Forget The ROG Xbox Ally, Modder Turns An OG Xbox Into A Hilarious Gaming Handheld

Ah, the joyous cackling of a successful console modder—few things are more beautiful, and today we got to see it in the form of YouTuber James Channel creating perhaps the most deranged portable console mod we've ever seen, this time for the original Xbox.

Likely thanks to their more frequent forays into actually-portable consoles, Nintendo and PlayStation see more frequent projects like this, some of which have reached some ridiculously compact sizes. As impractical as the James Channel handheld Xbox console would be for daily use, it does function around a similar principle— how much of a console's original motherboard is actually needed to make it run? The answer always seems to be "way less than you think," resulting in handhelds much smaller than the original console once the modding scene has progressed far enough.

Ahead of the ASUS Xbox ROG Ally handheld PCs becoming available for ...