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AusJazz

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Debug Vs. Dev Kit
« on: October 29, 2002, 06:22:00 AM »
I've been reading a lot of "retail becomes debug" posts and one thing is very apparent; I'm confused...

A Debug is a see-through green xbox which plays beta code and NOT retail code.
A Dev box is a white, fricken expensive, development box which plugs into your pc and is used to develop/create xbox debug code,... (or so I'm told)

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is can people make sure they don't confuse debug with dev.

Personally, I'm trying to get debug code and debug discs to work with evox 2.5 however no luck yet. I'm also getting very confused by people talking about Debug's and Dev's in the same sentence and not understanding the difference.

If anyone has gotten Debug code and discs working on matrix/xodus and in particular with evox 2.5 please let me know.                                    
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Darknight

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Debug Vs. Dev Kit
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2002, 01:50:00 PM »
You can't with a Matrix chip as far as I know. You need a bios that is based around an XDK bios which tends to be about 1 meg in size. The Matrix chip only has 256k of memory and thus won't fit an XDK bios. So you need like Complex 1.02 Debug or Complex 1.03 Debug, which are not to be confused with Complex 1.02 and Complex 1.03.

On the other hand, if you take the disc, and use it on a system that is using one of these XDK bioses, and then extract the contents, you can then burn them to a CDR/DVDR and your Matrix mod chip would read them just fine since Evo 2.5 will run both debug and retail code. The main issue is reading beta discs, not executing the code.                                    
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Cornholio

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Debug Vs. Dev Kit
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2002, 05:59:00 AM »
QUOTE (AusJazz @ Oct 29 2002, 01:15 PM)
A Debug is a see-through green xbox which plays beta code and NOT retail code.
A Dev box is a white, fricken expensive, development box which plugs into your pc and is used to develop/create xbox debug code,... (or so I'm told)

Incorrect.

They are both one and the same. The green box is a newer version, that's all. I know people who are (officially) dev'ing on the green box.

[EDIT]

Just to clarify, the only difference AFAIK is that the white box includes a SCSI connector for a DVD emulator. But as you can probably guess, there really is no need / point for a DVD emulator wink.gif
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