Author Topic: Original Xbox softmod - Help? (SOLVED) (Read 16418 times)

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/

Quote

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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