malarrya Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 Hello everyone. I was hoping OGXbox could start a repository/collection of HEX Edited XBEs. I rip most of my games from disc using DVD2XBOX which helps in patching the 480p but there are many other XBEs available with various different functionality such as: 720p Widescreen Running from Hard Drive 128MB RAM Xbox Upgraded Processor (1.0 or 1.4 GHz) Would it be possible to post/discuss the available XBEs on this thread or, better yet, collect/link as many as possible and create a MEGA/Google Drive link to them? There are already quite a few XBEs available on other boards such as XBMC4XBOX, assemblergames.com, and I know many folks have already edited these files. It would be greatly appreciated if these XBEs were easily accessible rather than redoing what so many others have already done successfully (unless there is some sort of legal issue ). If there are no issues from the admins, I can also share what DVD2XBOX may have already patched. Let me know your thoughts! Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neighbor Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 (edited) best way would be to share the actual patches made through Lunar IPS, same way it was done on the emuxtras thread initially. No ilegal stuff involved in here. Edited June 21, 2019 by neighbor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, neighbor said: best way would be to share the actual patches made through Lunar IPS, same way it was done on the emuxtras thread initially. No ilegal stuff involved in here. Thanks for the reply. I'm not familiar with Lunar IPS so I'll have to look into that. I could pore through the half-dozen message boards attempting to collect everything I come across and try them out but I'm sure some folks may already have a full stash of Hex edited XBEs. What do you think would be the best way to collect all these for others to enjoy? I forgot I have an account on EmuXtras so I'll start looking there. Edited June 21, 2019 by malarrya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 (edited) Here's a HDD/480p pack I found on the EmuXtras board from user Headphone. I'll keep posting more/newer archives as I find them. Enjoy! https://mega.nz/#!rBgVkCaY!auBeOzdahNGRsq19WcXU4lqexn4Ijo1ExH5Zg_j7aIs EDIT: Please follow the board link below for discussion of these files. You should back up your original XBE for each game in case something doesn't work. I am not responsible for breaking your games. Do this at your own risk. http://www.emuxtras.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=6569 Edited June 21, 2019 by malarrya 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 (edited) Widescreen code repository for doing it yourself: http://ps2wide.net/xbox.html You should back up your original XBE for each game in case something doesn't work. I am not responsible for breaking your games. Do this at your own risk. Edited June 21, 2019 by malarrya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 (edited) I've uploaded a pack of 720p Hex Edited files to my MEGA storage. Enjoy! https://mega.nz/#!ZJ831QAR!p9rjLcJq-pZ0PT42T62z69Re3COQRpAi2l3s1yMt2VE This is the thread that has the 720p Hex Edited files. I collected whatever I could find and take no credit for any of this. http://www.emuxtras.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=6203&start=160 You should back up your original XBE for each game in case something doesn't work. I am not responsible for breaking your games. Do this at your own risk. Edited June 21, 2019 by malarrya 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neighbor Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 10 hours ago, malarrya said: not familiar with Lunar IPS it's done in a few steps. 1. choose original xbe 2. choose modified xbe 3. save the *.ips patch which contains the difference between them, so when a stock xbe is patched, it takes all the changes of a modified xbe. This way, the repo could be shared everywhere, even under youtube videos and such. Probably I will contribute to this, just need to find some time, unfortunatelly it won't be soon, too busy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 I have a couple places I could put this and would be totally down with setting up a Gdoc to merge everything together and host it in Drive. Will get to work on making the patches tomorrow evening when I get some more board time. Was thinking it could be organized as HDD > Resolution > RAM > CPU. That way we could avoid hosting, say, 64MB patches for a 1.4Ghz system. Are there even any CPU upgraded Xboxes with Stock RAM out there? Would save a lot of trouble to know either way, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 9 hours ago, Magicaldave said: Will get to work on making the patches tomorrow evening when I get some more board time. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) The difference between the 480p and 720p on Gauntlet Dark Legacy is amazing. These photos don't do it justice but I don't own a screen capture card. 480p 720p Edited June 22, 2019 by malarrya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 1 hour ago, malarrya said: The difference between the 480p and 720p on Gauntlet Dark Legacy is amazing. These photos don't do it justice but I don't own a screen capture card. I have a million billion Xbox-related projects I’m always going back and forth on so between that and real life I get kinda hung up. BUT, as far as I know certain BIOSes such as Yoshihiro will allow remote video capture over the network. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 22, 2019 Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 @malarrya could you provide some detail as to what the HDD patches actually do, if you know? My understanding is that some games don’t work from HDD due to the FATX limitation of 128 characters in file names. Could simply be worked around by running the game as ISO if this is the only issue; cut down on the number of patches necessary. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Magicaldave said: @malarrya could you provide some detail as to what the HDD patches actually do, if you know? Yeah some games don't launch from the hard drive or the game attempts to access certain files on the DVD D:/ drive. The games will get a dirty disc error or simply won't launch. Scooby-Doo Mystery Mayhem is one of them. That one is fixed by deleting the data within the XBE or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 4 hours ago, malarrya said: That one is fixed by deleting the data within the XBE or something. Fixed by opening the FATX file in a text editor and removing all the data. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 13 hours ago, Magicaldave said: My understanding is that some games don’t work from HDD due to the FATX limitation of 128 characters in file names. The filename length is limited to 42 characters on FATX. The dot and file extension count in the filename length. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 7 minutes ago, KaosEngineer said: The filename length is limited to 42 characters on FATX. The dot and file extension count in the filename length. Hmm. Doesn’t this include directories as well, though? I’ve got some, mostly tv, that are quite a bit more than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 I'd double check those directory names, I don't think they can be longer than 42 characters each but I've never verified. I think the entire complete path length itself is limited to 250 characters too. Again, something I've not verified. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 Just checked creating a folder name longer than 42 characters - NO. Results in an error. Created sub-sub-folders and this is the longest path I was able to create without an error: /F/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/0/1/2/3456789/0123456789/01234567 252 characters. No files can be saved in the folder though as the full path thus far takes up the entire max path length. Tried to upload a file, xHexen.rar to this folder and only get an error. Shortened the path and uploaded the file so the max path length is 252 characters and it works. Add 1 more character onto the subfolder name and the full patch length is again too long to upload the file. This works: /F/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/0/1/2/3456789/012345678/xHexen.rar 252 characters, but this doesn't: /F/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/012345678901234567890123456789012345678901/0/1/2/3456789/0123456789/xHexen.rar 253 characters. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 (edited) On 6/21/2019 at 4:20 PM, malarrya said: I've uploaded a pack of 720p Hex Edited files to my MEGA storage. Enjoy! https://mega.nz/#!ZJ831QAR!p9rjLcJq-pZ0PT42T62z69Re3COQRpAi2l3s1yMt2VE (NO LONGER THERE. USE NEW LINK). This is the thread that has the 720p Hex Edited files. I collected whatever I could find and take no credit for any of this. http://www.emuxtras.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=6203&start=160 You should back up your original XBE for each game in case something doesn't work. I am not responsible for breaking your games. Do this at your own risk. I updated the archive with numerous additions. It now contains 79 total files for 720p: https://mega.nz/#!gYEkgYjb!y2NSMyuTqv3d18k_hIlSEfg26gOoTuamcbTBF1z0ax8 Edited June 23, 2019 by malarrya 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 Tried to make a set of widescreen/CPU/RAM/720P patches for a few games tonight, ended up getting sidelined by Halo of all things. I'd assumed this would be relatively simple, especially using OGxHD, but while it definitely works for forcing widescreen it gets stuck at 720P and just looks awful. I'll download your updated archive, try to backtrack the changes and go from there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malarrya Posted June 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 (edited) Here's a link from the Assemblergames boards to a spreadsheet made by Cyrix that gives a breakdown of about 300+ games and how they fare with 720p mode: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HpxKGQ6wVTRevUdQ6_4rkuyF_ZugOgc2C4tXnZxBZCk/edit#gid=0 Edited June 24, 2019 by malarrya 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosnic Posted July 4, 2019 Report Share Posted July 4, 2019 Does anyone know of a location that has all known widescreen hacks? I only know ps2wide.net and Esppiral's thread on the assemblergames.com forums (soon in obscuregamers.com's archive). Each of them lists games you cannot find on the other website. Back in the day I would have expected to find this kind of stuff on xboxscene (R.I.P.). Nowadays this knowledge is shattered all over the internet and it is pointless to only consult one website. As a European citizen I can only patch a handful of the listed games, since the patches are not "region-free". I.e., the US hacks will not work on the PAL version of the same game and vice versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntja Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 I have a couple of already patched XBE's for some NTSC games. May I post them here? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neighbor Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 7 hours ago, puntja said: I have a couple of already patched XBE's for some NTSC games. May I post them here? sure, why not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntja Posted September 25, 2019 Report Share Posted September 25, 2019 Here you go! https://drive.google.com/open?id=19ENuXQZ07B7H3Axf4qg5hE1QEjUHOb-h 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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