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[LTools]

QUOTE(jonels @ Nov 6 2005, 05:37 PM)

Don't hacked bios have no shadow c: ...surely thats got to be the absolute must especially considering the unstoppable momentum of the noob with the delete file option found in many dashes... not to mention a virtual eeprom, the protection for I must screw up my xbox at the earliest opportunity crowd with a nice spanky config magic application.

[xman954]

is the only difference between a debug and retail bios
the two XOR keys (kernal_thunk and entry_ point)
or is there more to it ?

[deadparrot]

Debug BIOSes look to e:\dashboard.xbx for the XBE to boot.  And have built-in FTP capabilities (well, I assume they do, as the xbox is single-threaded) for taking screenshots/videos, transferring debug code, etc.

I can only list features, seeing as I do not have the capabilities to actually dissasemble the BIOS itself.

[Horscht]

Allright, just installed this on my Xbox (Krazie's Ndure 1.0 of course), and it works flawlessly. Now the only thing left is to find a tut on how to make screenshots, but I didn't search, yet. I only noticed one thing. Now RoE (Reset on Eject from DVD launched xbes) seems to be (or rather definately is) disabled. Is this necessary, or can I just replace the current NKpatcher with a RoE enabled one? If I can, could you just post the cofig file you used so I can edit it to my needs?

Thanks in advance

Horscht

[Horscht]

Well, some sort of edit.

I got myself the XDK tools installed, and taling screeshots from DVD games seems to work fine. I also tried a few programs that were in the XDK launcher (Dolphin and playfield for example) and I also noticed that it has a remoteX entry (EvoX for those who don't know). I launched that and wanted to launch a game from HD. Well, the list is empty so I guess it wont read anygames from the F: drive. I am using a 1.6 xbox, therefore have the 1.6 BIOS installed. Is there some way to LBA48 patch the debug BIOS?

Thanks in advance, again

Horscht

[deadparrot]

[Horscht]

Nah, I am talking about RoE on the non XDK mode. That one still runs with NKP, right?

[deadparrot]

Just compile one that moves the shadow C to E:\shadowc.img

That's the only difference.

Regarding loading games from the HD:

I put UnleashX into the E:\devkit\samples\ folder so I can use that instead of EvoX, it only started recognizing the games on my F drive after replacing the Config.xml with a more up to date one.  It does appear to lock up whilst scrolling sometimes though...

[Horscht]

So, the bootpaths are

E:\Dashboard\default.xbe    when closed and

E:\Dashboard\altdash\default.xbe when opened, right?

that's all I need to set specificaly for it to work?


EDIT: i now know why it won't show my games on the F drive. It uses a .67 debug bios, but I need a .06 one. I'll search around for that, perhaps there is one in the usual place.

[deadparrot]

Exactly.  I don't have the .06/.67 problem, since my xbox only has an 80gb drive, which is fine for me, but didn't allow me to test out LBA48 stuff...

[th3flawl3ss1]

sounds cool, i just wish i knew how to get it

[pez2k]

Apologies for the bump, but is there any chance of getting a seed (or should I wait for v2.0 )?

[deadparrot]

I am working on version 2 currently.  This was just a basic package, v2 will include lots of features, such as:

Uninstall (I hope you don't need this, but it's usefull for upgrading)
Alt. Debug Dash
Alt. ShadowC location (E, F, or G)
and more...

Just to wet your appetite.

[Speil]

Wow. Deadparrot. Extreamly nice work. It runs Flawlessly on my Third Xbox. (Sig). Cant Wait for V2.

[deadparrot]

I just got around to checking out the later XDK releases (5849 and 5933) and realized that you may have problems installing them using v1.  I would not recommend using it to install anything but 4627 until v2.

v2 currently supports install and uninstall of 4627 and 5849.  5933 coming soon.

I may release a v1.5 to simply get 5849 and 5933 support out there, then add extras into v2.  I hope to have something out sometime next week.

Stay tuned for updates.