On to the last thing I was able to test,
StarCraft.
I should note that I'm running a 1.6 version Xbox with overscan issues. Obviously, you'll want to use the included fix from the Xdsl menu. There's a post here on the forums somewhere demonstrating how to get the perfect settings, butI can't find it right now.
Based on what I read from the other forum post here on getting StarCraft to run, they seemed to rely on an illegal no-cd crack to get it to work. Fortunately, this is no longer the case.
As of the official 1.15.2 patch, Blizzard enabled the ability to do this themselves. Download the last official patch 1.16.1
HERE, and read the 1.15.2 document subsection
HERE to see how to do a no disc install.
Pretty much all I did was install my discs to Windows, patch them to the latest, apply the no cd fix including the movies, and FTP them to my Xbox hdd. I imagine you could simply install the game under Wine if you want, but you'll find tutorials for that elsewhere on Google
(you'll need a very large loopback install).
Launch the game with Emelfm, or launch from the cli. Open a terminal in the directory Starcraft is installed in, and type the following.
CODE
wine StarCraft.exe
Well the results were mixed. You can use the mouse exclusively, so I closed the VK completely.
The game ran well ... slow, then okay, slow, then okay in a cyclic fashion
(even outside large battles). Most likely the data being written to, and from, the paging file. In this instance, there's probably a bit of an advantage to be had doing a native install, for a better experience. But... that's not an option for most people.
If I had had the chance, I would have tested by messing around with disabling portraits, the swapfile size, setting swappiness
(not sure if possible), and others...
What I originally wanted to do was remaster the live iso, remove unnecessarily features, include any legal stuff I had tested here, test more PC games like 'Fallout',
include the Linux espxe sans bios, find a way to allow a controller only setup, etc...
The method to
remaster Xdsl doesn't look too difficult, and using the packages from the repo
here as templates, I should have had no problem removing quite a few of the pre-installed apps in Xdsl.
What ended up happening was my only Linux compatible controller gave out. I'd been having left analog 'drift', it got way worse to the point of being unusable as a mouse. It then started rumbling randomly, and the last straw was an error message at boot.
Something along the lines of "Key combination for user content deletion detected". Sorry, but I'm done with Xbox Linux for now
This post has been edited by NobodyHere: Jun 22 2011, 02:50 AM