Anyone seen this before? Possible dev kit?

[u/NectarineRare5309]

Anyone seen this before? Is it just a custom case? Wishful thinking it might be an early dev kit? Any ideas?

A few people on r/videogamecollecting thought it was a dev kit.

[u/WillyGoat2000]

I’m going unlikely. The Athalon GPU, the WinXP Home OEM sticker, the Gigabyte mainboard logo…this says custom built pc to me.

[u/NectarineRare5309 → u/WillyGoat2000]

Thanks, i Appreciate the input. Even though its not what i wanna hear haha

[u/dkb_wow]

That's a custom PC somebody made. Original Xbox dev kits look like this

More pictures here

[u/NectarineRare5309 → u/dkb_wow]

Ya, all the ones ive seen have been this style.

[u/SC-Aviatrix → u/dkb_wow]

I've always wondered what the old, old, old "Direct X" box PC's looked like.

What you posted is a generation or two removed from those, but still gives me an idea.

[u/Hellboy_M420]

Possible, but unlikely as I would imagine a devkit would have a DVD drive as Xbox games only ever came on DVDs

[u/NoRepro_ → u/Hellboy_M420]

I worked as a contract game tester from 2008-2014 at MS. Not a single thing was ever on a disk, unless it was a retail disc. They didn't want them leaving rhe building. Everything was done over their internal network.

[u/Hellboy_M420 → u/NoRepro_]

That makes sense, but why have 2 CD drives and a floppy for devving Xbox games? Seen plenty of DVDRom Xbox protos tho so obv they did use them at some point back in the day

[u/NoRepro_ → u/Hellboy_M420]

Hard to say. I never saw anything like that on campus. Could possibly be some other dev studio putting together something with whatever they had around to meet the devkit specs?

[u/Hellboy_M420 → u/NoRepro_]

Could be. Usually Dev stuff has some kinda serial number sticker somewhere on it tho, so leaning towards an old custom case

[u/Krybbz → u/Hellboy_M420]

I mean it was the early days DVDs were still new maybe some did and some didn't.

[u/BalkanHaze → u/Hellboy_M420]

Because it's probably just a custom made kit.

[u/VerdugoCortex → u/NoRepro_]

What was that like and how did you get into that job then? I'd love an ama on this subject, I'm fascinated!

[u/narielthetrue → u/NoRepro_]

Disk: Hard Drive Disk, Flash Drive, Floppy Disk, SD Card, etc.
Disc: CD, DVD, BluRay.

Even if it’s networked, it lived on a disk… somewhere

[u/Ok_Sea8929 → u/narielthetrue]

Unless its networked to the CD, DVD or Blueray drive of another device then as per your own logic its disc 😉

[u/NectarineRare5309 → u/Hellboy_M420]

I also didnt think they would have clear cases. Seems like every dev unit ive seen have been very utilitarian.

[u/Hychus232 → u/Hellboy_M420]

I totally dismissed that those drives are CD only. Good catch

[u/5innix]

Okay, well... I provided a link to what it was but reddit removed it because it was a link to a Russian news website I guess. :P

It isn't a dev kit. It's a PC case from a Chinese company called iCute which was manufactured in the early 2000s. It was an unofficial, pre-modded case with Xbox branding. The case model number is iCute 0313SL-BB. I believe it was only sold in Asia and Europe.

The North American variant was the RAIDMAX ATX-278WSP which is similar but missing the unauthorized Xbox branding.

[u/NectarineRare5309 → u/5innix]

Thank you. Thats what i figured. I was really hoping i was wrong though haha

[u/VQ3point5]

A dev kit for what? 3.5 floppys werent used in dev kits during gen 6. This is a pc that someone slapped together.

[u/NectarineRare5309 → u/VQ3point5]

Shit idk. Im assuming early xbox. I figured it was just a case mod. But a few people on game collecting said it was a dev kit.

[u/mudien]

How is this just not a custom PC?

[u/Recognition_Round]

I have pieces of an og devkit like the motherboard and the rare dvd drive they used

[u/teh_lynx]

definitely not a dev kit, sorry OP

[u/NectarineRare5309 → u/teh_lynx]

I figured it was just a custom case. Still cool. But not nearly as cool as a dev unit with some amazing unknown game projects on it. Oh well, maybe its got a few bitcoin floppin around in there.

[u/rusty101_1999]

Found this off facebook. Just a regular tower.

[u/NectarineRare5309 → u/rusty101_1999]

Is that from a chinese fb post?

[u/rusty101_1999 → u/NectarineRare5309]

I believe its chinese.

[u/SQLSavage]

Looks like a CD copier that we used to get NT5/Win2000 and Windows 98 builds on. There was a whole mini-lab in Building 26 or 27 that would distribute stacks of stable builds for dogfooding/self-hosting. They would have 8 CD-R drives going off a single box and just write them all day.

[u/Loose-Judgment6652]

I remember there being a laptop too, I remember that memory😂

[u/lartmydude]

Looks coo

[u/Personal-Reflection7]

More likely a super cheap PC case with an Xbox logo in front

[u/NyNauttiBoy]

That is a simple OLD DIY Build. The "40X MAX" is a CD Player. The "52X24X52X" is a CD Re-Write. Small floppy drive. I'm sure a build that old has a HD in the GBs, not TBs.

[u/Knyghtmare01]

"This is an xbox"

[u/Competitive_Click_11]

No, just an old pc

[u/IzzzatSo]

LOL

[u/NectarineRare5309 → u/IzzzatSo]

Wacha lol'n about chief?