Author Topic: Original Xbox softmod - Help? (SOLVED) (Read 16411 times)

Ginsu Victim · « **on:** March 10, 2009, 03:29:31 pm »

I just bought an original XBOX v1.6. I've been going through all kinds of information at XBOX-SCENE and various other sites, but there's such a mix of old information and new that finding a good starting point seems to be a problem. The old info is TOO old, and the newer info expects you to have a grasp on what to do already.

I'm not sure what the latest advances are in softmodding, so is there anyone who has kept up with all of this? I have done mods on PSX, PS2, and did all sorts of fun stuff with Dreamcast and GBA copying, but this is all new to me.

I do have Splinter Cell and a USB adapter if needed. If I can avoid having to do any hotswaps, that'd be even better.

Thanks.

knave · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2009, 04:19:53 pm »

I have only done the hotswap method. Which worked fine. I've read alot and the gamesave methods seem to be pretty straightforward. Load the game, load the hacked save and then FTP in and install your new dash and software. I recently read a few walkthroughs from scene and they looked right.

I have an xbox waiting to be moded so let me know how it turns out

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2009, 04:27:03 pm »

Yeah, I actually think I just found a decent softmod tutorial finally.

knave · « **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2009, 05:52:26 pm »

Do share with us Please...

Hoopz · « **Reply #4 on:** March 10, 2009, 08:36:35 pm »

I think this is the easiest way to softmod:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=496263

I had it done in just about 15-20 minutes the first time I tried it. You do have to hot swap but it's pretty damn easy. Considering I can't solder worth a pile of poo, it was the easiest way for me.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #5 on:** March 10, 2009, 10:33:50 pm »

I just completed the softmod by hacking the driver for my USB thumb drive to work with the Action Replay software, then used AID with UnleashX and the Splinter Cell exploit. Worked great! Now I'm going to burn a game and test that! EDIT: Burn games work brilliantly!

waveryder · « **Reply #6 on:** March 11, 2009, 07:39:01 am »

Easier to create a USB adaptor and use a softmod installer. Make sure you've backed up your eprom.bin or your gonna have no end of grief changing out the HD.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2009, 08:38:48 am »

That's exactly what I did.

J_K_M_A_N · « **Reply #8 on:** March 11, 2009, 08:42:39 am »

Quote from: Hoopz on March 10, 2009, 08:36:35 pm

I think this is the easiest way to softmod:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=496263

I had it done in just about 15-20 minutes the first time I tried it. You do have to hot swap but it's pretty damn easy. Considering I can't solder worth a pile of poo, it was the easiest way for me.

That is the one I use. I have done about 10-15 that way and all worked great. Like waveryder said, back up your eeprom as soon as you can and you can always rebuild from that.

J_K_M_A_N

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #9 on:** March 11, 2009, 10:02:37 am »

Yep, like I said, it worked great. I had everything I needed so that I didn't have to take any risks doing a hotswap. Thanks.

knave · « **Reply #10 on:** March 11, 2009, 11:51:36 am »

So...out of curiosity what if you didn't back up your eprom.bin.

To be honest...I can't remember...It might be saved on there somewhere...I had no Idea what I was doing back then.

Hoopz · « **Reply #11 on:** March 11, 2009, 11:59:04 am »

Quote from: knave on March 11, 2009, 11:51:36 am

So...out of curiosity what if you didn't back up your eprom.bin.

To be honest...I can't remember...It might be saved on there somewhere...I had no Idea what I was doing back then.

You should back it up as soon as possible. FTP in and copy it to your hard drive on the pc. Its easy to do and will only take a couple of minutes.

J_K_M_A_N · « **Reply #12 on:** March 11, 2009, 12:46:07 pm »

Quote from: knave on March 11, 2009, 11:51:36 am

So...out of curiosity what if you didn't back up your eprom.bin.

To be honest...I can't remember...It might be saved on there somewhere...I had no Idea what I was doing back then.

It isn't the end of the world if you don't but if something goes wrong with the hard drive or if you upload something wrong and it won't boot, you will have to get a chip to fix it (if you can't boot from a slayers disc). If you have the eeprom backed up, you can rebuild a new drive easily with xboxhdm.

J_K_M_A_N

knave · « **Reply #13 on:** March 11, 2009, 04:01:43 pm »

Ok, so I can FTP in at any time and make a backup?

That is a relief. I don't plan on messing with it too much but I should probably go in and back it up sooner than later...especially now that I use it alot more.

Thanks.

Oh...and this thread has caused me to loose most of my day over at Xbox-scene...

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #14 on:** March 11, 2009, 04:22:52 pm »

Quote from: knave on March 11, 2009, 04:01:43 pm

Oh...and this thread has caused me to loose most of my day over at Xbox-scene...

Yeah, that can happen easy.

J_K_M_A_N · « **Reply #15 on:** March 11, 2009, 04:27:17 pm »

Quote from: knave on March 11, 2009, 04:01:43 pm

Ok, so I can FTP in at any time and make a backup?

That is a relief. I don't plan on messing with it too much but I should probably go in and back it up sooner than later...especially now that I use it alot more.

Thanks.

Oh...and this thread has caused me to loose most of my day over at Xbox-scene...

I like to use evox to make a backup of the eeprom. Just install it and run it from XBMC in the filemanager. Then it has an option for backup and just ftp in and get the backup folder from the directory in evox. Inside that directory is a file called eeprom.bin. That is what you need to be safer.

J_K_M_A_N

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #16 on:** March 11, 2009, 04:29:17 pm »

Now I just need to go read up on all this FTP business, especially if I'm going to use XBMC to its full potential.

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2009, 10:07:33 am »

Once I got XBMC setup, I almost never use ftp'ing. I samba everything...unless you are copying iso's or something, then you should use the avalaunch / qwix combo to copy iso's over.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #18 on:** March 26, 2009, 10:55:25 am »

I still haven't put XBMC on there. I just have UnleashX as the softmod. FTPing works fine for me. Samba, avalaunch, qwix....all foreign to me.

ChadTower · « **Reply #19 on:** March 26, 2009, 12:37:06 pm »

Is it really samba or raw SMB? A samba mount to my xbox would be really convenient.

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #20 on:** March 26, 2009, 01:19:39 pm »

Chad.
You can access smb shares on the network. I dont know the difference in samba and SMB. I thought they were the same.

Ginsu.
Samba, as far as I was aware, is a way to access windows network folders. You can share a folder on your network, give it a share name and access it within XBMC using Samba shares, allowing you to stream MP3's or Avi's, etc etc. You can even transfer files.

Avalaunch is an alternative dashboard instead of unleashX. It works the same and has no extra use except for the transfer of large ISO files. IF you run a windows program called Qwix and have Avalaunch running on your xbox, the two programs run together and increase the transfer speed of installing ISO files to your xbox harddrive. Only useful if you upgraded the harddrive though.
Details on avalaunch here

ChadTower · « **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2009, 01:29:42 pm »

Quote from: Hoagie_one on March 26, 2009, 01:19:39 pm

Chad.
You can access smb shares on the network. I dont know the difference in samba and SMB. I thought they were the same.

I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the tip. samba is a client that works on the SMB protocol, sort of how cuteftp is a client that works via FTP.

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Samba, as far as I was aware, is a way to access windows network folders. You can share a folder on your network, give it a share name and access it within XBMC using Samba shares, allowing you to stream MP3's or Avi's, etc etc. You can even transfer files.

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. It uses SMB much of the time to READ shares on other machines to pull content for streaming... I haven't seen the ability to transfer files to the Xbox hard drive that way, though, which would be pretty nice.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #22 on:** March 26, 2009, 01:46:54 pm »

My XBOX is in the same room as my PC, so I have no use for playing MP3s or watching movies on it. I mostly just burn games and play them. Nothing fancy.

Hoopz · « **Reply #23 on:** March 26, 2009, 03:02:28 pm »

What's the fun of that? If your television is bigger than your monitor, you may find streaming videos is better. And if you have surround sound on the tv, but not the pc, that will help also.

If none of these apply, then ignore all this.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #24 on:** March 26, 2009, 03:08:01 pm »

I have a dedicated HTPC in the living room for all that fun stuff on my 32" LCD with surround.

In the room where the XBOX and computer are, both screens are the same size (19"). The PC and XBOX are only running through surround, and since I'm hooking the XBOX through a CRT television, I can play House of the Dead III and XMAME (eventually) with the lightgun.

ChadTower · « **Reply #25 on:** May 03, 2009, 10:12:42 pm »

Quote from: Hoopz on March 10, 2009, 08:36:35 pm

I think this is the easiest way to softmod:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=496263

I had it done in just about 15-20 minutes the first time I tried it. You do have to hot swap but it's pretty damn easy. Considering I can't solder worth a pile of poo, it was the easiest way for me.

I just spent two hours of fail trying this...

Hoopz · « **Reply #26 on:** May 03, 2009, 10:25:03 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on May 03, 2009, 10:12:42 pm

Quote from: Hoopz on March 10, 2009, 08:36:35 pm
I think this is the easiest way to softmod:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=496263

I had it done in just about 15-20 minutes the first time I tried it. You do have to hot swap but it's pretty damn easy. Considering I can't solder worth a pile of poo, it was the easiest way for me.

I just spent two hours of fail trying this...

What was the issue? Getting it unlocked or connecting it to your pc or

?

ChadTower · « **Reply #27 on:** May 04, 2009, 07:56:46 am »

Not sure yet... I'm 100% certain I had that thing on my primary master. I tried it on every IDE channel in every config, actually, many times. No matter what it would tell me "This machine is no Xbox". I am going to try the audio track unlock method, and if that doesn't work, it will have to be another motherboard. I tried 40 pin cables, 80 pin cables, everything I could think of with this motherboard.

Hoopz · « **Reply #28 on:** May 04, 2009, 09:18:00 am »

I've only used the audio unlock method not the save game method. If J_K_M_A_N sees this, he may have another route to go.

With your other Xbox mods, did you go with a chip?

ChadTower · « **Reply #29 on:** May 04, 2009, 09:20:18 am »

Quote from: Hoopz on May 04, 2009, 09:18:00 am

I've only used the audio unlock method not the save game method. If J_K_M_A_N sees this, he may have another route to go.

The tutorial above says it can be done swapped from sitting at the dashboard. Damn if I could get that to work, though.

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With your other Xbox mods, did you go with a chip?

All of them.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #30 on:** May 04, 2009, 10:21:28 am »

Hmmm, I've been playing Jade Empire just fine. (Edit: Though mine is a DVD-5 rip version, so it's probably had that fixed)

ChadTower · « **Reply #31 on:** May 04, 2009, 10:38:00 am »

Odds are pretty low that I'll ever do much gaming on this one. It's going into the movie projector cart I am building for quick rollouts of movie night. This is going to be the media source.

knave · « **Reply #32 on:** May 04, 2009, 11:52:50 am »

When I did mine I had a number of hurdles. Getting an audio track on the Xbox with a defective DVD drive, Getting the hard drive unlocked took me quite a few tries I think I had to let the song play for a while, then let it sit on pause for a minute and then do the swap. Then the first time I FTP'd in to run the mod software I got an error. I checked my settings and tried again and it worked. I wish I had turned off the clock.

I use it everyday now though.

ChadTower · « **Reply #33 on:** May 04, 2009, 12:00:18 pm »

I'm booting from UnleashX now. I had to change the PC motherboard I was using. It worked on the first attempt with a different motherboard.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #34 on:** May 04, 2009, 12:21:53 pm »

Glad you got it going!

Hoopz · « **Reply #35 on:** May 04, 2009, 12:33:08 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on May 04, 2009, 12:00:18 pm

I'm booting from UnleashX now. I had to change the PC motherboard I was using. It worked on the first attempt with a different motherboard.

How did you determine that it was the pc mobo that was the issue? That's not one I would have thought of at all. I probably would have tried a different pc eventually.

Good job though.

ChadTower · « **Reply #36 on:** May 04, 2009, 12:39:10 pm »

Quote from: Hoopz on May 04, 2009, 12:33:08 pm

How did you determine that it was the pc mobo that was the issue? That's not one I would have thought of at all. I probably would have tried a different pc eventually.

Good job though.

Saw a couple of references to that as a possibility on the tutorial thread. I have enough spare parts here that it took 60 seconds to swap and there wasn't anything left I could think of to try with the other one.

Hoopz · « **Reply #37 on:** May 04, 2009, 12:49:25 pm »

And that's why they say to RTFM. As many times as I read through that, it seems like I spent 10x more time on reading it as I did on doing it.

ChadTower · « **Reply #38 on:** May 04, 2009, 12:54:09 pm »

Quote from: Hoopz on May 04, 2009, 12:49:25 pm

And that's why they say to RTFM. As many times as I read through that, it seems like I spent 10x more time on reading it as I did on doing it.

Well the thread is 100 pages. And the front page tutorial is from 2006 - since then the version of Ndure has changed. A couple of other things have changed, too. So it took some digging, as always, to come up with the exact combo that hits.

EDIT: BTW, this current build of XBMC is spiffy, as is the version of UnleashX. The ones I have been running for main house use here are fairly old. This one has some nice features, like adding sources through the gui, and it autoboots to XBMC without me having had to configure that.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #39 on:** May 04, 2009, 02:01:07 pm »

My 1.6 is setup to boot to UnleashX if the power is pressed, or the regular Xbox dashboard if eject is pressed.

ChadTower · « **Reply #40 on:** May 04, 2009, 02:05:18 pm »

I tried that but it errors out if I boot with eject. I saw reference to the fact that this mod is clearing out C: so I may have to put the base dash back there to get that to work. Not such a high priority at the moment, though. This one will never go on Xbox Live.

I do need an svid cable, though, as that is the best nonVGA signal my projector will take. I am not sure yet if the VGA hack is worthwhile.

Hoopz · « **Reply #41 on:** May 04, 2009, 02:29:28 pm »

Which version of XBMC are you using? One from t3ch? http://t3ch.yi.se/

ChadTower · « **Reply #42 on:** May 04, 2009, 02:40:34 pm »

Yeah, 17820... the latest one labeled stable on xbins.

ChadTower · « **Reply #43 on:** May 04, 2009, 03:27:01 pm »

Isn't there a hardware mod for that? You could add an IR sensor in line with the power button or something similar. I could swear I saw that done a while back.

Hoopz · « **Reply #44 on:** May 04, 2009, 03:48:50 pm »

Quote from: pinballjim on May 04, 2009, 03:19:51 pm

I gotta say, they've really improved XBMC since I was playing with it 2-3 years ago. Now if you could just get a damned power button on the remote, I'd be set.

+1 I can turn it OFF with the remote but I'd love to be able to turn it on with it...

ChadTower · « **Reply #45 on:** May 04, 2009, 03:54:44 pm »

IR mod.

Not a drop in simple mod but could be done if you really wanted it.

J_K_M_A_N · « **Reply #46 on:** May 04, 2009, 06:27:34 pm »

I have an IR mod on mine and two of my brothers. (Bought package) It is pretty easy with that. Kinda spendy though.

Glad you got it working Chad. I would have never tried a different mobo I don't think. I have only had to unlock the drive with an audio track once. All others worked just sitting at the dash. Did you run a ground cable from the xbox to the pc case? That is about the only thing I could think of.

J_K_M_A_N

ChadTower · « **Reply #47 on:** May 04, 2009, 06:31:12 pm »

Quote from: J_K_M_A_N on May 04, 2009, 06:27:34 pm

Did you run a ground cable from the xbox to the pc case? That is about the only thing I could think of.

Nope, I used the PC power supply to power the drive so I didn't have to do that.

kizer · « **Reply #48 on:** June 18, 2009, 04:43:51 pm »

Yep my modded Xbox with XBMC gets used more than anything in my house. I don't have a blue ray player, but I do rip a lot of flicks and have them ready anytime I want. More or less movie on demand with my NAS and internal storage.

I think the wife likes it more than I do, which I find kinda funny. I have these disks laying around with Xbox written on them and I think the natives call them games, but I'm not sure what they do.

J_K_M_A_N · « **Reply #49 on:** June 19, 2009, 01:56:39 pm »

Quote from: kizer on June 18, 2009, 04:43:51 pm

Yep my modded Xbox with XBMC gets used more than anything in my house. I don't have a blue ray player, but I do rip a lot of flicks and have them ready anytime I want. More or less movie on demand with my NAS and internal storage.

I think the wife likes it more than I do, which I find kinda funny. I have these disks laying around with Xbox written on them and I think the natives call them games, but I'm not sure what they do.

I just got my 2nd 1TB drive for my system. I now have about 3TB of space. I also just hit the 600 mark for movies and I have almost 2300 TV episodes. Best thing ever. I have 2 xboxs in the house and they get used ALL the time.

J_K_M_A_N

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #50 on:** June 28, 2009, 12:35:17 am »

What is this thing ye call thine X-B-O-X ?
I want to play moosac on mine.

Yes, I do believe I'm at the low end of the power curve here, just touched an XBOX for the first time, I'm sure it'll go horribly wrong here shortly.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #51 on:** July 18, 2009, 01:25:42 pm »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on June 28, 2009, 12:35:17 am

Yes, I do believe I'm at the low end of the power curve here, just touched an XBOX for the first time, I'm sure it'll go horribly wrong here shortly.

Well, I dove in and with a bit of fanaglin' before I could get started due to no "memory card", things have actually gone quite good.

One question for you folks who have done softmods on the XBOX......

I'm trying to set it up where I can "stream" media content form one of our PC's until I can get a bigger drive for the box.
Now I can FTP into the XBOX no problem from my pc, swap files all day long.
But I can't seem to FTP the other way around. Nor does it seem to allow me to add a shared folder or files that are on my pc.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple, just trying to narrow it down.
Wondering if maybe it's a setting on my Linksys router I'm missing. (thought I had checked all that)

Any suggestions on the steps I should try or go through ?

Hoopz · « **Reply #52 on:** July 18, 2009, 02:20:14 pm »

If you're using XBMC, you can go to videos, add source, then select SMB network, browse to your computer, point to your folder, and it should work.

That's a pretty simple explanation so ask if you need more help. Make sure you are sharing your files on the PC too. And allow the XBox to access your PC through your firewall.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #53 on:** July 18, 2009, 04:38:28 pm »

Quote from: Hoopz on July 18, 2009, 02:20:14 pm

If you're using XBMC, you can go to videos, add source, then select SMB network, browse to your computer, point to your folder, and it should work.

Seems like that's what I tried, but I'll have to poke at it again to remember if it was n "SMB" network or not that I tried.

Quote from: Hoopz on July 18, 2009, 02:20:14 pm

And allow the XBox to access your PC through your firewall.

That's the part I was unsure of if I had done everything correctly.
I thought it would have connected similar to any other pc in the house. (have four networked through same router) So I wasn't certain if I needed to anything extra particular to it being an "XBOX" versus PC.
Or if I had to set special ports and such, yada, yada.

I'll play with it some more this evening, been a couple weeks since I messed with that part of it.

Hoopz · « **Reply #54 on:** July 18, 2009, 04:55:08 pm »

Are you running a software firewall on your pc?

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #55 on:** July 18, 2009, 06:29:01 pm »

No software firewall.
Even disabled the Linksys router firewall until I figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Even poked around with setting my pc up with a DMZ Host IP Address. (No idea what that's for really)

Hadn't had a chance to mess with it yet this evening.
Will do though, maybe go back to square one and try it again.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #56 on:** July 18, 2009, 06:52:22 pm »

Quote from: Hoopz on July 18, 2009, 02:20:14 pm

If you're using XBMC, you can go to videos, add source, then select SMB network, browse to your computer, point to your folder, and it should work.

That did it.

I went back and disabled the DMZ stuff on the router and everything else had farted with and went back and tried it again and it worked like a charm.
Last couple times I had tried it would see the pc, set up the shortcut to it, but then when I tried to actually access it then it would fail. (I forget what error now)
But anyways, it's working now..... streaming smoothly.
Which is cool because I still have the factory harddrive in this box, so not a lot of space yet.

Thanks again, ya got me pointed in the right direction.

Hoopz · « **Reply #57 on:** July 18, 2009, 06:54:40 pm »

Outstanding. I fooled around with it for awhile too before I tried SMB. Being able to stream video when your hard drive is 8 gigs is definitely a plus.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #58 on:** July 18, 2009, 08:16:30 pm »

Yeah, I know I originally steered away from the SMB Network option thinking I would have to have "Samba" or something always running on the shared pc..... so I never even tried that. (not knowing anything about it)

But it's working great, been streaming all kinds of stuff to it for awhile now.
(realizing I have a lot of file cleanup I need to do on my pc)

Red · « **Reply #59 on:** July 23, 2009, 03:10:32 am »

I know that DVD2Xbox can rip games to the hard drive, but can it also rip DVD movies to the hard drive as well?

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #60 on:** July 23, 2009, 04:02:10 pm »

Haven't tried it, but short answer is yes.
It's a "disc" to xbox copier.

http://dvd2xbox.xbox-scene.com/

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dvd2xbox is a disc to hdd/smb/ftp copy program for the xbox which supports the following formats:

* XBox Games: makes a backup of your original games. You're done with a few clicks. Use game name as directory name. Disables all known media checks and let you run the game from any medium.
* Video DVD: makes a backup of your original movie DVD. Supports css to decrypt the movie during copy.
* Audio CD: makes a backup of your original CDDA. Rips Audiotracks and encodes them to ogg vorbis, MP3 or WAV. Supports freecddb to name your tracks.
* ISO9660: copy your burned S/VCD and mp3 CDs.

Red · « **Reply #61 on:** July 24, 2009, 02:36:12 am »

Great! Thanks Kevin.

Red

Malenko · « **Reply #62 on:** July 24, 2009, 01:50:20 pm »

Quote from: Ginsu Victim on March 10, 2009, 03:29:31 pm

I just bought an original XBOX v1.6.

Quote from: pinballjim on May 04, 2009, 10:20:17 am

I just always TSOP flashed.

you cant TSOP a 1.6

I still mod regular xboxs with the AUF exploit (softmod) , the exploit menus are in french. the version of unleashX Im runnign is ancient, but I dunno where to get updated files.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #63 on:** July 24, 2009, 05:48:03 pm »

My XBOX doesn't bake cookies either, but I didn't bother mentioning it because NO ONE CARES WHAT IT CAN'T DO.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #64 on:** August 18, 2009, 02:20:29 pm »

I must just love bumping a "solved" thread.

Anywho.... just noticed the other night when I pop a DVD in my XBOX now when it finishes recognizing the disc it then turns around and want to go to XBOX ONLINEDASH..... and then it just more or less craps out and does nothing.

Running UnleashX from the Auto Installer Deluxe.
Haven't tried it through XBMC yet.

Any ideas on why it may be trying to go to the onlinedash in the first place ?
Maybe something from the softmod I need to reload ?

ChadTower · « **Reply #65 on:** August 18, 2009, 02:55:14 pm »

FWIW I didn't upgrade the drive on any of the Xboxes I use. Everything gets streamed and it always works well. They don't all work that well as DVD players but streaming is pretty damn good.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #66 on:** August 18, 2009, 03:16:24 pm »

I plan on streaming most of our movies and such once I get a large enough drive to stuff a bunch of our DVD's onto.
The few I have thrown on my my PC stream quite nicely to the XBOX.

I probably wouldn't have even noticed this particular issue, because I hadn't planned on playing DVD's on it. But my daughters boyfriend came over and brought a DVD of his Marine bootcamp, so I figured I'd just pop it in the XBOX because it was handy....... eh, here come the XBOX Onlinedash thingy popping up.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #67 on:** August 18, 2009, 03:47:49 pm »

Just came across this on a totally irrelevant search, thought it might be of interest to some.

VGA cable for the XBOX
http://antibeat.host.sk/vgaguide/

ChadTower · « **Reply #68 on:** August 18, 2009, 03:55:35 pm »

If it helps I keep my movies/music/streamer stuff on an external drive via USB and it works well. No latency issues even with a cheap USB hub involved. That way it's partitioned away from the OS and application drives and you can upgrade the capacity with ease.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #69 on:** August 18, 2009, 04:34:53 pm »

Good point.......
Was thinking of doing something similar with music as well.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #70 on:** October 07, 2009, 02:47:37 pm »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on August 18, 2009, 02:20:29 pm

just noticed the other night when I pop a DVD in my XBOX now when it finishes recognizing the disc it then turns around and want to go to XBOX ONLINEDASH..... and then it just more or less craps out and does nothing.

Solved this in a round about way........

Even though UnleashX was directed to use the xboxdash.xbe as it's suppose to, it wouldn't work. (crashed)
I directed UnleashX to use the xboxdash.xbe in the MS backup folder and it plays DVD's just fine now.
Did notice that there was a file size difference between the two .xbe's.
Kinda leary about swapping those .xbe files around, so I'll leave well enough alone.


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