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Bowlsnapper
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All of that makes sense, I admit. I'm just accustomed to having full access to the filesystem of any device I use and it makes me feel better and more in control. Also makes it easier to run 720p versions of games, since you can just drop the 720p version of the .xbe in the root folder of the game (even make a shortcut to it) and just execute it. No work, other than FTPing the executable over. Makes it easier to modify game contents as well, rather than extracting an iso, modifying contents, repacking and transferring back to the box. Ya know? Your point about cluster sizes is taken, though. Maybe it would be more fair to say that it's a preferrable way to do things rather than a "superior" way for certain people. When it comes to the games that only run as an emulated disc, then I would obviously be reliant on ISOs for those... but that's IT, man.
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I love this forum. It's home... Literally, this is my homepage. And sweet is the man.
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OMG. Your joke was so 1337 It went right over my middle-browed head. Respect! That was genius. ... Do I really type that much? Lol. Such an odd problem. I thought QLED was just an LCD backlight gate behind an actual LCD display. How on earth does that end up complicating things? Weird. The ES adapter does seem like God Tier material. Would like to get a hold of one some time.
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Any idea why certain TV controller boards don't accept the signal from the HD+? I've seen what you're mentioning a few times, now. The common theme seems to be QLED.
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What's with the SQL database buffer overflow message in my quote? Did you see that? LOL.
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I realize that the last paragraph was meant to be a joke, but I don't understand it... other than the pizza store/conspiracy reference. Lol. The boot anims are cool, but it would be nice if it were built into the bios somehow instead of being an XBE. I agree that folders are superior. Also, less wasteful of space. I actually use IGR pretty often.
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LOL. "Too much to quote." I laughed for like 2 minutes straight at that. Okay, a few things: 1. Here is my full theory regarding HD+ support: MakeMHZ has known for a while now that they were planning to release Stellar/StellarOS. It didn't just come out of nowhere. The HD+ profits were probably used to fund production costs for the Stellar design. It was probably easier to develop an HDMI encoder first, so that's what they went with. They needed a way for consumers to use it or nobody would buy it. So they picked a BIOS that was popular enough (but lacking more advanced/attractive features) and ONLY that BIOS, and that enabled people to use the HD+. However, since they wanted to be able to sell the SHIT out of Stellar, they held back on support for other BIOSes. They wanted Stellar to have the selling point of featuring a BIOS AND hardware hookups that would provide the most compatible-ass HD+ experience possible; along with having support for RAM upgrades (256MB? WTF is that about?) and large HD support, among other things. It looks like (as long as their product's claims are legit) it will provide that. But they've gone and been shady in the process. Maybe in 2003 I would have believed an excuse like, "I don't want to damage my reputation by supporting/enabling the use of pirated/modified firmware or software." But it's 2022. Nobody cares about the 20 year old, questionable origins of a current bios of a console that's been obsolete for 3 generations... and being used by a niche minority of people who remain mostly unknown by the public. Blow it out your ass. Now, that being said, I will probably buy Stellar, since it looks badass and I support any project that was well thought out and well done... but I WILL feel slightly guilty about it. Which brings me to point 2. 2. I agree with you about the open-source point. I will build a Stellar/HD+ box. HOWEVER, I would also like to build a box with a chip that rivals the Stellar. It would be nice if the OpenXenium were still being sold in a semi-professional capacity, instead of relying on purchasing from this forum or friggin' eBay. If CerBIOS found a means to release their OWN chip (or start selling OpenXeniums with XeniumOS and CerBIOS already on it) that would be TITS. Combine that with an open-source HDMI solution, like you mentioned, and you have a pretty decent, honest feel-good package for the people that don't want to support what they might view as the next Team Xecuter. In fact, I think I'm going to explore facilitating this (we'll see :p) 3. Maybe Team CerBIOS could finagle HD+ support, but I suspect that MakeMHZ would find a way to block it, like a corporation would.
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Need help making ATX PSU work on a 1.2-1.5
Bowlsnapper replied to bringusstudios's topic in Hardware Mods
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Our language barrier is both hilarious and fun.
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SO you're saying that the scaling resolutions you found are for placing things like the HUD in the right places, but not the actual resolution that the game is being rendered in. I think I understand.
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That's SICK, dude. I like the idea of the thick metal. Would probably give the case a nice feeling of weight and solidity.
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Isn't titan just a set of patches? Pretty sure a LOT of mainstream BIOSes have been patched with Titan. Also, I just want to point out that the custom boot animations are just XBE files that the bios has been programmed to load/boot FIRST, then once they are done, either the bios then loads a dash executable or the boot animation XBE loads the dash when it's done playing. I'm not sure which, because my knowledge is shit.
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Okay, I dunno who the hell RedHerring32 is, but this pisses me off. He's referring to the fact that CerBIOS is based on a hacked version of the MS bios... Aren't they ALL? "Wildly different than what the patches were written for." Well,lah-de-dah. Wouldn't want to taint your reputation by allowing for the support of a TWENTY YEAR OLD PIECE OF FRIGGIN' FIRMWARE that MS probably couldn't care less about at this point. Isn't the M8 a hacked version of the MS bios? IT has an HD+ patch available. So why does IT get one and CerBIOS doesnt? What's the difference? Why does anything have to be "written" differently? This sounds like bullshit.
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Stellar HAS to have a bios or the friggin console won't boot. My guess is that StellarOS is kind of a UEFI level configuration tool for a bios that they've designed from the ground up. I believe they've even mentioned that they've developed a bios for it, in the Stellar product description. I think it's like X3 ConfigLive, but WAY nicer. A proprietary BIOS and configuration tool, just like Xecuter 3. You would still have a dash to boot to... I don't think StellarOS is a dashboard. Of course, this is all speculation. I'm just going by my experience of how mods for the Xbox traditionally work.
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Keep it up, buddy!
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I wonder if you could just use OGXHD without any custom hex editing? I never even thought of that, but it's still an .xbe just like any other. I'm not in a place where I could try it, or I would right now.
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Holy monkey. Are you going to do the TSOP flash? Are you just trying to pull your data so you can have your gamesaves and games and then just wipe out C, put it back in and use an installer disc to put a regular dash on there? That's what I would do.
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Such a waste of space. One reason why folders are king, in my opinion. Edit: I thought 2TB Origins had all the titles on it?
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Am I the only one who feels like this is a very STUPID problem to have? Isn't there a way for us to patch a bios ourselves to work with any 256k bios of our choosing?.. or does MakeMHZ have the only means of applying a functional patch to any given bios of THEIR choosing? I'm assuming that this would become irrelevant with their upcoming Stellar chip and StellarOS. But, that's an amount of money that I know a decent amount of people will not want to pay if they can help it. As a traditional conspiracy theorist, part of me wonders if they are hesitant to patch them because they want to encourage people to go with Stellar... Hmmmm.
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Dude, holy shit. That's awesome! Nice work Felipe! You should post a thread with the HL2 xbe you patched so we can use it! So it'll run on 64MB of RAM. That's good news. Do you experience any framerate stuttering or slowdowns, or does it run pretty smoothly? Edit: Oh, it still has the mosaic problem. Well, that might be why it's running so well, It's running at 720x720. That would keep the framerates decent and the framebuffer from running out of RAM Keep at it, man. I would be VERY impressed if you could find the right hex address for horizontal resolution. Okay, I am confused from reading the posts. Felipe, is HL2 still in mosaic, or did you fix that problem?
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This is true, due to your awesomeness. I second Kaos's opinion, 24. I should have mentioned conductive paint and TSOP flashing. WAY less stressful than soldering without experience. Kudos, Kaos. Use Sweet's All-in-One TSOP flashing tool. It'll simplify the process significantly.
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Congratulations on fixing HL2. This happens (the tiling problem) because the game has been improperly patched by OGXHD, resulting in the game being rendered in 720x720, I believe. So basically, the horizontal resolution was not edited at the proper address. These odd games just require trial and error. Some make it, and some don't... You got HL2 to render in 1280x720 properly? Has it ever been done before?
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Sorry for asking this, but is there any particular reason why you would prefer to go with softmodding as opposed to just chipping? Trying to maintain a useful softmod tends to result in headaches like this.
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Are you saying that the games is "tiled" and is showing up in identical boxes next to each other?
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