Hacking Xbox 360 Memory Unit Upgrade

[BossLite23]

This uprade consists of replacing the board inside the memory unit with one of a USB flash drive.
The memory unit of the xbox 360 uses 3.3 v and a usb device uses 5v but because the memory and ic of the usb flash drive uses 3.3v it simply works.

Now I don't know if this work works with any usb flash drive but I tried with two of them which are usb 2.0 one of 2 gb and one of 8 gb.

From the attached pictures you can see how I proceeded and the hardest thing was removing the ports. On the usb flash drive, I cut the metal case and then unsoldered the pins, and on the memory unit, I heated each pin and with the help of a cutter blade, I lifted them.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

holy shit so the memory cards were more or less just USB? Would that mean a memcard-to-USB port adapter is possible?

 

[DinohScene]

They're just USB devices yes.
This is how 3rd party memory units came into existence in the early 360 days.

 

[BossLite23]

holy shit so the memory cards were more or less just USB? Would that mean a memcard-to-USB port adapter is possible?

I thought about that too, but I needed a usb adapter

 

[SylverReZ]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/xbox-360-memory-unit-to-usb-adapter.635428/
This was done already in this thread fyi.

 

[fringle]

You don't even need to do this though since the 360 has native support for USB sticks as storage devices. I mean unless you really like the look of the memory cards there is no other reason.

 

[SylverReZ]

You don't even need to do this though since the 360 has native support for USB sticks as storage devices. I mean unless you really like the look of the memory cards there is no other reason.

Why the heck not, I suppose. I bet AliExpress sell 360 memory units with cheap flash storage in them, like, plain USB flash drive boards soldered to a connector.

 

[pewnoy]

tks