Xbox 360 Dev Collection (Pic Heavy)

I believe this trumps everything





Note the interior floppy drive lol

 

I'm erect.

 

The granddaddy of all Xbox consoles and devs worldwide mate.

I'm sure I made the right decision to buy this over an Xbox One XDK. This is history.

 

Dammit Deep3r. Now I have to change my pants.....and shirt....and shoes....and wash my hair.....and clean off my desk.....and the computer....and my neighbors car....

THANKS!

 

Must have been a huge sexplosion

 

Epic dude....epic.... Two towns over heard it.

 

Nice, original power supply as well, they shipped with the floppy in reverse like that, fancy EA sticker too. I'm curious about the following:
Mother BIOS version and does it have the XBOX fancy splash screen.
VGA BIOS version:
CPU Speed and Clock, some early ones were different.
Make & Model of Hard drive and if it still boots, what version is on it.
There will be a date written in black sharpie on the back of the unit, curious to that as well.
Congrats on the early Xbox, it's great that no one plucked off the Jewel and it still has the PCI slot hold-downs.

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The BIOS versions I will be able to tell you at some other point, I'm at my girlfriends now and the kit is back at mine. The splash screen is that one where it goes through the Xbox logo with the sparkles from left to right. Same as above for CPU speed and clock. I didn't get the model of the HDD but it's a 20.5GB Western Digital Caviar. It boots to 3521.1 with only a couple of samples, dolphin and something else (I'll get it at another point). The date is 29/09/00.

And thanks bro, it's a gem.

 

The date is 29/09/00.

Wow that's early, keep it as is, if you are going to slap on May 2001 recoveries to play South Park use another 20GB PATA hard drive.

 

Of course I will!

I'm unsure of the date of my current recovery. My forte has always been 360, I've dabbled in original before but not loads. And yeah the guy I got it from said to put another hard drive in if I was to recover.

Care to explain South Park a bit further? I'm in need of some builds for it. As far as I'm aware it won't play final games / games built for normal XDKs or retail etc.

 

Borman made South Park available to download for the Alpha's, it crashes here and there but it does play on these towers, I think you need the sound card to load it, which you do have. They look sexy just running Dolphin I think, an early fishtank pic, it has grown since.

 

Hmmmm I don't want to sound stupid but I've searched around, even through borman's threads and his PtoPonline sites / videos with no luck. Would you have a link bud? Would be appreciated!

Is that your collection?? I've always dreamed of owning an Alpha Xenon kit! Any chance you would sell one? They are beautiful bud.

I also wanted to ask about the SDK. The guy I bought it off said it wouldn't work on XP, so I don't imagine it having any chance on 10. I'm guessing I need a VM with Win2k and the visual studio and stuff installed. Again, if you had any links or directions for that, I would appreciate it greatly bud!

Cheers

 

My bad, had the wrong cartoon, it was The Simpson's
http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/community-dump-xbox-alpha-games.35325/#post-530685

 

@Syclopse @XboxSurgeon

Little video of her starting up. Found the hard drive to be a WD Caviar 205AA (20.5GB)

Also, Syclopse, you never mentioned if they were your kits. Or your friends kits?



EDIT: Also, this was on the bottom, not sure anyone has ever shown it.

 

Ok, looks like EA upgraded their Alpha 1 to Alpha 2 specs or that's a leftover badge from the guys that assembled these after they were custom painted.
Has the 128MB, has the GeForce NV20 64MB and of course the 733Mhz CPU and sound card.
I know for a fact that the 360 G5 Alpha kit owners were sent an upgraded video card in a separate box and once installed the OS would report Alpha2 instead of Alpha1. So I'm assuming the same with these OG Alpha's.

Also ask the seller of this kit if he/she has any of the documentation, shipping boxes, hammer head controllers and original recoveries. If you can download that splash screen from the BIOS let me know.

 

3521 is May 2001 recovery btw.

SDK software works fine on Windows XP.

 

Any idea what hard drives you can swap out with? I heard about some recoveries only accept 20GB drives.

I'm also talking about connections etc. I'm 21 and wasn't really around for the times of PATA / IDE conections, so I'm unsure what is what mate. I've seen the exact drive for sale but its way more expensive than some of similar ones I've seen. I just don't know if I'm looking at the right spec.

Thanks!

 

Ive used a 40GB PS2 harddrive on every recovery Ive gotten my hands on. I think its more that the minimum needs to be 20. Ive used recoveries from the late 2000's through to May 2001 with that HDD.

 

Of course, there is probably a size limit as well. But 20-40gb works at the very least

 

Awesome! This is for sure one of the holy grails for OG Xbox collectors