Dashboard Font Patcher, patches "fonts" and "xtf" strings. Options

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Dasboard Font Patcher

Changes :
19/7-2004 : Fixed a bug that produced an output xbe larger than the input xbe for the windows version.

I still see numerous posts by people having trouble hexing a copy of their M$ Dash to look for the original fonts after installing a font hack.

To hopefully make this a bit more simple I made a small command line tool to be run from a DOS prompt that patches the name of the "fonts" folder or the .xtf extension in a dashboard file.
This can be used on your original M$ Dash or any of the replacement dashboard based on the M$ Dash (tHC, blackstromx, ...).

Get the tool from 'the usual places' (PC section, xbe tool).
Copy your dashboard xbe to the patcher folder and run the tool. The output file from this tool is out.xbe. The syntax is given below :

[adil786]

thanks idots,

going to grab it now!

[adil786]

i cant get this to work, when i click on patcher.exe it gives me a black screen for 1 sec then goes away

whats wrong?

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It's a command line utility. Like in the good old DOS days
Copy your xboxdash.xbe to the patcher directory.
Open a command prompt and navigate to the patcher dir.
Then execute the patcher as described in the first post (patcher xboxdash.xbe -f0nts).

[Angerwound]

Awesome ldots.. A very helpful utility, many people have problems hexediting for some reason. Hopefully, this changes all that.

This post has been edited by Angerwound: Jul 8 2004, 01:14 AM

[ipodder2003]

Yeah, this will help a lot of people, if they don't do xboxhdm Great work, as usual.

[adil786]

i ended up hex editing myself,

it was suprisingly MUCH easier than i first expected!

regards

[chimpanzee]

Does this thing has a linux version or it may already be in your package ?

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It's already in the mini-linux included in both the Memcard UDE installer and on xboxhdm. Same name, same syntax.

[Teldin]

So if I use "patcher.exe thclite.xbe -f0nts" it will allow me to run thclite with UDE? I tried that but it didn't work. Running the edited thclite.xbe just boots MXM.

[chimpanzee]

may be the xbe needs to be signed again with habibi ?

[Teldin]

I'm not trying to boot with it yet, just get it to run. I'm using UDE so I can run whatever unsigned code I want I think.

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If it says it patches some "fonts" strings then the tool most likely worked. If tHClite does not work it could be you dont have the original *.xtf fonts in the C:\f0nts folder ar that some files are missing for tHC.

[nickrivers]

ldots - I tried your patcher on my original xboxdash.xbe. It said it patched successfuly 2 times. I have the basic UDE setup with the f0nts dir. When I manually launch out.xbe it just hangs. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?

[adil786]