Topic: Hacking Xboxdash.xbe (and Relating Files) (Read 2608 times)

azninvasion · « **Reply #45 on:** June 20, 2003, 09:27:00 AM »

Is it also possible to replace the background music and menu sounds and such?

Heet · « **Reply #46 on:** June 20, 2003, 11:17:00 AM »

azninvasion · « **Reply #47 on:** June 20, 2003, 03:08:00 PM »

I took a look at the default.xip file and saw that the dvd.xap file contains scripts for detecting if a dvd-dongle is present or not, if this could be hacked, it would make it possible to use the xbox controller as a dvd-controller w/0 the presence of a dvd dongle.

Videogamebuyer14 · « **Reply #48 on:** June 20, 2003, 10:18:00 PM »

QUOTE (SupeRdUPErBlakE @ Jun 20 2003, 04:46 PM)

Whats IDA? Is it free or I need to get it in 'the usual places"?

Indeed.

XBOX War3z · « **Reply #49 on:** June 21, 2003, 12:05:00 AM »

Tried to disable XIP Protection but there is no aXipFileProtect or even aFileModifiedOr only found aXIPS

XBOX War3z · « **Reply #50 on:** June 20, 2003, 11:57:00 PM »

QUOTE (azninvasion @ Jun 20 2003, 11:32 PM)

I took a look at the default.xip file and saw that the dvd.xap file contains scripts for detecting if a dvd-dongle is present or not, if this could be hacked, it would make it possible to use the xbox controller as a dvd-controller w/0 the presence of a dvd dongle.

in default.xip/dvd.xap

QUOTE

function CheckForRemote()
{
if (bRemoteInserted != 1)
{
theDVDPlayer.pause();
PromptForRemote();
}
}

if we just remove so it becomes

QUOTE

function CheckForRemote()
{
}

and also at

QUOTE

function OnNoDongle()
{
BlockUser("NoDongle");
theDVDPlayer.visible = false;
}

to just

QUOTE

function OnNoDongle()
{
}

every time the chapter or title changes it checks for the remote

there is also a function

QUOTE

function OnRemoveRemote()
{
bRemoteInserted = 0;
oldPlaybackMode = theDVDPlayer.playbackMode;
if (theDVDPlayer.isUOPValid(1<<19)) // UOP_PAUSE_ON
theDVDPlayer.pause();
else if(oldPlaybackMode != 0) // DPM_STOPPED
{
theDVDPlayer.stop();
SetStatusText("");
}
theErrorText.text = "";
PromptForRemote();
}

woudl become

QUOTE

function OnRemoveRemote()
{

}

then we need to add the controller part to the file
ADD

QUOTE

DEF theMessageJoystick Joystick
{
function OnADown()
{
//eg A Button=Play
bRemoteInserted = 1;
OnPlay();
}

function OnBDown()
{
}

function OnMoveLeft()
{
}

function OnMoveRight()
{
}

function OnMoveUp()
{
}

function OnMoveDown()
{
}
}

this should allow you to play an dvd with no dongle, need to add functions to other buttons
couldn't test it so just in theory

BenJeremy · « **Reply #51 on:** June 21, 2003, 06:21:00 AM »

Wow... great stuff.

I can't wait to hear how you guys progress on this one!

Voltaic · « **Reply #52 on:** June 21, 2003, 09:07:00 AM »

Nice seeing ppl looking into this. I'll be back hom in a few days, I'm currently Away From Computer by 1,000KM.

-Volt.

IrnBru · « **Reply #53 on:** June 21, 2003, 09:55:00 AM »

I took a look at the DVD a few days ago, you could proberly just do:

In the OnRemoveRemote() function

bRemoteInserted = 1;

and remove the rest.

And most of the controller based control is already in, eg. White or something is the display menu, anyway there's a variable that's set to False, we'd need to change to True, then we should have our No Dongle DVD Player, unfortunately I can't test, as I don't have a modded XBox and XBoxDash (even when re-signed) won't run using the 007 Hack.

[EDIT]
As said in XBOX War3z's post code would need to be removed from

function OnNoDongle()

and we could proberly do it with
function OnXboxDVDRegionViolation()
function OnDiscDVDRegionViolation()
function OnParentalLevelViolation()

to disable these errors.
[/EDIT]

Cya
IB

vulgusprofanum · « **Reply #54 on:** June 21, 2003, 01:25:00 PM »

QUOTE

Tried to disable XIP Protection but there is no aXipFileProtect or even aFileModifiedOr only found aXIPS

Same here, but I just figured I was incompetent.

xobxer · « **Reply #55 on:** June 22, 2003, 09:17:00 AM »

nice work voltaic.

vulgusprofanum · « **Reply #56 on:** June 23, 2003, 01:25:00 PM »

Does anyone know of a better xbx converter/editor? The only one I know of is by the ozxchip guys, and was made specifically for save game images. It only supports jpeg files, icon sizes, and no transparency. When I replace a texture with an .xbx from this, it ends up looking like crap. I would love to see a png<->xbx converter with no limit on size or aspect.

qwenky · « **Reply #57 on:** June 23, 2003, 02:34:00 PM »

Is there a way to remove or stall the checking of the dvd rom for a game?

vulgusprofanum · « **Reply #58 on:** June 23, 2003, 05:01:00 PM »

QUOTE (qwenky @ Jun 23 2003, 09:58 PM)

Is there a way to remove or stall the checking of the dvd rom for a game?

It's in the bios. A tutorial to disable the check is here.

Gobelet · « **Reply #59 on:** June 24, 2003, 03:14:00 PM »

I don't think that hacking the dongle protection would be not possible, since I saw then trying to hack the dashboard in IDA I saw aDvdDongleImage, aDvdInvalidHead, aDvdInvalidIm_0, aDvdInvalidImag, aDvdInvalidHead, aDvdInvalidSect, etc...

I think that the protection is bundled into the xbe.

But since I don't know anything about ASM or anything like that, I couldn't tell if the protection is relly bundled or if it's just something else.

But it look like it checks the dongle ROM size...

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