USB Adapter Cable for the Original Xbox — 1.8 m, with a Full-Size Female USB-A Socket
It turns a controller port on the front of the console into a standard, full-size USB socket: those ports are USB underneath, and were simply fitted with a different plug shape, so this cable does the physical and electrical conversion and hands you an ordinary USB-A socket to work with.
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This is for the ORIGINAL Xbox only. It will NOT suit an Xbox 360; it will not suit an Xbox One; it will not suit an Xbox Series X or S — those consoles have ordinary USB ports and need no adapter at all. It is also not a controller-to-PC adapter. This lead gives you a USB socket to plug a device into; if what you want is a lead for an Xbox controller to plug into a computer, that is the opposite cable, and it has a USB plug on it instead. Please check which way round you need before ordering.
Compatibility — please read before you buy. Fits: made for the original Xbox: the first-generation black console released in 2001. Its controller ports are USB-based behind a differently-shaped plug, which is what this lead adapts.
Key product details
- Console — for the original Xbox (2001–2004), the first-generation console, and no other
- Connectors — a plug for the original Xbox controller port at one end; a full-size USB Type-A female socket at the other
- Direction — the console plug fits an Xbox controller port on the front panel; your USB device goes into the socket at the other end
- Length — 1.8 metres (180 cm) — most adapters of this kind are 70–80 cm
- Type — a passive adapter lead. There is no chip, no battery, no software and nothing to install
- Colour — black
- Condition — new, unused stock
About this item
An adapter lead for the original Xbox.
The length is the point. Adapters like this are almost always sold at 70 to 80 centimetres, which leaves whatever you have plugged in dangling against the front of the console. This one is 1.8 metres — more than twice as long — so a keyboard can sit on your lap, and anything bulky can rest on the floor or the shelf instead of hanging off the front panel.
It is a plain passive lead: no chip, no drivers, nothing to install. It carries the USB connection through and nothing more. What the console then does with the device you plug in depends entirely on the console and the software you are running on it — that part is yours to sort out, and this cable makes no promises about it.
