- Hey guys, this is Austin.
And today, it's time to finally build
what you guys have been asking for months.
This is the ultimate Xbox 360.
So, of course, to start with,
we have our pristine, brand new,
in box Xbox 360, 4GB with Kinect.
I mean, the last part was true.
When it comes to building the ultimate console,
one of the most important things is to
find something that is compatible
with the most accessories.
And even though you can get some stuff
with the original Xbox 360, as well as the Super Slim
this is defintely going to be our best bet.
Oh boy, what a wonderful packing job.
Okay, well, the first thing we're gonna find here
is actually one of the weirdest Xbox 360 accessories,
the original Kinect.
Man, this is disgustingly dirty.
Can you see the level of scratches on this?
Does that come up on camera?
It looks like someone's, like,
rubbed this thing down with sandpaper.
But hey, at least we got it for a smooth $20.
Thanks Ken.
Obviously, this is the way you've gotta play your Xbox.
Ugh! Why is it so dirty?
Dude, there's like... I can literally see dust,
like, collected inside the fan here.
Could've found us a cleaner Xbox.
(sprayer noise)
Okay, so now that we have a slightly cleaner Xbox,
the first accessory has to be Kinect.
Now this is a really weird one.
Not only was this by far
the biggest accessory available for the 360,
but in some ways it was a pretty big success
but in a lot of ways, it was kind of a failure.
So it came out in 2010, several years
after the Xbox 360 came out, and the idea here
is that with the series of cameras and sensors
it would basically turn you into the controller.
There was this famous demo at E3
before this was announced back in what was called
project Natal, where they had this kid skateboarding
in his room using nothing but his body
as the controller, and it looked super, super awesome.
Of course, as with nearly all of these demos,
it wasn't quite as good as it sort of seemed
once you actually got your hands on it.
Thus, this was picked up for $20
in a bargain bin somewhere.
But, before we get to that we have to finish
upgrading our Xbox 360, and the first thing
we're going to do is put in a bigger hard drive.
So back in these days, Microsoft sold internal hard drives
that you could install yourself
because for some wonderful reason,
this Xbox 360 was shipping with only 4GB of capacity.
Mostly so they could actually bundle Kinect in the box.
Which as you can imagine, for a more
modern console, not exactly a lot of storage.
So if you flip over the 360, there's
a little panel here where you can drop in a hard drive.
So this guy is going to give us
500GB capacity, although, as always,
we're gonna go above that.
But, it's an easy way of getting a lot
more storage in what is really a very difficult
Xbox to use if you don't have
at least some kind of SSD or HDD or USB...
yeah, that's all the things, right?
HDD, USB, SSD.
So something interesting is, is that
even though the Xbox One doesn't allow you
to install an internal hard drive
the 360 always did.
So you remember the original fat Xbox 360
actually had the top-mounted hard drives,
which were really easy to pop on and off,
but with the slim they moved to the sort of
cartridge design which realistically is just
a two and a half inch laptop drive that you
just slide in something like... that.
And because of course we're trying to build
the ultimate Xbox 360, near 5MB of capacity
is definitely not going to be enough,
which is where the Seagate game drive comes in.
So this is a 500GB SSD.
Now this is typically meant for the Xbox One
as it does have a USB 3.0, and it's actually
going to be faster than the internal drive.
However, this is before USB 3.0.
So instead, we're hooking up a 500GB USB 2.0 SSD.
So that'll be fast.
The Xbox 360 was the last of the major consoles
to stick with only dual layer DVD support,
and that was fine for stuff like the PS2,
but when it came to the 360, while most games were able
to fit on a single DVD quite a few actually
did need to ship on multiple discs.
However, unlike the PS3 which had Blu-ray support,
that was nowhere to be found on the 360 and thus,
this wonderful ridiculous accessory was born.
The Xbox HD DVD player.
So for those of you who are not familiar
with the HD DVD format, this was essentially
the competitor to Blu-ray back in the day.
Thus the HD DVD name.
Pretty clever, I know.
Are you serious?
It looks like a mini, fat, Xbox360!
Oh, I never realized that.
I've never actually seen one of these in person.
Yo, I mean, it doesn't match with this at all,
but that is so cool!
Now it's time to connect this.
So we've got our power adapter, we've also got
our second part of the power adapter,
and then it connects via mini USB.
This whole thing feels straight out of 2006.
So when it first came out, the HD DVD add-on
was a pretty impressive $200.
Which still actually probably would have been
cheaper than a lot of the HD DVD players
at the time, but of course it went absolutely nowhere
and thus we have Blu-ray and I have a really
ridiculous player that... we have a game for.
Oh sorry, no, actually they didn't make games for it.
Right, so this is only for movies, I forgot.
Do we have a movie for it?
March of the Penguins.
Okay, so this is one of
the very few HD DVDs that existed.
So, one of the only real issues
with the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One of today still,
is that they run on AA batteries.
Although thankfully, we have a way around that too.
This is the Nyko Charge Base S.
So in addition to giving you two rechargeable batteries
in the box, it's also going to be a little dock
we can actually charge our controllers with.
It just feels so weird to be opening up
all these old accessories that have
clearly been sitting around some, like,
Amazon back room for like five years.
But, it's okay, they're gonna have a better life now.
So, I don't think.. that's not gonna fit.
Whatever, this one will fit.
So, you can see what this is supposed
to look like if you don't have
your giant Chatpad on.
Now, with all these accessories connected
to our Xbox 360, one might worry
that it might get a little bit warm, perhaps,
get a little bit of a red ring of death perhaps,
even though this is a slim and doesn't actually,
physically have red rings to do that with,
well in that case, we have an inner cooler.
You know, that wonderful accessory that we've tried
on many, many, many occasions
and has never done anything.
Let's try it here!
So the claim to fame with this one isn't
so much to allow the temperatures to run a little
bit cooler when you're normally using your Xbox 360,
but for when you've got it in a confined space
it's supposed to direct hot air away from the console.
Okay, so this is a pretty small inner cooler,
I will say, so basically you've got one fan
on the inside which actually kind of looks like a
GPU fan, and then I guess it sort of mounts
onto the sides, like that?
(paper crinkling)
Seems a little bit excessive.
Don't you just clip it on to the side?
Yeah, you just clip it on the side.
There we go.
That doesn't look like the most ridiculous
thing I've ever seen.
And of course, because everything here is
mounted via USB, I'm going to use up the last
port on the back of the Xbox.
I gotta say, that is looking a little bit more
like the ultimate Xbox 360.
What fell?
All right, so we've got some decent stuff here,
the Xbox is going to be cool,
it's going to have an HD DVD experience,
we're going to have wireless rechargeable controllers,
and a Kinect which is useful for all kinds
of games that are not called Just Dance.
However, there's one last piece that I think
is gonna really pull this all together.
So this is the Vault for Xbox 360,
and it's a little bit unusual.
So if you pop it open here what you're going
to find is that not only is that all going
to be branded with Battlefield 3,
but it's esentially a case for the 360.
It's a little bit weird.
So they use it as like a, "Oh, look,
you can sort of mount a control on the side
of it, make it look all cool."
But I don't know why you want this.
Oh, oh wow, okay.
Assembly instructions.
When I say I'm going to be building the
ultimate Xbox 360, I didn't think
I actually had to literally build it.
Okay. (laughing)
Well, this is a thing in multiple pieces,
so it looks like a claymore and a smoke grenade?
And so with that, we have the ultimate Xbox 360
in all its really ridiculous plastic glory.
So after a quick battery change, we've got a, you know,
the LEDs working on our super cool claymore
so, you know, that's a thing.
Hey look, it's got me.
So this is what it looks like with Kinect
when you actually have, you know, a working skeleton.
We also do have everything showing up
so it shows our 500GB hard drive, as well as
our 476GB SSD, and we also have the HD DVD player
which has 191MB free.
So of course, we're going to have to play
a game with this setup, and what better than Skyrim,
which apparently is better with Kinect.
Oh no, tray doesn't wanna open.
I think our tray is busted.
It just took three tries to open up.
That's fine, that's what you should expect
out of the ultimate Xbox 360.
It's really weird to put a disc in a system
and not have to wait for it to download
and patch and update, it just starts.
Maybe this is the ultimate console after all.
So apparently I can use Kinect to shout
voice commands in Skyrim, which doesn't sound
particularly useful.
Wow, what revolutionary Kinect gameplay.
I'm really amazed at the power of this technology.
Super helpful.
Actually here's something curious.
So I've got Skyrim in the DVD drive right now
and it shows "Play Skyrim," but I also now have
an HD DVD in the HD DVD player,
so how do I actually get to that?
My Video apps. (gasps)
Oh, we found it!
There's an HD DVD app.
Oh no, "Can't read this disc,
if it's a game CD or disc put it
in your Xbox 360 disc tray."
Come on, are you serious?
My Xbox, my ultimate Xbox, it's all failing me
So, that my friends is how not to build
the ultimate Xbox 360 with lots of components
which are of dubious value or don't work at all.
So, hopefully you found this helpful.
If you did, please watch some of the other
Building the Ultimate series, which I can
assure you are much, much better.