Preventing Cold-booting Via Parental Control Options

[PedrosPad]

I've been informed that region 2's have the non-games Parental Control features (so it seems that the M$ dashboard is only providing the Games slider when the EEPROM's region is 1)  eh.

Cripes - and I thought the UK was the nanny state.

[eh.]

In case anyone would like to reduce the chance of M$ sneaking into their non-region 1 box, here's a method of enabling the Parental Control feature/s in UIX eh.

Change two occurrances of == "NA" to be != "M$" in *UIX's default.xip* as per:

(i) the if statement that's after: = v[nGamePCLevel];
resulting in the equivalent of if (theConfig.GetGameRegion() != "M$") { nCurListItemCount = 3;

(ii) the if statement that includes: == "NA") +
resulting in the equivalent of if((theConfig.GetGameRegion() != "M$") + (theConfig.GetGameRegion() == "JAPAN"))

(*Don't do this in the retail default.xip as that would frag the M$ dash!*)

This post has been edited by eh.: Mar 15 2005, 10:33 AM

[eh.]

(Thread's sub-title removed and first post updated due to the region and User.Interface.X findings - thanks RiceCake.)

Regarding the previous post's UIX enhancement method:

It permits all regions to gain access to its System -> Parental Control -> Games option (whereas the M$ dash just lets region 1).

Its related features update the EEPROM* directly (the same way as the M$ dash) and the change is immediate.

*As per the M$ dash, if the current setup's using a virtual eeprom then that's updated and when the virtual eeprom's NOT enabled it updates the real EEPROM.

Consequently, as per the first post, initially only change the "Games slider" to your exploitable disc's rating to ensure that can still cold-boot the box eh.