I just want to know since I live in the states, if I get ahold of Trusty and order one of his premodded boards (if he has any available).. If its the right version compatible to my one of my xbox psu's will it work? Im meaning by voltage standards, are the ones he sells US friendly or are they different? Also if you have the CPU speed switch, is that something that can be flipped on the fly or should the xbox be in the off position when ever that switch is flipped? Thanks!
I found out the switch can be flipped any time but does anyone know about the region voltage question? Thanks
Just swap in your regions power supply for the proper Xbox model, no problem at all. Ive done it with development kits in the past.
I have the very first trusty board that has the speed switch. I bugged trusty for over a year to develop the speed control. So if you have any questions at all let me know. You can use the US PSU with no problem and it will have the motherboard set to NTSC already. HE flashed the TSOP for you also so no mod chip is needed. You can also flip the speed switch at any time. It cuts the power to the CPU to drop the performance to half speed. I would really recommend getting it with the speed switch. Any games that run to fast are fixed with a flip of the switch! If you have any questions let me know. I have a couple of the trusty boards and a few of the 1GHz boards also. I also have pretty much every mod chip made for the xbox also.
Not ALL games. Gameplay speed seems to be fixed, but timers, and video playback in many games still suffers. GTA:SA also still needs to be hacked in order to play at proper speed. It's all improvement over the switchless mod, so you might as well spend the extra money. Just keep in mind that the switch isn't perfect. Since the CPU is at 1400MHz default, and the switch only halves the work done, functions like QueryPerformanceCounter() and QueryPerformanceFrequency() aren't using the actual CPU frequency. GTA:SA is an example of a game that is easy to hack to fix, but these timing functions don't offer much higher level control. IDK if these could be hacked at kernel level to "switch" frequencies for the same event as the CPU switch. Say, the power LED switches to orange and a relay triggers the CPU switch, while switching to orange also changes a condition where you would use a different frequency.
