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@@burgersbeansandchips I had the same standard 360 for like 8 years before I eventually grew out of using it. It had issues like it wouldn't read disks unless I was smacking it during the reading process, but it still functioned!
That first 360, if it has a service date, it likely had it's gpu swapped. They stopped swapping whole mother boards in '09 and just started swapping the chips themselves.
I love these videos of you going through old consoles and peoples old profiles; I wonder who these people are? what are they doing now? It's really cool history that you don't see on RUclips at all, brings back so many memories of all the old profiles I had on the consoles that I played.
15:30 For context as someone who worked for Goodwill, that tag appears to be a label that would be used for organizing products that are getting prepared for shipping or pickup. The top line is the Goodwill it was prepped at, middle line would be the name of the employee who prepped or listed the product online, and the date of packaging. The letter and number code at the very bottom is used to identify products as they are being shelved in the warehouse. It could be that this console was supposed to be picked up by a customer, but they never came so they sold it in a lot. Great videos, Jacob. Loving this series, it's wild how beat up some of these consoles can be and still function well.
pretty cool to watch. I used to refurbish 360s and flip em...also flipped iphones . I remember it was right around 2012 when i stopped doing this because it just became too complicated for me to want to keep up with all the anti-piracy software they started adding to everything that prevented basic maintenance.
FYI, the sealed "Microsoft warranty holographic sticker" was put there just so Microsoft would know if the case had been opened before to deter people from thinking they could fix their own electronics, but it's illegal for companies to void your warranty solely based on one sticker by using this method of using those "tamper proof" stickers so if you attempted to repair your console yourself. So they were basically put there to make you think that you couldn't send it back to Microsoft to get RROD fixed if the seal had been broken....but by law they had to fix all RROD consoles after the whole "right to repair" law passed which made it where companies like Apple/MS etc couldn't prevent you from replacing the screen or battery on your iPhone (as opposed to strictly making you pay the OEM company to fix/replace/install any broke parts by "official Microsoft technician") Source: I used to buy RROD 360s for like $10-25 on Craigslist or had broken disc drives, and I'd look up the serial number and then request a box from Microsoft where they would send a prepaid foam box for you to ship the console back to Microsoft for them to either fix the GPU heat sync and washers/screws... which was what most of the RROD consoles were caused from, which was the onboard GPU overheating due to how the factory put the heatsync on. Or they'd sometimes upgrade your entire motherboard to a newer version that couldn't get RROD....and im still using 2 of those OG black "Elite" 360 models that still run like new to this day....as I absolutely had a love/hate relationship with the newer "slim" black consoles with the front touch sensitive on button that could ruin your 12 hour long gaming session if you had a cat that brushed its tail ANYWHERE near the front of the console and it would either open the disc drive or completely turn the console off. Also used to replace the disc drives...by plugging in the SATA port of the disc drive into my PC and to read the disc drive to see what manufacturer/model the drive was to replace it with the same model drive and use Monkey Flasher to flash the security key that is binded to each disc drives specific console and reflash the firmware and original security key to the new disc drive so it would continue playing games... since all of the security features for game piracy etc was all just from one little chip they added on to different Samsung/Lite-On/etc 360 disc drives)
Broken or dirty sensor switches for the tray position will make the light blink and tray not cooperate. Also if some plastic tracking is broke off the bottom of the tray. You must have some spare trays to swap in. Slims will also do this if the sensor block is knocked out of place where it clips in to the black plastic. Also some of these plastics are getting super brittle, especially the 15+ year old ones.
I tried a tray swap (with the elite console that was having slight issues) and it didn’t do anything. The sensors were also cleaned and seems to be playing nicely. I do wonder if some of the plastic inside of the elite tray was warped or ever so slightly out of place though.. (since it appears someone was originally trying to pry the disc drive out). Either way, it seems to be working ok now once I swapped in a slightly used belt instead of a brand new one. Any other random symptoms you’ve seen with 360 drives?
@@jrob0021 No but I got another tip about a 360 issue that literally nobody ever talks about. When you reassemble the 360 and put the motherboard back in the cage, pay attention that the board does not flex. One corner might not want to lay flat and spring up. That is because the X-Clamp is pushing against the bottom of the cage. This was the only issue with X-clamps from day one and nobody got the solution right. Easiest fix is to tap out the cage around the black screw holes until the board seats good.
Wow this was a blast from the past! Hitting the top to get the disc tray to open killed me lol, I don't even know how long it's been since I've thought about that.
big props at 18:02 when you opened the tray and the game was Oblivion. my fav game ever. i hope whoever had that console is doing great in life today and is waiting on elder scrolls 6 like the rest of us
I wish gaming had the same vibe back when the 360 was new, like 2006-2009. Maybe I just feel that way because I was young but just the vibe of taking your console to your friends, cousins, or grandparents. Before pre orders you had to wait outside to get it at midnight so you didn't have to wait forever just to get the game. The jankyness of the consoles too even though that was why they'd break but that's even nostalgic to me. Even the game informer mags. Best times for me specifically where winter nights during the holidays playing gta 4, MW2, Halo 3 just waiting for Christmas, seeing family, and just always eating good food... man....
OMG! THE 360 WITH THE DISK DRIVE FRONT PEICE MISSING WAS MINE!!! I LOST MY POWER CABLE SO I HAD TO OPEN IT WITH A KNIFE!! TO GET MY GAME! 😂😂😂 OMG THATS NUTTS!! I SOLD IT A WHILE BACK!
One of the coolest parts of digging out your old consoles is seeing all your old friends stuff on there. It was really awesome firing up the N 64 and seeing all our old records on there and trying to beat them 25 + years later haha.
Nah bro they gave a free repair to the rrod and it was a loss of billion dollars. Not defending Microsoft but still a very reputable or respectable company in these console series
Our xbox had a lot of xbox live profiles as well because people would come over for sleep overs and sign into their own to play split screen, so that might be the reason some have so many.
I find Xbox’s occasionally at work. I work in paper and electronics recycling, so people occasionally drop off gaming consoles. And I usually keep them. I haven’t tried using them yet though. But Xbox 360 and Xbox one are the consoles I find most, which is interesting. But as far as I can tell they all work! I should see what’s on them.
As a long time 360 user and enthusiast this was a lot of fun None of those were mine but I'm definitely one of the people that would have opened it up (albeit with a bit more care) and just tried cleaning things willy nilly 😅
A couple days ago when I was at this goodwill tech store the lady at the counter started yelling at me to stop taking apart the "whole" console of the xbox 360 even though all i did was LIFT THE COVER ON THE BOTTOM TO SEE IF IT HAD A HARD DRIVE IN IT ._.
I used to work at a student union on a college campus. They have student facilities where students can play games. This was recent and they still had xbox360s. So you are most defiantly right some of these xboxs could have defiantly been used on college campus as an Xbox for all students.
I've bought 6 of these older 360's broken, and was able to fix 5 of them by replacing the electrolytic capacitors on the main board. One from 2006 still had the blades system.
I recently got a new 360 slim to play some of my favorite 360 games, but my old Elite was pretty reliable up until the disk drive stopped working. I had to constantly manually eject it. That was really the only issue though. Thanks for the vid - this brings back so much nostalgia!
Would not be surprised if that one 360 with the missing panel on the drive tray and all those crazy profiles was used in a frat house and everybody just created their own profiles. There was a parent control on there so non-members of the frat could not mess with it.
Love this, i bought an extra memory card for my ps2 to replay some games i used to play as a kid, and it had old save files on it, this video reminded me of that
I think you'd see A LOT of that Halo 3 trailer because, for a time, literally that trailer was the most popular thing to ever exist. I recall a particular bit of misinformation from someone saying "it shows his face without a helmet!" led me to IMMEDIATELY go home and download it as soon as school was over... In fact, that trailer still sits on my console to this very day owing to how nostalgic it is and relatively little space it uses
Just BTW, the late Zephyr consoles (these from end of 2007 or serviced from 2008, 2009+) have reliable Falcon 80nm "Rhea" GPU, so they most likely still work. Same with Xenons, these serviced in 2009-2011 have reliable 80nm "Elpis" GPU or fixed 90nm Y1
Good to know, thanks for the info. I wonder why the fans in these Zephyrs keep ramping up so quickly though? Did microsoft program this from factory for the later zephyrs and xenons? This thing was at full fan speed in less than 5 minutes lol
@@jrob0021 Probably they were heating so much over time that thermal diode got damaged. I've seen lots of loud Zephyrs and Xenons after cleaning and thermal paste replacement.
There are quite a bit of X360 indie games that have not been preserved. Please take some time to look through this lot of 360s you bought and preserve what you can. I can't seem to find a list of exactly what's missing, but I know there is a bit not preserved. Thanks
So much nostalgia in this. Even stuff like the first Halo 3 TV commercial and the ‘Et tu, Brute?’ vidoc. It’s sad to see all the old accounts and these busted up consoles, I remember the hundreds of hours of great times I had on my old consoles…wonder where they are now 😢
Hey, I used to take horribly scratched discs to the local mall gamestore for $2 they had a machine about the size of a VCR that could fix them up like new 99% of the time! You might be able to justify buying one of those...
I bought one on Amazon for $200. They work pretty good it resurfaced over 3000 Xbox and PS games before it started to not work so great. Definitely worth buying if you have a large collection.
The white stuff on the second one looks similar to one of my old Xboxs, had limited room and it would only fit in the TV Cabinet vertically and would have to slot it in and slide it back, back in the days before HDMI was the normal, I'd have to unplug the VGA cords for the digital TV decoder, meaning I would be sliding the console in n out often, leaving those marks from the paint of the cabinet.
It’s like opening an ancient tomb you never know what you’re going to find. This is a relic 2012, 2016 dates from the past memories people were happy playing these Xboxes
Hey Jacob just to let you know whether the Xbox 360s has 4gb depends on the model year. For example the Trinity is the one that doesn't have the 4gb nand chip, they where manufactured up until about 2011 August, anything after that would be a Corona motherboard which has the 4gb chip
The model that had the 4GB NAND chip was when they began making the newer slim models to sell the cheaper priced "barebones" 360 model as before you could only buy the regular and the elite models with a 250 or 500gb removable hard drive inside(or owned the original models with the big shiny removable 120 and 250GB HDD that were on the outside...but then after they began selling the little black internal hard drives with the ribbon sticking out of them separately.... that's when they began selling a considerably cheaper priced base model or "core model" for those people who either didn't have the funds to buy the more expensive console model OR They already owned a HDD ....or just planned on buying the expensive 250/500GB HDD at a later time when they began selling the official Microsoft hard drives separately ....so they had to include the 4GB chip on the $150 base model so you could still turn the console on and have enough space to install firmware/operating system updates and a tiny bit of space to install like RUclips or Netflix or something and have the operating system baked into the board so you could still turn on the console and sign into your gamertag without owning or having a separate hard drive installed (or by using the old Microsoft 32MB portable memory cards that plugged into the front of the console similar to how the PlayStation had portable memory cards for transporting game saves between consoles)saving your game saves) to hold just the operating system when they increased the size of the newer type of HDDs...and because by that time they had pushed out the firmware update where you could just plug in a USB Thumb drive or an external USB Hard Drive to use them for playing movies/music/and downloading the entire contents of a game disc to any 128GB USB drive or larger since I believe by that time they let you copy the contents of a game disc to an internal HDD or formatted USB drive to be able to play a game directly from your hard drive instead of wearing out your disc drive by having it constantly trying to read the 360 game disc the entire time you were playing a game...even though you still had to have the disc inserted so it could initially do a security check that you actually owned the game and then proceeded to read the contents of the disc directly from the HDD you downloaded the disc contents to.
I have the slim one. It was the best one out of all the 360 models. I had mine for eight years and it never broke down and it still worked like new. It was also the first xbox with a built in Wifi. The white ones sucked and would break down on you in less than a year. Powered mine on five years ago and it still ran like new, It also has a slide in hardrive that you can pullout so you and easily replace so you didn't have to open up the xbox to replace the hard drive if it broke.
To be fair, the person donating the console, in many cases, is probably not the same person that used the console (aka mom donates little Jimmy’s Xbox once he goes off to college). But of course I’m sure there are plenty of people who just forget
i thought my 360 was broken because it kept opening and closing the disk tray so i took it downstairs to fix it and as soon as i plug it in it stops, i bring it back upstairs and it does it, downstairs it doesnt i think i have a ghost haunting my xbox 360
I just noticed something! The last Xbox 360 you unboxed and tested in this video with the “SuperrichMoth” profile, the Initial Setup option was grayed out meaning there was parental controls and it seemed you didn’t notice.
The blinking is the drive closed switch not reading. Either a foreign object is preventing it from closing all the way, or the sled lift mechanism is stuck, or that switch or its wires are broken.
My thought about the "white scuffs" on all the black consoles, is that around that time, white furniture was the thing lol. I had a white TV stand and a black 360. Lol. Also had white night stand, white bed frame, white dresser. Most of my buddies had white furniture in their room too. Could be wrong but just a guess lol I miss the simpler times
"Man its just amazazing that all these consoles that have been sitting in a warehouse for who knows how long are cleaner than dkoldies refurbished consoles" 💀
14:58 I went down a rabbit hole looking at Guitar Hero On Tour edition DSLs hoping for exactly that. Mine got stolen in vegas when I was a kid and I know exactly what games I had with it, the case I had with it, the stickers I put on it, hoping that it would resurface on the internet again.
If you replaced the thermal paste on that Zephyr, did a 9v fan mod, and added a heatsink to the HANA IC, it would work forever. I wouldn't pay 10 cents for that thing the way it is.
I’ve seen this method online before, but I can’t imagine it’s any more reliable than just using a new band is it? Seems like a temporary fix to boil an old band. But maybe I’m wrong
The black elite with the messed up disk cover could of been one that was in a game Cafe like place. When I was going to Airborne school in the army back in 2013, there was one of those café places that had a couple dozen of 360s to play.
Most people don’t care, old console been collecting dust you just wanna get rid of it not have to turn it on and whatnot especially if your just donating it to goodwill most people think it’ll just get thrown out
5:03 you can disable it by going to the Xbox website and entering the serial number then reset the password. I don’t remember exactly how to do it but it works
I manged to pick up a 360 mw2 LE at a yard sale a couple years ago 2019/2020 (pre covid) for 6$ I didnt care if it worked or not Picked up a power supply at gamestop for 14$, so 20$ in total everything worked and she’s still running like a champ, disc tray gets stuck every now and then so i have to use a guitar pick as a pry sometimes. Best investment i ever made. Although, i really want one of the halo reach LE consoles, i had a halo 4 one as my first 360 in 2012, but i think the halo reach one looks awesome
@@whozyourdaddy I don't hold it against you that you don't understand why good will exists. Stores like that were created to help low income families afford stuff. Not so 'smart' people can buy it all up and sell it for more.
@@Fox-in-the-Storm to be fair, they were all untested, and he bought them all regardless, cleaned them up and fixed them, Wouldn’t you pay a little more for an Xbox that you knew worked and wasn’t dirty as hell.
Interesting stuff! I got a 360 that works great, but I get an open tray error and it wont read discs anymore. Opens and closes fine too! Been baffled for years. Any idea what to do?
The laser might be screwed up, opening it up is probably required. I used to have the inverse tray problem and have to pop that bad boy with a knife lol
@@roachdoggjr7020 Thats crazy! I may have had that problem with a dvd player. I used to have a special slap that would open it up every time! So you think it needs a new laser? Its jus a shame because they deep cleaned it and it was like new when I got it at Gamestop. Stopped reading games after just a few months saying Open Tray Error continuously.
the white stuff might be from a console sitting against a wall with cheap paint, the heat would transfer the paint to the console, which happened to my old 360
I remember back then I went through multiple Xbox 360s as they just wouldn't last or were defective out the gate (3 original white consoles and 1 black Elite). It wasn't till the Xbox 360 S came out that I finally got something that remained stable. I still have that 360 S today and it still works (and has not needed maintenance). I may be interested in getting another one just to have it in matte black. Side note: When PS3 launched, most of my game time went to that in those days. Still have an original fat model that works. I currently use the regular slim model.
Wtf were you doing to them? My 09 white never had any issues and still works. In 2011 my friend gave me a fat ps3 that had a disk read error, I took it to a buy sell trade and exchanged it for 5 "broken" N64s. I took a little air duster to the ports and they all worked just fine.
@@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer Look back at the history of Xbox 360s. They had a high defect rate and constant problems with overheating. Microsoft even came out with their "advil moment" of increasing their warranty from 90 days to 1 year. You mention your 09 model, the system released in 05. They sustained at least a 33% defect rate and a fast failure rate for the first few years. At 06, the PS3 only had a 2% defect rate that went down rather quickly within a year. Your one bad unit of one and one good unit is not indicative of the widespread issues of the time nor is it representative of the more common user experience in the mid-2000s.
when i was younger, i had an old xbox 360 that was pretty scuffed. My dad had bought it from craigslist, and it was owned by a chainsmoker. The worst part about it is that when you close the disc drive without a game in it, you would have to pry it open. I made a lot of childhood memories on it, im sad it got sold.
Isn't goodwill is supposed to be a place for poor people to buy cheap stuff second hand??? Why is this guy buying and reselling stuff meant for underprivileged kids???
Also something to think about is you could possibly ask the people for the login info for some of the profiles like the profile that is literally just Hi I bet a LOT of people would pay good money for that gamer tag.
Is there any particular reason your trying to turn a profit off of stuff from goodwill? You know the place where underprivileged kids have a chance to get something like that. Nvm that would be good for views.
I remember when I had gotten my first ever 360 in 2008. My first game was Halo 3 and after about a year the disk drive stopped working, sooo i tried to fix it myself. And as a 10 year old, surprisingly enough I partially fixed it. I ended up having GTA 4 installed onto the console from the disk drive before hand and that was the only game i played for a solid 2 years because the disk drive would not read any other game. ohhhh the nostalgia
Yeah, my 360 does the thing where the disk tray comes out, then goes back in on its own. It also gets stuck sometimes. Never knew why it did that, only that I had to be really quick on the draw to change out the games. I still have that one, and still use it. It's a Halo 3 Special Edition that I've been using since at least 2011. A little less lately since I got an Xbox One, but still. It's got my Minecraft saves on it. :P
I used to work at a nintendo warehouse, i unboxed returned wiis. 90% of consoles that "did not read disc" had a disc in upside down. Any game that wasnt wii sports i nabbed
I had a white Phat 360 my dad bought me in 2006 that fell victim to the RROD. I ended up buying another Phat in 2007-2008 and ended up giving that to my brother when I bought a Matt 360 Slim in 2011-2012. That slim was the best xbox 360 I ever owned and it lasted me up until I gave it to my brother last year. I had it modded with RGH and I loved it but upgraded to a Xbox One and now to a Series S
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I like you website because I know it is not a scam and thing have been refurbished but use from GameStop
@@peterdaskinheadno, I’m purposely breaking them and then selling them
Do you mod any?
These consoles hold some people's entire childhood, really interesting as they are basically a time capsule of the past
Bit of a leap for an Xbox, maybe 1 or 2 years of their childhood before it broke down.
@@burgersbeansandchips my 2007 xbox from where I was 9 years old is still fine, I'm 25 now
@@burgersbeansandchips I had the same standard 360 for like 8 years before I eventually grew out of using it. It had issues like it wouldn't read disks unless I was smacking it during the reading process, but it still functioned!
@@omgdisfunny4852 2008, 6 red ring incidents, 1 self repair (touch sensors), and left behind in a move 3 years ago. only to be found here, lol. (9:50)
@@burgersbeansandchips1 or 2 years?! You were doing something wrong!
That first 360, if it has a service date, it likely had it's gpu swapped. They stopped swapping whole mother boards in '09 and just started swapping the chips themselves.
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I love these videos of you going through old consoles and peoples old profiles; I wonder who these people are? what are they doing now? It's really cool history that you don't see on RUclips at all, brings back so many memories of all the old profiles I had on the consoles that I played.
Agreed, that’s why I love going through untested consoles. So many stories and memories behind these profiles and save data
I still have my original 360 slim from 2010. But I cant sign into my og profile on xbox live I forgot the pasword 😂
@@contraband1543 i tried turning mine on and it sounds like a rusty lawn mower
I searched them up most of them are surprisingly still around on xbox
@@jrob0021 Ever had the original owner of the XBL account contact you?
15:30
For context as someone who worked for Goodwill, that tag appears to be a label that would be used for organizing products that are getting prepared for shipping or pickup. The top line is the Goodwill it was prepped at, middle line would be the name of the employee who prepped or listed the product online, and the date of packaging. The letter and number code at the very bottom is used to identify products as they are being shelved in the warehouse.
It could be that this console was supposed to be picked up by a customer, but they never came so they sold it in a lot.
Great videos, Jacob. Loving this series, it's wild how beat up some of these consoles can be and still function well.
Thanks for the info. Glad you’re enjoying the series!
My ps4 has fallen off a piano 5 feet in the air 4 times, the case is broken af, but I'm literally playing it now lol
@@jrob0021hi dude!
fun fact: a few of those gamertags are still active today
pretty cool to watch. I used to refurbish 360s and flip em...also flipped iphones . I remember it was right around 2012 when i stopped doing this because it just became too complicated for me to want to keep up with all the anti-piracy software they started adding to everything that prevented basic maintenance.
We need way better right to repair laws. If we own the device we ought to be allowed to do whatever we want to it.
@@YourPalKindred yup - totally agreed. Louis Rossman has a great channel on the topic.
We need right to repair laws for sure that’s sad to hear honestly
FYI, the sealed "Microsoft warranty holographic sticker" was put there just so Microsoft would know if the case had been opened before to deter people from thinking they could fix their own electronics, but it's illegal for companies to void your warranty solely based on one sticker by using this method of using those "tamper proof" stickers so if you attempted to repair your console yourself.
So they were basically put there to make you think that you couldn't send it back to Microsoft to get RROD fixed if the seal had been broken....but by law they had to fix all RROD consoles after the whole "right to repair" law passed which made it where companies like Apple/MS etc couldn't prevent you from replacing the screen or battery on your iPhone (as opposed to strictly making you pay the OEM company to fix/replace/install any broke parts by "official Microsoft technician")
Source: I used to buy RROD 360s for like $10-25 on Craigslist or had broken disc drives, and I'd look up the serial number and then request a box from Microsoft where they would send a prepaid foam box for you to ship the console back to Microsoft for them to either fix the GPU heat sync and washers/screws... which was what most of the RROD consoles were caused from, which was the onboard GPU overheating due to how the factory put the heatsync on. Or they'd sometimes upgrade your entire motherboard to a newer version that couldn't get RROD....and im still using 2 of those OG black "Elite" 360 models that still run like new to this day....as I absolutely had a love/hate relationship with the newer "slim" black consoles with the front touch sensitive on button that could ruin your 12 hour long gaming session if you had a cat that brushed its tail ANYWHERE near the front of the console and it would either open the disc drive or completely turn the console off.
Also used to replace the disc drives...by plugging in the SATA port of the disc drive into my PC and to read the disc drive to see what manufacturer/model the drive was to replace it with the same model drive and use Monkey Flasher to flash the security key that is binded to each disc drives specific console and reflash the firmware and original security key to the new disc drive so it would continue playing games... since all of the security features for game piracy etc was all just from one little chip they added on to different Samsung/Lite-On/etc 360 disc drives)
Bro wrote a 5 paragraph essay in a comment section better than I can for school
Pretty common knowledge with the whole sticker thing
Insane yap
Broken or dirty sensor switches for the tray position will make the light blink and tray not cooperate. Also if some plastic tracking is broke off the bottom of the tray. You must have some spare trays to swap in. Slims will also do this if the sensor block is knocked out of place where it clips in to the black plastic. Also some of these plastics are getting super brittle, especially the 15+ year old ones.
I tried a tray swap (with the elite console that was having slight issues) and it didn’t do anything. The sensors were also cleaned and seems to be playing nicely. I do wonder if some of the plastic inside of the elite tray was warped or ever so slightly out of place though.. (since it appears someone was originally trying to pry the disc drive out). Either way, it seems to be working ok now once I swapped in a slightly used belt instead of a brand new one. Any other random symptoms you’ve seen with 360 drives?
@@jrob0021 No but I got another tip about a 360 issue that literally nobody ever talks about. When you reassemble the 360 and put the motherboard back in the cage, pay attention that the board does not flex. One corner might not want to lay flat and spring up. That is because the X-Clamp is pushing against the bottom of the cage. This was the only issue with X-clamps from day one and nobody got the solution right. Easiest fix is to tap out the cage around the black screw holes until the board seats good.
Wow this was a blast from the past! Hitting the top to get the disc tray to open killed me lol, I don't even know how long it's been since I've thought about that.
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@@jrob0021 you’re canceled.
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Man, I love watching these videos. You actually helped me take a part a PS3 slim with your videos
Me too. Something so satisfying bout it
big props at 18:02 when you opened the tray and the game was Oblivion. my fav game ever. i hope whoever had that console is doing great in life today and is waiting on elder scrolls 6 like the rest of us
I wish gaming had the same vibe back when the 360 was new, like 2006-2009. Maybe I just feel that way because I was young but just the vibe of taking your console to your friends, cousins, or grandparents. Before pre orders you had to wait outside to get it at midnight so you didn't have to wait forever just to get the game. The jankyness of the consoles too even though that was why they'd break but that's even nostalgic to me. Even the game informer mags. Best times for me specifically where winter nights during the holidays playing gta 4, MW2, Halo 3 just waiting for Christmas, seeing family, and just always eating good food... man....
OMG! THE 360 WITH THE DISK DRIVE FRONT PEICE MISSING WAS MINE!!! I LOST MY POWER CABLE SO I HAD TO OPEN IT WITH A KNIFE!! TO GET MY GAME! 😂😂😂 OMG THATS NUTTS!! I SOLD IT A WHILE BACK!
Hope Jacob notices! You should edit your comment with a time stamp.
the xtremesnipe guy?
No way
@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 Yes way! I can prove it! I have the old box with the sirel number on it in my attic! I think...
No it wasn’t
One of the coolest parts of digging out your old consoles is seeing all your old friends stuff on there. It was really awesome firing up the N 64 and seeing all our old records on there and trying to beat them 25 + years later haha.
This video made me emotional the amount of nostalgia is insane
This is basically Pawn Stars but for gamers on their mid 20s and I loved it
You've done more to the original 360 systems than Microsoft ever did.
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Nah bro they gave a free repair to the rrod and it was a loss of billion dollars. Not defending Microsoft but still a very reputable or respectable company in these console series
@@Unknown-64209Only after massive lawsuits were brought forward and Microsoft faced serious litigation more than $1 billion.
@@MrKoalaKlawsWell they still did it.
@@Unknown-64209so respectful that they don’t make good games for their fans
Our xbox had a lot of xbox live profiles as well because people would come over for sleep overs and sign into their own to play split screen, so that might be the reason some have so many.
I find Xbox’s occasionally at work. I work in paper and electronics recycling, so people occasionally drop off gaming consoles. And I usually keep them. I haven’t tried using them yet though. But Xbox 360 and Xbox one are the consoles I find most, which is interesting. But as far as I can tell they all work! I should see what’s on them.
As a long time 360 user and enthusiast this was a lot of fun
None of those were mine but I'm definitely one of the people that would have opened it up (albeit with a bit more care) and just tried cleaning things willy nilly 😅
A couple days ago when I was at this goodwill tech store the lady at the counter started yelling at me to stop taking apart the "whole" console of the xbox 360 even though all i did was LIFT THE COVER ON THE BOTTOM TO SEE IF IT HAD A HARD DRIVE IN IT ._.
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LMAOOOO 😂😂
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I used to work at a student union on a college campus. They have student facilities where students can play games. This was recent and they still had xbox360s. So you are most defiantly right some of these xboxs could have defiantly been used on college campus as an Xbox for all students.
Man , I wish I kept a lot of my old consoles...no idea why I was so obsessed with throwing them on ebay back in the day. solid video!
They can be good money
I've bought 6 of these older 360's broken, and was able to fix 5 of them by replacing the electrolytic capacitors on the main board. One from 2006 still had the blades system.
The Console is ancient dude like so ancient that a lot of people don’t probably remember it
@@masterofdisaster2617 years is hardly ancient
@@contraband1543 Unless you a dog or cat lol
@@masterofdisaster26 wtf lmao
I recently got a new 360 slim to play some of my favorite 360 games, but my old Elite was pretty reliable up until the disk drive stopped working. I had to constantly manually eject it. That was really the only issue though. Thanks for the vid - this brings back so much nostalgia!
When you showed the “chewed up “ part of the disc opener just unlocked core memories of me forcing to open my 360 😂
5:06 I guess you pressed the “right” trigger 😏😏😏
Would not be surprised if that one 360 with the missing panel on the drive tray and all those crazy profiles was used in a frat house and everybody just created their own profiles. There was a parent control on there so non-members of the frat could not mess with it.
Makes sense to me. There's no doubt in my mind that that specific xbox was used in a college dorm or frat house
0:35 that part killed me 🤣🤣
Bro actually bought 47 Xbox 360s and found that lol 😂
We’re just getting started… I’m gonna find plenty more of THIS
@@jrob0021buy 3 old computers and see if you can attempt to boot up something modern 😂
Love this, i bought an extra memory card for my ps2 to replay some games i used to play as a kid, and it had old save files on it, this video reminded me of that
I think you'd see A LOT of that Halo 3 trailer because, for a time, literally that trailer was the most popular thing to ever exist. I recall a particular bit of misinformation from someone saying "it shows his face without a helmet!" led me to IMMEDIATELY go home and download it as soon as school was over... In fact, that trailer still sits on my console to this very day owing to how nostalgic it is and relatively little space it uses
Just BTW, the late Zephyr consoles (these from end of 2007 or serviced from 2008, 2009+) have reliable Falcon 80nm "Rhea" GPU, so they most likely still work. Same with Xenons, these serviced in 2009-2011 have reliable 80nm "Elpis" GPU or fixed 90nm Y1
Good to know, thanks for the info. I wonder why the fans in these Zephyrs keep ramping up so quickly though? Did microsoft program this from factory for the later zephyrs and xenons? This thing was at full fan speed in less than 5 minutes lol
@@jrob0021 Probably they were heating so much over time that thermal diode got damaged. I've seen lots of loud Zephyrs and Xenons after cleaning and thermal paste replacement.
14:26 I’m sure there will be people who will want that 360 just for the “Brutilize” Account.
Right? Only issue is if you can access it or not and change the account password and flip the OG GT for a good price fs
There are quite a bit of X360 indie games that have not been preserved. Please take some time to look through this lot of 360s you bought and preserve what you can. I can't seem to find a list of exactly what's missing, but I know there is a bit not preserved. Thanks
love how you check out the history and see last played on the accounts, keep up the great work
So much nostalgia in this. Even stuff like the first Halo 3 TV commercial and the ‘Et tu, Brute?’ vidoc. It’s sad to see all the old accounts and these busted up consoles, I remember the hundreds of hours of great times I had on my old consoles…wonder where they are now 😢
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That piece of dust:
I'M FREE
yes
this video makes me appreciate how good of condition my xbox 360 s is.
Hey, I used to take horribly scratched discs to the local mall gamestore for $2 they had a machine about the size of a VCR that could fix them up like new 99% of the time! You might be able to justify buying one of those...
Disc refurbisher, I think that's what they're called
I bought one on Amazon for $200. They work pretty good it resurfaced over 3000 Xbox and PS games before it started to not work so great. Definitely worth buying if you have a large collection.
11:12 whoever played this has class
The white stuff on the second one looks similar to one of my old Xboxs, had limited room and it would only fit in the TV Cabinet vertically and would have to slot it in and slide it back, back in the days before HDMI was the normal, I'd have to unplug the VGA cords for the digital TV decoder, meaning I would be sliding the console in n out often, leaving those marks from the paint of the cabinet.
bruh the raywilliamjohnson transition killed me i couldnt have expected that with a crystal ball
if you go into account settings on the 360, you can see the digital game download history
It’s like opening an ancient tomb you never know what you’re going to find. This is a relic 2012, 2016 dates from the past memories people were happy playing these Xboxes
I’m actually surprised at how many people don’t wipe their consoles before selling them/giving them away.
I wonder if you can buy games if their details are still on it lol
@@jakedwdif the credit card info is still there and they have enough money, yes
@@ogdaniel8360 Credit card info could still be in the system, but with how old the 360 is, they all gonna be expired 😂
I’ve watched so many of your videos and now it’s making me go over my own devices I’ve had for years
I love this series! I'm only starting this episode. I'm excited.
This brings back tons of childhood memories with me and the boys dominating some BO2
Hey Jacob just to let you know whether the Xbox 360s has 4gb depends on the model year. For example the Trinity is the one that doesn't have the 4gb nand chip, they where manufactured up until about 2011 August, anything after that would be a Corona motherboard which has the 4gb chip
Thx for the info! 👍
The model that had the 4GB NAND chip was when they began making the newer slim models to sell the cheaper priced "barebones" 360 model as before you could only buy the regular and the elite models with a 250 or 500gb removable hard drive inside(or owned the original models with the big shiny removable 120 and 250GB HDD that were on the outside...but then after they began selling the little black internal hard drives with the ribbon sticking out of them separately.... that's when they began selling a considerably cheaper priced base model or "core model" for those people who either didn't have the funds to buy the more expensive console model OR They already owned a HDD ....or just planned on buying the expensive 250/500GB HDD at a later time when they began selling the official Microsoft hard drives separately
....so they had to include the 4GB chip on the $150 base model so you could still turn the console on and have enough space to install firmware/operating system updates and a tiny bit of space to install like RUclips or Netflix or something and have the operating system baked into the board so you could still turn on the console and sign into your gamertag without owning or having a separate hard drive installed (or by using the old Microsoft 32MB portable memory cards that plugged into the front of the console similar to how the PlayStation had portable memory cards for transporting game saves between consoles)saving your game saves) to hold just the operating system when they increased the size of the newer type of HDDs...and because by that time they had pushed out the firmware update where you could just plug in a USB Thumb drive or an external USB Hard Drive to use them for playing movies/music/and downloading the entire contents of a game disc to any 128GB USB drive or larger since I believe by that time they let you copy the contents of a game disc to an internal HDD or formatted USB drive to be able to play a game directly from your hard drive instead of wearing out your disc drive by having it constantly trying to read the 360 game disc the entire time you were playing a game...even though you still had to have the disc inserted so it could initially do a security check that you actually owned the game and then proceeded to read the contents of the disc directly from the HDD you downloaded the disc contents to.
@@phlooke Remember it like it was yesterday :)
I’m just feeling all the late nights that these consoles had it’s crushes me soul honestly that there will be no more late nights with these consoles
I have the slim one. It was the best one out of all the 360 models. I had mine for eight years and it never broke down and it still worked like new. It was also the first xbox with a built in Wifi.
The white ones sucked and would break down on you in less than a year.
Powered mine on five years ago and it still ran like new, It also has a slide in hardrive that you can pullout so you and easily replace so you didn't have to open up the xbox to replace the hard drive if it broke.
it amazes me how many people don't do a factory Reset LOL. When Getting rid of the old Console
To be fair, the person donating the console, in many cases, is probably not the same person that used the console (aka mom donates little Jimmy’s Xbox once he goes off to college). But of course I’m sure there are plenty of people who just forget
i thought my 360 was broken because it kept opening and closing the disk tray
so i took it downstairs to fix it and as soon as i plug it in it stops, i bring it back upstairs and it does it, downstairs it doesnt
i think i have a ghost haunting my xbox 360
I just noticed something! The last Xbox 360 you unboxed and tested in this video with the “SuperrichMoth” profile, the Initial Setup option was grayed out meaning there was parental controls and it seemed you didn’t notice.
SuperrichMoth hasn't logged in in over 10 years :/
The blinking is the drive closed switch not reading. Either a foreign object is preventing it from closing all the way, or the sled lift mechanism is stuck, or that switch or its wires are broken.
My thought about the "white scuffs" on all the black consoles, is that around that time, white furniture was the thing lol. I had a white TV stand and a black 360. Lol.
Also had white night stand, white bed frame, white dresser. Most of my buddies had white furniture in their room too.
Could be wrong but just a guess lol
I miss the simpler times
just crazy to think the people who owned it once could have a family now
"Man its just amazazing that all these consoles that have been sitting in a warehouse for who knows how long are cleaner than dkoldies refurbished consoles" 💀
👀 it's true though, the insides of some of those "refurbished" consoles from dkoldies were nasty lol
@@jrob0021 yeah ive seen inside an insanely overpriced n64 myself, i had to do more in it than they ever thought of doing
14:58 I went down a rabbit hole looking at Guitar Hero On Tour edition DSLs hoping for exactly that. Mine got stolen in vegas when I was a kid and I know exactly what games I had with it, the case I had with it, the stickers I put on it, hoping that it would resurface on the internet again.
This is pretty interesting. I wonder if anyone has ever done this to my old consoles
The fact that pretty much any of those at least turns on is a blessing. Now try buying 20 Ps2's from Garage sales/Swap meets.
If you replaced the thermal paste on that Zephyr, did a 9v fan mod, and added a heatsink to the HANA IC, it would work forever.
I wouldn't pay 10 cents for that thing the way it is.
Killer panda was a friend i used to play with, pretty sure that it was his brothers console
just put the band in boiling water for a bit it wll shrink the band and will opening the dvd tray like new
I’ve seen this method online before, but I can’t imagine it’s any more reliable than just using a new band is it? Seems like a temporary fix to boil an old band. But maybe I’m wrong
Dont think I didnt notice the cool transition at 7:08. That hit right in the middle school nostalgia
The black elite with the messed up disk cover could of been one that was in a game Cafe like place. When I was going to Airborne school in the army back in 2013, there was one of those café places that had a couple dozen of 360s to play.
As a kid, I used to have a fan blowing on the power block bc it would turn off otherwise
How do you not factory reset your console before selling it?
These were donated.
@@GrimKardashian how do you not factory reset your console before donating it?
Most people don’t care, old console been collecting dust you just wanna get rid of it not have to turn it on and whatnot especially if your just donating it to goodwill most people think it’ll just get thrown out
@@faithpellicci5819 they don’t care about their name address and credit card numbers😆😆😆
5:03 you can disable it by going to the Xbox website and entering the serial number then reset the password. I don’t remember exactly how to do it but it works
I keep a list of a bunch of button combos for resetting the controls. Usually one of them works and if not I try and usually fail to bruteforce it.
I’m pretty sure the original owners put the parental lock as a lock for little nephews or cousins for example
If one of them had marvel vs capcom 2 installed that would be insane, that game is worth over 100$ for disc version
I manged to pick up a 360 mw2 LE at a yard sale a couple years ago 2019/2020 (pre covid) for 6$
I didnt care if it worked or not
Picked up a power supply at gamestop for 14$, so 20$ in total everything worked and she’s still running like a champ, disc tray gets stuck every now and then so i have to use a guitar pick as a pry sometimes.
Best investment i ever made.
Although, i really want one of the
halo reach LE consoles, i had a halo 4 one as my first 360 in 2012, but i think the halo reach one looks awesome
Buying stuff from good will in bulk to turn a profit? :/
I know right?
Smart people are horrible!
@@whozyourdaddy I don't hold it against you that you don't understand why good will exists.
Stores like that were created to help low income families afford stuff. Not so 'smart' people can buy it all up and sell it for more.
@@Fox-in-the-Storm to be fair, they were all untested, and he bought them all regardless, cleaned them up and fixed them, Wouldn’t you pay a little more for an Xbox that you knew worked and wasn’t dirty as hell.
@TheMysticalFox lmao, look up the top executives salaries at goodwill and tell me again they are all about "helping" low income families.
@@asonofliberty3662 That's a very fair point.
18:04 seeing a T-rated oblivion in the wild is cool
I like that you actually clean out the consoles and point out the ones that you didn't, unlike dkoldies.
@@Official_ry_Nirvanait's refurbished 😤😤😤
@@Official_ry_Nirvana he did point that out
bro the very first console he said "its not worth cleaning" and proceeded to tell everyone he is going to sell it for a profit? great person this guy
Dude it literally has OG Gamertags ,I have Minnie as a OG Gamertag and people ask me how much for it! thats a gold mine!
Interesting stuff! I got a 360 that works great, but I get an open tray error and it wont read discs anymore. Opens and closes fine too! Been baffled for years. Any idea what to do?
The laser might be screwed up, opening it up is probably required. I used to have the inverse tray problem and have to pop that bad boy with a knife lol
@@roachdoggjr7020 Thats crazy! I may have had that problem with a dvd player. I used to have a special slap that would open it up every time! So you think it needs a new laser? Its jus a shame because they deep cleaned it and it was like new when I got it at Gamestop. Stopped reading games after just a few months saying Open Tray Error continuously.
the white stuff might be from a console sitting against a wall with cheap paint, the heat would transfer the paint to the console, which happened to my old 360
I'd be mildly amused if one of these turned out to be modded
I have to confirm it first but if I'm right then I know the first one is.
It was the one I thought. It is modded and it was modded and started it's journey in little rock Arkansas.
I remember back then I went through multiple Xbox 360s as they just wouldn't last or were defective out the gate (3 original white consoles and 1 black Elite). It wasn't till the Xbox 360 S came out that I finally got something that remained stable. I still have that 360 S today and it still works (and has not needed maintenance).
I may be interested in getting another one just to have it in matte black.
Side note: When PS3 launched, most of my game time went to that in those days. Still have an original fat model that works. I currently use the regular slim model.
Wtf were you doing to them? My 09 white never had any issues and still works. In 2011 my friend gave me a fat ps3 that had a disk read error, I took it to a buy sell trade and exchanged it for 5 "broken" N64s. I took a little air duster to the ports and they all worked just fine.
@@Eargesplitten-Loudenboomer Look back at the history of Xbox 360s. They had a high defect rate and constant problems with overheating. Microsoft even came out with their "advil moment" of increasing their warranty from 90 days to 1 year.
You mention your 09 model, the system released in 05. They sustained at least a 33% defect rate and a fast failure rate for the first few years.
At 06, the PS3 only had a 2% defect rate that went down rather quickly within a year.
Your one bad unit of one and one good unit is not indicative of the widespread issues of the time nor is it representative of the more common user experience in the mid-2000s.
I didn't see anything that I'd call weird
1:01
That Xbox just told you to go to Hell.
This is kind of sad to be honest
Sad? How? He's just working.
@@BillEddie seeing what used to be.
when i was younger, i had an old xbox 360 that was pretty scuffed. My dad had bought it from craigslist, and it was owned by a chainsmoker. The worst part about it is that when you close the disc drive without a game in it, you would have to pry it open. I made a lot of childhood memories on it, im sad it got sold.
Isn't goodwill is supposed to be a place for poor people to buy cheap stuff second hand??? Why is this guy buying and reselling stuff meant for underprivileged kids???
Also something to think about is you could possibly ask the people for the login info for some of the profiles like the profile that is literally just Hi I bet a LOT of people would pay good money for that gamer tag.
Is there any particular reason your trying to turn a profit off of stuff from goodwill? You know the place where underprivileged kids have a chance to get something like that. Nvm that would be good for views.
Very good point Patrick.
God bless ✝🙏
I remember when I had gotten my first ever 360 in 2008. My first game was Halo 3 and after about a year the disk drive stopped working, sooo i tried to fix it myself. And as a 10 year old, surprisingly enough I partially fixed it. I ended up having GTA 4 installed onto the console from the disk drive before hand and that was the only game i played for a solid 2 years because the disk drive would not read any other game. ohhhh the nostalgia
Youre trying to make profit of 360s lmao
No wayyyy,one of those accounts is my mate, also mw3 edition 360 still works fine
Yeah, my 360 does the thing where the disk tray comes out, then goes back in on its own. It also gets stuck sometimes. Never knew why it did that, only that I had to be really quick on the draw to change out the games. I still have that one, and still use it. It's a Halo 3 Special Edition that I've been using since at least 2011. A little less lately since I got an Xbox One, but still. It's got my Minecraft saves on it. :P
That =3 transition though. That made me feel pretty nostalgic lol
I used to work at a nintendo warehouse, i unboxed returned wiis. 90% of consoles that "did not read disc" had a disc in upside down. Any game that wasnt wii sports i nabbed
I had a white Phat 360 my dad bought me in 2006 that fell victim to the RROD. I ended up buying another Phat in 2007-2008 and ended up giving that to my brother when I bought a Matt 360 Slim in 2011-2012. That slim was the best xbox 360 I ever owned and it lasted me up until I gave it to my brother last year. I had it modded with RGH and I loved it but upgraded to a Xbox One and now to a Series S
You can have a console for like 8 years. That's a lot of memories
This makes me a bit sad. I wish I would’ve just kept my 360 instead of “trading” for the original Xbox one. Such good memories with that old machine.
I had a white 360 that only worked after it fully warmed up lol I traded it for a dirtbike man I miss the old days 😂😂
Fun fact that skull with black and red colors theme was the State Farm free dashboard theme! I still use that theme on my current 360