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Lol, i had the same thought.
Seriously though, what the fuck?
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There must be a step to this process that i'm not aware of when it comes to this particular xbe. Why is this happening?
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21 minutes ago, KaosEngineer said:
The OpenXenium modchip is the latest released. They were selling for $20; however, today they sell for $35. Shop around on ebay as prices vary greatly from one seller to another. It supports multiple BIOSes and has its own Operating System, XeniumOS, that controls the modchip's feature set.
Aladdin XT plus 2 (aka Aladdin XT 4032) clones used to be $4 each. Today they are $15 or more. So, the OpenXenium does cost more but has a lot of additional features.
See Ryzee119's github repository for more information - Ryzee119/OpenXenium - Open Source Xenium Modchip
The Aladdin XT plus 2 clones only have 1 256KB BIOS bank and no additional features such as an FTP server or utilities to prepare a new hard drive that the OpenXenium has.
There's also the XeniumICE by NeMesiS. Another clone of the original Xenium modchip but with the original's same form factor.
Glad to know I'm not alone in my opinion that the openxenium is the superior chip and well worth the few extra bucks.
Boy, I wish we could get R3dux rolling...
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Wow. Tl gamer may have taken some methamphetamine during his life, huh?
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15 minutes ago, JohnnyHUN said:
To be honest, during the past 20 years I always took my consoles to experienced fellas who did the modding, for example chipping the PS1, or bought the consoles that were already modded, and usually there was only one main method like for example the ps3 with rogero cfw + multiman, and they were easy to set up. But now no experienced services modding xboxes, and I have an unmoded xbox so I dont want to buy an other one just because its already modded. And xboxes quite hard to mod for me, because i need a bunch of tools i dont have ( for example splinter cell) and I am not familiar with soldering either
But i guess I have to learn it because nobody would help me I mean personally, so I ask here the questions that my brain pop out and found no answer in forums
Okay. Yeah, softmodding is easiest for people with no real hardware modification skills. But i really don't recommend it, for a number of reasons. But it just isn't as great as a hardmod and often requires you to jump through hoops to do something that a hardmod would enable you to do in seconds or just minutes. Plus, it's really easy to fuck up your installation if you're not careful. A hardmod is the way to go. I would't doubt that somebody here would do the install for you, if you asked.
A ps1 was the 1st console i modded when i was 9. Only 4 wires!
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I am curious as to how a question like this would even come up. What is your understanding of both types of mods in the first place?
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6 hours ago, KaosEngineer said:
Halo 1 CZN +10 Trainer Download
https://legacy.downloads.diomtec.com/homebrew/warchives/xbox-saves/files/czn-halo.zip
IPSWin 2.0 Download
IPSWin 2.0 - The Tech Game (requires one to sign up to their website with a free account to download the file.)
Ah, I found it elsewhere too:
Romhacking.net - Utilities - IPSWin
However, in their description of IPSWin, they suggest using a different application:
Dude, you're the man, kaos. Thank you very much!
You know, for an engineer of kaos you sure do bring a lot of order and understanding to this place.
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That shit is elusive now. Can't find it. Anybody still have the ips file and the ips application?
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25 minutes ago, 1.21jiggawatts said:
Any clue when this will be back in stock??? @electron-shepherd
This may be a solution for getting rid of the Pound Cables that flicker on and off @Bowlsnapper
Do you have the soldering skills to install the MakeMhz XboxHD+? That is the ultimate solution.
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28 minutes ago, 1.21jiggawatts said:
Here is the update. Got everything cleaned up, bought another stock Xbox and swapped the drives while the belt is in the mail. took the 2Tb new drive and put it on another PC and loaded up FatXplorer 3.0 and set up the drive. Transferred over the drives and got it working. Then loaded Xpartitioner 1.3 and got drives F and G setup and working with 949 GB each. transferred over Xbox HDD Ready and CoinOps 8 Massive.
Sent pound HDMI support an email and they responded asking me for my amazon order number and that they would ship me out another one to verify the other is defective. I tried changing every setting on my TV (new Sony Bravia 950) to no avail.
Now that i have this 2nd Xbox (v1.2), picked up another OpenXenium chip, 2tb, and IDE/SATA. Yanked the motherboard, removed clock capacitor, replaced thermal paste, then when the first is done ill use that app that clones xbox drives and maybe give it to a friend.
Really wish i could find a OGX360 internal, but i messaged N64 and he is no longer producing, and no one has duplicated. There is one guy in UK semi duplicating, but it takes your original ports away instead of splicing into them leaving the original functioning should you want to play with an OG corded connector, and it does not have a case. So I guess i am going to try to get a OGX360 external.
Also trying to figure out a way to add a WiFi card nicely. I wonder why we can just tap in an add a USB port on the back and mount a small WiFi bridge with Ethernet connection on the back of the case. Internally would be nice, but all the videos I've seen while they work are kind of sloppy and i dont want to be hacking into my case with a dremel.
Right on, man. You've been busy in all the right ways.
The ogx360, i'm sure, can be done internally if you're willing to put in enough custom work and soldering.
If you want wifi without doing an internal game adapter and it's just for when you are at a friends house or something, you could bring a laptop, connect to the wifi and then hook up the box with a crossover cable and bridge the connection... But it's just not the real thing, huh?
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1 hour ago, XboxGuy said:
Some time back I bought a board with the 1.4 interposer mod already installed but unfortunately didn’t have time to mess with it until now. Checked his GitHub and saw references that say XBMC will always report 1.4 regardless of the switch setting. Is there a way I can confirm if the switch is actually switching between 733 and 1.4? I tried several retail games from disc without patching which I understand should have issues but both worked with the switch on or off. I also verified the blue led on the interposer stays on regardless of switch setting.
thanks in advance
Maybe an emulator with a game that's known to lag without significant boost? Run the arcade game R-TYPE Leo. Flip the switch while running that, and you should see a huge difference.
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1 hour ago, MadMartigan said:
I just started from scratch and made sure to not skip any steps. I think I figured out what was wrong this time. So far everything is working fine. Now however, I’m running into a fatal error after installing and attempting to load Artwork installer from the downloader. I tried a reinstall and nothing has changed. I’m so done with this damn soft mod.
Well that looks familiar! i ran into that last week! Happened when i tried to change something with my leftover softmod shortcut.
CoughOPENXENIUM!coughcough...
ahem... Exfuckin'scuse me.
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16 minutes ago, KaosEngineer said:
Does this xbox need a new flux capacitor?
No; however, the modified Xbox BIOS loading from the modchip needs to have the Err16 Fix, not all do.
Heh. A flux capacitor is what the DeLorean uses to travel through time.
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19 minutes ago, amak79 said:
FATXplorer created a 120 GB F partition and a G partition with all remaining space. Can I use XBpartitioner to only create an F partition with all available space or does a G partition have to exist as well?
Each can hold just under 1tb, Google "og xbox 2tb xbpartitioner 1.3" and you'll see how it's done. No big deal. You may have to throw the last 70gigs or so on g:.
There i go posting vague and possibly incorrect info again...
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25 minutes ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
Here you see whre you can thank, like, cry etc. : https://imgur.com/a/o4qHEKx Just hover over that icon and pick what you like.
See, that was easy right?
How ever, glad your HDD is working now and you can finaly enjoy your XBox.
I think it only shows up in a full browser. Not showing up on my phone. Damn, i can't wait to get consistent pc access... Bout another month...
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2 hours ago, 1.21jiggawatts said:
YOU ARE AWESOME.
Ok, so i pulled my new 2TB and put it into another computer and used Fatxplorer 1.3 beta to format and preload C and E then when booting i got:
setting on IDE/SATA adapter:
cable - error 5
slave - error 7
master - error 5
acd - error 5
Scratching my head i looked up error 5 which is HDD not locked. I had to remove to clean back of motherboard thinking the capacitor may have damaged the eject etc. I then re positioned the chip carefully and got the pin into the correct place, and WALA it loaded into Unleash X.
So now onto the next issues
1) my Pound HDMI cable is making the screen go black every minute or two for 1 second at a time. I have the usb plugged into the same tv as the hdmi is, and i tried it into a samsung wall charger and getting a similar issue.
2) G: drive showing 0 free, F drive saying like 123 GB free. So i am assuming the partitioning isnt setup correct. Opened up Xpartitioner and got the error "LBA48 info not found! Custom Partitions will not work with this BIOS! update your BIOS to one which supports at least LBA48 version 2. What should i update to?
Does this xbox need a new flux capacitor?
Glad you got the chip working. Nice work.
I actually have the same 1 second screen glitch. I'm hoping it's the shitty hdmi converter box i'm using... It's been fixed by some by replacing the big caps by the cpu, but not all the time. What are you using to get hdmi?
I would flash the x2 5035.67 bios. That should get you lba48 support, bios-wise.
The flux capacitor is fucking bulletproof. You just need fuel!
Edit: i've been trying to research your chip and it appears to have 1mb but i think it requires certain dip settings to set up for a 512kb bank. However i can't find any useful documentation about the chameleon, including flash instructions. Are you able to identify your current bios using any dashes or other software?
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2 hours ago, 1.21jiggawatts said:
Lol remember it was in a college house, I am sure half of that was resin as well. I almost spit out my drink reading your reply! So my question to you is how do i boot my dash and re flash without a working DVD drive? Do you recommend replacing the clock capacitor anyway? I could probably grab a old DVD drive out of my other computer to get it going, but don't want to have a cd tray ejecting and closing all the time.
Ah, good ol' resin...
As long as the old capacitor is gone, you're good. It's not necessary on your version.
As per recent advice from sweetdarkdestiny regarding these circumstances, do me a favor and format that 2tb with fatxplorer on pc (to address the error 16) and then use "ogxbox installer 2021 v1.5.3 beta2 + xboxhdm for fatxplorer". Copy the files over to the 2tb using fatxplorer and you should be rolling with a bootable system. Follow the readme in the installer. We'll tackle the dvd drive after.
Like the username, btw.
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4 minutes ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
I don't know if it only happends with SATA drives. If I just have to speak for me, I have to say yes, only SATA. I just own 2 IDE drives (Which I use for testing) and had never a problem with them.
But I also have to say that not all SATA drives show that behavior. Once I had 2 HGST HDD (2.5") both with 500GB (Same model). One worked right away and the other trow a error at me. So it's like I wrote just a mystery until someone with a shitload of skill and the right tools on hand run into the same issue and start to explore why this is happening.
Very odd... Good info, though. I would react to your post with a
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2 minutes ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
I got your "joke" the first time.
How ever, there is no topic about how to fix the error 16. I stumbled over it one time. I had an HDD that had an error 16 and I tried XBHDM. And to my surprise it worked. Next time I got that error I tried the same with FatXplorer and how it turned out, it worked as well.
So I can't tell you why but it worked many times since then for me.
Well, hell. You can't argue with results! That is very curious though. Is it an issue that only happens with sata drives? I've never had a problem dropping in a brand new blank IDE drive, booting an installer dvd and setting it up.
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16 minutes ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
Because the HDD get checked on boot and send an error (16) he can't boot an DVD. Got that error (16) my self a lot of times and formating it on the PC always solved the problem.
So the answer to your question/guess is a yes.
And no here will get "DICKslapped". Except you like that but then this is the wrong forum here.
Okay. Thanks for the info buddy. I need to do a lot more reading and a lot less aimless posting. I'm eager to help but if i'm not familiar with the issue and i'm making assumptions then that's just annoying.
Also, please believe me when i say that if i were ever dickslapped in any sort of literal sense, i would be, justifiably, very upset.
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52 minutes ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
The HDD is master. Slave will fail and cable select can work in some rare cases.
The error is what we are going to fix with FatXplorer. XBHDM could do the same but why bother?
After he formatet his disk on the PC the job is done and the error 16 is gone. The rest is a mystery.
... Wow. I had it BACKWARDS? That is an embarrassingly noob mistake. I deserve to get relentlessly DICKslapped for that. Christ in a china shop...
Still, he should be able to boot a dvd with the hd set to master or cs. The fact that he can't makes me suspect his dvd drive or cable has an issue... Or is there a reason why a dashboard clock issue would keep dvd media from booting?
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Also, try swapping in another dvd drive. Even a pc drive powered externally. You may be able to boot an installer that is burnt as a regular data disc (non-xdvdfs) if you have to use a pc drive.
Sometimes it works if the dvd drive is dead. Error 7 isn't always a hd issue!
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8 minutes ago, sweetdarkdestiny said:
DL : OGXBox Installer 2021 - v1.5.3 beta 2 For FatXplorer + XBoxHDM.zip
Install FatXplorer 3.0 like written in the read me.txt and copy the content of the C folder to your C partition and to the same with the E folder (E partition).
after that your xbox should boot.
And jumper the adapter to master.
Wait, isn't the dvd drive master? Wtf? Also, shouldn't he be able to boot a disc with proper jumper settings regardless of what's present on his hd?
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Nice little tutorial, buddy!