i didnt read over all 17 pages of this so i dont know if these have been suggested before but:

ability to load up any jpg or bmp or something instead of the "xbox" start up screen

maybe different sized bios of the same release, that have different features. for example if you have a 1MB chip and you wanna run 2 bios's you can have the basic features in the 512k version. but if you only wanna run 1 bios you can have the 1024 with stuff like FTP and other features mentioned in this post that would take up more room.

i hope a bios that supports a hdd in place of the dvd drive comes out soon. i want to buid an xbox for my kid and i don't want her messing around with my games so i can preload all my games for her to play.

I was thinking of a IGSD (In Game Shut Down). Also, if you could IGR to certain apps/games/dashboards. That would also be neat. Like if you could program BACK, START, A, B to goto the MS Dash and white, black, L, R to goto Halo, etc.

I would like to see a hacked bios that would patch an original kernel in memory and would hide the F: & G: partition when selecting xbox live in MS-Dashboard.

If possible you could TSOP flash a box with a stealth bios and still be able to go on live....

Sorry if this has been posted before.

EDIT: I really doubt it's possible but a nice idea though....

i really want harddisk partitioning hacks. after the lba48 g drive stuff i'm sure this is possible as well.
i have an 80 gig, and i want to do a native gentoox linux installation. but i only want it to take about 20gig of the f: drive. so is it possible to make f: stop at 20gig and put rest of space into g:?????
also someone told me that if you hacked cormwell to make that partition setup work, as soon as i booted the x2 bios it would repartition and wreck linux. but couldn't u just hack x2 bios as well? btw i have a xenium, so i use cromwell and x2 bioses, would that mean they both have to be hacked??
thanks

Wouldn't repartitioning system drives break game compatiblity, i think thats the whole idea of this.

games do not use F / G.

Wouldn't it be possible to make like a "clone" MS BIOS except that lets you play backups...

This way you could play backups on Live!


No..

How about a bios that has an option to IGR and eject - would be handy for dvd videos. A key combo like regular IGR but a different key combo resets and ejects - same bios two IGRs

I was wondering if it would be possible to disable game HD caching through the BIOS. It wouldn't surprise me if this is game specfic, but it would be nice since I run all my games off HD to 'disable" caching since they all run on the HD anyways.

ejx982

won't work since a) it's game specific and some games actually extract/decrypt game content on the cache partitions, i.e. Halo levels.

i'm still waiting on IGR on REMOTE.

It could be wonderfull, if ther is a hdd through lan support :
you could launch directly xbe on your xbox , that are stored onto your computer ;-)


Sucse for the bad english !!!

Hello...

well i do not know if this already been posted as a suggestion, or if there is a bios that can do it, but i would like to have a bios that would give the option to sellect what to boot...
If you have evox or avalanch or nexgen das, in the c: directory to have the option from the bios to load the one you want, smthing like a boot manager...

actualy i would like to see a boot manager

There should be a new IGR that resets the xbox, then opens the drive right away for about 4 seconds, then closes the dvd drive automatically so users using the DVD could use IGR. There could be 2 IGRs, one for hdd users (the current IGR) and the new IGR for DVD (this new one).

Or something else that just boots straight to the dashboard so it'd fix this problem for DVD Drive users

oya, sorry if this has been brought up already

SAVESTATES!
just designate a button combo to halt the xbox and initiate a memory dump to a file on the hdd and resume. then when u wish to revisit the last 30 seconds u were playing and f'd up using a similar combination of keypresses to recall the save state would save us a lot of frustration. is it really more difficult than just dumping the contents of the ram and reloading it when its conveniant? sounds like simple enough code to fit in under 1kb of binary and though it would take a while to dump 50-65 megs of info on the hdd it would be more than practical in some games(need for speed underground). additionally this function gives us who use a hacked bios and buy our games another legitamate reason to use a hacked bios!

scan the drives (c and f) for instances of the default dash
if it finds evox of f boot from f...if on c boot from c
or even better add all that to that config file...along with the ability to change the default dash boot order

just a thought....

For Debug Bioses:

If the current bioses can patch media flags on the fly, could a debug bios be made to automatically patch retail xbe's to become debug xbe's when being run? I'm not sure how media flag patching works, but I wouldn't think it would be too much different. Thanks for your time.

What about a flicker filter setting in the bios? It would load a file from the HDD at startup or read the parameter from the EEPROM and patch the launched XBE on the fly. That way users with an old tv could get a flicker free display and users with a new tv could get an ultra sharp display.

It would add just an other must have feature for modchips!

how bout taking the pros of all the bios out there and putting them into one bios. And taking all the cons of the new bios, and fixing them. And all of the good features preople on this forums have made up too!!!



If you told me how to make a bios, i would start one right now. if you need a programing language, you might have to wait awhile..........

IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT BIOS DO YOU THINK IS BEST???? OPTIONAL: LIST 3 PROS AND 2 CONS OF THE BIOS YOU THINK IS BEST!

m7

Easyest color mod/easy flubber mod, Works with xbtool easy, isnt messed up a lot like the xecuter ones (remberes the msxboxdash and xboxdash screw up)

No intigrated IGR (didnt notice one) Still MS at the bottom of the loading scree.

oh.... so this is where i put the post into a random place..... the what is the best bios thing..... just ignore it......

How about a bios that for example only allows IGR on controller port 1? How annoying is it when have someone around and you are beating them on a multiplayer game and they reset the xbox!

This has been suggested before, but so far hasn't been implemented:

I would love to see an In Game Shutdown combo implemented. Even better would be if NghtShd could implement this as a patch for XBTool and/or EvoTool.

I've been reading all of the posts here (yes all 19 pages), and mostly I see people asking for the abillity to launch user defined xbe's by pressing some buttons. I've read it over and over, but no-one seems to get a clear answer. Is there any-one who got the know-how watching this?

I would really like to have an answer if it could be done and if not, why?
Else, it really looks like people would enjoy to have a certain combination to run for example c:\igl.xbe (in game launch). That way you could insert a shutdown xbe for those that want that, or why not rename evoxdash.xbe to igl.xbe?

Second
We know the BIOS kan read a file on hdd (F:\x2_IGR_disabled). Is it even possible for the BIOS to look into a file, read the settings in it and then load itself to memory with the settings explained in the file? If that's not possible, maybe a folder with a bunch of files like "x2_IGR_disabled", or "x2_LED_RED". Might be too much of a job?
I won't say "It can't be that hard" because, frankly, I don't got a clue.

I don't know who to turn to, but I took it like NghtShd is the one to talk about xbtool (great tool indeed). He would be the one who can answer this.

If you can do anything of this it would be highly appreciated by many, I'm shure

Third
I haven't tried the embedded FTP, but after what I've been reading here it doesn't work so good. Why is it that it can't be run "in the background", eg. when playing a game? I've tried searching for this with no success

Fourth
For those who have installed additional RAM (the few, but brave), wouldn't it be possible to load any TSR above the standard 64MB, and lock the first 64MB only for games. If it was possible then you could load up a mp3-player above the 64MB limit and then play a game, wich at most uses 64MB.
Possibly (probably, I haven't looked into RAM-upgrades that much) a special BIOS for that

I'd appreciate any response to this


//Risca

I agree with the save states idea. Not only for reloading harder games, but also when you have played for 30mins (mechassult) and IT DOESN'T save during as mission and some of those missions, are long....

Howabout a bois this a eject load button combo, and integrated debug bios?

Said it many pages before but I'll say it again. I want a tool for my pc similar to xbtool but that can edit an original xbox bios to turn it into a modded bios. IE patch the bytes for unsigned code, media check, unlocked HD, etc.

...why?

Three letters: WOL

I would love to see a software switching method for a second harddrive replacing the DVD drive.

i am very impressed with the xbmc fan controller thingie. it can reduce noise considerably.... try loading a game fom xbmc and hear the fan spinup =(
can this be implemented via bios?

have seen the xtender solution for putting in more than one ide drive into an xbox.
basically it turns off the power to a disk and turns on another.

but the problem is that you cant access more than one drive at a time.

what about using a solution like in the amiga computers.
the a1200 and a600 only had one ide port so using a logic circut and some diodes allowed you to gain access to up to four drives.

by making a custom driver for the ide interface which selected the different drives using software commands that were seamless to the system.

i know nothing about the xbox hardware and if it is capable of doing but the circuit is really simple.

would this be just a bios update to get this to work.

i beleve there is source code and diagrams on aminet for this.

could this be a possibility on the xbox?

I agree that embedded FTP would be one of the best things.

Next thing I saw mentioned that seems like a very good idea, but I think my idea is slightly different. A bootloader, like linux uses lilo/grub, to either boot dashboards, etc., or be able to load a full linux drive. So I guess not so much a bootloader, just a function that would allow it to boot either this or that. The reason for this would be for people that want to use multiple drives, and dont want to wire a relay, just flip the drive select switch and bam, instant linux, or xbmc, whatever you want. I think for the future of the scene having a bios that would dominate instead of having this and that, we need to have a specific format if development is to continue more rapidly, and this would be a start in that direction.

The other thing would be to have support for other file structures such as NTFS.

Alright, time to prepare for the flames. I have been reading up on installing Windows on the Xbox, there are several issues with this. Before I go into this I will now say I am not really a big fan of the idea, but I am working on a multi-drive project now focusing on simplicity, and well, windows is a lot simpler than linux so. I know 1 is ram and processor power, Friendtech has resolved these issues for us with their upgrades. We know also that Windows on the Xbox is possible through a few methods, all of which require it to run within linux which is causing a lot of the slowdown people are complaining about. I have been unable to confirm the validity of this, but I have also read several reports of problems with Windows running because of the checks that are run on bootup, it fails, so will not boot. I realize that there are different kernals the Xbox uses, but it would seem there should be ways around this with everything else the scene has made happen for the Xbox. I believe if the bios were hacked appropriately to start bootup like normal, then go on to do whatever PC bioses do that allow you to use either windows or linux. Yea, hope that makes sense, flame if you will.

1. Ok.After hearing all about modchip for the xbox...what is the best mod chip to go with?

2. Can someone tell me why there is so many people that after moding the xbox they are looking to reflash the Bios.....Can someone explain me what the hell are they talking about? Dont tell me that I have to replace things or pieces every 3 months to get my system to work up to date.

Can someone explainme what is that stuff of reflashing the Bios?
What do I get if i do that?
Why Is so important to a lot of people to reflash the bios?

@gioxtreme, go read the tuts before asking ?'s, or better yet ask them in your proper forum, the one at the top that says newbies, or even better still learn how to use that button that says SEARCH.

What about implementing something into the bios so that when your temperature goes above the "normal" operating range, the fan will speed up. I know you can change your fan speed, but you should be able to set this up in the bios so that when playing games and whatnot, your fan will speed up when the temperature gets too high, or if you leave your box on for long periods of time, unmonitored, your fan will always make sure the box is operating at normal temperatures, and you will not have to keep an eye on it or constantly hear the fan when it is set up to always run faster. I know the fan speed can be controlled by the bios already because you can set the speed with xbtool, but it should be able to look at the temperatures and adjust accordingly.

Screenshots? X3 has it, could IND-BIOS implent this?

how about the ability to insert an image to be shown instead of the xbox logo. that way i can see somththing better than blackness before avalaunch boots