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  1. Coping the Surreal.ini from EWJ 212 pack to the n64 emulator folder in Emustation fixed this issue. You can also still change the individual rom settings in Emustation Surreal to toggle items like '720p on' if needed. And select your core. But its alot of work for 212 games...
  2. I'm having a weird issue: Downloaded the emulator and supplied my own EWJ 212 roms. Scanned them in. The list works great and the emulator starts with my game. But its not using the EWJ settings. For instance, Mario Kart 64 isn't playing in HLE and running at 720p. Looks like just the stock core in 480p. Do I need to copy over my Surreal settings into Emustation to get the roms to run on the EWJ settings? Or is this dashboard stuck at stock Surreal64 settings? Thanks
  3. Interesting. Is your machine modded in any way or were you booting the stock dashboard?
  4. Wow - good for you on taking a chance. I might have done the same to be honest. If I didn't know it would show up orange.. If I want an orange Xbox (and I do), I'll buy a can of spray paint!
  5. Yep, delete your old Surreal, kill the game save, then transfer the entire lot over. If you leave out the preview videos, it will take about half the time.
  6. I would guess you didn't do anything wrong (if the others are working). More so, the emulator or download is faulty in someway. Or incompatible with your dashboard or video settings. I can launch FBC 1.2 from UnleashX in 720p no prob. Try a different dashboard? Or maybe adjust your video settings to troubleshoot. That emulator is really only needed to run NeoGeo roms in AVS mode or CPS3 games. Try an alternative if you can.
  7. If you've found them, just FTP them into a folder called /emulators/. Most dashboards are auto-configured to find them on any drive from that folder. Just gotta make sure they are XBOX emulators They should have an default.xbe in the root folder. that's the executable.
  8. Where did you get the Arctic Thunder? I think a HDD ready version floating around was un-correctly ripped (or uploaded) and gets that error. I've experienced it too!
  9. Looks great. I did something very similar but actually painted right over top the jewel.
  10. Sorry to hear you need to get rid of them to please your wife! But if they're not getting any love, you can feel good about moving them on to people that will enjoy them. I'd love to take one off your hands, but my son and I share 8 at the moment...and I don't want to push my wife into a similar scenario I'll ask around and see if anyone I know wants one. What would you think it would cost to ship just the console to the Vancouver area? Controllers and cords are common enough not to bother with the cost of freight. Just rough cost. Thanks!
  11. Emustation seems very popular these days, but I honestly haven't tried it. It looks nice, but everything seems pre-configured. Like the N64 issue you mentioned. A lot of fun I have on these old Xbox's is tailoring each front-end/dashboard to suit a specific system. Coinops looks great, but doesn't leave much room for modification either. Plus, it's rather slow to start games compared to stand-alone emulators. For a modern look, I'd go XBMC Origins. Looks great, and you can always improve or mod the theme as you like it. Also, UnleashX is my favorite for just building a theme from scratch. And its very easy to build/theme a menu to launch emulators. If you like CoinOps, Final Burn Legends has a very similar style for 2D Arcade games. And its very fast to load.
  12. Certain games can't do HD mode with a 1.6 Xbox. Pretty sure Arctic thunder is one of them. I think there's a fix somewhere if your console is modded.
  13. That's a strange issue. I guess the laser could have degraded enough to no longer start the games, but still read a simple audio cd... I'd look for another console at thrift or goodwill if you can somehow confirm the drive works before you buy. Its easy enough to yank a working dvd drive, then hook it to the Halo box temporarily to run the soft mod. Then at least you could run a game from the hard drive. Albeit, and digital download you can FTP onto the machine.
  14. I'm not sure this help much, but I wasn't ever able to get those games to run either. Some just don't work well. Can you get anything to run? There's a good forum thread at Emuxtras about which games work and don't.
  15. I really like that orange/black contrast. Very cool. I may try that color combo myself.
  16. I totally agree on the painted case idea. I've done 3 myself and they always come out nice if you take the time to tape properly. But also have a unit I bought off eBay with a vinyl skin applied, and its pretty sweet Can you play Dreamcast games on an Xbox? Sounds awesome, but I've never seen an emulator for it. A stock Xbox is already only hit and miss with a 32bit playstation, so Dreamcast seems a bit far fetched, sadly. If you have extra space on the 500gb, I would go with preview vids for all the emulators. I think it a nice touch when scrolling through the list a deciding what to play.
  17. Thanks for the reply: EvolutionX +3935 Kernel 1.00.5838.01 I was able to straighten the 480i issue by uploading a new XBMC (only 1.0 was installed) and setting the available video modes to 480p and 720p. It sticks in EvoX as 480p and my emulators can do 720p when launched. My DVD drive seems to be fine after inspection. This machine just hates UnleashX so much, it fails both running from the drive AND running the Hexen disk. The UnleashX splash comes up, but it just fails to load after that. Weird! MsDash is also buggered... I'd love to just redo the whole drive and dashboard setup at some point. Is there a softmod disk that doesn't start with UnleashX? Maybe Rocky's? Thanks
  18. Just to add: I seem to be stuck in 480i as well. But EvolutionX and XBMC seem to be working in that resolution. Perhaps the Xbox and Unleash dash is set to 720 and therefore won't start... So maybe a way to boot EvoX in 720p would help. I don't see anything in the config file... I am using component cables.
  19. Its an awesome piece of retro technology. My favorite even. But unfortunately, its uses beyond what you've already accomplished seems slim. CPU overclocking/upgrading or adding RAM might help with some HD video playback, but I'm not sure YouTube will ever work/stream with everyone's HD vids. Did you check out the old XBMC4Xbox site for scripts/support? The work gone into the emulators to just function 'out of the box' is amazing. Better than the PC side. But I honestly work on these things because I love how they look. New paint jobs, funky dashboard skins, etc. If I need anything more performance wise, like a true media center, A Core2Duo PC just does the job better. Have you thought about using it to power a stand up arcade machine. Sort of a homemade Xbox Kiosk? I think you can still find fight sticks that work. That would be my project if I had the space for it
  20. I recently picked up a 1.6 Crystal at a thrift store for cheap. It even had a replacement 160gb installed with the newest build of EvoX Dashboard defaulting, a couple of games, emulators and movies. Pretty good score! But I'm not the biggest fan of EvoX. I can work with it (and XBMC is also installed) but I'd rather do UnleashX. However, when I FTP up a copy and try to run the dash xbe, I just get kicked back to EvoX. Trying to boot the MS Dash gives me the same result. Interestingly, XBMC dash does start properly. Any great ideas? Could it have anything to do with a bios version? I know almost nothing about the various types. I'm also assuming TSOP modded. I've already tried booting up a Hexen disk and poking around, but of course, the DVD drive is pretty crappy and its not reading the disk...You get what you pay for! Thanks
  21. Very cool. Put some up on the "For Sale" section when you're finished
  22. I use Madmab PcsXbox v23, and I have the best luck with Bin/Cue in a separate folder for each game. I do have some games with just a Bin, but I believe I lose the CD music on those games. But they otherwise play fine.
  23. Good idea. If bandwidth isn't an issue, you should consider just downloading HDD ready copies of your games and using FTP to upload. Saving the DVD drive. Once you've modded of course. Archive.org is your friend!
  24. Thanks for this. Very cool. And it seemed to work well, with the 10 minutes of gameplay I've been able to squeeze in

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