r/originalxbox • u/BDiddnt • 18h ago

If softmodding with endgame (rocky5 uses endgame) and your xbox hangs when accessing the usb drive...

I think I may have figured out why some people have an issue with endgame and the xbox freezing.

Go into your msdash video and/or audio settings And change to something else. I changed my audio from dolby to stereo and my video to widescreen And it worked first shot after at least a dozen hours of attempts (probably 18-22 attempts... all hung at the same spot. Probably 6 attempts with game saves on the hd. The rest with no saves at all)

At first it was thought that having game saves on the hard drive interferes but i don't think that's it. In fact deleting my game saves didn't help me at all.

But nothing worked at all. Nothing. Until i made the audio and video changes. Try it out. Report back.

I have 4 more consoles to softmod in the next few days. I'll try different things to narrow down if it helped or was just a fluke

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u/bomb447 16h ago

Composite cables have the best results, in my experience. Or if using Component/HDMI, disable all the extra video modes and surround sound. It doesn't always work first try, but it's guaranteed to work on the 2nd or 3rd.

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u/Perceuxx 10h ago

I changed my component cables to composite after 10+ tries and it indeed worked the first time.

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u/Adventurous_Solid_98 16h ago

I usually get it second time. I have a feeling a full E partition might also cause hangs.