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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@ModzvilleUSA]

Fantastic video brotha!

[@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

[@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.

[@libcrypt98]

"I'll do it myself!" -Shalx, 2024 - probably.

[@alexwinger]

@@libcrypt98 Yup, but in spanish

[@aftdawn]

10 seconds ago, damn i'm early

[@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.

[@retrogaming3gp]

Ok, let’s see what we have here

[@Palendrome]

0:25 bro how your xbox doin a flip

[@thewondersock3818]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@MrBlingBlingNr1]

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

[@WesMakesStuff]

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

[@NerdyWeaponXGames]

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

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@DaussPlays]

I'm confused by the first couple minutes of the video. There's *plenty* of open source chips and software for the original xbox. This is far from the first.

[@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

[@GameGhoul13]

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

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Og xbox 🤝 Nintendo Switch

[@antiWhiteism777]

@machonachoproductions --- What does this chip let you do that the Xbox doesn't already?

[@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 :)

[@pomuhgranate4232]

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

[@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.

[@HIMVAIO]

What is the difference between this raspberry pie mod chip and the project stellar mod chip?

[@mtohrw]

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

[@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.

[@hawkfeather6802]

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

[@dzltron]

I absolutely love ModzvilleUSA, dude is so talented

[@nutter-world]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@yaq3b]

early

[@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.

[@MrGoemon1]

ModzvilleUsa🤌🤌🤌

[@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!

[@TheCod3r]

Flux has left the chat

[@folgee7368]

Plan on doing this once open source hdmi is available

[@KillingBytes]

a mod chip for the wii u would be great fpr 5 ghz wifi to stream 3ds and other stuff. Or a connection beetween melon ds or citra and the wii u

[@alexdanciu5107]

i wsih a ps2 modchip powered by raspberry pi pico

[@perkulant4629]

So cool I have plenty of pico boards and plenty of resistors

[@joncleary8896]

So why do this? What does it do? How is this any different for the end user than a soft mod?

[@mattrogers6646]

Soft mod only allows burned games to play. Hard mod allows Cerbios with drives over 1TB; you can have every game on an SSD.

[@Soonjai]

This all sounds incredible. But wouldn´t it make sense to install the USB Breakout board in a way that you have USB Acces without having to disassemble the console to update the Software or install a different BIOS, or am I missing something about the update process here?

[@HYBRID_BEING]

Considering that a year ago you called Project Stellar "end-all, be-all add-on" it's kinda surprising you didn't mention it at all here 😐

[@adhd_projects]

Anyone know a reliable place to get the Pico Tiny? I can’t find an official one anywhere. I’d do a regular pico but I want it to look nice on the LPC. Especially since I need to rebuild it (1.6 of course 🙄

[@Screwheili]

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

[@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.

[@SoundToxin]

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

[@James_D.]

That is truly a game changer! 🤩

[@DeathBaseTURBO]

I'm surprised they didn't design it so you use the xbox controller memory card slot and do a soft mod through the save game to load, Then again I don't know what xbox games are capable of doing that, especially if you don't have any games for what ever reason

[@RivasJonathan775]

Imagine if Raspberry Pi could work on PS3 to make PS2 backward-compatibility 🤔

[@GalaxyStandard77]

Will someone please give the Xbox360 softmodding or even hardmodding scene a help? I feel like no one cares about the 360 :(

[@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 😂

[@Wobble2007]

I've been waiting for the perfect mod for the OGXB, so much potential inside that box, q chipset that adds native VGA & HDMI, with 240p, 480p, 720p native rendering modes, and 960p and 1440p integer line double or pixel repetition scale modes, I'd love to see 3:2 or 16:10 aspect modes too. But the potential for adding the ability to use Live CD versions of Windows 98Se for instance, if the mod unlocks the ability to install more RAM, this single weak spot of the OGXB, this would make the OGXB the perfect classic PC gaming machine, given the Xbox not only has a really nice PIII 733Mhz (upgradeable to 1.4Ghz Copermine I believe), but that Nvidia GF3 GPU makes any PC game playable up to around 2002 or so (the NV2A ASIC is closer to GF4 performance, or say GF3.5), and best of all, the OGXB has absolute powerhouse sound hardware, aka the Nvidia Soundstorm, has full real-time hardware MIDI synth capabilities with soundfont/soundbanks support, meaning all those classic MIDI PC games would be compatible, it also has full HRTF for EAX and A3D games, and everything can be encoded in real-time in Dolby Digital surround, it also has a powerful audio DSP, 256 stereo sound channels, and a beautiful quality Wolfson DAC, they went hard with the Xbox sound hardware, an d the Soundstorm completely outclasses modern audio capabilities (or lack of them), if only Nvidia carried on making sound cards, or better yet, incorporated all that audio tech into their GPUs. The OGXB is already the best place to play multiplats of that generation, but being able to also turn it into a powerful retro PC would be incredible, being able to use all that hardware to play all your favourite PC exclusives with reference video & audio quality would be amazing, and there is the fact that Xbox has some of the best 8/16-Bit console soft emulation available with very little latency thanks to the fast analogue DAC, if the OGXB could get the Amiga PiStorm style upgrade treatment, to give it at least 256MB DDR RAM, an SSD drive, the OGXB Southbridge has PCI that could be exploited to that end.

[@teilanittv]

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

[@EirikrTinkerTries]

CPU upgraded console support?! Oh heck yeah. Do you know if it has upgraded RAM support as well? And then dual-boot support? As in for something like a 32-bit Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or even FreeRTOS or something wild like Fiwix, xv6 or ArcaOS?

[@MidnightPodcast]

Um, no.

[@8KilgoreTrout4]

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

[@suntzu6122]

Is there some way to add custom maps to OG Halo 1 on original disc. NOT master chief collection BS. How can I edit maps on OG xbox? I remember back in the day we had some USB cord to dump the hard drive and move files and we edited the game options to make team slayer go to 500 for example. That was about it, though. Always wanted to make custom halo maps with a computer then import. Any tips would be appreciated boys :D

[@knigfotlets9870]

I really wonder why it took the release of the RP2040 for people to build open source modchips and such when it would've been possible with an ESP32 or an STM32 long before the Pico released, is there anything special the RP2040 can do that the ESP32 or STM32 aren't capable of?

[@marinenukem]

Pog

[@katsanos80]

Hello. Great video again Tito! A little help please, as I already bought my rp2040s and ordered the PCBs. Can you please tell me the size of the 100Ωhm resistors used? thanks!!

[@sjh100975]

Xbox games have definitely disappointed me vs PS5 games! I wish I'd never bought the series x! Plus as woke as Microsoft is, its more embarrassing! I wish I'd known how woke the gaming industry has become!

[@NeoTechni]

I'm hoping Dreamcast gets a pico-based ODE soon. My GD drive died :(

[@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.

[@LumbyMcGumby]

Oooo some ogxbox love

[@redvenomweb]

What is the value proposition of an Xbox modchip over a free TSOP flash mod? I know you can't do TSOP flash on a v1.6 Xbox, but on an older Xbox like the one in this video, I'm not sure why one would buy a modchip at all.

[@secondleasegamer8312]

I really want to do a RAM mod on the Xbox, but Kits are pretty much impossible to find in 2024. Do you know of a way to do the RAM mod and if there is a CPU mod that allows for a faster CPU? I'd love to build the Ultimate Xbox.

[@OtioseFanatic]

"This is the (pronounces thing), it's pronounced (pronounces thing differently)." W-wha... Why didn't you just pronounce it properly the first time? Did you need to extend the script a few seconds?

[@B.M.0.]

17 minutes to say the same thing 3 times and watch the FULL soldering job all of which isn't even a "How To" because it's a prototype board and a rarer v1 xbox mobo...

[@Ghostkielx]

Why not just make a FPGA XBOX? I mean isn't that something that could be sold quickly VS destroying original consoles?

[@ArticReaper]

My question is. Can this be used to bypass broken dvd drives? So the console will get past the error screen for the dvd drive not been detected

[@gdg4243]

Would the rp2040 zero work the same? I'm not extremely familiar with the pico, and I don't know if there is a difference. I just noticed the zero has the port built onto it vs using a ribbon cable when I was looking these up. Someone educate me a bit please.

[@benvasquez2964]

Xbox is the easiest to mod. If it was the Xbox 360 then that would be something to get excited about. You can literally just plug and play your Xbox HDD into your computer and unlock it no problem now days. I find this useless but pretty cool.

[@aussiepunkrocksV20]

Next up need a reliable in console power supply replacement alternative for original xbox..

[@Johnny_LuvBuckets]

Could you help me understand how this is any different than the openxenium? That's open source and can run both cerbios and Prometheos. The only difference I see is this can be updated with USB. If that's the only difference, I think "game changer" might be a bit too strong of a description.

[@sanekibeko]

Yo Macho where do I even start with modding my og xbox? There's so many mods out there.

[@mattrogers6646]

Honestly, unless you have a v1.6, just do TSOP flash. Super simple and only requires like 3 solder bridges that can be done with conductive paint if you don't know how to solder.

[@sanekibeko]

@@mattrogers6646 I believe I do have a v1.6 model but I have to double check.

[@pkf4124]

Theres been a lot of talk on this mod chip, on the OGXbox forum, although I have almost every chip done in my collection of OG Xboxes but not one of these. Seems a simple mod with may Pros and not many Cons. Looks like I wont need any of the Pre Xenium chips anymore. So much future scope for this chip.

[@TheTruthBeToId]

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

[@ocstrangeness]

I have some AladdinXT chips (the ones made before they were unflashable) and the install was always hit or miss. One of the reasons I stopped working on the original xbox, the other being that shipping was too expensive to turn a profit. I swear, no matter how good I recreated lpc on 1.6, half the time the thing would reboot three or four times then shut down. The other ones can just be tsop'd and flashed with an evox (or ind) bios, no need for a modchip.

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

Why would you call that "one minor detail?" .... that's a pretty big detail. Also, your body language and mannerisms are very robotic. Loosen up and relax a little, this would resonate with your audience a bit more.

[@ThetaxDeltax]

They should of just let us play riped cd's. Is there issue. I suppose it effected sales. I don't see new games for those consoles now. When they have a device to play riped cd's or play off a usb or something without soldering i am in. There is a tsop xbox here in the game room. From the group members.

[@Biaanca5036]

How'd they get a raspberry pi to respond fast//slow enough to communicate with the Xbox? Aren't there certain MHz that have to be matched?

[@o0mrrobot0o26]

Damn. I literally just installed project stellar on mine. If I had known about this I might've saved a bit of money just going with any one of the million pico I have laying around. 😐

[@Le_Monkey_Dude]

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

[@R3TR0--93]

Can I ship my Xbox to you and pay you to mod it for me? I don't have time and knowledge to do it myself. I think my Xbox is the last version made in 2004 so 1.6?

[@JacobGunner]

Alternate Title: ModXO Nacho Productions

[@JorgeCarvalho_web_dev]

Hi there! Great video... want to build one for me! Is there a link to show where the D0 via is located in all xbox mobo versions? Cant find one... Thanks!