Female USB to Xbox Controller Port Adapter..What can I do with it?

Hello everyone! I was searching through a bin at my local Good Will and came across this:

Naturally, I was curious so I bought it. (50 cents!!!)

I have heard previously that this allows you to use select FAT and FAT32 USB drives and USB keyboards with compatible dashes like XBMC. Sadly, I haven't managed to get it to work with anything (I'm currently using the latest XBMC4XBOX unofficial build). I have tested the pins on both ends and have confirmed that there isn't a short in a wire, so I don't know how to get any of it to work.

Can anyone shed some light on exactly what or how I can get this to work, or what I can do with it?

Thanks!

 

I made my own adapter like that and it works with a limited selection of USB drives (I tried it with about 4 or 5 and it only worked with 1 that I had, and it will work with a PSP), and USB keyboard worked for me too. Not sure why it wouldn't work for you. Nice find though, those aren't common.

 

Did you have your USB drive formatted any particular way? What brand and capacity was/is it? Also, what build of XBMC are you using?

 

Looks like a 3rd party one (solid black cable) and are on ebay for $2 including shipping from China.

They are extremely common

 

Just because they're on eBay for $2 doesn't exactly make them a common household item IMO, and it's certainly not something you typically find at a thrift store. No where did I imply they were super-rare and/or expensive in any way. It's a good find nonetheless.

As for what build of XBMC? I don't know, it was years ago.

 

Usb memorysticks where max at 2gig i believe by stock Dash. (I took a 256mb one and it worked.) USB keyboard worked and mouse aswell (under linux and windows CE). They are not rare, but hard to get especialy now. China is a great source.

remember that the xbox is USB 1.0 ish... so if the hardware requires 2.0 speed or spec... (get a cheap old mouse)

 

Usb is backwards compatible. If something is usb 2.0 it will work on USB 1 just at a slower rate. So spec is no important, only speed you want something to work. But if you put in something usb 2,it will work at usb 1 speed.... Which is the same as buying something usb 1 in the first place. So spec is not important, neither is speed.

And how can they be hard to get if you can just go on ebay?

 

Your right Bad_Ad84 for all correctly build usb2.0 devices, cheap devices only show some quirks that I doubt if I should have bought them in the first place. Today ebay is easy, back in the xbox1 years it was a bit harder for creditcardless, European young people, or other non-us region people.

 

Well back when xbox was current, you could get the adapters direct from Microsoft for "free"

 

Ive seen some adapters that where official yes, for some online games if im not mistaken.
But directly from MS, for "free" ? you have any info on that? (from back in the day)

EDIT2: yes you did, thank you

EDIT: I see someone on ebay with a Sandisk 4GB usbstick, definitly usb2.0 aswell, I have the same one.. so I used the wrong usb sticks before. probably some IC controllers dont cooperate nicely with xbox.

 

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/63/t213926-pso-usb-keyboard-adapter-for-free/

The original Microsoft link is in that forum post, but it's long dead. Waybackmachine may still have it though.

 

And while it was "free", there where some restrictions.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040605031430/http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pso2/keyboardadapter.htm

Thanks Bad_Ad84 anyway, because I now better understand where that item came from.

 

My fuzzy memory says it was available elsewhere too. You usually get redirected to a region Microsoft site after all.

I think I remember ordering one (as well as the replacement power lead they offered) but I wouldn't want to say for certain, with my memory being as poor as it is when it was over 10 years ago

 

I remember ordering a powerlead replacement aswell (for free) but never saw or heard about this. Could have missed it, or it wasnt for us. my cable came from the uk i believe, but compatible pins. The archive doesnt have uk or nl archived (at least they got this )