Suggestion: Add support for OLED and character I2C displays
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:33 pm
When the xbox modding scene was most active, i2c displays were pretty uncommon afaik.
However because of Arduino, I2C displays are very simple to get and also very cheap.
Xbox has SMBus (I2C) controller integrated in MCPX. I2C bus is used for eeprom, smc and video encoder. Therefore such displays won't need modchip, but just soldering bunch of wires to LPC debug port.
There are already Arduino libraries available for these displays, that might be possible to modify. Of course the actual low level i2c command sending will need to be redone, but the rest should be good.
For example this display would look awesome in OG xbox. Although it's small, it has very high contrast and it's also compact.
There are also 16x2 and 20x4 displays, which use I2C (they have a converter board soldered on them).
However because of Arduino, I2C displays are very simple to get and also very cheap.
Xbox has SMBus (I2C) controller integrated in MCPX. I2C bus is used for eeprom, smc and video encoder. Therefore such displays won't need modchip, but just soldering bunch of wires to LPC debug port.
There are already Arduino libraries available for these displays, that might be possible to modify. Of course the actual low level i2c command sending will need to be redone, but the rest should be good.
For example this display would look awesome in OG xbox. Although it's small, it has very high contrast and it's also compact.
There are also 16x2 and 20x4 displays, which use I2C (they have a converter board soldered on them).