For the longest time I’ve had this Kasumi Blue Xbox from a fellow game enthusiast from way down Melbourne way. And for the longest time the darned jewel has been crooked. I got around to straightening it up. I ended up opting for some fishing wire as my floss is cinammon flavoured. I didn’t really want a cinammon flavoured Xbox jewel, or do I?

Anyway, it was actually far easier than I thought, and I should have done it a long time ago. Now it’s done and it will never have to be done again! Damn that blue is a beautiful colour. Too bad the DVT4 isn’t a nice blue. Now I have to choose between one of the two? What would you keep? The better looking blue Xbox or the technologically cooler DVT4? The jury is still out for now.

Interestingly, this Kasumi Blue contains what I identified as a v1.0 motherboard, like the DVT4, even though the Kasumi Blue edition came much later. I don’t have evidence that Microsoft was simply burning through old inventory, though, and I also can’t rule out somebody swapping the board before I got the console. The observation is the v1.0 board in this unit; the factory-history explanation was only my theory. Plus the date/time supercap didn’t do any real damage as far as I can tell to either the DVT4 or the Kasumi Blue. Woohoo!

References: 1. http://www.uk-dave.com/projects/misc/xbox-jewel/ 2. http://tweakification.blogspot.com/2007/01/step-by-step-xbox-jewel-led-mod.html