Why are people on Adverts asking for the manufacture dates for XBOX S 250GBs?

aN.Droid

dusf wrote: »

I want to get Kinect myself too but for the moment I am focussing on getting a slim 250GB as cheap as I can - as I understand it I can just buy the Kinect sensor (probably second hand) and plug it into any Slim anyway.

Can you tell me more about controlling your HTPC with Kinect? We're planning on using the XBOX as a media centre in the living room, I am not sure I can warrant building a HTPC just for downloading torrents/usenet, Sabnzbd+, Couchpotato, and Headphones when I can do all of that from one of the computers we already have.



Nice, if you develop anything post a link here or PM me.

What do you think of the guide I linked? If you have something better please let me know.

Also, I think there has been some new development over at Team Executor where some DHX chip is used instead of RGX, I am not sure of the particulars or which models it applies too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BBT7uhLy5Q

I will be using this software paired with XBMC to enable to kinect control.

http://www.kinemote.net/

Yes, you can buy a kinect in the future if you wish and just plug it in.

I have a separate xbmc htpc setup with usenet and all the goodies you mention like sickbeard and couchpotato. There is no beating it

Havent had a chance to read that guide yet but I was up all night researching it and yes your rgith it seems you do not need a DGX anymore as you can just use some generic files to dump your CPU key.

So far from what I can tell all you need is a way to dump the nand and a glitch chip like the coolrunner. Need to look into it a bit more though

Won't be doing anything major in development I just like to mess around

Reamer Fanny

dusf wrote: »

I want to get Kinect myself too but for the moment I am focussing on getting a slim 250GB as cheap as I can - as I understand it I can just buy the Kinect sensor (probably second hand) and plug it into any Slim anyway.

Can you tell me more about controlling your HTPC with Kinect? We're planning on using the XBOX as a media centre in the living room, I am not sure I can warrant building a HTPC just for downloading torrents/usenet, Sabnzbd+, Couchpotato, and Headphones when I can do all of that from one of the computers we already have.




Nice, if you develop anything post a link here or PM me.

What do you think of the guide I linked? If you have something better please let me know.

Also, I think there has been some new development over at Team Executor where some DHX chip is used instead of RGX, I am not sure of the particulars or which models it applies too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BBT7uhLy5Q

The DGX chip - previously used for recovering your CPU key can now be repurposed as a glitch chip by flashing the RGX xsvf files, it apparently gives similar boot times to the CR3 pro

aN.Droid

Ordered my slim bundle and bought the tools I needed to run the RGH from modsupplier.com

They were about the only ones which had all the things I needed in stock and at a good price. Came to about 50 euro for 3 day delivery from australia. I am hoping customs just see a bunch of pcb's and not think twice on charging me for vat

To do the 4gb slim after hanging around in the #jtag360 channel on efnet I found out you needed 3 things. #1 a 4gb nand RW kit (nandx will not work) #2 a glitch chip (I went for a coolrunner, slower boot times but whatever) and #3 a postfix adapter.

http://www.modsupplier.com/catalog/xecuter-coolrunner-rev-c-p-982.html
http://www.modsupplier.com/catalog/xecuter-corona-postfix-adapter-tx-p-1072.html
http://www.modsupplier.com/catalog/xecuter-corona-4gb-rw-qsb-v4-p-1074.html

Reamer Fanny

Limericks wrote: »

Ordered my slim bundle and bought the tools I needed to run the RGH from modsupplier.com

They were about the only ones which had all the things I needed in stock and at a good price. Came to about 50 euro for 3 day delivery from australia. I am hoping customs just see a bunch of pcb's and not think twice on charging me for vat

To do the 4gb slim after hanging around in the #jtag360 channel on efnet I found out you needed 3 things. #1 a 4gb nand RW kit (nandx will not work) #2 a glitch chip (I went for a coolrunner, slower boot times but whatever) and #3 a postfix adapter.

http://www.modsupplier.com/catalog/xecuter-coolrunner-rev-c-p-982.html
http://www.modsupplier.com/catalog/xecuter-corona-postfix-adapter-tx-p-1072.html
http://www.modsupplier.com/catalog/xecuter-corona-4gb-rw-qsb-v4-p-1074.html

Post fix is optional I think, but yes those are the things I mentioned in my previous post

aN.Droid

justryan wrote: »

Post fix is optional I think, but yes those are the things I mentioned in my previous post

Couldnt find a dgx or cr3 in stock anywhere at a good price so was hanging around looking for alternatives.

Reamer Fanny

Limericks wrote: »

Couldnt find a dgx or cr3 in stock anywhere at a good price so was hanging around looking for alternatives.

I think Coolrunner rev c will work with the post fix adapter - if you are not concerned about boot times. I installed the CR3 Lite on a Corona v1 recently and boot times were acceptable I'm curious to see the difference between the dgx 1.1s and CR3 Pro.

runswithascript

I have located an XBOX 360 Slim 250GB Go that was manufactured in 2010 that I am going to order - from what I understand this is most likely a Trinity and will suit my RGH and dual NAND needs - can someone in the know confirm this before I pay for it please?

Does go in the model mean anything? Google does not seem to be able to tell me easily?

runswithascript

From the guide I linked:

When it comes to RGH'ing every motherboard type is exploitable except for Xenon's (unless you just want your DVD key, because the boot time for Xenon's are so long it is impractical for everyday use). The average lifespan decrease still applies so if you can choose do so in this order: Trinity/Corona (both are the same in terms of life span and are slims), Jasper (phat), Falcon (phat), Opus (phat), Zephyr (phat), Xenon (phat).

(RGH modded consoles) Can use DemoN to do a dual NAND setup (about an extra 50-60 dollars) (DOESN'T WORK ON CORONA V2's/V4's)

Reamer Fanny

dusf wrote: »

I have located an XBOX 360 Slim 250GB Go that was manufactured in 2010 that I am going to order - from what I understand this is most likely a Trinity and will suit my RGH and dual NAND needs - can someone in the know confirm this before I pay for it please?

Does go in the model mean anything? Google does not seem to be able to tell me easily?

Go for it

runswithascript

Thanks, I appreciate it. Hopefully it will work out, otherwise I have a few others lined up - so far Coronas v1/v3.

I need to rehash my soldering skills so I am going to take apart an old VCR and practice.

I will post back here with the equipment/tools and parts I am going to order before I do so hopefully you or someone else can let me know if I am missing something or ordering something I don't need.

aN.Droid

Got my xbox today from that gamestop deal. MFR date is June 2011 so a v2 board. No need for postfix adapter.

deal is still on the GS website if people are looking for it.

runswithascript

Limericks wrote: »

Got my xbox today from that gamestop deal. MFR date is June 2011 so a v2 board. No need for postfix adapter.

deal is still on the GS website if people are looking for it.

Bought my Trinity XBOX 360 250GB for less than €120! :pac:

aN.Droid

dusf wrote: »

Bought my Trinity XBOX 360 250GB for less than €120! :pac:

189 for my v2 corona.

trade in value of 2 included games = about 30 quid.
value of kinect sensor on adverts = 80-100 quid.

Cos of the extra QSB for corona boards = 10 quid

So all in all you could have a brand new 360 for about 80 quid.

bought a 320gb HD for 35 euro for it.

So new xbox with 320gb HD for about the same price

Also comes with a joypad you could sell on if you wished too.

Reamer Fanny

Limericks wrote: »

189 for my v2 corona.

trade in value of 2 included games = about 30 quid.
value of kinect sensor on adverts = 80-100 quid.

Cos of the extra QSB for corona boards = 10 quid

So all in all you could have a brand new 360 for about 80 quid.

bought a 320gb HD for 35 euro for it.

So new xbox with 320gb HD for about the same price

Also comes with a joypad you could sell on if you wished too.

Running homebrew on your new Xbox 360 - priceless.

Sorry I had to your post sounded like the MasterCard advert : )

aN.Droid

Gear for the hack came this morning. Will do the hack later and report back

Reamer Fanny

Limericks wrote: »

Gear for the hack came this morning. Will do the hack later and report back

Bought two, too good a deal to pass up

aN.Droid

Just a quick question regarding the cr3 lite.

Mine came unprogrammed and from what I gather I use j-runner to do this. However I am a bit lost on which setting to use.

Under corona there is a bunch such as 0-2 1-2 1-3 etc from what I have read it does not matter which of these i pick and I should try them all to find the one that works best for me.

Where I am lost is on the cr3 lite itself it has the switches. Do I set these switches to what I pick in jrunner? so if I pick 0-2 I leave the first switch alone and in the second one I turn on 2?

Everything else I should be fine with it is just I could not find much info on this.

Reamer Fanny

Limericks wrote: »

Just a quick question regarding the cr3 lite.

Mine came unprogrammed and from what I gather I use j-runner to do this. However I am a bit lost on which setting to use.

Under corona there is a bunch such as 0-2 1-2 1-3 etc from what I have read it does not matter which of these i pick and I should try them all to find the one that works best for me.

Where I am lost is on the cr3 lite itself it has the switches. Do I set these switches to what I pick in jrunner? so if I pick 0-2 I leave the first switch alone and in the second one I turn on 2?

Everything else I should be fine with it is just I could not find much info on this.

The numbers you flash to the CR3 Lite are timing files, in my experience 2-3 and 2-2 worked best. The switches are for toggling capacitors and resistors to fine tune boot times

runswithascript

Limericks wrote: »

189 for my v2 corona.

trade in value of 2 included games = about 30 quid.
value of kinect sensor on adverts = 80-100 quid.

Cos of the extra QSB for corona boards = 10 quid

So all in all you could have a brand new 360 for about 80 quid.

bought a 320gb HD for 35 euro for it.

So new xbox with 320gb HD for about the same price

Also comes with a joypad you could sell on if you wished too.

Very nice

I will take solace in the fact that I would not have been able to dual NAND it though, and also that there is less involved in hacking the Trinities!

I need to read through the guide I linked again a few more times. Still waiting on the XBOX from Europe.

aN.Droid

dusf wrote: »

Very nice

I will take solace in the fact that I would not have been able to dual NAND it though, and also that there is less involved in hacking the Trinities!

I need to read through the guide I linked again a few more times. Still waiting on the XBOX from Europe.

So guess what. I opened it up and the board was...... A trinity!

An xmas 2012 console bundle with an MFR of june 2011 and a trinity board. What the hell are the odds!

justryan I hope you are just as lucky as I am.

Reamer Fanny

Limericks wrote: »

So guess what. I opened it up and the board was...... A trinity!

An xmas 2012 console bundle with an MFR of june 2011 and a trinity board. What the hell are the odds!

justryan I hope you are just as lucky as I am.

Ah sweet goes to show the only way you can know for certain is to crack it open

runswithascript

Limericks wrote: »

So guess what. I opened it up and the board was...... A trinity!

An xmas 2012 console bundle with an MFR of june 2011 and a trinity board. What the hell are the odds!

justryan I hope you are just as lucky as I am.

That's crazy! Will you consider dual NAND now or still happy without?

You seem experienced at this so the equipment you order will be a good guide for me... along of course... with the guide I am using

There is less to do on a Trinity though, yeah?

justryan wrote: »

Ah sweet goes to show the only way you can know for certain is to crack it open

Yeah!

aN.Droid

dusf wrote: »

That's crazy! Will you consider dual NAND now or still happy without?

You seem experienced at this so the equipment you order will be a good guide for me... along of course... with the guide I am using

There is less to do on a Trinity though, yeah?



Yeah!

Well what I bought was the following:

coolrunner 3 Lite for the glitch
J-r programmer to program the coolrunner and to read the nand

And the following which I dont need as I only got just incase it was a corona
4gb nand r/w kit
postfix adapter for corona.


A trinity is a heck of allot easier to glitch. Just solder wires from the j-r to the board and wires from the cr3 to the board and j-runner and xell does everything else.


I will be doing my board tomorrow as its getting too late now and I would rather not solder when tired Will report back with results!

Here is where I bought my RGH supplies: http://www.modsupplier.com

They are australian but I got my stuff in two days with express shipping (20 euro)

all in all a trinity should cost about 50 euro with regular shipping.

http://www.modsupplier.com/catalog/xecuter-jr-programmer-p-1054.html
http://www.modsupplier.com/catalog/xecuter-coolrunner-v3-lite-cr3-p-1041.html

Might find it cheaper elsewhere but they accept card

As for dual nand. I may do that in the future but for now it is not a priority

Reamer Fanny

Reamer Fanny

Ouch the price has gone back up to 289.97 euro, the two of mine look like Trinitys judging by the MFR date but I will open them when I get a chance to confirm.

aN.Droid

So I decided to try mod and got a bunch of errors reading the nand. Probably because of my cheap iron not allowing me to do a good job soldering so I ordered this. Will try to mod again once I get it as I don't want to feck up the board.

Reamer Fanny

Limericks wrote: »

So I decided to try mod and got a bunch of errors reading the nand. Probably because of my cheap iron not allowing me to do a good job soldering so I ordered this. Will try to mod again once I get it as I don't want to feck up the board.

Upload some pictures of your soldering here and I'll see if I can advise you.

Reamer Fanny

Yup they are Trinity motherboards on the 2.0.12146 dashboard out of the box

runswithascript

Limericks wrote: »

So I decided to try mod and got a bunch of errors reading the nand. Probably because of my cheap iron not allowing me to do a good job soldering so I ordered this. Will try to mod again once I get it as I don't want to feck up the board.

What wattage will you set the 60W iron to for the XBOX? I was considering a weller non-variable iron from Amazon, I would like a variable but I am not sure I would use it enough to justify the expense.

Have you read reviews or anything on the iron you have ordered?

runswithascript

justryan wrote: »

Yup they are Trinity motherboards on the 2.0.12146 dashboard out of the box

How many XBOX RGH consoles are you selling?

I read before it might be risky advertising them on eBay, but there's nothing illegal about modding the XBOX and putting homebrew on it once you do not practice or encourage piracy, right?