QUOTE (heinrich @ Aug 30 2003, 08:46 PM)

QUOTE (billybobz0r @ Aug 28 2003, 07:50 AM) So if FTP is possible in bios maybe there could also be support to have XNS shares, so we can boot games from pc ? No, see the FTP is an xbe, inside of the bios, to do what you want, an xbe would have to launch, transfer the entire game to the hd, and then boot the game, which would probably be *possible*, but not likely.. I think i can safely say that you will never be able to 'stream games' over a network.

I don't agree with you here.
It wouldn't be needed to copy the entire game over
to the HDD, if the game could only 'think' he's
running from a real drive...

So this could be spoofed by the bios!
the bios tells everyone there's an extra
partition (since he's the one who's telling
what partitions there are anyway), every
request that is made to this partition
could then be mapped over to a network
share.

QUOTE (alley @ Jan 11 2004, 08:02 AM)

I don't agree with you here. It wouldn't be needed to copy the entire game over to the HDD, if the game could only 'think' he's running from a real drive... So this could be spoofed by the bios! the bios tells everyone there's an extra partition (since he's the one who's telling what partitions there are anyway), every request that is made to this partition could then be mapped over to a network share.

Same problem as with the BIOS firewall. No multitasking.

don't know if it was asked already. search only tells me that it needs at least 4 characters.

real vga support in bios would be nice. like pixel8's but with mediacheck fix,igr and all the other stuff.

umm, what about support for a external usb hard drive, using it to boot games, accessories etc.?

QUOTE (alley @ Jan 11 2004, 08:02 AM)

QUOTE (heinrich @ Aug 30 2003, 08:46 PM) QUOTE (billybobz0r @ Aug 28 2003, 07:50 AM) So if FTP is possible in bios maybe there could also be support to have XNS shares, so we can boot games from pc ? No, see the FTP is an xbe, inside of the bios, to do what you want, an xbe would have to launch, transfer the entire game to the hd, and then boot the game, which would probably be *possible*, but not likely.. I think i can safely say that you will never be able to 'stream games' over a network. I don't agree with you here. It wouldn't be needed to copy the entire game over to the HDD, if the game could only 'think' he's running from a real drive... So this could be spoofed by the bios! the bios tells everyone there's an extra partition (since he's the one who's telling what partitions there are anyway), every request that is made to this partition could then be mapped over to a network share.

I think this would be a great feature, but load times would be probably be terribly long

QUOTE (82ross @ Jan 3 2004, 01:48 PM)

I think the text under the logo is actually an image rather than just text, if im right then the best you could hope for is a program that can extract and inject your own image into the bios. Or they could remove the image (like you can with XBtool) and use something similar to the X3 OSD (On-screen display) to put your own there.

a long long long time ago there was a dos app to change the text with old evox bios's and it used a image but i guess it wont work with these new bios's.

What about Xbox live stealth mode?

Would it be impossible to have the games see the Bios as the original MS bios to prevent them from detecting a modchip?

Or maybe something like media patch, just patching the check in BIOS for a memory address that is prepared to contain the original ms bios so the checksum is valid?

I'm not sure if this is possible but considering the latest Evox TSRs : a TSR could be watching for bios accesses and replacing the returned bytes in realtime for the real ms bios bytes...

I think this alone would be the single best BIOS feature of all.

Agree - stealth would be a cool feature and not impossible, surely?

Surely that would be cool, but leaves the question... Is this even possible?

i would like to see support for like a .jpg to change the Xbox logo to whatever you create!

Would it be possible to add a function into the bios where pressing a configured button on a remote would turn the Xbox off?
Then get a programmable remote and use an RCA configured button which isn't on the Xbox remote to power off. Then no functionality would be lost. Or of course those without programmable remotes could just use the 0 button or something.
A method of finding the code for the desired button could be a small application which tells you the code of the button you just pressed. Another method would be however the XBMC team found the orginal RCA protocol codes for the keymap.xml file.

Any of this possible?

Morien

IGR for remote...

Sorry if this has already been mentioned. I would love a bios that could be forced to load a different dash depending if or what button was being pressed on the controller during boot. (or switched xbe order 1,2,3 to 3,2,1 or 3,1,2 whatever) I'm not bios coder but surely this is quite simple to implement compared to in game screen shots, and ftpd and in game powerdown etc.

I would like a new bios that forces the modchip to emit an ultra high frequency which would in turn brainwash my girlfriend into letting me play my xbox in peace.

yeah...

QUOTE (scribla @ Jan 29 2004, 07:29 AM)

Sorry if this has already been mentioned. I would love a bios that could be forced to load a different dash depending if or what button was being pressed on the controller during boot. (or switched xbe order 1,2,3 to 3,2,1 or 3,1,2 whatever) I'm not bios coder but surely this is quite simple to implement compared to in game screen shots, and ftpd and in game powerdown etc.

problem is, this isnt really possible in the bios itself - the bios has no gamepad code. This would have to be done within an .xbe. You might as well just use x-selector.

Well then, how did the embedded FTP xbe work? Did it auto-execute that, and then use *that* to check for the buttonpress? If so, then it wouldn't be that much different, I suppose, to embed X-selector and then use that.

It'd be quite awesome if Team Xecuter could work around a way to have the embedded XBE to be user-replaceable. Just speaking offhand (I haven't used that BIOS release or X-selector), I'd bet that X-selector is smaller than the FTP server (or could be made that way), so you could just insert X-selector instead, and mask out the remaining bytes. I guess it depends on how the dash launch is conducted - Is it done via software interrupt?

how about real time saves for my xbox games?
I dont know if this would need to be implemented in the bios or dashboard, but I still want it

i don't really know how the games saves would work. would have to make it go to the hdd and shix, sounds complicated.

i still would like IGR for remotes...

i dont know if this has been mentioned but i think it would be a cool idea to set a time of idol so it would auto shut off, like the M$ dash has the 6 hour shut off, but i think that is to long, so i think it would be neat to put your own #hours #mins in a setting type thing.
-peace

real time xbox saves would be large
all the temp, cache files and ram

When the Xbox locks up, does the bios also? If not, would it be possible for the Xbox to reset when it locks up?

Morien

the custom remote buttons thing would be cool, but it seems like it could be implemented in to a dash much more easily

Hi, I bought an Xbox several weeks ago...and everythings is amazing except for one thing... every xbox always has the interlace filter flag turned on, so the image is ultrablurry in comparasion with a Ps2 (I use RGB cables on both). Yes, I know some people prefers this mode as images are shown more stable...but I personally prefer more resolution and flickering (If I could stand Amiga interlaced modes , I think I can stand Xbox real interlaced modes).

Xbox linux users on TV´s had noticed this problem, as the text was almost unreadable. They have managed to disable the interlace filter to get a crisper image, but I´ve not found any info about how to disable this filter on games and apps. Maybe is setup on the BIOS, or every game setup by its own?

Thanx in advance and excuse my english.

Would it be possible to modify the IGR at all? So instead of it merley reseting the box, it would just open a dash of choice?
I've changed my boot order to boot boot.xbe on the dvd so that it won't run a game when I use IGR, however I'd prefer it to boot default.xbe still while maintaining my current IGR boot (loads XBMP).

Morien

One thing i would like to see in a bios would be a way to unlock the harddrive because it seem that most people use config magic to lock there new drive that they upgrade to. if somthing bad happen where the lost the Motherboards then this was they would not have to take it out and put it in a Computer to try to unlock it to get it back so they can use it

What I wish for the bios probably won't come to pass for 3 years+.
I firmly believe it is possable to spoof a non modded xbox and get on live but this will not happen for many reasons:
The person who did it would have to not care what the big personalities on the scene said to them/about them about cheaters etc...
This person would have to not care that MS would lock down the xbox and start doing all kind of nasty anti mod stuff and probably really beef up the next xbox.
The person would have to not care that MS would hire a hitman to kill them
The person would have to be completely anonymous and still generous enough to release it for no other gain then to know himself it was he who gave it.

I actually think this can be done now by certain individuals or at the very least could be done without out too terribly much effort, however I doubt you'll ever see it in xbox 1's lifetime.

What I would like to be able to do would be to optionally skip the bootup animation by pressing a button on the controller, like you can do on the Dreamcast, Saturn and so on.

I know you can use Xbtool to set a noani toggle and then the animation won't ever appear, but I'd quite like to be able to see the animation sometimes (such as the wow factor when showing off the box to someone for the first time, or when I haven't used it for a while), but be able to skip it other times (like when I've had to restart it several times in a row).

I've read in this thread that the BIOS doesn't include controller reading code, so this hack may be harder than I first thought, but would be cool if possible.

support for replacing the dvd drive with another hard drive (so 2 HDs would be running at the same time)
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
of course you would need a Y MOLEX adapter, but it would be worth it!!

o yea and what i meant before (about the 2 HD thing), it would be great if it recognized the 2nd HD as D:\ and all the drives partitions could be subfolders.
kinda like
C:\
D:\
. D:\C\ <---inside of drive d
. D:\E\ <---inside of drive d
. D:\F\ <---inside of drive d
. D:\X\ <---inside of drive d
. D:\Y\ <---inside of drive d
. D:\Z\ <---inside of drive d
E:\
F:\
X:\
Y:\
Z:\

i would want it this way so i could easily, and quickly transfer games/files from xbox to xbox.

hopefully somebody from the xecuter team will see this

^ wow. that could work.

i remember reading an article that bucko pointed out to me on the xbox-linux website that stated you could use 2 hard drives at the same time in linux. I remember it wasn't totally clear on whether it was replacing the dvd rom or just the original hdd. Maybe the linux bios supports it.

interesting, i bet if it did support it, it would only support it as one big partition, which is useful, but not what i really wanted.. with the linux bios you cant load 3rd party software can you???

Not sure if anyone has already thought of this and posted it, but I could really use a bios that allows my xbox to operate like an alarm clock. Being able to set a time for it to come on and maybe even turing on a game too. This might get me up early in the morning.

that alarm clock thing sounds kinda cool, I could go for that!

Anything is possible, but for now, in order to do the two hdd thing, both Xenium and SmartXX support 2 hdd cloning. Not much, but a start.

The Alarm Clock thing might be possible, Enable Auto Launch on DVD, CD or Game(witchever), maybe Audio CD, Keep the Audio CD in the Drive, and with a Hardware Mod(not BIOS), somthin like the remote mods 2 turn on the system, instead have it hooked up 2 somthin that will send the power requred 2 turn it on 2 the switch when it's time 2 get up, say take apart a Clock an somhow instead of it making a Sound, it boots ur XBOX an with the Audio CD an ur TV still on an with teh Volume slightly up, that way, XBOX turns on, Boots Audio CD with MS Dash, starts playin Music Loud. Either That or ya Could Up the Voltage that comes from the Clock That's supposed 2 get to the speaker, attach them 2 ur Nipples with Sticky Pads, then when the Alarm Hits, Blam u wake up friggin fast!, or u could get 1 of them ab Tronic things or w/e, Strap it in turn it on, then get 1 of them Plugin Lamp things, where it turns ur lights on/off it'll send power to the Ab thing(also hook 1 for the lights), again bam ur up, but I guess those arn't BIOS Hacks now are they

Gee just read through from the begining. Yep a whole 17 pages :=). So I know this has been asked before. If Cromwell can do it, then a Hacked bios should also be able to do it. A second HD on the DVDRom place, is it that hard? Why isn't no one working on this Idea. Cromwell supports two hard drives right of the bat.

I hope this appears in X3, a System Stats pages. Been asked before I know, but it would make the Xbox feel so much more like a PC. Also a Post screen of what's happening would be kind of cool although I don't know how you would do this (like mem check, dvdrom check, hard drive check).

I also think the VGA bios hacks by Pixel8 and VGALameone (I know been said before) would be cool in the latest bios realse. I'm sure you could implement Pixel's8 Hacks into the kernel space. Would be fun, the VGA bioses seem pretty out of date.

Anyway, good work on all the LBA48 stuff. Would still be nice to see the inbuilt FTP server in future releases (and support for G:\) as well as the hacks like LBA48 so you can get the best of both worlds.

I really think the MP3 bios player idea is dum, XBMC/P can already do all them functions for you!

Not to sure I would like my xbox going of to wake me up.

On the flip side of what you guys are after (the alarm clock) i wouldnt mind an auto power off, i know the xbox can do it in msdash after 6 hours but thats insane.

I was thinking more of say 30 mins with no activity on the pad for instance.

That way if im watching a film on my xbox when i go to bed, my xbox will turn off after xmins of inactivity. I realise XBMP has this but ms dvd and dvdx dont and xbmp doesnt work right with dvds afaik