Has anyone BUILT an X-Box portable?

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:40 am

i had my Xbox opened last night and i got these power suplies.

DVD drive DC 5V/120V

HD 12V

Main Board 12V

Post by **gannon** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:17 pm

no 3.3V?? I'm kinda surprised at that....

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:43 pm

Only 12v?! Didi you look close enough to see that they have 3.3v, 5v and 12v. Also I found out what the blue wire is for, its the power "supply on" connection. If anyone can figure out what the white wire is for tell us.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:45 am

im guessing for signaling the DVD drive to run a DVD if you have a DVD in side the DRIVE.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:47 am

by the way i was talking out of my butt there

EpsilonMirror · Post by **EpsilonMirror** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:13 pm

the dvd drive is only a problem if you plan on playing orginal games, since only an xbox drive or a hacked samsung pc drive will read em. if you plan on runnign nothing but rips then well you can hook just about any drive. the hard drive is also a bit of a problem, unless youre gonna use a hacked bios. if you want to change the hd to a laptop hd youre gonna have to to get your hd password, use some hd setup tools to properly partition the drive, and then you need to lock it if you plan on using a retail bios. but to do all that you need to either mod the thing or exploit the box. basically, unless youre usign all the original components youre probably gonna end up in some gray area of legality

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:53 am

sence I cant Rip games so it ould be all origonal.
i was thinking rebuild a controller and throw a screen in it and it would be a XBOXpKINDA

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:35 pm

I'd be willing to bet it ain't easy. You could probably create one out of a laptop. Being as the XBox is so much like a computer.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:24 pm

After alll that hacking You'd probably get sued

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:50 pm

Good news for those of you that want to make the Xbox portable. This site talks about making an IDE adapter for compact flash card and making the computer think that is the boot disk or HDD. Now I guess all you need is an ITX power supply, and a mod chip you'd have a slitty smaller Xbox.

Post by **gannon** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:55 pm

Ben has one of those for his Atari computer

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:58 pm

You suggested it in the chat a bit back, didn't you?

Post by **gannon** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:06 pm

Indeed you speek the truth!

GOG · Post by **GOG** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:11 pm

ITX power supply

EpsilonMirror · Post by **EpsilonMirror** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 10:00 am

those compactflash adapters have been around for a while. im pretty sure you need at least 8 gigs for an xbox though and 8 gig cf cards cost waaaay more than buying an xbox. a laptop hard drive would be a way better choice imo. oh and about those mini-itx power supplies, they wont work straight away, some xboxes us an at style connector and some use an atx style and the pinouots arent exactly standard