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  • - 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.

- Hey guys, this is Austin.

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