[128mb RAM Upgrade worth it for Coin Ops 8?]

On 1/14/2022 at 1:29 PM, alcatraz68 said:

I'm trying to play arcade games, certain ones such as Turbo Outrun, Outrunners, Outzone, and Donpachi to name a few.

I'm actually using CoinOps 8 and Final Burn Legends btw so it's not just a CoinOps thing. Donpachi and Outzone have bad fps drops in CoinOps but run great in Final Burn on my stock Xbox, unfortunately Outrunners isn't in Final Burn so I'm stuck with the CoinOps version.

But regardless neither application shows performance improvements with the 128mb ram, Turbo Outrun plays at around 40 - 48fps in Final Burn on both my regular console and 128mb console.

I made the assumption myself that the patched IND-5003.67 bios came with the ability to use 128mb of RAM without having to add that ability in the bios settings.

I'm a bit new to using bios files that require you to tweak the config file, i previously just used the M8+ bios where any amendments to the bios were either processed already or needed to be done through the EvTool app.

Anyway, I'd reccomend looking at the config file just to make sure that the USEUSEALLMEMORY field is set to 1 rather than 0.

[Help patching 128MB ram usage to xbe using Linux]

I really appreciate the help guys, thank you

I've got a few xbe files patched now and ready to test.

I'm using the Rocky5 patched IND-5003.67 Bios. It states that it is patched for 128mb of RAM. Looking at the config file that was made when i flashed the bios, the use all memory value is set to 0, do i still need to change the value to 1 in this patched version?

 

[Help patching 128MB ram usage to xbe using Linux]

57 minutes ago, MadMartigan said:

Doesn’t seem that the extra RAM will help gameplay of OG games. It’s typically more for home brew, dashboards, etc. 

Apparently games can benefit a lot from the delimit tool, which enables the games to use more RAM than a stock xbox.

I've had some games freeze when using widescreen and 480p patches. For example the game 'Whiplash' has a widescreen patch that i applied to my PAL copy but it ended up freezing early in the game, Undoing the hex edit on the xbe fixed the issue.

I'd be really grateful if someone could explain what strings of the xbe game files need to be edited to use more RAM, this would help me patch the xbe files using Linux.

[Help patching 128MB ram usage to xbe using Linux]

Hey all,

I've just got back into playing my original xbox and I've got XMBC4GAMERS set up on a new 2tb HDD.

Can anyone advise on patching xbe game files using Linux so that i can take advantage of 128mb of RAM?