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4 hours ago, big F said:
I have some chips waiting for me to get round to it at some point.
its a great feeling to get it working.
the experience is marginally better. but its still alot of fun.
i need to find more time to catalogue exactly everything the 128 can do that the 64 cannot.id also like to do this with the 1.4ghz upgrade soon as well.
the information on that upgrade doesnt seem to be at all public and i dont have the level of commitment to get there on my own.if reality wasnt real id already have a 1.4ghz console here, but reality is real and 400 dollars around my house does not get spent on an xbox with 2 miniature versions of me present. I earn a living that a college dropout should be damn thankful to be earning...... a long way of saying its not in the budget for the next little while. so i am praying to the xbox gods that the talent that produces these stays available and interested. N64 Freak, i see you.
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1 minute ago, Forlorn Penguin said:
I made a few changes to HeXEn 2017 to... well, update some of it. There's certainly a lot more that could be done, but I didn't feel like it was necessary to go all-out on it, since the disc is primarily just used for TSOP/modchip flashing and building new HDDs. But with flashing in mind, there were some issues that should have been addressed, which were 1) editing the EvoX M8+ BIOS files to disable the need for a DVD drive on boot up (because it makes no sense to keep that restriction enabled) and 2) removing the ability to flash iND-BiOS 5004.06 (F only), since it is apparently broken and just bricks the TSOP/modchip.
Full changelog:
- Changed the default.xbe's title to "HeXEn 2018".
- New menu background image.
- Updated all EvoX M8+ .bin files to remove the DVD drive check by default.
- Removed iND-BiOS 5004.06 (F only), due to reports that it bricks the TSOP/modchip it is flashed to.
- Updated XBMC to include JCRocky5's 480p Game Loader scripts (useful if you have a 1.6 Xbox, otherwise it can be ignored).
- Updated Chimp261812 to JCRocky5's latest release.
- 1080i support is now disabled by default (because it slows the Xbox down if enabled).
- UnleashX .xbe file replaced with a patched version that doesn't automatically create UDATA folders for all .xbe files it sees on the HDD.
- Screensaver text changes.
- Various spelling and grammatical fixes.
- Other general housekeeping.Feel free to test it out. As for the rather bland new menu background, I had to go for a very minimalistic design, because I suck with Photoshop, lol. It gets the job done though.
wonderful changes all around and most notably on that evox m8+
thank you for that. i will be burning a new copy of hexen!!-
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https://redmine.exotica.org.uk/projects/xbmc4xbox/repository/revisions/33032
pay attention to the folder structure.replace both tmdb.xml files to fix the scraper issues you may have encountered.
this is a welcome fix for anyone that plays media off the hdd (or over the network) with xbmc.
classic collection for camp now has a stunning amount of synopsis info and fanart....
i could have done it on the mxq but this is way cooler.... why??? ALL THE GAMEZ
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3 hours ago, XboxMon said:
Thanks for your input. Like others thinking of attempting this mod, it disturbs me a bit that I'll be beheading a perfectly fine Microsoft OEM composite AV cable (despite it's inferior video quality compared to component), so I might attempt this DIY project using the AV connector from the 3rd party cable instead since it has the same OGXbox pin configuration as the OEM cable. AFAIK, it's the poor shielding in the 3rd party cable that's giving me grief not the AV connector.
Ya, i used a monoprice multi-system cable. It had ends for wii ps3/ps2 and xbox 360 so i lopped off the 360 and added the OG so i have ps2/wii and xbox all modded to the hilt with any and every game that ever crossed my path. haha, its excessive..... and not fully utilized but its fun. AND i dont have to piss with swapping any cables.
i also refuse to sacrifice my precious microsoft AV cable, i used a dead chinese cable for the PIN end. LOL
Likely not as good as an end to end Microsoft cable. but its just another toy in the toybox.
EDIT: One drawback is when multi systems are connected at once it gets a ton of interference. oh well. such is life. easier to do this than reach behind the TVanother EDIT: when one system at a time is connected it works very well.
FINAL EDIT: You are correct about the 3rd party AV connecter. its just fine. its the cable itself that lacks shielding thus psi-ops mind control chem trails interfere with all the GAMEZ
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18 minutes ago, XboxMon said:
Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of the optical port built-into the Microsoft OEM component cable for the Xbox 360 then (which I recently purchased used from eBay for $5.99, btw, in preparation for this mod I'll be attempting). I saw this video on youtube from a guy who made this DIY OGXbox compoent cable but he made an optical connector on it. He doesn't go into any detail at all on how he did it. If you collapse the first comment, someone chimes in on which pins need to be connected for the cable but a followup comment from someone who tried his method seems to imply it doesn't work which is why I wanted to find a proper tutorial on it. I'm perfectly willing to just follow Cian Cunningham's tutorial exactly instead of attempting to merge another DIY mod into it. I just want decent, hum-free audio coming from the DIY component cable.
check the link KE posted above.
what he is saying is correct, but the pins are passed through to the connector for this as well.
IGNORE THE ONE ORIGINALLY POSTED, its labeled differently and makes it confusing.
this is in blakes post on the topic i believe
1 is voltage out, 6 is optical data, and 24 is voltage return. (as seen in diagram above)
pin 1, 6, and 24 are used for optical
as seen in the diagram KE posted (also below)
This one gives a perfect visual on how to wire the optical
i'd say this.
study your part before it comes off the 360 cable and label it properly using the 360 AV pinout diagram found via google.-
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ya man, its a really great journey. feast upon the plethora of greatness
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On 5/19/2018 at 7:15 PM, dorkmana said:
alright guys thanks for the help co8 massive didnt work well for my i FTP the main folder and it just ended up restarting my xbox every time
you have an FTP problem, not a coinops problem.
i've good results only using unleashx, setting max users to 10 in UX and setting max transfers to only 4 in Filezilla.... even tho you can set the xbox to 10 simultaneous users i dont believe it can consistently manage it
Does that make sense?XBMC ftp works, and anything by ROCKY5 seems to work even better (out of the box)
I've had hit or miss ftp transfers in xbmc.UnleashX will hiccup here and there but typically resetting and requing all transfers (in filezilla) that have failed will work as long as you tell Filezilla to "replace files if they are different in size" use this for this queue only.
What im saying is, the combination of unleashx = filezilla usually works well, even if you do freeze up or hit a snag.... sometimes it just happens....
If your freezing is persistent i would ask you to monitor cpu/gpu temps, and also become curious about the integrity of your hard disk.
Yes FTP can be alot of troubleshooting, but you get an intimate discovery of your hardware after several failed 85GB transfers. you need to reque the failed transfers, this weekend after posting here i wanted to put coinops on my xbox and kept doing stupid things like unplugging the xbox while it was transfering, shutting down my pc while transfering, etc... totally not on purpose, more of a oversight through beer goggles. I was able to reqeue the files like 4 times, coinops still worked. One of mine was freezing over and over and over again, it cleared up after i changed the thermal paste, it was baked on there like sourdough. i dunno. just keep trying.... LMAO.
Report back, give more info. the worst/best part of these xboxes is there is always a solution but it can be so FREAKING painstaking not knowing which direction to move it. its so much fun. -
On 5/19/2018 at 9:48 PM, Mazula said:
Don't mind my posts, for some reason you have to post 3 times on this site to be able to download skins from it...
a stereotypical millennial in its natural habitat.
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Here is some direction, this was my launchpad into psx emulation on xbox
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/xbox/emulators/pcsxbox-v21-redux-and-reloaded-480i-and-720p/
I havent gotten off this beaten path much other than taking these and implementing them into ROCKY 5's emustation, because you arent using these emulators anymore in that scenario
You need your own bin files on this one but the .cues are included and they work just fine for me.i havent gotten into the weeds configuring 3d games to play although the majority of what i tried will get started and play but not very well (even on 128mb ram) its likely more of a function of the cpu. i tried several squaresoft titles that tug on my heartstrings, few hours of tinkering and very little results. i did this testing on the psx emu core included with rocky 5's emustation.
just an FYI:
crash 1, 2 and &3 seem rather playable on CO8 massive. I just tried them.
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10 hours ago, mikeaton said:
you dont
not sure if this is an "anti-coinops" post
but you can add it to the ui in the menu start button brings up.
i believe its in 'ui settings' there are 3 custom icons you can add.
it needs to know 3 things.
where is the default.xbe, where is the icon.png. and fanart. coinops has enough art from stock to make it look fairly good. you can also source your own. really simple.
i used this same process to add CPX3 to the main menu. and also a stock installation of XBMC instead of booting from file manager.
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psnap, i've got a slim box with no drive in it. the scrap drive that was in there i harvested the board from in order to run it with softmod only (v1.6)
it worked just fine. i have since installed a cheap modchip in case what you're describing happens and i lose a drive (you can null with rocky softmod i am unfamiliar and will leave it for another poster)
What im getting at if, a pc dvd drive (i happened to have an ide dvd drive kicking around) will work. you need to have the power hooked to the stock drive and then ide hooked to pc drive while powering it with an outside source (or splitter but 3 drives is pushing it and likely wouldnt work on xbox PSU)
The question is "do i really have to go through all this hassle to set up a new drive with hexen" the answer is you likely wont be doing many times if you are just using this for standard homebrew application.
The PC drive will not play the xbox games because they are read in reverse or soemthing like that. I looked into dedicating a new pc drive to the box but for what its worth DVD is a media i do not support... the only dvd i use is hexen. -
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if you hadnt changed anything else prior to this happening i'd be assuming that the drive is done.
if thats the case you will waste all the time building that drive again for it to crash on you.
dont pour salt on the wound. get a new drive and a startech adapter and move forward.
bigger and better things ahead.
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i have one that looked like it fell from a moving vehicle.
i sanded it from 80 grit all the way down to wet sanding at 2000.... polishing compound and caranauba wax!! LOL it looks awesome. high gloss finish.
mod life.
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are you using xbpartitioner?
is G: enabled? i think that matters. (there is an option in unleashx)
try booting to the x3 live config. maybe settings in there... i believe you hold white button while booting....
i always use just F but havent ever used a 2tb drive.
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3 hours ago, Joe Chip said:
Cheers. Will do. I managed to get around it by using UnleashX, which I installed by burning it to a DVD, moving it across to C:/ and changing the boot order in the bios screen. At least that then allowed me to telnet in to the Xbox, which I couldn't do before. It's been an interesting few days as it's over ten years ago that I last spent any time modding the OG Xbox. Forgot how much fun it is.
it presents a unique set of challenges just off the beaten path. its alot of fun isnt it. its that razors edge between dinner conversation and full blown obscurity.
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Hey, I just wanted to follow up.
It sat for a week and i plugged it in today to see it boot. very surprising.
it then shortly after gave the same results as before.
i tore it down to inspect for signs of fault in the hardware.
i remembered something loose inside when id last put it all back together. sure enough i found a bolt lodged in under the board.... hmmm, it works after cleaning it all up and removing the bolt. not sure exactly where that liitle guy was, maybe stopping the fan or something?
i cant say for sure the bolt was lodged under the board but i can say getting it out has given results. boots every time and never crashes. VERY ODD. wonderful to fix tho.
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1 hour ago, dorkmana said:
Ok so there isnt really a way to connect to like exodus on an og xbox then ?
well at least i can still do it on the xbox1
im only getting into kodi because of ogxbox and im just baffled by what ive been missing out on.
the mxq s805 is like 25 bucks at times in CAD.
i picked one up the other day and was able to flash scottelec to the nand so it boots directly into a fork of librelec kodi v17.6
i am having fun with the streaming capabilities of this tiny piece of hardware... its awesome
plus on scottelec you can directly download retro roms and it has retroarch/emulationstation to manage. its so fun. xbox is way smoother on emulation tho.
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go find xbmc junk installer. thats the only recent release that ive seen leverage any kind of streaming capabilities (does not work well). xbmc4xbox is not a good solution for accessing content from the web. it is however still rather practical for 480p rips accessed over the network or from the hdd. tmdb scraper is fixed, so you can get all the synopsis and fan art which gives a wonderful feel to your media library. i just put complete collections of seinfeld and simpsons on one so my camp life is never without the warm fuzzies of old tv re-runs..... you can also use a upnp media server that handles the transcoding from pc. all in all it still does a great job of media playback unless your handling HD content....
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its pretty easy to set up. the instructions are in the readme.
there is a really good pack for all your coverart etc. in this thread
and its a super nice front end for your games and emulators. works well.
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8 massive, or ninja with the add on packs. those are my recommendations.
it can auto launch, but doesn't have too.
if you put either of those on your xbox you'd have tons o' space left.-
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so i gave my brother a v1.6 softmod so he could toy with it and play some games.
had it set up nice with xbmc4gamers
started to show him what goes on with that skin and then it just black screened and reset...
now error code 6!!! over and over. then all of a sudden it boot again.
weird?
now. back to error code 6. never booting again. race home and install stock drive and error code 9!!!! omg wtf!!!!!!!
i have a mod chip here. could be an easy fix... but...
i have tried the ide cable and the adapter, not the problem.one insight. i had the jumper set to slave when it was first booting,
its strange because i had set-up the entire XVGM on this console and then xbmc4gamers because i didnt like xvgm for this one. it just wasnt as stable.dont know. bad hdd? how do you explain the stock drive giving an error? strange.
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lol @ cry
i've had the "not enough power" issue before. i now generally use an extra spot on my pc supply while doing this. always enough power
i'd say you're on the right track. you should see better results with proper power, i'm not sure what the psu can handle on this old brick but i've come to the same conclusion in the past.
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Board Life Status
Board startup date: April 23, 2017 12:45:48
Replacement Belt for OgXBox Drive On the Cheap?
in Repair
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quoting the below thread from xbmc4xbox who banned me for no apparent reason as soon as i joined
"The same belts sold for use with the XB360 Samsung drives are generally pretty good replacements. The ones I've bought have all been 22mm diameter as they fit without significant stretching around a circular UK £1 coin which is 22.5mm. Profile is 1.2mm square. But I have seen others sold as XB360 drive belts which, in the listing, claimed the diameter as being less than 20mm. In other words you can't be sure what you're going to get."
i was about to start digging around for o-rings and trying stuff, but this is likely better information than i have
https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7413
jogged my memory that they are square, more of a belt than a ring. not saying an o-ring wouldn't work. just haven't tried it.
also some good ideas in that thread, one from rocky5 about dunking the old belt in boiling water.... claims it worked.
also something i didnt think of doing is just using the belt off another generic drive. i tend to have the odd drive hanging around from the past that need to go to scrap anyways. i may try one of those if need be.
looks like xbox 360 replacements will also work.