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4 minutes ago, founchki said:
Cuz no one's asked you (that I've seen anywhere, so sorry if it's been asked!)
would you be interested in helping make firmware or giving tips or anything? not just for this project, but for anything the scene does, the more input the better! could even help migrate some people to nxdk so there's more legal things to play with
(and I pinky promise this is not meant to come off as dickish or assholy and I'm sorry if it does)
or are you under some like, contract or nda where you can't help in any way with anything the Xbox scene does?
(again, genuine question, not intending for it to be malicious at all)
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
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38 minutes ago, RMM said:
Why is it OK for MakeMHz to have the Stellar use code MakeMHz doesnt have copyright of? The Stellar is using code from Microsoft in order to function.
If you are going that route, why couldn't NeMesiS require the user to upload their own software for the elimination module just like MakeMHz requires users to upload copy protected code for Stellar to work? Don't be a hypocrite.
The elimination module doesnt even prevent MakeMHz from selling their HDMI mod. It just allows people to use their own modchip. Why complain about that?
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.
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9 minutes ago, NeMesiS said:
A simple "No" would have been enough...
You don't need to start insulting the community, you wonder why people respond to you the way they do.
Was that reactionary too?
Point being if I am unable to so much post the schematic for the Stellar Elim Module then how exactly
do you expect me to show everything else that's involved including technical details as you had requested.
If it's okay with you I would like to ask @OGXbox Admin permission to post the Stellar Elim Mod schematic.
I'm happy to forward the schematic to OGXbox Admin for inspection before doing so...
It is my schematic, I should be able to do with it as I please..
So... We good?
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.
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1 minute ago, NeMesiS said:
Could you just answer the questions please...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.
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4 minutes ago, NeMesiS said:
Agreed, there's nothing special about it at all...So then there should be no issue in me releasing the schematic for it?
Anything wrong with devs from the community in using that device to make a firmware of their own?
I'd love to see the community actually create something of their own for a change.
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2 minutes ago, NeMesiS said:
Your jumping the gun a little don't you think?
I will need working hardware to be able to even test the software.
Any chance you could answer this?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?
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3 minutes ago, NeMesiS said:
Sure you and Dustin won't get upset?Last thing we need is more malicious behavior and false DMCA claims!
Could you agree that the Stellar Elim Module is of my own design and not a clone of your Legacy HD addon?
I can't speak for him, but show me your software you intend to run on it.
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3 minutes ago, NeMesiS said:
Even if that includes information that MakeMHz would prefer not to be posted?
Don't think my solution to this is going to work to your advantage.
Can easily do this using nothing but publicly available documentations.
Enlighten me
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13 minutes ago, NeMesiS said:
Likewise...
Simple, Dustin has a huge problem with anything that presents any meaningful competition.
What he is doing is anti-competitive behavior, there was absolutely no need for him to acquire these sites.
Perhaps if he were preserving TeamXodus site I would understand that, but we are just redirected to MakeMHz.
EDIT: Not to mention that MakeMHz abuses the TeamXodus domain to issue DMCA claims.
Below is yet another perfect example of Dustin's narcissistic behavior towards others.
I was discussing these things openly on my other thread until you among others took it upon yourself to attack yet another developer that showed signs of making a competing device, I don't discuss these things anymore due to these attacks. All I will be doing is giving you more ammunition in finding more things to complain about.
Textbook narcissism...
The biggest issue people have with MakeMHz is how you guys treat others.
You guys have led countless attacks on people, including your own customers.
I haven't seen any apologies made in regard to the many false DMCA takedowns.
Including myself which you yourself acknowledged that was uncalled for.
Absolutely no respect or appreciation is shown towards people outside your small little circle.
Don't believe everything MakeMHz say, much of it is misleading and false...
And how petty can MakeMHz get? ACE buys 6x XboxHD+ over 2 separate orders,
upon receiving the parcels all 6x sets of Flex cables and QSBs are missing.
And it doesn't seem that MakeMHz intends on sending ACE what he paid for.Guess I'm just gonna have the get the Flex cables and QSB's designs I have manufactured
just to help Dustin's own customers who he decides to actively screw over!
The whole reason I made the Flex cables and QSB a couple years back was because
MakeMhz tried to screw me over. I basically started telling people that if they wanted
me to install a XboxHD+ that they would have to order/supply it for themselves.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.
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1 hour ago, ILoveCorgis said:
Evidence is awesome
What your “evidence” looks like to anyone else that knows what they’re talking about
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8 hours ago, ACE_AU said:
So you’re telling us and stating to us all that the pineapple end does nothing to tell the end users PC to “hack”. If that were the case,then why is the pineapple end involved? It would simply NOT BE NEEDED! . The packets,assets and all the crap you talk about,where are the commands coming from to tell the end users PC what to do?? Logic says pineapple place lol. There is nothing legal about what is going on there if you ask me.
Is there a “patent” on the hardware?? I’d like to see it if there is.
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.
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30 minutes ago, NeMesiS said:
Some information I came across: (Not my own words)
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States prohibits the circumvention of digital rights management (DRM) and other protective measures on copyrighted works, which includes video games. Even if a console is considered obsolete, the copyrights on the games may still be in effect.
- In the United States, video game copyright lasts for the life of the creator plus 70 years. This means that if the creator of the game is still alive, the copyright lasts for 70 years after their death. If the creator is deceased, the copyright lasts for 70 years after the year of their death.
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States prohibits the circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. This includes devices like modchips that are designed to bypass digital rights management (DRM) systems. Generally, the DMCA does not provide copyright protection for devices or technologies that are specifically designed to circumvent DRM.
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.
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2 hours ago, herooftheday said:
cool still the whole thing is hosted in the us and ...
and shopify as well is us company....
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.
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1 hour ago, herooftheday said:
Hosted in the US
so yes takeing it down would be not so hard because what he does is still modding the bios and selling the device, atleast here in germany that would be enough.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. -
14 hours ago, NeMesiS said:
I'll be more than happy to answer your questions, when you start answering mine.
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.
14 hours ago, NeMesiS said:Why did MakeMHz purchase the domains of TeamXodus.com and ModvilleUSA.com then redirect it to MakeMHz.com?
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
13 hours ago, NeMesiS said:I find it ironic that you don't see how much you've contributed to this situation
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.
13 hours ago, NeMesiS said:It seems by this point you know more about my project than I do and the decisions I'm yet to make.
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.
13 hours ago, NeMesiS said:What's the situation for the Xenium modchip?
I know that having a Cromwell based OS did make it alot easier to sell Xenium modchips.
As potentially illegal bioses didn't need to be pre-loaded unlike the Aladdin, as for example.Is it legal to install an Xenium modchip with Cromwell bios and turn OGXbox into a Linux machine?
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.
13 hours ago, NeMesiS said:StellaOS and the bios patch constitutes
fair use because of "interoperability" as so on.... Can anyone shed more light on this?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.
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9 minutes ago, RMM said:
You know what I find odd? Ryzee came out with his open source design in 2019
https://twitter.com/Ryzee119/status/1155633773985198080
https://twitter.com/Ryzee119/status/1186836487049863170
https://www.retrorgb.com/true-xbox-hdmi-mod-announced.html
A year later MakeMHz comes out in 2020 with his design and claims he did it all secretly and independently yet uses the same hardware as Ryzee's open source design with some modifications. Hmmmm.
https://twitter.com/LoveMHz/status/1298526681129455617
MakeMHz later goes on to thank Ryzee for being part of developing the HDMI mod
https://twitter.com/Ryzee119/status/1298527270500331521
When MakeMHz posts the Halo video comparison screenshot of the HDMI mod, it is credited to Ryzee
https://web.archive.org/web/20200904095848/https://makemhz.com/products/xboxhdmi
Something just doesnt seem right about all of this. Have you and Ryzee financially benefited from the MakeMHz HDMI and Stellar stuff because this complaining about an HDMI project that was supposed to be open source is whats odd
Since you asked, I'm going to take the time to answer your questions, and then I'd appreciate it if you'd stop deflecting/distracting and let Nem answer mine, deal?
There's nothing odd about Ryzee and LoveMHz doing similar things around the same time frame. We're all friends, some xboxdev discussion (like "this would be cool if...") we've had could have sparked their minds independently, and once they learn of each other's projects, they bounce ideas and suggestions off of each other as they continue to work independently. Both Ryzee and Dustin each have confirmed this on multiple occasions; there's no conspiracy here, so you can take off the tinfoil hat.Regardless of how similar you think their solutions appear, there are some key differences in how they function which I wouldn't expect non-technical people to understand (which you're clearly using to your advantage when attempting to confuse others into agreeing with your viewpoints), and that's okay. They're also both equally capable of going into great detail about their designs and why they did what they did for various parts of it, which I don't believe Nem can for his judging by his repeated silence when asked simple questions regarding such. This would by far be the easiest way for him to prove his design isn't a clone; if he could actually explain the design which he supposedly created.
Normally PMs are private, which I take very seriously, but the cat's long out of the bag and figure it won't hurt sharing this bit which occurs before your linked tweets. Clearly he's been working on this even longer (probing setup and prototype images followed), and I know some others knew well before me.
What's funny about the Halo screenshot you mentioned, is I believe it's actually mine
. I recognize the poor XY offset of the image which I hadn't bothered fixing at the time on my capture card setup. It's also my Halo 1 720p patch being shown in the image for demonstration.
Myself and Ryzee have also stated several times in multiple places that neither of us benefit (monetarily, etc.) from anything Dustin does, hell, I've purchased my own HD+ and Stellar when they came out. It's also getting old that people keep suggesting otherwise, because many in the scene who know me personally would wholly back me up on this, and Ryzee is even more selfless than I. We simply "complain" because we're creators and don't like seeing other creator's taken advantage of. The repeated drama stemming from all this is quite absurd.-
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3 hours ago, NeMesiS said:
I stated from the very beginning that I was using Ryzee119's XboxHDMI github as a starting point,
which happens to be very similar to MakeMHz XboxHD+, inherently my design would also be similar.
I've somewhat hit a brick wall with my design and am not sure where I'm going wrong, it's become
so frustrating than I'm just considering starting over. Calling me out on something that's still very much
a work in progress unfair. Some friendly advice on what I could do different would go a long way.As a crappy hobbyist EE, I'd be interested in hearing more about some of your main design decisions. For instance, why did you elect to go with a supplementary QSB when Ryzee didn't? What does this circuitry do exactly? Do you think the same QSB would also work with Ryzee's board as-is? If this is truly your design (because it clearly differs from Ryzee's on account of it not existing in his design), you should have no issues going into further detail as to how it works on a technical level, right? Otherwise, why would you include it? There are plenty of other actual differences between yours and Ryzee's, but not so much between yours and MakeMHz's, which I just find odd I guess
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Will the STM firmware be open source? Or are you expected to steal the MakeMhHz version instead?
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9 hours ago, NeMesiS said:
Save yourselves the money and buy a $2 STMF030C8T6 Dev Board.
STM32F030C8T6 ARM STM32 Minimum System Development Board Module For Arduino DIY KIT - AliExpress
You're comparing a slice of cheese to a sandwich
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19 hours ago, NeMesiS said:
I hear that Cerbois supports AUTO fan control, it would be interested to see if we could control PWM fans in this way...
The fan speed SMBus/PIC command controls the fan PWM duty cycle so any kernel, app, or i2c hardware peripheral would be capable of regularly querying (ideally listening for) temp and adjusting the fan speed accordingly to target a certain temp etc.
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3 hours ago, SoftMachine said:
I'll have a look at that repo but C# is way easier for me to read, that XboxDVD dll is definitely more organized than extract-xiso as well, thanks for the tips
This honestly slipped my mind as I don't really deal with anything other than extract-xiso, but repackinator source would be a way better reference than mulleter decompilation. I'd still refer back to antangelo's project for more context however as repackinator seems overly complex for some of what it's doing and doesn't have any comments so it may be harder for you to follow the logic.
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This is probably even less-readable than C to you, but it's well-structured/commented and the author is still around - https://github.com/antangelo/xdvdfs/blob/main/xdvdfs-core/src/layout.rs
Alternatively, you can also probably use the decompiled output (via dotPeek etc.) of XboxDVD.dll bundled in the XDVDMulleterBeta app which is written in .NET, but possibly cleaner than extract-xiso source.
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34 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:
Then I hope that @Ryzee119and @Ernegienrespect the admin's wishes, respect Nemesis and respect us all instead of antagonizing. I'm willing to ignore. It troubles me that the posts are there for people to see, but if they see the rest of the thread it should be apparent what they're up to. So I won't worry too much.
There won't be any issues from me. I've been calm this entire time and said what needed to be said, all of which only started with me expressing my disappointment alongside Ryzee and everyone (mostly you, but it's alright, I've forgiven you and still do) piling on afterwards.
I'll likely follow up elsewhere with an objective in-depth technical analysis and comparison (since I already own both MakeMHz and Ryzee HDMI boards) once I get my hands on Nem's final hardware/software solution, but won't bother mucking up this thread any further unless I'm either addressed directly or most importantly owe him a sincere apology, and will happily eat my words for claiming he intended on Dustin's closed source code to be used on the hardware he sells, because the differences should be quite apparent if it's his own work or a derivative of Ryzee's open source version as he originally describes versus just using Dustin's stuff.
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35 minutes ago, NeMesiS said:
Not to mention constantly changing their story when their BS has been called out...
They start an all-out attack just to be debunked...
The gaslighting, strawmanning, and personal attacks taking place in this thread is unreal. My stance here has consistently been "don't use Dustin's XOS patches or HD+ firmware on your hardware when you can write your own or do something else", that's it. Anyone looking back in this thread can clearly see this.
Your repeated insistence that somehow I've changed tune just isn't true. Whether you understand this or not, as it relates to XOS, there's the base image created by Team Xodus ~15 years ago (owned by them and always will be) and the patches to it written solely by Dustin. Everyone seems to have already accepted that selling/distributing chips with the base XOS is fine; it's still wrong (you, Dustin, whomever, it doesn't matter) in my opinion (and I've already said this multiple times throughout this thread, not just now), but by varying degrees of such that really don't concern me as I don't sell them. Dustin has since modified the base XOS image with his own patches, and the patches alone are the only thing I've ever referred to here as what's his, it's not complicated
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Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48
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Don't take any less than $3K USD for it, unless you want to sell to me for $2K