I wrote the Emulators and Homebrew YOU played on the Original Xbox - A Look Back ! | MVG

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  • Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
  • My story about how i became involved with the original Xbox modding scene, who I was back then and how I wrote some of the most popular homebrew and emulators for the Original Xbox that you've probably played before!
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  • @will5459577
    @will5459577 5 лет назад +561

    I love how "Only 29 wires to solder" was a selling point back then, makes me smile

    • @danieldowell9164
      @danieldowell9164 4 года назад +3

      and i happily soldered many more than that with enigma if i remember right haha

    • @iProgramInCpp
      @iProgramInCpp 4 года назад +7

      Would like, but it's at 69

    • @pichi__
      @pichi__ 2 года назад +1

      and now it’s 420

    • @fujiwaranovari
      @fujiwaranovari 2 года назад +1

      @@pichi__ 428

  • @fabulo19
    @fabulo19 5 лет назад +884

    My grandpa, who passed away recently, had an OG modded Xbox that I used to play at his house as a kid. I recently took it home and looked through what he had installed and ended up finding XSNES9X. Put Super Metroid on it and have been playing it all day. Really cool hearing the story behind it! :)

    • @aznhomig
      @aznhomig 4 года назад +78

      Dude your grandfather is OG running a modded console at home.

    • @loop5720
      @loop5720 4 года назад +33

      @@aznhomig He really is, my grandpa don't even know how to boot up an Xbox...

    • @rawrizord
      @rawrizord 4 года назад +47

      Don’t you ever lose that Xbox man. Keep that forever and pass it down like a family heirloom.

    • @syntaxerror9994
      @syntaxerror9994 4 года назад +5

      @@aznhomig hey brother.

    • @Alexzw92
      @Alexzw92 4 года назад +7

      Your Gpa sounds like a total badass

  • @ckosmic
    @ckosmic 5 лет назад +429

    That's absolutely insane. "I ported SDL, PJ64, snes9x and more to the Xbox while getting around the memory restraints and released them all to the public." That's the kind of comp sci skill I would love to have and use.

    • @AshtonSnapp
      @AshtonSnapp 4 года назад +7

      Same!

    • @amilamad
      @amilamad 4 года назад +10

      Try to write a NES emulator for pc by your self. It will be a good place to start.
      Recommended resource.
      ruclips.net/video/F8kx56OZQhg/видео.html

  • @crypt1cmyst1c41
    @crypt1cmyst1c41 3 года назад +68

    I've watched this channel for a while, didn't remember this video.
    my boss handed me an original xbox the other day and said his Snes emulator broke, brought it home and fixed his xsnes9x,
    found out it was by Lantus.
    now, 2 days later, found out you're him. wild!

  • @chocobillysranch9205
    @chocobillysranch9205 6 лет назад +348

    Bro I had a modded Xbox. You were a unnamed hero until this day!

  • @JCG105
    @JCG105 6 лет назад +293

    Duuuude! I had no idea you were so influential in the scene, man! I just figured you were a cool dude who knows his shit. Come to find out, you're the source. This is really righteous. Thanks for everything, man.

  • @IanMicheal
    @IanMicheal 6 лет назад +156

    I was in the dramcast homebrew modding scene . i remember you i was ian micheal dc or reaper2k2 did the neogeo cd emulator and otheres for dreamcast.. im a fellow australian

    • @fishingkh60
      @fishingkh60 3 года назад +8

      Cool story bro. And I don't mean that sarcastically.

    • @elihillman8758
      @elihillman8758 3 года назад +4

      Dramcast

    • @pieterblom9229
      @pieterblom9229 3 года назад

      geez,,go get a room allready

    • @dasenase
      @dasenase 3 года назад +1

      MGV and Reaper2k2 linked up! Need it or keep it?

    • @ZX10RArcher
      @ZX10RArcher 2 года назад +2

      I always wondered what happened to my buddies at DCEMU and later Consolevision. Man so much time enjoyed there. Huma79, WHurricane16, burner0, crt0, DCGrendel, darc, psyco, soul, Wraggster. Wonder what 007Cheater is up to these days haha

  • @bryantnonya8704
    @bryantnonya8704 4 года назад +793

    The reason you donated half of your winnings back to the original author of project 64 is because you're a good person. and you shouldn't second-guess your decision just because other people aren't as good as you...

    • @Xollas
      @Xollas 4 года назад +38

      It’s like paying respect to your inspiration. At least that’s how I’m interrupting it. I’m sure he felt like he couldn’t have done it with out them... like they showed him the way kind of thing. It was his way of paying respect, although others, including himself, may have questioned the decision. This is all speculation though but I like to think I’m right.

    • @Jason-ye4vy
      @Jason-ye4vy 4 года назад +27

      @Yujiro Hanma you're a moron

    • @Syklonus
      @Syklonus 4 года назад +13

      @Yujiro Hanma Because most people would take the cash and run. That's just a fact. Perhaps "good" person is a bad description as most people aren't bad per se, but rather MVG is perhaps a "better" person than most.

    • @tomasotreasaigh111
      @tomasotreasaigh111 3 года назад +7

      @@Xollas
      'interrupting'? ... interpreting!

    • @DisDatK9
      @DisDatK9 3 года назад +2

      Yujiro Hanma what does the character of the commenter have literally anything to do with what he said? Like someone stating a fact and then replying “Who are you to say that fact? You probably aren’t a good person!” Makes no sense.

  • @AJGuinness
    @AJGuinness 6 лет назад +415

    Surreal 64 was absolutely the best emulator on the Xbox, bar none. Kudos to your work, you did a fantastic job!

    • @armyofninjas9055
      @armyofninjas9055 5 лет назад +3

      Non-perfect emulation

    • @Noisetank007
      @Noisetank007 5 лет назад +17

      @@armyofninjas9055 as if you could do better

    • @supremevictory4310
      @supremevictory4310 5 лет назад +5

      The 64 emulator was ruined if u didnt know the settings for each game ....

    • @sylvianblade75
      @sylvianblade75 3 года назад +1

      N64 is the hardest system to emulate in the 5th generation

  • @MrMario2011
    @MrMario2011 6 лет назад +410

    Hah! I was going to ask you about this exact topic, really happy to see you've dedicated an entire video to it. I really have a lot of respect for what you've done and how, to this day, you're so proud of your work. Absolutely loved this video, dude!

    • @ModernVintageGamer
      @ModernVintageGamer  6 лет назад +43

      thanks brotha. means a lot. glad you enjoyed it!

    • @KarcusKorpse
      @KarcusKorpse 6 лет назад +6

      Thanks for the flashback to those #xbins days.
      In a way, this is one of the most interesting "you tube reveals" for me. Lantus, you are now re-known!

    • @at-cj2iy
      @at-cj2iy 3 года назад +1

      @@ModernVintageGamer tom sharky ward

  • @diegohp1986
    @diegohp1986 4 года назад +63

    I remember all your software, I was a teen when I used it, I always considered the devs that did them like geniuses.
    I became a developer and now I undestand how much work a piece of code needs and how satifying is to create something that people will appreciate and enjoy, so from the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you for sharing your outstanding work and knowledge, thank you for all the hours of fun, and thank you for pushing me to understand some computer stuff while configuring homebrew. People like you inspires me to do my best, and also inspires me to retribute the community with my work.
    I had so much fun watching this video and remembering that good time... Thank you.

  • @jaffaraltakiah2501
    @jaffaraltakiah2501 4 года назад +9

    A true hero. So pretty much all the best emulators on the original Xbox were ported/made by you.
    The original Xbox will always hold a special place in my heart due to all the awesome homebrew by you and many others.

  • @farnell1211
    @farnell1211 6 лет назад +151

    I love how you have a DreamX 1.4Ghz Xbox sitting on your desk and didn't even comment on it. :p
    DreamX: Xbox with 1.4 Ghz Celeron (2x original xbox CPU speed) and 128MB RAM with a toggle switch to downclock back to 700Mhz on the fly.
    Sorry they are just extremely rare and had to bring it up!

    • @Sun-ut9gr
      @Sun-ut9gr 4 года назад +2

      He did eventually: ruclips.net/video/RrONeFj0p3A/видео.html

    • @farnell1211
      @farnell1211 4 года назад +3

      I watch MVG religiously, knew he'd cover it eventually. Think he quietly put it in the background to see how much it would be brought up lol
      Still waiting on enthusiests to make a BGA adaptor to add a socket for CPU upgrades now that home fabrication has come a long way. There are blueprints of the DreamX adaptor online for the original DreamX, just no technical pinouts I could easily find.
      Ramble ramble..

    • @frozencatcake
      @frozencatcake 2 дня назад

      @@farnell1211 cool

  • @VanDammage87
    @VanDammage87 6 лет назад +58

    Oh man those were the days. The excitement of logging into ICQ and logging into the xbins channel just to download the latest release emulators felt so underground 😂.

  • @_pulyx
    @_pulyx 4 года назад +35

    Love it how he says the expression "backups" but really means pirated copies hahaha

    • @jcespinoza
      @jcespinoza 2 года назад +3

      That's what I was thinking; how is this guys going to tell us this story without potentially admitting to a crime lol

    • @zenkim6709
      @zenkim6709 Год назад +4

      That's because it's only piracy unless you're just making working copies of games that U already own! 😀😆😉
      Seriously, a little-discussed aspect of the whole "piracy is theft!" thing is that legit owners of physical media can still have logical reasons for making copies of said media -- like ensuring their media investment against loss & damage.
      Also, if I cherrypick various tracks from my personal CD music library & copy them onto 1 or more "mixtape" audio cassettes, am I committing "piracy" ... or am I simply exercising my rights as a media consumer to use the media I bought & paid for, fair & square, for my own private purposes?

    • @JohnZombi88
      @JohnZombi88 20 дней назад

      ​@@jcespinozanobody cares if he pirated games 20 years ago. The statute of limitations was up 17 years ago.

  • @msbae
    @msbae 5 лет назад +49

    God bless this man and his efforts to preserve classic games for posterity.

  • @Lucknutxbl
    @Lucknutxbl 6 лет назад +52

    The original Xbox scene really was so innovative, almost every day something new was being released or updated. Most people modded to play copied games but you could still fill up a HDD with all the homebrew that got released, no other console has come close to it IMO. RIP XboxHacker...

    • @Lucknutxbl
      @Lucknutxbl 6 лет назад +1

      Also it's good to hear from someone who was responsible for the Xbox scene being so great back then (I actually heard you were Lantus in the comments of an earlier vid of yours and had to sub straight away, probably one of the best subs I've made :), many thanks for all your hard work!

  • @Libretro
    @Libretro 6 лет назад +96

    Much respect still to this man. Back when I was just an enduser, I derived a lot of enjoyment from his work on the original Xbox from the early to mid-00s. They were more innocent times and the console hacking scenes definitely had more excitement to them back then.

  • @samhausmann1479
    @samhausmann1479 4 года назад +32

    A living legend, competent as much as sympathetic! Good people do good stuff, great even...

  • @LuisRadaAlean
    @LuisRadaAlean 5 лет назад +41

    Now I appreciate your channel even more! I used xSNES9x and sureal64 a lot on the original Xbox! I remember playing Mario kart 64 every night possible with my girlfriend back in the day! Thank you so much! Greetings from Colombia!

  • @ToddsNerdCave
    @ToddsNerdCave 6 лет назад +172

    Dude, I think at one point I had all your emulators on my XBox. Playing KI on the Xbox was just incredible. Thanks for all your hard work buddy!

    • @ModernVintageGamer
      @ModernVintageGamer  6 лет назад +25

      you're welcome. thanks brotha!

    • @HerecomestheCalavera
      @HerecomestheCalavera 6 лет назад +1

      Still the best console for emulation IMO, especially with CoinOPS. All emulators and games in one convenient program with a video preview and info for every game. 720p and 1080i support. An all around awesome console!

    • @FloridaManRacer
      @FloridaManRacer 6 лет назад +5

      my cousin came over one day with a jailbroken xobx and we played both the snes and surreal 64 emulation. All these years later to find out who it was and hear their story is very cool. Thank you for the work you put into this. It provided us with many hours of entertainment.

  • @shadowtheimpure
    @shadowtheimpure 6 лет назад +158

    Played? You mean PLAY.

    • @GraveUypo
      @GraveUypo 6 лет назад +2

      i would too if my og xbox wasn't crashing within 10 seconds of operation :\ it have to give it a oven baking to see if it comes back to life (it feels just like a xbox360 that's about to 3rl). or just buy a new one.

  • @chrisdoiron991
    @chrisdoiron991 5 лет назад +16

    Wow! I didn't realize that you were the person who did these amazing things! I put countless hours into your n64 and killer instinct ports! Thank you so much!

  • @zainmushtaq4347
    @zainmushtaq4347 4 года назад +44

    that is mindblowing to know that you're the guy behind some of my favorite childhood memories!!

  • @RMCRetro
    @RMCRetro 6 лет назад +396

    Legend Achievement unlocked. Are you working on any coding projects currently?

    • @ModernVintageGamer
      @ModernVintageGamer  6 лет назад +99

      thank you sir! apart from dabbling in some Amiga related ports - i got out of the console scene many many years ago.

    • @iandowden7986
      @iandowden7986 6 лет назад +16

      @retromancave would like to see you interview modern vintage gamer i know you wont be able to have him in the cave but it could be done on line ?

    • @RMCRetro
      @RMCRetro 6 лет назад +20

      Noted Ian. Like you I would love to hear many more of his experiences so who knows... maybe :D

    • @Souls4Roca
      @Souls4Roca 6 лет назад +5

      no chance for a switch jailbreak that will allow to load android as the second os and get the orange box games for the shield to run then :(

    • @vgrepairs
      @vgrepairs 6 лет назад +4

      Simos Katsiaris Sure, do it on your own!

  • @hmbrz
    @hmbrz 6 лет назад +51

    I got an Xbox in 2003 in great part because of the emulators, I used xsnes9x and surreal64 quite a bit, I remember every friend and family I would show the Xbox running all those games being impressed, and it being basically the only thing I played during some vacations, I miss having the Xbox (which I sold in 2007), and if I had it i would still probably be using to play Snes games, you did some great work! thanks! I used to get all the news and files from xbox-scene, I think the site is no longer online.

    • @dzdju9fh8df83
      @dzdju9fh8df83 6 лет назад +3

      Why would you sell it, were you like financially unstable?

    • @dzdju9fh8df83
      @dzdju9fh8df83 6 лет назад +6

      bobsagget823 Nigga no dumbass would sell it if you had so much affection for it other then being financially unstable.

    • @ytanonymity3585
      @ytanonymity3585 5 лет назад

      Yup. Same for me too. I will not sale my OG Xbox as well. OG Xbox still gave me a great experience to play with. I still keep my OG Xbox as well along with my PS2

    • @jakeplayzyt5220
      @jakeplayzyt5220 25 дней назад

      @@dzdju9fh8df83probably just didn’t need it anymore lol. Why you jump to conclusions like that?

  • @P2000Camaro
    @P2000Camaro 4 года назад +17

    Dude, I love you. I still have my modded xbox, and have had it for 13 years? I played your emulator COUNTLESS times. "IS THERE ANYONE ALIVE OUT THERE!!?!? CAN ANYONE HEAR ME!!" ..Ah jeez.. Thank you.

  • @JohnnyCanal
    @JohnnyCanal 5 лет назад +26

    Love your videos man

  • @chrislesauvage1755
    @chrislesauvage1755 6 лет назад +83

    Very nice work. Been a fan for many years. I was one of the Global Mods on xbox-scene.com (LepPpeR). Nice to put a face to a name.
    Still enjoying your emulators to date.

    • @ModernVintageGamer
      @ModernVintageGamer  6 лет назад +13

      great to see you man! its a bummer x-s is no longer around

    • @chrislesauvage1755
      @chrislesauvage1755 6 лет назад +6

      Modern Vintage Gamer - agreed. Sad to see the community disintegrate but all great things come to an end. Had fun developing Craxtion for all those years.

    • @incursion6471
      @incursion6471 6 лет назад +4

      OGxbox.com - somewhat of a revival. Very active FB group. not a ton of developers like yourself but the scene has had a resurgence of sorts. Stop on by :) great video btw. Thank you for your efforts and for making so much of this possible.

    • @NickD25
      @NickD25 6 лет назад +1

      Same as Chris! Thanks a lot! Used xSNES9x for all my SNES games and still do today!

    • @HoRnEyDvL
      @HoRnEyDvL 6 лет назад +2

      Another Head Admin from xbox-scene here (HoRnEyDvL) was also heavily involved in xbox scene back in the days :)

  • @AmyGrrl78
    @AmyGrrl78 6 лет назад +39

    Thanks for making my original XBOX experience so memorable. The modding scene for the XBOX back then was something to behold. Still have my original XBOX with X3 Modchip, Front Panel Replacement with LCD, & X3IR. My friend and I released a bunch of installers for the XBOX that properly installs & signs game DLC and XBOX Live! Arcade games to the hard drive. You can still download them from Digiex.

    • @vuurvent
      @vuurvent 5 лет назад +5

      Thanks for that! I still use Them!.

  • @fhs4137
    @fhs4137 4 года назад +24

    It is genuinely heartwarming how this video/comment section has brought forth so many memories/anecdotes. And that people have chosen to share them here. All with a dash of a joke here and some other assorted positive vibes there! English is not my first language, and it's a little hard to explain what I mean, but I hope you guys understand what I'm trying to say!

  • @hopps4117
    @hopps4117 4 года назад +9

    I just want to thank you for your work in the modding community. I spent countless hours using the emulators you made on my modded xbox back in the day (still use it every now and then!). I've watched so many of your vids and just saw this one today, kind of blew me away watching this one and thinking how you had a direct impact on my life. Cheers.

  • @MichaelRichards983
    @MichaelRichards983 6 лет назад +70

    I don't remember how but my brother ended up with a Xbox that was modded and we would play Killer Instinct just about nonstop! That was an amazing port and it's so dang cool that you did that work. You rule! Thanks for the good times and the hard work.

  • @joemac5164
    @joemac5164 6 лет назад +79

    Whats up man. Respect. This is really an inspirational video for me, I've been coding/hacking since childhood. I always wondered who developed these emulators, and it's funny that I stumbled upon this randomly. Really fucken cool that you made this channel and supply these videos as well as this exceptional backstory. I used to make trainers/bots for an old sidescroller(maplestory) using C/C++ years ago. I never released much on forums which I regret more so now. This makes me heavily wan't to develop something! Your a boss mate!

  • @capcomfan82
    @capcomfan82 6 лет назад +3

    Bro, your work was a part of my gaming history, emulating on the Xbox was amazing to me. Great great work

  • @jeremycayea7541
    @jeremycayea7541 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for everything you have done for the xbox modding community, I have personally enjoyed your hard work many times over. I am trying to dip my toes into programming and you are an inspiration.

  • @vorenge
    @vorenge 6 лет назад +11

    I've been watching your videos on RUclips for a while, but I never know I was actually watching THE LANTUS! You're a freaking legend! Thank you so much for your work. Now whenever I play my modded Xbox, I can think of you and send my thanks to you to the universe. Just wow!

  • @haloflooder
    @haloflooder 6 лет назад +16

    Man oh man. So you're the guy who developed those amazing emulators I played to death on my modded xbox. Surreal 64 was surprisingly stable enough to play Conker's Bad Fur Day (But for some reason it would fail to launch 50% of the time) and I would play it on my xbox instead of my pc. I always wondered how the it was able to fit the entire game on the ram on the xbox.
    Thanks for your service to the xbox modding community!

    • @ModernVintageGamer
      @ModernVintageGamer  6 лет назад +2

      Conkers was always a crap shoot to start for some reason like you said every other attempt it would just sit at a black screen. With a 128Meg xbox it runs MUCH nicer

  • @vubhuhjkbhubohjb
    @vubhuhjkbhubohjb 3 года назад +6

    Lantus was the man on xbox scene him and Xport fond memories of a different time....

  • @Bugzie666
    @Bugzie666 3 года назад +1

    You're a bloody legend mate. Thank you so much for your work. I now get to share this stuff with my kids because of you.

  • @EposVox
    @EposVox 6 лет назад +76

    Good stuff! Thanks for your work and for sharing your experiences.

    • @RWL2012
      @RWL2012 4 года назад +1

      wow, you got "verified". I suppose with a name like "EposVox", you'd need to be.

  • @FaSMaN
    @FaSMaN 6 лет назад +19

    Firstly, I just want to say Thank you, with all of my heart, thank you so much for your work!
    I used every single emulator you mentioned , they were great, ran fantastically and never gave me even a bit of trouble, you made emulation on Xbox fantastic!
    I will go as far as to say you soured me on to start retro gaming and collecting, I allways played pc , knew emulators existed but didn't really go indepth on playing them, but playing so many games on the Xbox made me want more and I started collecting , I am just so glad I can finally put a face to the emulators I use to play, and not just that all of the ports aswell, thank you once again!

  • @bryan.t777
    @bryan.t777 4 года назад +6

    I went by the name MrFaust back then. I was in the emulation scene as a whole. I won the Team Xecuter contest when they were about to release the X3 mod chip. I remember very fondly hanging out in xbins irc when your xSNES9x port came out. I remember followed the work of Lantus. Your MAME port and then the U64Emu port. I had been talking with RCP for a while and trying to motivate him to keep working on his Killer Instinct emulator for Windows. And then see it ported over to the Xbox was a glorious day for me :)

  • @javiervargas6366
    @javiervargas6366 5 лет назад +4

    Thank you for your hard work, specially thanks for the Killer Instinct Emu
    wao so much good memories thank to you & other developers, really appreciated
    cause you guys made and became part of my childhood.

  • @skonaz
    @skonaz 6 лет назад +6

    Man I used so many of these in the OG xbox days, thanks man! Your channel is awesome too.

  • @Codybirothmusic
    @Codybirothmusic 6 лет назад +12

    Thank you for doing all this. Modded Original Xbox's are my favorite consoles to play

  • @MansonX
    @MansonX 5 лет назад

    Your videos are always a pleasure.

  • @ingeniodigital7414
    @ingeniodigital7414 Год назад

    thank you for creating such high quality content, your reviews are pure gold

  • @lactobacillusprime
    @lactobacillusprime 6 лет назад +8

    Let me hereby sincerely thank you for giving me and many others the opportunity the use our original Xbox in so many wonderful and creative ways.

  • @matthewlibanio8227
    @matthewlibanio8227 6 лет назад +6

    Super cool! I had no idea! MVG Man, you are awesome. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it.

  • @spladam3845
    @spladam3845 4 года назад +1

    Wow, it is really cool to find out you were behind Surreal, MameOX and the Killer Instinct port and so much of the XBOX emulator scene, thank you for hard work, you brought a lot of joy to so many of us, with these accomplishments and your videos. Thank you man, 1000 thumbs up and a million internets to you sir.

  • @Jinkle
    @Jinkle 5 лет назад

    This is awesome to watch, and great to see how you was part of something I loved years ago, you’ve gained a new fan.

  • @sdmods619
    @sdmods619 6 лет назад +4

    Holy shit it's Lantus! You are a LEGEND dude! Bunny opened the flood doors but you WERE the flood. Man.. lik-sang, xbhacker, xbox-scene, team-xecuter, ninjahacker.net, IRC, xbins - those were very fun times. From 2003-2011 I modded thousands of game consoles in San Diego, including Xbox. In the early days, my competition was straight up pirates including Xbox games in their pre-mods. To keep out of jail but stay competitive, I refrained from backups but instead included emulators with my TSOPs and softmods for free. People went crazy for your emulators. I fucking owe you dude. If you don't have a Patreon, set one up - I've never contributed to any patreons on youtube but you will be the first. I'm sure there will be many many grateful people that will do the same. Plus we want to see more videos from you! KILLER INSTINCT!!!! Oh my god - I remember when you released it and had KI working like butter - I think KI2 was part of the release too. I'm still amazed you were able to pull this off to this day and will play it every now and then with my X-Arcade and Quasicade. If anyone still has a modded Xbox, X-arcade still sells xbox adapters and is how you should be playing many of the emulators. I had snes9x and also xsnes9x on my emulator loads because only one of them could play Starfox 2! I remember SNES mini release touting Starfox 2 and thinking "pshhhh, this already worked on my modded xbox through xsnes9x years ago".

    • @sdmods619
      @sdmods619 6 лет назад +1

      Decent, DOOM, Hexen, Surreal 64.. I can't thank you enough for all of this.

  • @vubhuhjkbhubohjb
    @vubhuhjkbhubohjb 6 лет назад +14

    Hi five to Lantus ;) Was an active xbox-scene user back in the day, remember the N64 competition, logging into xbins on mirc. Still got 3 modded xboxs one that gets used weekly.

  • @TomJones-wi4nh
    @TomJones-wi4nh 2 года назад

    Huge longtime fan of your channel - I had no idea you’d written some of emu’s I used back in the day. Thanks for the memories!

  • @razorr527
    @razorr527 4 года назад +1

    A billion times, thank you my friend for the hard work you put in. You made alot of gamers so happy with your work in the modding community. It's a honor to be a subscriber to your channel. You're a freaking hero 😀👍

  • @ModernVintageGamer
    @ModernVintageGamer  6 лет назад +92

    Do not adjust your computer at 3:51 :)

    • @WarpPal
      @WarpPal 6 лет назад +4

      Thats Street Fighter Alpha 2 isn't it?

    • @chrisduckett3323
      @chrisduckett3323 6 лет назад

      I seen Simpsons characters. My phone sucks though.

    • @davidste60
      @davidste60 5 лет назад

      'At this point I knew I had something special' hahaha

  • @StefaNonsense
    @StefaNonsense 6 лет назад +6

    This was a great little dive into a very interesting piece of gaming history. While I've never been much of a console gamer, I have used my fair share of MAME and NeoGeo emulators for the PC, and I'm always interested in finding out more about all various bits and pieces of gaming history, great to see that actual actors that literally wrote said history - and code - are still among us :)

  • @tonyf1410
    @tonyf1410 3 года назад

    This has taken me back. Thank you for all your efforts, it inspired hours of tinkering on my behalf! Well done!

  • @s1rf0rt4h8
    @s1rf0rt4h8 3 года назад

    Crazy watching your vids and learning you were behind so much homebrew i have been enjoying the past 15 years , thank you! Very impressive.

  • @TuberViejuner
    @TuberViejuner 6 лет назад +28

    This is a great and interesting video , thank's a lot for your work I love play my emulators con my xbox classic :)

  • @ThunderTHR
    @ThunderTHR 5 лет назад +3

    Its amazing to hear just how much time and effort you put into these emulators/homebrew. I was introduced to the likes of xSNES9x, FBA-X, and Surreal64 thanks to my dad, and It really gave me something to do/kept me in a good mood growing up!
    Thank you for all of your hard work. :) Excellent video.

  • @usuarioanonimo8684
    @usuarioanonimo8684 5 лет назад

    Thank you for all your hard work. I have many fond memories playing your emulators on my og xbox. Its nice of you to share your story with us. ☺

  • @metacross2826
    @metacross2826 4 года назад

    Your work brought me a lot of fond memories. Mad respect

  • @Core2lee91
    @Core2lee91 6 лет назад +24

    Nice!! I got an original Xbox when I was about 13, and over the 3 or 4 years I owned one (several, actually) I spent many, many hours flashing TSOP, softmodding (SplinterCell Save exploit!!), running emulators, adding VGA and RCA ports, upgrading hard disks (IDE hot swap ha!), adding 80 pin IDE cables, trying all the different dashboards, swapping 3 pin LED's, wishing my soldering skills where good enough to add an additional 64MB RAM for Project64 and Linux, XBMC, GentooX, installing games to HDD, making Cat5 crossover cables and most importantly emulators!!
    At the time I was more than happy just running Snes9x on my WinXP AMD Duron 1.3GHz PC, but the xSNES9x port ran so well by the time I discovered it in around 2004/2005 I didn't just use the emulator for novelty, I still to this day think it's one of the best ways to play emulated SNES games.
    I think the original Xbox was the absolute pinnacle of home console modding. I thank the original Xbox for my interest in trying to hack the shit out of pretty much anything I own with a microprocessor inside of it.
    Thanks for all your dev work back in the day, people like you was what made all of the above worthwhile, and probably why I didn't get a girlfriend until several years later :p

    • @drmayne2071
      @drmayne2071 4 года назад

      Mech assult Exploit is what I used the same thing as splinter cell I happened to find that game first and way cheap., and cross over cables will akways have a spot in my heart.

    • @Letsgetphunky
      @Letsgetphunky 4 года назад

      @@drmayne2071 Same here, i had a Mech assault exploited xbox.

  • @LaughTaleCollectibles
    @LaughTaleCollectibles 6 лет назад +12

    You my sir, are a legend

  • @adamm.1367
    @adamm.1367 6 лет назад

    Thank you for your exceptional contribution to the Xbox homebrew scene. I definitely got tons of enjoyment out of your hard work back in the day -- my buddies and I spent countless hours with xsnes9x and KI!

  • @MichaelDonegan88
    @MichaelDonegan88 4 года назад +2

    Your a legend. Thanks for the great memories

  • @104d_3rr0r_vince
    @104d_3rr0r_vince 6 лет назад +4

    Excellent journey my friend!

  • @andree1991
    @andree1991 4 года назад +18

    Back in 2004 when a friend had an xbox playing N64 i almost had a heart attack and i couldnt believe it.

  • @irawhitejr
    @irawhitejr 6 лет назад

    Hell yes I remember Lantus from the xbox-scene and using your apps! Thanks for the good times and loved your work and appreciated it!

  • @MathieuLaflamme
    @MathieuLaflamme 4 года назад

    I discover your channel just a few days ago! Your such a great teacher and your videos are simply awesome!

  • @jedewitz
    @jedewitz 5 лет назад +4

    I have to tell you-- I played more stuff on your emulators than I ever did Xbox games. Thank you so much for your work, dude!

  • @westhouse4641
    @westhouse4641 6 лет назад +5

    this reminds me of my teen years and SWGemu, with their source I was modifying and recompiling SQL databases to run a LAN server trying to impress my older brother who at the time was a SA/network engineer and had introduced me to the game. Essentially all I did was replace most NPCs with palpatine, and modify items to fight them all with but I was like 13-14 and thought I was king of the world, sure recompiling took like 6+ hours on my win32xp desktop, didnt even phase me, id sit there waiting just in case id messed up an ini edit or data entry because having the recompile fail 1 hour in and coming back 8 hours later sucks your soul, but man I'll never forget the feeling of it finishing successfully.
    kinda long rant but in any case love the channel man keep it coming

  • @BruteDux
    @BruteDux 4 года назад

    You're a true legend in so much of the scene. I really admire your work.

  • @willtonkin
    @willtonkin 4 года назад

    I want to hear more about this scene, it was so exciting and inspiring to hear about!
    I still enjoy Surreal64 to this day, and remember much of your work ❤️
    Thank you

  • @TheRetroGodfather.
    @TheRetroGodfather. 6 лет назад +3

    Im in awe at your work, amazing stuff !! Thanks for all your hard work !!

  • @freakdave
    @freakdave 6 лет назад +25

    Thanks for all your hard work, especially on Surreal64 and libSDLx, really enjoyed watching this video :)
    And big apologies for the crappy "FDB" series, you know what i mean ^^

    • @ModernVintageGamer
      @ModernVintageGamer  6 лет назад +4

      great to see you man. no apologies needed at all. the good old days , nothing but good memories for me

  • @terranceoliver8935
    @terranceoliver8935 5 лет назад +1

    I just randomly started watching your videos and found out it was you though this video that made all the emulators for the og Xbox.... I would like to thank you so much for your hard work. I became the envy of my friends through your work, of how cool the og Xbox really was.. I miss the og Xbox modding scene 😥

  • @bigdeej3831
    @bigdeej3831 4 года назад +3

    Your work among others made me so much money in middle school! Modding xboxes of kids I went to school with! I at one point had it down with the hotswap softmod technique to just 15 minutes and that was including opening the device, booting, copying, checking everything and then resealing it all. xboxhdm was such a great tool there hasn't been a massive homebrew scene imo since xbox. It was just such a unique position since it was relatively cheap and so wide spread yet highly powerful. I did a single tsop flash w/ hacked bios but I always liked the simpler version of softmodding. Just seems cooler imo to actually do it all in software and defeat the machine's built in security with pbl lol!

  • @israeldlr4365
    @israeldlr4365 5 лет назад +3

    This guy was behind a large part of my childhood in gaming. Mad respect, legend status achieved indeed. And ninja gaiden music on the backtrack? My god.

  • @gonzalo1972
    @gonzalo1972 5 лет назад +1

    Lantus!!! Thank you so much for your awesome work

  • @nigazallucard
    @nigazallucard 4 года назад

    Thanks for all the good time I had with your emulator ports on my old RiP xbox.From the bottom of my heart, thank u so much. Greetings from Brazil.

  • @luckas30
    @luckas30 6 лет назад +18

    Thank you!! I spent a lot of good time playing emulators on my XOBOX! :)

  • @alexanderveritas
    @alexanderveritas 4 года назад +3

    *_The story of pioneer and legend of the Emulation Community._*
    *_Who would've ever thought that YOU were actually Lantus, the creator of the original SNES Emulator fro XBOX._*

  • @Semseddin.
    @Semseddin. 4 года назад

    I enjoyed every second of this video. I thought you were just a fan of vintage games until now. Thanks man !

  • @THEWOOKIENESS
    @THEWOOKIENESS 4 года назад

    Remembering the golden times ! Really good work !

  • @emukidid
    @emukidid 6 лет назад +10

    Love to hear the tales from back in the day. I tried them all pretty much on release, they inspired me to port emulators to GC/Wii. Xbins is still around I think.

    • @TheModShopCO
      @TheModShopCO 6 лет назад +2

      emukidid Spoke with the owner about a week ago. Still going strong.

    • @ModernVintageGamer
      @ModernVintageGamer  6 лет назад

      yep xbins is still around :)

    • @Cardboxx
      @Cardboxx 6 лет назад +1

      Emukidid > aren't you the guy behind Swiss? I remember reading about a lot of your stuff at the time, you were my entry into "the moding scene" in general haha (started learning programing as well) hope I'll be able to contribute as well on the next gen of console

  • @refractionpcsx2
    @refractionpcsx2 6 лет назад +4

    Always great to see the work of a fellow emu dev :) I did wonder what you'd worked on!

  • @erikburleson3131
    @erikburleson3131 4 года назад

    Thank you for all the awesome videos brother !

  • @SiriusDraconis
    @SiriusDraconis 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for the many many hours of fun. Got my system modded back in like 2006. Just broke out my OG XBOX and started playing all the emulators with my son. Crazy to see him playing and loving the games I grew up with.

  • @mattrichardson4351
    @mattrichardson4351 6 лет назад +5

    love it .. there are many people out there that would love to say thanks i bet

  • @LokiTheCat
    @LokiTheCat 6 лет назад +6

    my dads softmodded xbox was my hecking childhood thank you

  • @BillKDevGr
    @BillKDevGr 5 лет назад

    incidentally discovered your channel...oh man so many memories from the OG xbox era..thank u for your efforts!

  • @dinodin007
    @dinodin007 4 года назад

    Man I'm loving your videos, learning about all this is super enthralling to me

  • @TheHobbsTV
    @TheHobbsTV 5 лет назад +3

    Such a smart dude. I'm into technology too but never coding. You are truly impressive sir!

    • @BackAlleyKnifeFighter
      @BackAlleyKnifeFighter 4 года назад

      I'm trying my hand in coding right now and god damn is it difficult. How guys like him figure this stuff out is beyond me.

  • @ChadWSmith
    @ChadWSmith 6 лет назад +6

    Awesome! First off, thank you for your work, to you and all the hackers / coders / modders out there. It's nice to finally put a face to the unseen workers who made all this possible.
    Secondly, I recently was given an original Xbox that someone found in their basement. It works, and I am in the process of softmodding it. Back in the day, I had a hardmodded Xbox, but it was stolen several years ago. I am looking forward to getting back into some retro gaming with a nice chunky Xbox controller.
    Thanks again. Emulators, modS, and homebrew have provided untold hours of joy and decompression to millions of gamers like me, and I salute the men and women who made that possible. (Including the original game developers.)

  • @squidwardtentacles2736
    @squidwardtentacles2736 3 года назад

    Thank you for all the work you and your fellow developers did to make all these wonderful homebrew applications possible!!

  • @Jaxxon080
    @Jaxxon080 2 года назад

    I absolutely love this channel.

  • @ebenezerspludge8369
    @ebenezerspludge8369 5 лет назад +29

    Daaaaam Dude I used your N64 and SNES emulators. I had the executioner chip in my original Xbox.

    • @ajddavid452
      @ajddavid452 2 года назад +1

      executioner sounds like a pretty badass name for a modchip

    • @ebenezerspludge8369
      @ebenezerspludge8369 2 года назад

      @@ajddavid452 It was the best mod I've ever installed. I use the SNES mini for 2 player stuff but mostly the PSP. It's portable and you can hook it up to the TV.