– Retrodrömmar
The original Xbox was released in 2001, way over 20 years ago at the time of writing this post. The console is built like a tank, but as any old piece of electronic, it has some weaknesses. Except for failing DVD-drive and old IDE hard drives, many of the early Xboxes suffer from old capacitors. If left untouched, these capacitors may start to leak and…
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In this post we will describe how you format your Xbox 360 hard drive to make it compatible with original Xbox games. The context of the post is that we bought a new 3rd party harddrive for our Xbox 360 s, and per default it does not support original Xbox games due to it is lacking a compatibility partition (which results in a “This original…
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The original Xbox, launched by Microsoft in 2001, is still a popular console to run homebrew games and emulators on. However, as with any old hardware, the console’s weaknesses are starting to show. One of those weaknesses is the optical drive, a common source of error on old video game consoles. One common errors are that the DVD-tray is stuck, and won’t eject. Another common…
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If you recieve a message “Your Xbox can’t recognize this disc. Make sure it’s an Xbox game, DVD movie, or audio CD. Also check to see if the disc is dirty or damaged. Remove the disc to continue.” from your old Xbox, it might be time to clean the laser. In this post I will show you how to open your console, and clean the laser….
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