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hey guys Boston and today it's time to finally build what you guys have been asking for for months this is the ultimate Xbox 360 so of course to start with we have our pristine brand new in box Xbox 360 4 gig 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 for the original Xbox 360 as well as the super slam this is definitely going to be our best bet oh boy what a wonderful packing job ok well the first thing we're gonna find here is actually one of the weirdest Xbox 360 accessories the original Kinect Manstein's gusting leader you see the level of scratches on this does that come up on camera it looks like someone's like rub this thing down with sandpaper hey at least we got it for smooth $20 thanks Ken obviously this is the way you've got to play your Xbox oh why is it so dirty dude there's like you can literally see dust like collected inside the fan here could have found us a cleaner Xbox okay so now that we have a slightly cleaner Xbox the first accessory has to be Kinect now this is a really weird one millions they by far the biggest accessories it was available for the 360 but in some ways it was a pretty big success but in a lot of ways 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 a series of cameras and sensors who basically turned you into the controller there was this famous demo at e3 before this was announced back when it's called project natal where they had this kid skateboarding in his room using nothing but his body as the controller and it looks super super awesome of course as with nearly all of these demos it wasn't quite as good as it sort of seen what you actually got your hands on it thus this was picked up for 20 bucks and a bargain bin somewhere well 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's old internal hard drives that you could install yourself because for some wonderful reason this Xbox 360 was shipping with only four gigabytes of capacity mostly so they could actually bundle connect in the box which I'm 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 500 gigabytes of capacity although as always we're gonna go pub 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 he runs with the original fat Xbox 360 actually had these top mounted hard drives which were really easy to pop on and off but with the slim they move to this sort of cartridges 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 I mean 500 gigabytes of capacity is definitely not going to be enough which is where the Seagate game drive comes in so this is a 500 gigabyte SSD now this is typically meant for the Xbox one as it does have USB 3.0 and actually is going to be faster than the internal drive how / this is before USB 3.0 so instead we're hooking up a 500 gigabyte USB 2.0 as a C so that'll lead fast so 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 I came to the 360 while most games weren't 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 that's the HD DVD name pretty clever I know are you serious it looks like a mini fat Xbox 360 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 so 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 they'll actually they 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 double-a batteries although thankfully we have a way around that - this is the Nyko 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 bathrooms like five years but it's ok they're gonna have a better life now so I don't think that's not gonna fit whatever uh-huh this hole fit so you can see why this is supposed to look like if you don't have your giant chat pad on uh-huh 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 there's a slim and it does 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 let the temperatures 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 intercooler I will say so basically you've got one fan on the inside which actually kind looks like a GPU fan and then I guess it sort of mounts onto the side something like that 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 gonna use up the last port on the back of the Xbox I've got to say that is looking a little bit more like the ultimate Xbox 360 one film 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 it's 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 it all going to be branded with battlefield 3 but it's essentially a case for the 360 it's a little bit weird so they use it as like 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 gonna be building the ultimate Xbox 360 I didn't think I actually had to literally build it Oh hook okay well this is the thing and multiple pieces so it looks like a claymore in a smoke grenade and so with that we have the ultimate Xbox 360 and all it's really ridiculous plastic glory so after a quick battery change we've got you know the LEDs working on our supercool 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 500 go by a hard drive as well as our 476 gigabyte SSD and we also have the HD DVD player which has 191 megabytes free had so of course we're gonna have to play a game with this setup and what better than Skyrim which apparently is better with Kinect oh no Trey doesn't open I think our tray is busted oh 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 with the the power of this technology super helpful actually here's something curious so I've got Skyrim in the DVD drive right now 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 oh oh we found it there's an HD DVD app oh no I can't read this disc if it's a game CD your disc put it in there 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 abuse 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