!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't use this tool if you have no way to recover from a bad flash! I have tested it, but not every possible BIOS patch. A bogus profile entry will either cause the patcher to fail, or hose the BIOS file. Use this software at your own risk. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to Paul Bartholomew for xbflash, to superfro for his BIOS mods, and to k3rn3l and MomDad for ideas, info and support. Thanks to SantMat for his ultra-smooth no-animation patch. Without these people, XBtool would, at best, be much less functional than it is, and, at worst, nonexistent. ============================================================ Extracts, compiles, and patches XBOX BIOS/kernel files. You'll need to supply your own RC4 key for older BIOSes. If you are working with a BIOS which works with both the old xbox and the "1.1" xbox then you don't need an RC4 key. I have included profiles for the basic X2 4974 Multiver BIOS, and EvolutionX D.6. More will be added later. Note: the profiles.ini file format is still changing. The basic principles are the same, but keywords and key formats have changed. The DVD checkbox is used to disable the DVD check so that the Xbox will boot with no DVD drive installed. This might be useful if your DVD drive is dead. The x logo checkbox is used to disable the big 'X' logo. Unchecking this automatically disables animation, otherwise you get a blank screen but still hear the animation sounds. When the logo is off, don't panic when the screen remains black for a few seconds after booting. This is normal. The splash logo is that little graphic that fades in right before the dash appears. Some things NOT to do with this: -Don't encrypt a BIOS that was originally unencrypted. (I've added *some* protection against doing so.) -Don't add your own BIOS profile if you don't fully understand what you're doing. This is a beta. Expect bugs. If you don't like bug then don't use beta software. The ini files are probably not very fault tolerant at this stage. Things to do: -Color preset saving -Preview -Include more predefined profiles. -More boot partition options. -Better documentation. -Lots of code clean up and error control/notification. -Release the source code (after final 1.0 version release) ========================================================== History: 0.8.20 -- -Profiles in individual files. -Saves profile when BIOS is saved. -Profile saving allows modded BIOS files to be loaded. -Reads BIOS features from the kernel. -DVD check checkbox disabled on x2 BIOS's (It's always disabled). 0.8.11 -- -Added back the no splash logo patch which I (wrongly) thought didn't work. (thanks MomDad) 0.8.10 -- -SantMat's no logo patch. -SantMat's no dvd drive check patch. -Color pickers for full control of the two inner X colors. -Fixed: bug in profiles.ini made the TM symbol off when the option was checked. 0.8.9.1 -- -Protection from patching an unknown BIOS. 0.8.9 -- -New, totally silent noani patch 0.8.8 -- -Color picker for lip spotlight. -Two-color X logo system. 0.8.7 -- -fixed multimonitor issue with the color popup -text error in the color popup 0.8.6 -- -Color picker for X edge -Purple option -Automatically sets appropriate edge and "XBOX" colors when a color radio button is clicked, so you don't have to go through the color pickers if you just want a matching motif (you can then change these if you like). -Profiles.ini changed again. I didn't have time to do a D.6 profile, due to the many changes in the way the profiles.ini works. -Various internal reworkings. 0.8.5 -- -Color picker for setting the color of the word XBOX 0.8.4 -- -Better error messages -Fixed Profiles.ini for D.6 0.8.2 -- -BIOS sizing. -Separate settings for X logo color and XBOX color. -Changed Profiles.ini for seperate color patching. -Lots of internal reworkings (possibly added bugs). -Fixed bug where .bin was being added to bios files even when they already had a .bin extension. 0.8 -- -MD5 for ID of BIOS files and kernel versions. -Patches BIOS if a BIOS profile is available. -Patching of for color/animation/logo/boot-drive. -User editable profiles in "Profiles.ini" allows for support of any BIOS. -RC4.ini allow up to 9 users supplied RC4 keys. -Copy MD5 to clipboard. -Numerous other internel changed. 0.2 -- -Initial release. ------------------------------------------------------------- The flash packing/unpacking code is based on Paul Bartholomew's xbflash util. ------------------------------------------------------------- -NghtShd