can opening a device with screws be scary. everything on earth is literally replaceable

[@E3T7]

@@alexisvillanueva1916my fear is that I’ll loose all my game progress on my Xbox… I’m trying to find a way to copy my game saves to my pc but even then idk if they’ll work on another xbox I get

[@alexisvillanueva1916]

@@E3T7 You can pull your harddrive/SSD storage device out and put it to the side while working on the console. I dont know if the xbox has built in storage but it would be worth checking to see if you can transfer all your data to a separate USB stick or to your drive inside your xbox and pull it out. You could also try swapping that drive to another xbox and see if it'll boot your information and game saves. The 360 was able to do that so Imagine newer consoles can as well.

[@E3T7]

@@alexisvillanueva1916 Nah dude this is the Original Xbox, not a newer console.

[@SweatyBallsSuck]

How love how straight forward and informative this video is. Good pace, not overwheling with information. You went above and beyond. Great job 👍. You've earned yourself a subscriber.

[@slurpeyatari]

Oh man. This brings back so many great memories. I signed up on launch day and kept the same gamer tag for 15 years.

[@NFSINSANE]

Hit me right in the feels. Still remember working all summer with my bro painting houses to buy my first XBOX at Best Buy

[@paulcarmi8130]

You have a great username brother

[@SI0AX]

How many houses did you have to paint to afford an Xbox? Where you working for a company or was your bro the business owner?

[@paulcarmi8130]

@@SI0AX in the early 2000s money was worth more, so let’s ballpark it at 100 houses. OP didn’t respond to me so I wouldn’t expect much 😂

[@nickdavila4454]

@@paulcarmi8130 chill 100? You were getting 5$ a house?😫😫 fuck it

[@paulcarmi8130]

@@nickdavila4454 I’m not the OP, I was guessing what the OP made. Ain’t never painted houses, def not what I would do for money. Paint smells awful 😂😂

[@HazyJ28]

Great video. I appreciate very much how you focused not just on the multiplayer service, but the *whole experience* , from controllers, to picture output. Well done.

[@alexamonbebe]

I could listen to you talk for hours lol you have such a great voice for voice over work! Love your videos!

[@MMOchAForPrez]

My man, +1 on every accessory you suggested. Doing a couple upgrades to your setup makes old consoles easier to enjoy.

[@You-gk1el]

They need to get everyone addicted to it and then open up a patron and start earning the money they really deserve for this. This is amazing right here and brings back so much NASTALGIA

[@hankhill5622]

I would totally be down for a group who regularly plays halo 2 on the og xbox.

[@You-gk1el]

@@hankhill5622 yea dude that would be so awesome I’m down too man. These were the days when a game was complete day one, no skins or pay to play perks and shit. No woke shit shoved down your throat just a game and your friends. But on the topic of a patron I don’t see how this is going to be consistently sustainable for the guys who are doing this. Yes they may enjoy and don’t mind doing it for free now but eventually if s bunch of people catch on to this and it becomes popular I would imagine they would have to expand they’re servers and “stuff up” to keep up with the new member approvals as well as having someone managing updates and tweaks to the system. But I’m sure they are already on this

[@fivebrosstopmos]

​@@You-gk1el I would figure they're already using volunteer servers.

[@lildude6906]

I wonder if Microsoft would have something to say and file a lawsuit?

[@fivebrosstopmos]

@@lildude6906 I doubt they'll bother, as long as the devs aren't getting any profit, it's not worth the lawyer fees and bad pr.

[@odsonic]

Wow...Man I'm impressed by the quality/information in your channel..it's very professional looking

[@ADOSMOORINOS]

14:40 this part had me throwing my arms up in the air like Chewbacca. Haven't felt an excitement like this in a while, getting to play old games online is nostalgic and new to me at the same time. like I'm taking a dip into a time I wasn't around for.

[@DerkuiDerkui]

Wow! Thanks for all the links and suggestions for an OG Xbox like the HDMI cable and controller cable. I have an OG Xbox and I still use it a lot. Very helpful!

[@snkfan7506]

Great video. Wow, I feel old. Still have my original Xbox that I bought in 2004 (took me a few years to get one) when I was 25. Lol. I'll be 44 this year. Have had to replace the disc drive a few times, but my system still works. Thanks for the tip on the Pound adapter. I run my Xbox system on a CRT tv but definitely want to try that adapter.

[@SlammedZero]

Dang, watching this video takes me back. There are times I really wish I never got rid of my original Xbox. I realize you can probably go out and buy them still, but it would have been cooler to have kept mine. I would love to go back and play some NFS Underground 1 & 2, for starters. Also, your comment in the video about not being able to sprint in COD, that happened to me with Halo. After years of not playing it, I hopped back in one day and was blown away that we never had sprinting back then. lol

[@superdataa]

Hey man, there is times that I regret getting rid of my Nintendo 2DS, your not the only one lol

[@dhoome1234ify]

8:46 It uses USB 2.0 flash drives, so I'd recommend the following: Cruzer Blade from SanDisk (the iconic red and black version) Adata C008 (retractable blue and white) Kodak Mini Metal K122 Hopefully that'll come in handy later.

[@SI0AX]

So it's just needs to be 2.0? The size doesn't matter? What about formatting the drive to make it seem like it's smaller to the Xbox?

[@dhoome1234ify]

@@SI0AX the size matters, considering that something more than 4gigs is unrecognizable since flash drives were hella expensive per gigabyte at that time.

[@bigredmoet]

Can I take out my old music thats saved with that wire also?

[@dhoome1234ify]

​@@bigredmoet I guess yes.

[@djluxoflux]

Dude this video was so well done. I dont intend on playing Xbox live and I still watched your video from beginning to end. Nice work 😀

[@redscarf9922]

6:34 that dash that guy has looks sooo good

[@BiGJak3]

Awesome video man. Appreciate the effort you put in to this!

[@AutoAbsolute]

Great vid, I still have the software to rip CDs to the Xbox hdd. Fond memories of renting games from Blockbuster and ripping them after school

[@SolitaryBro]

@Dammit Jeff, I am featured in your video in TOCA "Cpl Killa V"... Nice to have met you ingame!. The bit where you are talking about "Live Chat" 15:43 is so funny! We've been trying to understand him for weeks 🤣.... Great video!

[@E3T7]

Is toca race driver 3 work good for multiplayer or nah? That’s the one I have

[@ZeroTraceOperative]

Awesome! It's crazy that at 3:43 we remember the original quality looking like the right side, but in reality it looked a lot closer to the left side through those older TVs.

[@zk0rned]

Dammit, Jeff why didn't you tell me this sooner

[@sd8213]

Man the online looks absolutley perfect ! Everyone talking, laughing having fun playing games just like the good old days

[@BAAa-tw7lo]

So envious. I had a Xbox with 160gb HDD and lots of games installed, emulators, don't remember the ROM software it was running but it made me the coolest kid on the block when everyone else had Gamecubes and PS2's... My unit sadly stopped working, likely due to the issue power caps that were leaky or something, that I read about just a few years ago? I really miss it. Thanks for this video!

[@thomasgallegos1370]

7:09 yes! I love the way u explained things in this video so a separate video about ur take on the modding would be fantastic

[@dhoome1234ify]

When Dammit Jeff uploads a video: The Return of The King.

[@paulgaither]

Xbox supported component cables, not just red white yellow. You can force your Xbox into HD mode as well, which upscales the 480 games into 720. I have uploaded game play of NCCA football that is recorded raw from my console, not an emulator, and they are in 720.

[@tinkerfreak4602]

I've never seen your channel before, glad I found it , very useful and you explained everything in a simple way ,thanks alot 👍🏽.... can't wait to play Xbox live once a again 🤜🏽🤛🏽

[@retrorobbgaming]

Wow, this is awesome!! I’m so excited to jump back into online :)

[@flareblitz2466]

THE LEGEND IS BACK

[@_remblanc]

WiFi adapter should work since WiFi routers are backwards compatible with wifi receivers as long as it is on 2.4GHz band (still widespread), but don’t expect speeds to be amazing

[@CollinJosephNeal]

Awesome video thanks for sharing all the details and the Wingman Converter, thats epic!

[@majinvipergaming]

Thanks Jeff. I have the same controller you do. After a Wingman XB, A 8bitdo adapter (both 1 & 2), I finally saw your video and now I'm golden for my controller. Good work.

[@NerdNest]

The difference between the AV to HDMI and the Pound upscale is nuts.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

The AV2HDMI is using the lowest quality video signal(composite), the Pound converter is internally using the best - Component video(similar quality to VGA), which supports 480p and HD with games that support it(which may be available on more games with a modded Xbox, much like a modded PS2 allows HD output for many more games). It would be impossible for even the highest end composite video converter to match it.

[@jynx9478]

Hearing those sounds again.. Gives so much Nostalgia. Appreciate that big time..

[@LonghornsLegend]

Syncing up a new controller is next level man. I still have and use .y modded Xbox frequently so this makes me feel better about it since I never knew this trick. The pound cable on a 4k TV makes Xbox look really solid

[@obamna9657]

I would love a video about making PS2 Online

[@derekmarshall5659]

Bro. I have had my Modded Xbox for two years now and it is awesome. And now thanks to your advice for the HDMI adapter for the Xbox, in the adapter to use my Xbox series controller on the OG Xbox it's even better now. I've been hopping online having a great time.

[@DammitJeff]

THIS is how it’s done!! Modded + HDMI + Insignia is the ELITE Xbox setup!!

[@derekmarshall5659]

@@DammitJeff My copy of NFL 2K5 looks amazing with this setup as well. Thanks again.

[@user-eg2ko3vx1f]

You got yourself a new subscriber man! thank you very much for this information.. my buddies will be stoked about this ability for us to play our old games again online from our original Xbox's. Thanks for posting!

[@clcAirsoft]

fantastic video bro! gave me so much nostalgia

[@daydream605]

A similar thing happens to the psp. We were only able to use ad-hoc features in some games, but some clever boy figured out how to route the traffic to a server to enable online play in games such as monster hunter, Tiger Woods, killzone, nfs. I remember back in the day before 3g when I'd literally have to walk down the streets of a rough neighbourhood just to find a small WiFi signal to download a cheat page or CWCHEAT. Then I became a script kiddy.

[@aydenmowatt4079]

you should make that xbox maintenance video. i knew about the clock capacitors but not about any of the other maintenance stuff

[@adrianpadilla5963]

This was really cool, i didn't think it was possible to do this anymore. New sub !!

[@makuIa]

what monitor do you use Jeff? the comfortable pace of your videos make it so easy & enjoyable to watch

[@AnimalTruk]

Awesome video! You should cover the PlayStation 2 online side too! If there even is anyone still playing online over there lol.

[@davetech356]

This would be nice I bet there is something similar I'm more into emulation on android but looking into this side aswell.

[@TargetHHH101]

Got me interested in the pound converters, Ive looked into a few and reviews are hit and miss but the side by side comparison is nice. Currently I have my ps4 on my smart tv and my childhood crt tv next to it for my ps1/ps2 n64 and og xbox. $40 bucks a pop for the convenience of only using 1 tv isnt too hateful. Granted I dont need it since my setup is a matter of sliding over 2 feet to a different screen but still nice to see its an option.

[@JoeFromCanada93]

So you’re telling me games fill every night ? I’m back

[@latinokid33]

Great channel and well presented. Love it. Don't change...

[@reee9904]

Really enjoyed this channel!

[@THE-ICON]

Jeff you are the freaking best your production to me is and has always been awesome your voice is incredible it's very pleasing to the ears your mannerisms attitude the way you carry yourself is just very professional and cool you deserve a million subscribers because that's how you carry yourself even from earlier days and now and your information is so well documented and well thought out and very helpful for anybody to do anything that you're doing so much love continued success and I support you all the way thank you very much

[@DavenHiskey]

Crushing

[@UenoLocker54]

OG live was literally the most fun gaming has ever been and even being back now I doubt the feelings can be replicated, because it was so new and amazing on release.

[@ocis]

yeah they won’t be the same again in my opinion, that to all of us was “futuristic” and all the game developers was doing something different, now it all just feels like copy n paste n overpriced shit

[@evi-vw]

14:28 Man... the memories. I had a modded xbox with the EvoX dashboard and a 250gb hdd. I used to play CS on kai link for hours and hours. The only sad thing was for most the day there was 0 people online, and maybe 25 at absolute peak.

[@SGTRandleOneOne]

That was a REALLY good video. Earned another sub.

[@J.Wick.]

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EXCELLENT VIDEO! Quality content, as usual from this channel! ---I was 19-20 when OG XBL started up. It was sooo awesome, and for the most part, just worked great. I had busted my ass working 2 FT jobs at the time, and was still living with my Pop. So I had the money. Had a PS2, GC, and Xbox. XBL made the OG XBOX my platform of choice at the time for sure. Especially with it's exclusives, and nearly all 3rd party on it was rivaling the PC of the day for supreme version. Add XBL on top and it was thEE shit. Several XBL games of the era got my attention, but the one I came back time and time again for, was PGR 2. LOVED that game. So disappointed that they haven't figured out a way to reboot/remake the PGR series after Bizarre Creations went out. It's a fun game on it's own, but it was HIGHLY tied into OG XBL. LEaderboards, Time Trials, Lobbies, etc. Despite still being fun, it always felt like 40% of the game was missing without having XBL available any longer...... I've been hearing/reading about this for around a year now. After seeing this, I feel I have to do this now lol.... PGR2 needs me, and I it. An all-time favorite of mine. Crimson Skies was another great, Rainbow Six 3, Battlefront 2 etc. MAKE PGR GAMES GREAT AGAIN! lol. Cheers.

[@Jared199503]

I got a crystal Xbox for Christmas in 2004. It came with Fable and Crimson Skies… crimson skies was so cool but Fable became my obsession for a few years. I learned to beat the game in less than 5 hours. It was something I’d do at sleepover parties when we stayed up all night playing Xbox. We’d also have LAN parties playing Halo 2 with 8 people, 4 to an Xbox and tv, with a sheet secured to the ceiling to divide the room so we couldn’t “screen peak”. Man, we had so much fun.

[@Rakoah]

This video just gave me so much nostalgia. I'll never forget coming home one day to my dad showing off the new xbox he bought and he got xbox live the same day. Even though I was already very familiar with video games at this point (N64, Sega Genesis) I believe the Xbox Live Era is what really turned me into a life long gamer. What an absolutely amazing era of video gaming

[@goodtimeenthusiast7213]

the old crunchy voice chat always makes my day better man. great times they were.

[@DMMDestroyer]

Thanks for putting all this together and the amount of info. Now I just need to fix my system (it was modded with an actual chip and EvoX hardware) that needs opened and a orange light flashing issue. Thankfully the clock capacitor was removed along ago, so it's not that. I won't have access to it again with the proper tools for another month (hopefully). I was able to get it run when I last plugged it in December, but the HDD had games missing. It was a launch day system so hopefully it's salvageable.

[@XBC3-4GOTY]

Nice you have the Xbox 20th Anniversary Controller

[@ScorpioCesarcade]

This was one of the easiest to follow tutorials on how to get Insignia up and running! Thank you! Can't wait to get back online!

[@agent136]

AWESOME video. You are really indepth, but practical. Straight to the point. Fav'd.

[@davidalonzo706]

omg im so happy this pop out in my FYP. Seen this video brought tears to my eyes. Now i can finally play crimson sky once again!

[@catcherinthepie3846]

That's the best looking game library scroll feature I have ever seen on an OG Xbox. I've never seen that before. What kind of mod is that at 6:27 ???!!!

[@redscarf9922]

Thats called the Origins dashboard. The best dashboard you can have for a modded original Xbox that is also an emulator. There's a link to the video in this description where the guy talks about Origins. I just watched it, it's amazing.

[@redsnow579]

I hope you're prepared for an influx of subscriptions

[@noextrevious6887]

I am so thankful you told us about the Pound HD cable... the quality of the AV adapter was so bad I didn't even want to play my old Xbox

[@gks554]

You just made life easier for me by introducing me to these hardware tools. Thank!!! Quick question, can I use the powerline adapter to connect to xlink application? Will that work?

[@WindRipples-]

This is really amazing stuff! I bet the 14 people that do this will really enjoy playing together.

[@YouVSMeTV]

Dammit Jeff, you truly are a gigachad.

[@YouVSMeTV]

@hfgddfdfdh Do you think a man is only the sum of his skeletal system? What a poor summary of what makes a great man. His mind, his heart and his intention speaks volumes towards the greatness within.

[@RhysticStudies]

the original Xbox and Xbox Live changed my life. some of my best memories come from those winters learning halo 2 glitches with friends online.

[@docnotL]

Microsoft renamed Xbox live to "Xbox Network" which sounds so corporate and boring. I miss the orange "Live" logo they used back in the original Xbox and Xbox 360 days, it's so nostalgic to me. I still remember the orange dvd cases that the Xbox Live cards came in back in the early 360 days, they looked so cool but also seemed like a waste of plastic haha. (EDIT: I found one I had saved complete with the card inside and everything which is pretty cool) That's probably why they later switched to cardboard cases. (I don't know if the plastic DVD cases was a EU only thing)

[@84RX]

Dammit Jeff, you should get a group of people together on a server, vote on a game & setup a time so everyone can play together. Insignia only has 20 users active max daily. You could be the reason that number hits 100 in one day.

[@themissinfowar6629]

I would just stick to XLink Kai since it has nearly 100 active users. The most popular game is Halo 2 on original XBOX 😆

[@6godmikey]

I was too young and my family was not well off back when the Xbox was popping, so I never got to play it or any consoles rly; just was watching friends play until the PS4 when I bought it late in it's life cycle. This video is making me consider to get an Xbox and enjoy those legendary multiplayer games I never got to play :') thanks for posting this video!

[@Ritzer168]

This looks sick! I'm super tempted to get another Xbox to test this out.

[@WUGH]

What about a ps3 one science the gte 5 servers are closed

[@Microwave414]

For me, if you're going to play original xbox, you use the duke. Yeah it's massive but is somehow comfortable and ergonomic while being comically huge and I do have small hands so that says something to how they managed to recover from that blunder when making the PCBs. With hyperkin remaking the dukes I suppose you could have an original and new controller experience still with that adapter which is... interesting actually. I kind of hope microsoft allows for this to somehow work on xbox one, series and as if this is not already a long shot but somehow manages to squeeze in an update for the 360 to work with this method. That would be something to behold.

[@CalumRaasay]

God this brings back memories, I need to dig out my old xbox now!

[@superdataa]

Its funny how much xbox has changed over the years, especially considering how Xbox started and the journey to being in such a competitive market.

[@kanesnewzealandcamfootageo49]

If this works I trying it

[@udance4ever]

@16:55 can't wait to give these instructions a shot - so amazing it is possible to get Xemu online like this!

[@MikeyFa5]

Now I can live a childhood dream in my 20s :') Thank you so much for this!!! Already have the usb and just need the controller to usb adapter and finally.... play OG XBL!!!!

[@PLAXIS93]

That’s so dope man !

[@MikeyDunksMusic]

You just forced me to sub dude. You're fawking awesome. I found 2 OG xbox's in my house rn (i have no idea how that happened, lol). DEFINITELY going to try this!

[@seanhettenbach2101]

In the mid 2000's, i used to play battlefront II online. I would play on various servers, but i few servers became my home. After llaying for a handfull of months, i started to gain a bit of recognition. I wasnt that great woth the shotty class or the grunt class, but i was getting really good with the sniper class. Eventually i befriended a group of guys who were always good competition, a few of them a part of MOH, a couple from JOD and one of the guys from SOF. Anyways, one day i was in their server hanging out, and these guys were having a conversation about some drama within the clans, and I just happened to be absolutely shitting that day. After that one of the guys said they "should pick me up". I didnt know what they were talking about, but apparently, MOH had been having some fueding. See, MOH was the top clan. They were something like 100 or 200 something and 0. Undefeated in clan battles. Well they were having some feud within their clan, and a couple of their best players left the clan and started their own called COS. They then went on to grab the top players from the other clans and basically made a god squad. Well a couple of these guys were the ones i was talking about. So they had me 1v1 one of the guys, his name was aXle, formally MOH, and i held my own, but didnt beat him. Apparently that was enough though, they asked me to join their team and i said sure. They then proceeded to teach me everything. From gun skill to strats, and then came the day we started our clan battles domination. We would go on to deliver MOH their first loss, and then we went on to win every tournament and monthly team point race. Last i remembered we were something like 302-0. I didnt play in every one of those games, but I participated in probably like 30 of them. But those were my fondest times on that game. I was like maybe 11 or 12, and I owe probably most of fps skill i had after that to those guys.

[@buffering7612]

Thank you Star Labs & you especially Cisco aka Vibe

[@TommyMurphy999]

Wow thank you for this buddy, I'll be definitely getting my old bad boy back online.

[@TheRealHusk]

I’ve been using power line adapters for years and it’s literally the only way for me to get internet on my PC. It feels like such an old technology, but it’s so useful.

[@xbox627]

what a well made video ....I am subscribing now

[@KhemZombi3]

I set it all up, and i am ecstatic. This brings me back

[@WolfyRagnarok]

Still have my xbox from launch day. I've had to replace the optical drive 8 times, along with the cpu fan, case fan, power supply, and one of the daughter boards, but the motherboard is still original. So cool to see Xbox Live make a return.

[@man_made_marsupial]

Ps3 is still running as well. Very surprised.

[@tylergreer6098]

I've been watching a lot of tutorials regarding soft modding and I would honestly love to see a video from you regarding that topic.