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15 hours ago, prtscn said:
the compound used is sorta like a rubber, under heat it softens. like ps2 rubber pad, but more advanced and more efficient. same for cpu.
More advanced and more efficient than what?
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3 hours ago, prtscn said:
i get dirty disc error, any hdd fix or tutorial?
You probably have a bad rip. Re-rip the dvd with dvd2xbox.
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1 hour ago, shadowfire36 said:
what is a dead drive ?
how is that possible ? my hd works perfectly fine, if i change it with an other dvd drive than he dead one i get error 13-- i have tried 5 different drives
(including a samsung 616dt)all 5 drives(including the 1.6's dvd) work in other xbox's just not the 1.6
There is some other variable you're leaving out. The original Xbox dvd drives are 100% NOT LOCKED to the motherboard. They didn't start doing that with dvd drives until xbox 360. Most of us here have swapped every different type of dvd drive into every different xbox. We know that isn't what is going on. Wipe that from your mind and start looking for other variables.
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19 minutes ago, keivah said:
Hello ladies and gents. I am new here but I have been in the console modding biz for quite a long time now. It just so happens doing the boat load of digging I do on a normal night of nothing, I might have stumbled on the biggest Xbox archive I've seen since ISO zone.
I'll comment back if it's a false alarm or not since I have not extracted any ISO images from this site yet.
Don't share that link here. This site is not for piracy.
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5 minutes ago, thewolftakeover said:
Idk, I would never lose that source. And true, you interested in helping with the neXgen project? It's our best shot at not starting from ground zero.
Of course I am.
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4 hours ago, thewolftakeover said:
I've been looking all over trying to find the devs. It's harder than ever now. The IRC chat is vacant. The site is defunct. Other have suggested starting from scratch or going for neXgen dash source and working my way up.
I really wanted the unleash x source code but it proved impossible. Even if we were to contact these people, the odds of them having that data anymore is extremely unlikely.
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15 hours ago, thewolftakeover said:
I've been using EvoX's telnet features to poke around with memory with games. Have been making some progress with Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller. Haven't made a trainer yet, but have ran into some concerns:
1. I would like to have better control over value much more like Cheat Engine would have.
2. Too many games close out access to the Debugger (notably Fight Night Round 3 and THPS4)
3. A live memory edit would be nice
4. Working with floats does NOT have to be this hard.
5. CXBX is just a nightmare to work with.
Does anyone have any solution to these problems? Does anyone care?
We can dump the entire memory using scripts. That's a start, I just haven't started on it. Actually Putty isn't working for this job. An
In conclusion, can anyone provide EvoX / RemoteX source code so we can work on the telnet feature?
Big thanks to: mandragor for EvoX Trainers Telnet v1.1
I don't believe that source code was ever released. Unless an original dev happens upon this thread and happens to want to give it out... odds are very very slight.
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The minimum isn't 5 posts. You have to be an active member for a while. If you're looking for downloads without participating in our community, the download you're wanting can be found elsewhere.
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43 minutes ago, Roxas said:
I was just wondering, too
A little information in the message would be helpful
It would... unfortunately I've went through the forum code extensively and have yet to find the message so that I can modify it.
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11 hours ago, HDShadow said:
Love to say I agree but, with respect, it looks unfinished and unpolished.
I do not want to step on anyone's toes here but these are meant as honest criticisms (BTW in most cases easily fixed):-
1.The free memory display overlapping the dash version.
2.Date display overlapping the main menu.
3.Chip ID overlapping the main menu.
4.CPU/MB Temp and C:\ free space not well aligned.
5.Preview area neither 4:3 or WS.
6.Main menu items not all same upper/lower case and whilst very readable bland default font choice.
7.All that space on the right unused and at the bottom too; better place for Temp. display.
8. 4:3 skin design format may not adapt attractively to WS which most users are going to be using.
9. There will be resolution display issues too in 720p and 1080i as the skin.xml info menu items do not include any X/Y scaling.
Functional and usable undoubtedly but is anyone here really going to use this in preference to, for instance, any of the ones in KaosEngineers' Top 10 UX skins? Rocky5 also drew up a similar list of good quality, well finished UX skins a few years ago and his XB Softmodding Tool skin, which is basically a UX one, is none too shabby either.
If it or something like this is going to offered as a OGXbox Forum recommended UX skin I would think one based on the Forums own colour scheme and design would be something worth working on.
Most of those issues go away when it's in widescreen. That's what it was created with.
As far as the forum colors and matching... I change them semi frequently. I understand you don't like the skin but most of your commentary is quite off the mark when you actually use it in widescreen. -
Welcome Jim! We'll be happy to help you on your journey.
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Welcome and thank you for your service.
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49 minutes ago, coptimus said:
Hello everyone. I've asked this question on FB, but would like to verify with this crowd here.
I have softmodded an v1.6 using Rocky5 most recent version. I would like to swap to a 2TB SATA drive. I understand this can be done with a hot swap, cloning the original drive with chimp and then formatting with xb partitioner.
Is this correct? Why does this work if the bios is supposed to need LBA-48 to see a large drive? Is it because each partition is small enough to not need LBA-48?
Thanks in advance.
It needs LBA-48 to read anything larger than 137 gb.
So since softmodding is just getting the xbox to replace the bios in memory with a custom one, if you set an exploit to load a boot from media bios that supports lba-48 on the first 137gb it will gladly load it into memory and give you use of the rest of your drive. -
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13 hours ago, QuazyPat said:
Hey all!
I purchased an OG Xbox ~8 years ago from a PlayNTrade before all of them in my area closed down. I used it a bit at first and built up a small library of games, but then life happened so it sat in boxes with some of my older consoles for a while. I've been getting back into older games/collecting recently so I figured I should set it up and finally mod it.
I just completed a softmod using the Rocky5 tool (via Splinter Cell) which was a breeze. The only hold up was that I had to test several old flash drives before I found one that worked. Of course, it was the last one I tried.
My main purpose for modding is to create backups of my games for when the disk drive eventually dies, and so that I can play them off the HDD directly. I'm looking to download DVD2Xbox, but I see a message saying I don't have permission to download it. Is there something particular I have to do? Are the files hosted on another site?
Thanks,
Patrick
We don't allow people to just start downloading after they join. You have to be an active member of the community to do that.
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3 minutes ago, hapyman said:
Hi Admin,
Thank you for your reply. The DVD drive reads my retail XBOX games and audio CDs perfectly. So I don't think the DVD drive is failing.
It only has trouble reading the Hexen dvd. I was able to load the Hexen DVD during the initial TSOP stage. After TSOP, the Hexen is no longer loading.
I prefer to use the DVD to repair or fix any issues in the future if my HD fails. Any ideas?
Your logic is pretty flawed.
You think your drive is good because it reads pressed games and pressed audio cds perfectly, yet won't read your burned dvd.
You're describing a failing dvd drive to the letter. If you'd prefer to use the dvd drive, you may have to purchase another or you can try the pot tweak for your drive. -
It has nothing to do with that as literally everyone else who tsop flashes and runs Unleash X can read anything if their dvd drive works. Your dvd drive is nearing 20 years old. It's most likely on its way out as everyone else's is. You will be better served by FTP'ing anyways.
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40 minutes ago, GamerOne said:
Hi, just wondering if anyone can help me regarding connecting my Xbox one to my internet via a wired connection ( Ethernet cable ) we have recently just moved to new house and since then I’m able to use a wired connection wireless is NOT fine, there is nothing wrong with the Ethernet cable as it allows me to use it on internet. I have spoken to the house’s landlord it is service provider Bell (I am in CA) and they told me there was a few steps I could follow online and make my own server designated to my Xbox one, however they want me to purchase their router from them with password? I want to use my own router (as I have one Netgear) & settings that make my own server and at the end however it kept saying unable to connect due to no valid IP address, before I went into my router settings the Ethernet on its own works for xbox but not for my Playstation 3 with the same error msg no valid ip address found(when connected ethernet cable to PS3) ? Any help towards this would be appreciated cheers.
Set your router's wan to DHCP. Then plug the wan port into the ISP's ethernet cable. Plug all of your devices into the lan ports on the router.
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3 hours ago, shaokhann said:raduci in Inglese
Morning, boys. A friend flashed Atr the bios at an xbox 1.6 with aladdin xt and hdd 160 gb. He put a bios for 1.0-1.5 instead of a bios for xbox 1.6. Now the xbox gives error 5 always. Can I fix it?
You'll need to replace the sst 49lf020 with one that has a good bios for a 1.6. Once it boots and you go into evox or your flashing program of choice... you can swap the chips BEING VERY CAREFUL while doing so as the console is on. Then once the one with the bad flash is in, you can flash it with a good bios. This is called the hotswap method and can be risky if you're not careful.
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This is not a Xbox 360 group.
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57 minutes ago, MightyDawg said:
So say I'm building an XBOX annnnnnd I've got some XBOX360 consoles laying around, I'm wondering if the DVD drive will work? Technically the consensus has been ANY XBOX DVD drive is compatible with ANY XBOX
lol no. Xbox means Xbox... not Xbox 360 or Xbox One.
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1 hour ago, DobaMuffin said:
Hello everybody.
I recently got to thinking about the data retention of the flash memory used in the original xbox. I purchased an original xbox not to long ago that was basically a coma console in that it would have a green light, but no audio or video. Turns out the bios was corrupted or something similar and that it would boot with extreme difficulties after pressing the eject button a bunch of times until the drive ejected. Basically these symptoms.
I did manage to flash a custom bios onto the system and that solved the booting issues it was having, but that then leads me to what I have as a discussion today. Looking at the datasheet for the Winbond W49F020 series of flash memory used in my console, I notice that it has a data retention of 20 years. This means that it should hold the data for about 20 years no problem, but it seems like mine started having issues early. By what I can tell, to refresh this data and basically restart the countdown, I need to reflash the bios to the chip rewriting the data. This brings it back to a state where the data is properly stored and is ready to last another 15-20 years. My only concern about the whole thing is that flashing a new bios can go wrong and cause the console not to boot without a mod chip.
My question to someone more knowledgeable than me in this topic is, are we going to see more and more stock consoles fail to boot due to corrupt bioses in the up and coming years? I know that 1.0 and 1.1 consoles already have some issues with their 1mb flash chips, but will all sorts of version have issues? ie, 1.0 - 1.6? Is this just a limitation of anything using flash memory in a component used to boot up? I know nothing lasts forever, but I do try to make it last as long as I can.
Thanks for taking the time to read through this and I hope it can spark some good discussion on the topic. Also if anything I have here is incorrect, please let me know as I am still learning about hardware in general, and I try my best to be accurate in my information.
DobaMuffin
Yes they will fail... and reflashing won't give it another 15-20 years. The chips degrade over time. Modchips are the best solution going forward for the ones that fail.
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It doesn't matter how good your soldering skills are. Nobody can do it by hand. The pinout is not the same so it requires an adapter sandwiched between the motherboard and tualatin. N64 Freak redesigned his and it is superior. He uses a smd rework station. He's in Germany and visits this site frequently but not every day. He will reply soon.
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Xbox Gpu Repaste Is Pointless
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Anything that heats and becomes softer then cools and becomes harder will lose its softness over time. Properties change.
Also, the material will have a particular thermal transfer property that won't be very high. It might be slightly better than air but not by a whole lot.
Compare that with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut with over 12w/mk and you'll understand why it's not "pointless" to change out the thermal paste after nearly 20 years. The cooler you can make a cpu and gpu run, the longer lifespan they will have.