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Xbox DVT4 XBpartitioner and Game Demos

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

And this video concludes the five or six parter on the Xbox DVT4 Development Console. What a ride it has been. Regarding data on the old hard drive… the original hard drive was imaged thanks to fatxfs under Ubuntu. Interestingly while the recovery software for the Xbox “xdk 5849 (Xbox... Continue reading

Xbox DVT4 Booting Signed Code

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

Sometimes I leave the raw footage for these videos sitting on my computer way too long. This recent series of Xbox DVT4 videos date back to early this year. I’ve got to be honest, I can’t remember what half of them are about. A great example is this video right... Continue reading

Xbox DVT4 Network Update (XDK 5933)

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

We bring the DVT4 up to the latest available XDK software update to ensure it runs as smoothly as possible. We go from XDK 5849 which was on the Recovery ISO to XDK 5933. Requirements include Windows 7 since I couldn’t get Windows 10 to do it, thankfully it runs... Continue reading

Cooking with McRetro: McMuffin Madness

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // News, YouTube

We haven’t done a Cooking with segment in quite some time. As you can see not much has changed. I do miss the days of simpler cooking where we could just dump a bunch of choc chips into custard or cover a sugared cinnamon doughnut in more sugar and call... Continue reading

Xbox DVT4 Factory Restore (XDK Recovery 5849)

Nix McRetro // 24th November 2019 // Devkit, Microsoft, YouTube

This video steps us through one of the finer things in life, factory restoring a DVT4 using a Recovery 5849 DVD-R that was burnt from an iso found on the internet. You might say that isn’t a terribly finer thing of life at all! Well, you’re wrong. So sit back... Continue reading