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Agent Orange

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« on: August 23, 2004, 02:37:00 AM »
I've been outta the game for a little while, so I missed a lot of the UDE development. I've been trying to follow as much as I can, but I still have a few Q's that haven't been answered through my searches (These are referring to LDOT'S installer):

1) Can anyone confirm that you can connect to live without getting banned by booting directly to a retail game?

2) If I were to use dfferent bioses, what would the boot sequence need to be?

3) Can anyone confirm that UDE 2 now has full functionality on 1.6 boxes?

4) Does the MS Dash option work for you, or did I miss something? I was under the impression that it included a hexed .xbe accessible via your dashboard....

I think that's about it for now.

Thanks in advance.

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krayzie

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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2004, 02:41:00 AM »
1: yes as long as you have the newest dash and a working live acount

2: whatever you want it to be. I think c:\evoxdash.xbe is the most used one

3: yes

4: yes

5: uhh no 5..
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Gavstar

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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2004, 03:38:00 AM »
^^^ what krayzie said ^^^

and a little bit more on 4)

To use the original dash, you need unadulterated fonts. If you had these in the standard place then the update.xbe that actually boots will find them, resulting in no hack!

Thus the msdash has to be hexed to look for the original fonts either in a different location (normally c:\f0nts\) or with a different extension (.bak or .xft). Then it can be launched from your dash of choice :)
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Agent Orange

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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2004, 11:01:00 AM »
Ok, thanks for the replies so far.

I'm still working through what the exact process of the memcard installer is. My screen is always garbled ater I select my install options, which is strange, because I have a 1.0/1.1 box.

Anyway, as far as the MS dash. I can easily Hex an .xbe to look for the fonts, but is that an easy way to have the memcard installer install it as part of the process? The other memcard installers I've used are usually using evoX commands, but this one is based on linux, so editing it isn't quite as easy...

TIA, guys.

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Agent Orange

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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2004, 01:11:00 PM »
I'm not sure if I made this clear before, but I am referring to LDOT's installer in all these questions, and I was just thinking about it some more...

I'm not sure I really understand the dual boot mechanism.... is this just in case you corrupt your original dash?

I was thinking it might be more functional to have the MSdash instead of a second dash, this way you have the option to boot directly to either MSdash, or EvoX/MXM.

Can anyone forsee any major problems with using this method? I like to make the MSdash easily accessible to use the remote when playing DVD's, and to be able to edit settings.

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krayzie

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« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2004, 01:43:00 PM »
Yeah you weren't clear on the installer part. It's not like the installer IS the UDE. It just installs it. You can replace the ltools which it boots to with drive open to any xbe you want so also the msdashboard. I think ldots indeed intended it as the use for a safety backdoor incase something went wrong.
If you go around taking a new bios for this package I thought it would boot to e:/dashboard/default.xbe
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Agent Orange

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« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2004, 02:15:00 PM »
Yeah, I found the dashboard folder.

As far as the "backdoor", I can't really see an instance where it would be necessary. If you really screw up your dash, you can always use the gamesave to fix it.

I can, however see the functionality of being able to re-set your clock via the MS dash, if you know it's been unplugged for a few hours...

Maybe I'm a little too trusting of the software, but I've been using the catfish fonts since dec-jan with no problems, so I assume these are also pretty much unbreakable

As far as 1.6 boxes, as of yet I haven't tried one. If I'm reading the thread correctly, is it true that you will have garbled video output all the time? or is this just with the X2 bios?
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krayzie

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« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2004, 02:26:00 PM »
as for now the evox m8 bios is the only bios that supports the xcalibur video chip. I dunno if this is the scrambling you refer to or what some people are experiencing. And yes if you own one of the games you would have the safest backdoor allready and you don't realy need the open traystate one. Just remember that you can't go live in the msdash as the exploit is still active.
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