I am specifically looking into modding. Is there anything cool I can do with it besides ABadAvatar? I am planning to expand storage to 1TB SSD. Drive also can be flashed but it seems to be super expensive to get flashing tool for that.
Also, if I go ABadAvatar route, is there a way to lock xbox into autobooting directly into Aurora without waiting for ABadAvatar to perform unschackle?
If you want a mod that persists, you’d need to do a hardware modification called the RGH exploit. It’s doable on an Xbox 360 S, but you need decent re-soldering skills to pull it off. I haven’t done it in years, but it sounds like ABadAvatar could make the process a lot easier than it used to be.
I been reading and things are confusing for me. Some say that I only need 2 wires to run across the motherboard and run ABadAvatar. But if I read ConsoleMods wiki, it seems that I need a programmer. I have ordered rpi pico for this and will dive into it once I figure out the process.
With RGH3 you technically don’t absolutely need a flasher since you can technically flash from within the BadUpdate jailbreak, but a flasher is nice if you need to recover the nand if something goes wrong.
But you may want to consider just going the BadAvatar route. My soldering skills are above average after university but if you’re not used to SMD stuff you will struggle. BadAvatar takes less than a minute and will boot you into Aurora right after it finishes.
Its also worth noting that some later slims can’t be hardmodded at all so just look out for that. I would recommend the consolemods wiki and if you look on YouTube you’re bound to find some resources
I know things have changed since I last did an RGH setup, which is probably where the confusion comes from; things are changing even though the scene was most active 10+ years ago.
I imagine you don’t need a NAND flasher now that ABadAvatar exists, but I could be mistaken. The process used to be, at a really high level: solder the NAND flasher/dumper, dump the original NAND, solder the RGH timer, then flash a NAND with a good timing profile for that console.
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I am specifically looking into modding. Is there anything cool I can do with it besides ABadAvatar? I am planning to expand storage to 1TB SSD. Drive also can be flashed but it seems to be super expensive to get flashing tool for that.
Also, if I go ABadAvatar route, is there a way to lock xbox into autobooting directly into Aurora without waiting for ABadAvatar to perform unschackle?
If you want a mod that persists, you’d need to do a hardware modification called the RGH exploit. It’s doable on an Xbox 360 S, but you need decent re-soldering skills to pull it off. I haven’t done it in years, but it sounds like ABadAvatar could make the process a lot easier than it used to be.
I possess soldering skills so that is no issue.
I been reading and things are confusing for me. Some say that I only need 2 wires to run across the motherboard and run ABadAvatar. But if I read ConsoleMods wiki, it seems that I need a programmer. I have ordered rpi pico for this and will dive into it once I figure out the process.
With RGH3 you technically don’t absolutely need a flasher since you can technically flash from within the BadUpdate jailbreak, but a flasher is nice if you need to recover the nand if something goes wrong.
But you may want to consider just going the BadAvatar route. My soldering skills are above average after university but if you’re not used to SMD stuff you will struggle. BadAvatar takes less than a minute and will boot you into Aurora right after it finishes.
Its also worth noting that some later slims can’t be hardmodded at all so just look out for that. I would recommend the consolemods wiki and if you look on YouTube you’re bound to find some resources
I know things have changed since I last did an RGH setup, which is probably where the confusion comes from; things are changing even though the scene was most active 10+ years ago.
I imagine you don’t need a NAND flasher now that ABadAvatar exists, but I could be mistaken. The process used to be, at a really high level: solder the NAND flasher/dumper, dump the original NAND, solder the RGH timer, then flash a NAND with a good timing profile for that console.
I don’t know the program names anymore, but a buddy had his 360 homebbrewed with emulators and that was a good time