I remember a neighbor asking me to come over, that I had to see this game. Halo. Bought an Xbox that weekend. Great times. Still has the best version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Better make sure you rip out the time capacitor. A literal ticking timebomb for your Xboxgross, didn't know about this
How can I tell if I have a 1.6 motherboard?: Boot the Xbox in dashboard mode (by powering up without a disc in the DVD-ROM drive). Go to Settings and then System Info. A disclaimer will scroll down and will eventually show you two version numbers: a "K:" value for the kernel and a "D:" value for the dashboard. If the K value is 5838, it is a revision 1.6 motherboard and you do not need to remove the capacitor.
Forgetting J. Allard. :wag :wag :wag
If it's a 1.6, AFAIK you don't need to do that and you really can't since the motherboard and software dashboard needs it unlike 1.5 and earlier.
I dunno what model mine is, it was just a cheap one I picked up at a used games shop.the part from the reddit/site i quoted above has an easy way to check the code for if it's a 1.6 or not
that reminds me that i need a better source for keeping track of emulator progressr/emulation
Rallisport 2 is still one of my favorite games of all time
I bought a bunch of stuff used for softmodding Xboxes, I have 3 of them here. Want to learn how to softmod so the option is out there.
Its a lot more involved than that
What are some good non-US Xbox games that I need to mod the system to play?
Its a lot more involved than that
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No, it isn't at all. You put the save on the harddrive. You load the game, you load the save. You go away for 15-30 mins, and come back to a dashboard modded. That's literally it. It's by far (outside of the PSP) the most distinguished mentally-challenged fellow-proof hack you can do.
It only gets "involved" if you want to hardware mod (eg: bigger harddrive, unlocked drive). The "software hack" is automatic and nothing needs to be done beyond loading the game/save.
Its a lot more involved than that
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No, it isn't at all. You put the save on the harddrive. You load the game, you load the save. You go away for 15-30 mins, and come back to a dashboard modded. That's literally it. It's by far (outside of the PSP) the most distinguished mentally-challenged fellow-proof hack you can do.
It only gets "involved" if you want to hardware mod (eg: bigger harddrive, unlocked drive). The "software hack" is automatic and nothing needs to be done beyond loading the game/save.
Idk what point u r trying to prove, I looked all this up and bought what I needed. Theres no point softmodding without the intent of putting in a bigger drive, imo.
when are they gonna figure out how to emulate this thing?
when are they gonna figure out how to emulate this thing?well, Microsoft has now, and with improved IQ/resolutions, which is more important than it seems
I was in on some super hilarious calls with Ed Fries asking just what in heaven's name we were doing.Considering the first year or so of Xbox exclusives/"first party" titles, I have a feeling this was a common event for Ed Fries. :lol
So what you're saying is once Rare folds the Xbox will be perfectly emulated.when are they gonna figure out how to emulate this thing?well, Microsoft has now, and with improved IQ/resolutions, which is more important than it seems
the Xbox is "off the shelf" parts except for the NVIDIA chip and some others, which Microsoft had locked up tight and most developers never really took advantage of to where the thing has never had extensive documentation floating around out there, and literally most of the calls are apparently wildly different from the chips its based on
NVIDIA themselves basically made the thing and never futzed with it after, to where the kerfuffle years ago where Microsoft had to threaten a suit because they weren't putting out the chips fast enough was in part because NVIDIA didn't give a shit
from all accounts it's essentially a GF2/GF3 hybrid with a pair of shaders bolted on, BUT, it shares the main memory with everything else, and this is the Xbox's bottleneck, the bandwidth to and from memory from literally every part of the system is very slow (compared to the competitor consoles), this was part of the major divergence between PS2 and Xbox, if you wanted to apply textures and effects to a model on the Xbox you sent it to the GPU and had it do all of them before sending back, on the PS2 because the bandwidth for this was absurd, you just drew it a thousand times if need be...everybody's PS2 tools and such got better and better at this while the Xbox was mostly a port where the team used the texture and pixel advantages to just draw in higher resolutions or stick in PC version models or something
to take one of the big debates of the era, Doom 3 pretty much can't be done on the PS2 because Carmack's design is totally inverse to the assumptions the PS2 is built around, Carmack was convinced the Xbox couldn't do it either despite having the shader units but Splinter Cell changed his mind and they let Vicarious attempt it, interestingly Splinter Cell on PS2 has a bunch of post-process effects that aren't even in Chaos Theory because the PS2 can do a screenwide post-process effect for comparatively free quite simply versus even the PS3, this is part of why GTA:SA's "heat haze" and other similar effects aren't in the Xbox (or PC) version or is highly diminished, drawing the screen again on the Xbox is too costly and the B team doing those ports didn't see it as necessary
but tl;dr, last year when these Microsoft emulation efforts really took off, there were a lot of rumors about unsolicited and weirdly complete (if undocumented) code and fixes being submitted by burner accounts to xenia (360) and cxbx (xbox) both of which made some fairly large leaps in compatibility shortly there after, which certainly gives the impression that Microsoft's newfound interest in emulating the old Xboxes may have led them to unofficially help out the unofficial independent non-console efforts
PSP emulation similarly went almost overnight from basically unplayable to woah, everything works? with a rumor attached to it that some going out of business dev sending parts of the devkit which included an emulator and documentation which helped fill in long baffling gaps
halo lan parties were an integral part of my mid teens :lawd
Is an underrated system no one talks about.
Advent Rising
Azurik: Rise of Perathia
Beatdown: Fists of Vengeance
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space
Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Breakdown
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Cold Fear
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Crimson Skies
Dead to Rights
Destroy All Humans!
Dino Crisis 3
Dungeons & Dragons Heroes
Enclave
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Galleon
Genma Onimusha
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Grabbed By The Ghoulies
Halo 2
Headhunter: Redemption
House of the Dead 3
Jade Empire
Jet Set Radio Future
Metal Dungeon
Nightcaster
Nightcaster 2: Equinox
Ninja Gaiden Black
Obscure
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Phantom Dust
RLH: Run Like Hell
Shenmue 2
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Sneakers
Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Sudeki
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
The Suffering
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Thing
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X
Voodoo Vince
Here's my current library. What do u think I am missing. I think I have most of the bases coveredQuoteAdvent Rising
Azurik: Rise of Perathia
Beatdown: Fists of Vengeance
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space
Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Breakdown
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Cold Fear
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Crimson Skies
Dead to Rights
Destroy All Humans!
Dino Crisis 3
Dungeons & Dragons Heroes
Enclave
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Galleon
Genma Onimusha
Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Grabbed By The Ghoulies
Halo 2
Headhunter: Redemption
House of the Dead 3
Jade Empire
Jet Set Radio Future
Metal Dungeon
Nightcaster
Nightcaster 2: Equinox
Ninja Gaiden Black
Obscure
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Phantom Dust
RLH: Run Like Hell
Shenmue 2
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Sneakers
Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Sudeki
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
The Suffering
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Thing
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X
Voodoo Vince
Dead or Alive Ultimate
Dead or Alive Ultimate
DoA2 ultimate :lawd
I played it later on 360, but it is on par with or better than DoA3. One of my favourite fighters (v casual fg player).
Dead or Alive Ultimate
DoA2 ultimate :lawd
I played it later on 360, but it is on par with or better than DoA3. One of my favourite fighters (v casual fg player).
I liked DOA3 better since some moves were removed when they released DOA2 Ultimate from the returning characters. But man...that game was so awesome. It played really well online for the time, too.
Amped
Amped 2
Midtown Madness 3
I remember borrowing a modded Xbox in my first year in university. Filled to the brim with games and porn. Great console and library. I especially loved Project Gotham Racing 2, maybe my favourite racing game of all time. No mention of it so far in this thread? You disappoint me Borians. There also was a fantastic tennis game, Top Spin. I think that's another game that hasn't been surpassed since then. Lot's of best versions of 3rd party games as well.