Luckily I checked it while messing around, cleaning, replacing the drive motor. I know the thermal paste was damn near completely gone and only crusted around the edges of the chip. I'm unfamiliar with the life this console led though so I can't really say how well off the capacitors are in it so I'll be checking those once my diodes arrive.

With this particular console I found that 10 MHz actually showed better results.

This is similar to timing files for the numerous chips out there (Cool Runner Ace V3, Matrix, etc.). Another point is: you can try different methods when flashing RGH3. I've ordered some proper 1n4148 diodes to remedy this. This last Falcon I modded literally takes about 5 minutes sometimes or doesn't even boot at all. But I left out the diode because I simply didn't care how long boot times took. Now I have used resistors for each because it is HIGHLY recommended to ensure safety of your console (on these occasions, 22k Ohm for each). I've done a few of these myself, two Falcons, a Jasper with RGH3 work great for the most part. No online (you get banned quickly) really outside of some incredibly tedious things but you do have cheats, region unlock, XBLA/DLC, modded saves more easily, USB loading, internal hard drive loading, unrestricted internal drive replacement (stock and DVD stuff need an official drive or one of a very limited selection), some expanded original xbox emulation options, homebrew and much more.I know others have mentioned some things to elaborate on what you were saying here and then some but figure I will throw in my two cents. These will involve buying chips, soldering and fiddling with a lot of hardware related stuff, or maybe some more money to skip some of the NAND dumping aspect. You can however plug a USB drive into it and dodge having to burn dual layer DVDs (which are expensive and often fiddly).Ģ) KK/JTAG/RGH family, most likely RGH. Still no cheats or modified games, no XBLA or DLC you did not otherwise buy, no out of region games and no homebrew. Some will opt for an optical drive emulator. Most will flash the drive to allow you to burn dual layer discs of unmodified games compatible with your region. Your choices barring a few largely closed software things (profile sharing and some of the save file stuff is done) and some things for a few bits of DLC (see PIRS DLC).ġ) DVD mod of some flavour. Nobody is expecting such a thing any time soon either - the xbox security is surprisingly good leaving hardware approaches and the oversight with the DVD drives as the main option. If you mean 'can I use a USB drive/$20 device I can buy easily and plug in/follow a softmod guide' then not so much. Some of the later ones for the slims will be more annoying though. I found flashing most types of original style DVD drives quite easy.

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