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We can all sleep soundly tonight after all!

After I showed my buddy the XBlox 360 (Lego Mod) he gave me and the Hatchling a Xenon to play with. Nice :)

It already had this really cool (lol pun) (EDIT: Not so "cool" I guess.... those w/ more experience than me are saying this is no good and could warp the MB) mod to the cooling system already to mitigate the overheating issues with these things (EDIT: I guess this is a myth?). He added heat sinks to everything, upgraded the cooling shroud and replaced the x-clamps with some bolt on aluminium plate thing. Parts of the internal metal case were also removed to improve air flow. (EDIT: Lot's of heads saying this is no bueno.... the question now is do I salvage parts and return it to stock cooling??? :/ )

UPDATE: All cooling "upgrades" have been removed and replaced with x-clamps and internal case from a donor Xenon. Thanks everyone for your warnings! The upgrade I removed looks like it was better than the GameStop version of the bolt-mod as it had some sort of putty pads between the plate and MB to apply pressure under the CPU/GPU chips. Can't add updated photos unfortunately :( guess I will make a new post....

We painted the case (and well, everything) flat black and added the plexiglass window to the top. Cutting the plastic was easy, but cutting out the metal shroud on the inside was not. I somehow managed to not cut myself :)

Gluing the plexi into the cutout was harder than expected and didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked but the Hatchling says it looks fine, so cool beans.

We used a Matrix V1 glitcher for RGH EXTCLK with recommended timings. Boots REALLY fast. Just finished DL3 config and am transferring some games for a test run. So far so good. I used wire from an old HDMI cable to wire in the chip. This was nice and small, but wouldn't work if the wires were too close together or too long. Snippy snip and some rerouting and all is well :)

The gifted setup included a HDD enclosure with a broken 20GB drive. We replaced this with a 128GB solid state drive and painted the outside to match the console. Yay, more fastness :)

I think that about sums it up! If you have any questions let us know!

I got RGH1.2 working on the XBlox360 Jasper and so far it's pretty cool. I was able to use DashLaunch to setup some plugins, boot animations, and to boot into Aurora by default. Nice :)

Some Tips

1. If you are programming a Matrix chip with a Dirty Pico flasher, you need to install drivers onto the pico after you flash it with the Dirty Pico firmware. I had to follow the readme file in common/dirtypico folder from This Repo on Github to get it to work. This must be done with windows (so far).
2. If using simple360flasher to handle your NAND, be sure to dump your two flash files back to back. I was having trouble with the dumps not matching and had to do a few in a row before I got two that matched. I used the matching set to build my XeBuild image.

Linux Stuff

1. BadStick works wih Wine with a few caveats. First, you must format the drive on the Xbox, as the format function will not work via Wine. Be sure to check the "skip format" box. Second, make sure you mount the drive via file manager, then you must do something to make the drive accessible such as: sudo chmod 777 /dev/sdb in order for BadStick to recognize it.
2. JRunner seems to be running fine with Wine. Just hit continue when an error pops up on your first usage. I have been able to read a NAND via PicoFlasher, but writing (so far) hasn't worked for me. Using it to build your XeXbuild image and play with your flashdumps works fine. So far it does not recognize the DirtyPico at all.
3. You will probably need windows at some point. You can run a VM in qemu and use an unregistered windows 10 to get the job done. You will need guest additions installed so you can do USB pass-through. Windows defender has to be disabled to download/use many of the Modding apps you will need. I used wget to download them via my host (Linux) and put them in a shared folder for the guest (Win10). You can use apps from O&O like App Buster and Shut Up 10++ to clean and make windows a little more manageable. Probably want to take a snapshot of your VM before doing this stuff ;)

The Qestions

1. Sometimes it takes a while to boot... is this normal? can it be fixed? Maybe different settings on my Matrix or different NAND settings?
2. I have DashLaunch loading both UsbSecPatch and hiddriver360... is this OK to have both? Should I make a XeBuild with hiddriver360 patched in? I have PS4/5 controllers that now work via USB but my logitech controller does not.
3. Shutting down the console is weird now. If I bring up the menu and select power off it shuts down, but not all the way. Fans stay on and brick light stays green. I have to wait for a bit then press the power button to turn off all the way. Is this normal?
4. DVD suddenly stopped working. I ripped my only game (RDR) and then was watching a DVD. I quit about halfway through to look at something and now DVD drive never spins up and always says "no disk". Eject and close still work fine. Maybe my motor just went bad? Could this have anything to do with the mod? I have an untested drive and a parts drive, but I want to make sure it's not a software issue before taking everything back apart.
5. Can I still make a custom avatar? When I tried to do so it wanted to download something so I canceled. I have everything Live related blocked in fam settings and I think via DashLaunch as well. Should I do the stealth server thing? Proto?
6. Can I install Homebrew stuff without an HDD? I can't figure out how to get the homebrew store script in Aurora to use my USB drive.
7. Do I need an emulator to play Xbox classic games?

Thanks! Love this sub :)