Post by: Jaidee on June 14, 2004, 12:41:00 AM
Firstly let me just say that I'm not complaining - I knew the risks when i wanted to run XBMC and now I'm left with the consequences. I'm very happy with how Morden's Audio Hack worked and I've enjoyed the pleasures of XBMC. Let me tell you what has happened.
I got hold of a modded XBox and used it to stick a copy of Morden's Audio Hack on my memory card, and with 007:AUF in hand I got FTP access to my unmodded box.
So, I reverted my dashboard using the image from Slayer's Auto-Installer to 4920. (I don't know the difference between a Kernel and a Dashboard, but whatever I did I reverted something to 4920, and it worked.)
I then used Morden's to install all the goodies I needed. I think it put on there the st.db audio hack, PBL and MxM. All very spiffy, working well, (with a bit of finger dancing to boot the PBL then MxM).
I then used this to play with XBMC, safe in the knowledge that I was not going to be banned off XBLive so long as I ran only original games. Fine.
But I logged on the other day and found I was banned from XBlive!
So, please could someone explain:
- What happened here?
- How did I get banned?
- Is it worth buying a new XBox for XBLive access or is Kai just as good?
- Can I buy a new EEPROM, if so where? (heard about this)
- Are M$ now scanning hard drives and looking for these exploits? Any still work with XBLive?
Cheers for all the help.
Jaidee.
Post by: PedrosPad on June 14, 2004, 02:54:00 AM
Three, worrying, but simple explanations come to mind.
1. M$ had recorded the fact that you'd already downloaded and installed a later Dashboard version (and there's no legitimate reason for it to be downgraded).
2. Someone else has 'cloned' your EPROM, and their behavior has caused you to get banned.
3. M$ has added some new HDD checks.
Personally, I don't think any of these are very likely. If 1 or 3, we'll know soon, as rafts of people will suddenly be banned. Also if this were the case, it would seem that adding a file renaming/moving step to the exploits would be sufficent to workaround this 'new' security.
Post by: Jaidee on June 14, 2004, 07:14:00 AM
Could someone just answer me the next couple of questions then?
I'm going to get a new EEPROM and try another exploit. Which is the safest exploit for use with XBLive? UDE?
What's the bare minimum I should have on my C:?
Cheers again!
Post by: Jaidee on June 15, 2004, 12:17:00 AM
I got myself a new EEPROM from Zodiiak, may I just say what a guy, you send him the money and within the hour he had sent me my EEPROM. Made a ConfigMagic Disk, stuck the EEPROM on it, and boom, I'm back on XBox Live.
Give it up M$.
Post by: Jaidee on June 15, 2004, 12:20:00 AM
I'm going to use another exploit, but I'm bit behind the times now. When I was last on the scene Morden's was brand new. What's the latest XBLive compatible exploit?
Thanks for all the help, you guys on XS are awesome.
Post by: Dai_UK on June 15, 2004, 06:20:00 AM
When you were booting the originals were you booting before loading PBL ie. straight from power on or original MS dash before audio hack ??
Post by: Jaidee on June 16, 2004, 02:35:00 AM
I must have screwed up somewhere on connecting to XBL after running PBL and got my EEPROM blacklisted. So, I got in touch with Zodiiak, from these forums, what a guy! he gave me a brand new unbanned EEPROM for $10, or about £6 for me, and after using the 007 exploit and ConfigMagic I installed myself a new EEPROM.
While I was doing this I thought it would be cool to convert the EEPROM to NTSC so that I could enjoy the pleasures of the Progressive Scan and HD resolutions. I already had a component cable so this all went very well.
So now I'm back on XBox Live, I have HD output on my XBox and I can now play Rainbow Six 3 online with much fun and laughter to be had.
Naturally, this had not put out the fire in my belly to want to modify my XBox. I want XBMC back, I long for it. So, what exploit would you guys recommend to me if I just want to run XBMC? UDE? Would I need PBL? (What the heck does PBL do anyways that you can't do from any dashboard?)
Cheers!
Post by: PedrosPad on June 16, 2004, 03:08:00 AM
| QUOTE (Jaidee @ Jun 16 2004, 11:35 AM) |
| So now I'm back on XBox Live, I have HD output on my XBox and I can now play Rainbow Six 3 online with much fun and laughter to be had. Naturally, this had not put out the fire in my belly to want to modify my XBox. I want XBMC back, I long for it. So, what exploit would you guys recommend to me if I just want to run XBMC? UDE? Would I need PBL? (What the heck does PBL do anyways that you can't do from any dashboard?) Cheers! |
For your situation I'd suggest you consider the Easter Egg Exploit (aka. EEE), to launch directly into XBMC, however, you'll have to open the DVD tray before launching the exploit if you want to watch Disc-media based content, and be aware it'd reboot if you eject the tray to change disks (Reset-on-Eject - aka. ROE). Still, if your mainly watching HDD or streamed content (from web or PC), this may suit you. (I don't believe adding PBL will solve the ROE issue)
And EEE works with the latest Dashboard, and survives Dashboard updates (so far).
You need to have a kernel <5713 to use this, which I suspect you have.
Post by: Jaidee on June 16, 2004, 03:12:00 AM
But just let me ask - what if I want to play an original on XBox Live? I do want to do this often.
Also, because I wouldn't be running PBL, does that mean I'm running a legit BIOS, and thus run no rish of getting banned? What about changes to my C: drive, don't they get you banned? Sorry to sound like such a n00b, but I really need to know how to avoid getting banned whilst running your awesome exploit.
Cheers again pedro.
Post by: PedrosPad on June 16, 2004, 03:24:00 AM
| QUOTE (Jaidee @ Jun 16 2004, 12:12 PM) |
| Wow, it's Pedrospad! I'm graced an honored. But just let me ask - what if I want to play an original on XBox Live? I do want to do this often. Also, because I wouldn't be running PBL, does that mean I'm running a legit BIOS, and thus run no rish of getting banned? What about changes to my C: drive, don't they get you banned? Sorry to sound like such a n00b, but I really need to know how to avoid getting banned whilst running your awesome exploit. Cheers again pedro. |
lol.
Yeah, I picked up your a keen Live player
The beauty of the EEE is your XBOX is in a completely retail state until you choose to invoke it. You can play original games, copy music tracks, enter, and leave, the XBOX!Live console, etc.
Once you invoke the EEE, it does patch the M$ signature in the kernel, but only in RAM. Once your done with XBMC, simply reboot, and your back to the retail state.
Post by: Jaidee on June 16, 2004, 07:25:00 AM
w00t.
Post by: Jaidee on June 16, 2004, 09:06:00 AM
Cheers once more!
Post by: ipodder2003 on June 16, 2004, 09:12:00 AM
Post by: PedrosPad on June 16, 2004, 09:14:00 AM
| QUOTE (Jaidee @ Jun 16 2004, 06:06 PM) |
| OK, I've tried to install the UDE using ltools, didn't go so well - how do you invoke the UDE? Cheers once more! |
You do realise the EEE (that I recommended) is different to the UDE?
The UDE isn't that suitable to Live users. But it's your call.
Post by: Jaidee on June 16, 2004, 02:39:00 PM
Thanks,
Post by: Jaidee on June 17, 2004, 05:23:00 AM
| CODE |
| UmFyIRoHAM+QcwAADQAAAAAAAABMd3QggCUAXQIAAADMAAACAffrSwCIojAdNQUAIAAAAFNULkRC CBlRVMy9HBH7Ja1UL+KVdLRGWui6qpCVCq2hFpJdFIHvX8mUqDWthHwoNLPCggh4R0Qhd6OhHQ6F JsRCCDfwKg2bHTVBdNUaxYNUbRoVW+T7tpLJLT3ra0RHc3TndHenDvMzmfwn38jwzne94dzvecw+ +DM0ZhgZm/LR9BUwdz+HmR2t6jmykNVzJdVb8e86S+D0L68d13Gr76vRTNc87XxS6TT9dwhwzA+s y+zK/xZ31c6m9SL7VJnl4T6oWeqLfmL71nC1Dc3UPVMnXbTxPUq1JOOd/CUuWXk4O6lZebD9OSpi 2dCtVrUGuxT4qZxJq1B3JVh50mctvDo3Oo3VyrMG2qOqSctZEXKkNrRdCV4Wppa/gyM7TEK+Pp0j b7K7jSkhGmwfZLn1jcVvDZyex5XUbgd9qw7PqibxjkWttyXa+7Y6zWPzGJZQmMtH0hRqKFY3cCJS 6jAu4m6YzNYrVEl/CM/sLFmmmnqZjFhRKPpoX90XNstm1Z4vmNI+SptO8k0KZ1jKsZTLOjPrV4zD zJjeitgtefveu8WHW+KgRjq60qlr+9delqMx0f/awKhzr9uEaX/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATx5Vw/f7IT52An6reffwr1foxOH1edfo/wE /PWm2akz2V5aYW38F3i4l5254c2O9j+azzsCoc7QUJ4KdeInKsTV6mWwnphXHzlYf9hPZKj7QTz+ Rt4E9ayLeZLOYeRWN67oFMPwXG4ajyXou5Ku2oT9/wE+f0jEPXsAQAcA |
Put that st.db in the usual place on the e-drive.
Now, once I know how to make this code into an st.db file can you please tell me what I'll need to do to "invoke" the exploit? Do I have to retype the name of that soundtrack everytime?
Thanks for all the help so far Pedro, I'll really appreciate it if I can ask for it once more.
Post by: PedrosPad on June 17, 2004, 06:52:00 AM
| QUOTE (Jaidee @ Jun 17 2004, 02:23 PM) |
| Do I have to retype the name of that soundtrack everytime? |
You've got all the right bits
. Since your a primarily a Live user, and a less homebrew user this shouldn't cause you too much grief (and you'd be amazed how fast you can do it after a little practice
).Hint:
First enter both sets of angle brackets "<<>>".
then use the triggers to move the cursor to the middle
enter "Eggsox"
then use the triggers to move the cursor to the middle
enter the "B" character.
Save the text to 1.b64 (or 1.UUE if that don't work), then open in ICEOWS or WinZip 8+.
Save the contents as 1.bz2
Open 1.bz2 in ICEOWS or WinZip 8+.
There you'll see the ST.DB file you need.
Post by: Jaidee on June 19, 2004, 02:33:00 AM
I used the SplinterCell GameSave to put the EEE on my box, took me bloody ages to work out that you have to type a capital E in the Eggsox thing, but I finally invoked the exploit.
I decided to put XBMC as my dash, so I renamed it's .xbe to evoxdash.xbe and stuck it on the C-Drive, along with the file xboxmediacenter.xml which needs to be there to point it to where teh rest of the files are and also give XBMC all it's settings.
Here's the problem - it loads, but the screen is garbled. I'm sure it's XBMC that's running, but teh screen is all messed up and I cannot read what's on it. One thing - I did convert my PAL box to NTSC using Enigmah's, so that I could enjoy the higher resolutions on my plasma.
Please help, this is the last step then I'm sorted!
Post by: krayzie on June 19, 2004, 02:43:00 AM
Post by: PedrosPad on June 19, 2004, 04:14:00 AM
| QUOTE (Jaidee @ Jun 19 2004, 11:33 AM) |
| took me bloody ages to work out that you have to type a capital E in the Eggsox thing, but I finally invoked the exploit. |
Ooops. Sorry about that.
When you get it all done, please do write up and post a quick tutorial. I think you'll have created a configuration that may appeal to others.
Post by: Jaidee on June 19, 2004, 07:18:00 AM
I've found another bios whcih should be fine, it's the X2 bios 4979, and it appears to boot up MxM just fine from PBL. So I thought, right, I'll get out the old XBTool and see if I can get it to boot straight into evoxdash.xbe (which is actually XBMC renamed) instead of going to MxM. But much to my dismay, XBTool told me that it was already pointing to load evoxdash.xbe. How confusing.
I'll let you know when I get this all working and I'll make a tutorial for sure, I'm pretty close now to having a working exploit that works on the latest dash and on live.
And it looks like I may soon have a job at Game.
Post by: Jaidee on June 19, 2004, 12:31:00 PM
I tried a new BIOS, XBMC still came up garbled. I would really like some advice on which BIOS to use for this purpose, and if anybody could modify it to boot straight into E:/Apps/XBMC for me that'd be sweet. I think I may be doing something wrong.
I'm going to try disabling 1080i to see if that's the problem.
I'll report back soon.
Post by: Jaidee on June 20, 2004, 05:41:00 AM
All finished now, I've got the Easter Egg Exploit working to boot straight into XBMC! I've also converted my PAL XBox to an NTSC one so that I can output in 1080i to my plasma and it's all working well.
The problem with the garbled picture was that my plasma doesn't support 720. Stupid thing.
So, what I could really do with now would be a way to get this certain file to play. It's a video of the latest Beastie Boys single, and it's got a resolution of 1920*1080 pixels, so it should look awesome in 1080i mode. Thing is, it's such a high quality file it skips on my PC, let alone my XBOx. Anyone got any ideas how I can play such a huge file?
Cheers again, I'll be doing a tutorial very shortly on everything I've done.