black xbox debug kit??

[Sonikku]

I am in the process of getting an XBox 1 Debug Kit - however, the pictures he showed me where of a black Xbox. However, it does seem to have the debug sticker on bottom. Here are the pics:

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/9863/9d11qf.jpg

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/4257/ae18nj.jpg


However I thought the Debug Kits all had the green case? He described the XDK launcher and included programs so i assume it's legit...anyone else ever run into a black Debug Kit?

[babu]

I guess your bidding on the one I also been looking at.. was going to bid on it until I saw that he had another auction of a broken xbox with the same picture. maybe he was just lazy and didn't want to take a pic of the other xbox.. but it got me to not bid on it.

[JohnA]

There are some black debug kits, but I think some of them only have 64mb.

[Sonikku]

hmm, i'll take the risk that it was lazyness...he's been on ebay since '01 and has a good rep...and he only lives a few hundred miles from here, I can always do a drive by in case of a rip off ;-)

[JohnA]

Good luck, let us know how it turns out.

[babu]

yeah. good luck, I hope it's for real :)

[Pikkon]

It looks fine to me.It should have 128 ram as most DVT4 debug kits have.Now if it was a DVT3 than it could very well have just 64 ram.But its a DVT4 just buy looking at the pic.MS made both,the green debug kit and the black debug kit.

[Sonikku]

Yea, I won the auction, and after talking to the seller i'm fairly certain it's legit. Thanks for the help everyone! I'm sure i'll pester you with a 1000 more once I get it in ;-)

[DeadperfecT]

Hehe, I guess it was you I had the bidding war with. Congrats on the purchase and let us know more when you get it.

[Sonikku]

Ah! I might have known it would be a fellow Assemblergames member!:clap: You gave me quite the run for my money! Truth be told I was about $10 away from having to give up the fight!

I should have it by Friday (the good thing about being in the same state as the seller - even ground shipping takes 2 days ;p) and will snap some pictures and see if there is anything of note on the hard drive before I swap in my new one.

Also, as far as it goes, let me make sure I have the correct procedure down for installing a larger (120GB Seagate 7200RPM) HDD and playing retail games...

For the HDD:
I just swap in the new drive and then boot the system with the XDK Recovery Disc and recover? :shrug: After which I copy the fdrive.dxt to E:\dxt and then format the partiton? Then i'm good to go?

As for playing retail games, I *am* a bit confused here. What I have so far is a program called 'nodebug' whose readme states:


This file reboots a debug xbox with debugging turned off. Now you can play Halo ect without having to use a PC to do a xbreboot -p or use xSwitchx.

Enjoy and happy hacking.
PiXEL8

Does this allow me tu run retail discs or am I greatly confused? If not, what is the correct procedure for doing so (keeping in mind, I would rather *NOT* open the console more than I already did to swap in the new HDD - so any kind of modchip I would rather avoid!)?

Also, as far as running homebrew, I can just use the XDK launcher to load whatever is on the HDD? I know the apps can be compiled for DEBUG or RETAIL, does the XDK launcher care? Or should I just launch my homebrew using whatever dash replacments are out there (and which is best?)?

In the end, I do want it to launch to the XDK launcher at boot, and then load whatever dash instead of having it boot to the h4x0r3d dash directly, so as to maintain the 'cool' factor ;-)

Any help is appreciated, and barring some disaster the answers you provide will keep me happy a long while! :thumbsup:

[oldengineer]

Anyone got a link to the auction?

[Sonikku]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=012&item=220003242648&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&rd=1

[oldengineer]

Thanks for the link, looks like you got a nice bargin, well done :)

[Sonikku]

Thanks! The price did seem good. I just hope it has the 128mb RAM. Seems to be a 50/50 chance going by some stuff iv'e read. Not a deal breaker, but it would be nice ;-)

And good to see you around again OE. Life is too short and there are too many gadgets to yak about to let sillyness get in the way ;-)

[oldengineer]

99% of black Debugs have 64mb RAM, thats the idea of them being black in reality.

99% were made to debug/test specific applications/HW i.e most will only perform one primary function, providing it is still set up as per original build spec.

[Sonikku]

Pity, but it's still a debug! And my first major dev hardware purchase :-)

[oldengineer]

Hey! its no pity, its a result, trust me ;-)

Enjoy.

[hl718]

Thanks! The price did seem good. I just hope it has the 128mb RAM. Seems to be a 50/50 chance going by some stuff iv'e read. Not a deal breaker, but it would be nice ;-)

And good to see you around again OE. Life is too short and there are too many gadgets to yak about to let sillyness get in the way ;-)
Plan on it only having 64 MB of RAM. That said, you'll likely not notice a difference for what you're going to use it for. ;)

Your best option for getting retail games to play is using the DXT hack these days.

Oh, and score on the price. That's relatively cheap for a debug, even a black one.

-hl718

[Borman]

I still wouldnt open it if the seal hasnt been broken :P Nice prive for the debug though, I wouldnt mind having one myself

[Barc0de]

shouldn't it spell debug in the front?

[oldengineer]

shouldn't it spell debug in the front?

No :noooo:

[hl718]

shouldn't it spell debug in the front?
It should if it were a green one.

But this one ain't green. ;)

-hl718

[Sonikku]

Debug unit arrived today...first thing of note - it DOES have 128mb RAM! woohoo!

Nothing on the HDD really, seems a clean XDK install, however, it did have some stickers on bottom:

REMOVED
On second thought, what people dont know won't hurt me.

fun fun.

[mairsil]

So, how drunk would you have to be to call one of those numbers and ask for support for your "new" Xbox?

[Sonikku]

Hmm, so the Xbox for some reason wants to only run in black and white.

This is on an NTSC HDTV and the xbox is also NTSC. The cable that came with it look like some 3rd party deal. Has SVIDEO, RCA, and Component all on one cable with a switch. Tried all, and all show in B&W.

Are debug units picky on cables or is my debug 1/2 broken? :P

[mairsil]

I have had that happen twice with an Xbox. First time was when I had a debug running in PAL mode while hooked up to an NTSC display. Second time was after a (really, unbelievably) bad flash right before it died. I would check your region settings to make sure that it is actually set for NTSC.

[Sonikku]

Yup it's def set to NTSC and region to North America (1)

Grr, why do these things happen to me? :P

[dmeis]

I have 5 Xbox Debug units. 3 are green and two are black.

I'd like to get rid of them. I can't guarantee that they are fully functional but they do power up and show the initial xbox animated logo. If you remove a drive you get the drive error...

These were opened units and used to test hardware for compatibility.

I picked them up for $100 each to mod for gaming systems and quickly learned that they don't play well with mod chips.

I'd like to get my money back out of them.