About Tony

Hello and welcome to my site. My name is Tony Kuberka.

I was born and raised in the Seattle, Washington area and I've lived here my whole life. From an early age I always had a fascination with electronics, mostly in audio and video. When I was very young I started gaming on an Atari 2600 and shortly after that my parents got an NES in the house as well. I still have a great love for those 2 systems. Many years later my dad traded off the Atari for a bunch of SNES stuff and that always bothered me. I didn't really care much or the SNES and stayed with the NES until I got into my very own N64. N64 was the first system that was mine and not a family system. I still have a great love for that system and may offer upgrades and service for that system in the future as I do have experience with HDMI mods on it. N64 is where I started getting curious about modding. I had a Gameshark, with the SCSI port on it, and DEX drive for it and started tinkering with hex code.

One day (sometime in 2003) I was in my local GameCrazy store (in the Hollywood Video) and I was talking to the manager, who was a good friend of mine, about NES and Atari 2600. A customer overheard and mentioned something called the "Big Ass Emulator Discs." From there I started getting into OG Xbox. I met a local modder who modded one for me. I only had it for about a week before I took it apart to see what he'd done. I started collecting nonworking systems and when I got enough of them I was able to put one together and get it working. After that I started tinkering with mods on it. I still have that box to this day.

I spent many years as a Security officer, bus driver, delivery driver, fleet manager, tow truck driver, repo agent, along with other dead end positions (gas station, Walmart, and auto-body supply.) When my father passed away I had to move back home to help my mother keep her house. I wasn't able to hold the regular 9-5 job while looking after her with her disabilities. With so much free time on my hand and no income, OG Xbox work became a full time job for me.

I spent many years modding for friends and family by word of mouth but when Ryzee119 came out with the OGX360, I knew it was time to get into the communities online. I thought the device was amazing and I really wanted to be part of it but I didn't have the skills at that time to work with circuit boards in that fine of detail. The communities taught me so much and my skills blew up! I started getting into better tools that were recommended to me and learning new techniques. I got a lot of experience making OGX360 and moved to other fine soldering work with my newfound knowledge and new tools. There are a lot of helpful and friendly people in the communities that absolutely love to share the knowledge with those that are open to learning it. I've listed some of these groups in the navigation bar at the top of this site. There is a long list of people that I could thank for helping me along my path, too many to list honestly. I ended up starting a "Buy & Sell" group on Facebook with a couple of these friends and later we were offered a community to run that the original admins no longer had time to manage. I do my best to manage the groups that I run within the community. I assembled a team of several other passionate modders and collectors in the communities to help run it and we work together to keep things running well and work problems out within our area of the OG Xbox community.

I took my skills to eBay and started making items that I had mastered making, mostly component cables. From there I started learning other skills and bought my first 3d printers. I picked up some skills in CAD to make my own models (STL's) using TinkerCAD. I also started messing with Gerber files so I could design my own circuit board's. I found EasyEDA simple and easy to work with. I learned to manage business by buying supplies when I could find them and always putting a large percentage of the profits back into supplies and tooling. The hobby grew out of just a hobby into a business.

Its a lot of work doing everything in a business but it gets done. I still take time to design parts and put them together. I do my best to keep up with making items to sell but I'm only one person so I may not keep up as much as other businesses but I never sell something that I don't have ready to ship. Customer service is my #1 priority. See my eBay seller feedback for proof of this. I have about 6 years of experience making component cables and other parts for this system and I look forward to the next step in this business. I cant wait to work with all of my customers in providing top notch, high quality parts and service with good shipping and work turn-around times.