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Hi all, Over the past few months I have painstakely reverse engineered the Team Xodus Xenium modchip's CPLD and written a complete open source replacement. I call it OpenXenium. https://github.com/Ryzee119/OpenXenium It has full support for XeniumOS and its features. Repo will list them. The Xenium CPLD is normally read protected to prevent clones. This project did not attempt to break that protection, instead I determined the behavioral properties of the CPLD to write my own VHDL source code. Check the repo out! there is a few xenium related tools that may even help people with a genuine Xenium! Hopefully this will help with LPC related CPLD projects people may have in mind too. Enjoy! Ryan

I would fit the chip and see if it boot from it 1st the read on. That's where the modded M7 bios comes into play. So since I successfully integrated mimicked Chameleon TSOP recovery feature into my own modchip, I've started playing some hex editor magic. I made my own BIOS, similar as tsop_d6.bin, that will work exactly as tsop_d6.bin. The only difference is that this BIOS will boot on every Xbox that has a flashable TSOP(so 1.0 to 1.5). I named it tsop_m7.bin as it uses the kernel found in Evox M7 BIOS. As tsop_d6, you need to have to solder a wire to the TSOP A15 signal. Chameleon modchip will work it's magic by itself. If you don't have a Chameleon (or soon a XBlast), you can *try* to manually make it work using a basic modchip like a DuoX2, Xecuter 2.x or aladdin XT. I recommend you use a modchip with at least 2 banks to still be able to flash over this BIOS once you're done. To make it work, you'll have to manually operate D0 and A15 wires. Make them long enough to reach a ground spot. Here's the procedure: 1. Insert you booting disc in the DVD drive(HeXen, Auto-Installer...) 2. Tie both D0 and A15 to ground 3. Boot the Xbox with tsop_m7 4. Remove D0 from ground (leave it hanging without touching anything)once the front LED starts flashing 5. Remove A15 from ground one you see the Xbox logo on your TV. 6. Flash your TSOP using your favorite tool. Some important info: - As tsop_d6, you can only boot from a Xbox disc in your DVD drive. If no disc is in the DVD drive, the Xbox will just sit at the booting Xbox Logo. - There is no boot animation. I chose a really weird color combination for the Xbox logo so you know you're booting the right thing. - There is a chance this BIOS will not boot if you have previously flashed a hacked BIOS on your TSOP. From personnal experience, M8+ and X2 5035 are problematic across all revisions. IND-BIOS 5004 works on my 1.2 and 1.4 but not on my 1.0(probably an RC4 key issue). - There is no LBA48 support. This BIOS is not meant to be used as your everyday BIOS anyway. - Pre-insert you disc in your DVD drive. This BIOS resets on Eject. You may also need to set the Open Xenium to use it as a default BIOS on boot. tsop_m7.bin Cheers SS Dave Soft modding is like masturbating, It get's the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.