I Did The Impossible 1.6 XBOX 128MB RAM Upgrade!

I Did The Impossible 1.6 XBOX 128MB RAM Upgrade! | Piggyback Method!

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The Impossible OG XBOX 1.6 RAM Upgrade! | 128MB RAM Mod!
In today's video I'll be going over a mod previously thought impossible. Giving a 1.6 OG XBOX 128MB of RAM. The 1.6 revision of the XBOX removed the 4 unpopulated RAM footprints of previous XBOX revisions and thus was thought to not be able to be upgraded. That is until an OG XBOX Forum member by the name of Prehistoricman found a unique and unlikely solution. Let’s take a look!
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@wilfredynunez5263 Жыл бұрын

I literally laughed out loud when you said stack the RAM chips on top of each other. That was so unexpected, and I never would have thought that was the solution.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

I know it’s a pretty wild solution!!

@ethanapierce Жыл бұрын

I did the same thing! Impressed and funny

@AdrianDX Жыл бұрын

I’m surprised this wasn’t found earlier. I didn’t know the Xbox had a RAM upgrade mod let alone that r1.6 wasn’t compatible. This is the same techique used for some Dreamcast BIOS mods from back in the day. Again suprised it wasn’t found earlier O_o

@djrkzr Жыл бұрын

@@MachoNachoProductions it's so easy in concept that straight away feels to obvious to be possoble😅

@rachelannkrueger7638 Жыл бұрын

I seen this on my HP 71b calculator/computer ram was soldered on top of the other.

@nicholsliwilson Жыл бұрын

“Piggybacking” RAM chips goes back to the days of 8bit & 16bit home micro computers, so it’s not a new concept but it’s cool to see an old hack like this still being handy & fun to do. Great video, thanks.

@rachelannkrueger7638 Жыл бұрын

Yes i got a device that piggyback ram. My Hp 71b calculator/computer does

@praystation Жыл бұрын

how is it fun to do? are you daft?

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video! It’s definitely a pretty cool method of adding ram

@nicholsliwilson Жыл бұрын

@@rachelannkrueger7638 very cool.

@borisyeltsin6606 Жыл бұрын

I wish this comment was higher, it's awesome this trick is being brought back but it is also on some level concerning that younger folk could see a concept this 'simple' and immediately surmise that it was never thought of before/just discovered for this first time

@androxilogin Жыл бұрын

Higher resolution game patches are also another main advantage of installing this mod. Enabling XBMC4XBox to play more file types in HD as well.

@Ag89q43G0HyA 5 ай бұрын

could they be programmed to handle 128 mb?

@SimianIndustries 5 ай бұрын

@@Ag89q43G0HyA Depends on the game. Not all necessarily can automatically scale their needs past 64MB. Some are hard coded and need to be hacked which is well beyond me. I would assume we can patch just about anything to run at a higher resolution than it did at retail simply because we do have double the RAM available. That doesn't guarantee the GPU will like that at all or the CPU will hold up it's end of the bargain.

@cdub1393 4 ай бұрын

Can someone one who has these upgrades tell us if halo ce runs with the pentium III. Is it a smoothe gameplay with compatability mode?

@sneakingelephant Жыл бұрын

MVG is going to be extremely happy when he sees this video haha.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

I hope so 😁

@mariojosar Жыл бұрын

I see you are a man of culture.

@EricCartman056 Жыл бұрын

Still waiting for MVG comment

@cqbSarge Жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff! The fact that you are providing a guide for difficult, small percentage mods is great for preserving older consoles even if they are less sought after for modders. I thankfully had 2 Xbox OGs with blown caps and defective HDDs restored and modded locally, although I don't currently have much use for them. it would be cool to see a totally wreaked Xbox getting restored, im sure there are tons like mine out there.

@MickeyMishra Жыл бұрын

agreed! Have not seen to many of these out in the wild.

@exaltedb Жыл бұрын

When you said that the method is to literally _stack memory chips on each other,_ that immediately became the most ingenious idea that I have heard in a while. I was originally thinking that they were going to replace the ram chip with a bigger one but the stacking method is a much cooler way of doing it

@DukeDudeston 7 ай бұрын

Not sure there is any real other way of doing it.

@kazinwho Жыл бұрын

Having failed to install a GBHD due to not being able to solder the tiny part of the ribbon cable to the GBA chip, I just want to say how impressed I am with your skills, Tito. Jealous, too lol

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much bucktwenty! Definitely got here with tons of practice. I’m sure you can do it too with the right amount of practice. Cheers buddy!!

@ItsTeezoUBZ Жыл бұрын

Practice my guy, also make sure you invest in decent equipment

@dnegel9546 Жыл бұрын

Scrub 💅

@mirabilis Жыл бұрын

Flux is the secret sauce.

@kazinwho Жыл бұрын

@@mirabilis I need to get some liquid flux, because the flux pen I have wasn't working very well. The ribbon might be fine, and the GBA isn't busted, I just gave up after not being able to get every point soldered to the chip haha

@briangilmartin662 Жыл бұрын

Never would have thought you could stack RAM chips to get more RAM. This was quite an interesting video!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video!!

@TheTrueEnder Жыл бұрын

Amazing work! Honestly, I'm impressed by how many of these videos you can put out, between not only doing the mods, but also having to film everything and produce the video... I made a simple one of the installation of the PicoBoot since there weren't any in my language, and it took me an entire month working the hardest I've ever worked lol

@rob465 Жыл бұрын

I cant speak for the rest of society but the collaboration within the tech community is always astounding!!!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

100% agree!!

@ratykat Жыл бұрын

It seems such a simple idea but the work that went in to discovering this must be so much more. Excellent video as usual Tito, thanks for the content!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much🙏Glad you enjoyed this one 😁

@BorderlineOCD Жыл бұрын

Great to see the love the OG Xbox continues to get from the modding community. Beautifully done my man!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you dude! 🙏 totally agree man! og Xbox is definitely getting some much deserved love. Cheers buddy!

@ModzvilleUSA Жыл бұрын

DAMN DUDE, YOU DID IT! Great work brotha :D

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy! Your Aladdin mod chip came in clutch! Cheers dude!

@Cain532. Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your videos!! Super great production value, SUPER professional. I aspire to reach this level someday

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@kr4t0sg.28 Жыл бұрын

Truly groundbreaking. Modding community have come very far in just 4 years. Back then we used to say that the gb color was impossible to backlight the screen.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

I know dude! It’s crazy how fast things are moving. I’m having a hard time keeping up 😅

@ImadKhan1990 Жыл бұрын

Definitely a cool video. Not something I would do. But seeing the process was fascinating and not something I would have considered. Thanks Tito!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thanks Imad 🙏! Glad you enjoyed this one!

@nickstubbings Жыл бұрын

Another cool video. I really appreciate this style of content, no bullshit, you state what you are going to do then clearly and thoroughly go through the entire process in a way that is repeatable by anyone with the skills necessary. Thanks Dude!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you Nick for the kind words! So glad you enjoyed the video buddy!

@Evercade_Effect Жыл бұрын

You've done it again. Just amazing my dude!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you buddy 🙏☺️

@timtoomuch Жыл бұрын

Wow done thanks pulled xbox out of storage and added the ram didn't think this was possible tried many years ago.Awesome video 👍

@doitallYT Жыл бұрын

After watching the scene for years, I never thought that this would be possible. But I think it was a month or two ago when I saw the first guy who had done this mod posting about it being possible (Reddit). Hopefully I can find someone with the appropriate skills who can do this to one of my 1.6 boxes, might make for a wild time 😁👍 Awesome video! Keep up the good work!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you buddy 🙏! Will do!

@michaelmclaughlin6141 Жыл бұрын

I've modded lots of 1.0-1.4 consoles with the extra ram but am yet to try a 1.6. I must source some more ram chips and give it a try soon. Nice video :)

@joeyboyjoeyboy2 Жыл бұрын

sooooo basically this is 3D RAM

@fishandchimps170 5 ай бұрын

bro the production quality is out of this world for your channel size

@AndyVandercoy Жыл бұрын

Omg great work Tito! I have been been really frustrated because I keep fragging my Xbox and it looks perfect I cannot get the LPC reboard to work either (modchip led or red and then will go green and back to red) so I'm also going to remove it now I think. I've been really stubborn and felt like I was going crazy or something, so glad to know you had to rebuild yours!

@hardronix 8 ай бұрын

Oh damn! I will try it later, thanks for such a tutorial! Would be epic for development ^^

@SuperNicktendo Жыл бұрын

That's intense. I'm always amazed at the resilience of modders.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! Where there is a will, there is a way!

@racooninvasion Жыл бұрын

This is so cool, Tito!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thanks Todd! Glad you enjoyed this one 😁👍

@mattparker9726 Жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to see someone do this method on modern chips! Well DONE!

@CtrlAustin Жыл бұрын

id love to see a behind the scenes of the intro, those shots were amazing!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

I may have to do that!

@makedaevilmage Жыл бұрын

I recently bought a crystal xbox for dirtcheap, 25 euro with all cables, 2 crystal controllers and a stack of games ... and I intend to mod the snot out of it. Already replaced the stock fan with a Noctua fan and bought an Aladdin mod chip. Also got a donor Xbox lying around with a broken disc drive that would be perfect to harvest the RAM from and put it in my crystal xbox. I can't wait to start working on it hehe. Thanks for another great vid Tito ;)

@BehrouzKashkar Жыл бұрын

Tito my man your videos are gold right to the point

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏!

@Josh.Davidson Жыл бұрын

Nice, reminds me of the 360's nandwich dualnands which are always fun to do. Wish I had a 1.6 to try this but both of mine are 1.0s!

@SBarrenecheaF Жыл бұрын

I've done NAND sandwiches on Xbox 360s, and it is always a nightmare to solder... Bring patience 😄 Congrats on the mod, awesome video!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Nice! Thanks Sebastian!

@MarcusTheDorkus Жыл бұрын

Funny, I knew exactly where you were going with the solution on how to expand the RAM because of a video I very recently saw on Adrian Black's channel where he assured viewers that the piggybacked chips on some old hardware he was looking at were actually stock.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@ellaquin Жыл бұрын

no. I honestly cannot believe that you can literally stick two ram modules on top of each other, and it actually works, that is literally the most crazy thing I have heard all month.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Haha, it totally surprised me too!

@boomshtyik702 Жыл бұрын

I just recently stumbled across your channel since doing a bunch of Gameboy modding. Your production quality is absolutely incredible, and I've been binge watching all your videos for days! Keep up the awesome work!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏☺️

@tigheklory Жыл бұрын

Greta video Tito!! Would love to see you do some the mods to the Colecovision, like the FPGA F18A video mod, Super Game Module, controller port fixes etc.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

I’ve never tried a colecovison before! Could be fun to mess around with! 😁

@tigheklory Жыл бұрын

@@MachoNachoProductions There is a whole crazy Colecovision scene out there. So many mods and amazing new homebrew games and conversions from the MSX and SG1000.

@mihanedog Жыл бұрын

You are such a hidden gem. Top grade camera work and such interesting topics you deserve so much more subscribers. I believe you are going to blowup real soon 😉.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Really appreciate it Miha!! 🙏☺️

@DanielKaspo Жыл бұрын

This took me back!! I started my dive into my development career starting with modding my original Xbox! I used to visit XBINS IRC and download a bunch of homebrew games like X Bomberbox and did a bunch of Halo modding :)

@kiellmorphet262 Жыл бұрын

Do you still have any halo 2 mods like the fun ones we used to get banned with? Super speed super jump Etc. every where I used to get them are now archives with no links.

@DanielKaspo Жыл бұрын

@@kiellmorphet262 Haha none of those types of mods! Didn't have Xbox Live either so they were mostly silly things, like putting a Wraith cannon on a Warthog 😂 I remember one of my close friends on the modding forum was able to add AI Elites to a multiplayer map and that was a huge event in my mind! They had full lobbies of people playing against Elites lol

@Alissontw 5 ай бұрын

I absolutely adore your intro.

@KiteAndKeyProductions Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah. I was super interested in this for my 1.6 but wanted to see the process. I was sure you'd do a video, and here it is.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Nice! I hope you enjoyed the video 😁👍

@Ziggurat1 Жыл бұрын

When you said the pads were not there the first thing I was thinking was that they probably piggybacked the chips on top of the existing once. Since they probsbly only need separate enable lines. Going to watch the rest of this video anyway :D

@mirabilis Жыл бұрын

Hey, me too! I think we nailed it!

@salamiwallnut Жыл бұрын

You are baba vanga

@Ziggurat1 Жыл бұрын

@@salamiwallnut had to ask my wife what that means, she says the description does not fit

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Yep you got it!

@jet7759 Жыл бұрын

Damn dude, the cinematography in this video is insane! How did you do that Xbox disassembly bit at the start? looks flawless.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the intro. It’s mostly practical effects. No CGI 😁

@Wertyhappy27 Жыл бұрын

can you share timestamp

@themadatheist1976 Жыл бұрын

Modded-ish my MSI GL65 Leopard i7 10750H, 2060RTX laptop. MSI left the pads for a 2nd m.2 drive so I added the 10 caps, the m.2 connector, and the nvme hold down stud. Once done, I threw in a 2TB stick and now have a dedicated drive for my games. Was lucky my laptop version had the pads still, some laptop reviewers showed one on the locations without them.

@BnE-sports 2 ай бұрын

I wouldn't have risked tbhh

@ugzz Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I've also heard that there is a possible cpu upgrade on some xboxs..... next project? :)

@ssj99gohanisthebest48 Жыл бұрын

Damn who would’ve thought just stacking pretty much made it work, that’s cool! He probably saw a sandwich and was like hmmm I wonder 🤣great job on the video!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it’s a pretty wild solution. Glad you enjoyed the video 😁

@userPrehistoricman Жыл бұрын

Yeah I like sandwiches

@RodrigoGames99 Жыл бұрын

It will be a new 128ram series on the 1.6 board, let's see what happens. very good video.

@acumenium8157 Жыл бұрын

RAM stacking is a technique used nowadays too, especially in the SSD or GPU field. Interesting idea to use it here too.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Cool!

@acumenium8157 Жыл бұрын

@@MachoNachoProductions One thing to note is that heat seems like it could be a concern in some devices with chips stacking (it is for SSDs, although those are now built to take outrageous heat, I'm talking 70-80C!), but I don't think the Xbox is an issue with this. Especially since as you said in the video, you need to reach hard to even use the extra RAM. (unused RAM isn't going to generate heat, if anything your new RAM is a pseudo-heatsink FOR the original RAM when using under 64MB haha). The RAM is also unshielded from heatsinks to begin with meaning Microsoft did not think it was an issue that it'd ever get remotely hot. I wouldn't do this on, say, a PS3 or 360, as I believe those do run very toasty RAM, and do guard it with a heatsink.

@W1ldTangent Жыл бұрын

@@acumenium8157 some of them manage to sandwich conductive metal foil in between the stacked chips to help with heat dissipation. The high-capacity enterprise drives are sandwiches of PCBs filled with NAND chips and linked with ribbon cables, and they fold out like an accordion. Crazy dense capacity also gives you crazy heat output with equally crazy packaging solutions to overcome it lol

@garethfairclough8715 Жыл бұрын

Oh good lord. Next up, you'll be retrofitting an old school BC PS3 with the 45nm (or was it 40?) chips from the super slim! xD Nicely done, my dude! Piggybacking? Man, that's a super old-school solution! Wow...

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Haha! Definitely will be starting up some ps3 videos 😁. Yep the piggy back method is pretty ingenious!

@draconic5129 Жыл бұрын

Don't go for a super slim, they can't use CFW. Better to go with a mid-generation slim PS3 since those can still use CFW (better for fan control than HEN).

@cdoublejj Жыл бұрын

how do you not have more sub!? dat production quality

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@lelandclayton5462 Жыл бұрын

piggyback is the term and I done this many times on old 8bit and 16bits systems. Heck it's also a way to troubleshoot old arcade systems. I did this a few years ago. With the chip select lines I used a older revision motherboard to find where they were located and used a buffer to protect things. I don't have the ROM anymore for it. I only used that xbox for running Linux.

@Vader111797 Жыл бұрын

I love the sony pvms! Show those beautiful CRT monitors in more videos!

@Emzee. Жыл бұрын

Sick!! Stacking for more RAM! Wow! Now, don't tell me that I could download on the internet for more RAM 🤨

@GetLostGames1 5 ай бұрын

This was very cool to see

@yesterdays-tech Жыл бұрын

So cool dude! I've literally been thinking about performing the same upgrade to my box. I probably won't even leverage it, but I want to kit mine out as far as it can go 🤣

@SupremeGameplays Жыл бұрын

Beautiful mod!!!

@Armorant Жыл бұрын

While reading "The impossible 128MB XBOX... " my thoughts were "wtf there might be difficult, I did that, lets see". Ok, ok...What, stop. An 1.6 upgrade sandwich like installation! Like old x360 Dual NAND mods. Well, Your chanel got one more sub and this video gets thumbs up. That "1.6" was unexpected at all.) Great soldering skills you have, hats off.

@daskampffredchen9242 Жыл бұрын

I am not kidding When you said "He found a novel idea" my direct thought was "Haha, how about just putting them onto each other"

@dennisestenson7820 4 ай бұрын

At first, I thought this would never work because the chips can't share the chip select pin. But they did account for that. Well done.

@iliariano3126 Жыл бұрын

Woow, thank you very much! You are awesome!

@kipters Жыл бұрын

I'm 99% sure I saw someone doing this mod in a forum back in the day. Awesome mod nonetheless!

@garrettrobinson1047 Жыл бұрын

Ram stacking is old school from before I was even born. Nice to see ita coming back for mods. Also have you done the cpu upgrade using n64 freaks board? If so do you have instructions or anything for it? Not sure if there is a different in pinouts from the 1.4 version.

@Punmaster9001 Жыл бұрын

I never got into xbox, but I think the fact that you can do this is amazing.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Same, I was more into the ps2 at the time

@Punmaster9001 Жыл бұрын

@@MachoNachoProductions I was Into GameCube. I guess I'm a Nintendo "fan boy" only in the sense that most games I like/liked tend/tended to be on nintendo products

@craigsteele6971 Жыл бұрын

That intro was sick

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it 😁

@phazonclash Жыл бұрын

Well, that was super cool! 😮

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@TheDude50447 Жыл бұрын

Back in the early 2000s I just put a stick on 128 MB into the dimm slot of the PC. Job done :D

@chronossage Жыл бұрын

This reminds me I really need to get a mod chip for my 1.6 xbox since there's no easy way to just flash the bios on that model and at some point the hard drive is going to die. At least I don't have to worry about a clock capacitor destroying it since it's the only model without one.

@doitallYT Жыл бұрын

Just softmod and swap the drive, I have two 1.6 systems that are going strong with new HDD's thanks to the Rocky5 method 👍 you can get a kit on eBay with everything you need (USB flash drive with save exploit, USB to XBOX cable, and a physical copy of an exploit friendly game) for $20-$30, then you use CHIMP with a new drive and your set! A 2tb HDD with a Startek SATA to IDE adapter, plus a new 80pin IDE, is what I would recommend, though you can go cheap if you're in a pinch. 1.6 systems also have clock caps, they're just considered "less leaky" when compared to 1.0-1.5 systems. The problem is, 1.0-1.5's can run without a clock cap (modded), a 1.6 can't. If yours ever stops working, you'll have to swap it with a new cap.

@speed488 6 ай бұрын

The production quality of your videos is really awesome. Music, closeups, flow and contents. All top notch! Great video and continue your great work!

@FR4M3Sharma Жыл бұрын

So I remembered about a good thing about the Ram Chips, they were also used in some TKons of Sony/Scamsung LCDs. That would cost me around 2-3$ per card/chip. Yus.

@CAPITANxMARVEL Жыл бұрын

Hi Tito I really love the video thank you

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying the videos!

@memadmax69 5 ай бұрын

oh yea we used to do this to certain 8 bit machines. Glad to see the oldschool techniques are still in play.

@Jobobn1998 Жыл бұрын

Two additional pros I feel you missed: 1: The 1.6 Xbox tends to run cooler and has the newest hardware (also no clock cap that explodes) so is arguably superior. 2: The RAM upgrade (regardless of Xbox version) does allow for higher quality videos to be played in XBMC, which can be a decent benefit if you're using your Xbox as a bit of a media machine.

@doitallYT Жыл бұрын

The clock caps in 1.6 systems are considered "less leaky" when compared to other generations, they still have clock caps and they still can leak. The big problem you run into is 1.0-1.5 systems can run without a clock cap (modded) while 1.6 systems require the cap, so if your cap starts leaking your only option is replacing it with a new one. I just had to go through my units to check / remove caps, two 1.4's and two 1.6's.

@k3nl4w Жыл бұрын

At this point, I believe you have some degree in electronics 👍👍👍👏 Edit: And make a very clear closeup video while doing it make even harder.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ken Law! I’m always learning and trying to improve. Cheers!

@ianfairbanks1318 Жыл бұрын

nice vid man

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ian 🙏

@DragonSlayerKyo Жыл бұрын

The chihiro can use up to 512MB of memory. Outrun 2 has this config.

@FoxyAnimater Жыл бұрын

You might be interested to learn that there is a Windows clone that has a port for the original Xbox, it's called React OS and is a open source open room reverse engineering of Microsoft Windows. I would try running some lightweight titles on the original Xbox with 128 megs of ram in it. Of course they would need to be added to the console manually via a modified game card or something like that.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

I’ll definitely have to take a look!

@FoxyAnimater Жыл бұрын

@@AgentLazarus you can talk all ill all you want about any form of Linux or Windows clone that you want, just don't spread it in a light-hearted area. You're not needed here, you should not have commented.

@JamesHastings2008 Жыл бұрын

I tried this and failed years ago. You are a true mad man!

@AtaeruCDX Жыл бұрын

I thought you were going to place the chip onto what appeared to be an empty socket then pass through what would be the dead connections to an existing chip. I was sorta right, but I really wasn't expecting it to be that silly of a solution.

@MrBlakBunny Жыл бұрын

should look into the amiga vampire mods, they do something similar, but they use a special socket to attach to the top of chips, might make doing this mod easier

@balls1602 Жыл бұрын

The thumbnail spells "Upgrade" "Upgrage" lol cool vid as always tho

@hrz_nrd4511 Жыл бұрын

I have done more than 65 xbox 1.0 to 1.4/1.5 128mb upgrade and never thought that this could be possible, good on you mate!! I have an xbox 1.6 and I will do that as well, thank you for this great tutorial!! Amazing...

@sjoervanderploeg4340 Жыл бұрын

I used to run Gentoo on my old XBOX, we had this Traktor FinalScratch (first gen) that ran on WINE. I build WINE for the XBOX and dropped the required asound files from the Traktor ISO and bam we had a cheap DJ box that just needed a TV :D So yea, you could also use the extra RAM to run Linux on it... I still have two or three Xboxes, sadly the 160Gb drive that was used for them has long passed away :(

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Linux would certainly benefit as well!

@tunkunrunk Жыл бұрын

love the intro

@misterbeetz Жыл бұрын

Macho Nacho is on fire with these awesome videos.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏☺️

@killerkip1 Жыл бұрын

its almost bifurcated ram.... interesting. Editorial note: you say "actually" at very random times, may be something worth looking into. Great video!

@machiii7394 5 ай бұрын

btw just as an added, make sure to trim your wires to be fairly tight. You want signals to travel about as fast as through a trace for memory performance (not as important on some older consoles) but is still a good idea nevertheless.

@RastaJediX Жыл бұрын

No love for Dustin or Redherring32? This was discussed as possible before P. Man proved it. Phenom Mod and Dustin also have modules if anyone ever needs a backup to Modzville! And you didn't mention the homebrew that can take advantage of the upgraded memory, as well as patches of retail games, which sometimes work okay and sometimes are terrible. Honestly, it was cool to see this in the video, I knew it was possible for a while now, but I never took the time to look into how to do it. Now that I know what this entails, I can't wait to do this to a 1.6!

@hosam7609 Жыл бұрын

Doing this mod reminds me of ppl who would softmod a wii mini, just like you said, because they can 💪

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

100% 😁👍

@cesarvalle9415 Жыл бұрын

This mod made me remember the early days of the Xbox 360 RGH Dual NAND mods. Those were the days. Great video as always!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed this one 🙏😁

@jeromievalenzuela2190 Жыл бұрын

really cool cant wait. was thinking about buying another non-1.6 xbox just to do this but now no need. thank you for the instructions and prehistoricman's effort.

@samuraijaydee Жыл бұрын

I'd orientate the ram chip based on that circular dimple rather than rely on the text. Good work as ever though!

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

That’s true! Thank you!

@vadermasktruth Жыл бұрын

Smoking legal weed here in Detroit while watching. I couldn't ever imagine doing something like this, but I love your video!

@joeycracknl Жыл бұрын

A big reason many didnt like the v1.6 back in the day was because MS used memory chips of varying quality to keep up with demand or save costs. There are v1.6 xbox with low quality memory might only ran 180MHz instead of the original 200MHz of prior xbox versions. The 1.6 bios tests on boot to see how high the memory can stably run from 200MHz to 180Mhz in steps of 5MHz if i remember correctly. So there could v1.6 xbox's out there with up to 10% lower performance in some games, its crazy to me actually.

@johnsimon8457 5 ай бұрын

oof. You'd have measurably decreased performance in just about every game, but unless you put a 200mhz next to a 180mhz system you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I guess they're bending the limits of what's considered acceptable to the public.

@marcianoacuerda Жыл бұрын

Lol. Prehistoric man sounds like a hacker name from the movie hackers. And with the skills to back it up.

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Love hackers! Total classic!

@doq Жыл бұрын

Oh no! The ram pads are gone! How will I expand my Xbox's memory now? modders, probably: "ahhh just put the ram on top of the other ram it'll be fine"

@turbinegraphics16 Жыл бұрын

Nice, looks like most of the Chihro games were already ported but still might be interesting to play different versions.

@MundoYakara Жыл бұрын

awesome!!

@RedOverlord Жыл бұрын

Hah nice! I was one of the first ones to do one too. pretty cool

@MachoNachoProductions Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@HackerMan1010 Жыл бұрын

Discount 3D V cache ... great vid

@lakojake4215 Жыл бұрын

I thought this was going to be too much work before I realized you have to do this with four chips. My hands feel strained just watching this. So many tiny little pins.