Is there no change of seeing any 256kb version of this one? Come on, it can't be impossible to make... Or?
That would fit nice on my Aladdin Advance....
That would fit nice on my Aladdin Advance....
Simple Requests
- Thread starter psilocybe
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NO 256K version. Like Xecuter said before, if it could be a 256K bios, that is what they would have released in the first place. Or something similar to that.
Unpack the bios using XBtool.TheDuckOfDeath said:
Open in a hexeditor.
Search for "\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1\x2config.ini"
Change it
Save.
Repack.
Flash.
(Note: I havent tested this. But thats how I would doing going by edits ive done to older bios.)
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Already posted that info, http://www.teamxecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29768
It works but not with the 1.6plus
It works but not with the 1.6plus
My request is only to allow more than 16 characters for the file pathways. I noticed that X3 is limited there too.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Request no.1: Setting the path of the Dashboard.
i.e. I've got dashboards set up at F:\Dashboards\UnleashX\UnleashX.xbe , F:\Dashboards\Avalaunch\Avalaunch.xbe etc and I could use these paths with Xbtool. Putting several Dashboards on the root of a drive just gets a bit messier when you want to modify any of them.
Request no.2: A button command to Reboot XBE.
Something like the LT+RT+BACK+START IGR, but reloading the game rather than the dash. Maybe LT+RT+BACK+WHITE? Of course an option to enable or disable this could be included in the .ini.
Either of those would be awesome additions. Thanks for the great bios
i.e. I've got dashboards set up at F:\Dashboards\UnleashX\UnleashX.xbe , F:\Dashboards\Avalaunch\Avalaunch.xbe etc and I could use these paths with Xbtool. Putting several Dashboards on the root of a drive just gets a bit messier when you want to modify any of them.
Request no.2: A button command to Reboot XBE.
Something like the LT+RT+BACK+START IGR, but reloading the game rather than the dash. Maybe LT+RT+BACK+WHITE? Of course an option to enable or disable this could be included in the .ini.
Either of those would be awesome additions. Thanks for the great bios
your #2 is my main complaint about the new X2 bios overall... main reason i say this is cause even though this aint a must have feature ... i would say it should have been included cause of the simple fact it was on previous bios's (X2.4981 , when using XBTool to edit it) ... cause i mean when a new bios comes out u generally expect it to match the old one in everyway and "maybe" some extraspsilocybe said:
cause im one of the (rare?) people who actually use it this way... first xbe = C:\avalaunch.xbe ... second xbe = F:\XBMC\default.xbe ... third xbe... C:\evoxdash.xbe
it aint the end of the world if they never add this but i would say it's a nice thing and it dont seem like it would be hard to include in the next update for the x2 bios... cause if all else failed i could always readjust it to keep everything on C or something along these lines... i just wish it was the way the old X2.4981 bios's where is all
thanks for your time.
Is it possible to setup X2 5028 to boot (flubber) at 480p?
I'm on a VGA display or HTDV that barfs with 480i. I'd love it the the BIOS could be setup or patched/hacked to startup in 480p.
Yes, it switches it 480p when EvoX or Ava startup, but I miss flubber.
BB.
I'm on a VGA display or HTDV that barfs with 480i. I'd love it the the BIOS could be setup or patched/hacked to startup in 480p.
Yes, it switches it 480p when EvoX or Ava startup, but I miss flubber.
BB.
i have noted all requests - remember this bios is a work in progress. we are working to add every single feature requested - give me a few days
do you really think you have any business making requests when you don't even have the chip made by the people you are asking?kosmiq said:Is there no change of seeing any 256kb version of this one? Come on, it can't be impossible to make... Or?
That would fit nice on my Aladdin Advance....
what if anything have you contributed to them that they should help you out?
My request, and the only reason I'm still using the ind-bios is more IGR options. In the ind-bios triggers+back+white turns off the xbox and triggers+back+x+black does a power cycle. This IMO is IND's only advantage and it'd be great if xecuter could do something like this.
I was thinking replacing the Big X and XBOX Text at start of the bios... and maybe injectable .ini ala iND-BiOS... if the X2 config live text at the beginning cant be removed... maybe just like allow for the replacing of what the text says... thx
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Flicker Filtering disabler
I don´t know if I´m the only person in the world who really hates the ultrablurry look of some xbox games which uses Xbox´s flicker and smooth filters to the maximum (for example, Wreckless and many others).
It seems sometime in Xbox hardware development somebody had the "wonderful" idea of making flicker filtering turned on by default, which blurs everything and makes some games to look sharper on the ps2 (even tought xbox games are rendered at greater resolutions), specially if you use RGB cables on both consoles
I mean SetFlickerFilter(); and SetSoftenFilter(); functions on the XDK.
First one lets you choose between 5 different levels of interlaced flicker filtering, and the second one activates a lowpass filter that blurries things even more.
You can see a clear example about what effects produces both settings at either UnleashX video options or XBMC gui/movie filter options.
Few Xbox developers use to set up its owns settings for flicker filtering, so their xbe´s just take the default flicker filter level (5, the maximum) and soften setting.
Ninja Gaiden and other Tecmo titles uses a less strong filter level (I think)
And games such as Wreckless the Yakuza Wars, uses the filtering and also the softening (in addition to rendering to a 320x240 texture and then oversample to 640x480 ....Riddick´s also does this last one).
Many people hates interlace flickering, which is caused when the "image" in two consecutive lines from different fields have strong diferences (i.e. if you set one horizontal white line, and next to it a black line), so that´s because flicker filtering technices were created...but they had a bad side effect....blur...everything loses detail. Just try for example using Xebian, on a focus xbox (there is no flicker filter control for focus in Xbox linux yet)...you can get blind in a couple of hours. And of course games also look a lot worse than they could look on normal tv´s if they had flicker filtering turned off.
For me and (I guess) many other people is not a problem, and I prefer sharper and flickering image to blurry and not flickering image.
For example, I was absolutly amazed today when a friend of mine show me how Cold Fear looks on Ps2. Even tought it lacked of some advanced Xbox graphical effects (like height maps on the character´s model) everything else was ways sharper, and looked ultra focused in comparison with the Xbox version I was used to.
I´ve been searching long time for a way to disable it by patching the xbe´s itselfs and so, but I didnt have any luck. I even compiled a simple example with filter on and the same one with the filter off , but when I compared both there was lots of differences.
Would be possible to make something similar to IGR in order to turn off those filters?
Regards.
(of course flicker filtering have no effect in progressive resolutions)
I don´t know if I´m the only person in the world who really hates the ultrablurry look of some xbox games which uses Xbox´s flicker and smooth filters to the maximum (for example, Wreckless and many others).
It seems sometime in Xbox hardware development somebody had the "wonderful" idea of making flicker filtering turned on by default, which blurs everything and makes some games to look sharper on the ps2 (even tought xbox games are rendered at greater resolutions), specially if you use RGB cables on both consoles
I mean SetFlickerFilter(); and SetSoftenFilter(); functions on the XDK.
First one lets you choose between 5 different levels of interlaced flicker filtering, and the second one activates a lowpass filter that blurries things even more.
You can see a clear example about what effects produces both settings at either UnleashX video options or XBMC gui/movie filter options.
Few Xbox developers use to set up its owns settings for flicker filtering, so their xbe´s just take the default flicker filter level (5, the maximum) and soften setting.
Ninja Gaiden and other Tecmo titles uses a less strong filter level (I think)
And games such as Wreckless the Yakuza Wars, uses the filtering and also the softening (in addition to rendering to a 320x240 texture and then oversample to 640x480
....Riddick´s also does this last one).Many people hates interlace flickering, which is caused when the "image" in two consecutive lines from different fields have strong diferences (i.e. if you set one horizontal white line, and next to it a black line), so that´s because flicker filtering technices were created...but they had a bad side effect....blur...everything loses detail. Just try for example using Xebian, on a focus xbox (there is no flicker filter control for focus in Xbox linux yet)...you can get blind in a couple of hours. And of course games also look a lot worse than they could look on normal tv´s if they had flicker filtering turned off.
For me and (I guess) many other people is not a problem, and I prefer sharper and flickering image to blurry and not flickering image.
For example, I was absolutly amazed today when a friend of mine show me how Cold Fear looks on Ps2. Even tought it lacked of some advanced Xbox graphical effects (like height maps on the character´s model) everything else was ways sharper, and looked ultra focused in comparison with the Xbox version I was used to.
I´ve been searching long time for a way to disable it by patching the xbe´s itselfs and so, but I didnt have any luck. I even compiled a simple example with filter on and the same one with the filter off , but when I compared both there was lots of differences.
Would be possible to make something similar to IGR in order to turn off those filters?
Regards.
(of course flicker filtering have no effect in progressive resolutions)
LCD functions
Output x2config.ini configurable text to any connected LCD
for example using X2.3B and LCD-MOD
http://www.heo.biz/x-addons/index.php?templateid=products&product=diagram_lcdmod_x23b_lite
Output x2config.ini configurable text to any connected LCD
for example using X2.3B and LCD-MOD
http://www.heo.biz/x-addons/index.php?templateid=products&product=diagram_lcdmod_x23b_lite
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don't know if it has been asked yet , but will you guys add something like a "use default settings" thing so it doesn't wait for the hdd and config file and we'll patch the xbe the old way ^^, or just allow the wait screen to fully black (no text, nothing), it'll be ok for meXecuter said:
?I'd rather be able to see something, then at least I know the bios is trying to boot.radius said:
boot order control
just adding what I said in another thread (along with a few others)...would be a really nice feature to have it so you can control the xbe name when booting off dvd media. I've done this with a bank runnning X4981.06 (set to boot to d:\boot.xbe), that way xbox game discs do not autoload or loop after using IGR, but I can still boot my evox recovery disc because it uses boot.xbe instead of default.xbe.
I know the new bios already supports disabling dvd booting, but this would be a nice addition to have in the bios (plus I hate the fact that I have to hard boot after playing off a game dvd to get back to evox).
only other thing I can think of is control over the fan speed between 0 to 100...
just my 2 cents, and I'd like to thank TX for the work they've done thus far and for listening to what us, the user's, would like to see in the future (and for supporting an older product...I only wish Creative Labs did the same with my MP3 player..lol).
just adding what I said in another thread (along with a few others)...would be a really nice feature to have it so you can control the xbe name when booting off dvd media. I've done this with a bank runnning X4981.06 (set to boot to d:\boot.xbe), that way xbox game discs do not autoload or loop after using IGR, but I can still boot my evox recovery disc because it uses boot.xbe instead of default.xbe.
I know the new bios already supports disabling dvd booting, but this would be a nice addition to have in the bios (plus I hate the fact that I have to hard boot after playing off a game dvd to get back to evox).
only other thing I can think of is control over the fan speed between 0 to 100...
just my 2 cents, and I'd like to thank TX for the work they've done thus far and for listening to what us, the user's, would like to see in the future (and for supporting an older product...I only wish Creative Labs did the same with my MP3 player..lol).
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