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Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: phantom2049 on August 22, 2005, 01:37:00 AM

i finally got XDI installed and now im using XIG to take pics of other games but for some reason i cant boot Halo-2, it always gives me a black screen or a error massage saying dirty disc. can anyone tell me why it keeps saying this all the time and how i can fix this problem?

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: haza55 on September 14, 2005, 01:10:00 AM

xbdm.dll is a file used in the xbox dev kits and debug kits and allows all that cool stuff to work but makes the retail games not run becuase u see its not the debug bios that restricks the games to retail boxs only its xbdm.dll

and yes i got this problem to
im trying to remove the signature on the xbe because all homebrew aps like evox work while xbdm.dll is in play because they are not signed to retail boxes and they can run on the xdk and debug and retail xboxs.

hope this helps

if u have any luck please tell me

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: bucko on September 14, 2005, 11:08:00 AM

Ya same here, you might want to consider upgrading to 128MB ram because I'm sure Halo2 uses most of the ram so were is the room to debug? But haza55 does have a fair point.

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: haza55 on September 15, 2005, 01:19:00 AM

im sure there is mybe 1 mb left of ram but i belive that halo 2 overwrites xbdm.dll but if xbdm.dll was protected or put in a different spot mybe

This post has been edited by haza55: Sep 15 2005, 08:20 AM

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: haza55 on September 15, 2005, 02:26:00 AM

hey i had an idea put xbdm.dll in the bios itself

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: haza55 on September 15, 2005, 03:37:00 AM

i was looking through the debug kernel and i found out that the bios looks for xbdm.dll in two places one is the dvd rom root and E: root if that helps anyone

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: haza55 on September 15, 2005, 03:40:00 AM

and the bois looks for the Kernel on the dvd rom in the root dir for xboxrom.bin and same in e:/biosbfm/xboxrom.bin


this is all loaded at the start of the kernel

its looks as if we could edit this to point to a differnt location but we will have to keep the same size file

This post has been edited by haza55: Sep 15 2005, 10:43 AM

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: haza55 on September 15, 2005, 03:52:00 AM

OK if anyone knows the poistion of the xbdm.dll is loaded into the ram please tell me

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: Drilus on September 15, 2005, 11:56:00 AM

you can already run halo2 with a debug bios. XDI supports that for versions 1.0-1.5

Users with 1.6 xbox's will have to wait on a more customized bios.

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: haza55 on September 15, 2005, 05:12:00 PM

well ill make my own v1.6 bios

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: haza55 on September 15, 2005, 05:18:00 PM

well ill make my own v1.6 bios

Title: Xbdm.dll File Not Working For Halo-2!?
Post by: JbOnE on September 19, 2005, 12:18:00 PM

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