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[DaddyJ]

I have been doing some hardware testing on this, but havent found anything that would matter at this point.

[garyopa]

Only one program knows how to disable this HARDWARE flag. It is the XBOX Music Maker DVD, but NO gamesave HACK has been found for this certain disc.

I wish we could find the hardware signal on the mainboard for this ROE problem,
maybe it could be solve by "cutting" the trace or installing a switch. I know, a
little worse than software solution, but a possible solution.

[cmiz]

well the music maker is able to do it through software....so one would assume it would be possible to do mimic that. i'm sure it wouldn't be easy however. i think it would be an interesting topic to look into and if people figured it out it would be incredibly useful....but i wouldn't be suprised at all if no advancements were made. as for atomix, yeah, it's frustrating...but as of yet, ROE is untouchable with gamesave exploits.

[eh.]

QUOTE(atomiX @ Jan 27 2005, 10:46 PM)

i don't think music mixer removes the ROE flag that is the problem with gamesaves...i think it just doesn't set the flag in the first place. (i'm guessing its ROE flag is probably 8 and not 0 so it doesn't get enabled at all)

You are entirely correct; the 8 in the 0x80000002 below tells the kernel "don't enable reset on eject" eh:

CODE

*Default.xbe*
Certificate
~~~~~~~~~~~
Size of certificate                 : 0x000001EC
Certificate timestamp               : 0x3F3D58D6 Fri Aug 15 18:04:06 2003
Title ID                            : 0x4D53005A
Title name                          : "Xbox Music Mixer"
Alternate title ID's                : 0xfffe0000
Allowed media types                 : 0x80000002
                                     : XBE_MEDIA_XBOX_DVD
Allowed game regions                : 0x00000001
                                     : XBE_REGION_US_CANADA
Allowed game rating                 : 0x00000004
Disk number                         : 0x00000000
Version                             : 0x00000004

Edit: and if it was already enabled it would remain enabled, alas eh!

[eh.]

QUOTE(garyopa @ Jan 27 2005, 09:59 PM - part)

Only one program knows how to disable this HARDWARE flag. It is the XBOX Music Maker DVD, but NO gamesave HACK has been found for this certain disc.

(There are a few others, but hardly any that's for sure [and none of them disable ROE/J] eh.)

[garyopa]

Can't someone disassembly the MS kernal section where it checks these
flags, and study the assembly code used to SET the "ROE" feature, and
then from the actual code doing the "flag setting", figure out the "port"
the kernal is writting to, and then write test code in trying to "rewrite"
this port.

[DaddyJ]

[cmiz]

yes garyopa...somebody could disassemble the kernel and check for where it's getting flagged....somebody could also crack MS's private key so that modding wouldn't even be necessary....is it going to actually happen? not in our lifetimes....but it could happen. (it's way too complicated to make it feasible)

[DJB]

Any progress on this issue at all?

From the reading I've post of this post it seems like it's came to a dead end, but it would be interesting to know if something has been found.

I apologise in advance if there's newer posts etc but I DID use the Search to find this one.

TIA