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Chicken Scratch Boy

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« Reply #30 on: September 23, 2004, 07:14:00 PM »
have you tried keeping all the hulk dash files?
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« Reply #31 on: September 23, 2004, 08:23:00 PM »
QUOTE (Kthulu @ Sep 24 2004, 02:32 AM)
well, i've grown so obsessed with this that i went to bestbuy after work to look for a lite-on burner so i can set the book type when i burn the disc.  i think i got a great deal.  a liteon 832s...it's a dual-layer burner! that will burn to -R or +R and it was only $90.

anyways, i got home installed it. downloaded the booktype.exe and set the book type for all DVD+R burned with it to be DVD-ROM.  i then burned another boot disc proto-type.  i checked the book type after burning and it was shown as DVD-ROM instead of DVD+R.  i call this disc4.

disc 1-3: when inserted into an already booted xbox, they all gave the invalid media error.  they also gave this error when booting with the disc in the drive.

disc 4:  UDF format on DVD+R media with book-type set to DVD-ROM...
when inserted into an already booted xbox, gave the dirty disc error.  when the xbox was booted with the disc in the dvd drive, it gave the Error 21 screen that is quite familiar to anyone that has accidentally deleted files off their C drive or botched a softmod job.

This leads me to believe that the xbox is actually booting the disc, but this magic xboxdash.xbe (renamed to default.xbe) is looking for a file that it cannot find.  i feel like this is a break-thru, but now i'm stumped as to what file it is looking for.  any ideas on how to find out?

Very interesting.

The error 21 even though bad, is much better than the invalid media error. I believe there might be some sort of disc check. Maybe the size of disc, or other missing files. What I don't understand is: "Why is it there?". Good question, why would they need a xboxdash folder?

I wonder...

Tearing the xbe apart should help solve this problem, I hope it's something that can be fixed, ill go out and buy a lite-on or plextor smile.gif

-devz3ro
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Chicken Scratch Boy

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« Reply #32 on: September 23, 2004, 08:32:00 PM »
rofl this is going to become a big thing tommarow i bet

see if can snag a copy of the hulk special edition and see what i can hack up...

i'll prolly be able to get a copy to boot, but i dont know about exploiting...
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« Reply #33 on: September 23, 2004, 08:33:00 PM »
sorry ... but what is all this talk about lite-on and this other type of DVD-burners .... are they like better or something.

tongue.gif

- the xbe n00b.
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« Reply #34 on: September 23, 2004, 08:40:00 PM »
did anyone hexed the xboxdash.xbe in xboxdash to check where it points to for fonts foldr?.. if anyone running UDE then it will boot with a error 21 since there is nothing in fonts folder. And where does it points for xboxdashdata.1012a700 folder. I mean they should be obviously points to root of dvd D:\xbodash\ folder. I dont have the disk myself otherwise I would try.
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« Reply #35 on: September 23, 2004, 08:40:00 PM »
QUOTE (JimmyGoon @ Sep 23 2004, 10:36 PM)
sorry ... but what is all this talk about lite-on and this other type of DVD-burners .... are they like better or something.

tongue.gif

- the xbe n00b.

they support bitsetting... which makes a dvd+r look like a dvd-rom to a player
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Chicken Scratch Boy

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« Reply #36 on: September 23, 2004, 08:51:00 PM »
doing this on a V-BOX is a given! rofl
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« Reply #37 on: September 23, 2004, 09:51:00 PM »
Okay, when the default.xbe (DemoXBE) is burnt to a disc with booktype set to DVD-ROM and placed in the drive before boot. The Demo runs no matter if the files are on the cache partitoin or not. However, when placed in the drive after the dashboard has been booted, and files in the cache it will not run. But if the cache files aren't present yet, It boots! So, now that we know the .xbe's are being launched, let's take a bit more of a look at this xboxdash.xbe. More info to come.....

Thanks to kthulu for doing all sorts of testing wink.gif
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« Reply #38 on: September 23, 2004, 10:17:00 PM »
(@rmenhal: please could you confirm for sure the HDD timestamp checked too eh. ph34r.gif)
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« Reply #39 on: September 23, 2004, 10:44:00 PM »
Okay, I've been comparing this XBE to that of other dashboard version's xbe files. First of all, it is NOT 4034 because it does look within a /fonts/ folder first for fonts. It is also closest in size to the 4920's xbe. Missing by a few KB in fact. I have tried launching this xbe along side a 4920 dashboard on /C/ with an error 21 on boot. The timestamp appears to be around 4920's time as well. However, from what I've noticed this seems to be a 'beta' dash almost. It looks like it came before 4920 but after 4034.
I'm not even sure how these files made their way on the disc. Quite interesting actually.
I will look into this much more.
4920 xboxdash.xbe - "d:\xboxret\private\ui\xapp\obj\i386\xboxdash_2002.exe"
HULK xboxdash.xbe - "d:\xbox-dx2\private\ui\xapp\obj\i386\xboxdash_2002.exe"

Anyone able to decipher the the abbreviations 'xboxret' and 'xbox-dx2' ?
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« Reply #40 on: September 23, 2004, 11:00:00 PM »
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Chicken Scratch Boy

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« Reply #41 on: September 23, 2004, 11:11:00 PM »
anger, have you tried checking teh dash's version?

in the "about" menu or whatever?
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« Reply #42 on: September 23, 2004, 11:14:00 PM »
That's the problem I can't get the sucker to launch. It's looking for files somewhere I don't have them placed. It's my guess that the dashdata folder needs be named differently then what 4920 has named it. However, this isn't hardcoed into the xbe file. I'm not sure how it knows which dashdata folder to look for. Anyone else have more info  on this?

I guess the upside would be we have booted the very first backup on an unmodified console. Chip maker's beware.  wink.gif
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Chicken Scratch Boy

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« Reply #43 on: September 23, 2004, 11:17:00 PM »
brute force it wink.gif

does it say in other dashes

maybe it can be extrapolate
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« Reply #44 on: September 23, 2004, 11:25:00 PM »
Nope none of the dashes seem to show teh complete dash data folder. The hex values look something like:

4920:
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\Device\Harddisk0\partition2\xboxdashdata.%08x..f.i.l.e.:...*...*

HULK -
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Device\Harddisk0\partition2\xboxdashdata.%08x..\Device\CdRom0\xboxdash.f.i.l.e.:...*...*


Anyone else notice it's trying to read the xboxdash folder on the HULK DVD?
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