Topic: New Ideas For BIOS Hacks (Read 3513 times)

NghtShd · « **Reply #225 on:** October 19, 2003, 05:15:00 AM »

QUOTE (jaysoccer7c @ Oct 19 2003, 12:20 AM)

i dont know where else to put this but
fyi: if you modify your bios w/ xbtools and change the led color, and are installing a new hdd, u will get error 13....i am installing on my cousins and one switch has red led the other not changed. i am using boot cd and get error 13 on the modified led color bios but not the other.

Which version of XBtool are you using?

jaysoccer7c · « **Reply #226 on:** October 19, 2003, 02:44:00 PM »

1.0.9
latest i think

Muzzakus · « **Reply #227 on:** October 20, 2003, 10:42:00 PM »

Not sure if mentioned previously cause it seems quite obvious.

As we know, dvd drive takes priority in boot sequence. A feature I would find useful is; during boot, if holding down a button on the controller e.g. 'A', the the box would boot from HD as opposed to inserted disc.

Currently need to eject disc if I wish to go back to dash, not ideal.

Muzzakus.

Cutriss · « **Reply #228 on:** October 21, 2003, 02:15:00 PM »

You don't want 480p support in the BIOS. What you really want is 480p support in the dash. And, of course, that won't be happening anytime soon for xboxdash.xbe.

At least, as far as I understand it.

desertboy · « **Reply #229 on:** October 21, 2003, 04:26:00 PM »

QUOTE (HeLiuM @ Sep 29 2003, 12:26 PM)

QUOTE (desertboy @ Sep 21 2003, 10:37 PM)

Surprised no one has said it but a legal homebrew bios (at least legal in europe) that boot original software and homebrew.

More likely to be implemented into xbtool.

Ability to play a video off the HD for boot up sequence instead of imbedded in bios.

Ability to turn the network port on and off, so live users can let siblings use their chipped xbox's without worrying about their younger brother getting them banned.

homebrew is still in the same language as regular xbox files, so if you had support for homebrew you'd have support for original files. that would mean reconstructing the whole kernel

to the win2k guy, this kernel is extremely stripped down! as far as win2k is concerned it might as well be a television v-chip bios

to the fake xbox live guy, any attempt at this would get attacked by MS. look in the xbox live forum, its been suggested a million times before

I meant by homebrew bios a reverse engineered bios or as I suggested xbtool supporting applying evox's patches to an original bios.

Another more xbtool related feature custom partition sizez for f & g, I've only got a 120gig in my box and I would like a g: of say 15gig dedicated for linux only.

BenJeremy · « **Reply #230 on:** October 22, 2003, 11:46:00 AM »

QUOTE (NghtShd @ Oct 22 2003, 03:29 PM)

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Another more xbtool related feature custom partition sizez for f & g, I've only got a 120gig in my box and I would like a g: of say 15gig dedicated for linux only.

What you really need is a hard drive partitioning utility. The options in XBtool are just basic starter options. Ultimately, one would use an application to setup a hard drive based partition table.

oz_paulb released some example code on how to do this. Hopefully someone will put it to use.

Ugh.... I don't like this one.... it causes problems for us "dashboard" authors - the LBA48 table created for the X2 BIOSes locks up an Xbox solid if defined for "Big F:" and the app (such as MXM) attempts to access G:'s partition. This has to be a bug int he way the table is generated - it doesn't happen in the Evo-X BIOSes.

My solution was to look at the F: size, and if it's a SPECIFIC SIZE, attempt to access G: - it works very well for this in the upcoming release, but a variable table would throw this into disarray.

Perhaps the bug could be fixed, NghtShd? What is the difference in the way the two tables are generated? Could Partition7 ALWAYS be created, even if it's 0 length, if that's what's happening in Evo-X BIOSes?

stratjakt · « **Reply #231 on:** October 24, 2003, 09:46:00 AM »

I don't know if anyone has said it, but here's what I'd like to see..

Support for disc insert notification via ATAPI, like any computer does it, and not (only) through the yellow dongley doo that the xbox has added.

For folks like me that switch between a PC DVDRom and the XDVDRom it'd be a godsend. Evox (or whatever) could be notified and autorun, or at least let me browse a disc I just put in.

Now all I can do is the goofy trick where you put an original in the xbox dvd tray and close it just to kick the xbox into reading the TOC..

Logically, the next step would be having hitting the big eject button on the xbox send a proper ATAPI eject tray command..

Zanime · « **Reply #232 on:** October 25, 2003, 11:20:00 AM »

How about a bios that lets us play custom soundtracks during games?

Now that would be awsome.

Is that even possiable?

NooberTehGod · « **Reply #233 on:** October 25, 2003, 11:44:00 AM »

Apparently the xbox has no multitasking capabilities, so I'd say without programing an mp3 player into each individual game, it's not possible.

Then again I'm far from being an expert...

[EDIT] oops, a BIOS that plays soudtracks, hmmm, that might work. It might make a huge bios though.... Not that anyone cares anymore now that you can use Pheonix Boot loader.

Now that I think about it, that should be done, it would kick ass. It should only support like mp3/ogg though, none of this windows media stuff the ms dash uses.

RelaX client too maybe?

Man I wish I knew enough about programming to implement this myself

theplowking · « **Reply #234 on:** October 26, 2003, 05:17:00 AM »

QUOTE (Cutriss @ Oct 21 2003, 11:15 PM)

You don't want 480p support in the BIOS. What you really want is 480p support in the dash. And, of course, that won't be happening anytime soon for xboxdash.xbe.

At least, as far as I understand it.

480p for xboxdash.xbe is possible....but you will have to modify it using the Progressive scan Patcher

get it from here

and 480p would be great to have in the bios as my tv wouldnt have to switch modes every time i boot it

idealy you would have this as an xbtool option (you reading this nghtshd

)

ChrisF · « **Reply #235 on:** October 27, 2003, 04:40:00 PM »

QUOTE (Cutriss @ Oct 27 2003, 08:27 PM)

QUOTE (theplowking @ Oct 26 2003, 03:17 PM)

QUOTE (Cutriss @ Oct 21 2003, 11:15 PM)

You don't want 480p support in the BIOS. What you really want is 480p support in the dash. And, of course, that won't be happening anytime soon for xboxdash.xbe.

At least, as far as I understand it.

480p for xboxdash.xbe is possible....but you will have to modify it using the Progressive scan Patcher

get it from here

and 480p would be great to have in the bios as my tv wouldnt have to switch modes every time i boot it

idealy you would have this as an xbtool option (you reading this nghtshd

)

What I meant is - You can modify xboxdash.xbe to support 480p, but you can kiss your Live EEPROM goodbye if you do so.

That's not true - you just have 2 dash files making the naming the progressive one to something like pxboxdash.xbe and leave the original intact. Any settings changed in one are mirrored in the other just load the progressive one from Evox. This gives you a progressive xbox dash, cd, and dvd, player when you run it under your.

This appeals to two groups:

1) HDTV owners who like 480p (what's not to like) and don't want to watch all the squiggle from the transition between 480i and 480p when they change something in the dash.

2) People who use front projection systems that don't accept 480i through component cables (only 1080i, 720p, and 480p - don't knock it till you've tried Halo on a 90" screen). If these guys want to change a setting in their dash they have to turn off the xbox and attach a different video unit (RCA or Svideo) to their projectors and then switch back.

This is fairly relevant discussion on many high end audio/video boards where people have good equiptment and like to game using the Xbox. For the bios, group one doesn't like the shitty transition and group 2 can't see anything. Interestingly the ugly transition is still present when all animation and logos are disabled through XBTool, meaning that Xbox is still outputing a blank 480i signal.

I actually emailed the creator of XBTool the other day and he said he will take a look into it for future releases. There will be a lot of happy people the day we can check a box and redo our bioses in 480p.

smo · « **Reply #236 on:** October 29, 2003, 07:35:00 AM »

BIOS that wouldn't allow originals to run (so that you can't boot your original Xbox Live games by accident). This is only for people with easy mod disable function though.

NghtShd · « **Reply #237 on:** October 29, 2003, 12:13:00 PM »

QUOTE (smo @ Oct 29 2003, 11:35 AM)

BIOS that wouldn't allow originals to run (so that you can't boot your original Xbox Live games by accident). This is only for people with easy mod disable function though.

You already have that feature. Chage the DVD executable to something other than default.xbe.

xboxistheshiznit · « **Reply #238 on:** October 29, 2003, 12:56:00 PM »

how about somthing like IGR, but instead of reseting, it would shut the xbox off.

smo · « **Reply #239 on:** October 30, 2003, 12:31:00 AM »

QUOTE (NghtShd @ Oct 29 2003, 10:13 PM)

You already have that feature. Chage the DVD executable to something other than default.xbe.

Yeah and re-burn all my DVD-R backups? That'd be way too much work..

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