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  1. Amazing work! Regarding PID/VID for PS3/4 controllers generally it is better to check against the interface class/subclass/protocol. Atleast on Xbox these are always consistent and so you don't need to rely on hardcoded PID/VIDs etc by I'm not sure how the PS controllers are tbh
  2. I don't think there is inherently anything wrong with SEM product if used with the claimed intentions and I didn't agree with the DCMA of the wiki page of course as it rightly didn't share links to firmware and expected users to purchase a xboxhd from makemhz. Although not clear how the user was meant to get the firmware as it couldn't be like dumped from the xboxhd board you purchased which is normally how these things go SEM did seem like more of a targetted jab at MakeMhz than a genuine attempt to increase availability of xboxhd boards without stellar but that's besides the point and an opinion only. I really hope Nem doesn't just release his hdmi board with the microcontroller effectively moved to the SEM board as some kind of loop hole and intend people to use SEM and "the community" will write the firmware knowing full well it will be 100% binary compatible with MakeMhz firmware by unbelievable odds. But I look forward to his technical overview of his design and will reserve further judgement. If the community is expected to write firmware id expect an overview eventually to be exceptionally thorough so we stand a chance of even beginning to help on the firmware side. There is loads of changes from my design based on previous images shared so genuinely curious why so many changes. I don't even know what this QSB thing is for tbh. I was pretty proud of my design and didn't expect it to need many (if any) major changes. If based on my design as claimed there is loads of debug logs Nem could provide here which would probably actually tell him or me what's going on if he is having troubles. There's is also an extremely good chance I could just tell him what's wrong with source code and/or a schematic. His source must be quite different from mine as it's been ported to a different IC. I would help at a much more reasonable price of $200 per hour. (But actually I'd prob help if given genuine questions about my design for free)
  3. How long you been selling Xeniums for? I dont think I ever attacked you for it (I dont think?). I even supported you and continued merging and supporting CPLD code updates and looked into fixes to community made flashing programs. Im more than happy to delete/archive openxenium if you/community members are genuinley upset by it - it still takes up a bit of my time as I often get requests for obsolete parts to find replacements and I get around to them when I can. I recently added support for an alternative flash chip (~1 month ago) in Xeniumtools. You could argue using TeamXodus binaries has some similarities to the current situation (HDMI stuff), there is some differences ofcourse. The obvious one is that TeamXodus doesnt exist anymore. I tried to reach out to old members for permission or source code for XeniumOS with no luck and I give them credit whenever I can. Even finding people who worked on it is almost impossible these days so who knows what old emails I tried. This isnt an ideal situation and maybe doesnt make it "right" but I genuinely tried my best. I encourage Team Xodus to contact me, pls thanks. I did try writing my own OS but hit alot of roadblocks with cromwell https://github.com/ryzee119/cromwell/tree/OpenXOS, I might get back to this one day but I did get to the point it could write and boot firmware banks. But youre right I forgot that I did share the binary once years ago (maybe even more than once) so you got me there; good find. I'll delete that post. Anyway I never cared about XeniumOS/Xenium stuff; its cool you sell xeniums and make it accessible to alot more people; and all the accessories you made are sweet. I personally chose not to sell it, the TeamXodus side was only in part a factor; mainly just other life things and my job is very busy to be able to commit to a 'side hustle' thats more than just a hobby. I only ever commented on HDMI stuff - which you could easily contact the author and ask for permission, the only time I brought up xenium was when I was accused of blindly cloning it, profiting off it somehow and conspiracies got mentioned somewhere (This wasnt from you); who knows I dont remember. But ofcourse I spent months working out that shit with a logic analyser on the CPLD so I believe thats enough creative input to make the VHDL atleast my own work. Copying the PCB was pretty easy but I think I make it clear its all compatible with the original xenium chip. Genuinely good luck with your builds; the community will be better with new original things.
  4. Okay but alot of promises have been made, photos have been shared publicly and attempted testing has been done on live stream. Even design, testing and verification against someone else's work if done publicly should warrant some attribution?
  5. Hope mods delete those posts above. Seriously guys? Come on, not the place. My main concern with all this personally is not really the cloning, it's doing it without credit to the original author. It's actively removing credits and attributions. It's trying to hide the obvious fact it is a clone. It's then talking shit about the author in the same breath. It's not a good precedence to set in a community imo. If someone is unpopular/does things you don't agree in with it's fair game to use all their work without credit? If they said they were going open source it and it hasn't been done (yet) its still hard to justify stealing it because at this point in time it's not open source. I can see you trying to reference GPL licensing which requires all works to retain attribution to the author and any changes must also be licensed under GPL which you are actually breaking by removing the authors reference then uploading to mega with no credit (if I was to nitpick). I'm not sure the "correct" way to do this but probably a fork with git history showing your changes with credit to the original author somewhere because you are still using the web GUI patches and self destruct patches. I doubt it would have been taken down in that case. Even MakeMhz providing close source stuff for you to use as a reference should have some gratitude though otherwise you'd have nothing. No one is entitled to Xbox hdmi kits obviously. Anyone can and is encouraged to make one. But the reality is MakeMhz is entitled to his HDMI kit, until the time he chooses to open source it and depending on the licence he chooses even then you'd still be required to retain attribution to the author for sure. Also my HDMI mod is not a clone of his or vice versa. This needs no further explanation and it's abundantly clear it was designed independently. I know ill get a wall of text with all the bad things MakeMhz has done to justify all this but who the fuck cares. Make you own things even if it feels like reinventing the wheel and you won't have to deal with it at all. Rest assured if someone was cloning Nems work without attribution and talking shit about him and removing any reference to him as the original author id be in that thread too calling it out. Same with anyone.
  6. You're a professional. You know whats up. The only defense's are justifications why it's acceptable to clone. Admittedly not from Nem so other people are making it worse for him. They should just wait for someone who actually knows what's going on to chime in (maybe you?) But understood. Good luck Nem.
  7. It's clear how openxenium and this project are different but I'll answer the question because it's easy for me to do so honestly. I took the xenium PCB mapped out the traces picked the same components that were available (very easy and took me about 1 hour). I had to find an alternate flash chip as the original was obsolete. I then painstakingly spent weeks reverse engineering the cpld behaviour with my logic analyser to release something for the community for free and fully documented (with references) how my code, the xenium and the LPC protocol work. I personally spent alot of time doing my own engineering work. There's no smoke and mirrors at all where openxenium came from. I literally have xenium in the name and I don't talk shit about team xodus while using their work. I never sold xenium (perhaps a couple sent to friends at cost or to cover postage) and I never distributed xeniumOS on my repo although I'm morally confident 15 year old xeniumOS binaries are a different beast that MakeMhz XboxHDMI fw. I'm also fairly confident alot of of recent modchips releases have used my work as a reference. https://github.com/Team-Resurgent/LPC-Mangler for example has word for word comments and vhdl from openxenium. You're welcome Xbox community. There you go. Full transparency about the project. Hope to receive the same for this project. If you genuinely believe openxenium is a mindless clone in the same vein as this project I don't know what to say apart from I'm offended
  8. I was referring to these. https://github.com/MakeMHz/xbox-hdmi-kernel-source Admittedly I don't know exactly what they are doing but I assume you apply these to stock m8 and Ind to make it communicate with xboxhd over smbus and send the required video mode parameters to the encoder. There were written in ASM so there is no C sources etc.
  9. Didn't he write patches for m8plus and indbios? Probably the two most popular bioses at the time? (And released source for these patches) Could he do the same for Cerbios? Sure probably but it's an actively developed bios so would have to do it again and again. And the cerbios team presumably have the source code and could support it easily (I think). I barely said anything bad about Nem at all. I like Nem and a fellow aussie. I've been responding to you so you forced my hand a bit. I was expecting a quick response like "yep been testing with MakeMhz fw but have plans of my own" and I'm sure that's the case tbh
  10. This thread is full of childish bullying about MakeMhz. Shouldn't genuine personal concerns be done privately? I'm just trying to have an open technical discussion about the inspiration for the project. If the reason is "MakeMhz is unable to support the legacy HDMi version, and currently requires a stellar modchip to function. This projects goal is to recreate the original xboxhdmi made by MakeMhz. For best compatibility we plan to make it pin to pin compatible and will release our own firmware to work with cerbios and other modchips. Huge thanks for MakeMhz for his work to date" Personally that would be gone down alot better with alot of people and more transparent. Currently it looks like "Makemhz is a big smelly fraud so to teach him a lesson we'll clone and sell his product as my mine, checkmate"
  11. If this is Nems original design hats off to him and I am amazed how quick he managet
  12. Openxenium has a fully custom vhdl that is freely opensourced and available. It happens to work with xeniumOS a bootloader made my TeamXodus 20 years ago. I made the open xenium but I also never sold them and never included XeniumOS in my repository and I openly acknowledge their good work on that chip because it was awesome. It's not smoke and mirrors that it's highly inspired by the xenium modchip.
  13. There is no "reference design" or "reference firmware" you just download and you're good to go. You read and understand the guidelines the manufacturer put out hand pick all the passive components and lay them out how they vaguely suggest then you reverse engineer Xbox pixel format then write a custom firmware that setups the adv7511 (why pick the adv7511 anyway?) firmware specifically for the Xboxes timing just right, and because Xbox timings are non HDMI compliant you have to write custom timings for every resolution. Just writing this firmware is weeks off painful work. Then guess, what you open another game and the timings are all different. Then you try another TV and it doesn't work on that TV so you go back and coding. The guides don't suggest any Microcontroller to use yet we happen to use the exact same stm32f030c8t6 (why that chip exactly?) and the way the pins are layed out just magically line up exactly the same and in the exact same spot with the same blinking and power led logic that is custom? What are those odds? Then ofcourse you design the flex cables which Nem would know is expensive and you're doing all this on a bunch technical assumptions it's going to work unless you can copy someone else's. Why do you.have a QSB? Whats it for? How did you know you needed it? There is alot of work to this. If you can justify cloning his without even an acknowledgement to MakeMhz for his help that's unfortunate. But at the end of the day I just asked Nem are yes or no question. Is he ripping firmware or did he write his own? I don't really care about cloning the hardware that much to be honest but to achieve the goals of the project I'd thought you be having to do something different.
  14. Nem does awesome work and his attention to detail is top notch. Everything of mine we had worked on he had made it much more polished no doubt about it. Was just expecting a more original design with the initial claims of it working on every bios. (Like I was expecting an FPGA to achieve that or a excellent technical discussion on how he was going to achieve universal compatibility on the mess of OG Xbox video outputs). I genuinely think it is it impossible to achieve this with the ADV7511 without unique bios patches (back to square one) or an FPGA. My open source version would probably work fantastic with a few tweaks to the bioses (but still would be limited to bioses that could be patched) and the boards firmware. I even mentioned earlier in this thread he could use my hardware design freely and It would be easier for people to help and contribute.
  15. I don't really know how to answer this lol. The board is a clear copy of the xboxhdmi board and from what I can see even uses the same firmware. That's how it's ripping it off. I don't know how this project is improving this so far. Achieving that is easier said than done. Even less of a reason to clone someone else's hard work right?

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