Complete VGA Mod Guide (Diagrams, Hex Edits), HD vs. S-Video comparison, bad games. Options

[leeloo5]

http://antibeat.host.sk/vgaguide/

It took me a while to find various information about vga mods here. people were very helpful, but the tutorials were slightly old and some of the diagrams confusing. also, i only knew about hex editing after stumbling upon it.

To make it easier for someone to get into making a VGA mod to play xbox games on their PC monitors, i've brought together much of this information from the xs forums. I made my own diagrams i thought were more clear, and tried to make it all as simple as possible. Although i tried to keep it simple, i wanted to introduce someone with no information to the terms assosiated with doing the mod so that they could easily search this forum for relevant information.

Includes:
-HD vs s-video comparison with screenshots
-Guide with diagrams on wiring a vga cable
-Quick guide to hex editing the MS Dashboard and other non-HD games to work in 480p
-A list of games with the green-tint problem

This post has been edited by xboxgamer733: Apr 6 2007, 06:20 AM

[leeloo5]

1. I use the ind bios 06 since my Hard drive is 120gigs. Sorry, but I can't help you with not picking up the G partition.

2. I also have a 1.0 with Xenium ice and i use the Ind bios 5001 vga patched 06.

3. Any capacitors should work, but i'm not perfectly sure about that. I picked some standard ones up from Radioshack. the cheap ones should be fine, but more expensive ones just allow for higher voltages (which should not occur anyway).

4. I don't know why your games would be green and your dash fine. Unless your games are on the non-working list, there should be no problem. for example Halo 1 and Halo 2 work great for me.

5. For any display problems, it might be good to unplug the monitor cable and replug it in after the game / dash has loaded. this way the monitor is recieving a steady signal that doesn't change around. some monitors are pretty picky.

Note: I'm only someone who sifted through many tutorials I felt were vague and unclear. I only have one setup, a US xbox 1.0 with a Xenium Ice and I can only test so many monitors. I wrote the guide to give people another perspective with what i think are clearer images. I'm sorry if I can't solve your problems, I hope you guys understand and good luck.