I just got my Xbox this past Friday and it's of course a v1.6. I sucessfully did the gamesave hack and can run stuff off of my hard drive. I was talking to my cousin who has an older Xbox and no interest at all in modding. He offered to trade me if I wanted to. I'm sure his should be quite a few kernels back... he got it over a year ago when they were giving away Sega GT and Jet Set Future with it. I'm sort of assuming I should be able to put the UDE on it, and my question is whether or not the benefits of the UDE would outweigh having my new box, warranty and all. Probably wouldn't even consider it except that reading around it doesn't sound like anyone has any idea's on how to get around the 1.6 through softmodding, so no telling if it'll even be able to be fully cracked. Basically just asking for people's opinions. (and also cause I don't really know all of the benefits of UDE)

yes you should

My buddy traded his new xbox w/ someone for an old one. I soft modded it and put a 250 gig hard drive in for him. Definitely would do the same if I were you.

Okay... I just checked out his box... it was manf. on 2002-7-18, with Kernel - 1.00.4034.01 and Dashboard 1.00.4034.01. Should that be pretty exploitable?? (also... there is not functionality on the new box that I'm losing on an old one or anything, am I?)

A 1.0 xbox, a very good one to have go for it

EDIT and also UDE works very well with that dash no need to hex edit anything
back it up first thing...

Also, 1.0 box's (besides sharp TSOPS) are the easiest to TSOP. I recommend it.

xman954 - So UDE would work well with this box?? I'm guessing that if I want to softmod, that UDE would definately be the way to go from all I've read. What would be the best way to go about all this... I've seen like four different methods... including a memcard package. I was thinking about going that route since it seems the easiest... but easiest doesn't mean squat if it messes up my box. I've seen a lot about having a 4920 (I think that's the right number) Dash when using UDE... do I need to upgrade my dash first?

don't upgrade your dash
it will just cause more trouble later
UDE does not actually exploit the dashboard
keep the pre live dash board

Could I just use Idot's Memcard UDE package to install it? Or with this early a dash would that mess something up?

I'd TSOP flash that sucker. It has a 1meg TSOP, so you can flash half of it with a hacked bios and the other half with your standard M$ bios. Make a switch and you have your own modchip. The solder points are not that bad and you don't have to worry about it having a warranty since it is so old. Although an exploit would work fine, TSOP flashes are easier to manage, for me at least

get a gamesave hack working first
then FTP the stuff in but,
you should TEST the UDE setup first by
"not renaming xboxdash.xbe"
just put update.xbe in the root of C:\
then edit evox.ini to run C:\update.exe as a APP
and see if it works first............

once you get it working correctly then rename the 2 files


IF you upgrade your dash from 4034 it makes it a lot harder
to get the ms dash working

Okay... I used Idot's Memcard package... worked great. I had to try it twice though... the first time I chose PBL, and after the install when I restarted it all I got was a black screen. I uninstalled it and then tried again with Nkpatcher and it worked like a charm. Was even able to replace MXM with UnleashX. I'm loving it. But I also see what you all mean about not being able to access my dash anymore or use the in-menu restart (which is probably more of a UnleashX problem than a UDE problem). Could anyone give me any tips on what I need to edit or change to make it able to access my dash again? I greatly appreciate all the help already. UDE kicks ass