HDShadow

FYI the v1.6 480p loader patch used for Gun Valkyrie is the same as Panzer Dragoon Orta. Both Sega games. It is actually just the PD1 launcher that PDO includes as an in game unlockable. It was found that in both cases if you launch that PD1 actually runs in 480p, if your set up supports and it is enabled of course. The 'trick' is it maintains that resolution if you then exit back to the primary game. Rocky5 incorporated that discovery into his XBMC v1.6 480p launcher script for those two games but AFAIK it doesn't work for any other Sega game that has the same problem.

Yes, the manually set date from my current or previous session if that hasn't gone. This is relevant to this matter as that relatively quick check I mentioned I did to confirm how long the time/date had been retained boosted the retention another 12 hours. When I turned the Xbox on at about 11.30pm I was surprised to find I dd not need to adjust the time/date, it was still showing the correct time. 11.30pm 16th June 2021. Not sure about the relevance of that comment on game saves not going away. I think you must have misunderstood why I mentioned it. I'd used the last game save I'd made to determine when I'd finished playing the previous session that's all. I usually save and backup save at the end of a session. Using the MS dash game save manager it displays the time and date of the save. Knowing that I could work out accurately how long the time/date had been retained by that Xbox.

That suggested 3 - 5 hours date/time retention for a new clock cap is a significant underestimate. It may vary with the cap type but even my not replaced yet original clock cap in a 2005 chipped v1.6 still retains it for longer. But it does seem to depend on how long your previous session lasted. BTW the Xbox concerned is not connected to the internet at any point either. Last night I was using it for a couple of hours (playing Mercenaries) and I turned off/unplugged the Xbox as I always do afterwards. I've just checked and the last save I made was at 1.32am and it is now 12.45pm here. So I think it is fair to say it is still retaining the settings for at least 12 hours. Originally, with similar session lengths, I've found that and other Xboxes maintain the info in the same circumstances for 24+hrs. The clock cap may also be irrelevant to the time/date retention if you used SID to softmod the Xbox. Because of an oversight it will not retain any time/date after, I think, June 2019. It reverts to an earlier one at any reboot. I think it is the date of the SID installer itself but I might be wrong about that. Although this has apparently been fixed in the most recent version of SID the most common version you find online is still SID v5.11/12 which does have the problem. The final version of AID installs v5.11 SID too. Rocky5's XBSMT doesn't have the same trouble but I'm not sure about HeXEn installed softmods.

I'm guessing it'll be a custom UX Config.xml thing maybe using "PC Games" instead of HomeBrew as a lot of those are PC ports to the Xbox. There's some really good ones amongst a wider selection of games that either do not play that well or remind you how lucky we are as gamers not being back in the 1980s. In the same way that menu option could also be a direct launcher of the ScummVM 'emulator' which supports a limited number of old school point and click PC adventure games which do run reasonably on the Xbox eg. Broken Sword. It'll be interesting to know more. However no way will PC LoK: Soul Reaver run on the Xbox. Even using the Playstation PCSXbox emulator I think you'll be lucky to get anything approaching playable performance.

I have a feeling filevans may indeed be a new account by that old 'friend' of this forum and other Xbox forums he has also disrupted in the last few months. However he is correct about the Xbox supporting PAL 576i/50Hz over Component but, as I said, that does also depend on the TV. Some older TV's only supported prog scan over Component and others may only support 480i. No idea about more recent TVs but my JVC HV-32P37SUE 32" CRT WS supports 480i. 576i, 480p, 576p and 1080i although not 720p via Component. If he was serious he would have addressed my suggestion that he just use a the RGB SCART cable he already has. If he wants to use 50Hz then forget about what the Component cable is or is not doing and use that RGB SCART cable instead. Set the UnleashX or XBMC or MS dash to PAL50 and that's the problem solved. What those other consoles he mentions have anything to with...................................anything, who knows?

It may depend on the TV. 480p is 480p/60Hz. If it was a NTSC or NTSC set Xbox and you'd switched off the progressive scan options it might default to 480i/60Hz when using Component. If using PAL with Component, which is I think what you're doing, and you're seeing a noticeable difference between the boot screen resolution and the main dash/games resolution are you sure the console is actually region set to PAL? The Xbox itself does not support any PAL progressive scan resolution ie. 576p/50Hz. So we're talking about a change in resolution from 576i/50Hz to 480i/60Hz. Are you seeing that with your eyes as a significant difference or is it just your TV telling you the resolution has changed. The primary question really should be: why on earth do you want to to use 50Hz and, if you're desperate to use 50Hz for some niche reason, why don't you just use a RGB SCART cable? That gives the best interlaced resolution picture quality. Component, if it supports interlaced resolutions, is in practice just as good although it will require picture setting adjustments to match a RGB SCART display as that tends to exaggerate colours and contrast. 480p/60Hz picture quality is noticeably better than 576i/50Hz and, of course, 480i/60Hz. You should go to the MS dash and check your video settings there. The UnleashX dash resolution options do not always stick, apparently. I've never had that problem but you do need to save and reboot after changing them. However that also leads on to another important question: are you using a softmod and if so what? It could well be involved if it is a modern one where the resolution settings are protected.

Great solution worth remembering - who would have even thought to try that? But why does it work and what triggers the problem in the first place? That reminds me of a 'trick' you could do with PAL PS2 Gran Turismo 3 or possibly 4. If you stuck at the game you could 'complete' it 100% but if you swapped the language to German you'd find the UK Vauxhaull Motors vehicles all became Opel (the German parent company). If you used those you could complete the game to 101%+ and it would actually show that in the player stats progress.

I've just tried my original Forza Motorsport PAL disc on a PAL region changed to NTSC v1.6 with Xecuter 2.6CE with the unknown Evox M8+ 1.6 BIOS that was pre-installed before purchase. Both banks appear to use the same BIOS but one with logos removed. UnleashX main dash (v572) no problems from disc at all. Plays in 480p no problem either. It does work the disc hard though so it is a game I'd suggest is always played as HDD installed. Currently doing that now with DVD2Xbox so I can test it from the HDD too. Removed the three updater XBEs included first. Thoughts: when you deleted the original Forza saves did you check the TDATA folder (4d53006e both PAL and NTSC) had been removed too? I noticed that is where the Leaderboards are saved and probably other stuff too like any DLC* there might be for it. The game also used X or Y or Z for a lot of stuff as well (300MB+). EDIT Just tried the HDD install and it worked perfectly as installed and after removing the three updater XBEs included too. Also works after installing the DLC 440 block Update and 480p/WS displays as it should and no specfic ACL patching apparently required either. Launches from UnleashX (v572 and v584), EvoX (B3935) and XBMC v3.5.3. I have at least one other v1.6, softmodded, so I'll test it on that later if this matter is not resolved in the meantime. * there is a Forza update but no other official DLC. Plenty of user game save DLC though. The official update is installed in E:\TDATA\4d53006e\Su and it looks like a replacement default.xbe and a downloader.xbe. I've removed the latter then tested again and everything still works as it is supposed to. BTW if you're want a good Preview FMV the game itself includes videos in its Forza Motorsport\media\FrontEnd folder. They're always far better than the ropy gameplay recordings Prevew packs often include. You'll find they are in the, oft used with Xbox video content, .bik format (Bink Video) which are usually easily converted to XMV for any UnleashX skin use which has Previews enabled. Usually the "Attract" videos are the ones to go for but in this case they're just the MS Studios branding FMV. However the "Intro" video there is ideal.

Rocky5's ConfigMagic v1.6.1 mostly GUI update might have prevented this as it is made difficult to exit ConfigMagic with an unlocked HDD and warns you not to do it if you're using a softmod. Use of his v1.6.1 update is recommended for this reason. This case is also another good example of why once you've softmodded your original 8GB - 10GB you should immediately install another, bigger HDD and keep that original one, locked of course, as backup for just such situations. I've never had cause to use it in such circumstances but if ConfigMagic has been used a master password "TEAMASSEMBLY" may have been enabled. Not sure if it can be used to relock a Xbox HDD though; others here may know about that. Also ConfigMagic may have written the eeprom.bin to the root of the E:\ at some point during the process. As the HDD is unlocked you could use a USB housing and FATXplorer to check whether that has happened. If it was softmodded using SID/AID the eeprom might (it should be standard user practice) have been written to E:\Backup or the softmod's own E:\UDATA folder. With the eeprom and XBHDM you should be able to relock the HDD. As I've been more into chipping and TSOPs recently I've not done it for some time but with softmods, as I was strongly advised to do as a Xbox modding noob by people like Heimdall (HeXEn) on the Xbox-Scene forum, I routinely backed up the eeprom (EvoX) as part of the pre-softmod process. But later I also unlocked and relocked all my softmod HDDs with ConfigMagic to enable that master password option, just in case.

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If its like vanilla XBM4Xbox the navigational sounds will be under Settings > Appearance > Skin > Navigational sounds. One of the options is to turn off those sounds so I guess you might have accidentally enabled that somehow. Incidentally the full range of XBMC navigational sounds options is, I think, 24 (including off). Some older sources for these may not work with XBMC4Xbox v3.5.3 and its variants which also use that version. This is because the files in the XBMC "sounds" folder include a "sounds.xml" some of which use a slightly different XML syntax (older) apparently not compatible with the later XBMC versions. Luckily you can sub in one of the basic, newer sound.xml files and with a little editing get them working again.

The pic of the lead looks like it is a fairly typical type of third part Xbox Component cable: just green/blue/red + L/R Audio (white/red) phono plugs. There are obviously no Composite or S-Video options. I have a PS2 Component lead which looks very similar. Can you post a pic of the TV's phono sockets being used with and without the cables in place and precise details of the TV make and model you are using?

Are you 100% sure the green/blue/red phono plugs are plugged into the correct sockets or the sockets concerned aren't dual purpose? The only way you can get B/W with Component is when just the green lead is plugged in, so it suggests either the wrong sockets are being used or the blue and red leads or sockets are not working for some reason. Does the lead you're using have an HD/AV switch because that might explain it too ie. AV = Composite, HD = Component?

Depends on the HeXEn version too. It uses a modified UnleashX dash and pre-v584 that wouldn't recognise v1.6 Xboxes so if it is using using an older version it would do the same. I have older UnleashX dashboard versions which don't recognise even a v1.4 correctly because of their age. I'd imagine the latest versions of HeXEn ie. from HeXEn 20I7 > would use a UX v584 'engine' so should be OK but the only definitive way of identifying a Xbox is. as SS-Dave just said, to open it up and check. AFAIK no Xbox version reporting tool can differentiate between a v1.2 and a v1.3. The semi-mythical v1.5 can't be identified for similar reasons.

Was the 2TB HDD properly partitioned and formatted?

Fitted to what? You can clearly see the LPC with blurry pin header and the Aladdin chip is below it ie. not installed on it or you wouldn't be able to see the pin header. Am I seeing things? As I said there may well be a good reason why the chip is shown like this in the pic ie. Yanimo wanted to show the pin header underneath. But you do have to check that the problem described is not just as a result of the chip not being fitted correctly or at all.

That my point, from the second pic provided there looked to be no pin header soldered onto the MB's LPC. But on closer examination I can see that there is, it's just rather blurry. You must also wonder if Yanimo presented it like that just to show the chip and if so why? If the chip had been located on the pin header you'd still see everything of significance that is shown in that second pic so why is it off the pin header? He very likely does know it needs to be put back on and took it off for some reason but that does need confirming because it is somewhat important.

A v1.6 with the now familar Aladdin XT Plus 2 chip. The board looks quite clean. Not seen a chip mounted quite like that ie. off the LPC. Agree with sweetdarkdestiny: it would be interesting to see just how it is wired up underneath the chip itself.

When you say "....with evox...." what does that mean? Are you talking about a pinky-purple EVOX logo in the top left corner of the screen or does it boot to an EvoX dashboard then shutdown? If its the former then you likely have a chipped/TSOPed Xbox. In any case you're probably going to have to replace or repair something internally so your first priority should be to open up the Xbox to see what it is like inside and whether it is chipped/TSOPed. If its been in storage rather than being used a leaking clock or other capacitor is less likely but now it is practically mandatory to check any unknown Xbox for that as the consequences of not dealing with that can be serious.

I've used DVD-RW successfully with Hitachi. Its actually my first choice as both my my most used Xboxes have Hitachi disc drives. Two different brands tested and Verbatim DVD+RW. It's actually simpler to say which disc drives don't like DVD-RW: Samsung F and Philips (...35/21). They don't like DVD+RW either and neither does my Thomson. From that YT video: you're using a Philips. So that is the most likley reason the DVD-RW won't boot. DVD-R is the only confirmed universally Xbox disc drive compatible. Weird though - I don't know how the Open Xenium operates but offering EvoX as a dash before you've installed a dash on the HDD, maybe someone can enlighten me as to how that works. What I'd try is if the DVD-R does the same thing try cold booting the disc rather than whatever you're doing now. HeXEn from disc does take 20 - 30 seconds to boot. That is normal.

Using AID for the extended partitioning was likely the culprit. I'm pretty sure that even the last official version of that v4.53 used XBPartitioner v1.1 or similar age tool for the formatting. Fine for C, E, X, Y, Z and F if its under 137GiB but anything bigger and it will not use the correct cluster size just as KaosEngineer suggested. After the initial formatting and dash install using AID before doing anything else install and use XBPartitioner v1.3 in Apps to check and format the extended partitions, F and G (6 and 7 as shown by XBPartitioner v1.3).

Depends how much you have on the HDD too but, particularly if the new HDD is SATA and you're using a SATA adapter you will notice that boot up is slower. After the Xbox/MS logo screen it will go blank for 10 -30 seconds before the dash appears. With my 320GB WD (Blue) SATA HDD with about 70GB of free space now my UnleashX dash takes about 20 seconds to appear. On my 'kitchen' Xbox which has a 160GB Seagate IDE HDD and about 100GB of free space my XBMC main dash logo appears only a few seconds after the Xbox/MS logo has faded. In short: what you're seeing sounds pretty normal.

I'm guessing its probably shortcut to E:\Backups or Apps\MS but its a very strange way to do something like that for actual use of the MS dash. From a folder on C:\ its not going to launch unless the UnleashX config.xml MS dash path was edited. Why would you put in a shortcut in that case and not the actual location? The whole C:\drive is weird and it would be interesting to know how it ended up like that whether it was deliberate or accidental. The presence of a default.jpg and default.tbn suggests its been set up for both UnleashX and XBMC. That led me to wonder if the content of the MS Dashboard folder were the MS dash shortcut files that used to be provided with XBMC. But they're the wrong size even for that. Anyway I've never understood how those XBMC shortcut were supposed to be used having two different .CUT files for softmods and chips/Virtual C. They didn't come with any instructions.

It must be that particular download then and I'd suspect if you found it somewhere else it could well just be a copy of the same download. People can be a bit lazy, easier to repost a redump made by someone else, without testing it too, rather than do it themselves. If XDVDMulleter isn't extracting the Xbox game content from the redump I suppose you could try another tool and that would at least confirm the problem is with the redump itself. Extract-XISO is the only other alternative I know. Its a bit of a faff to use as the program itself comes with no easily understood information as to how to do that. I think it is a command line tool but there is a good purpose designed GUI for the less knowledgeable ie. me available here.