yeah flash your tsop!!

installed UDE using the new xboxhdm + UDE package
and went fine.

using ava as dash with 4920 ms live 1.0 dash -- runs fine, too.
xbox media player, kava-x do, too!
BUT several games (top spin, unreal championship, dtm race driver) lock up
which worked using the older st.db audio hack!

using pbl 1.4.1 with modified bfm x2-4981 on 160gb harddisk (correctly formatted) in a xbox v1.1

why doesn't these games work? what went wrong?

your help is really appreciated

i have the same issue as flyns4r except its with manhunt pal and max payne 2

If you guys are truly having problems with these games, make up a little list of those not running and some of us with UDE and same titles can see if it is really the game or your setup.

BTW, someone stated Vice City was giving you problems. None here.
Same goes for the guy having problems with Unreal Championship, no problems.
Here's my setup to compare:
K: 4034
Tray Closed: UDE - PBL 1.4.1 - X2.4983 - Avalaunch
Tray Open: Retail Dash 5960

Just installed the UDE for the first time,

DOne in 5 mins

This is a truely great mod

Just took the PBL and MXM from mordens save having to sort that lot out and put em in the right places

can anyone let me know what program u can use to change the file that the set BIOS boots?

And what hex editing program do i use to edit the xb0xdash.xbe to look for f0nts? as i havnt hex edited beofre but will give it a bash,

I have read every post in this thread over the last couple of days but dont wanna search back through it, lol

Then im D0ne

Cheers all and well done for allt he peeps who put this together,

Piratevirus

ok i fixed it. i just had to set the time and the games up and launched. this worked for manhunt and a few neogeo games my emus werent running. have to reload max payne 2 to make sure. set your clock gents that seems to fix the hassle.
nebur

I just have to say this is the best softmod ever .

I'd like to try to do this, but I need to find some time first. Right now, I'm busy setting up PCs for some friends.

Anyways, I'd rather use the code from Bigfonts than from Reloaded. It uses kernel function calls, instead of manipulating ports directly. It also has code to check if the clock is set.

Below is my version for the clock check/set. It uses kernel exports KeQuerySystemTime() and NtSetSystemTime() to check and set the clock. If time/date is outside the range 6/6/2004 - 6/6/2019, date is set to 6/6/2004 and time to 00:00 GMT.

It still boots E:\default.xbe, but I put some extra space after the filename (the 12 zero-bytes can be replaced). That makes it easy to hexedit it to boot from whatever location. Since some people seem to have an extraordinary ability to destroy contents in their E drive, I recommend putting everything necessary to boot the system into C. So, for example, replace "\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1;default.xbe" with "\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2\boot;boot.xbe" and put the booting executable to C:\boot\boot.xbe.

Nice work. You are the best!

Beautifully done job, before I post the code for the tray selection fonts, I will see if I can't include the code for the clock update as well that way it's an ALL INCLUSIVE font, or anyone that already has access to the tray selection fonts feel free and update them yourselves......

@Angerwound

I guess that "someone" would be me. Yeah, go ahead and post it if you want.

However, how do you get it to boot retail dash 5960 again? Do you have to use a script to rename the fonts (or fonts folder) first?

Oh that's right, you're booting a hexed copy of the dash (signed with habibi). I remember now.

I didn't think that this served any useful purpose, so that's why I didn't release it to the public. It looks nice though, since the LED turns orange when one is booted and green when the other is booted (red makes me think there's an error).

I suppose it could be useful for running Crimson Skies, if you can't get EvoX 3682 (is that the right number?) to load it.

On one of my boxes, I have it booting Avalaunch on Closed State and XDK on open state. I think it is pretty useful for the group of us that like to code.

But on my other box I have it booting back and for the between the 5960 and PBL/AVAlaunch so I can access my video settings and the bit of music still catalogued by the st.db.

Can you detail the location & names of the files that are booted by this font, Angerwound? I like tthat setup myself, and would appreciate the code with the file details.

For those of you that want to have a Dual-Path Boot and AutoSetting of Clock features within your Bert_Ate_ernie.xtf's here you are. Readme explains boot procedures.

Clock becomes set to 6/6/04 00:00. Depending upon timezone, you results may vary.
===================================================
BERT_ATE_ERNIE v.1.4

History:
V.1.0 - 2004-05-22 - rmenhal - First release
V.1.1 - 2004-05-25 - rmenhal - Enlarged to work with more kernels
V.1.2 - 2004-05-26 - Grospolina - Reformatted
V.1.3 - 2004-06-11 - rmenhal - Auto ClockSet routines added.
V.1.4 - 2004-06-11 - Angerwound - TrayState Decision Making added.

Current Features:

- No Clock Loop: Old fonts would become stuck within a loop not allowing a XBE to
be launched. Problem Solved.
- TrayState Decision Making: Depending upon state of tray, two different XBE's can
be launched at boot.
- AutoSet Clock if out of Range: If unplugged for periods of time
the clock will reset itself. Box will still boot because of Clock
Loop already being solved. Although, games will not boot prior to loading a dash because of the clock not being set. Problem Solved.

Dual-Habibi.xtf: This font file will launch the following:
Tray Closed: Habibi-Signed E:\default.xbe (PBL)
Tray Open: Habibi-Signed C:\msxboxdash.xbe (Hex-Edited Retail Dash or XDK)

Closed-Retail.xtf: This font file will launch the following:
Tray Closed: Habibi-Signed E:\default.xbe (PBL)
Tray Open: MS-Signed retail XBE (D: 4034 and under; Post-Live Vers. will not work
because they attempt to use c:\fonts\bert_ate_ernie.xtf)

Access to retail dash is only for video settings and music collection within your ST.DB file
Titles can not be launched from the retail dash unless PBL is launched before hand.
Source has been included. If you would like to change the Path/Partition/Filename of files being launched edit the source and compile with NASM. Included both types of XTF's for those of you without NASM.
===================================================

Any suggestions on how to get the UDE to launch PBL-->Hexed xboxdash that would then launch dash of my choice from the LIVE tab, ala mechfonts?.

I like the idea of booting to a M$ dash, for soundtrack/mem card access , then be able to launch my choice of nonM$ dash, but with the stability of ude. Actual Live access doesn't concern me.
I guess what I need to figure out, is how to hex a M$ dash to rename the LIVE tab and let it launch my choice of *.xbe.

Any suggestions?

EDIT:
posted before I saw the new fonts above
I'm guessing the dual-habibi would work close enough. Tray Open, it boots to a post-LIVE dash, correct? Tray closed, it boots to pbl/whatever. Perfect. I just want an easy way to boot either. Great work, Angerwound!

Why would you need to do that, just reboot your xbox and leave the tray closed.

yeah let pbl boot the (hexed) xboxdash.xbe and put the dash you want second in the xodash folder renamed to xonlinedash.xbe. this will then be loaded once you press the live button.

Also a smal point on this statement from angerwound:

Bad timing. See my edit above. THe dual-habibi would be perfect, eh?

Such as c:\f0nts, as originally instructed, right?

So I:
rename c:\fonts to c:\f0nts
rename & place dual-habibi.xtf to c:\bert_ate_ernie.xtf
Put the appropriate 4920 update.xbe on c:\as xboxdash.xbe
Hex my post-live dash to point to c:\f0nts, and rename to msxboxdash.xbe

Just trying to get these adjustments straightened out with the "normal" ude instructions, lol
Am I close?

Right on. I'll be trying this weekend when I get some time away from work.

One note.
Earlier, I'd posted I went back to font/audio switch because a good 50% of my cold boots with the regular UDE, after the flubber, I would lose ALL video/audio (a blue video screen on my TV like the video wasn't plugged in), but the xbox would be powered on still. I could definately hear my hdd spin down. This never happens with font/audio, or regular audio hack.
I got to thinking about it, and I have the "live 2.0 compatibilty" dash setup on my 4920 (an upgraded dash with the 4920 files ftp'ed back in, so I have TWO xboxdashdata folders. Perhaps this is confusing to the UDE?
I never experimented to see if this was the problem positively, but I'll look into it this weekend. Just a curious problem my box had with UDE I hadn't seen mentioned elsewhere.
I'm going back to a completey unmodded state then upgrading my dash, (probably 5659, or whatever is latest on my game discs) then install this version of UDE cleanly.

Just wanted you guys to notice mt weird video "power" problem.

does it take a while to boot up the alternate dash for anyone else? When I turn on my Xbox it goes through all the MS hoo-ha then it gets to the PBL 1.4 screen and hangs on "Booting USB" for about 12-15 seconds then pops me into EvoX.

Is this normal?

I switched out all the conrollers I had plugged in and it seem that a shoddy "Hip Gear" brand controller is the culperate!

Thanks for all the help!

This would be my first soft mod and I think I got UDE to work, but just need to verifty something. I kept getting an error 21 screen, until I renamed the evoxdash.xbe to default.xbe in the c:\ drive. Was I supposed to do this?

In my C drive, I have:

f0nts folder ( renamed from fonts )
xboxdash.xbe ( from slayers 2.5 update.xbe )
xb0xdash.xbe ( renamed from my original, hex edited to look for f0nts\... 2 occurances )
bert_ate_ernie.xtf
evox.ini
default.xbe ( renamed from evoxdash.xbe )

4920 dash, 3944 kernel.

I haven't attempted this but in theory I guess you could launch a habibi signed XBE from the Hexedited Retail dash.

Angerwound, Grospolina, rmenhal - Well done guys. What a collaboration!

(Now if we could come up with open source versions of the previously mentioned file renamers, for execution based on the tray state, we'd gain access to XBOX!Live and reach the original vision. ) Edit: The 'tray open' dashboard renamer would need to reboot once it's renamed the M$ Dashboard back to be boot dashboard, to restore the M$ signature - (will be reversed later by the EEE)