Xbox Top 20 Sites Back Online
Posted by Wraggster at 11:46 AM

For what i consider to be the best top site at the moment for Xbox Sites even though it needs resetting badly is back online. It features sites that are legal so its worth a look.

Link = Top 20 XBOX Sites

IMAGE TO XBX CONVERTER 90% Done
Posted by Wraggster at 11:26 AM

Well 90% of this app has been done still needs alitle work.

Investigating has brought an issue up.
Dgen
Smsplus
& Boxplorer

work off the same save folder in the udata directory so what ever image u add in dgens save folder the same image will be displayed for boxplorer, smsplus as well,i dont know what other apps affects aswell if any 1 can create a fix for this it will be apriciated plz email me on Squish_da_bug@hotmail.com if you have a solution.

Well apart from that the app should hopefully be released before or on newyears day unless somthing happens.
Take Care PPL
HoRnEyDvL

Nester X (Ver0.01) Build 13 released!
Posted by HyperG at 4:02 AM

Nester has been ported to the Xbox using the official XDK. Here are the features.

Features:

VBAx Unofficial v0.15 Released
Posted by Sin-Tex at 12:33 PM

News Source: Official Site.

Another release of this supperb emulator, this release is mainly aimed at adding extra features/ support for game boy.

Whats New:

UAE-X v0.4 Released
Posted by Sin-Tex at 11:32 AM

News Source: Xbox Scene

Whats New:

-(virtual) keyboard simulation/mapping support! (Thanks to unknown)
-made in-menu fast scrolling faster
-fixed right click mouse button simulation
-made menu selection to remember previous selection

UAE-X is a port of the famous Amiga emulator UAE

Emulates an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 at full framerate.
Keyboard support, must use controller, see readme for more details.
PAL60 support.

Official Site ----> here

Xbox Media Player 2 Bug Fix Release.
Posted by Sin-Tex at 11:28 AM

Pop on over to #xbins to grab yourself the latest build.

This is a bug fix release & has not been fully tested.

* Media now plays at full speed when using mono devices.
* AC3 is now full 5.1 channels.
* SRT subtitles are now working, including VobSub.
* XBMP no longer crashes when switching between MPEG1/2 and DiVX/XViD.
* Multi-file stacking no longer crashes with RelaX.
* Multi-file stacking queues remaining files.
* Powerdown now works on all bioses.
* Decreased remote control button sensitivity (xboxdev).
* Thumbnails are now working with RelaX virtual directories.
* Albums has gone the way of the dodo, replaced with a more intelligent free-form mode, that shows covers whenever there are folders and a list view whenever their are just files.
* Artists has been tested with the latest RelaX and works with virtual directories; note: in order to use this feature you must use the audio filename conventions
* Number of frames drawn late has reduced by about 80% so things should appear to move very smoothly (certainly for AVI).

There is a large amount of frame dropping on MPEG1 and MPEG2 streams which we are working to address.

Thanks to slick for the news.

Another Port of VBA X Being Worked on
Posted by Wraggster at 21:25 PM

Whilst checking the forums over at Xbox Hacker Forums i noticed that a member called SpOoK is porting the source of VBA 1.31 over to the Xbox. We at Xbox Emulation wish him the best with this port and hope to see the fruits of his labour soon.

VBAx Unofficial v0.13 Released
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:13 PM

News Source: Official Site

Another day another release.

I will try to translate whats new since it was in jap.

Whats New:

VBAx v0.10 Unofficial
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:02 PM

Whats New: VBAx 0.10

A new release of the unofficial VBAx today.
The author has made an English language version of the emulator and also you can now take screenshots from within the emulator.

Changes for VBAx 0.09

This is an 'unofficial' version of VBAx which uses the latest PC VBA v1.3.1 source code and comes with many additional features not found in the original VBAx. This version adds new graphics filters; Simple2x, AdMame2x, SuperEagle, Super2xSaI, _2xSaI and Motion Blur. Also in this new version is automatic frame skipping and some changes to the sound.

Thanks to Guyfawkes for the news.

Spectrum and Commodore 64 Zip Files at Xbox Evolution
Posted by Wraggster at 10:50 AM

Today over at my Xbox Evolution Site, I have two more Zipfiles with legal PD Roms(freeware roms), the Spectrum zipfile has around 150 games in and the Commodore 64 zipfile has around 80 games in. I have now a massive amount of Legal roms to try.
Links = Xbox Evolution

Xbox Media Player 2 Released
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:08 PM

News Source: Xbox MediaPlayer

Whats new in v2.0

So much stuff has changed that I'm not sure where to begin!

First almost everything was rewritten so all the old bugs reports don't apply! I'm certain that there will be new bugs.

The new core is mplayer based, thanks to frodo. As such is support MANY new codecs. However, all of the codecs in mplayer which required win32 directshow .dll's are not supported (yet).

4 channel digital output is in there. The new UI is even slightly different from the screenshots but all for the better. RUNTiME did an excellent job with it. It includes playlists, too.

You can even play unencrypted DVDs!

Compared to XBoxMediaPlayer v1.0, this new player is nothing similar.

20 GB Xbox HD's
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:57 PM

News Source: XboxHacker.NET

Looks like us Europeans get a result, reports are coming in from people buying the Xbox v1.1 Pal that they have a 20 GB HardDrive

Read Below

"Griffe writes:

One of my friend bought a pal xbox 1.1(we are in FRANCE) with the JSRF+Sega GT bundle. And when we opended it to fit a matrix modchip, we found a seagate 20gb HD...

I thought that there was only 8gb and 10 gb HD in xboxes. Anyone else found a 20gb hd in his xbox ?


No idea where this came from, perhaps a refurb modded system that the previous owner accidently left a large drive in? Go figure. Havent heard any other reports of this, mail me if you do. Griffe should be supplying pictures of the drive tomorrow.

UPDATE

marcux adds:

with the 20 gig model.. The company I used to work for bought HDD's in bulk to put in prototyping machines.. the problem was.. the smallest HDD that we could buy was a 20 gig hdd... i can imagine that it's cost the same to make an 8 gig hdd that it does to make a 20.. we only used 5 megs of the 20 gig hdd's.. so i think what's going to happen are that new xbox being built are going to have 20 gig hdd in them..

Guess we can expect more of these to turn up once Microsoft's backlog of 8/10gb drives runs out. Almost like they support homebrew :)

UPDATE

Been getting quite a few reports of these 20gb drives coming in. All PAL boxes."

Time Out
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:47 PM

News Source: xSnes9x

Lantus takes a break, but dont worry he will be back.

"From the humble beginnings back in June/July to the release of 1.04 a few weeks ago, ive poured my heart and soul into xSnes9x and am very grateful for the kind feedback from you snes maniacs out there.

Anyway i just wanted to mention that i will be winding things down over the Christmas period to take a well earned break from development, but i will continue where I left off sometime early in the new year.

Anyway have a great christmas everyone and see you all in the new year!

lantus out"

xISO v1.10
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:43 PM

News Source: Yursoft

"What's new
----------
-Added command line switch, "-n" for disable the message box. Now its easier make batch scripts.
-Now xISO add folders in the listview.
-Added option to extract directly a selected folder in the tree folder view.
-Cosmetics changes in the interface.
-Added autodetection of language.
-Now all windows of xISO appear centered in the primary screen. (it was a Multiscreen problem)."

WinTV PVR USB ?
Posted by Sin-Tex at 18:12 PM

News Source: Xbox Mediaplayer

"Long time no post...

Yes, its been a while since I've made any posts to the news forum.

Honestly I've been debating for a while whether I was going to post this news or wait a while longer. I guess I've decided.

Prior to getting into the xbox scene, I was designing a multimedia pc that would sit next to my TV and allow me to watch divx movies. When mod chips became available I saw the great potential of the xbox and voila! the rest is now history.

However, there was one design feature in my original multimedia pc that the xbox has never been able to do.

Some time ago, I began the arduous task of reverse engineering sections of the xdk with the purpose of adding the one feature truely missing from the xbox.

I now believe that I have come to the point where I *believe* that this new feature is actually possible. I don't know yet if it *will* be possible, there are still many big hurdles to overcome.

Ok, so you're probably wondering what I'm being long winded about. What I've been doing lately is trying to discover if its possible to use the XDK to send Usb packets to Usb devices attached to the Xbox. Usb devices otherwise not supported.

Still don't know where I'm going with this? Specifically, my ultimate goal is to add support for the WinTV PVR USB to XBoxMediaPlayer.

Yeah, I'm trying to add PVR support to the XBox.

There's a long ways to go on this project. Don't go out and by a WinTV PVR USB yet. There's still some serious hurdles to overcome. And still a lot more reverse engineering to do. There are linux drivers (which this will be based off of) but the linux driver is still in a very early state.

However I think its possible. Don't hold your breath, though. This is going to be a long ways coming.

-duo"

X-Ecuter Developments
Posted by Sin-Tex at 18:02 PM

News Source: X-Ecuter

In Development

Many have been wondering what's going to happen next. Well the biggest thing going on around here right now is the neXgen dash. It's absolutely awesome and will eventually blow any competition out of the water. Expect a release shortly. Also our BIOS is having a few tweeks so you can expect a new release in the next day or so. We're also working on some different projects of interest which we'll talk about in more detail after Christmas. We're having fun right now with disassembling some very popular code which we think will benefit the scene by making it more "available" - a compressed XBE is good to no one so perhaps a complete strip down all the way to .asm maybe more fun?. Have a great Christmas - all updates will be posted on the forums by various members of the team, this news page is now closed for the holidays.

EvoX Reveal Backdoor Secret

We awoke to find what we were hoping wouldn't happen. EvoX released the bios to support both console versions. Now many may think this is great, but we are very sad about this, and we're sure the Xbox Linux team are also. When we first cracked the v1.1, Xbox Linux and ourselves knew about the secret backdoor (actually a bug) in the Xbox that enabled us to crack it so fast. Of course the only way to conceal this was to release 2 x different BIOS's, but now the secret is out and the consequences won't be clear until a new version is released. We thought we'd tell you as you'd probably want to know why we wouldn't be cracking the next version in 2 days instead of 2 months. Aside from this nice to see you improved the sloppy upload speed and fixed the skin bug (oh and thanks for the credit on the IGR function hmmmm), we hope to see even more improvements in future. Also well done to PiXEL8 for solving the true VGA output problem.

New Evolution-X Dashboard & Bios
Posted by Sin-Tex at 23:13 PM

News Source: Evo-X Hackz

EvolutionX bug fixes:

Fix crash when using backup function on v1.1 boxes

FTP Speed improvements:

You will only notice an improvement on some combinations of HDD and XBox.

If you are already getting 5000K/s uploading to XBOX, don't expect more.

FTP Filename check:

Transferring files with FATX incompatible file names will now produce an error

FTP CWD command fixed.

SNTP : Now it can run with @NetClock Server

Skin Image Quality improved with 640x480 images (no more stretching)


EvolutionX new features:

In Game Reset:

We bring you In Game Reset with the RemoteX dashboard (no need to upgrade your bios for this function)

IGR is availale in 3 modes (Select from Settings Menu):

FTP IGR -> When you launch from FTP Client e.g. execute f:\mame\deafult.xbe
RDTools IGR -> When you launch from VC++
MISC IGR -> IGR when launching normally
If you want IGR in original games you have to use the Launch DVD function from RemoteX or enable Auto Launch Game and insert the DVD when you are in RemoteX dashboard.

Telnet Server:

A very limited (so far) telnet server.
Functions available are:
PCIDUMP, IODUMP, MEMDUMP, CDSECTORDUMP, HDDSECTORDUMP, O, DIR, QUIT, EXIT

Date Swap:
Swap dd/mm/yyyy -> mm/dd/yyyy

AutoSize bios file:

Evox will now automatically autosize the bios image to fit the flash type e.g.
256 -> 512 ; 256 -> 1024 ; 512 -> 1024

-----------------------------------------------------------------

EVOX D.6 BIOS:

First dual BIOS ever released which supports both V1.0 and V1.1 boxes (no more confusion)
Offcourse this bios is only 256K so it can be used with your Matrix or Cheapmod solution.

All features of BIOS 2.6 / 3.6 included
D.6 with Eject Fix also included in this release.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

We have so many ideas and work in progress, and we will continue to bring you the best dashboard for the XBOX.
Stay with EvoX for the best possible XBOX experience ;)

Media X Menu 0.9c
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:56 PM

News Source: XboxHacker BBS

What's new?

Beta 0.9c
* Added the ability to navigate using the thumbsticks
* Fixed the PersistDisplay() issue. Loading screens now display.
* WMV is now a supported format! The videos will loop, and sound is disabled
in this release by default. I'll add parameters to change those (sound does
work) shortly. WMV files can be used ANYWHERE an image file is used.
Thanks go out to Syn3rgy @ the xboxhacker.net forums for knocking down the
remaining barriers on this feature.
* Moving away from ini files. XML will be the new standard (faster loading)
To make things easier, I've included a converter, to modify existing files to
the new format.
* Disable for auto-config - Set Main->AllowAutoConfig to No (or Off/false)
* Main->MoveDelay - Time between pressing down/up and the menu changing selections in Repeat mode.
* Main->RepeatDelay - Time between holding down/up and the program repeating the move.
* Main->LoadSkin parameter to select a specific skin (Based on directory name)
* Main->ExitApp allows you to specify a dashboard other than the 'default' one, such
as "C:\evoxdash.xbe" when using the dashboard sequence. This solves a problem
when using MXM as your default dashboard application.
* Well, a lot of work, but I've sped things up a bit (well, not really sped up, as
much as shuffled things around) and added a nice fade in to a moving sky and MXM logo
just before hitting the title screen.
* Smooth transitions now occur between menu states
* the slight "stutter" from the music when MXM starts up is now fixed.

Media X Menu (MXM) is a program selector system for the Xbox.

It can be run from hard drive or on DVD compilations, and was intended to surpass Complex's MenuX system (and most agree, it does!)

Music, more skinning options, and even a screen saver!

XBE Security Concept
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:46 PM

News Source: Xbox Linux

Franz Lehner explains the XBE security concept

"In Basic, the XBE consists of 2 major parts.

1. The Header

2. The Sections

The Sections containing the "program", and the header holds the security information like signature, pointers ..."

To read the full article click here

Killer Instinct
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:04 PM

News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET

Not much info about the project status as yet indicating still in early developement.

"Killer Instinct Arcade Emulator for the Xbox"

The first complied versions has 646 errors! eek

Mame-X Progress
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:01 PM

News Source: Mame-X

Superfro has updated the site mentione he has managed to recover some of the Mame-X Code.

"Getting my damaged apps to compile again, filling in the blanks that couldn't be recovered... so far so good... i've almost got mame working again, albeit damaged, not the same as before but im recovering fast... got some other apps to compile again, and i've been updating them. Just wanted to thank everyone for the support."

New Xecuter 2 Pictures
Posted by HyperG at 4:01 AM

ExItWoUnd has posted new pictures showing how large the new mod chip is in some persons hand. Check it out at the link below.

Source: Got Mod?

XBOX DC64 Demo Released!!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 1:21 AM

News Source: ClassicGaming

Bigboy has ported another one of his dreamcast emu's to xbox using the Open XDK, this ones called XboxDC64 & emulates the Commodore 64.

You can dowload the "LEGAL" demo here

OpenXDK demo!!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 1:14 AM

News Source: ClassicGaming

Ector has given us a little demo of his new 2D library, and very neat it is too... You can see a picture in the screen shots area, and if you want the XBE its available in the downloads area.

This was done by him coding, and me running it and telling him what was wrong.... pretty good really.

Check out ClassicGaming for pic & download.

xIRCx Update!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 1:06 AM

News Source: XboxHacker BBS

It's going okay. I had a break for a while but I did a little bit more on it today, it's almost useable now

I need a USB thingy for my xbox so I can get keyboard input going though.

Kabal has also released another pic.

PSX Emulator - Coming Soon
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:55 PM

News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET

"We Are Close to A beta release. Our coders are working hard. We have gotten it to play jap and us games originals and backups with alot of bugs. We Are Working hard on gettting a gameshark built in with all the latest codes for you. The Beta Has To Be Installed On your hard drive to work. We have It Working But With No Sound But We Have the option Of Getting Your Soundtrack In The game To Replace the Games original Soundtrack. See ya later KINGJOCK "aka" Arch Angel on xbl"

Yes the news that alot of people have been waiting to hear for ages, time is drawing near not long to go now.

And who knows maybe even the X-ecuter Team is still working on the PSX Emu they mentioned awhile back, so we may see two PSX Emu's in the near future.

Mame-X beta 7 delayed :-(
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:09 PM

News Source: Mame-X

Sad news people, mame-x b7 will be delayed due to unfortunate circumstances.

"... Sorry for the late post on thanks giving, but I was out of town visiting family. Happy thanks giving everyone.

Ok, on to the 'sort of not really' part. The day before thanksgiving when I left to visit family... my nice shiny Western Digital 120 gig drive died. And yeap, you guessed it... all my xbox related content was on that drive, including all the mame source. Especially the beta 7 that was just about ready for public release. As well as alot of the other projects you guys know I do, and some projects I was working on that weren't released yet and nobody knew about them goodies. So I'm at a big loss right now. This is going to delay the next version of beta 7. I do have a copy that was a little past beta 6 so it's not like I have to start from b6 again, but still. My 'other works' that were in development will have to be recoded from scratch again. I havn't lost faith tho, I will be working hard to get the mame ball rolling again... Just thought I'd share my grief with everyone first...

Superfro"

Exchange Mail
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:03 PM

News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET

Not much info at present, i will post more details when it becomes available.

Project Description:
Acesso ao email.

Rough Translation: "Access to the email" or Access your e-mail.

Update:
Just got word that "Acesso ao email" could infact mean:
"Access America Online E-Mail"

Thanks to Charles for the info.

Xbox Media Player 2 update!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:48 PM

News Source: Xbox Media Player

RUNTiME has updated the site with news that AC3 support has been added.

"AC3 :)

Yes you heard right! :)

Kudos to Duo for enabling 4 channel AC3 output with 5/6 channels on the way!"

304 Legal Snes Roms For Download
Posted by Wraggster at 18:47 PM

Today at my Xbox Evolution Site, I have put together 2 zipfiles for the Super Nintendo which are 20 megs in size with 150 roms in each zipfile. The Roms them selves are some of the very best from the Legal Romset (Public Domain)for the Super Nintendo.

Interested then head on over to Xbox Evolution

Those of you wishing to try Xsnes9x now dont have to go far for the roms. ;)

xSnes9x ver1.04 Released
Posted by Wraggster at 17:57 PM

Lantus has again released a new version of his port of Snes 9x to the Xbox Console and heres whats new:

- Reset Settings.ForcedInterleaved2 on each rom load. Fixes Yoshi's Island 1.0 problem (Lantus, MKendora)
- Fixed word writes to block bounds in asm core. (TRAC, MKendora)
- Fixed OAM and sprite priority in the asm core. Uniracers 2p now works (anomie).
- Merged in new SPC7110 updates. (MKendora)
- Hacked around Word writes to $7F:FFFF. Thanks to lantus and The Dumper for verification. (MKendora)
- Memory.Init() and Memory.DeInit() are now called on each rom load, instead of once per application execution.
- Cheat code functionality was broken in 1.03. Fixed.
- SID music should no longer lose sync or become scratchy.
- Fixed SID bug which could cause lockups in some instances.
- Fixed bug that caused crash when exiting roms in HDTV modes.
- Fixed bug that caused crash pressing dpad left/right when no roms were found.
- Added better HDTV support.
- Fixed Add to Favorites crash when dpad/analog was pressed during added message.

Check out his site Here

Xbox MediaPlayer 2 News!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 11:43 AM

News Source: XboxHacker.NET BBS

runtime, duo & I are working like crazy on the new XBMP with the mplayer core

"It's running perfectly but we wanna add some nice features 2 it before releasing it

At the moment the new xbmp has most of the features the old xbmp2
& yamp 0.62 have.
There are still a few features we need 2 merge into the new one.
And we're thinking about a couple of new ones as well.

Currently working:
- divx 2,3,4,5/xvid/mp3/mp2/mpg1/mpg2/ogg/ogm/jpg
- FF/RW
- pause
- picture viewer with slideshows
- subtitle timeshifting
- XNS support (relax)
- IR remote support
- clipping / scaling / aspect ration control
- support for international subtitles
(download them from mplayer or create your own)
- and all the other things promised in xbmp2 i forgot

Things we still need 2 port :
- jump 2 a specific point in the file/movie
- playlists
- turning subtitles on/off
- multiple screen resolutions/progressive scan
- shoutcast

New features that we're thinking about:
- true hardware ac3 decoding


Frodo"

Team Assembly: XB Live update
Posted by Sin-Tex at 11:22 AM

News Source: Team Assembly

Ok, lets give you all an update on what has been happening.. First off, changing JUST the serial, mac won't get you back online.. We only changed the serial + MAC on a non banned system to see if XB Live was checking serial.. and it was not.. we had a "generated" serial and MAC and Live was still happy.. so after some more work it was established that it is based on the encrypted 16-byte HDD Key that is used to calculate your HDD Password.. You change this and you are back online ! It has to be valid 16-Byte Key though.. we think MS generates these and checks for validity.. And if yours is invalid or banned, your screwed.. You have to get one from a non banned system at this stage.. we are working on it though..

Right, now for the scoop on ConfigMagic:
Work is slow on this, we have been hard at work on the XB Live stuff. Never the less, we have the "framework" pretty much done .. ConfigMagic will currently allow you to change: Serial, MAC, Online Key, HDD Key. It will also generate your HDD Passwords for you if you want to lock/unlock your drive.. We are also integrating EEPROMagic into this App so you can do EEPROM backups/restores with it as well.. You can also "generate" a complete new EEPROM Image from a config file..


Things we'd like to add before we release is being able to Lock/Unlock your HDD and then of course a pretty little menu.. currently its all text based. :(

We released the first screen shots:
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