Dubb Soft-mod’s an X-Box
Posted on February 18th, 2005 by A-Dubb in How To's
As always, a “Cover our ass” disclaimer.
I, A-Dubb, and Negative Karma as well as it’s staff are not responsible for any damage to you or any Xbox’s you choose to do this to. You have been warned, Captain Retardo.
You probably read the tutorial on what to do with your Xbox after you’ve modded it, but don’t happen to have a modded Xbox. You’re in luck today as I feel nice enough right now to tell you how to mod your Xbox for free. I’ll let what I just said sink in… Yes, I said free, free fucktard, free, and you won’t need a modchip, soldering iron, flux paste, pin pushers, shit pushers etc. First your going to need some apps before we do this though. Go ahead and connect to “The usual places”. The path you need to follow is xbox/operating systems/linux/distributions/xboxhdm and grab yourself the latest version of xboxhdm as well as the latest version of UDE. Got ‘em? That’s fuckin’ great, you wanna cookie now? Too bad, we’re moving on to the other stuff you need instead.
You got a PC that boots from the CD-ROM at startup? You better. How about the one you’re using now? Ah whatever, I’ll let you get this shit sorted, all you need to know is that you need one. Now we move to modifying an xboxhdm file, adding UDE where it needs to be, making the ISO needed and burning said ISO. Unrar/unzip both xboxhdm and UDE to a folder on your desktop. You must now take the UDE folder and place it in the linux folder inside of the xboxhdm folder. You must modify the make-iso-win.bat file (Right click it and select edit), it should look like this before you do:
mkisofs -o linux.iso -b isolinux.isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -1
You want to modify it so it looks like this:
mkisofs -allow-lowercase -o linux.iso -b isolinux.isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -1
Then save it after you’ve added -allow-lowercase to where it needs to be (Or copy and pasted it you lazy fuck). Now we’re ready for some hot ISO making action, take your pants off and begin touching yourself now. When you’re ready click on the file you just modded. Begin furiously spanking it because you’ve just commenced that hot ISO making action. After you’ve finished torturing your penis and/or vagina, check the folder that “make-iso-win.bat” is in for a new file called “linux.iso” and if it’s there (Which it should be) burn the whore… I mean with Nero or something, not by putting a lite cigarette up to the screen, what the fuck is wrong with you? The doctor play “Catch the newborn” with you, then missed? If this is the case, you’d do well to end yourself now and save me the trouble later on. Moving forward. You’ve now completed the easy part believe it or not.
You may now open that PC I told you to get. Once open disconnect the IDE cable (That flat cable coming out of the back of the hard drive in there) from the back of the hard drive and pull the power plug out of the back as well because if you have to do this more than a few times you may fry it, and we, well, you don’t want that. Take the IDE cable just hanging out of your PC and check it for length, you need to make sure this can reach the Xbox’s hard drive when it’s time. It is now time to crack open that Xbox of yours to get to the juicy hard drive (Note, if your hard drive is actually juice when you open up the Xbox, consult the Ghostbusters, you’ll thank yourself later). There’s 6 screws on the bottom of the Xbox and you’ll need a Torx screwdriver set for this. 4 are located under the rubber feet and the other 2 are hiding under 2 of the stickers on the bottom of the box. Just use your thumb to feel around on the sticker until you find screw holes, now get it open. The top will just lift off. Is it open? Good. You can do this one of 2 ways, leave that shiny hard drive in it’s little plastic tray and which I find to be harder, or you can remove it from the tray and flop it over the back of the Xbox for easier access. If you choose to remove it from the tray, you’ll need different size Torx screw drivers. There are 3 more screws to get the tray out, 2 on either side of the DVD drive towards the front of the console, and one under that IDE cable. Remove them, then unplug the power and IDE cable from the back of the hard drive and lift that tray out. Now look on the sides and you’ll notice 4 more Torx screws, go ahead and get those out. Now your Xbox hard drive is free from it’s hot console prison. Push that tray aside, you won’t need it until you put the console back together. Plug those cables back into the Xbox drive and flop it over the back of the console.
Practice swapping is probably a good idea at this point. If you haven’t already, unplug the power and AV plug from the back of the Xbox and get it nice and close to the PC, which you should also unplug. I’m not telling you to unplug these or you may get shocked, I honestly don’t give a fuck if you get shocked, in fact, email me if you do get shocked by this so I can laugh at you. I’m telling you this so you don’t fry anything in the Xbox and/or the PC. You may now commence your practice hotswaps. Here’s the rule, you have less than 2 seconds to do this, and do it right, I’m not fucking around, you really have less than 2 seconds to do this when it’s time. Go ahead and practice, get it down to a fine science.
Get them skills flowin’? Good, here’s the moment of truth, and mind you this will take more than one try, and if you get it on the first try, fuck you. I hope you die, I’m serious. I want you to end up in the gutter dying of rectal cancer, asshole. Anyway, plug those power cords and AV cord back in the machines they go to, then you may turn the Xbox on and watch the TV, when it gets to the dashboard (You know, the area where you can select what you want to do whether it be listen to music or whatever), then turn that PC on. As soon as Linux loads on the PC and you get a welcome screen for xboxhdm (It’s all going to be text, no GUI) HOTSWAP NOW! Remember, you have less than 2 seconds.
The way you’ll know you did it right is when xboxhdm on your PC finally loads the kernel, just wait for this to happen (About 20 to 30 seconds). As soon as it gets done loading the kernel you’ll get another welcome message that welcomes you to the Fat-X enabled Live Linux, you can ignore the rest and type in all caps (Without quotes as always) “UDE” and hit enter on your keyboard. If you’re met with a message saying it can’t find an Xbox partition, you must turn everything off, hook the Xbox’s IDE back up to the Xbox’s hard drive and try again. Keep trying until you get a message that says it found an Xbox partition on primary master. Nevermind what that means, just know you finally got it. Once you finally get it go ahead and type “UDE -UDE2″ and hit enter, unless you have a shitty PAL Xbox, but you have to live in Europe for that, if you do have a PAL Xbox you need to type “UDE -UDE1″ instead. It’s going to backup your Xbox’s hard drive, just let it do this. After that it’s going to try to find your Xbox’s EEPROM, but if this is the first time you’ve modded this Xbox, it’s not going to find one, don’t worry, it will install one for you later. It’s going to look for your “update.xbe” file now to install the gamesave exploit, you probably won’t need to doing anything up to this point as this all does it on it’s own in most cases. Now it’s going to ask you if your Xbox is NTSC as UDE2 will only work on NTSC Xbox’s, you have an NTSC Xbox if you live in the US and Canada, so you go ahead and type “y” and hit enter. The next screen is going to ask about installing a BIOS loader, and you want this so you’ll type “y” again and hit enter. Now it wants to know what BIOS loader you’d like. Just select 3 by typing 3 as it’s better than the rest of your choices, you may now hit enter again. It will now ask you what BIOS you’d like, you have the choice of an Evo-X BIOS (Option 2) or an outdated X2 BIOS (Option 1), the choice should be obvious, type the number 2 and hit enter. Now we come to the meat of mod, the dash selection, but you only have two to choose from. Just as reference, MXM is shit and Evo-X has more options and all around better features, so go ahead and avoid the crap and select option 2 and hit enter, this will be the last thing you do as it will now mod your Xbox and install a few tools automatically, such as LTools and boXplorer. Yippee for you dipshit. You’ll know you’re done when you get the message “All Done!” You may now turn the PC and Xbox off. Now reasemble the Xbox just like you took it apart.
Start your Xbox up and weep gently as you marvel at Evo-X running on your modded Xbox. You may proceed to my tutorial on what exactly to do after this mod by clicking somewhere that no longer exists, or you can send me money, or send me porn (If you’re female you may send me porn of you pleasuring yourself with common household items, I won’t mind if you do, in fact I demand you do it, I showed you how to do this which means I can make your Xbox blow up your house, just send the homemade porn of yourself so we don’t have to go through that), or you can just sit there and cry every time you turn the Xbox on, or do all 4. Whatever you want you want to do is fine with me though I prefer the money and porn (And demand videos of women diddling themselves). Enjoy your seXbox.
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