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Here you can find information about Xbox 360 parts, repairs, customizations and mod accessories. We pride ourselves on our quality service ,support and products. We will always be the place to go for clear step by step how-to repair and mod tutorials as well as hacks, cheats and a little news here and there. 04/09/09 The Llamma contest is over and a winner of the Elite has been chosen! Congratulations to Anthony in Ohio, I hope you enjoy your Elite! As for the other prizes the following forum users won (look for a PM from me for instructions to claim prize)! one shot - Rapid Fire 3 mode Controller All winners were chosen via www.random.org true random number generator. Meat$hield won twice, and yes he is a forum admin, but no its not a setup. I'm also pleased to announce Kevin and Jaelynn won the contest! http://www.feldmannnissangiveaway.com/ They went into the final stretch behind the other team. That team has had several thousand votes removed due to fraudulent entries, the Nissan giveaway apparently disqualified the other team. Just goes to show, winners never cheat, cheaters never win! Thanks for all the support out there we couldn't have done it without you!
10/08/08 XCM products are back in stock at Llamma! We again have our lineup of cases! lighted wireless controller shells! We even got a new product, the Core Cooler V2. What does it do? Well it lights up and blows of course! I've been told its 168% brighter than any competing product and stirs the air more violently than most hurricanes. For those on a tighter budget but looking for an advanced lighting and cooling effect check out the Original Core Cooler Probably not quite as exciting as full case mods or lighted products but maybe a little more important; replacement thumbsticks to keep your old controller in the game. We've had gray replacement ones available for some time but due to popular demand we tracked down some black ones too.
My favorite thumbsticks are the PlayStation style ones with the rounded top. A little harder to install but worth the effort. I find that the rounded surface means less need to re-grab with my thumb an therefore more time aiming and less missed shots! Seriously this is why people are beating you online, its not their OC3 connection or their far superior gaming skilz its all in the rounded thumbstick! Grab a set and level the playing field everyone else is doing it. Also I've heard rumors that due to the advantage that these provide MLG may ban the use of these in tournament play.
03/05/08 For those Call of Duty 4 (COD4) fans out there you have probably noticed some positive changes in the recent update. Finally a simple way to mute the undesirables, some better kill cam views for grenades and air strikes, and my personal favorite, first person view on spectator.
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07/05/07 Llamma Mod Gallery added. If you want to see the collection of modded boxes we have done you'll find a link in the left "Mod Gallery" If you want to post some of your own or see what others have done check out our forum link to the "The Modded 360s of the Llamma club" 6/19/07 The Llamma forums are back up and running. We are now on the most current version and hopefully this will aid in administration. Its not that often that I get out to the forums and I was pleased to see we retained all our old posts and everything appears to be in good shape after the upgrade to the current PHPbb version. I've been meaning to publish some of the great information that has grown out on the forms in our our normal pages so feel free to check out a few new tutorials just duplicated from forum posts How to Adapt a PC power supply for use with an Xbox 360 How to Internalize your Xbox 360 Hard Drive How to swap LED's in a Talismoon Fan 06/15/07 The installation instructions for the XCM360 controller shells were a bit tough to find on the XCM site so we are re-posting them in the 360 mods page. 05/31/07 John Knapper worked in Llamma's shipping department for almost a year and a half, and had some great times and shared a million smiles. He leaves the company on June 1st, 2007 to explore the possibility of making a career out of his rock and roll band, Kwang. And for good reason...the band has been getting a lot of favorable press in our area (Minneapolis/Midwest) and have been compared to legendary rock bands such as Kiss, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, The Sweet, and Cheap Trick. We are promoting this CD on Llamma's website to help spread the word about this emerging Minneapolis local act. Knapper shares his comments; "The mentality behind writing music and the Llamma guys are similar - it's all about taking something common and making it unique. Putting a new spin on an old coin. Making it stand out, and trying to separate yourself. It's hard to do with music, but for our band, one formula has always worked - ROCK AND ROLL! The sound, the message, the everything. And the same with you gamers...you have to figure out how to take it to the next level. DON'T JUST SIT THERE, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Buy some more LED's! Get that clear case case you've always wanted! Who WOULDN'T want a CUSTOM LID CUT? Lighted Whisper Fan, anybody? These are essentials! And wouldn't it be better to rock out to our new record while playing Halo 4 when it comes out?" A unanimous "HELL YEAH!" roars from the crowd as the last chord rings out...and Knapper quietly says to himself, "I sure hope these CD's don't sell like the Champagne Gold 360 Cases..." Check out Kwang's website here; www.kwangcity.com, or, you can find them on MySpace at www.myspace.com/kwang. Keep on gaming, and keep on rockin'! Free XCM Case (we pick the color) to first person that finds Llamma.com somewhere on the Kwang CD - "For What It's Worth" email your submission to kwang{at}llamma.com!
Updates to Xbox 360 Manual Eject (Kendal with a much better method for Samsung, thanks for keeping the Llamma in check!) 05/24/07 We have taken down the forums indefinitely. We are working toward a better solution but it could be some time before they are back up and running. 05/08/07 Xbox 360 HD DVD drive disassembly tutorial. We took some time to put together a disassembly tutorial for the 360 HD DVD drive. We noted a few interesting tidbits as well. Updates to Xbox 360 DVD drive Comparison (AKA how to identify your 360 DVD drive without opening the console) Updates to Inside the Xbox 360 Elite Part 3 re: noise production 04/23/07 Inside the Xbox 360 Elite Part 3 added. The last of the items we wanted to address with our look at the elite noise production, heat production, and power consumption. 4/20/07 Inside the Xbox 360 Elite Part 2 added. More high resolution shots of the bottom, even a close-up of the processor connections on the bottom. I've heard some positive feedback on the animated gif's so here are a couple more, try not to get too mesmerized by them.
04/06/07 Updates to 360 disassembly tutorial 04/04/07 Manual Eject for 360 DVD drives. From time to time you may find yourself with an Xbox 360 that will no longer power on or eject properly with an all important game stuck in the drive. Here is a quick solution to retrieving it without the need to void your warranty by opening your console. We have also updated the Xbox 360 DVD Drive Comparison page to include the latest drive found in the Xbox 360; the BENQ VAD6038. 04/02/07 XCM XFPS 360's are in stock. Pre-orders have been filled and they are shipping next day.
03/30/07 We have added a very limited
quantity of the sought after Samsung SH-D162C DVD drive to our stock. 03/29/07 It has been too long since our last update on the news page here at Llamma. We have added a lot of new items to the shopping cart since.
09/27/06 A few new 360 products have arrived at Llamma.
Talismoon MiniSpy Hard Drive Adapter Coming In a While: (ETA 11/8/06) 09/26/06 How to fry your Xecuter 360 Connectivity Kit. We had a complaint from one of our customers about a problem with their Xecuter 360 Connectivity kit, when they sent it in for replacement we dug a little deeper to find the cause of the issue. Although the DVD power cables are keyed it is possible to install them reversed in the socket. We put our test board up on the chopping block and shot some video. We marked the tabs with purple marker to show which side is the keyed side on the connector. Notice that it will go in the wrong way with only a little extra effort to push it in. With a couple trace repairs both our test chip and the one from our customer were back in action. This is just a word of warning double check those cables before powering up the PC!
06/29/06 Just file this one under 360 trivia. The O in Xbox is a separate piece on the 360 case.
06/12/06 Updates to
Xbox 360 error codes
02/28/06 New DVD drive discovered in Xbox 360's. Submission and photos thanks to pollio12. Xbox 360 DVD Drive Comparison
02/09/06 Surf the internet from your Xbox 360... well from your Media Center PC, but you get to see it on your 360 and use the media center remote to control it, cool stuff. News via GamersReports.com 02/03/06 I search eBay for modded 360 from time to time, to day I found one I think this one deserves a link. Great Job Modwerx! 01/25/06 We had a positive evening, two mods we had been stuck on are now working! We have a PSP that has LED's that turn on and off based on the existing power indicator LED
Also we found the solution to allowing a 360 wireless controller to work with blue LED's. The answer is simpler than we thought... just re-assemble it, the battery pack has a switch of sorts in it! We are expecting to do some major updates to our controller wiring tutorial soon.
12/28/05 Xbox 360 imbedded in Nissan concept car. (Yahoo news) It uses the actual pedals and steering wheel of the car to control PGR3 (Project Gotham Racing 3) Channel4.com has a photo gallery that contains shots of the 360 in the trunk and the 360 logo on the fold away screen. 12/28/05 Xbox 360 running a hot swapped backup game disc!
A report came Monday of someone hot swapping a game disc for a backup disc of a
360 game. The news was originally translated from French and reported on
MaxConsole.
Today we got a link to a video showing someone actually successfully performing
a hot swap. Here is a link to the
video. This is a different method of booting non Microsoft media in the 360 than what was reported on XboxScene.com yesterday regarding images of the Kiosk demo disc. 12/26/05 For those Geometry Wars fans out there Strykers 2.1 million score video that was briefly available on Joystiq has resurfaced on Google Videos This is a highly addictive game and no one who has ever played it will say it is easy! 12/25/05 Xbox 360 installed in a car
www.mechatroniks.com 12/24/05 Happy Holidays! Llamma will be closed on Monday back on Tuesday! A quick tip for adding your gamer card signature to a webpage, check out http://mygamercard.net/ 12/22/05 Hoax? - Xbox 360 Hacked to play backup discs!? We received a link to a video which appears to show someone using a hacked PSP to deliver some sort of overflow or file to the 360 which then allows allows a burnt disc to play from the DVD drive. The more I watch the video the more I am convinced it is a fake. But I guess they got my attention and if I wasted my time repeatedly watching the video I will probably waste a little more to see what they are promising is coming out on the 28th. If anyone can read the text in the double smiley face logo and point me to the group/site claming responsibility for this "hack" I would appreciate the info. -Llamma
Update 12/24/05 Info from Lice_01 Here is a
translation of what was under the 2 smiley faces in the video It's
Japanese & it means: Oita Support (Group) for bringing up children.
(Oita is the name of a place in Kyushu, Japan.)
12/21/05 Mod Tutorials Updated - "jeremydammit" has posted a few interesting tutorials on adding extra buttons to the Xbox 360 Controller on Xbox-Scene forums and was kind enough to allow us to repost them here. Added to the Xbox 360 Mods Page 12/19/05 Interesting tidbit. All Your Base Are Belong To Us! We have often used the term just knowing its basic trash talk meaning to be "we kicked your but". Tonight we dug a little deeper and found where it all came from and another entertaining video! It comes from a poorly translated intro on a Genesis game "Zero Wing". Now it has become part of the popular culture surrounding gaming. 12/17/05 The Atari-Xbox 3600: A Retro Mod for Your Next-Gen Gaming System. InformIT.com has posted an amusing case mod for the Xbox 360. How to gut an Atari 2600 and implant the pieces/parts of the Xbox 360 to create the Atari-Xbox 3600. Its not really pretty, or practical, or probably safe for that matter, but its worth checking out. 12/17/05 Weekend update to Xbox 360 cheats page Thanks to all that contributed Gamestationx360, Sp3cial K, Ian, hack_bird, chopsuey210, and buck foo! 12/17/05
We have noticed several auctions for
Modded Xbox 360's on eBay there is some good looking stuff and some crazy
stuff out there!
The above are not Llamma mods we do not endorse the quality of the mods nor the reliability of the sellers. 12/08/05 Interesting tidbit... you can plug a USB hub into a 360, connect four wired controllers and...what do you know all the controllers work! More Here 12/07/05 Several updates to cheats page thanks Gamestationx360 12/06/05 Llamma Fix for Xbox 360 Game Scratching!. A
few hunks of foam rubber did the job! it still can make some nasty
noises if you abuse like we do in the video but now those are the sounds of the
disc top hitting rubber rather than the disc getting etched by the laser pickup.
(even a video with no cuts for those disbelievers out there) 12/05/05 CrackerJack(cjack) from
darkmoon.org did some hard core soldering
on a core and premium bundle over the weekend. He found some interesting
information about the TSOP and EEPROM. One TSOP could be swapped for
another in one circumstance and not the other. The EEPROM was not even
necessary to be present for the box to function normally in one case. The
DVD also appears to be locked to the console in some fashion as his tests
provided error screens when in one box as apposed to the other. 12/04/05 DM from GamersReports.com did up a nice write up on the headset wiring for the 360. Reposted with permission on the Xbox 360 Mods Page.
12/02/05 Many users are experiencing game disc scratching while a game is in their Xbox 360. The Llamma team had a couple first hand experiences with some game disc scratches. Two Call of Duty 2's were damaged when gently moving from a vertical to horizontal stance. We were surprised at how easily scratches can occur. We did a couple intentional tests and have a video to show for it. It turns out if you paint the high spots of the drive and make it scratch the disc some more you can figure out what part is actually scratching the disc. Full article here According to GameShout.com Microsoft says they will not be replacing damaged discs. Microsoft does warn us on page 11 of volume 1 setup "Remove the disc before moving the console or tilting it between horizontal and vertical positions" 11/30/05 The response to the 360 mod has been amazing, thanks for all the support out there! We are expecting a heavy day of traffic and have temporarily removed our video tutorial downloads due to bandwidth concerns. We have received many requests and I thought I should mention that we are not offering 360 modding service at this time. With as busy as the holiday season can be we will be working to put a small amount of custom modded boxes out on eBay, the one in the photos below will be listed at 7PM CST today.. (click here) We'd love to keep this one but its better it be put to a better use than decorating the shelves here. And hey, it will be fun to do up another one. 11/30/05 We posted a quick article on how to use Laptop Hard drive and USB connectivity with an Xbox 360. The trick is formatting FAT32 on a drive larger than 32GB. 11/29/05 Bling, bling, what an amazing thing... Is that a laptop hard drive in there? We have spent quite a bit of time on this one and got through a good cross section of mods. Some for looks, performance, and capacity. Its been a productive 7 days. Window mod
11/22/05 Just took a couple of pictures of the Xbox 360 universal remote and controller painted with Yamaha R1 paint. If only the picture showed how sexy it is in real life. Soon there will be a 360 to match it :)
11/21/05 Just to let everyone know we are on it I thought I'd get a pic up. More to come in the next hours. You can make a 360 IR controller blue replacing GET THIS 20 surface mount LED's. We used the same method as in our 360 wired controller mod.
11/21/05 Xbox and Ipod found to be compatible. (News via Joystiq.com) 11/20/05 Xbox 360 Video cable pinout found on softlife.blogspot.com Also reposted with permission on the Xbox 360 mod page 11/18/05 AnnandTech's first look at opening an Xbox 360. We plan to follow up with our own step by step tutorial on opening an Xbox 360 but theirs is great information to start from! (news via xbox-scene.com) 11/13/05
Xbox 360 Controller Mod
III - Yep we're digging deep into the controller mod bag and shaking out
the last of 'em, We've done lighting the dome, lighting the back and start,
southpaw controls, inverted controls... What's left? Can we possibly add more
lights? Well of course we can add more lights! Lets do the ABXY buttons!
That's a total of 10 3mm LED's plus the four surface mount ones that are already
there for a total of 14. I'm getting pretty tired of 360 controller mods, this
will be the last one save for any updates necessary for the wireless controller
on the 22nd.
11/12/05 Microsoft announces 200 titles for the backward compatibility list. Notably none of the games with published exploits (Mech Assault, 007 Agent Under Fire, Splinter Cell) are included in the list. Discuss in Forums 11/09/05 - LED lighted back and start buttons
are ready!
- They are available in our shopping cart here. - Installation of the buttons will be added to the lighting the 360 controller tutorial. 11/8/05 Xbox 360 Controller Southpaw modification, We've received a few mails expressing interest in this subject and we are pleased to announce that the Southpaw mod is possible. We have successfully swapped the thumbsticks on an original 360 wired controller and retain full functionality.
11/06/05 Rumors of limited availability for the 360 release have been circulating rapidly. Some people with pre-orders have reportedly been told they will not have a console coming in the first allotment. See the article at Xbox-Scene.com Now my question, Is this for real? Please visit our forum and take the survey if you have any input on this from first hand experience. 11/01/05 Xbox 360 Controller to Original S-Type controller comparison. What's new what's the same? With the 360 coming soon we here at Llamma are quite excited and so far we have only a 360 controller to play with, but we are making the most of it. After a 360 controller mod, and a general disassembly tutorial, we have gotten pretty familiar with this new controller. Now we are taking an in-depth look at the internals and comparing the 360 controller with the original s-type side by side. 10/31/05 Happy Halloween! Its all
treats here at Llamma. We've got a
video camera to aid in our descriptions and kind of step it up a notch for the
360. I'm new to video editing so take it easy on us; the quality will only
improve as we learn. Opening a controller is pretty straight forward and
barely needs a tutorial but we did it anyway as a exercise in
filming and editing. 10/28/05 A more detailed how to tutorial on lighting the 360 controller
10/28/05 Here's the next chapter in Llamma's Xbox 360 controller mod tutorial. Apparently there are some people who missed the last four years and are skeptical of a relatively easy mod.. chapter two should give the photoshop conspiracy theorist some new material. Video Red 360 Controller 1MB
In the next few days the third chapter in the Xbox 360 lighted controller mod tutorial will be completed. At that point we will have all of the footage for the complete tutorial and it will be posted soon after. 10/25/05 Controller Disassembly and general LED wiring tutorial 10/24/05 Llamma's first Xbox 360 mod is completed and we are very pleased. Take a look at the first blue lighted Xbox 360 button controller around; with blue status LED's as well. I was surprised that the actual xbox jewel/360 button was not lit up in any fashion right from the box. Instead four led's surround the jewel to indicate which player/port you are; but they don't really light up the 360 button very well. Also the four led's are only on when you first plug it in, then only one will stay illuminated to show what player you are. This really eliminates any of the light the button may have been picking up when all four were on :( We'll we can change that ;) Out with the old green.. In with the new blue!!
Adding four 3mm blue led's rigged up inside the 360 button gives it a beautiful glow.. so much more sexy than it was..mmmmm! The Llamma doesn't stop there though folks, cuz at Llamma it's always ON! Changing the green port/status led's to blue is a must! This proved to be a two person job on this one because they are freakin tiny surface mount led's. With us both sporting an iron we could safely lift the old green ones off to make room for the blue. You can expect the Llamma to have all the supplies needed for this mod as well as a tutorial soon! If you just plain don't care to try to solder super tiny led's go through all the rest of the mumbo jumbo you can purchase pre-modded lighted xbox 360 controllers in our shopping cart. -thejt 10/22/05 The first Xbox 360 product hit the shelves yesterday. We found the Xbox 360 wired controller to be available for purchase at Best Buy at an inflated $44.99 (Suggested retail is $39.99) We were told by an employee that each store only got about five controllers initially. Providing even a small quantity to all the Best Buy stores across the country makes this Microsoft press release true. The idea of releasing this product one month before the consoles release is presumably both to emphasize the PC compatibility and probably also just to create a little more buzz about the 360. At first glance- "Duke"/Large controller fans will not be impressed. The controller appears to be only slightly smaller in size than the s-type but yet it seems a little too small, fingers overlap buttons a little. Two additional buttons above the triggers seem a little awkward at first but they seem to click on micro switches like a mouse button so it is possible to click with the same finger pulling the trigger without dedicating a finger to each of them. It will take a real gaming session to find out how it performs. Is it backwards compatible with the original Xbox? No definitely not. The dongle has a similar break away as with the original controllers but the connector is incompatible with the old dongle. Undaunted we connected a USB A female to Xbox controller port adapter and still no connection on an Xbox. PC usability- Windows XP home edition on a Dell XPS laptop. I throw in the software installer disc first like it says on the sticker covering the USB plug. Run the install, plug er in everything looks good. Boot up Unreal Tournament 2004 turn on joystick control, start join an online game and I can move, jump, shoot, switch, weapons... but my aim slowly drifts down and to the left until I am looking at the floor and spinning in a circle... slowly. So I guess they don't have all the bugs worked out for PC usability or UT2004 just doesn't handle it. I don't care anyway I'm not planning to use it on a PC. When first connected to the PC you will see the middle Xbox 360 dome light green behind it. Well, that looks interesting... I wonder if we can change the color? It will be tough, there are 4 surface mount tiny tiny LED's one for each of the for controller numbers apparently to show which is which. (corresponding numbers around the dome) We tore it apart and found a couple updates to the original design, cantilever style triggers, and of course the addition of the upper trigger buttons. The wires in the controller now conform to the USB standard colors of black, red, green, and white and no longer include an unused yellow wire. Something familiar did show itself in the same design of analog stick inputs since the original, no need to mess with a good thing. Both rumble motors are now the same size and only the size of the weights differ. More photos to come.
-The Llamma
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