NME-360 Chip: High-Res Sample Pictures

Date: Monday, July 17 @ 23:40:49 UTC
Topic: Xbox 360

We received a sample of Team Underdog's NME-360, a chip that will allow to patch the DVD firmware of the Xbox 360 drive 'on-the-fly' and only when needed (so not for original x360 discs). There's a version for Toshiba-Samsung drives (4 wires) and one for Hitachi-LG (FW v46 and v47 only afaik) drives (11 wires).
The samples I received came with an elastic rubber cover in red with a 'S' handwritten on it (Samsung) or in black with 'H' handwritten on it (Hitachi). This rubber cover is probably so you can safely place the chip on the DVD motherboard without causing any short circuit.
I of course removed the rubber cover so you can see what's behind it. Build quality is not really the best I've seen, but the 1-layer PCB design is fairly simple so I don't think this will cause too many problems. Anyway we'll go deeper into details of this chip and how it works in an upcoming review.

In meantime here are some sharp high-res pictures of the samples we got:




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