HDShadow
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Patching games for 480p without using XBMC
HDShadow replied to datura's topic in General Xbox Discussion
^ Yes. Just install XBMC as an app and use that to run Rocky5's v1.6 480p loader script. If you are so minded once done you can delete the XBMC dash. The script installs the appropriate loader required in the actual game folder of any games it finds on your Xbox HDD from the master list it uses. So when finished you do not need XBMC any more. But IMHO you should keep it. An alternative dash as app can be very useful and XBMC does some things much better than UnleashX and that is from somebody who uses UnleashX as a main dash on all their Xboxes bar one. -
Very Weird"Game wont launch"Problem
HDShadow replied to SakisTheDrifter's topic in General Xbox Discussion
The original Forza is a great game but flawed; I've been playing it for the first time a lot over the last year. The criticism I have of it is that on the hardest race challenges the AI cheats like no other race sim game I've played and general balance of the gameplay difficulty is off. You simply cannot win some races against the AI using an 'inferior' spec car. Even if you tweak whatever you're driving in the garage 90% of the time it is still impossible unless you have a matching vehicle. Often you don't get that car until you've completed another race series to Gold. I played Forza 2 on the XB360, one of the first games I played on the XB360, and as remember it the AI was not like this. They must have done some work on that. In Forza the rubber banding is obvious, the primary AI vehicle is always stupidly over powerful, drives on rails and the other AIs seem dedicated to taking you out at every opportunity. The damage to the AI vehicles (you see and hear them smashing into the crash barriers) never seems to affect their handling or speed but a couple of hits to your vehicle and it become undriveable. -
If its unlocked you can use FATXplorer to access the content on PC - no hot-swapping required but obviously you'll need a suitable method of connecting the Xbox HDD to the PC and to install the program plus some other required stuff too. Just Google FATXplorer for OG Xbox and you'll easily find the download and plenty of information.
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Probably is something like that. Error 5 is what you'd expect if the chip wasn't being enabled for some reason and you were using an unlocked HDD ie. it would be trying to boot the original MS (TSOP) BIOS which, of course, requires the HDD to be locked. Do you have a locked HDD or eeprom backup for that machine?
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The path to the dash shown (E:\UDATA\........) seems to indicate that the UnleashX dash you are/were running is actually a softmod installer dash. The "Xecuter Rox My Box" on boot means your Xbox is hardmodded and as you say you can't see a chip it is most likely a TSOP. A TSOP where somebody has left parts of the original softmod behind - that, I think, probably explains all the problems. Can you post pics of the C:\ and E:\ drive content? The installer dash you're using has a file manager so it should be possible.
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Some interesting advice and good suggestions. I'll have to get my research hat on and check them out. Of course if anyone else here has other recommendations/experience please still share, I want to make sure whatever I do buy is the best quality/best value for money so I'm not rushing into it.
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I'm thinking about buying a proper temperature controlled, all bells and whistles solder station which will likely get used for Xbox stuff more than anything so I'm looking for recommendations available in the UK/EU. Budget up to about £150. I'd prefer lower but I'd go slightly higher if there was good reason. Reliability, longevity ie. well built/well designed and likely to last a long time are my main buying criteria. However if it includes a hot air gun in the package I'd definitely be swayed.
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I've had this identical problem suddenly develop on my least used Xbox, I think I mentioned it in another thread here. After I'd cleaned the traces at the front edge of the MB it worked correctly for a few weeks before the problem reappeared. But this time it is slightly different, it will turn on when plugged in but the power button will turn it it off. The real difference is that it will remain off until I press either eject or the power button, in other words it starts working correctly. But next session the problem returns. What this suggests to me is that the suggested trace repair fixes are not the whole story. It behaves like a capacitor may be involved ie. it is charged up by that first power on and stops whatever the problem is with the subsequent reboot/restarts. I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable, to say the least, even begin to explain this let alone identify the component in question. Whether this is relevant to Oldhead72's problem I don't know. Maybe I have a still partially OK cap and his is completely knackered but which one because its not the clock cap or, I'm pretty sure, any of the ones adjacent to the CPU heat-sink.
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Green/Orange flashing is indeed because you have no AV cable fitted.
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Thanks for that. It was with Win7 64bit that, I thought, I was having trouble. But as said Eaton-Works pointed me at the correct download I should have used and the latest FATXplorer Beta version is now working as it should.
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Can you run me through how you did that? It is annoying that at some point any existing working version can be suddenly disabled and for no good reason I can think. At some point Win7 support will probably removed so I'd like to understand how you can continue to use a particular working FATXplorer/.NET combo on a Win7 PC, which is pretty much dedicated to all my Xbox stuff, despite the expiry date.
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Re FATXplorer Beta 3: there's been a new update recently and you must have MS Windows .NET 6 Desktop Runtime 6.0.1 64bit or 32bit installed or it won't launch. I had not used FATXplorer recently and I had trouble getting the update to work on a Win7 64bit PC despite having .NET 5 Desktop Runtime installed which is supposedly supported until May 2022. I could not launch either that or my existing FATXplorer (the beta had expired) version to update it so I downloaded what I thought was the correct .NET 6 version and it still did not work. Eventually I messaged Eaton-Works (kudos for their very quick response) and I found I had been installing the wrong Runtime download. Doh! It must be that exact one above - the download link provided goes to a MS page with multiple downloads. It is the Windows .NET 6 [b]Desktop{/b] Runtime 6.0.1 that is needed:- 24.01.22: 58.4MB File version 6.0.1.30718 MD5: b3b8e251456c6e712940ae507252facb SHA1:1dc44c31438725846f59071c868736112398329b.
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Hard drive upgrade problems - files corrupting/missing?
HDShadow replied to dustmotes's topic in Hardware Mods
There should have been no trouble with a 160GB. Typically the F:\ drive with a HDD of that size will be around 140GiB so the default 16K partitioning should be correct. I'd still do what KE recommended and check what XBPartitioner v1.3 reports about the extended partitions. I've had a few problems with Chimp's extended partitioning on some HDDs in the past and always make it part of my HDD upgrade routine to check them with XBPartitioner v1.3 afterwards just to be sure. Are the Xboxes in question hard or softmodded? If hard modded (TSOP/chip) then I'd guess at a BIOS issue so the obvious question is what BIOS are you using in all cases? -
Can modded Xbox's play import discs?
HDShadow replied to alcatraz68's topic in General Xbox Discussion
It could be that the game is one of the region locked NTSC ones. There are more well known PAL ones, like Timesplitters 2, but I would think that if it is this problem just switching your consoles region to NTSC using the Enigmah app will fix the problem. But the description of the problem sounds more like a disc error of some sort - usually with an out of region game you'd get a warning that was the case or dirty disc error or the sound would play but the screen would be blank. The only time I've seen anything like that error is where somebody has used DVD2Xbox to rip the original disc as an ISO or when this is from the Xbox dump archive and tries to use the dump ISO instead of extracting the contents with DVDXMulleter or Extract-XISO. So...........................I have to ask: is the game an authentic original MS NTSC retail disc or a burned copy? -
Sounds as if it could just be that a cold boot of the installer disc is necessary. Any properly working chip with any BIOS, old or not, must be able to do that. Either disc mentioned should boot and offer you formatting and then dash install options. If they're booting with the old HDD in place; that means there is nothing wrong with the DVD drive, disc or burn. If cold booting does not work then check the jumper on the new HDD: if it is on Cable Select swap it to Master or visa versa. In the far, far distant past that was an oft made suggestion for otherwise inexplicable boot issues whether involving discs or the HDD itself. Other possible causes would be the IDE cable but I assume you're using the same one with both old and new HDD so that's an unlikely culprit which leaves the 'new' 500GB HDD itself as the primary suspect. You do have the option of using Chimp 261812 as well; it is a less usual thing to do with a chip fitted Xbox but try cloning the old HDD to the new one (just C and E) and see if that works. If it doesn't then the new HDD becomes even more suspect. BTW make sure that if you get it working you format the extended partitions (F and G if used) correctly afterwards using XBPartitioner v1.3.
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Does that docking station shown in your previous post come with its own cloning tools? If not what do you use?
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I've about 60 Xbox PAL games installed on my primary Xbox and apart from Timesplitters 2 they all support NTSC/480p etc. I subbed in an 'acquired' NTSC "default.xbe" for use with PAL TS2 and that works fine in 480p. I am still peeved that PAL Xbox users have to resort to modding and patching simply because MS effectively decided to or at least tried to prevent us accessing the ED/HD options most PAL games do actually include and the console was perfectly capable of displaying.
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New HDD - needs to be formatted specially? Other noob questions.
HDShadow replied to aloe's topic in General Xbox Discussion
You usually need to cold boot the burned installer disc, particularly if there is an error present like 16. Just put the disc in the tray, close it, shut down the Xbox and then restart. The disc should boot before the error 16 message kicks in. -
Sounds like it is/was what KaosEngineer suggested. X, Y and Z are regularly 'temporarily' written too by a lot of games, sometimes pretty big lumps of data which will persist until written over by another game. If that doesn't happen or there's corruption or a conflict ie. two games using the same file name it can cause trouble. I might be imagining this, later consoles did have such a facility, but I believe that even in stock retail state this could happen with the original Xbox and there was a controller key sequence you could use to clear the cache and those temporary files to resolve such problems.
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Whatever way suits you. I've backed up my primary Xbox to PC for years, once a year, just using FTP. I exclude the installed Xbox games (currently 62) as that is close to 200GB which would double the time to back it up this way. That is already many, many hours. Maybe FATXplorer would be quicker but unless the Xbox HDD is easily accessible the thought of the hassle of connecting it to a PC by other means when it can already be quickly connected for FTP doesn't inspire me to try.
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With problems like this and a 320GB HDD I'm reminded of a mistake I made when going from a 160GB to a 320GB HHD. I was so pleased to have more space I simply forgot I needed to reformat F:\, as it was over 256GiB, to use 32KB clusters rather than the default 16KB the 160GB was using. Any chance this is the the issue here? Use XBPartitioner v1.3 to check if there is a ER (Error) indicator against Extended Drive 6 (F). If there is then that is probably the trouble and unfortunately all that work backing up 70+ games to the new HDD will have to be redone. Hope its not this but it is an obvious thing you should check.
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I agree no need to use run as admin to get Xplorer360 to work. The 'trick' I've found with Xplorer360 is that using menu copying/move is, or can be, problematic. By far the most reliable way of getting files from PC to flash drive when using that program is the good old fashioned drag and drop method. The renaming folders problem also mentioned I'm not sure I fully understand the OP's method ie. exactly what he was doing but what I've found with Xplorer360 is that whilst you can create a "New Folder" using it on the flash drive it will not let you rename it. You have to do that on PC then drag and drop it into Xplorer360. Much of this hassle can now be avoided, as others have said, by using the far better FATXplorer instead.
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It sounds like another one of those problems with a hardmod, the particular BIOS flashed as SS_Dave said, but there is also a softmod installation still present. That might explain the difference in behaviour ie. HeXEn's Admin Tools: doesn't that mean the UnleashX dash was launched using the File Manager? If that dash was on E:\ and it was a previously softmodded machine then that is very likely the explanation.
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I think a screenshot of the file content you're trying to FTP would help confirm whether its more likely a FTP or other related matter rather than what it is you're trying to FTP. FTPing to the Xbox can be erratic, at least its always been like that for me. You can get multiple FileZilla "Failed to Transfer" errors to begin with and disconnects, particularly with an UnleashX main dash. Then suddenly it'll all go sweetly and you can transfer GBs of stuff in just a few minutes. With the failed to transfers files when using FileZilla just re-queue them afterwards and you'll often find they'll all transfer first or second time unless there is some problem, like lack of space as KaosEngineer suggested.
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It is not necessarily that, it depends on the download. If it is from a 'Redump Archive' then yes but many Xbox games if not already "HDD Ready" ie. FTP ready game files, come as ISO or, most often, XISO downloads. Once unpacked from the Zip or RAR folder the latter can be burned directly to disk (DVD-R/ImgBurn) or have the files extract using the C Xbox Tool or Qwix so they can be FTPed. XISOs themselves installed to the HDD can be played on the Xbox too if your softmod has the tool available which supports this.
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