Just giving people a heads up
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 12:56 am
I am making a video about these problems tonight
I wanted to bring attention to a few things I have been recently seeing an abnormal number of people constantly running into the same exact problems revolving around the softmodding. Apparently, the people over on OGXBOX would rather ban people and remove topics that contain proof about these problems, rather than admit the problems fix them, but I digress. I am also posting this because I personally have encountered a problem not listed anywhere which pertains to the DVD Drive. Now to give some background on me I've been dealing with modded xbox's (Both chipped and softmodded) since the early days of FlashFXP. I almost always just use a disk and a file explorer to rip disks to the HDD and almost always avoid FTP unless it's 100% necessary. I have even converted PC game mods to work on the OG xbox but that is neither here nor there. So that's my basic background.
Here is some things people need to be aware of
ok so the number one problem people post about is there isn't any simple step by step tutorials for things that make no sense such as the artwork problem using XBMC4gamers. Why this is a problem is because the XBOX requires a .default.xbe to launch any game or app. The installer people always mention doesn't have one. and the instructions say to run it off the HDD, which again isn't possible unless there is a default.xbe
The second problem is that there is no installer even on the beta (Which is where people said it existed)
The 3rd problem Images have to be a png, bmp, .DDS, jpg, tbn..etc and if there actually isn't any xbox art images with any of those file extensions anywhere I can find. I will admit that I didn't do much real looking but the places I did look should have at least turned up something and it didn't, so these so called art imaged either don't exist, at all, or they are so hidden only a tech genius would be able to find them.
Problem 4, lets say there is art for this (And I just missed them) there is still no explanation how to get them in the xbox because every tutorial I have seen and talked about, mentions non-existent files and launching applications that simple do not exist. NOr do they say where they are getting the apps they're running. NO one knows if it's already on the xbox in some random folder.
Problem 5, (Th is is something I ran into I haven't seen anyone mention so it's basically impossible for me to get help with this) something in the latest upgrading the HDD via and softmodding setup, kills the xbox HDD so that anything in any mod menu that requires the use of the DVD drive, won't work. Any mod menu that uses and or can see the DVD drive, if you put a disk in, it will either not read it at all, lock up the system, or show "UNKNOWN" as the contents. This includes actual xbox games. The DVD drive will launch a game but only if you start the system with the console with a disk already in the drive.
I find it very idiotic how, there can be tones of videos on how to mod an xbox, but there isn't a single video tutorial anywhere that shows how to get the very confusing and very complex to understand applications applications. it's ridiculous.
A video tutorial on how to actually get the xbox artwork to work on XBMC4gamers, needs to be created. Right now it's 100% impossible to know what to do because of all the lose files and crap that do not have any way to execute them on the xbox despite the instructions say so. The instructions do not even say what has to be done with the files you get, I.E. do you keep them zipped up, are you supposed to make a disk image out of them is so what ones and how.
I mean thee is so many missing piece of crucial need to know information that it's pathetic.
I wanted to bring attention to a few things I have been recently seeing an abnormal number of people constantly running into the same exact problems revolving around the softmodding. Apparently, the people over on OGXBOX would rather ban people and remove topics that contain proof about these problems, rather than admit the problems fix them, but I digress. I am also posting this because I personally have encountered a problem not listed anywhere which pertains to the DVD Drive. Now to give some background on me I've been dealing with modded xbox's (Both chipped and softmodded) since the early days of FlashFXP. I almost always just use a disk and a file explorer to rip disks to the HDD and almost always avoid FTP unless it's 100% necessary. I have even converted PC game mods to work on the OG xbox but that is neither here nor there. So that's my basic background.
Here is some things people need to be aware of
ok so the number one problem people post about is there isn't any simple step by step tutorials for things that make no sense such as the artwork problem using XBMC4gamers. Why this is a problem is because the XBOX requires a .default.xbe to launch any game or app. The installer people always mention doesn't have one. and the instructions say to run it off the HDD, which again isn't possible unless there is a default.xbe
The second problem is that there is no installer even on the beta (Which is where people said it existed)
The 3rd problem Images have to be a png, bmp, .DDS, jpg, tbn..etc and if there actually isn't any xbox art images with any of those file extensions anywhere I can find. I will admit that I didn't do much real looking but the places I did look should have at least turned up something and it didn't, so these so called art imaged either don't exist, at all, or they are so hidden only a tech genius would be able to find them.
Problem 4, lets say there is art for this (And I just missed them) there is still no explanation how to get them in the xbox because every tutorial I have seen and talked about, mentions non-existent files and launching applications that simple do not exist. NOr do they say where they are getting the apps they're running. NO one knows if it's already on the xbox in some random folder.
Problem 5, (Th is is something I ran into I haven't seen anyone mention so it's basically impossible for me to get help with this) something in the latest upgrading the HDD via and softmodding setup, kills the xbox HDD so that anything in any mod menu that requires the use of the DVD drive, won't work. Any mod menu that uses and or can see the DVD drive, if you put a disk in, it will either not read it at all, lock up the system, or show "UNKNOWN" as the contents. This includes actual xbox games. The DVD drive will launch a game but only if you start the system with the console with a disk already in the drive.
I find it very idiotic how, there can be tones of videos on how to mod an xbox, but there isn't a single video tutorial anywhere that shows how to get the very confusing and very complex to understand applications applications. it's ridiculous.
A video tutorial on how to actually get the xbox artwork to work on XBMC4gamers, needs to be created. Right now it's 100% impossible to know what to do because of all the lose files and crap that do not have any way to execute them on the xbox despite the instructions say so. The instructions do not even say what has to be done with the files you get, I.E. do you keep them zipped up, are you supposed to make a disk image out of them is so what ones and how.
I mean thee is so many missing piece of crucial need to know information that it's pathetic.