Building the Ultimate Xbox 360 #Helpful Post

hey guys Boston and today it's time to

finally build what you guys have been

asking for for months this is the

ultimate Xbox 360 so of course to start

with we have our pristine brand new in

box Xbox 360 4 gig with Kinect I mean

the last part was true when it comes to

building the ultimate console one of the

most important things is to find

something that is compatible with the

most accessories and even though you can

get some stuff for the original Xbox 360

as well as the super slam this is

definitely going to be our best bet

oh boy what a wonderful packing job ok

well the first thing we're gonna find

here is actually one of the weirdest

Xbox 360 accessories the original Kinect

Manstein's gusting leader you see the

level of scratches on this does that

come up on camera it looks like

someone's like rub this thing down with

sandpaper hey at least we got it for

smooth $20 thanks Ken obviously this is

the way you've got to play your Xbox oh

why is it so dirty dude there's like you

can literally see dust like collected

inside the fan here could have found us

a cleaner Xbox

okay so now that we have a slightly

cleaner Xbox the first accessory has to

be Kinect now this is a really weird one

millions they by far the biggest

accessories it was available for the 360

but in some ways it was a pretty big

success but in a lot of ways was kind of

a failure so it came out in 2010 several

years after the Xbox 360 came out and

the idea here is that with a series of

cameras and sensors who basically turned

you into the controller there was this

famous demo at e3 before this was

announced back when it's called project

natal where they had this kid

skateboarding in his room using nothing

but his body as the controller and it

looks super super awesome of course as

with nearly all of these demos it wasn't

quite as good as it sort of seen what

you actually got your hands on it thus

this was picked up for 20 bucks and a

bargain bin somewhere well before we get

to that we have to finish upgrading our

Xbox 360 and the first thing we're going

to do is put in a bigger hard drive so

back in these days Microsoft's old

internal hard drives that you could

install yourself because for some

wonderful reason this Xbox 360 was

shipping with only four gigabytes of

capacity mostly so they could actually

bundle connect in the box which I'm as

you can imagine for a more modern

console not exactly a lot of storage so

if you flip over the 360 there's a

little panel here where you can drop in

a hard drive so this guy is going to

give us 500 gigabytes of capacity

although as always we're gonna go pub

that but it's an easy way of getting a

lot more storage in what is really a

very difficult Xbox to use if you don't

have at least some kind of SSD or HDD or

USB yeah that's all the things right HDD

USB SSD so something interesting is is

that even though the Xbox one doesn't

allow you to install an internal hard

drive the 360 always did so he runs with

the original fat Xbox 360 actually had

these top mounted hard drives which were

really easy to pop on and off but with

the slim they move to this sort of

cartridges design which realistically is

just a two and a half inch laptop drive

that you just slide in something like

that and because of course we're trying

to build the ultimate Xbox 360 I mean

500 gigabytes of capacity is definitely

not going to be enough which is where

the Seagate game drive comes in so this

is a 500 gigabyte SSD now this is

typically meant for the Xbox one as it

does have USB 3.0 and actually is going

to be faster than the internal drive how

/ this is before USB 3.0 so instead

we're hooking up a 500 gigabyte USB 2.0

as a C so that'll lead fast so the Xbox

360 was the last of the major consoles

to stick with only dual layer DVD

support and that was fine for stuff like

the ps2 but when I came to the 360

while most games weren't able to fit on

a single DVD quite a few actually did

need to ship on multiple discs however

unlike the ps3 which had blu-ray support

that was nowhere to be found on the 360

and thus this wonderful ridiculous

accessory was born the Xbox HD DVD

player so for those of you who are not

familiar with the HD DVD format this was

essentially the competitor to blu-ray

back in the day that's the HD DVD name

pretty clever I know are you serious it

looks like a mini fat Xbox 360 I never

realized that I've never actually seen

one of these in person yo I mean it

doesn't match with this at all but that

is so cool so now it's time to connect

this so we've got our power adapter

we've also got our second part of the

power adapter and then it connects via

mini USB this whole thing feels straight

out of 2006 so when it first came out

the HD DVD add-on was a pretty

impressive $200 which still actually

probably would have been cheaper than a

lot of the HD DVD players at the time

but of course it went absolutely nowhere

and thus we have blu-ray and I have a

really ridiculous player that we have a

game for oh sorry they'll actually they

make games for it right so this is only

for movies I forgot do we have a movie

for it

march of the Penguins okay so this is

one of the very few HD DVDs that existed

so one of the only real issues with the

Xbox 360 and the Xbox one of today still

is that they run on double-a batteries

although thankfully we have a way around

that - this is the Nyko

so in addition to giving you two

rechargeable batteries in the box it's

also going to be a little dock we can

actually charge our controllers with it

just feels so weird to be opening up all

these old accessories that have clearly

been sitting around some like Amazon

bathrooms like five years but it's ok

they're gonna have a better life now so

I don't think that's not gonna fit

whatever uh-huh this hole fit so

you can see why this is supposed to look

like if you don't have your giant chat

pad on uh-huh

now with all these accessories connected

to our Xbox 360 one might worry that it

might get a little bit warm perhaps get

a little bit of a red ring of death

perhaps even though there's a slim and

it does actually physically have red

rings to do that with well in that case

we have an inner cooler you know that

wonderful accessory that we've tried on

many many many occasions and has never

done anything let's try it here so the

claim to fame with this one isn't so

much to let the temperatures run a

little bit cooler when you're normally

using your xbox 360 but for when you've

got it in a confined space it's supposed

to direct hot air away from the console

okay so this is a pretty small

intercooler I will say so basically

you've got one fan on the inside which

actually kind looks like a GPU fan and

then I guess it sort of mounts onto the

side something like that seems a little

bit excessive don't you just clip it on

to the side yeah you just clip it on the

side there we go that doesn't look like

the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen

and of course because everything here is

mounted via USB I'm gonna use up the

last port on the back of the Xbox I've

got to say that is looking a little bit

more like the ultimate Xbox 360 one film

all right so we've got some decent stuff

here the Xbox is going to be cool it's

going to have an HD DVD experience we're

going to have wireless rechargeable

controllers and a Kinect which is useful

for all kinds of games that are not

called just dance however there's one

last piece that I think it's gonna

really pull this all together so this is

the vault for Xbox 360 and it's a little

bit unusual so if you pop it open here

what you're going to find is that not

only is it all going to be branded with

battlefield 3 but it's essentially a

case for the 360 it's a little bit weird

so they use it as like oh look you can

sort of mount a control on the side of

it make it look all cool but I don't

know why you want this oh oh wow okay

assembly instructions when I say I'm

gonna be building the ultimate Xbox 360

I didn't think I actually had to

literally build it Oh hook

okay well this is the thing and multiple

pieces so it looks like a claymore in a

smoke grenade and so with that we have

the ultimate Xbox 360 and all it's

really ridiculous plastic glory so after

a quick battery change we've got you

know the LEDs working on our supercool

Claymore

so you know that's a thing hey look it's

got me so this is what it looks like

with Kinect when you actually have you

know a working skeleton we also do have

everything showing up so it shows our

500 go by a hard drive as well as our

476 gigabyte SSD and we also have the HD

DVD player which has 191 megabytes free

had so of course we're gonna have to

play a game with this setup and what

better than Skyrim which apparently is

better with Kinect

oh no Trey doesn't open I think our tray

is busted

oh it just took three tries to open up

that's fine that's what you should

expect out of the ultimate Xbox 360 it's

really weird to put a disc in a system

and not have to wait for it to download

and patch and update it just starts

maybe this is the ultimate console after

all so apparently I can use Kinect to

shout voice commands in Skyrim which

doesn't sound particularly useful Wow

what revolutionary Kinect gameplay I'm

really amazed with the the power of this

technology super helpful actually here's

something curious so I've got Skyrim in

the DVD drive right now it shows play

Skyrim but I also now have an HD DVD in

the HD DVD player so how do I actually

get to that my video apps oh oh we found

it there's an HD DVD app oh no I can't

read this disc if it's a game CD your

disc put it in there Xbox 360 disc tray

come on are you serious

my xbox my ultimate xbox it's all

failing me so that my friends is how not

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