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SniperKilla

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« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2003, 01:51:00 PM »
well i just put newest release on my hdd, video sound is cool, and the password works good, but there should be a button to switch between video sound and the music playing, cause if you have like 3 games all with sound thenm u wont be able to have the soundtrack play
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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2003, 02:27:00 PM »
QUOTE (SniperKilla @ Jan 13 2003, 04:51 PM)
well i just put newest release on my hdd, video sound is cool, and the password works good, but there should be a button to switch between video sound and the music playing, cause if you have like 3 games all with sound thenm u wont be able to have the soundtrack play

Gotcha.... I was thinking about that.

I'm running out of buttons though....  laugh.gif
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« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2003, 06:02:00 PM »
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we need a good source for wmv "trailers" of games, itspretty hard to find good ones
you can find a lot with google or on this site there a lot of some older games.(best is to test 1st on a rw i encountered a few who didnt wanned to play proper all messed up)

About the loading speed with Ghost Recon there are a few others out there who download very long before you can play.

Anyway didnt had the chance to try out the latest build of MXM Menu Maker yet but keep up the good work!!!!
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« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2003, 06:54:00 AM »
QUOTE (RDJ134 @ Jan 14 2003, 09:02 PM)
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we need a good source for wmv "trailers" of games, itspretty hard to find good ones
you can find a lot with google or on this site there a lot of some older games.(best is to test 1st on a rw i encountered a few who didnt wanned to play proper all messed up)

About the loading speed with Ghost Recon there are a few others out there who download very long before you can play.

Anyway didnt had the chance to try out the latest build of MXM Menu Maker yet but keep up the good work!!!!

I checked out some of the WMV files they had at that site, but it didn't like the format sad.gif I haven't tried them on an Xbox yet, though.

ATM, I'm cleaning up some things before enabling generic skins... the first thing hit was the music manager, which is about 90% done. hopefully it will eliminate any quirkiness in the song selections in the latest "Work-in-progress" for those with access.
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« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2003, 02:58:00 PM »
I am downloading some .mov video's to use in the screenshot area for the games in my menu, what settings work best for the .wmv file when i convert it to that format?  Also what is the easiest program to use to convert .mov files to .wmv   Thanks B
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« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2003, 04:35:00 PM »
QUOTE (hevnbnd @ Jan 16 2003, 05:58 PM)
I am downloading some .mov video's to use in the screenshot area for the games in my menu, what settings work best for the .wmv file when i convert it to that format?  Also what is the easiest program to use to convert .mov files to .wmv   Thanks B

Well, I'm not sure about trasncoding MOV to other formats. Try Adobe Premiere to get it to an AVI then use the WM8Tools to finish the job.
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2003, 04:39:00 PM »
QUOTE (kyokushin @ Jan 16 2003, 06:44 PM)
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Q: I don't like the title screen. Can you get rid of it?
A: Well, it's simple enough to give the title screen delay a value of '0'
to skip by it.

I did this but i am still getting a loading screen before the menu load up !!!! i set the delay to 0 see below

<Config>
<Main>
<DiscTitle>games</DiscTitle>
<DiscSubtitle>Collection</DiscSubtitle>
<Theme>1</Theme>
<TitleDelay>0</TitleDelay>
<SaverDelay>0</SaverDelay>
<MenuPath>E:\APPS\MXM2</MenuPath>
</Main>


What am i doing wrong ???? uhh.gif

That's not the "Title screen" - it's the MXM logo shown while loading.

As it's open source, feel free to change it. As long as I'm building it, the logo stays.  dry.gif

It was set up to be less intrusive, by fading to black before launching the "Title screen" (or when TitleDelay=0, the menu screen).

I may offer several different styles of it, but it's there for several reasons.

So the short answer is it isn't the title screen, therefore there is no option to remove it in the built binaries, but you are welcome to create your own version using the source code that is freely distributed.  biggrin.gif
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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2003, 06:01:00 PM »
QUOTE (kyokushin @ Jan 16 2003, 08:10 PM)
Quote from: BenJeremy,Jan 17 2003, 12:39 AM
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hevnbnd

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« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2003, 01:39:00 PM »
How do i test the menu that i made using MXM .9f without having to go through the trouble of burning it onto a dvd everytime.  I use DVD-RWs but it still takes so long.  Also, I keep running into a little problem where the MXM logo shoes up and does not go any father.  Here is my MXM.xml file
<Config>
<Main>
<DiscTitle>Football 2003</DiscTitle>
<DiscSubtitle>Sports</DiscSubtitle>
<ExitApp>c:\xboxdash.xbe</ExitApp>
</Main>
</Config>

and here is the MXM_Entry.xml that i have in each games directory:

<Config>
<Item>
<Title>Maccen 2003</Title>
<Description>EA Sports</Description>
</Item>
</Config>

I used a .wmv file for the MXM_ss.wmv Sorry that did not make a lot of since but you know what i mean.  Some help would be greatly appritiated. Thanks
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« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2003, 02:12:00 PM »
QUOTE (hevnbnd @ Jan 17 2003, 04:39 PM)
How do i test the menu that i made using MXM .9f without having to go through the trouble of burning it onto a dvd everytime.  I use DVD-RWs but it still takes so long.  Also, I keep running into a little problem where the MXM logo shoes up and does not go any father.  Here is my MXM.xml file
<Config>
<Main>
<DiscTitle>Football 2003</DiscTitle>
<DiscSubtitle>Sports</DiscSubtitle>
<ExitApp>c:\xboxdash.xbe</ExitApp>
</Main>
</Config>

and here is the MXM_Entry.xml that i have in each games directory:

<Config>
<Item>
<Title>Maccen 2003</Title>
<Description>EA Sports</Description>
</Item>
</Config>

I used a .wmv file for the MXM_ss.wmv Sorry that did not make a lot of since but you know what i mean.  Some help would be greatly appritiated. Thanks

Does it lock up stuck SHOWING the logo, or after it fades?

Have you modified the skin(s)?

The files you have should work fine.

Except for launching, you can recreate the directory structure on your HD and launch from Evo-X... you don't need the game (since you aren't testing the launch of the game, anyway), just the game directories, along with the MXM_Entry.xml, default.xbe and media file in each one. (default.xbe just allows the autoconfig to 'see' the entry is 'valid')

Is this a US Xbox? PAL?


Oh.... and one more thing. With 0.9f, you should be abvle to throw it in it's OWN directory and launch it with Evo-X. It should run with no skins or entries, giving you some gradient backgrounds and one or more items on the menu corresponding to your dashboards.
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« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2003, 04:07:00 PM »
Thanks for the quick reply!  It locks up showing the logo.  I have not modified the skins and i am using a us xbox.   Thanks for the help from running it from the hard drive.  I am going to guy buy some new dvd-rw media just for testing purposes.  I ordered a couple hundred dvd-r 4x riteks but i have not seen them yet.  I will keep you posted on my results.  Don't want to waste anybodys time and it be the media.  Thanks B
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« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2003, 02:12:00 AM »
Ok i am still trying to test my menus from the xbox i created a directoy called games on the e: partition of the xbox hard drive. here is what is in that directory:

\madden03
\nflblitz03
\ncaafootball03
default.xbe
MXM.be
MXM.xml

In each game's directory here is what they have:

default.xbe
MXM_Entry.xml
MXM_SS.wmv

Here is what my MXM.xml file says:

<Config>
<Main>
<DiscTitle>Football 2003</DiscTitle>
<DiscSubtitle>Sports</DiscSubtitle>
</Main>
</Config>

and here is what my MXM_Entry.xml file says:

<Config>
<Item>
<Title>Madden 2003</Title>
<Description>EA Sports</Description>
</Item>
</Config>

I also added the Media X to the evox.ini  When i go into evox and select Media X it brings up the media x logo and then fades out and back to the Evo dashboard.  It never brings up the menu with the three games what am i doing wrong?  Please help me.  Thanks B

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« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2003, 07:30:00 AM »
Try geting rid of the MXM_SS.wmv files.

The might be causing the system to crash... Did you see my tips in the General Chat forum? Every WMV file I've made using that has worked well.
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« Reply #28 on: January 18, 2003, 11:45:00 AM »
I took out the .wmv file and  the logo came up and then faded back to the dashboard. Any other ideas?  Is my .xml right cause i have never set up a menu to launch from the hard drive. B
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« Reply #29 on: January 18, 2003, 12:00:00 PM »
Ok got the menu to load from the hard drive i left the media and the default skin out.  I knew i should have gone to bed it was getting too late.  Thanks for your help now to see if the .wmv files will work.  God i hope so. B
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