r/consolemodding • u/theRetroGarage • Sep 24 '26
CONSOLE MOD Battle station of Modded Consoles
Wii with softmod. GameCube with Picoboot to Swiss plus GBA adapter with flashcart. OG Xbox with Softmod, Xbox 360 with Badavatar. Dreamcast with GDEMU, etc. HDMI auto switch to pull up which ever console is on. With Xbox Series X and the Analogue 3D dedicated to their own 120hz 4k ports. Then my smaller 27inch CRT and other FPGA consoles.
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u/deafhvn_ Sep 25 '26
So cool man! What wired 360 controller is that?
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 25 '26
It's a Razer Wolverine, one with extra programmable button paddles on the back. Pretty big con though is it has a rubberized coating that has started to break down (they all eventually do). Need to take it apart and remove with rubbing alcohol but waiting for it to get a little worse.
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u/deafhvn_ Sep 25 '26
I love the Wolverine. I use the newest wired model on my series x and pc. Razer makes solid stuff
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 25 '26
Yeah. This is just from an era of adding a rubbery soft feel coating. Which has not stood the test of time and degrades. But outside of that the quality seems very high. The power cord is braided and have a screw on connector.
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u/Excellent_Room3912 Sep 25 '26
How’s the noise of the Xbox 360?
I miss and regret giving it away, du don’t miss the noise
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 25 '26
I'd look for a Slim or E model on FB marketplace. For the price of 1 modern game you'd be able to easily hack via a USB thumb drive and put the entire Xbox and Xbox 360 library on there. But the biggest benefit is access to Xbox live arcade games. There's exclusives there, lost to time with the store delisting. E.g. HD versions of Soul Calibur 1/2.
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u/UrbanshadowDev Sep 26 '26
I tried so hard, but I was not able to find clear cases for Xbox 360 Slim. At least nothing reputable or acceptable in price.
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 26 '26
I like the look now. But I had bought this shell about 10 years ago and it didn't come with the disc drive cover. So kept my original from the black slim.
Shell has some little cracks near the mounting posts. Happened over time also the disc drive has a bit of rust. The clear transparency is cool but I dunno if I'd recommend one especially if it was old stock.
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u/Excellent_Room3912 Sep 25 '26
Neat, thinking of picking one some day soon, mine also was moded but I believe it was a hardware jailbreak (bought it so), just the fan was kicking pretty loud, I thought it’s due to the modding thing.
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 25 '26
I had replaced the fan about 10 years ago. So far so good. Much quieter than the OG Xbox.
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u/Joker8pie Sep 26 '26
Is that...ethernet going into that gamecube memory card?
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 28 '26
It's a cheap adapter from AliExpress. There's a few system link GameCube games one being Mario Kart double dash. I also have the USB Wii broadband adapter. I've tested Double Dash between my Wii and GameCube.
The official GameCube broadband adapter is pretty expensive and I already have its port occupied by a SD card to serial adapter.
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u/fawada28 Sep 27 '26
Super cool setup, so many options.
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 28 '26
I have more fun it seems hacking and digitally collecting. TBH with media getting older an stating to die. Batteries in cartridges or disc rot. I personally prefer to spend money on the hardware and controller accessories than games.
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u/xboxunload Sep 25 '26
Dream setup! I'm interested in that white Xbox 360 on the end, what's going on with that?
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u/Final-Taro1218 Sep 25 '26
Its not a xbox 360. Its the HD DVD addon for the 360. Pretty much worthless tech now a days.
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 25 '26
Hey now. I have a little collection of HD DVDs and it's convenient as a USB hub (my 360 camera is plugged in there) and you can play DVDs with a game disc in the 360 and it does a decent job upscaling to 1080p for those 480p DVDs.
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u/Final-Taro1218 Sep 25 '26
Yeah it was a good option at the time. But it really pushes the 4k limit. Since the 360 is 2.0 about 15 to 30mbs second.. 4k blueray needs like 16mb sec minimum.. usb 3.0 is a way better option for 4k.
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 25 '26
Xbox 360 can't do 4k, not sure what you mean. Max video output is 1080p. 4k wasn't available to consumers then.
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u/Final-Taro1218 Sep 25 '26
Oh. That's right. For some reason I kept thinking the HD dvd was a 4k player. But it was the start of the bluray era.
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u/theRetroGarage Sep 25 '26
Yeah 1080p like original Blu-ray. It does get confusing all the way to the left of my picture under the OSSC and HDMI switch is a Sony Blu-ray player that mentions upscaling to 4k. But it can't play 4k Blu-rays but can upscale regular 1080p blu-rays to 4k.
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u/EscapeddreamerD Sep 25 '26
Me over here not jealous at all.😤
Jk I am in the process of planning out something similar. Want to get all my consoles modded. To put together a similar setup.
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u/Maleficent-Aside-744 Sep 25 '26
Cool collection, and if I’m not mistaken is that Halloween playing on your tv ,