thinking of digging out the old xbox

[Inky]

got it going again, I had to use a slayers autoinstaller. but the xbmc on there is from 2006. I am gonna use the AID thing to upgrade XBMC tomorrow.

[Bobdrakke]

Iceman go to xbmc forums and get the nightly builds as they are way ahead of t3ch builds and work with the latest skin/plugin mediastream redux and justin.tv. There some builds that have mida flags for xbox.

 

Only catch is to save space nightly builds don't have the codecs, so you need to go system, players and copy dvdplayer, mplayer and paplayer.

 

Inky if its just for emulation you don't need a new build. AID is good but easily gets outdated google t3ch or get nightly builds.

[The-Ice-Man]

I didn't know there were nightly builds on the xbmc forums. I'll have to look for them. I'd like to be up to date, but I'd also like everything to work properly. I'm currently using the latest stable build from T3CH, not the latest bleeding edge build, coz when I used that one, the menus for xbox game trainers wouldn't display, on any skin. So I couldn't use trainers. So I had to roll back. I'm all for updates, but when they break things that have been working for years it annoys me. Are the skins in the SVN the latest versions? Or are the updated builds of those on the forums too? I like to have a selection of skins, sometimes I switch between them for a change, and Xbox-Classic is one of my faves, but like I said with the latest version from the SVN the filemanager is broken, same for Project Mayhem I.

[Shibathedog]

I softmodded my xbox with splinter cell, and then soldered two points (very easy) so I could run an app to flash my TSOP, then I restored the HDD to stock. Well actually I put I think a 320GB HDD in there but I set everything stock and locked the HDD so I could still boot msdash. You should probably attempt to do something like this because its just as reliable as a modchip in terms of software and its much more reliable in terms of hardware because you don't have to mess with the chip to get it to stay on which it seems is a common problem. Since you already have a chip I think if you could just get it to stay on long enough to run the app and then remove the chip you would be good to go. Look this up though because I think I read you could only do it with certain chips. There is a guide to doing it somewhere probably on xbox-scene.

 

I used the emulators here because they are all awesome:

 

http://xport.xbox-scene.com/

 

Although for NES I use MednafenX, I have CoinOPS, NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy(all), PSX, and N64. I don't think there are any N64 emulators that work all that well (if someone knows of one please tell) so you might not want to bother but I have Surreal64XXX B5 on there for that.

[Inky]

hey shiba, I seem to remember you saying something about forcing the xbox to think it has HD cables connected. Am I right? do you have the info on that?

[Inky]

well, I installed a softmod and swtiched off the chip. no more disassembeled xbox, with my hand in it every time I want to turn it on. XBMC is set up as the dash, got streaming going from PC to xbox. and Coinops installed. I'll look to get NES, SNES and Genesis going later this week. thats all I care about emulation wise. the focus has switched to a living room media center instead of bedroom emulation. I'm ordering HD cables and a remote tonight, on fleabay or whatever.

 

anyone have any good xbmc plugins suggestions?

[cba.gy]

really depends on your location as to which plugins are best. Some a regional, ie US only or UK only.

[Bobdrakke]

Like Cba.Gy said it depends on your region but for most being in the US you get the majority of plugins. CBS, PBS, NBC universal, Hulu (iirc they may be problems since the boxe incident).

 

Non regional are Revision, Ren and Stimpy, G4tv, TvShack, TvBlinx, TvDash, Game Trailers/Gamespot, Fastpass Tv, Navi-X, Apple trailers, vimeo, Watchxonline, Video monkey/devil plus a whole bunch more anime and others.

 

The catch to these plugins they break when there is any website/content changes so they have to be constantly updated.

[Shibathedog]

Yes there is a way to do that, but it is pointless because you cannot get true 5.1 without actually buying the HD cables so you can use an optical cable. You can set it to Dolby Surround already without any modding which is the best you will get in terms of surround with normal cables.

[Inky]

I ordered some HD cables, so its all good. (they are only like 5 bucks now.) it seems most of the video plugins for streaming don't work. I'll try some of the others mentioned too. I did manage to watch some stuff on Navi-X today.

 

I'm really stoked on the whole thing, I spent most of today, just trying different skins and tweaking stuff. getting rid of unused sources and such. It's also motivating me to get my music and movie collection organized.

[hangover]

The XBMC online manual has the best tutorial for switching to NTSC to enable HD output, i have mine set to 720P and stream all my avi's/divx's/xvid's etc and would say its probably the best bit of kit for my AV setup that i have bought, besides my 46" LCD that is. Using the PM3 HD skin right now which looks awesome. For wifi use i picked up an Aeropad mini wifi adapter for 1 xbox and a Dlink DWL-G730AP that i power off a modified controller to USB port so no external power pack is required.

Edited September 19, 2009 by hangover