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zac_haryy

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How To Make Pj64 And Ultrahle Read The Same Romdir
« on: June 17, 2003, 11:09:00 PM »
I have both UltraXLE and PJ64 on my xbox. I have all of my n64 roms in the PJ64/ROMS dir. How can i set UltraXLE to read the roms from the pj64/roms dir?

Also i was wondering where do all of my save states get saved on the xbox hdd? thanks


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farmerfred

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« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2003, 11:18:00 PM »
save states go somewhere in the e drive someone posted in a differnt thread exactly where, and as for the romdir thing the only thing i can think of is using xbmp as your dashboard
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« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2003, 11:28:00 PM »
QUOTE (zac_haryy @ Jun 18 2003, 08:02 AM)
I have both UltraXLE and PJ64 on my xbox. I have all of my n64 roms in the PJ64/ROMS dir. How can i set UltraXLE to read the roms from the pj64/roms dir?

Also i was wondering where do all of my save states get saved on the xbox hdd? thanks


-haryy

That is easy....  
first thing you gotta do is rename the ultraxle default.xbe to ultra.xbe then copy all the files to your project 64 directory except the rom and media folder. now open the ultraxle media folder and copy the background.jpg to project64 media folder. next step is to create a path for example

   Item "Play Nintendo 64 Games - Project64","f:appscpx-p64xdefault.xbe"
               Item "play Nintendo 64 games - Ultra64","f:appscpx-p64xultra.xbe"


   
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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2003, 11:44:00 PM »
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That is easy....
first thing you gotta do is rename the ultraxle default.xbe to ultra.xbe then copy all the files to your project 64 directory except the rom and media folder. now open the ultraxle media folder and copy the background.jpg to project64 media folder. next step is to create a path for example

Item "Play Nintendo 64 Games - Project64","f:appscpx-p64xdefault.xbe"
Item "play Nintendo 64 games - Ultra64","f:appscpx-p64xultra.xbe"


In theory, this always works.

However, since both games use a "default.xbe" launcher file, when you exit a rom it always looks for "default.xbe". If it is not found, it crashes to the dash. Or, if it is found, it opens it. So you could exit UltraXLE and have it start the default.xbe for PJ64X, or vica-versa. There is currently not a way around this.... I even tried having default.xbe be the evox default.xbe, but that got me nowhere in a hurry. (figured it would boot me back to a custom dash that only has these two emu's as options, but it wasn't working right!)

BUT:

Iriez mentioned that you can rename "UltraXLE.xbe" to "PJ64-daed.xbe" and use UltraXLE as a plugin from PJ64X. Haven't tried it yet, but I plan on it tomorrow. (Nobody uses this daedalus plugin in pj64 anyway, right?)

This post has been edited by feflicker: Jun 18 2003, 06:46 AM
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« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2003, 11:49:00 PM »
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the only thing i can think of is using xbmp as your dashboard


How would this help? Just curious...  :blink:  
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« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2003, 11:52:00 PM »
QUOTE (feflicker @ Jun 18 2003, 08:37 AM)
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That is easy....
first thing you gotta do is rename the ultraxle default.xbe to ultra.xbe then copy all the files to your project 64 directory except the rom and media folder. now open the ultraxle media folder and copy the background.jpg to project64 media folder. next step is to create a path for example

Item "Play Nintendo 64 Games - Project64","f:appscpx-p64xdefault.xbe"
Item "play Nintendo 64 games - Ultra64","f:appscpx-p64xultra.xbe"


In theory, this always works.

However, since both games use a "default.xbe" launcher file, when you exit a rom it always looks for "default.xbe". If it is not found, it crashes to the dash. Or, if it is found, it opens it. So you could exit UltraXLE and have it start the default.xbe for PJ64X, or vica-versa. There is currently not a way around this.... I even tried having default.xbe be the evox default.xbe, but that got me nowhere in a hurry. (figured it would boot me back to a custom dash that only has these two emu's as options, but it wasn't working right!)

BUT:

Iriez mentioned that you can rename "UltraXLE.xbe" to "PJ64-daed.xbe" and use UltraXLE as a plugin from PJ64X. Haven't tried it yet, but I plan on it tomorrow. (Nobody uses this daedalus plugin in pj64 anyway, right?)

Let us know if it works !!! :D  
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« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2003, 11:54:00 PM »
QUOTE (zac_haryy @ Jun 18 2003, 08:02 AM)
I have both UltraXLE and PJ64 on my xbox. I have all of my n64 roms in the PJ64/ROMS dir. How can i set UltraXLE to read the roms from the pj64/roms dir?

Also i was wondering where do all of my save states get saved on the xbox hdd? thanks


-haryy

Uhhh.... heres an idea: edit the ini file that comes with ultraxle to point pj64x's rom dir for its own?

This post has been edited by FS1: Jun 18 2003, 06:56 AM
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farmerfred

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« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2003, 12:00:00 AM »
QUOTE (feflicker @ Jun 18 2003, 08:42 AM)
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the only thing i can think of is using xbmp as your dashboard


How would this help? Just curious...  :blink:

just a theory of mine since in xbmp you can choose which .xbe you want to load, so you could rename the default.xbe for ultraxle to ultra.xbe or someting throw it in the directory with pj64x and just select which one you want in xbmp. however that was before i knew about that stuff you said.
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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2003, 12:01:00 AM »
Editing the INI was covered in another thread.. The rom path in the INI doesn't seem to do anything (leftovers from the pc version?)...

rompath=D:romsn64ren is what mine is set to, and I don't have a "D:romsn64ren " folder, but the roms still display :) Changing it doesn't seem to make a difference.

As for PJ64, there is no INI file... (other than the daedalus ini for game compatability)
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« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2003, 12:02:00 AM »
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just a theory of mine since in xbmp you can choose which .xbe you want to load, so you could rename the default.xbe for ultraxle to ultra.xbe or someting throw it in the directory with pj64x and just select which one you want in xbmp. however that was before i knew about that stuff you said.


Thanks for clarifying... That is basically what I am doing in EvoX right now too  (until I figure something better out, or one of the programmers makes a change!) :beer:  
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« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2003, 12:08:00 AM »
woah just tested my theory and it definitly doesnt work. it caused xbmp to screw up the names for all of the xbe's and then when i tried loading a rom in ultraxle it just crashed to the dashboard.
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2003, 12:11:00 AM »
QUOTE (FS1 @ Jun 18 2003, 08:47 AM)
QUOTE (zac_haryy @ Jun 18 2003, 08:02 AM)
I have both UltraXLE and PJ64 on my xbox. I have all of my n64 roms in the PJ64/ROMS dir. How can i set UltraXLE to read the roms from the pj64/roms dir?

Also i was wondering where do all of my save states get saved on the xbox hdd? thanks


-haryy

Uhhh.... heres an idea: edit the ini file that comes with ultraxle to point pj64x's rom dir for its own?

editing the ini file didnt work..
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« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2003, 01:36:00 AM »
QUOTE (feflicker @ Jun 18 2003, 08:37 AM)
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That is easy....
first thing you gotta do is rename the ultraxle default.xbe to ultra.xbe then copy all the files to your project 64 directory except the rom and media folder. now open the ultraxle media folder and copy the background.jpg to project64 media folder. next step is to create a path for example

Item "Play Nintendo 64 Games - Project64","f:appscpx-p64xdefault.xbe"
Item "play Nintendo 64 games - Ultra64","f:appscpx-p64xultra.xbe"


In theory, this always works.

However, since both games use a "default.xbe" launcher file, when you exit a rom it always looks for "default.xbe". If it is not found, it crashes to the dash. Or, if it is found, it opens it. So you could exit UltraXLE and have it start the default.xbe for PJ64X, or vica-versa. There is currently not a way around this.... I even tried having default.xbe be the evox default.xbe, but that got me nowhere in a hurry. (figured it would boot me back to a custom dash that only has these two emu's as options, but it wasn't working right!)

BUT:

Iriez mentioned that you can rename "UltraXLE.xbe" to "PJ64-daed.xbe" and use UltraXLE as a plugin from PJ64X. Haven't tried it yet, but I plan on it tomorrow. (Nobody uses this daedalus plugin in pj64 anyway, right?)

didn't work like iriez said.. :(
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« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2003, 01:47:00 AM »
Yea, iriez was saying he suggested this to the UHLE author,  not that it was currently an option, maybe some version down the line..
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« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2003, 02:14:00 AM »
Here's an idea - try hexeditting ultraxle files and search for the text "default.xbe". Change it to whatever you renamed the xbe to, and see if it works after quitting a rom. I cannot try this at the moment as I'm at work and not at my Xbox.

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