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[Serebrus]

I will try setting it to master next thanks

One question though, I am trying to use that error 12 thing, I unplugged the DVD drive's IDE cable and powered on the Xbox, the "Your Xbox requires service, Please call Xbox Customer Support" message pops up, but afterwards when I try the swap trick, the HDD still seems locked.

[LESTAT]

the hard drive being locked or unlocked has nothing to do with the dvd being plugged in ..  

try this ,, power on the xbox with a game in it,,,   wait until you think that the game would probably be at the menu,, or time it while the box is hooked to your tv ..   ok   now when that time arrives,, swap the drive,, supposedly the drive is suposed to be unlocked.
for me it has NEVER mattered if i wait 2 sec or 2 hours ,, it unlocks when ever it feels like it,, and im talking about pausing the pc after the POST screen during POST and prior to post.

the way its reacting,, as i stated earlier  there MUST be a very small window of time from when you unhok it to when you hook it back up .. i also think the the locking procedure is surrounding the hard drive firmware, but i maybe wrong,, which means theoretically that its unlocked almost instantly when the xbox is powered on,, and the if the drive senses or is electronically told that something is wrong,, it locks itself again...  but there arte times when if disconnected at the proper time,, and hooked up to your pc,, it should remain unlocked.  its that small window from when it stops recieving an electronic signal when you unhook it until it recieves a signal again.,...  

other than that.. i keep saying this and none of the guys who have made this work will reply here anymore.. but i am getting the itchy feeling that this will ONLY work with certain xbox's running certain bios's   if they dont,, well it aint gunna work.
and since i know of NO way to flash your xbox bios with possibly a newer one,, well...  you get the idea.

all in all it was worth a shot.. but my chip should be here next week, im done taking risks,,, it took forever to be able to afford the chip,, i cant afford to replace an xbox cuz of some half ass'd hack that dont even work but for a small percentage of those who try it.

[Serebrus]

Hi Guys    Guess who got this to work


First, I had to rearrange the inside of my computer :/ I did this for safety I suppose, I made my HDD and CDrom Master and Slave on IDE1 channel
I switched the drive from Cable Select to Master
I unplugged the IDE from the DVD drive of the Xbox
I booted it on
I sung half of my favorite song ever ( Which Is Kelis - Get along with you )
I booted my computer and after about a second hit pause
I put the Xbox on the IDE2 cable, I was very very slow and careful, so time was NOT a factor. Matter of fact it took me about a minute between switching the cables because there was a gash on the plastic of the IDE cable and I wanted to see what caused it and if it would inhibit me from doing this. It didn't
pressed spacebar, windows booted normally for once, and HDD Driver recognized the Xbox! Hurrah!  

The ONLY problem I have is getting the damn driver.exe to work without crashing when I click on something on the left side. Darnit.

[olabri]

QUOTE (ragenb @ Aug 29 2003, 09:59 PM)

Have you signed all of the xbe files for the programs you're trying to run?  Otherwise they will keep giving you errors.  You can find the tool for signing xbe's in the downloads section.  It's called xbedump.

If the programs i try to run is compiled with the xbox dev kit, why should there be a need to sign them? And why does my original dashboard fault as well, that should already be properly signed (my guess to the latter is that since the fonts it tries to run is bert and ernie, but still.)

I dont dare edit the original dahsfile because i don't date to hotswap HD another time.

but ill check on signing, and try it.


[edit]

This is a windows version of xbedump i slightly modified to recalculate the xbe signature of any xbe file to use with the dayX font exploit.

This is the only version i found, hope it work for my box that uses the bernt & ernie exploit

[olabri]

QUOTE (Serebrus @ Aug 29 2003, 10:03 PM)

Perhaps doing the switching faster would solve things, but the problem is that that gives me a window of less than 3 seconds to switch IDE cables. Wow.

my pc bios is old and i didn't have the "pause" function, what i did was to go in setup and set memory to do a parity/ecc check,  that way i had quite good time while it checked memory.

attaching it before it was turned on made it lock again.

a good check (at least for my pc) to see if the drive is unlocked, is that the XP progress bar stopped for a second or so after doing the first round. with unlocked HD it went on and on for a LOOONG time.

[olabri]

QUOTE (Serebrus @ Aug 30 2003, 08:33 AM)

The ONLY problem I have is getting the damn driver.exe to work without crashing when I click on something on the left side. Darnit.

right  pane of HDD-driver does NOT work at all. so the only way to operate is to ONLY use right-clicks on the left pane, that way it wont try to load the right pane.


furthermore it always chrashes when you rename something, but with patience and lots of restarts it should work.

maybe if the author of it dont care to continue developing it, he can release the code, so we can fix the bugs?

[Serebrus]

damn, how am I supposed to move this directory to My xbox then? this pisses me off to no end

[LESTAT]

go grqab Fat X-Plorer  it allows to to create directories  add delete files and it dont crash like hd driver.

hd driver is ONLY good for restoring and saving your hard drive image.
Fat X-Plorer will also allow you to read the saved image you have..,  so if you made multiple copies of your original back up image you can then simple load your image   and then add all the files that way , and then use hd driver and restore the image.

in order for hd driver to NOT give you all the errors when clicking in the left window,, you MUST click the plus signs next to the directories.  never simply LEFT click or it will error every time, then right click the file you want to rename or delete


again Fat X-Plorer for errorless adding removing of files and folders, and reading of back up images

hd driver for renaming files and restoring back up images or making a back up.



and you got it to work,,, dont sound like it,, all you did was unlock the drive... thats only asmall portion of the battle,,, now rename your fonts and load in the bert and ernie and default.xbe   and then load it back to your xbox,,,, , that will tell you if you got it to work.

im tempted to try the audio hack and see if that works but frankly i already pulled the end off one of my 80 pin ide cables and destroyed it when swapping,,, i dont need to ruin another.. so screw it.

[Serebrus]

I cant be bothered with that bert and ernie crap. I left that all behind with Sesame Street No offense anyone.

FatXplorer just opens and exits as soon as it detects my drive. I actualy used Fat-X-Plorer before HDD driver

[LESTAT]

HOLY SHIT!!!
its friggin working!!!
OMFG i dont friggin believe it!!!

ok but i got problems.... probably minor and something that i am missing or misunderstanding..

1)
Play DVD Game  makes the dashboard switch to "Your system needs Serviced"   with a DVD-R game,, 2 games to be exact. and also the slayers Auto installer disk
Im going to burn a CDr-W game and see what happens.
but is there something i need to do,, or does this hack NOT allow burnt games to be played.

2)
When FTP;ing to my xbox, which is ALOT SLOWER than the XBOX Shell extensions with the XDK tools.
The D drive is a Mirror of my C drive.  i thought the D drive was the DVD. ??!?!

3)
NONE of the drives listed show my dvd or anything in the dvd drive.  WHY?


what am i doing wrong fellas ?? im so flippin stoked i got it working but i cant do anything but FTP ..  
WHY


***UPDATE

ok transfered over a few games to the hard drive. and an app
NOTHING WORKS!!!
all it does is either pull the dvd tray in and search for a disk ,, or if the tray is in already it searches for a disk,, and then goes back to the "System needs serviced" screen.

i did a bit of searching and found that EACH default.xbe file needs to be patched with the XBE patcher so it DOES NOT search for media when starting the game..
well i did that,, and still nothing...

HDD loader dont work(ON the xbox),,,Games dont work.  nothing works... play games dont work......    and you cant play copied games i assume,, infact
CAN ANYONE SAY THEY ARE ACTUALLY PLAYING GAMES OFF THE HARD DRIVE WITH THIS MOD??

and if so did you have to patch the default.xbe of every game ,, and if so WHICH xbe patcher did you use ?

[LESTAT]

***UPDATE #2
ok added a few more apps,, and tried a few more games  without patching the default.xbe file.. and still all it does is go to the System needs serviced screen

this OBVIOUSLY is something that is the fault of the exploit,, if EVERY SINGLE GAME APP AND EMU i try does nothing but go to the error screen.... then its pretty obvious something is missing in the exploit,, or once again something is missing from the tutorial.

is the pheonix loader exploit also needed???


all i can do is FTP, and click thru the Evox menu.  nothing else is possible it ALWAYS crashes.
the exploit is attempting to use somefile that is wrong or bad,,, now which one it is ??,,, i have no clue.,. but is ANYBODY has actually gotten this to work so they can play games and apps,, id VERY MUCH appreciate a reply including what else they added to the hard drive to make it work.

[kevinlekiller]

QUOTE (LESTAT @ Aug 31 2003, 06:50 PM)

CAN ANYONE SAY THEY ARE ACTUALLY PLAYING GAMES OFF THE HARD DRIVE WITH THIS MOD??

I am playing games off my hd fine.

1st- You need to put apps in ; e:apps ; Lets say its xbmp, you put it in e:appsxbmp .

Your problem is with games so, e:games . Than you have to edit evox.ini . Edit evox.ini in your ftp program.

Where it says games replace it with this (game names are examples, so change for whatever name you want them) :

Section "Games"
{
Item "Nascar Thunder 2002","e:gamesnascarthunder2002default.xbe"
Item "Test Drive Off Road Wide Open","e:gamestest drivedefault.xbe"
SortAll
}

Than for every game you have, you have to xbedump them il tell you how.

1- Open dos prompt under windows (in windows xp, start, run , write cmd press enter)
2- Now you need xbedump extracted to c: . (write cd in the dos prompt if you are in a folder other than the root c:)
3- Take the default.xbe of the game you want, put it in c: .
4- In the dos window write : xbedump default.xbe -font
5- Delete the default.xbe in your c: directory, and than rename out.xbe to default.xbe.
6- FTP the default.xbe to the folder of the game.

I think you have to xbedump the files only if you have bigfonts. Because it gives error 21 if you try to start the game or program because thy are not signed. But there are some other fonts that you dont need to do this.

If you have any other problems ask me i can help you solve them.

[LESTAT]

ok hows this look?

Section  "Launch Menu"
   {
Section "Games"
      {
#         Item "Invaders","f:gamesinvadersdefault.xbe"
         Item "Capcom vs SNK 2","e:GamesCvsS 2default.xbe
         Item "ATV Power Quad 2","e:GamesATVPQ2default.xbe
         Line "- Auto Items -",2
         SortStart
         AutoAddItem "f:games"
         AutoAddItem "e:games"
         AutoAddItem "f:HDDloader"
         AutoAddItem "e:HDDloader"
         SortAll
         SortEnd
#         
      }
Section "Apps"
      {
         SortStart
#         Item "DVDX","f:Appsdvdxdefault.xbe"
         Item "DVDX2","e:Appsdvdx2default.xbe"
         Item "HDD Loader","e:AppsHDD Loaderdefault.xbe"
         Item "Config Magic","e:Appsconfigmagicdefault.xbe"
         Item "Boxplorer","e:Appsboxplorerdefault.xbe"
         SortAll
         AutoAddItem "f:apps"
         AutoAddItem "e:apps"
         SortEnd
      }
Section "Emus"
      {
         SortStart
#         Item "DVDX","f:Appsdvdxdefault.xbe"
         Item "Kawaks","e:EmusKawa-X 0.11default.xbe
         SortAll
         AutoAddItem "f:emus"
         AutoAddItem "e:emus"
         SortEnd
      }

[LESTAT]

i also knowtice that i have the standard fonts in the ROOT of my C drive and ALSO in my fonts folder,,, i know since bert and ernie are already working putting them in the ROOT of the C drive is probably going to fuck this up,, but,,, i have to ask..



if i put bert and ernie in the root of the c drive,, will this actually work ?

[LESTAT]

ok im trying to xbedump  but ive already done this,, i just didnt have the evoxini set up ,,, ok so the evox is set up,, now i just tried to sign the default,.xbe for ATV power quad 2 and this is what i got.

XBE Dumper 0.5-BETA Release
Using Font Keys
Magic XBEH value:      pass
Header Size:           fail
Image Base Address:    pass
Certificate Adress:    pass
Certificate Size  :    pass
Correcting Mediatypes and Regions
Section Address:       pass
Debug Address:         pass
Patch XOR Keys
Kernel Entry:          000CA76D  (KEY: A8FC57AB)
Kernel Thunk Table:    001ADDA0  (KEY: 5B6D40B6)
Section:  0 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  1 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  2 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  3 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  4 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  5 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  6 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  7 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  8 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section:  9 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section: 10 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section: 11 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Section: 12 Hash:      pass -> corrected
Correcting Signature:
2048 RSA Signature:    pass

File out.xbe created, verifying it ...

Magic XBEH value:      pass
Header Size:           fail
Image Base Address:    pass
Certificate Adress:    pass
Certificate Size  :    pass
Section Address:       pass
Debug Address:         pass
Kernel Entry:          000CA76D  (KEY: A8FC57AB)
Kernel Thunk Table:    001ADDA0  (KEY: 5B6D40B6)
Section:  0 Hash:      pass
Section:  1 Hash:      pass
Section:  2 Hash:      pass
Section:  3 Hash:      pass
Section:  4 Hash:      pass
Section:  5 Hash:      pass
Section:  6 Hash:      pass
Section:  7 Hash:      pass
Section:  8 Hash:      pass
Section:  9 Hash:      pass
Section: 10 Hash:      pass
Section: 11 Hash:      pass
Section: 12 Hash:      pass
2048 RSA Signature:    pass

XBE file integrity:    FALSE !!!!!!! FALSE !!!!!




the header size failed,, but why

and is this ok for header size to fail ,,..