FreeStyle Dash v2.0 RC1.6 Posted by XanTium | January 9 18:18 EST | News Category: Xbox360

Team FSD released a new W.I.P. build of FreeStyle Dash v2.0, the alternative dashboard for homebrew/JTAG 360s. Today they released RC1.6 (Rev 2075), available as independent download or if you already have FSD2 you can use the build-in updater. What's new/fixed: (Updated)Back button will now take u back too the list before navigating back a scene (Added) a better method to check if a executable has a privilege set (Reverted) GameList Icon focus fix- didn't work (Updated) Version Information (Updated) Screenshot Scene to have proper pop up animation (Fixed) Focus Bug on game list if you press left while on game list, it requires you to press right twice to move tabs (Fixed) Release build configuration (Added) preliminary support for samba client to the FileBrowser (Fixed) Error msg pop-up if trying to add screenshot via http when it didn't have any (Fixed) Replace screenshot option disabled in http if there aren't any (Fixed) Http screenshot count to be 0/0 if there aren't any (Added) Transition Settings for Game List (Fixed) Achievements Scene to match transition (Fixed) Saved Game Scene to match transition (Fixed) Manage TU Scene to match transition (Fixed) Focus Bug on wait scene (Fixed) Issue in ScnDualPane (Fixed) Launch from File Manager with A (Added) Notification to Trainers Button, if plugin is not loaded (Added) Ability to launch containers from file manager (Fixed) Memory Leak in NTP class (Fixed) Memory Leaks in TitleUpdateManager (Fixed) Manage Trainers showing up in the file delete progress (Updated) Version information (Fixed) Screenshot count not being accurate in gamelist view screenshots (Fixed) Game Controls Animation Frames being messed up (Fixed) Focus Loss bug in settings (Fixed) Delete from Game Menu (Fixed) Avatar showing up when setting is set to off- and the animation is in motion. (Fixed) NBA Jam crash on reboot (Fixed) CopyDVD with Special Characters in Name (Fixed) Says Copy when Deleting. (Added) Skeleton layout for Trainers Scene (Fixed) Back button not working if Manage Paths has focus (Updated) Selecting a setting in the list will give the corresponding options focus (Updated) If you select Manage Game Paths and none exist it will open the Add Path page (Fixed)Focus loss when changing type in Move Game before animation was finished (Updated) Registration for Freestyle UI App (Added) Skeleton classes for Plugin Management (Fixed) DVD Hang on certain games at boot (Fixed) Removed Special Characters from DVD Name for CopyDVD and DVD Title (Fixed) Names missing in CopyDVD Scene (Updated) All files for RC 1.5 Tag (Update) Astroboy is gone! (Update) Minor tweaks and skin cleanup (Fixed) HTTP Downloader not showing proper download rate ( stuck at 0.00kbps ) (Changed) all DebugCommand.cpp to DebugCommand.h (Added) Update Files for Beta 1.5 (Added) Release package for Beta 1.5 (added) Release Files for Package to Update Tag Official Site: http://www.teamfsd.com (#FreeStyleDash on EFnet) Download: n/a (built with XDK)

(Added) Notification to Trainers Button, if plugin is not loaded
(Fixed) Manage Trainers showing up in the file delete progress
(Added) Skeleton layout for Trainers Scene


Trainers????
Cheats???

Really appreciate the updates that keep comin, I hardly get a chance to update before a new one appears
(Updated) Registration for Freestyle UI App ???

Looks like another great update, but I use my live profile on my jtag, so...

Actually just updated literally 5 minutes before I came to this page. I'm still kinda waiting for them to let us mess with the LED colors again till I use it as my main dash. I'm still using 1.20 with the xdesk skin. And when you download the title updates through the dashboard on 2.0 RC1.6 it doesn't put them in the cache folder, it puts them in there own title update folder which is really weird. I don't like that it does that. Its much harder to keep track of them.

So.... login after you load your game/homebrew or whatever. Problem solved

The updates to this great piece of work are really coming thick and fast, can only admire team FSD for giving us this software.

Thanks again guys!

I think that's the way MS do it now, not 100% sure.


Wouldn't called it solved.

Solved would be being able to boot directly into FSD with my live profile, and then being able to exit and launch games at will, all without fear of stamping my profile with the fact that I have run non MS code.

From what I understand, that just isn't gonna happen, which is a real real shame.

What do they mean by this?

(Update) Astroboy is gone!

wtf?

What exactly is the fear here? I undertand that things such as snes360 will show in your GT, but when you log into live, you can erase it off your list if it bothers you (tmk, homebrew achievements don't even show up on a retail console).

Are people worried about having their profile banned from XBL? Is there a precedent for this already, or just blind fear?



Yea, Van Halen is picky...

... Kinda reminds me of a this time I was in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) at about 3 o'clock in the morning... Looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweet shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweet shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopkeeper and his son that's a different story altogether.....I had to beat them to death with their own shoes...... Nasty business, really, but sure enough I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show!

lol, i've had this issue a few revs ago.

It's basically, if your skin update and dash update don't match, in the file manager an astroboy.mpg written across the screen, so you cant copy or use the file manager..

Odd, maybe testing to see if people read the release notes? Inside jokes? Seriously, I noticed the "Manage Trainers" option under game options (press Y before launching). It prompted me to have the plugin. Getting close, I've been waiting for the trainer system for some games.

Anything that you run on the Xbox adds code to whatever profile is signed in.

Like you say, I haven't heard of anyone's profile being banned because they have been signed in on a JTAG console while homebrew was running. However, I would prefer to remain in the anonymous category and I'm sure others that value their Live profile would agree.
(It would be a darn shame if my profile was banned after having paid for the next two years using Microsoft's "promotions." Though I could totally see this happening.)


Title Updates are beginning to be stored in partition3/Content/0000000000000000/(Title ID)/ I don't have a reason why, I'm not sure which games are starting to do this, and I have no idea how Microsoft intends to be able to delete TU's using the dashboard "Remove System Cache" feature.
The best I could guess about the last one there, is that they create another folder say "99000000" which contains updates and which the Xbox will look to delete if the user decides to clear the system cache.

But I don't think FSD is doing this. I think they're putting TU's in a completely separate folder which you would then have to move to partition3/Cache/ I'll have to check this out.

@iwanttheagrocrag: Why not use xm360 v2.0d?

I've read on other places that TU's currently work like this:

* TU's with the usual "long" filenames (like TU_16L626M_000000C000000.0000000000083) should still be placed in the 'Cache' folder as usual.

* Some of the newer TU's that has "short" filenames (like TU00000002_00000000) goes into the /content/TitleID/000B0000 folder. Examples of these is for Assassins Creed: Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

I have no idea why MS suddenly would abandon using only the cache dir, but I guess they have their reasons.

Wow you guys are on a roll. As always great job team FSD. Cant wait for you guys to get some of this trivial stuff out of the way so new and exciting features can be worked on.

Some games do not have icons
how do I have?

bioshock 2 don´t have
blood drive don´t have

medal of hono don´t have screemshot

Yes,a future feature like adding paths for retail games and live marketplace stuff without having to edit files and adding it manually..So that it could be done from the UI. I guess this wouldent take much time to implement.. Just my thoughts..

a second request would be a skin for freestyle which had the same style of game listing as freestyle dash 1.2..

Oh wait, its not a request but a demand....yeah!

And many thanks, by the way, for this awesone piece of software.. You have come a long way..!

Great work on the updates Team FSD!

It's not going to happen because all homebrew code that is played will show up in some way or another on your profile. Just because something visibly shows up doesn't mean that it wasn't already there in a way that you couldn't see before. I'm pretty sure it gets erased or won't show up on LIVE, but even if it does, I doubt MS would do anything. And if they do anything, then it is your own fault because you are using a LIVE profile. That's why I would just recommend using an offline profile. It's really not a big deal.



Do I smell Wayne's World?

FSD just keeps getting better! Cant wait for plugins (trainers mostly). Thanks FSD team!

As always THANKS to FSD team for the updates there much apreciated

@HotKnife420 lol for the WW quote

how about bringing the Nand flasher back....

Not gonna happen.

I'd wait for a stable release before using it anyway if it was in there.

You get the occassional lock up, you don't want that happening while flashing!

Edit: haha bet me

sounds quite finity.
not gonna happen AT ALL? or just not in the next few updates?

thanks for your time you guys sacrificing!

regards

Great job guys, love the frequent updates!

Just one thing, chaps. I've experienced this issue since the first FSD 2 release. Basically, I add the paths to my xbox 360 games folder (called "Games" located in the root of hdd1), and it scans and downloads artwork, covers, no problem. However, when browsing through the xbox 360 games, only the first 3 games show up, and another group of 3 near the end.

If I highlight a game without it's cover and tell it to refresh artwork, it'll download the cover and display it. However, if I push B to exit out of xbox 360 games, then go back in, or even go back in on a subsequent reboot, that cover I manually refreshed disappears again.

When adding the path, I initially left it to "Automatic" for both. I then tried to put tick marks on "Xbox 360" which gave the same result (of course I cleared the old the data first, then re-added it).

I should mention that this behavior is also exhibited if I leave the view as normal (icons), cover, and banner.

Any help/feedback would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

I just tried to use the dash to delete a game and it deleted everything on the hard drive. I mean everything. 300 gb of games and apps gone. So, I wouldn't recommend deleting with the dash use the file manager.

Wow that sucks lmao!

Unfortunately, I couldn't edit my previous post. The previous issue with the cover art occurs when the games are completely extracted, but the cover art show up correctly if the games are in a GOD container. Does this help narrow it down?

Thanks again.

Yeah but comes with the territory. If you can't stand to lose it don't risk it with beta builds. LMAO. I would submit a log but it deleted everything including FSD it's self.

TU's are no longer in the cache folder??? Can anyone confirm this?? If true it may be for one or both of the following reasons: A:They want to overcome the 20mb (or whatever it is I remember it's small) limit on TU's ....or B: They want to bring in AP 2.5 TU's in by stealth :-) Hmmmm

Like the update! We recently (and for the first time since we did out own version of FSD 1.2 - painstakingly untill FSD 2 was announced) decided FSD 2 RC 1.5 was stable enough to pass on to clients as an alternate to Xexmenu (That we have always used for a baseline dash to boot from dashlaunch) It seems user-friendly enough too (No complaints yet!)

I was unaware that using FSD 2 online with a live profile could cause flagging even when XBL is blocked Can anyone give more detail on how we know that? I would really like to know (I'm aware of the usual data residue - is that what u mean DarkFiber?) If we knew exactly we could make a little app/plugin to strip this info off a profile perhaps.......



Brgds/Dan


BTW: We are soon releasing a new plugin! We just have to play with it a little more 1st! ;-)

i too

Not gonna happen AT ALL. We don't plan to build in every possible app into FSD...just ones that make sense in a "DASH" replacement. There are already perfectly functioning nand flashers for the 360...use those instead.



This is really really bad. Please submit a log so we might be able to get a clue on how that happened. Sorry. And thanks for being so understanding. I'm not sure that I would be!

Ive deleted GODs before with no ill effects but there have been times when I have deleted a GOD, it shows its gone, back out to the main screen and back in to the games list and shows the game there. Try deleting the same games 3 or 4 times and samething. Had to delete using a different file manager or unplug my hdd and delete via my computer.

Lol, hey it's testing. I can't submit a log. It deleted everything on the drive. Every last file. I think what happened was that there was a Quickboot container at the root of the drive. When I used the freestyle dashboard to delete what I thought was a duplicate game, it was the container and the dash thought it was deleting everything in a game folder and it was at the root of the drive. So it was my fault, but there should be some kind of check. This is pure speculation on my part, but it's logical. I can try to replicate it if you need me to. This is why we backup our backups.

This is really helpful, and a really good guess at what went wrong. We'll look into it for sure.

Thanks!

I have some very wierd minor issues. Maybe someone can help. Love the dash now that I figured out I had to save my pathing to my Games folder to get it to appear....

As others have posted deleting folders is not working properly here is what happened to me. I planned on playing Mass Effect over again so I could have a different save file to load in Mass Effect 2. Nways I got a disc unreadable and when I checked the Mass Effect folder it was missing alot of files. So I deleted it in FSD figured bad rip re rip. All was well. But now in my games list Mass Effect is listed twice. I only have one folder. I think it has something to do with how data scans not sure.

For the title update thing Does your Jtag need to be unbanned? I think I got mine's banned last night sadly accidently trying to troubleshoot kai. Reason why I ask is when I first tried this feature it was with Fallout New Vegas. Everything wet real smooth and title updates show on the list for me to make active or inactive etc. Now when I try it nothing seems to download under my http status noting populates in manage title updates but the wierd thing is when I check my cache folders I do find updates? So it that just a case of not all updates work/install the same?

Now for the kai issue. Ok got system link patched. Got Kxam in the root of my USB. On my PC Kai Engine starts orbital sync etablished got all the right settings checked off port 30000 UDP is open/forwarded both on my router and in Windows...Kai network is reachable. When I do diagnostics I do see my mac address. But my jtag never detects the kai engine. I have no clue why any help is appreciated....

guys lets face it- 360 hacking is dead. its pointless IMO to dev apps for it still. all these devs should movbe onto the ps3 as that console actually has a chance still as it was recently hacked AND they got the keys to sign apps for it.

its the truth. face it

Has nothing to do with it. The TUs come from a private server, not MS.




Wow, thanks for pointing that out! You've convinced me...I'm going to go delete all of my stuff since it doesn't matter anymore.

says the guy who doesn't own a jtag

if you're real lucky the game developers might move over to there as well

OMG you are kidding right?



I have yet to see the ps3 do a game better than 360, evry1 says it does games like blackops slightly worse and as for hackers having the keys, thats a bad thing for overall for a console as game studios will eventually stop supporting the platform.

I have a problem with the built-in updater. Sorry if this was resolved before.

It finds new updates (dash and skin). I go to settings > update and I tick both boxes (for dash and for my current skin). It then asks me to restart FSD which I do. The screen goes black and it says "Press Y to update". I press Y and it just says "update complete" (it's super fast). When I go to FSD, nothing is changed and the dash still finds 2 new updates. I can repeat the process as many times as I want but nothing gets updated.

Help?

I'm confused and excited about the preliminary SAMBA support.
I don't see SAMBA in the file manager.

It's just getting started.. The Xbox platform has always been the best and most fun platform to do stuff on.
And we have at least 4-5 more years before the next iteration comes out. So enjoy these days, they are golden.

Good update, btw.

Nice to see this constant updates
sadly xlink kai is still a bit empty...

im guessing ur using dash launch and have set launch ini to freestyle.xex, if thats the case if u ftp or go to file manager delete ur freestyle.xex and rename default.xex to freestyle.xex then try

Thanks for your help, but I think I've got it. Looks like the old FSD build (first one actually) cannot be updated that way. I did it manually and it works.

Still, some XBLA games are shown in the Homebrew folder. I've set the folders manually, doesn't help...


edit
Nevermind

Yeah, seems strange. A free alternative to Live and not many use it. Could be a bit much hassle for some to get working but it's well worth it once you do when the numbers are on there.

Ok so I've been using FSD RC1.4 and previous versions for some time now with no issues whatsoever. I've also been using DashLaunch 2.06 to take me straight to FSD on startup as default

When I updated to RC1.5 I also updated to Dashlaunch 2.08...however I encountered a problem.

Sometimes when I turn my console on, it plays the startup animation. The picture stays on that startup animation screen. FSD must be starting in the background, as the fans speed to 100% which FSD is set to, and I get the "<gamertag> has signed in>" but it stays frozen on that screen. It seems to be pretty much every 2nd attempt that the console will freeze on startup to load to FSD.

Also, when in game, if I choose to Exit To Dashboard....The screen would also go black, and freeze again....as if its struggling to load FSD for whatever reason.

I rolled back Dashlaunch to 2.06 again which have never had an issue with, but it still does it.

Also, recently updating FSD to RC1.6 has still not helped.

I've also tried it with/without external USB drive plugged in to try to eliminate...but certainly seems like FSD is the issue.

Any ideas what may be causing this?

Midnight Tboy,

I too experienced those problems with dash launch 2.0 after clearing settings. The only thing I found to work was a complete reinstall of FSD 2.0 (I did RC1.4 then updated to latest, was 1.5 at that time).