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Wednesday, 30, October, 2002 Xbox Media Player Update
Posted by Wraggster at 23:54 PM
The official Site wasm updated with this news:
Unofficial 1.01 source
Void released his SVCD patch for an unofficial 1.01 source release, while this doesn't coincide with any planned, tested, 'official' source release we'd like congratulate him for his efforts and acknowledge his contribution here.
Tuesday, 29, October, 2002
Xbox Scene Interviews
Posted by Wraggster at 22:31 PM
Recently i did some great interviews with some of the gods of the Xbox scene and for those of you who have never seen them ill just remind you of them.
First off theres an interview with Superfro who is the man behind MameX and lots of other great stuff for the Xbox scene.
Next theres RUNTIME who is the man behind the great Xbox Media Player.
Next theres Lantus who is the porter of Xsnes9X which is an excellent port of Snes9x tothe Xbox.
And finally the man called Xport who has released multiple emulators for the Xbox.
So theres lots to read and whet your appettites for. :)
Boob Covers Central News
Posted by Wraggster at 20:38 PM
Boob! Covers Central has new CD/DVD Covers for the following Xbox Emulators:
StellaX, NESx, and GBAx. NESx and StellaX are Jewel Case covers and GBAx is a DVD Cover.
Head on over to the site for more Info
Team Xecuter Update
Posted by Wraggster at 6:15 AM
Team Executer updated thier website with this cool news:
More Updates: We have two mods finished. Xecuter2 LITE and Xecuter2 PRO. The LITE version is basically the same design as Xecuter1 - with the new v2 Kernel and flash updateable by EVOX. Backwards compatible with the v1 console and working 100% with the new v1.1 console also. This will be a budget version for those who don't want too spend much and we will not be involved in the distribution of this mod due to the kernel being included. The PRO version is the design everyone's been talking about. This will not include any kernel but will be the most advanced Xbox Tool available, with switch able four x kernel mode, LPT programming, EVOX programming, PC controllable, 10 wire or 0 wire options, 100% external programming so never go back inside your Xbox again, 100% compatibility with the new X2 Kernel - Photographs of the prototypes will appear shortly.
Things are progressing nicely forthis new chip.
Monday, 28, October, 2002
Xbox Hacker Back :)
Posted by Wraggster at 18:29 PM
Icy2k has updated the Xbox Hacker site with a short note to say hes back :)
Now that the premier site for Xbox Hacking is back we can get the scene moving and grooving again.
Sega Master System Legal Roms
Posted by Wraggster at 7:01 AM
Today I have uploaded a new zipfile for ya and this time its Sega Master System Roms and theres 29 included in one easy to download file.
Get them from my site Xbox Evolution Here
This adds to the Jaguar, Atari 2600. Nes, Neo Geo Pockett and Genesis legal rom sets already on XBox Evolution.
Sunday, 27, October, 2002
XB-FTP v0.53 released
Posted by HyperG at 20:59 PM
The Joker has released a new version of his FTP client for Xbox. Here's what's new.
0.53 released
added edit and removing of servers from the list
added a little smarter connect routine that will no reconnect right away, but wait a little.
create server into list without servername leaves ip:port instead of blank on the list
made pasv a tad more reliable
added a menu you can pop up during tranfer for aborting the transfer if you wish ( in different ways )
fixed thumbstick-queueing which tended to crash a lot
left thumbstick will continue transfer if you stopped it earlier
killed a few major crashbugs in queueing, quite tricky memleak caused memory to go full
added a delete queue function
Thanks to The Joker for the news.
Saturday, 26, October, 2002
XB-FTP 0.51
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:35 PM
Another release for this FTP Client.
- Added passive ( check ini-file )
- Completed queueing, right thumb to queue, left to initiate transfer
- Added some nicer user interface.
- Prepared code for dialog boxes to remove the need for ini-files.
Friday, 25, October, 2002
Xodux/ Matrix Announcement:!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:16 PM
News Source: Xodus-Chip
So much has been announced i will only post a small bit:
"Whew!!! We cannot tell you how exciting and at the same time how utterly exhausting the past few weeks have been. WE NEED SOME SLEEP!!!
As most of you have gathered by now we have created quite a stir in the mod chip market and have been inundated with calls, emails and orders, so much so that we have battled to keep up with the unexpected flood.
The most important thing though is that through the majority of e-mails we have received (over 500 per day) we appear to have succeeded in our major objective which was to make a product which is and (will remain) second to none. We really would like to thank the thousands of positive and encouraging comments and compliments we have received e.g:"
You can purchase the NO WIRES & NO SOLDER mod from the official reseller Easybuy2000 for just $59 USD ( wordwide shipping )
Promotions:
-Buy 3 Get Free Overnight Shipping
-Buy 10 Get 30% Off
You can read the rest of the announcement here
xToolBox v0.1 BETA
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:06 PM
xToolBox v0.1 BETA by Tritium October 24th 2002
What is xToolBox:
xToolBox is a graphical FTP client for Xbox which allows you to directly browse and copy files and folders to and from the Xbox hard disk and to and from a remote FTP server.
xToolBox can be booted from a DVD/CD or added to your Xbox hard disk and launched from there.
v0.1 BETA - Initial release
- Browse files and folders on Xbox hard disk and DVD drive.
- Browse files and folders on remote server.
- Queuing of files.
- Transfer of files.
Features that may or may not be included in future releases:
- Menu (with more 'FTP client' commands)
- Help
- Skin support (if I manage to display the loaded background in a correct manner)
- Solve the PORT issue mentioned above
- Passive mode transfer
- 'Maximize' the different lists
- Improved checking on return codes
- On-screen keyboard
XB-FTP 0.47 Released!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:42 PM
Xbox FTP Client's New Features:
Changed the start process since it tended to not start up properly on different networks.
Added more compaillity towards unix servers.
EvoX Skinner 1.2.7 Released!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:35 PM
News Source: WildaBeast
This is mainly a bug fix release with a couple minor additions.
* Preview no longer crashes on systems where a "," is used for the decimal symbol and a "." for the digit grouping symbol.
* Download Skins added to File Menu
* Improved author tag detection for skins not made with EvoX Skinner
* Screenshot of Launch Image now scaled to 640x480 if needed.
You can download it here just scroll to the bottom.
X-Ecuter II News
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:31 PM
News Source: X-Ecuter
We can confirm that Xecuter2 will not be limited to one particular seller. From past experience one reseller can never satisfy a global market. Therefore anyone who wishes to distribute the device can do so, and you the customer have the option to choose who you do business with without any kind of pressure. This will also give opportunity for various resellers to give individual deals and offers - encouraging a healthy base for competition, this can only mean cheaper prices and faster delivery times. The first feedback was given today - one of the comments being "astonishingly easy to setup, clever yet simple design for external programming & control.
Ed's ISO 0.0.7
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:15 PM
News Source: Xbox Linux
Xbox Linux has been updated with news of the new release of Ed's ISO 0.0.7
What's New
corrected Xbox partiton in kernel.
f: had the wrong startsector.
changed the install for the new Xbox
disklayout and the corrected startsector.
kernelupdate
adding no mouse option in the xfconfig
Check it out here
Wednesday, 23, October, 2002
xSnes9x Subfolder Support
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:15 PM
News Source: xSnes9x
Lantus posted news that he has added subfolder support for b6:
"Sometimes i dont know when to quit. I know many of you have been asking for the ability to be able to separate roms into different folders, so tonight i added subfolder support for b6. Currently it will only allow one level of subfolder , but you can have as many subfolders as you like. i dont even know why people would want more than one subfolder level? anyway its gonna stay at one level deep for now and possibly for good.
obligatory screenshot here"
FBA-X Beta 2 Reality Check!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:04 PM
News Source: FBA-X
Over the past few days on irc and scanning various message boards it seems people have been asking why they cant find b2 because they are certain its been released. The real deal is that FBAx b2 is still currently being worked on and is not out yet. We have no idea how people came to believe b2 was already released.
Its certainly news to us, we are ironing out a few more bugs and finishing off the changes we planned.
Stick with us, FBAx b2 will be coming your way soon.
WinLPC Programmer v1.0 for Matrix Mod
Posted by Sin-Tex at 15:52 PM
News Source: Xodus
The Xodus site has been updated with a new site design & has announced the release of it's own Win32 Grafical Programmer.
You can download it here
You can purchase the NO WIRES & NO SOLDER mod from the official reseller Easybuy2000 for just $59 USD ( wordwide shipping )
Promotions:
-Buy 3 Get Free Overnight Shipping
-Buy 10 Get 30% Off
Tuesday, 22, October, 2002
BiosChecker 2.02
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:05 PM
News Source: BiosChecker
NEW RELEASE 2.02 IS OUT!!!
Whats New:
- Added recognition of Complex 4627 (1.03 Debug)
- Added recognition of Complex 4627 (1.03 Retail)
- Added recognition of EvoX2.4 ColorMod blue
- Added recognition of EvoX2.5 ColorMod blue
- Changed IRC server and channel....see the end of this page ;-)
Thanks to Skin for the e-mail :)
For Newbies:
What's BiosChecker?
BiosChecker is a Xbox progZ that can analyze your Xbox modchip (if one is installed) or your original XBOX TSOP and tell you what bios is installed!
It's based on XFLASH source code developed by Dysfunction.
White XMAS - White XBOX ?
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:59 PM
News Source: GamePro
Is the Xbox too big and black for your tastes? We can't do anything about its size, unfortunately, but Sega is doing something about the color: starting next month they'll be taking orders for a limited edition Xbox system that's whiter than Pee-Wee Herman in his heyday.
The new Xbox color is part of Sega's marketing campaign for Sega Direct, their newly-reorganized online shopping site (formerly called Dreamcast Direct). The system isn't exactly 100% white, though: it's themed after Panzer Dragoon Orta, so the top face features the PDO logo and a bit of the game's ancient-fossil designs. Not to mention that giant black Xbox "jewel," of course. The package also comes with a copy of the PDO game, along with an AV component pack and a special PDO dragon's-head necklace.
Unfortunately for gamers over here, this Xbox package will be rather difficult to get your hands on. Sega's only making 999 units, and they plan to sell them all off in online reservations beginning November 1. The system will cost 35,800 yen (about $287) and ships out to customers December 19. If you want one, we suggest finding a Japanese friend and a gigantic wad of cash very soon.
CXBX Project on Hold
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:23 PM
News Source: CXBX
caustik author behind the CXBX "Xbox Emulator for PC", has updated his site requesting some nice person donate a modchip to him so he can continue the project.
Details from the site:
"Just thought i'd mention..i cant really continue without a modchip. i'm pretty much waiting for some kind soul to help me out. until that happens i'm not sure if this project is going to progress."
Xbox Media Player v1.0 English Manual
Posted by Sin-Tex at 7:32 AM
News Source: Xbox Media Player
Xbox Media Player v1.0 Manual 1.0.0 Eng written by Shadow_Mx is now available for download under our "HOW TO" section of the website.
You can read it here
EvoX Skinner 1.2.6 Released!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 7:28 AM
News Source: WildBeast
"This is another bug fix release. No new features were added.
* Fixed bug where a skin containing the tag followed by less then five characters would crash Evox Skinner when previewed
* Menu Bar transparency now displayed correctly"
You can download it here, just scroll to the bottom.
Sunday, 20, October, 2002
xSnes9x Progress
Posted by Sin-Tex at 12:05 PM
News Source: xSnes9x
You may remember the 'Bugs Bugs Bugs' post i made some weeks ago which I mentioned a wierd SRAM bug when saving Uncharted Waters 2 and some issues with EA sports roms now loading, amongst other things.
Today, i took a break from the UI code and decided to delve into the main source and see if i could fix the SRAM problem. It turns out that another (surprise surprise) memory leak caused the problem with Uncharted Waters 2. If there are any other roms which dont save correctly this fix may take care of that issue.
Later, i was comparing build between the win32 and xbox versions. I noticed a few files in the win32 build which i didnt have in my project. So i investigate and realise that im using an older C code source for the CPU opcodes rather than a newer assembly equivalent. So i get to work and compile and add in the asm opcode object files to the project and exclude the older C source, fire up xSnes9x and notice that the problems with EA sports roms has gone, i test out other things to make sure nothing else has been broken and its all working fine. Even Out of this World and Clayfighters now load. After smacking myself for not picking this up earlier, im (almost) certain now that the xbox port is 1-1 equivalent in terms of compatability with the win32 version.
Excellent stuff, cant wait to play next release
XboxHacker.NET Update!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 12:03 PM
News Source: Xbox Evolution
"After a short conversation with the founder of XboxHacker I learned that the data has been recovered! This is very good news for everyone in the scene. XboxHacker had almost a year of hacking info in it's forums. Anyways, we wish good luck to XboxHacker and look forward to the site being back up in a matter of days."
Great to have you guys back :)
Saturday, 19, October, 2002
XboxHacker.NET Back Soon ?
Posted by Sin-Tex at 23:16 PM
News Source: Xbox-Scene
>> We received this small note from xboxhacker.net :
[QUOTE]
We (Xboxhacker and Xboxdeveloper) are not gone, we are looking for a new host since we had a problem with out last one (they wiped our drive with out notice) we shall be back soon please wait for us.
Thanks
The XBH team
[/QUOTE]
XBOX Rear USB mod (v0.1)
Posted by Sin-Tex at 16:33 PM
News Source: Xbox-Scene
"Tutorial written by : [Plagued]
This Mod requires a little more work than just replacing one of the front ports, but it doesn't sacrifice any joypad ports.
You'll need - Blanking plate USB adapter (shown lower), soldering iron, wire, a dremmel or similar and an optional small pin strip."
You can check the details for the Mod here
Xend0r v0.3
Posted by Sin-Tex at 16:31 PM
News Source: Dextrose
What new:
Added retail patching
Download here
Friday, 18, October, 2002
Final Burn Alpha-X beta 2
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:17 PM
News Source: xSnes9x
FBA-X has an official site run by Lantus & TMaul:
Along with the oppening of the official site see's the release of beta 2.
Things that have been added or fixed so far by Lantus and TMaul:
Per player button layout configuration and controller type selection
.ini support - now saves the config of various things and should allow you to change the rom search path eventually
Gigawing sprite fix
Some code cleanup
There are other features planned but they might have to wait until Beta 3.
You can check out the new site here
Thursday, 17, October, 2002
Xbox Media Player Update!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:31 PM
News Source: Xbox Media Player Site
Bug reporting
In order to help us organize current & future bugs we ask everyone to log bugs that they know of in the bug tracker at the XboxMediaPlayer SourceForge.NET site. For those who have already reported bugs on the Xbox Media Player Forums please also log them in the bug tracker. This will allow us to track the state of the bugs & prioritize them so that we can make sure that they get fixed.
We will still continue to discuss bugs in the Xbox Media Player Forums Bug Report section.
(Remember to search for existing reports before logging/posting a new bug or thread).
Debug Tool & F: Drive Support
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:19 PM
Source: XboxHacker.NET
XDK ( F: Drive ) App
This app adds (F: drive) support to the XDK Launcher.
Enjoy and happy hacking.
PiXEL8
Reboot Debug Xbox into 'Non-Debug'
With this nice application you can now reboot your debug modified Xbox into a 'non-debug' mode so you can boot games such as Halo. What it does is frees up system RAM so games that require it can run.
Another tool by PiXEL8
Xend0r v0.2
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:37 PM
News Source: Dextrose
"Added username and password for current evo-x
Example:
Xend0r.exe "hartec:dextrose@192.168.0.111" "/E/dev/myApp/" "myApp.xbe"
Download it here<
Wednesday, 16, October, 2002
EvoX Skinner 1.2.5 Released!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:14 PM
News Source: WildBeast
This new ver is just a bug fix release. No new features were added as I'm slowly working on a redesign of the interface for the next major release.
* Fixed bug where CRLF tag was not wrapping correctly
* Tweaked text placement
EvolutionX Skins Gallery Added To Site
After many requests I have added a collection of EvolutionX Skins to the site.
Send in skins created with EvoX Skinner to EvoXSkins@wildabeast.net and they will be considered for addition to the gallery.
Don't forget that Series Grabber can be used to grab many excellent images for your skin creations.
The Parata Project
Posted by Sin-Tex at 18:56 PM
This new project by Numbnut (Andy Green) is currently in planning stages.
Here's some info about the project:
"Scope
Parata (Parallel - ATA) hooks a PC to another PC or other 'target' device using ATA (eg, Xbox), and emulates the ATA command protocol in real time. This is typically used to make an ISO file on the PC appear to be present on the ATA connector of the target in an emulated HDD, CD or DVD."
You can read all the details & visit the official site here
Thanks to Morph for the news :)
Xbox Media Player - Source
Posted by Sin-Tex at 18:46 PM
News Source: Xbox Media Player
The site has been updated with these words:
"Source Code also available in our download section
This is the source code from "Plan B", e.i. B6 code with some bug fixes + ISO9660 & SVCD/MPEG2 support.
The cleaned up & restructured code ("Plan A") should still be released some time next week."
EasyBuy2000 Matrix Info
Posted by Sin-Tex at 0:36 AM
News Source: Easybuy2000
For those that have ordered the or will be ordering the Xodus/ aka Matrix Mod from Easybuy2000, another batch will be in stock tomorrow & shipping in 24hrs.
MatriX Availability / Shipping
We are shipping our recently received batch as of Oct. 16, 2002. We will receive other batches by the end of this week as well as early next week. Please be patient with us, as we are doing our very best! Mass producing complex products takes time, testing and patience because everything needs to be perfected.
We want to assure those who placed an order, that you WILL receive what you ordered. Please see our production photos to see how they are coming along.
Thanks for you patience with us!
The EB2k Team
You can purchase the NO WIRES & NO SOLDER Xodus Mod from the official reseller Easybuy2000 for just $59 USD ( wordwide shipping )
Promotions:
-Buy 3 Get Free Overnight Shipping
-Buy 10 Get 30% Off
Apple ][ Soul Captor - XBox Edition LEGAL EMU!
Posted by LyonHrt at 0:34 AM
The first emu to be released WITHOUT using the xbox XDK was released yesterday by dcgrendel:
Here's what he says:
You need to remove all peripherals except one controller on the first port.
The files provided may be placed in a directory on your E: or F: drive, placed on a ufs or a xdvdfs filesystem.
And as this is a legal emu, you can get the file here! :)
Tuesday, 15, October, 2002
Xodus Install Manual Rev 1.1
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:02 PM
News Source: Xodus
The xodus site has been updated with a New Installation Guide Rev 1.1
You can download it here
You can purchase the NO WIRES & NO SOLDER Xodus Mod from the official reseller Easybuy2000 for just $59 USD ( wordwide shipping )
Promotions:
-Buy 3 Get Free Overnight Shipping
-Buy 10 Get 30% Off
xSnes9x Moved
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:36 PM
News Source: Old Xsnes9X Site
The site has been officially moved to a new location --> http://www.lantus-x.com/xSnes9x/
"Welcome to the new and official home of xSnes9x. Ive decided to take the plunge and host my own site with the projects ive worked on. You can check out the latest information about the other emulators ive worked on in the links to the left."
Also mentioned
Matthew Kendora released another Snes9x build - 1.39mk3a , ive merged in these changes already into the current Xbox build. Here is whats new:
- neatened up the company table. (MKendora)
- fixed a mistake in the ROM Info box (MKendora)
- Added a Calulcated Size field to ROM INfo. (MKendora)
- Added 3 more companies to the ROM Info table (MKendora)
- Fixed BS detection (The Dumper)
- Added a Legend-specific hack to get sound. I remembered
it being mentioned in the changelog. (Gary Henderson)
- Started hacking in FatlXception's gaussian interpolation
in place of linear. Very ugly sound right now. (FatlXception, MKendora)
- Unbroke the Star Ocean special cases (Trigger of Time, MKendora)
- Company 255 is not Hudson-ZFE detects all Hudson games
without it, except a corrupt dump (StatMat, MKendora)
- fixed a bug in the redone detection for the SPC7110 (CaitSith2)
- 44Khz sound should be 44.1Kz. Changed, though you'll
need to re-set 44.1Khz to make it take effect. Not sure
if this affects non-Windows ports. (MKendora)
- Added 32Khz playback (MKendora)
- Inproved BS ROM mapping (_Demo_, The Dumper, MKendora)
Xbox Media Player Update!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:15 PM
News Source: Xbox Media Player
"Open Sourcing...
Hey here's an update on our work on the first public official, non-leaked release. We've registered the sourceforge project and I'm playing around with configuring it. However there's not much there yet. (That'll change!)"
More info has been posted regarding The Win32 Player, click here to check it out.
Lik Sang is back!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 16:16 PM
But you'll have to go somewhere else for modchips...
Lik Sang News
Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft vs. Lik Sang
"At September 16th a lawsuit against Lik Sang International Limited and it's directors has been filed in the High Court of Hong Kong by the companies Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft on infringing on copyrighted material and selling Mod Chips or other development and backup devices for the Plaintiffs consoles.
At September 17th, the High Court of Hong Kong issued Orders and Injunctions against Lik Sang which prevented selling or advertising Mod Chips (and other products in questions). The details outlined in those Injunctions took Lik-Sang.com and the company with more than 20 full-time employees "down" - business was officially closed till today. Lik Sang and it's employees couldn't even speak about the case due to an injunction of the High Court.
Lik Sang International Limited has removed all the products in questions from it's website and started it's business operation again by Tuesday, October 15th. Un-shipped orders will be processed in due course and the first shipments are scheduled to dispatch by November 1st. Customers with unshipped orders will receive emails with shipping & or cancellation information in the meantime. New orders are welcome.
Please note that Lik Sang International Limited has always sold the products in questions with the legitimate use in mind and the products haven't been considered as illegal. All the Court Orders have been issued before hearing a single word from the company. However, Lik Sang is not committed on selling the questioned products in the future."
Below is an approx e-mail copy of what customers of lik-sang have been sent.
"Dear valued customer,
thank you for contacting Lik-Sang.com, your specialist for finest
videogames and accessories.
As you might know, we have been "shut down" by legal proceedings against
us from Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. We have been unable to conduct our
business and reply any emails due to a (in our opinion wrongly issued)
High Court Order which has been lifted by now. We do apologize for the
inconvenience caused and we would like to point out we have taken
immediate action to prevent further complications.
SHIPPING OF YOUR ORDER
If you do have an order which is still un-shipped, you will receive
another email outlining the steps you have to take in order to receive
your tracking number and shipping info. In most cases you can just sit
back on relax, everything will happen automatically.
REFUNDS & CANCELLATIONS
If your order contains mod chips or related products it has been cancelled
already. If you wish to cancel any existing order that does not contain
mod chips or related products please use the following URL. If you do not
wish to cancel the order it will be shipped within the first two weeks of
November, if available (if not sure, please check the product availability
on our website)
Use this URL to cancel any existing order. Please do so by clicking on the
appropriate order listed in your order history and scroll down until you
see the "Cancel" button.
www.lik-sang.com
Refunds for cancelled orders will be issued in the near future, we ask for
your kind understanding that it takes some time for our accountants to
work thru the affected transactions.
MOD CHIPS, FLASH ADVANCE LINKERS AND OTHER PRODUCTS IN QUESTION
Due to the legal proceedings of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft against
backup and development devices, we are unable to ship any products in
question. We have removed all those products from our catalogue and orders
for such items will be refunded in due course. You will receive another
email outlining the procedure.
Best regards,"
Big Thanks to Lumpy for the news
Monday, 14, October, 2002
XBMP Developers Need Developers/Contributors Help
Posted by HyperG at 17:20 PM
RUNTiME has posted on the Xbox Media Player forums, that the team is about to release source code, and is willing to see what developers and contributors can accomplish with the project, once open source.
Source: Xbox Media Player (Forum Thread)
Sunday, 13, October, 2002
How to Fix Broken Traces
Posted by Sin-Tex at 12:44 PM
News Source: XboxHacker.NET
Simple Tutorial on How to Fix Broken Traces
by NetSurge
"Let me guess, your first words were "OH ****, I JUST LIFTED A TRACE". Then comes the shaking and the repeating of cretin words. But don't worry, with a little but of patience you can fix it. I myself lifted 2 traces on my X-Box motherboard in a freak accident, but with a little bit concentration and time I fixed it. So, Just recently I decided to write this tutorial. Please note that the pictures in this example are not that of an actual Xbox mobo, because I'm not going to re-fix my Xbox, but they will be very similar to the circumstances.
The tutorial consists of 3 sections:
1) Screw it! (Just get my X-Box back!)
2) Half Fix (Just get the mod working)
3) Full Fix (Get the whole shebang fixed)
You can read the full tutorial/guide here
YAMP V0.3
Posted by Sin-Tex at 12:31 PM
News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET
V0.3 12-10-2002
- added postprocessing of the video picture.
- added xvid support
- file selection
- CFileSelector now determines the number of items 2 display based on the screen resolution
- vertical positioning of a subtitle algo is improved and based on font height
- stop movie implemented
- an error is presented if user tries to open an unsupported audio/video file
- file selection gui updated
- a/v sync improved. Hopefully no more choppy playback
- several bugs solved
- yamp now has a seperate subtitle font
- Added a CDriveSelector class to select a drive
- uses latest ffmpeg release of 12-oct-2002
Saturday, 12, October, 2002
EvolutionX beta 1.8.2812 released
Posted by HyperG at 21:54 PM
Another day, another good release, here's whats new and fixed in this latest beta.
EvolutionX bug fixes:
Eject fix. (It no longer reboots when Evox is started from cd and eject is pressed)
Attributes Fixed when using action scripts
Fix "line" command (no longer selectable)
MD5 hashing on first 256K section of bios instead of last section
EvolutionX new features:
24 Hour Date Format / US Time am/pm swap date
Limited USB Keyboard support
IR Remote Support
XODUS/Cheapmod Flashing supported (You have to boot from LPC device)
Copy command in action scripts supports single files now e.g.(copy "\dash.xbe" "x:\xboxdash.xbe")
Rename command in action scripts e.g.(rename "x:\xboxdash.xbe" "x:\msxboxdash.xbe")
Thanks to Wikkid for the news. Also to Wraggster for dragging me on IRC :-p .
Source(s): Xbox Evolution | Official Site
Xbox Linux Team Cracked Xbox V1.1
Posted by Sin-Tex at 17:16 PM
News Source: XboxHacker.NET
"On behalf of the Xbox Linux Team (http://xbox-linux.sf.net), I am proud to announce that at 10:45BST the 'v1.1' secure version of the Xbox was proven to be running arbitrary BIOS code in a normal 256KByte modchip - with no additional hardware required. In short, in under a week we were able to normalize the new box to enable it to interoperate with Linux properly.
It seems that the Xecuter modchip people (http://www.x-ecuter.com) beat us to the punch by one day, and we are grateful for some hints they seem to have given us at the very end. But we fundamentally each got there on our own.
Work will now continue to integrate the new code into the Xbox Linux booting ROM.
Thanks to everyone who contributed their ideas and worked on the crack, both in Xbox Linux and on XBOXHACKER, we who are about to run Linux salute you!"
Friday, 11, October, 2002
CXBX- 0.4.3 Released
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:54 PM
News Source: CXBX
This new version lets you patch .xbe files to allow usage of >64MB, and lets you toggle between debug/release mode. This could be pretty handy for you developers out there.
Also fixed a few relatively minor gui things, such as suggesting an appropriate name for saving an .xbe file, instead of just defaulting to "default.xbe".
You can download it here
XB Connect 2.1b Released
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:44 PM
News Source: XBConnect
Not much in this update: Fixed a major lag issue in 2.1
You can download it here
UnLockX.exe Ver 2.0
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:28 PM
News Source: XboxHacker BBS
mruell released Ver 2.0 several days ago.
From the ReadMe:
"An all in one program for your hard drive.
This Program is based on source code from Martin Gerdes, an editor of the german "c't" magazine.
The article was published in c't 11/91 "Platten-Auslese - Konfiguration von AT-Bus-Platten lesen"
And more reasentley programs written by imh0 (Miguel)."
1) Now will Lock your hard drive or unlock and disable passwords all in one program !!
2) Will backup your password to a file and will not over-write it
3) Password backup file is time stamped.
4) No need to use atapwd.exe to view drive status.You can see at a glance if your drive is locked or unlocked.
5) Now you only have to enter your password one time.
Requirements
1) UnLockX.exe must be run in pure DOS Mode,No windows dos box.
2) Drive must be on the primary IDE channel ( Master Or Slave).
You can download it here
Thursday, 10, October, 2002
Slashdotted: MS vs Lik Sang
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:33 PM
News Source: Slashdot
"CNET's News.com is running an article on Microsoft's legal manuevers which have successfully shut down the Lik Sang ecomm store where they've been selling various game system mod chips including the OpenXBox Mod Chip. This leads me to two questions (and I'll admit my ignorance, faux or not, in order to get discussion on this topic): 1) When a customer purchases an XBox (or any game system for that matter) are you intrinsically "signing" an end-user agreement in the purchase that makes modding the device illegal? 2) Could a non-profit org setup an effort to have mod chips produced and "distributed" at the cost of production w/o legal repurcussions? (i.e. would not making a profit on XBox's hardware mods protect you from their wrath?) 3) I understand the whole DRM aspect of mod'ing for playing copied games, BUT, what about legit gray-hacks like the Mandrake Linux XBox project and such? It would seem to me that in the long haul, Microsoft would support such efforts because they could sell more devices (and potentially more software if they licensed an opensource validation library)... "
BIOS RC4 in Xbox v2
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:08 PM
News Source: XboxHacker.NET
Post by Numbnut:
"The Xbox Linux team have yesterday extracted the new MCPX ROM from this new box, and the new RC4 key for BIOS unpack (and unfortunately, a new BIOS hashing check in the ROM) is now known. The new 2bl and kernel have been unpacked. It took just eight hours from getting to box to getting the key.
The team working on the Xbox Linux BIOS have agreed that we will not be discussing any details of how we managed this, nor will we be issuing the key or other data outside our group. You can imagine, as the rest of our work is all GPLed and fully transparent, this is not because we are suddenly evil, but because of copyright issues and that we hope to reuse the techniques.
This news means that we will now be able to move on in attaining compatibility with the XBox Linux clean bootrom and the new model XBoxes. The bootrom sources will continue to be open as always."
Wednesday, 9, October, 2002
RAM Limit Remover v.01
Posted by Sin-Tex at 18:26 PM
News Source: XboxHacker.NET
This is just a small app coded to remove
the 64mb limit flag that most xbox
applications/games have set. Now, I know
hardly anyone is going to upgrade their
ram anytime soon, its good to have incase
you do, and mame wants to use it.
Instructions:
Run the program, browse for the main .xbe
and hit 'patch', its as simple as that.
Ofcourse you will need to add extra ram to your xbox :)
Tuesday, 8, October, 2002
QuakeX Project Launched!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:49 PM
News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET
"The QuakeX Project has just launched, we really need talented programmers who have experience with the Quake Engine or the XDK to help us out. The QuakeX project will consist of porting Quake 1 to Xbox and adding special XBox features such as saving and loading games, controller vibrations, auto-aiming system If you are interested in helping us out drop me a line at daniel.dalpe@sympatico.ca"
Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 Released
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:42 PM
News Source: Xbox Linux
"This is the first full Linux distribution for the Xbox, which is 100% compatible with Mandrake Linux 9. The 350 MB installation CD includes Gnome, KDE and OpenOffice.org and installs in 10 minutes."
First Complete Linux Distribution for the Xbox Gaming Console
"Today the Xbox Linux Project (http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/) announced that Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 has been released. This is the first complete Linux distribution for the Microsoft Xbox gaming console.
A 350 MB installation CD of Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 is available for download free of charge from the Xbox Linux website. It corresponds to a standard installation of the (free) 3 CD version of the well-known Mandrake Linux distribution (http://www.mandrake.com/), which has only been released a week ago, so it contains the graphical environments Gnome and KDE, as well as software packages such as OpenOffice.org, XMMS and Mozilla. Since Xbox Linux Mandrake 9 is 100% compatible with Mandrake Linux 9, all additional packages from the official Mandrake Linux 9 installation CDs or the Mandrake website can be installed into Xbox Mandrake Linux.
To be able to use Xbox Linux Mandrake 9, you need a "modded" Xbox and a USB keyboard and mouse connected to the Xbox by a Xbox-USB adaptor, which can be easily built by most users.
With Xbox Linux Mandrake, the Xbox gaming console is just as powerful as any comparable PC with Mandrake Linux 9. It can be used for office applications, the internet, e-mail, Linux games, or even as a web, file or database server.
Mandrake Linux was chosen as the base for our distribution for various mostly technical reasons. We have no affiliation with MandrakeSoft, the creators of Mandrake Linux.
This is an important milestone for the Xbox Linux Project, which aims to provide an easy to use and highly compatible Linux distribution for the Xbox gaming console, to give Xbox users the freedom to do anything with the console they have paid for, instead of being restricted to gaming."
The ReadMe is available here & you can download it here
Progressive Scan Patcher
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:27 PM
News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET
Here is the first version of "Progressive Scan Patcher" for games that do not support progressive scan mode. I tried it successfully on the Dashboard, The Thing and DVD RegionX. It's been reported to work on Hitman2 too, you need a modded Xbox and the ability to make a backup of your game or running it from HD. Using the patcher on a file called Default.xbe will ouput a new file called Default.xbe.patched replace your game Default.xbe with that one (remove the ".patched" )and it should autodetect if progressive mode can be used. Enjoy.
Project Description:
A PC tool that allows you to patch xbe files to make them compatible with progressive scan displays (i.e. HDTV and true VGA converters). Tested on several XBox games, homebrew or MS (Dasboard and onlinedash). It allows progressive scan DVD playback if applied to DVD RegionX or MS Dashboard.
You can download it here
Thanks to ProgScan for the News.
XBMP Suspended?
Posted by HyperG at 1:17 AM
People all over the net have been griping about the recent suspension of the project. RUNTiME has explained here that the project is just temporarly being put on hold, it does not mean the project is dead. Recently people such as myself have been receiving e-mails about some of the stuff being used that is GPL'ed. Some points have been missed by those people that have sent us e-mails, and it is explained in the link mentioned earlier, or just click here to read the full story.
Source: Xbox Media Player (Forum Thread)
Monday, 7, October, 2002
Tux vs Clippy
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:42 PM
Source: Tux vs Clippy Official Site
The battle for world dominance is raging. And now, you can play the game on your xbox(tm). Choose alliance with either Tux or Clippy, and finish the mother of all disputes right here and right now. This game is free (as in beer), and will run on any xbox that has been modified for use with the GNU/Linux operating system. The game runs on top of xbox-linux from Sourceforge's xbox-linux project.
You can download it here
OpenXDK Needs Help!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:19 PM
News Source: XboxHacker.NET
If any Project ever needed help it is this one, OpenXDK is an attempt at making a fully legal Xbox Development Kit for homebrew enthusiasts.
"To try to breathe some life back into this project, I have completely opened the OpenXDK forum up for reading and posting. (please, OpenXDK development discussion only).
If you are interested in helping, you can post there or take a look at #openxdk on EFNet. There is also a sourceforge page and and XboxDeveloper.Net page for OpenXDK. Especially if you are good with low level code (not just asm, but C as well) we could use your help!"
Xbox Media Player Suspended
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:01 PM
News Source: XBMP
"Development suspended
Following a number of complaints made to us development on the player is suspended until further notice.
We remind you that we have not officially released any binaries to the public, and as such no source will be forthcoming either.
You can send your letters of thanks to nagash@iinet.net.au"
This is a sad day for the Xbox Scene, lets hope RUNTiME & d7o3g4q can continue the project again some day. Good luck with whatever you do next guys.
Sunday, 6, October, 2002
cxbx 0.4.1
Posted by Sin-Tex at 17:24 PM
News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET
Mew in this version is the simple fact that most software you run with the emulator exits safely. this happens very quickly and you will see no audio/video. please don't email me trying to figure out how to play Halo or some such nonsense, as cxbx doesn't play games yet.
Saturday, 5, October, 2002
FanCbox v0.25 released
Posted by HyperG at 19:48 PM
Superfro has released a new version of his application which allows you to customize bios hacks to have a different logo color, etc. Here is what's new.
.25 Added Support for EvolutionX 2.0-2.2
Added cut 256k/512k options
Changed bad key description
Get it from here.
Friday, 4, October, 2002
Final Burn Alpha X b1 Released!
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:03 PM
News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET
"An unoffical Xbox port of the open source FBA emulator. Currently emulates Toaplan 2 & Capcom CPS 1 & 2 arcade hardware.
Both the source and binary are out. Not much else to say other than enjoy it!"
NewHD EvoX Released
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:00 PM
News Source: XboxDeveloper.NET
"The new Compilation including the Attribute Fixer application has been released. Purpose, allow installation of brand new HardDrive, and using this CD it will prepare,format, and copy the basic files needed for the XBOX to run.
The program is currently in Beta testing. All appears to be working 100% correctly. Expect official release within next few days.
Description:
XBOX Application to fix the attributes of any file on the C and E drive(s) on the xbox. When using the EvolutionX copy files function to copy files from a CD to the Hard Drive, the files copied will have the Read-Only Attribute. Attribute Fixer Removes the Read-Only Attribute."
Choice and Freedom Act of 2002
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:55 PM
Source: XboxHacker.NET
Found this cool bit of news on XboxHacker.NET
"Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren's Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002 is probably the first proposed law concerning copyright law in the last few years that makes any sense. It would basically allow you to make legal copies of copyrighted works for fair use purposes, regardless of what format the work has been released in and whether it's protected by anti-copy measures or not, thus restoring balance between copyright holders and customers. Needless to say the movie and music industry is violently objecting to this act which is not surprising considering that they are sponsoring laws that make any copying illegal."
Original Source: Doom9
Xbox 64MB Ram Upgrade
Posted by Sin-Tex at 20:51 PM
News Source XboxHacker BBS
Dysfunction has succeeded in installing 64MB of extra Ram into the xbox, thus giving him a 128MB Xbox.
"As some people may remember from way back when, I'd ordered some SDRAM chips to attempt to upgrade an Xbox to 128MB using the spare pads on the board. Rather than the 2 weeks quoted it took over 2 months to get the parts and then vacation/work got in the way. Finally I installed the new SRAMs into the Xbox last night.
The installation & operation of the devices presented no problems, just some careful cleanup of the pads and soldering of the new SDRAMs, it worked first time.
I now have a 128MB Xbox, I've verified the addional memory with some code I wrote, I can allocate/test 121MB of RAM, no problems, BUT, isnt there always a BUT:
1. Applications need to be compiled such that the 64MB memory limit flag needs to be NOT set.
2. You must have the debug BIOS loaded onto the board, the machine will work/boot OK but you wont see the additional 64MB"
To read the full article/post visit XboxHacker BBS
Thursday, 3, October, 2002
Xsnes9X Dev Upaate
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:17 PM
News Source: Xsnes9X
I' ve merged the core emulation engine to the latest Snes9xMk code which contains the new SPC7110 chip emulation and quite a few new compatability fixes. I'm still working hard to get Far East of Eden Zero up and running. Anyway as a result of the update a few more DSP-1 titles are working.
This also takes care of the FF Mystic Quest issue also - its fully playable now.
I'm also working on a config menu for b6 which will eliminate all those damn buttons you had to memorize in b5 to navigate around the menu and generally make things easier.
Lik-Sang brought down by MS
Posted by Sin-Tex at 19:10 PM
Saw this news mentioned over at Xbox Scene
News Source:CNET NEWS.com
"Microsoft appears to have shut down one of the world's largest distributors of "mod chips"--gray-market add-ons that allow Microsoft's Xbox and other video game consoles to play pirated games.
A representative in Microsoft's Australian subsidiary confirmed that the company has taken legal action against Hong Kong-based Lik Sang.
Lik Sang's Web site has been offline for nearly two weeks, with a notice on the site blaming a server outage.
Lik Sang representatives could not be reached for comment, and Microsoft attorneys were unavailable to explain the exact nature of the legal action.
"
Click here to read the full article.
Tuesday, 1, October, 2002
Xodus/Matrix Review
Posted by Sin-Tex at 22:02 PM
News Source: XboxHacker.NET
Xodus/Matrix Review by iretch
An XboxHacker.NET in-depth review by iretch
Package contents:
-1 Modchip
-1 Programmer
-1 Locking washer
First thoughts:
Received the package- a stiff cardboard envelope with thick bubble padding in the inside. The envelope was somewhat smooshed up and I feared the chip might be damaged, but upon opening I found that it was perfectly okay. I suggest to Easybuy to perhaps use better packaging for such a thick object in the future, something might get damaged.
First thing I noticed was the overall build quality of the mod and programmer is excellent, feels very solid. The mod is noticeably more intricate than any so far. The main part of the unit is the SST 49lf020, a 256k (2mbit) chip (A native LPC chip) in PLCC packaging which supports both LPC and Parallel programming modes. This means the chip is able to be programmed through software on the Xbox, an excellent feature and one that is unique to the Xodus. The spring loaded pins on the bottom of the mod are gold plated, and seem to be of good quality. The tips on the pins are rounded, like a ball point pen, and give under pressure to ensure as close to a perfect fit as possible. There is a secondary chip which controls the LEDs for testing and diagnostics, it is not a controller like on other mods.
To read the full review visit XboxHacker.NET, greets to irectch for his review/ report."
You can purchase the NO WIRES & NO SOLDER mod from the official reseller Easybuy2000 for just $59 USD ( wordwide shipping )
Promotions:
-Buy 3 Get Free Overnight Shipping
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Fitting a standard USB socket to an Xbox
Posted by Sin-Tex at 21:48 PM
News Source: Xbox-Linux
Sam Johnston has writen a guide to fitting a standard USB socket into the xbox.
Click here for details.
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