The Niveus Edge Resurrection: Hacking A Hacked Xbox

The resell value of the edge suddenly went from nearly zero to $750

I think we should call playing video games on the Edge "Edging." I'm going to go Edge with my friends.

"Well, Niveus, you're an odd fellow, but I must say - you cool a good media extender."

Gravis in previous videos: "I like to be nice to bad devices because their creators may be watching" Gravis on the Niveous: "I've heard from multiple employees. This thing is bad, the company was incompetent, and it kicks puppies while stroking its twirly old timey mustache"

moderately interesting fact about the "to play this disc, put it in an Xbox 360 console" screen: that's actually a custom dvd menu that got put on all xbox 360 game discs to (i guess?) defend against someone putting it in the wrong device by mistake.

Custom passively cooled cases for game consoles seems like a grand idea for a business. Especially since you can add probably a 20 dollar led strip and sell it for an additional 200 bucks.

I love the rebuild you did here - despite any historical value it might have had, the original workmanship was so terrible that it really is justified. Especially that PSU... argh. That genuinely could have killed someone at some point. One recommendation I would have, though, is that you make a sticker with a short summary of what you did and stick it to something that's not likely to be replaced later. One of the two huge heatsinks, maybe. That way there's evidence of what it went through, and someone 30 years down the line doesn't open it up and conclude that the company must have done a second version to fix a bunch of problems with the first.

Massive thumbs up for the Western Union splice. I was taught how to do these about 25 years ago in an electronics class I took in high school. It was more like a shop class than a technology class with more emphasis on assembly than on theory. Anyway I use a Western Union splice almost every time I need to splice wires. It's obviously not always possible or practical, but having a solid, neat physical connection before you solder is always a plus. I don't know that I've ever seen another youtuber mention them before. Five points.

awesome! glad you chose to do the mod instead of caring about the questionable historical significance, this really went from "huh, cool." to "huh! cool!"

55:52 - I'd left a comment on the live stream but you were just finishing up when you'd mentioned doing this. Loctite doesn't cure without pressure on it; literally put a dab on your desk and set even a toothpick on it, all the exposed to air no pressure material will stay liquid, but where that toothpick is will setup and turn solid. You need to back all your thumbscrews off and get the loctite under the fastener, at the contact point so it is compressed when you tighten it. A lot of people miss this as this usually done at the thread surface when you put it on or in the threads of a fastener; and in that you might aswell just put it on the threads, but I'm quite confident that's why it never setup for you.

You retained anything of significance in the Edge, and actually validated it as a product more than anything, so I'd say that's a job well done! Another great vid

I've never noticed before, but I recently discovered that "Right angle" "Left angle" "Up angle" and "Down angle" seem to be somewhat standardized terms for cable ends and adapters now. Really helps when trying to find the right ends for good cable management.

So they could have shuffled all the dvd drives amongst Edges and no could play games and everyone could watch movies.

"its only another hour out of your day, no big deal" sir you dont know how big of a deal it is. Im a remote artist, your stuff keeps me sane during the work day.

When the message pops up telling you to insert the game into an Xbox 360, it’s actually reading the disc AS a DVD movie and playing a video file.

Thread lockers are designed to set only when not exposed to air, like when trapped in threads. We used to use nail polish as it is nasty stuff, hardens well and is used to make it clear if someone has messed with things. Nice job though.

The field of Industrial Archeology develops in new direction! Your contribution is appreciated.

“That made up for my imprecision with a stripper” - CRD 2024 Lel

If you ever do decide to re-route that power light wire, you should consider wiring it to the original LED rather than the solid 3.3v since you fixed the drive door sensor issue. Small improvement being the light will blink when it boots, but also the wire would be a lot shorter

So about the HD-DVD player. The HD-DVD keys it needs to download are on a dashboard update that was included on a disc with the drive. Good luck finding one of those. You can get the same effect by updating the console normally (I have a 360 with a working HD-DVD drive) but blade xbox. The dashbaord update disc for the HD-DVD player actually is a later blade version so there's that I guess.