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violent_bong

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« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2004, 01:16:00 PM »
biggrin.gif I will be back with results in a bit..
Btw: Awsome job Tomilius, this is stunning beerchug.gif
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« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2004, 01:40:00 PM »
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I just replaced my PBL with this and I must say the change in boot time and the removal of the scrambled screen (focus chip) is very nice.  There's not too much I can report on for compatibility, as I'm using the standard audio and video cable.  However, there are a couple of things I'd like to mention.  First, small an issue as this may be, it would be nice to have a switch for the LED.  It seems as though FBL overrides any BIOS settings there are and forces an orange led.  The only reason I'd really like the default here is that sometimes having the flashing green indicator is nice (why doesn't that work with red and orange?).  Second, I tried using FBL with a bios file and without a bios file.  When using without a bios file, for some reason the Evox In-Game-Reset does not work.  I'm not sure if this is a problem or if that option was only available with an Evox+BFM Media combination.  One other thing thats probably not even worth attention, is that booting without a BIOS does some strange things on display during boot.  It appears to display text (even with 'HideText true') very quickly and then scramble it.  It then displays Evox with the X logo fading out on top of it (FadeOut false).  This is seemingly insignificant.

Again, this loader looks to be GREAT!

Thank you Tomilius  beerchug.gif
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Tomilius

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« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2004, 01:44:00 PM »
    1) The LedSequence line in the configuration is optional. You may remove it... and by the way, if you want the LED to blink at some point during the sequence, just use a character other than "r," "g," or "o." For example, "gg--" would cause blinking similar to the blinking that occurs as the tray is ejecting.
    2) Okay... maybe, but I'm not familiar with EvoX's IGR at all, and certainly haven't done anything to disrupt it on purpose...
    3) Ah. Okay. I think I've figured it out. You have "SaveFB false" don't you? Simply make it "true." I know this doesn't leave you with the option of having a black screen, but tell me if that solves the problem.
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« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2004, 01:49:00 PM »
biggrin.gif good work! and I hope you can get PBL running on a higher kernel, that would be amazing!
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Tomilius

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« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2004, 02:39:00 PM »
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ml2

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« Reply #20 on: July 07, 2004, 03:05:00 PM »
Status indicator for loading discs.  It typically flashes until a disc is "recognized."
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Tomilius

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« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2004, 04:34:00 PM »
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EDIT: Simple and solved.
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« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2004, 05:32:00 PM »
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edit: hmm i cant seem to open the tar.bz2 i have tried using winzip, izarc, and winrar. i have even tried to rename the file to a .zip extension. what am i missing. oh and by the way what did you use to make/compile this?? free-xdk?? open xdk?? m$ xdk??

edit 2: nevermind i used iceows. i am stupid.  cool.gif

edit 3: sorry big mistake there about garbled text. no its not garbled text just my TV fuzz.
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« Reply #23 on: July 07, 2004, 10:51:00 PM »
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Not tested it as yet but the NKPatcher integration is genius  beerchug.gif

Well done! Not bad for someone who was a noob less than a Month Ago!  biggrin.gif
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« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2004, 11:48:00 PM »
QUOTE (jonathan2007 @ Jul 8 2004, 02:32 AM)
and Ldots i would have used your package but i have an older TV and it displays garbled text instead of a blue/black screen when there is no video so i am going with FBL.

Could you please explain??? Do yo mean the PBL-Lite package or my UDE installer?
The PBL-Lite package has a "no-video" PBL so it couldn't possibly display any garbled text?
If you refer to the memcard UDE installer - get version 1.6. With this you can choose between the official PBL 1.4.1, nkpatcher and PBL-Lite. Using PBL-Lite you should have no text-output and no screen corruption.
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« Reply #25 on: July 08, 2004, 12:41:00 AM »
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But jonathan said he saw garbled text, which means he couldn't be using PBL-Lite. I disabled all text-output.
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« Reply #26 on: July 08, 2004, 05:23:00 AM »
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« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2004, 06:08:00 AM »
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« Reply #28 on: July 08, 2004, 09:37:00 AM »
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oh by the way, forgot to mention... good job!
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Tomilius

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« Reply #29 on: July 08, 2004, 02:35:00 PM »
QUOTE (ml2 @ Jul 8 2004, 07:44 PM)
Nice update.  All the previously mentioned bugs are gone.  smile.gif

As a suggestion/question, how difficult would it be to implement a fanspeed option in the config (fanspeed  30)?

Modchips.... BAH!  laugh.gif

Hopefully, but so far it's proving to be a nightmare. The BIOS doesn't want to load if the fan speed has been modified...

EDIT: Which doesn't matter anyway, since you can always get a BIOS which sets one. The fan speed will be able to be set in the next version, but will not be set when you're loading a BIOS.
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