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  2. [DL] Cerbios Bios Mirror [Updated]

    in Bios

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

    ... I've just been flashing UDMA 6 with my platter HDDs and startechs and it works perfectly Sweet. :) No SSD necessary!

    You're running it out of the official recommended specs and your XBox will explode. Just wait for it. 😂

     

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  5. OGXBox Installer 2021

    in Installation Disks

    Posted · Edited by sweetdarkdestiny

    9 minutes ago, arfows said:

    When using my Philips DVD drives your Cerbios installer was read, loaded, and worked perfectly but 1.5.4 would not boot or load (file was seen in file mgr though).  When I switched to the Hitachi DVD drive both worked fine, albeit 1.5.4 ran a bit slow.  The confounder to this is media type and DVD drive compatibility issues -the Cerbios installer iso I burned to a CD but 1.5.4 iso was burned twice, onto two separate DVD media (TDK DVD-R and some generic).

    Thanks for the feedback. :) 

    The reason that the 1.5.4 is slower is, that the main config is ~4 times as big (~2800 lines of code) as the one from the Cerb. flasher. Thats why it takes longer to load. ;)

  6. OGXBox Installer 2021

    in Installation Disks

    Posted

    The BFM is LBA48. And if you have an old or even "modern" EvoX m8+ which just supports LBA28 (F only) you don't see the G partition. So if the user setup a HDD on the PC with 2TB but didn't know he has an old bios with LBA28 on it what happends? Right, he didn't see his G but with the installer he can. Now he's confused and post here in the forum. :D ;)

    The word from the off appears in the forum (We all know it's Kaos) like magic and tell the user to fash a more modern LBA48 patched bios. 

    And the BFM does not get in confilct with the bios on the chip. Once your power on your XBox the bios is loaded from your chip and done. Then PBL magicly loads the BFM into the ram and voila.....

    Download the Cerbios Flasher Disc and check if you still have problems with your bitchy xbox. 

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  7. OGXBox Installer 2021

    in Installation Disks

    Posted · Edited by sweetdarkdestiny

    Not PBL seams to be the problem.

    As I said, TruHeXEn/HeXEn can boot on those XBox which refuse to boot my installer. Both use the same base. Same PBL, same bios, and almost the same config. So from time to time someone have problems with the auto detect of UX for the HDD. The moment the light on the xbox turns red, the BFM bios has loaded without a problem. But somewhere around that moment there must be something which causes the bug. It would be interesting to know if the Cerbios flasher would boot of an xbox which refuses to boot my Installer. 

    In case the PBL would force this behavior (Which is highly unlikely (0.0000000000001% of a chance IMO) I could work around that with a non BFM loading stage which could offer looks like this :

    Boot the disc with EvoX (ineasted of UX) which then offers 3 options

    1. Load UX Installer DHCP  (BFM)
    2. Load UX Installer StaticIP (BFM)
    3. Load XBPartitioner (NO BFM) (In case of boot problems with any of the bot above options)

    I have that idea for a long time but not to sure if I go to add it. 

    Why I use a BFM? It gives me access to some things I would call "gimmicks" but those gimmicks are cool and sometimes useful (at least imo). 

    And I can access any partiton with it. You may remember topics where ppl wrote they see there G partiton with my installer (Or even HeXEn ...) but not with the bios on the chip. Thats because of the LBA mode the BFM provides. So the user has an bios with a lover LBA mode and cant see it. It also provides some benefits when it comes to deal with softmods. 

    And the new version is actualy what 1 1/2 years old? I'm working on it on and off but there wasn't realy a reason to update it till cerbios. And it will not come till there a way to setup an HDD for cerb on the xbox. Finaly it will be much more different as the installer is right now. 

    In the mean time I'm working on the Cerbios flasher/installer disc which could be an endpoint because if we see things clear there is basicly no real reason to flash any other bios (Except fo a Hidden EvoX which I like to do as I wrote somewhere) or a XBlast bios or MAYBE a x3.  So there will be a lot of things removed but also a lot of things added. 

    Version 1.5.4 could be considered an "archive" disc or something which would be still nice to have.

    That beeing said, I may do some sort of sub menu like " XBox Archive" or something which is on a second disc (or even on v1.5.4) and can be sideloaded from the main installer by simply useing BFM features. ;) We will see how things go. 

     

    EDIT: A WIP screen of the new theme I'm working on for the new version.

    WiP - Theme Idea.jpg

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  8. OGXBox Installer 2021

    in Installation Disks

    Posted · Edited by sweetdarkdestiny

    1 hour ago, Bowlsnapper said:

    Save water. Drink coffee!

    There is no non BFM anymore and there will be non in the future. Removed it a long time ago and now with cerb it would not make any seens to offer one. If something in that direction is needed, Slayers is the way to go. 

    And you do not need to pre-setup the HDD with Fatxplorer in the first place. I NEVER did it. And whats funny is that TruHeXEn seams not to have that "bug" since it will most like boot on the xbox which refuses to load my installer. And to make it even more funny is the fact that both use the same BFM. Hope to get it fixed with the new cerbios BFM (Which can be testet with the actual cerbios flasher disc.).  At the end this "bug" seams happen not that often. 

    And if I remember correct (remember I'm a old fuck :D ), Slayers bootet on your XBox. That makes me think that something with the the HDD was wrong. 

  11. OGXBox Installer 2021

    in Installation Disks

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Bowlsnapper said:

    Cerbios supports 128. Why are we still recommending ind? Because it allows for Live MACS?

    Well, have you seen the dates when that was? Feb. 2022. 

    And since Cerb has problems with some games why not use a EvoX or iND bios as second bios or even main bios (In case you don't use CCI or a HDD bigger as 2TB) till team Cerbios has fixed the problems? 

    I also like to flash a hidden EvoX to the TSOP when setting up a xbox with modchip.  

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  12. OGXBox Installer 2021

    in Installation Disks

    Posted

    Did you read the included read me file Rocky5 put in there? 

    Quote

    Bios has been patched to fix the white+back shutdown bug and also the Ram speed patch has been applied.
    ( Patching done by xbox7887 from discord, great guy. )

    XBL Patched by me, but original 5004 patch done by kl0wn.

    You may ask why? when there is 5004, well 5004 cant have XISO support patched into it, 5003 can.
    So if you want to load XISO off the HDD now you can and not have to worry about the shutdown bug.

    Dashloader:
    This is required for the XISO loading as ind-bios loads CDrom0 instead of CDRom1 like Softmods, so I have to do the launching of he xbe eg...
    It also includes the kernel patcher (XISO support, softmods the kernel) and the dismounter, so it acts just like a HDD game would.
    (its 1 xbe that does it all)

    Using Dashloader Customizer you can toggle whether it dismounts the XISO on IGR or not.
    ( Triggers+Back+Start to go back to the dashboard, Triggers+Back+Black to reload the disc )


    Shutdown Bug Fix:
    ; inject over 24 bytes of scratch space at 00007C31 until 00007C49
    ; original bytes =    8B15F0BA03808B9204BB038081E2FF0000005023C23BC258  
    ; assembled bytes =    508B430825FFFF00003DFFFF0000587407B8F37C0180FFE0

    ASM Code:
    push    eax
    mov     eax, [ebx+8]
    and     eax, 0FFFFh     ; XINPUT_GAMEPAD.wButtons.XINPUT_GAMEPAD_LEFT_TRIGGER | XINPUT_GAMEPAD.wButtons.XINPUT_GAMEPAD_RIGHT_TRIGGER
    cmp     eax, 0FFFFh
    pop     eax
    jz     next
    mov eax, 80017CF3    ; no_reset2
    jmp eax
    next:

    Ram Patch:
    ; inject over 12 bytes of scratch space at 00022C52 until 00022C5E
    ; original bytes =    C3CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
    ; assembled bytes =    B9FF0200000F32B0060F30C3

    ASM Code:
    mov        ecx, 0x2ff
    rdmsr
    mov        al, 0x06
    wrmsr


    No Xbox Live Patch:
    ; Disabled Xbox showing as Debug Hardware
    ; inject over 7 bytes of scratch space at 00009484 until 0000948A
    ; original bytes =    830DA0DA038002
    ; assembled bytes =    90909090909090

    ASM Code:
    nop
    nop
    nop
    nop
    nop
    nop
    nop

    ; Jump patch section
    ; inject over 1 byte of scratch space at 00023F23
    ; original bytes =    75
    ; assembled bytes =    EB

    ASM Code:
    jmp     short loc_80033F34

    ; Jump patch section
    ; inject over 1 byte of scratch space at 00023F6F
    ; original bytes =    75
    ; assembled bytes =    EB

    ASM Code:
    jmp     short loc_80033F91


     

     

  15. Bad Tsop Flash Recovery?

    in TSOP Flashing

    Posted

    Flashing red is a eeprom problem.  And the recovery bios ain't work if you had a EvoX m8+ plus on your TSOP. iND is a gamble and Cerbios is more or less unknow but I would say it will also not work. So if you not had a super old m7, x2 w.e. bios on your TSOP, buy a modchip or flash the TSOP with an external programmer. 

  22. Help with XBlast Aladdin upgrade

    in Modchips

    Posted

    32 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

    Yes, I DO need help here. Ryzee is the only one among us who has said that he has used UrJTAG to flash a CPLD, as far as I know. 

    I  used it but used win7x64. Right now on win10x64 but still have my nvme with 7 in the PC and also have 2 retro PC's with Win98+XP and one with XP + Win 7 x32 (And a a old  10 Euros Toshiba Laptop with Win2K which I use to flash XBit Modchips). 

  23. Help with XBlast Aladdin upgrade

    in Modchips

    Posted

    Just now, Bowlsnapper said:

    Maybe I should just get the clone that modz is using in his video instead of all this stupid crap.

    It's around 50 bucks and you don't need it. And if you buy it you would still need a 10 bucks retro rig down so the road. 

    13 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

    They're installed.... Something is missing... It's a USB driver library

    Noooooooo way? Is it? (Hope you get the joke here since it's maybe unclear).

    14 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

    Wish I could ask Ryzee for help. Oh well.

    Do I need to write something about it? I guess no. Hope you learned something. 

     

    What you can do is -> @KaosEngineer . Maybe he can help. 

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