Hardware tinkerer Redherring32 took the guts from a legitimate Xbox motherboard and packed it all into a surprisingly compact handheld form factor.
What just happened? Likely tired waiting for a Microsoft portable console, one crafty modder took matters into his own hands. Redherring32 has managed to create the world’s first portable Xbox based on the original console, while detailing all the process through a series of posts on X.
Hardware tinkerer Redherring32 took the guts from a legitimate Xbox motherboard and packed it all into a surprisingly compact handheld form factor.
To be clear – this isn’t a software emulation or some knockoff PC handheld, it took some real hardware skills and custom PCBs to make this possible. It appears pretty well made, too, with a level of polish you can only expect from an officially-produced unit and the kind of design that’d go extremely well with the Xbox model that started it all.
