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Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: XPort on February 16, 2006, 12:34:00 PM

OpenBORX - Beats of Rage for XBox v2

http://senile.mine.nu/beatsofrage/
http://www.openbor.net/
http://xport.xbox-scene.com

This is a port of OpenBOR/Beats of Rage, a fun beat-em-up game developed by the clever people
at Senile and extended by the folks at www.openbor.net

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Installation
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- Download the PC version of Beats of Rage from the following location:

http://www.senileteam.com/downloads.php?d=6

- Upload the BOR.PAK file to a directory on your XBox

- Upload the DEFAULT.XBE file to the same directory on your XBox

- Run the DEFAULT.XBE file

- You can also upload any compatible OpenBOR PAK file into the same directory and you can choose
which one to load. One of the files should be named BOR.PAK.

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Usage
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Use a controller in port 1 or port 2 to navigate the menus.

You can change the default controls via the in-game menus.

You can also change between the following graphic filters by pressing RTHUMB at any time:

2xSai
Super 2xSai
HQ2X
Eagle2x
Super Eagle 2x
SuperScale 2x
AdvanceMame 2x
Simple 2x
2xSai Scanline
Super 2xSai Scanline
Eagle2x Scanline
Super Eagle2x Scanline
SuperScale 2x Scanline

Everything else should be pretty self-explanatory.

Enjoy!

p.s. the source is alongside the binary

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: pcween on February 16, 2006, 01:05:00 PM

this is great news, thank you xport. how have you been?

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: BanjoK on February 16, 2006, 01:29:00 PM

Thank you so much XPort. You are amazing. This means so much to me and many other people that quit BOR modding because of its lack of interest. A new revival of BOR shall begin. I already have 2 excellent ex-BOR modders that want to start modding again because of this program. Thank you XPort.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Joshua Wood on February 16, 2006, 01:31:00 PM

Thanks heaps Xport. From another thread I'm sure there's gonna be many happy people over this. I myself can't wait to check it out.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: mike315 on February 16, 2006, 01:34:00 PM

Glad to see you're still active. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: chilin_dude on February 16, 2006, 01:39:00 PM

Thanks!

Maybe this will proove you're not dead, even though you can see that you've been visiting most days via your profile. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: guybird on February 16, 2006, 02:03:00 PM

This here is why I love the Xbox. There are so many awesome programs out there I would have never known about until now. Thanks a lot Xport.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Rion on February 16, 2006, 02:22:00 PM

Its good to see you are still active. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Thank you for the new relese. Going to check it out right away. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: BanjoK on February 16, 2006, 02:26:00 PM

BOR is an amazing engine. It is used to create beat-em-up mods. BOR is similar to Mugen in that respect.

If you like playing it you should seriously consider creating your own BOR mods. You could join an existing team or create a new team. It is not very difficult and it requires no programming at all.

This post has been edited by BanjoK: Feb 16 2006, 10:30 PM

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: guybird on February 16, 2006, 02:29:00 PM

How do you select a different mod? I've never used BOR before, and I'm not seeing any option on the main screen, or under options.

Also, are there any BOR mod sites still active? I'm turning up nothing but dead links from google.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: BanjoK on February 16, 2006, 02:34:00 PM

BOR Revolution is the biggest BOR modding website community. It is currently down. Check out the DC Emulation BOR forum for more BOR information. There is also the Senile Team BOR website and the OpenBOR website for more information.

The information for running multiple mods is written above by XPort. The information is as follows.

- You can also upload any compatible OpenBOR PAK file into the same directory and you can choose which one to load. One of the files should be named BOR.PAK.

This post has been edited by BanjoK: Feb 16 2006, 10:37 PM

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Diontae18 on February 16, 2006, 02:45:00 PM

All hail Xport. He's alive, and very much active as you can see. Thanks for the long awaited update on this.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Kirby2000 on February 16, 2006, 03:00:00 PM

Hi Xport.

Thanks for including the source.

What version of Visual Studio did you use to compile this?

I maintain the current Windows port of OpenBOR and am about to release a 3-4 player version. If I were to update the Xbox port using this new code, would I be able to read pads 3 & 4 as easily as 1 & 2 or would I need to consider adding extra code?

Thanks again for the new port.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: compton on February 16, 2006, 03:35:00 PM

funny story, i just got done playing V1 of beats of rage after not having played it since i first put it on my xbox.

i got done and rebooted my xbox to find the news feed telling me there is a v2!!!!

lol, wild....

i must have some sort of brain truma like Johnny Smith.

Christopher Walken Johnny Smith, not michal anthony hall....

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Heet on February 16, 2006, 04:05:00 PM

Thank you sir! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/love.gif)

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: XPort on February 16, 2006, 04:56:00 PM

QUOTE(Kirby2000 @ Feb 16 2006, 05:07 PM)

MS Visual Studio .NET 2003

Some extra XBox code would be required, but I imagine it would be very simple - just look at how the XBox input is working for pads 1&2 and I'm sure you won't have any trouble with 3&4. If you make your update soon-ish, I'll do it for you.

Since I've got your ear - check out the changes I made to the playlevel() function. The way things worked in the original was that the models would be continually loaded into memory and never freed. This helps with load times, but on the XBox, it results in a memory constraint problem fairly quickly (after about 3 or 4 levels). You may want to put some kind of memory setting as an option and add some code to ensure that objects will be freed based on a least-recently-used scenario to ensure that the memory boundary is not hit.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: BanjoK on February 16, 2006, 05:00:00 PM

The memory going up while running BOR has been an unsolved problem for a long time. The memory stops going up once you finish the game so that you can play the game twice without it freezing. This is amazing news if you have been able to fix the memory problem.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: sp1200 on February 16, 2006, 06:12:00 PM

Awesome to see you still kicking!

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: vision on February 16, 2006, 06:42:00 PM

This is the best News I've Heard in a long time (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) Thanx X. Now where can I get it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: BanjoK on February 16, 2006, 07:11:00 PM

vision you are not allowed to request files built with the XDK. You can get them using Xbins. There is a tutorial for using Xbins at this website.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: pirichios on February 16, 2006, 08:08:00 PM

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
OH MY GOD!
Xport is active!
this is the greatest news since the invention of slice bread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Thanks A LOT for this fine release Xport. you kick butt!
Thanks for being one of the few that have made having an xbox more than worthwhile (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
i can not state how happy i am to see this release
keep rocking Xport(yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!! Xport!! )
Again,
thanks a lot

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Jagger on February 16, 2006, 09:54:00 PM

Hey XPort. Good to see you're still around. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: dcsteve on February 17, 2006, 12:42:00 AM

Xport,
On behalf of all Members at Bor Revolution (500+), Thank you.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Tulius on February 17, 2006, 11:02:00 AM

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Hey thanks for updating Beats of Rage with OpenBor engine...
Just tested with a MOD named Double Dragon extreme, title screen appears, game mode selection ok, but just freezes into loading screen (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) is this memory problems? (I have 128Mb in the mobo, but maybe there's no support for extra memory yet)
What MODs are the users of the forum using?

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Gage on February 17, 2006, 01:12:00 PM

First of all, great to see you back XPort. Now for my problem. I tested all four of the Rhythm of Destruction remixes and non of them want to load. Red, Blue and the Street Fighter remixes all froze during the character cacheing in the beginning. The SNK remix did load, however when I select a character and the first level starts to load, it freezes. One thing I noticed is that for the remixes that freeze during cacheing, those .PAK files are very large, larger than the original BoR game. Meanwhile, the SNK remix, is smaller than the original game. Don't know if that means anything. The original game however does work fine. Hope this problem is just me and not the program itself.

This post has been edited by Gage: Feb 17 2006, 09:13 PM

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: XPort on February 18, 2006, 07:22:00 AM

To the people stating that certain packs do not work - I need direct links to where I can download them.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: BanjoK on February 18, 2006, 07:46:00 AM

BOR Revolution, which is the main site for all BOR mods, is down. However since I am so knowledgeable concerning BOR I know of another website for BOR mods. The website is as follows.

http://www.gp32x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,11

The only place where Beats of Rage Remixed 2: Rhythm of Destruction is available is at the following website.

http://www.dcevolution.net/game_borr2rod.php

Unfortunately this mod is available only in DiscJuggler format. The PAK file must be extracted from within the image file.

This post has been edited by BanjoK: Feb 18 2006, 04:04 PM

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Tulius on February 18, 2006, 09:47:00 AM

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) maybe this link helps:

http://borhosting.com/index.php/Mods

there are paks to openBOR and BOR...what's the differences?

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: vision on February 18, 2006, 09:47:00 AM

I only come across 1 problem. Ths sound is distorted on fall animations and if more than 1 person falls then it gets very loud an crunchy like. slightly annoying. No very annoyng. Otherwise Great port. And very up to date, even by BOR standards. Witch is updated every other day.

This post has been edited by vision: Feb 18 2006, 05:50 PM

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: kungpow12345 on February 18, 2006, 10:44:00 AM

-Tested my Sailor Moon mod
-Certain characters either crash the game when they grab someone,when they do a grab attack or when they throw them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Link for the mod: http://smgames.sailor-games.com/downloads/sailormoon/smh.zip

It's a very small mod only about 17mb so memory would definitely not be an issue.

I know on the earlier release, naming the files a certain way would crash the game. I dunno if this is the case now or not.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Nemo1985X on February 18, 2006, 12:42:00 PM

QUOTE(Tulius @ Feb 17 2006, 11:33 AM)

I'm using:

Beats of Rage
Beats of Rage Extra
Hatchet Ninjaz
Hyper Final Fight
Hyper Final Fight 2 - it will crash when you use SFZ Cody.
Dragons of Rage
Alien vs. Predator
Double Dragon Extreme - it will crash when you attempt to start a game.
Rage of Streets
Road Rash Revolution
Kill Ryu Vol.1
Kill Ryu Vol.2 - the game (sometimes) is seeking extra files that are not there , such as , music .
CaveMan Ninja

That is all I have right now
you can get all of these here: http://www.dcevolution.net/index.php

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: scoot-magee on February 18, 2006, 04:16:00 PM

Great stuff man.

Anyway I tried pretty much everything the guy above me did with the same results. I just wanted to add that I was using sfz guy in hff2 and the game crashed on the 2nd part of stage one. There also seems to be some sound problems with hff2. Usually when punching people you will hear all types of static.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Thraxen on February 18, 2006, 07:26:00 PM

OK, I need some help here. I can't figure out how to select PAK files. I think I've got everything installed correctly, but when I start the game it auto-loads the MegaMan Xtreme Legends PAK file I've got in there every single times... and it's not even the one named "BOR.PAK". And, yes, I do have one with that name.

I did have version one installed before this and the MegaMan pak was the last game I had loaded (it was named "bor.pak" at that time. With the new version I renamed the MegaMan pak and used the original BoR pak as "bor.pak". I also deleted the BoR save from the MS Dash as I would with an update of any Xbox app... so I really don't know what the issue is.

Also, is there any sort of screen size adjustment? I can't read what is on the bottom of the screen. For example, I can't see what software filter is being used because most of the text is cut off.

This post has been edited by Thraxen: Feb 19 2006, 06:52 AM

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Nemo1985X on February 18, 2006, 09:47:00 PM

Make sure you delete your previous save file first if version one was used before.
When the screen "not produced by or under licence from sega" appears you should see: D BOR.PAK in bold RED text at the top of the screen. just press left or right on the d-pad to select a pack , the pack files can be named anything you want.
but the you must have at least one pak file named BOR.PAK in the root directory..

to change the screen size it's in options just above "Back"

Hope that helps !!

EDIT: I can the hear the snap , crackle , and pop in every game , and it only occurrs when 2 or more SFX play
at the same time..
could it be that the sound effects output is too high ?

This post has been edited by Nemo1985X: Feb 19 2006, 06:02 AM

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: porchepuppy on February 18, 2006, 10:00:00 PM

This is great, keep up the good work

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Thraxen on February 18, 2006, 11:11:00 PM

QUOTE(Nemo1985X @ Feb 18 2006, 10:18 PM)

Thanks... that's what I needed to know. The Read Me file didn't really explain how to choose the PAK. I kept expecting to see a list or something. I saw the PAK listed at the top, but I thought that was the name of the pak that was already being loaded.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: Kirby2000 on February 19, 2006, 08:15:00 AM

Just a quick note for X-Port reguarding the crashes mentioned above.

As far as I can tell the DOS version is a little less picky with the code than other formats. It seems to let a few things slide that would normally cause the game to crash.

I maintain a Windows port in my spare time, each time I update it to the latest OpenBOR I've had to make a few changes that aren't immediately obvious. Most of these changes involve non-existant data trying to be read and hence crashing and are only really noticed after quite a while playing.

Having not used the XDK very much I'm not sure what sort of debugging facilities you have access to, but for me, using Visual C++ 6.0, most of these errors were very easy to fix once I was given enough information to be able to recreate them.

Please, anyone who wants to report a bug here, state which mod you were using, what level you were playing and exactly what you were doing at the time as this makes recreating the error much simpler.

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: rmase on February 19, 2006, 12:51:00 PM

The mod 'BEAT OF FIGHTING' does not work at all. When it's loading (in the black screen), it hangs at 'cacheing flash'. Also, Is it possible to make an option so you can return to a menu where you can choose another mod to play, cuz now you have to exit the whole program and load it again to choose a mod to play.

You can download 'BEAT OF FIGHTING' here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TGX80WOZ

Thanks

Title: Beats Of Ragex V2
Post by: rmase on February 19, 2006, 02:46:00 PM

^^^^Hey guys, this is an update to my previous post. I have some more bugs to report.

1) The mod 'BEAT OF FIGHTING' does not work at all. When it's loading (in the black screen), it hangs at 'cacheing flash'.

You can download 'BEAT OF FIGHTING' here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TGX80WOZ

2) The mod 'FINAL FIGHT DC' doesn't work also. When it's loading (in the black screen), it hangs at 'cacheing guy'.

You can download 'FINAL FIGHT DC' here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NYBR4597

3) DOUBLE DRAGON ADVANCE just hangs if you do a supper move (spinning kick) or something else
4) DOUBLE DRAGON EXTREME just hangs at the loading screen (loading the first level)
5) The mod 'FINAL FIGHT APOCALYPS WEAPONS EDITION' doesn't work at all. When it's loading (in the black screen), it hangs at 'cacheing guy'.

You can download 'FINAL FIGHT APOCALYPS WEAPONS EDITION' here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q5J63MPW

6) FINAL FIGHT APOCALYPS (no weapons) hangs after you choose your character.
It gives the following message: Unable to load file/data/chrs//a104.gif(may be out of memory) Thats the whole message I get on screen.

You can download 'FINAL FIGHT APOCALYPS here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RNVYDZZU

7) The Rhythm of Destruction games dont work (they wont load) The Street fighter version loads but hangs later on.

You can download them here: (it is a discjuggler image so you have to extract the .PAK file)

http://www.dcevolution.netfirms.com/game_borr2rod.php

Also, just like everybody else stated, there are sound problems in all mods. Loud crackling sounds when more than one sound plays at the same time and some times no sound at all (missing sounds) when doing moves (CRISIS EVIL 2).

You can download CRISIS EVIL 2 here: (it is a discjuggler image so you have to extract the .PAK file)

http://www.dcevolution.netfirms.com/game_crisisevil.php

Also, is it possible to make an option so you can return to a menu where you can choose another mod to play, cuz now you have to exit the whole program and load it again to choose a mod to play. Its not a big problem, I was just wondering

Again, Im not complaining at all, I think X-port (and Kirby2000) is doing a fantastic job!!

Thank you for making this emulator possible on Xbox and sorry for the long post

This post has been edited by rmase: Feb 19 2006, 10:52 PM

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