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Ask around, I think you'll find I help all sorts of people out in the scene, both publicly and privately; it might surprise you. I'm not interested in this stuff unless you're paying me $250+/hr though

Nemesis hasn't created any software of his own; that's the difference. Still waiting on answers to my questions regarding "his" HDMI design's QSB technical details.

You don't need my permission to release your hardware schematics which are useless without software you've yet to create I'm still waiting on my HDMI board questions to be answered in some sort of technical nature regarding the QSB.

I thought I did? but it's become a whole lot of me answering your questions in my honest opinion and none of you answering any of mine. I could care less what people do in the community as long as its their own original work. Copying others and profiting off of it is a bit of a dick move. You're going to release schematics regardless of what I say here so I personally could care less; they're easy to recreate anyways. And I'd love to see devs in the community actually create something of their own without ripping off other people's stuff.

I'd love to see the community actually create something of their own for a change.

Yes, the S.E.M is your own design (it's like an hour of work in kicad) that requires someone else's software before it can actually do anything, congratulations on your achievement. Perhaps you can answer my questions regarding "your" HDMI board design?

I can't speak for him, but show me your software you intend to run on it.

Enlighten me

Thanks, but the only questions I'm really interested in having answered for now (which you've conveniently skipped) are these (and this is just one specific example out of many I know to exist as differences between "your" design and Ryzee's). Please tell us a bit more about your design from a technical perspective; anyone else I know would be ecstatic to discuss their creation and the trials/tribulations encountered along the way.

What your “evidence” looks like to anyone else that knows what they’re talking about

I’m telling you (which anyone can independently confirm) the site just allows the user to upload their copy of the retail 5838 bios directly to the Stellar chip over USB, nothing more. The combining of Dustin’s original code (StellarOS firmware) and the 5838 bios image supplied by the user happens within the Stellar chip on each boot cycle. You appear to be implying Microsoft stuff travels between the end user and Dustin, but that’s simply not the case; he doesn’t host any of that.

This is you selling modchips with XeniumOS preinstalled which bypasses Xbox DRM by not booting into the retail kernel, right? https://www.ebay.com/itm/196118797013 I don't think it's necessarily wrong for you to do so (it is technically Xodus software and Ryzee's CPLD code), but it's a similar situation with Stellar, except I'd imagine Stellar is slightly more protected in that it's non-functional and has no chance of bypassing anything out of the box until the user adds their stuff to it. Again, not a lawyer, I just think you guys are grasping for straws here when literally everyone else in the scene is doing equal or worse. Why you're ganging up on Dustin for attempting to do things by the book is beyond me.

Yes, the website where he sells his original hardware and software (doesn't infringe on anyone else's copyright because it's all his own creation) is located in the US.

When using the Stellar setup website you're referring to, anyone can easily verify via packet captures (network and USB) or by looking at the app's source code (plug it in to an online beautifier to make it easier to read) that everything happens locally on your computer and the bios the user uploads goes directly to the stellar chip via fancy browser USB integration and not out your WAN connection. TLDR: The retail 5838 bios the user provides is sent directly via USB to Stellar and not over the network.

The problem with your questions (and many others' as well) is they're usually all over the board and hard to track whereas I'm always talking about the same specific thing, but I'll try my best. I don't understand all the fake outcry for the Xodus domain registration. It's been abandoned and turned into a landing page by someone else for well over a decade; anyone would have had equal opportunity to complain about it then or purchase it since The reasoning behind its acquisition is also not so devious, so sorry to disappoint. Believe it or not, it's just a really cool piece of Xbox history (probably top 5 in my book) and the RTOS used at the time is super interesting from a technical perspective which not many know or even care about. How are you (or anyone else for that matter) somehow more worthy of being custodial to something you really know nothing about from a software perspective? https://web.archive.org/web/20090122031718/http://teamxodus.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120415150857/http://www.teamxodus.com/ The modville one is somewhat petty if true, but I'm not Dustin (not sure why I have to even say this, but these opinions are all my own), so I don't know what you expect from me in terms of any kind of explanation, why don't you ask him My presence here is purely reactionary, and it's quite simple, don't monetize other people's work and then cry foul and claim victim when you're called out on it. Your original designs are great, why don't you stick to those? This is literally the only issue I've ever had with you, and my stance here has been consistent. It sure does unfortunately. It's easy to predict where you're going based on what you've locked yourself into by planning around someone else's design. It's also kind of difficult for people to offer the assistance you've asked for if you aren't even willing to discuss specifically which part(s) you're stuck on, which Xbox versions are affected, what things you've tried etc. It doesn't appear to contain any Microsoft code, but does bypass their "secure" bootloader which is the first part in their chain of DRM. It's about as legal (I'm not a lawyer) as you can get considering some alternatives, but Cromwell can't play games, and I don't see a lot of people flocking to linux on Xbox. Interoperability is an important one, and is used quite frequently as reasoning by reverse engineers for good reason. As the admin already touched on, the Xbox is over 20 years old and out of production/service (MakeMHz products are still available for purchase and/or in active-development however), and components are failing resulting in unusable boxes. To ensure continued operation, some DRM components may need to be modded. DVD drives (sig checks) and even DVDs themselves are dying at an alarming rate, hard drives (password-protected) will eventually fail, I've seen EEPROM (contains security keys) corruption/failures, the flash chips (bootloader and kernel which also have security keys) are only rated for 20 year data retention in the datasheets, so modchips are sometimes required to bring a box back to life to ensure interoperability.