Print

[RetRon]

jo thanks im using bernie ernd reloaded.
Zogger ur the man yet i have all 3 colors
thank u very much for all the help!!!

[RaidenThunder]

Hi all, thanks for all the posts everyone, this has helped me learn a lot in the past few days.
I have learned about signing, easy to do to be honest and doesn't take long.

I have one last problem that im not sure how to fix, when im in an evox application "emulator" I can switch between games fine, however when I exit an application to go to the main evox screen to choose another application I get error 21.  I have all the applications that I use signed. Anyone know why this happens?  I also signed the default.xbe

Im using bert and ernie standard as the other font hacks dont seem to work for me.

Thanks  

[RetRon]

here is it the same but i shit on it i can reboot my xbox so its doesnt seem to be a big problem:)

[Zogger]

The emulator should work fine when you switch between games because technically you're still within the same program. It just launches different roms to change the state of the program, but you're still in the same program.

If you mean that your emulator/program can relaunch different xbe's (which is possible) it might be the way that programs handle launching versus exiting.

I ran into the same problem when testing out gamesave exploits (when I was in boxplorer, I'd hit the black button to go back to EvoX, but I'd get kicked to an error 21). Using boxplorer to manually launch the app would work fine though.

At first, I was thinking it might be that the programs are either hard-coded, or by default there's some call to C:\evoxdash.xbe or C:\xboxdash.xbe ... I don't think this is true though, as I tried habibi signing both then doing some file renaming while in boxplorer to see if it would work... I admit I'm a little sleepy at the moment but that didn't seem to help. I also tried seeing if maybe the original MS signature is somehow restored (so I made copies of xboxdash.xbe renamed and copied in boxplorer), but that didn't seem to work either.

At any rate, habibi/font signing your xboxdash.xbe is a bad thing to do anyway (in a softmodder's point of view... so kids don't try this at home    ). I don't know of a workaround for this (although I have to admit I haven't spent that much time dwelling on the problem... I'm actually a chipper who likes messing with exploits   yeah, I'm a nut)

- ZoGger

PS. I figure I should stop there before I start theorizing more technical reasons, as they probably are as valuable and true as the droppings of a flying elephant... so yeah   ... if anyone out there does know of a workaround, I'm curious about your findings... I'm sure it's something simple my primitive brain can't seem to piece together.

[ourreality]

I had the 5101 kernel and 5659 dash and managed to downgrade the dash to 4920.  None of the numerous versions the 007, mech or font exploits work on either the 5659 or 4920 dash under the 5101 kernel.

As soon it begins to launch either 007 or mech dvd with the hacked game saves in the udata directory it returns to the dash and displays a box "Your xbox requires service..." Removing the hacked save games returns the xbox to normal.

With any of the font exploits installed it goes into a loop, rebooting just before the dash loads. FYI pulling the IDE cable out as soon as the little white "MS" is displayed while booting will break the loop and allow the HDD swap trick again. I am using linux to read/write to the xbox HDD.

If I am reading right, someone here with the 5101 kernel got a soft mod to work. I would really appreciate it (along with many others I am sure) I it was clarified a bit more as to what exploit was successful and with what dash.

[Zogger]

ourreality,

As indicated the first post, RaidenThunder has the same specs as your XBOX.

RaidenThunder's Specs
K: 5105
D: 5659 -> 4920

He was using Mad Gouki's Tutorial to first get EvoX onto his XBOX, but was having trouble booting into EvoX via the font exploit. After instructing him to downgrade his dash, he was able to boot into EvoX. I don't know which font set he was using (it could have been the one from Mad Gouki's package), so he'll have to answer that one for you.

--Mad Gouki's Tutorial--
http://www.freexevox...reeservers.com/


I also helped another guy with the same specs who used the Reloaded fonts (as have quite a few others who joined in on the various threads I was on).

s0uthp4rk's Specs
K: 5105
D: 4920

That thread is here: http://forums.xbox-s...4&t=156437&st=0

- ZoGger

PS. I'm in a bit of a rush at the moment, so I can't post much more than that at the moment. Yes, it is possible to softmod a 5105 kernel (they and quite a bit of other softmodders have that kernel). Check to see if your dash upgrade was successful (sometimes a bad extraction can lead to missing files), check to see your time is set (fonts can cause reboot loops when it isn't set), and which edition of MA/007 discs are you using.

[RaidenThunder]

I followed Zoggers adivice and eventually got it all to work.

First downgrade your Dash, (make a backup of your Xbox C Drive). (fourth post down)

http://forums.xbox-s...&t=86133&st=765

Then I insalled [XTF]Bigfonts to get rid of the red flashing LED.

http://www.xbox-scen...p?page=exploits

Next I did some Hex editing

http://freexevoxtut.....com/index2.htm

Now It all works fine appart from some minor annoyances.

[ourreality]

I have previously read most all the threads posted but as I said, Bigfonts will not work on my 5101/4920 box. My box simply goes into a loop, rebooting just before the dash loads. I have placed a signed default.xbe (evox or PBL) in the c: .

The time is set OK because after removing the bigfonts the xbox will load the 4920 dash fine and not prompt for the time. I do not get any error 21s or red flashing LEDs. I don't see the need to hex edit the xbe because that seems to be only for loading the ms dash from evox. But I may not understand this correctly and it may be leading to my problems.

The save game exploits are simply for getting evox up so I can ftp the files into C but I can do that using linux already so I not really concerned about that issue.

I will try everything from scratch once again to be sure I'm not missing anything.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will post my final results.

[ourreality]

Starting from a fresh backup and using the dash from Slayers CD as instructed I now get the same error 21 RaidenThunder got.
If I copy the save games over (either 007AUF or MECH) and boot with either game in I get error 21 again.

How exactly did you get past the error 21?

[Zogger]

ourreality,

A common problem I've found that people run into when downgrading is the tool they use to extract the files from the Slayers ISO. More often than not, if they try and extract the tools using another tool (I'd recommend using xdfsextract), files that had not been extracted the first time are found.

Try and see if using another tool to extract the files help, and if that still doesn't help it could be that the ISO you obtained is corrupt.

- ZoGger

[ourreality]

Thanks. I tried extracting the slayers ISO using xdfsextract and no difference. However, I am now back to a working 5101/4920 xbox from backups. Just cannot get any of the softmods working on it. If I even so much as copy the save game directories to the UDATA directory and insert the game CD it begins to load the game then kicks back to the dashboard with a box saying "Your xbox requires service" before ever seeing the games intro or loading screens. The save games do show properly when viewing them in the memory via the dashboard so I am copying them over correctly.

I am so stuck. I have done all this successfully with 2 older boxes but no luck at all with this newer xbox.

My goal with this box is to flash the TSOP using raincoat or evox so I just need to get one loaded and I'm done!