Enemy Ai Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 Hi all I have a couple of X3 chips and have picked up a couple of xboxes now. Before I get started, I was wondering what considerations I need to make.for example. Console version? X3 chip BIOS? Ive also seen different sizes of BIOS files. Not sure if this matters? So basically, What is the investigation process that I should follow. I want to get everything ready before starting a tutorial. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbmcmodsforxbox Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 Here is a tutorial on how to flash the bios if you need that https://team-xecuter.com/flashbios/http.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted February 13, 2019 Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 (edited) The X3 modchip has its own BIOS to support all the features of it. It can also boot other modified BIOSes if you prefer. X3 Build 3294 is the latest for the modchip from Team Xecuter. It is 1MB in size and fills 4 of the modchip's 8 256KB banks which leaves 4 256 banks that can be used as either a 1MB bank, 2-512KB banks, 1-512KB bank and 2-256KB banks, or 4 separate 256KB banks. You need to make sure the version of the BIOS you flash is compatible with the Xbox version - 1.0-1.5 multi-version or specific build for v1.6s. Edited February 13, 2019 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 I have an X3 and have the bios setup as follows. X3 2394 1mb X2 latest 512k EvoX M8 256k iND Bios 256k To be honest, I only flashed the non X3 bioses to the chip just because I can, I’ve never actually used them. The X3 bios is built for that chip and does everything you will probably ever need anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 (edited) The only operation I've not been able to use with the X3 BIOS is to run games from the ISO (XISO) file instead of the extracted file set. For that, I boot the M8plus BIOS stored in one of the additional banks. The CDROM Modchip patch to do so works with only a limited number of BIOS's and the X3 BIOS is not one of them. Edited February 14, 2019 by KaosEngineer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 I didn’t know about that patch!!! So does that work for the handful of games that don’t play from extracted because of long file names???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 Yes, @nikeymikey that's exactly what it can do. Also, you can save space by leaving the files inside the XISO image instead of extracting them. Small files, less than one cluster (either 32KB or 64KB for most), occupy 1 cluster of space on the HDD. So, many tiny files can start to eat up a good chunk of HDD storage space. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 Thanks for the heads up @KaosEngineer Does this patch work for all games??? I can think of a few games that will definitely be fit from this due to small files 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 (edited) Works similar to Virtual CD/DVD software on a PC, It mounts the disc image to the D: drive so to the Xbox it thinks a DVD is loaded into the drive. The disc image can be split into multiple files to and mounted as one large image as the Xbox's FATX filesystem only allows for files to be 4GBs in size and a couple games go over that limit in 1 file. There's also a disc ripper included in the package that creates the image file(s). I think it places the mounting app's default.xbe into the folder with the image and may change the internal XBE Title to match that of the extracted game's default.xbe. The XBE title string is the text seen in a menu entry. Edited February 16, 2019 by KaosEngineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikeymikey Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 I’m definitely going to try it. Can it make images from already extracted game files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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