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7 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:
WOW! How have I not seen this yet!? I am a tool! My foot is in my mouth!
Host machine has the advantage? How?
the client xboxes have to send and receive updates to and from the xbox acting as a server. There is latency in both directions. The host xbox has no such thing. It doesn't need to wait on updates. It's current version of events is what the player on that xbox sees no matter the latency from the other xboxes. They never have any sort of lag at all while the other players do have some... even if it is small. It doesn't take much latency at all to give a HUGE advantage. That's why the host xbox wins more times than not.
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8 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:
I can't imagine, logically, why hosting the game on an extra Xbox would cut down on "lag". Any modern router should be able to handle the load of a 20 year old TCP system link. As far as I'm aware, there is no server-only version of Halo, for the Xbox, 1 or 2. Nah disregard this. You shouldn't have any latency problems.
And since that's the case, don't worry about RAM amounts.
The only real advantage to the extra ram is being able to run some arcade games that were ported over, running heavier emulators that are prone to crashing on 64mb of RAM (like surreal64) and running most of the 720p .xbe files for retail games. And maybe some video files that cause XBMC to crash.
It's called Halo NHE or neutral host edition
https://halo1nhe.com/
The host xbox always has host advantage. People have done some videos to prove it. This make the host xbox an NPC and therefore nobody playing is hosting. -
39 minutes ago, Mu. said:
Sounds good, I can see it easily being a 512kb BIOS which will make TSOP users like myself a little upset.
If you have a 1.0 or 1.1 you'll be fine.
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2 hours ago, JohnnyHUN said:
I have the ROM, installed to the HDD, but it's not appearing in my game list, every other game I installed is there and playable, but not this one. I tried multiple versions from the internet, same results. What do I missing? Or its a game that is only playable from the DVD like that couple other?
If it has default.xbe 1 folder below the "Games" folder where your other games are located, it will be picked up by the dashboard.
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10 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said:
Forgive me if this is something that can be found by searching, but I haven't found it:
Is there currently any chip in production that supports the X3 bios? It seems like the only ones around have 256k flashes, unless I'm mistaken
The X3 bios is for the X3 chip. I think they made a stripped down version that you could run on a 1MB modchip but there isn't really any reason to do it.
The Open Xenium is currently in production and it's similar. I don't believe it will run an X3 bios but they have their own alternative. -
6 hours ago, KaosEngineer said:
Network switches only allow traffic to their connected device's MAC address. All other traffic is filter out. System Link may rely on all devices seeing all network traffic to establish a session.
A hub does not filter network traffic. All ports receive data packets sent from all other port attached devices.
The xbox functions just fine connected to a switch. System Link functions at Layer 2. Even though it will give 0.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.2 ip's to the devices, this doesn't really matter. Broadcasts go out through a switch just fine.
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19 hours ago, SuperAkuma said:
This may be my ignorance so please throw a flag and help me better understand where needed. I nulled out both HDDs with 32 instances of the character 1 and wrote out the eeprom prior to locking the drive (same process on both units), is this a consequence of what you mention?
If you just nulled the hdd key, I don't think that would cause this. There is much more in the eeprom than just the hdd key though. If you nulled the entire eeprom, yeah that's what caused this.
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This will happen when there is a version mismatch of the game itself. It will also happen when there is a version mismatch of retail / debug bios I've unexpectedly found.
Your networking settings inside of your dashboard have no effect on your system link game. System link uses its own networking and ignores anything else.
Did you happen to clone eeproms? If both devices have the same mac address it will cause problem such as this. -
On 11/22/2021 at 6:13 PM, big F said:
WTF you mean all these years I have removed the capacitors, and I should have left them in place to rot the boards……………Dang, coulda been doing something more productive.
That of course isn't what I was saying. Please try to pay attention from now on.
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2 hours ago, Pickle said:
Right the 1.5 is basically a unicorn version. I have the focus chip so it should be 1.4.
So that probably the biggest issue i have is that the dvd (phillips) wont read the discs anymore.
Im thinking of using that tool i saw to create an image on a harddrive from windows. I have another ide drive I think i will try this on.
unicorn is a good term because everything you search says it exists except NOBODY and I do mean NOBODY has ever seen one.
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8 minutes ago, ShadyBlues said:
Hey guys, just wondering if someone could confirm a suspicion of mine.
So a while ago I dug out my old OG Xbox (V1.3 I believe) and found it wasn't working, it would switch on for a couple seconds then power off again. Did some research and found that the dreaded clock cap had leaked and one of the traces on the back was broken. So I removed the motherboard with the intention of repairing it, but then life got in the way and I didn't have the time so it sat in pieces for the best part of a year before I found the time to fix it. So I managed to remove the clock cap and clean the board, then I jumped the broken trace with a wire between the test points. (All good there, no shorts that I could find)
I also changed the thermal paste on the GPU and CPU to Arctic MX4 while I was at it.
So I put it all back together again, plugged it into my old SCART tv, it turns on from the power button fine, has a solid green light, you can hear the hard drive starting up too (still has the original in it right now) but there is no audio or video output to the tv. I tried a different AV cable but got the same result, and I know the tv is good cause my Sega Saturn works fine through the SCART.
Also worth mentioning that the DVD drive (Samsung) won't open by it's self. I cleaned up the belt and greased the slides but same result. I tried it with the top of the DVD drive off so I could see and it looks like the laser moves about like it wants to open but the motor makes no attempt to spin up.
So in short I have a V1.3 Xbox that shows a solid green light, No video, No audio and the DVD drive doesn't open.
From what I've read on here so far it sounds like I may have a corrupt BIOS/coma console on my hands (though I heard V1.0 and V1.1 were more prone to that).
What do you guys think?
can we see some high res pics of the board?
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6 hours ago, xretrogamedevx said:
So realistically if I'm using StarTech IDE/SATA adapter with an 80 pin cable and I'm getting massive problems it's more likely than not the cable?
with any ide to sata adapter, you HAVE to use the 80 wire cable. If it gives you problems, replace it with a new 80 wire cable. They don't work properly with the 40 wire. It will always do what yours is doing.
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2 hours ago, SS_Dave said:
I am leaning toward the 80 way IDE cable as the old hard drive should work with it and I have had a cable that was intermittent on the DVD plug (it had a bad crimp on the 40 pin plug).
I would say the sata2ide is all good.
Cheers
SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.You are 100% correct. The ide to sata adapters (even if they appear to) don't work correctly with the 40 wire ide cable. You MUST use the 80 wire.
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Most 1.6 bioses are not compatible with 1.2. That is most likely the case.
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It flashes orange for a few reasons. Usually overheating. It could also be (if orange and green) that you don't have an av cable plugged in. Others say it could be a solder splash.
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4 hours ago, SS_Dave said:
Yes but why?
I copied Avalaunch, Unleash, MSdash to f:/apps
You need to change the avalaunch.xbe to default.xbe and the same with the others and they appear slow to load.
Cheers
SS Dave
Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.If these dashboards are trying to reach out to sites that don't exist anymore for things like RSS feeds, backgrounds, music... they will take FOREVER to load.
The first load up of unleashx extracts a zip file contained within the xbe that has the default skin in it and caches several items. So that can cause slowdown.
XBMC has been the most well maintained and as such is generally the fastest for me. -
7 hours ago, Maverick923 said:
I found this on reddit, but it did not looking it was ever resolved.Changed the 3 caps under the CPU and now sound but no picture! Any ideas?
I am having the same issue where I had to replace 5 blown caps, but afterwards I am getting no video. I can hear the boot animation, but I get no video.I have reflowed many times. Not sure where exactly to start checking. Any help would be appreciated.
Are you certain you got the polarity correct on them? I concur with providing pictures of both sides of the board.
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59 minutes ago, Swirlygiver said:
It turns out it does work. Just takes a while to load the first time.
This is a TSOP v1.0. Is it possible to have two dashboards, with an option to pick which on boot?
I’m using iND-5003.67 patched bios
There is currently nothing out there that provides that option.
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12 hours ago, blueskygeek said:
I was given two broken original Xbox consoles to try and fix. After fixing the issues with one of them, I tried to test it. As I didn't have a controller for it I bought an adapter like the one in the picture (Adapter) to try and use either a USB arcade stick or one of my wired controllers for PC, Xbox 360, or Xbox One. I eventually bought a controller for it as I could not get anything to work with this adapter. So I am wondering, does this adapter serve any purpose? Has anybody gotten an arcade stick kit like the one in the second picture to work on the original Xbox?
USB physical connections don't mean much. Just because it fits doesn't mean it is going to work. There needs to be a driver that tells the Xbox how to use the device plugged into it. In the case of the Xbox, that will not exist. It's not like your pc where people submit their drivers to Windows Update and it just automatically pulls them down when you plug a new device in. That seems to happen so automatically and seamlessly that people have no idea that it is occurring. That's why people think if you just plug something into USB that it's automatically going to work when the physical connection means basically nothing.
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51 minutes ago, ironspyder1734 said:
You could probably get the job done with that but 18.00 for all of that means it's got to be pretty low quality.
Obviously you will get diminishing returns but jobs are always easier and have a higher chance of success when you have good tools.
Just using really nice silver bearing solder will improve your work tremendously. The small things add up to make a big difference. -
On 4/20/2021 at 3:56 AM, javiertoti said:
A new member here, just reading the issue with the downloads. Could you put this info in the same place that the download folder? I believe it would be faster for the new users find the suscription option.
Blesings.That would be nice. Unfortunately the forum software has no such way to set that. If I modify the skin to put it there, it gets wiped out each time the forum/skin need updates which is every couple of weeks.
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1 hour ago, alfredo2 said:
You are definitely not wrong there, really just the original xbox as whole I tend to worry about. So many great memories.
nothing can be 100% protected from a careless owner. The good news is, the mistake will only cost you around $30.00 to replace and start over.
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Your dvd drive is failing. It's not reading the game partition and only reading it as though it's a dvd movie.
Board Life Status
Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48
HALO 2 | System link
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That's exactly right. In the peer to peer model like this, the kills are decided by the host.
Halo 2 was a client-side hit detection model. So while the clients still report back positioning to the server, the client decides if a hit took place and notifies the server of that.