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THIS THREAD WILL SOON BE MOVING TO ANOTHER SITE. UPDATE 24/08 The majority of the art in this thread is now included in the Official Artwork Installer available in the XBMC4GAmers/Emustation downloader. There are still some packs that are exclusive to this thread ANYTHING ADDED AFTER 01/09/24 IS NOT CURRENTLY IN THE OFFICIAL INSTALLER! I am also still working on the Homebrew games that still have no art. This thread contains all the custom _resource packs I have created for XBMC4Gamers. Each pack contains the various art needed for XBMC4Gamers, 3D covers etc along with a default.xml for the synopsis views. XMBC4Gamers Custom Art Download Here Update 11/09 Added Arcade Rips section, After Burner 1 & 2 and Space Harrier are the first to receive full art packs there. These are based on the Arcade Rip pack from Dominator over at EmuXtras. There is art for some of these games included in the official installer but they are missing certain pieces, my packs here will use the existing art (where available) and fill in the gaps. Where no existing art is available the packs will be fully custom art. These will also use the default.xml synopsis files provided by @NokSueCow. Update 25/09 @Rocky5 identified an issue with screenshot sizes in some of my packs, He kindly corrected them all on the Official Installer (Thanks ). I am going through and reupping the packs here with the corrected files, Apps are all done. The rest will follow over the next couple of days. Update 04/10 Added another BMX XXX alt artwork, this one uses the image found on the reverse of the official cover. Update 05/11 Added art for Sonic Nexus (Homebrew) and the next 2 games in the Arcade rips pack, Joust 1 & 2 and King of Dragons. Also added an art pack for the Prototype of Stargate SG-1 The Alliance. Credit to @Kracker642 on vgboxart.com who did the great work on the cover i based the pack around. Update 20/11 47 new packs added, most are for the Arcade Rips section (some are using the artwork from the officail installer but have had the missing screenshots, fanarts and preview videos added) but also packs added for Coinops 8 Lite/Massive/Tate Ed and Visionary 5 emulator sets. This means the Arcade rip set is almost complete. Only a handful left of that set left to do. Update 30/11 Art pack for Dead or Alive 3++ mod added to download link. Update 06/12 Art packs added for Street Fighter 2 - World Warrior, SF2 Champion Edition and SF2 Turbo - Hyper fighting in the Arcade Rips section. Also added a apck for Hydro thunder. This uses the art from the official installer but with the missing fanart, screenshots and preview video added. Update 07/12 Art pack added for the new homebrew port of SDLPoP (Prince of Persia) from Haguero over on the Xbox Scene discord. Update 10/12 Art packs added for 11 more Homebrew titles. I tried to use art from the homebrew game/dev wherever possible, this means that some art packs look a LOT better than others lol.... Depending on how much effort the game dev put in their games art Update 12/12 Art added for the Homebrew games, Chess Street Fighter, Dead Babies Xtreme and DefendguinX. Update 29/12 Art pack added for the new homebrew port "ClassiCube" Update 01/01 Art pack added for new homebrew release "Matterrun". Update 03/01 Art pack added for homebrew "Dodgin Diamond 2X" Update 06/02 Art pack added for the prototype Halo 2 E3 Multiplayer demo (Zanzibar). Credit to @Swagger for sourcing al the art used to build this set. Update 12/02 128mb Fanart folder added to download link. See post on page 11 for details. Also added art packs for the prototype games Starcraft Ghost and Shadowrun. 128mb fanart is also available for these in the 128mnb Fanart folder. Update 21/03 Art pack added for the Japanese retail release Zan Kabuki. Update 22/03 Zan Kabuki art has been updated, new art created from a much better source. Update 25/03 Added new section for Artwork made by DarkDestiny on Xbox-Scene. Main Cover image made by him, discs fanart made by me. Most also include preview videos. Update 2 25/03 Added previews videos to some of my older packs. The packs for Avalaunch, UnleashX/Alt, XblastOS and XCAT form the Apps section, the Atari Jag pack from the Emulators setcion and the Zsnexbox pack from the Xenon Xyanide section. Update 28/03 New art added... Homebrew - Duck Shoot, Fuel Crisis, Furby Kill 3D, Retail - Hyper Sports 2002 Winter (Japan), Apps - Xbox Online Dash. Update 08/04 New art added... Homebrew - Hannah, GladiatorX, GluttonX. More ALT packs made by @sweetdarkdestiny. These previews are small to keep the file size down on the thread. To use the art packs just copy the _resources folder to the game/app root folder, run XBMC4Gamers, go to the game/app, push the White button and select "Refresh All Info" Newest Packs (All include screenshots and a preview.mp4) Emulators Hypervision DosXbox Win3.x CoinOPS 8 Gems HyperVISION 5 Gems Coinops 8 Lite Coinops 8 Massive Coinops 8 Tate Ed. Visionary 5 Homebrew 2H4UX Aero Blasters 2 AmphetimineX Arcadian Tactics Divi-Dead Sonic Nexus SDLPoP AtomX/2 BakuBakuX2 Ballzy BarrageX Battle Pong X BattleBlocks X Biniax 2 Blasteroids X Borg Nukem Braxil 2014 Breakout X3D Chess Street Fighter Dead Babies Xtreme DefendguinX ClassiCube Matterrun Dodgin Diamond 2X Duck Shoot Fuel Crisis Furby Kill 3D GladiatorX GluttonX Hannah Arcade Standalones After Burner After Burner II Space Harrier 720° 1941 1942 1943 1943 Kai A.P.B Arch/Spy/Xeno Avenger Badlands Bionic Commando Black Tiger Blaster Block Block Capt Commando Champ Sprint Commando Cyberball 2072 Eco Fighters Exed Exes Final Fight Forgotten Worlds Gauntlet Gauntlet II Ghosts n Goblins Ghouls n Ghosts Gun Smoke Hard Drivin Joust 1 & 2 King of Dragons KLAX K.O.T.R Last Duel Legendary Wings Mad Dog McRee Magic Sword Marble Mad... Mega Twins NARC Arcade Offroad Thunder OutRun Paperboy Pit Fighter Pirate Ship Hige. Primal Rage Quiz/Dragons Race Drivin Rampage Rampart Rush 2049 Rush the Rock Section Z Side Arms Smash TV SON SON Street Fighter SF2 WW SF2 Champ Ed SF2 Turbo HF Strider STUN Runner Super GnG Super Off Road SOR Track Pak Super Sprint Super SF2 T.. Speed Rumbler Three Wonders Tiger Road Toobin Trojan Varth Vindicators Vulgus Wizard of Wor Xybots Hydro Thunder Retail/Unreleased - Specials V8 Supercars Australia 3 (also ALT available) The Vatz BMX XXX Alt2 Stargate SG-1 The Alliance DoA3++ Halo 2 E3 Multiplayer Demo Starcraft Ghost Shadowrun Japanese Retail Zan Kabuki Hyper Sports 2002 Winter DarkDestiny Artwork packs Avalaunch EvoX LithiumX MednafenX NES (2 Alts also available) MS Dash (1 Alt) XDK (1 Alt) MXM PrometheOS Tools tHc Lite UIX Lite UnleashX Virtual JaguarX XblastOS XCAT Zsnexbox XCAT XBox Online Dash Xbox Online Dash ALT (Yes I learnt that you could have a shortcut directly to this dash today as well) UAEX WinUAEX XBMC4Xbox XDON Folder Icons Project Deluge Prototypes These resources packs have been put together by @NokSueCow I will add a few examples below but the entire collection is available in the download links in this thread. And here is a short video of a selection of them in dash. The below is from NokSueCow- "There are 349 Prototypes available for the Xbox from Project Deluge. I only made resource sets for the ones I thought people would care about. If the game was released I didn't create synopsis for it, with the exception of World Champ Pool 2003. It's actually a localized version of Snooker, and is explained in its synopsis. I used Rocky's downloader artwork for the games that were released. I removed their screenshots and preview videos, as they wouldn't be genuine, and trimmed their synopsis to reflect the disc builds. There are 17 total games that I spent time on, and are displayed in Nikey's video preview of the pack. 8 cancelled, 3 E3 Demos, 1 ComicCon, and 5 XDK Recovery's. American Idol loads and plays, Cars plays, Freedom Fighters plays, Hail to the Chimp requires a debug bios, He Man only plays in 480p, Made Man requires debug, Pacman Rally plays but only the hud is visible, Street Hoops plays, I couldn't get Marvel Nemesis, The Red Star, The Vatz, or US Open to play, possible debug requirement, and only 1 of the 5 XDK's would play, build 5028. Freedom Fighters doesn't have a preview video, the game files just don't have any. I couldn't get some of these to extract, either. I tried Repackinator, Mulleter, Extract-Xiso, CXbox, Qwix, nothing worked. The xiso to hdd script didn't work as well. Most of the game folders had to be trimmed for FatX, so you won't be able to just drop these into F/Protos and install easily, unfortunately. On pc, the whole set with resources take 838GB. And some of the pics of the physical game discs were taken at a weird angle, so it was hard to make it look perfect in photoshop." Anything above this text has been added AFTER 01/09/24 and are NOT yet included the Official Artwork Installer I'm slowly working through ALL the missing art for Homebrew games/ports (except standalone BOR games - Too many of them and BOR is better as a pack anyway ) Xenon Xyanide Emu Pack Art Apps Avalaunch Bios Checker BoXplorer Cerbios Flasher Disc Config Magic Controller Tester DVD2Xbox Enigmah Insignia Setup Insignia Setup Evolution X Chimp HDTV Test App Mouse Test Unleash X Xblast OS Xbox Version Detector Xbox HD+ Xbox Watch XBpartitioner XCAT XBcommander Xenium Tools XBMC4Xbox Xored Trainer Launcher XToolBox PrometheOS Tools UnleashX ALT Emulators Amiga CD32 Coinops 6 Coinops 6 Adult Coinops 6 Adult Alt Coinops 8 Adult Coinops 8 Adult Alt Capcom CPS3 DosboX Killer Instinct 1/2 Vectrex Mortal Kombat Arcade PC98 Ninja Atari Jaguar Final Burn Consoles SAM Coupe Big Ass Emulator Discs BAED (Spicy) TI-99 Unreleased Games Lamborghini Re-Volt Dinosaur Hunting (ENG) The Fast and the Furious Project Velocity Storm Riders KoF '96 Re-Bout Halo 2 Alpha Halo 2 Beta Retail (Alts) EXChaser (JPN) Tenchu 3 (JPN) DOA 2 Ultimate Bad Boys 2 PAL DOA XBV Nude Edition Playboy The Mansion Playboy The Mansion ALT BMX XXX BMX XXX ALT Larry MCL Alt Larry MCL Alt2 Homebrew Games and Ports Mario 64 The Griffon Legend Hydra Castle Labyrinth Sonic CD StepmaniaX ExUltX Jump and Bump PowermangaX CcelesteX LOZ-Navi's Quest Zelda 3 Tomb Raider 2 Tomb Raider 3 Blobwars Bubble Trouble Catacombs 3D Divi-Dead Doom Legacy Legend of Edgar Giddy 3 Kobo X Me & My Shadow Nam 98 Noiz2sa Doom Odamex Open TTD RawX Reminiscence RoadFighterX RockbotX RuXia 2018 Secret Maryo Chronicles Spear of Destiny 1 Spear of Destiny 2 Spear of Destiny 3 XDink Maze of Galious XUrQuan XVVVVX Hexen 2 Portal Of Praevus Xbox Exhibition Discs Xbox Demo Discs (56 discs in total) Root Source Thumbnails (these are used in the Root menu) Can make others of these on request Icons for Alphabetised Games Folders # A-Z in full set, each one must be renamed to folder.jpg and dropped into correct lettered folder. The above two sets go really well with the OGXBOX theme available from the XBMC4Gamers downloader. Here's a quick peek at how it all looks. XMBC4Gamers Custom Art Download Here Open to requests for any art you might be missing from your setup if it is not already in the official Art Installer. Credit due to @sweetdarkdestiny for art used in a LOT of the App packs and @RoofTop for his pack over at Emuxtras for the Emulator artwork and some of the art used for some Homebrew games/ports. (I presume its the same Rooftop here lol). Also credit goes to @Bomb Bloke for some great work providing me with a great starting point on a few of those homebrew covers. @NokSueCow Has been working on the default.xml files for a lot of homebrew and emulators, making sure they are up to date and correct. I will update the art packs with his files as and when he completes them. The exhibition discs and Xenon Xyanide emu packs are already done. Huge thanks to @Rocky5 for doing all the hard work in creating the Photoshop templates used in creating these _resource packs and for the absolute best modern Xbox dashboard available today, XBMC4Gamers. The next step in my project will be going through all this art and the art in the official installer and adding screenshots and preview videos where missing. I now have a capture setup ready to go

THIS PACK DOES NOT CONTAIN CERBIOS OR PROMETHEOS! I have been rebuilding a few of my Xbox HDD's recently and have built myself a little starter pack for use with FatXplorer. I thought I would link it here just in case anyone else finds it useful. Cerbios HARDMOD New HDD setup files updated.7z Cerbios HARDMOD New HDD setup files updated (GDRIVE) Includes a folder for C, E and F, that just need to be pointed to when formatting a HDD in FatXplorer or extracted and manually copied to an already formatted HDD. C contains a Cerbios.ini (set to HDD and DVD with no other changes from stock), the Cerbios BootAnims folder, a full MS Dash with Dashloader as evoxdash.xbe. E contains the XBMC4Gamers install, an Apps folder, A recovery/backup dashboard and the necessary TDATA and UDATA folders. F has an Apps folder and an empty Games folder. Dashloader is setup as below- Default dash is E:/XBMC4Gamers/default.xbe Recovery Dash is E:/Dashboard/default.xbe (UnleashX) Button shortcuts (Hold at power up)- Start = Boots recovery dash Back = Boots MS Dashboard Other buttons can be setup using Dashloader Customiser in E:/Apps. Apps provided in E:/Apps Dashloader Customiser DVD2Xbox Unleash X Evolution X Controller Tester Enigmah Videomode Switcher XBMC Apps provided in F:/Apps Xbox Artwork Installer 3.2 (If you have internet connection on your Xbox you can delete this and use the Online version available in XBMC4Gamers - Settings - Downloader) After copying across to a HDD you can edit the Cerbios.ini to your specific needs. If anyone has any suggestions of anything useful that they think should also be included please let me know and I can add it. Updated 20/03/25 to include the latest pre built XBMC4Gamers from Rocky5 PS I know this isn't an Installation Disc but it didn't seem to fit in any other category

I'm simply curious. As I read and understand it the BIOS and kernel (in an unmodded vanilla MS Xbox) are both stored on the flash chip. To flash it with a custom bios I have to make it writable... How did MS update the kernel then back in the day? The dash I can understand since it's just a file on the harddrive.

UPDATED link to the new 3.2 version. Includes everything from the XBMC4Gamers downloader before 25/09/24 UPDATE 26/09/24 Link has been updated again and includes the latest files inc the fixes for the manual installer. I have seen a few people having issues with downloading the Artwork Installer so I went ahead and grabbed the latest version, along with the Preview Videos and 128mb Fanart and have uploaded the whole thing to share here. Xbox Artwork Installer 3.2.7z Just FTP to your console and run the xbe. Choose in the options if you wish to install the 128mb Art and/or the Preview Videos or not. Now includes my artwork from the custom art thread here at OGX @Rocky5 I hope this is ok to share here, if not then please let me know and I will remove it immediately.

What started as a small project to create Kiosk Demo synopsis, led to updating almost everything I could find for the Xbox. Standalone Arcades and Halo Map Packs from Dominater01's Archive, Emulators from Emuxtras, Homebrew from wherever I could find, Project Deluge prototypes, and CoinOPS/OpenBOR/SORR. The only things I didn't update were Apps and Dominater01's Modded games. I'm burnt out for now and need a break, and my 365 trial expired, so no more Excel. I sent out pm's to every developer I could find asking for info on every item, some didn't respond, so if something is wrong, you'll have to update it manually in Notepad++. I'm sure I didn't get everything right, as a lot of info just couldn't be found easily, most notably Single-player or Multiplayer, 720p support, Online Play, etc. If a game didn't specify these, I put Single-player, and left the other features empty. I ran Rocky's scripts to extract every xbe's info, TitleID, SourceName, FolderName, and input what it gave. If it looks funny, that's just how it is, specifically japanese titles. If the xbe didn't have a SourceName, I used the title of the game. I started out creating Override_TitleID's for the homebrew, but that's just too monotonous. Ain't nobody got time for that, I've got bronchitis. If I ever go back and work on these, I may get to them then. But if you have trouble with something in the artwork installer, the TitleID is probably 00000000, or a match to another game. Just grab one of my Overrides from a homebrew game, change it from Override_TitleID.bin to Override_TitleID.txt. Create an 8 digit ID for your game, save, change back to bin, and install. I'd like to thank @Cian Cunningham for his awesome Spreadsheet, without his formulas I wouldn't have got nearly this far, and Rocky's artwork scripts, which saved a lot of time. Big thanks to @Rocky5 and @nikeymikey for explaining how to use Rocky's scripts in Photoshop also. I also used a few thumbnails for Root Sources, by @RoofTop , Emulators and Homebrew, resizing them a bit so they load faster. The Arcade, CoinOPS, and OpenBOR Root Source thumbnails are from Destronger's emuxtras repo, as is the xMugen set. I just added the Xbox banners and resized to load faster. The art that I somewhat created is Metroid Ninja, Premium Castlevania, the random Deluge protos and its source thumbnail, and the Halo map pack thumbnail. I used Rocky's generic controller resource sets for most everything, so they looked tidy. If something has a screenshot or a video preview, it's from that actual game, not a placeholder. I've also installed generic Halo CE/2 artwork for the map packs, and BOR art for those as well. Everything has some kind of art included, so it's not just an empty looking xbe file. This mostly came from Rockys artwork installer, I just installed it to save you time mindlessly copy/pasting. Be sure to keep an eye out for nikeymikeys XBMC4Gamers resource thread on here for better art that I can provide. There should be original Release Dates for everything in my packs, as the spreadsheet has them completed, but I don't see a way to enable them, unfortunately. I spent a lot of time finding that info. Hopefully, this can rejuvenate interest in the scene, once people start reading the descriptions and realizing there are some cool games out there in the homebrew scene. You don't need any of these games installed to use the resource sets, just ftp the folders, takes about 30 minutes, then press White, Add Source, scan the folders in, and have a look around. You may find something that sounds interesting, and go download it to try it out, who knows. I tried to put the most important info of the descriptions at the top of each game as it scrolls, and the changelogs, updates, etc, are at the bottom. If something doesn't have a description, it didn't include a readme.txt file, or I couldn't find info related to it online. I spent time on every single game, without over doing it, so it should be easy to read. Don't forget to Press Y in XBMC4Gamers' dash, to view the enhanced synopsis info, and press DPAD Right, to tab over to the Screenshots and Video Preview, if available. Rocky says not a lot of people even know this exists, hopefully I can get others to give it a chance. Just make sure to not have a music playlist going in the background, or it will run out of RAM on a stock Xbox. LT/RT super scrolls also, very handy. I don't know what the View Type is called in dash, but in XBMC4Gamers v2.1.001, it's at the very top, 3rd one right. There are only 2 that are darkly shaded, this one scrolls horizontally. I think it's the best experience, myself. Here's the link. Have Fun! And keep an eye on nikey's thread for future artwork. -Nok

Hello, my name is Kris and I wrote the Xbox repair guide 2.1 around 17 years ago. I have thought about updating it (my grammar was atrocious!) and wanted to get feedback from OG Xbox fans. On top of the grammar, I wanted to reshoot the videos and pictures to today's standards. I also saw the suggestion for a PDF version, so that's gonna go on the list. Any other suggestions? There's a lot I have missed since getting out of gaming so any help would be appreciated.

Hi, so I decided to update my softmod using Rocky5 softmod update v1.1.7 all good apart from I'm only getting 45Gb on drive F and no drive G it's a v1. 2 xbox with a 150Gb hard drive with Null Eprom. What's the best plan off attack, can I just use xbpartitioner and format F and create a partition G. I don't mind loosing what's on the HD. I have all the installer disks, any ideas please guys I would really appreciate your advice.

It has been quite a while since I hacked an OG xbox (5 years). Although I still have the tools to do it, I was wondering if any new improved methods exist. Has anyone attempted to use an computer ATX power supply/create any unique non traditional case designs? Brian