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joseph_hac

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« on: June 04, 2004, 01:49:00 PM »
Link to X-S News Article

So does that mean I'll be able to play a retial version of Halo with a debug BIOS, and more importantly, record movies/screenshots with the XDKs video capture tool?
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Psilocybe

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« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2004, 01:51:00 PM »
you need a real dev or debug kit, not a retail with a debug bios (unless you do a ram upgrade and make it a debug box)
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heinrich

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« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2004, 02:57:00 AM »
QUOTE (Psilocybe @ Jun 4 2004, 06:51 PM)
you need a real dev or debug kit, not a retail with a debug bios (unless you do a ram upgrade and make it a debug box)

the RAM has nothing to do with it, the "Hack-devkit Bios" is signed with the debug key, and only boots on dev & debug kits.
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Psilocybe

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« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2004, 10:25:00 AM »
ram upgrade and debug bios therefore creating a debug kit (along with the xdk launcher and such also)
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heinrich

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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2004, 01:05:00 PM »
it will still not boot a *true* debug bios - ones which bootloader is signed with the "debug rc4 key", that is the reason this bios will not boot on a retail system, nothing at all to do with the RAM or dash on the hard drive.  There is a seperate MCPX revision for those systems..
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greengiant

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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2004, 01:13:00 PM »
QUOTE (Psilocybe @ Jun 5 2004, 10:25 AM)
ram upgrade and debug bios therefore creating a debug kit (along with the xdk launcher and such also)

Dev Kit...

Ram Upgrade... Yes

Debug Bios.. Yes

RC4Key... Debug



Retail Kit converted to Debug....

Ram Upgrade..Not needed

Debug Bios... Needed

RC4Key... RETAIL


So why can you normally not load a debug bios on a retail box, cause its signed with the dev key, not retail.
Same applies for a retail bios on a dev box.

Solution for running modded bios on dev box, resign the bios with the dev key !
Ram, xdk, xshell, none of that matters if it will boot or not. Its the key. Literally the key is the key.


Oh, Also....
This is nothing new what yoshi has done.
With the proper tools one can re-key a bios to boot on the debug as BFM.
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Psilocybe

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« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2004, 07:40:00 PM »
alright sorry for my misunderstandings
though i did think that the rc4 debug key was known or available (mcpx11.exe maybe?)
anyway sorry
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greengiant

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« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2004, 05:11:00 PM »
Yes the key is known, and available.

Just a little bit hard to find, unless you know where to look.
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Psilocybe

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« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2004, 07:46:00 PM »
keys aren't hard to find anymore, people arent uptight as they once were when they were first being found by those on xboxhacker.net
they are all over now
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