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[YoshiKool]

Damn...

[adil786]

QUOTE (rmenhal @ Jul 28 2004, 03:10 AM)

The multi-region idea doesn't work. MS checks that (region AND (region - 1)) is zero.

crap  

[eh.]

Yep that's a bummer; the genius minds seemed to have identified a huge opportunity there eh.

@Angerwound: thanks for putting the link to ldots scanner in the Tools post ... hopefully someone, somewhere find even more treasures with it.

@PedrosPad: might it be worthwhile the first post referring to the PC and/or Xbox HDD XBE scanners too?

[as1986]

QUOTE (chimpanzee @ Jul 28 2004, 01:14 AM)

no, please set it to 7 so we NTSC-J users can be benefitted too :-) However, just found out that running a game hack is not an easy task for NTSC-J, the three known exploitable games either don't have NTSC-J version or don't have the necessary game save :-( Would it be that simple though ? That would mean any Xbox can run all region original games by design.

Yes there are NTSC/J version exploitable games. the NTSC/J MechAssault is exploitable -- and they haven't bothered to patch it
but i haven't seen 007:AUF here(in Taiwan)
and i don't know whether the NTSC/J splinter cell is exploitable or not.

[farbird]

Great work..

but for NTSC J users , there will always be the fear of screwups which will not enable them to run the NTSCJ original MA after the region coding has been changed...

I am one of those unlucky twats.
[idiotic dumbass[myself] deleted e:\default.xbe accidentally]

and after I got it working for less than 10 mins..

Been punching myself since last week.

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

how do you delete somthing off a dvd?

please tell

[farbird]

haha..

ok the punching did many things to my brains and fingers..

actually is E:\default.xbe

already modified the original post.

[Chicken Scratch Boy]

you can ALWAYS import a pal/ntsc copy of MA

[farbird]

will a US NTSC MA allow me to boot ?

I mean, this UDE2 , will it look for d:\default.xbe first before it reads c:\xboxdash.xbe?

If so, I will be frantically looking for one..

[farbird]

tried booting ntscJ MA.. it still went on to error 21

[farbird]

anyone have a MA ntsc in SG?

[adil786]

QUOTE (farbird @ Jul 29 2004, 10:34 AM)

anyone have a MA ntsc in SG?

sg?

and try ebay m8

[farbird]

no have in sg..

sigh..

its a very expensive paperweight

[John Hoek]

FACTS:

I know that there are Xbox regio's
1 = ntsc
2 = ntsc j (if I'm right)
4 = Pal
0 = multiregion  

the bios is NOT regio hashed.


So, what about regio 3 or 5? those are not documented yet.  
Or OR ONLY the regios NTSC, NTSC-J and PAL together, (NOT REGION 0!)  
My believe is that this SCHOULD work well; see below...  
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If It look at the routine above closely; i can make this out of it  

I assume that:
0  AND 0 = 0
 0 AND 1 = 0
 1 AND 0 = 0
 1 AND 1 = 1

example A)
regio 4 = PAL = binary       00000100

BIOS checks; 00000100 AND (00000100 - 00000001) = 0? (correct)
 so this gives 00000100 AND 00000011  = 00000000 = 0 (correct, PAL box boot)


example
regio = 1 = NTSC = binary   00000001

BIOS checks; 00000001 AND (00000001 - 00000001) = 0?
 so this gives 00000001 AND 00000000 = 0 (correct, NTSC box boot)


example C)
regio = 0 = Multiregion = binary 00000000

BIOS checks; 00000000 AND (00000000 - 00000001) = 0?
 so this gives 00000000 AND 111111111 = 0 (CORRECT!, multi region box boot!)


So as i see it; it doesn't matter what the regioncode is; by using the extraction of 1 and the operator AND i get always 0 (correct), so the xbox must boot. So that's why i believe that above routine is NOT correct!So because of this reason, i can't know any reason WHY the xbox still seems to be non booting, if regiosetting = 0(all regions), EXCEPT:
As I see it, this can only be done with the bios testing;
  If the regiosetting <> 0 then ok -> boot
   ; else refuse and get XBOX to trashcan   .


So if my conclusion is CORRECT, it SHOULD be possible to boot ANY xbox, when the regiocode is set to ANY regiocode, EXCEPT 0.
(In this case I believe that regiosetting to 0 (zero) already was checked into the past, but till now, NO-ONE has confirmed this by real facts and also NO-ONE has tried to use other settings!! )

OR operandi means :
 0 XOR 0 = 0
 0 XOR 1 = 1
 1 XOR 0 = 1
 1 XOR 1 = 1

So this gives:
regio 1 NTSC = 00000001  OR  regio 4 PAL 00000100
 gives 00000101  (regio 5!!!!)

regio 1, 4 and 2 together gives
00000001 OR 00000100 OR 00000010  
 gives 00000111 (regio 7!)

regio 1 and 2 together gives
00000001 OR 00000010
 gives 00000011 (regio 3!)
"

CONCLUSION:

In my believe the XBOX must be boot well, if we set the region to 5 (PAL and NTSC), or 3 (NTSC and NTSC-J), or 7 (NTSC, NTSC-J and PAL), the xbox must boot well, and IS then made regionfree!

Also this numbers comply with above regiosettings. precicely 3, 5 and 7 are NOT used by XBOX normally, only 1, 2 or 4.
CAN ANYBODY WITH A MODCHIP CONFIRM THIS CONCLUSION!  

[BluhDeBluh]

You're confusing DVD Video regions with Xbox regions. What you've stated are various different DVD regions, which MS doesn't use as part of its copy protection. There are only 3 regions as far as the Xbox is concerned.

Plus, you got a couple of them wrong (R1 = US/Can, R2 = Europe (PAL)/Japan(NTSC), R3 = Asia, R4 = Australia, R5 = Russia, R6 = Other, R0 = Regionfree)