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Week of August 22, 2004
neXgen models rendered in 3D screenshot
>> From HoRnEyDvL on forums.xbox-scene.com:
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Well guys time to show you that the lil guys are strong as well. Having talented people in Team XOS has paid off at last. As you can see from the screen posted below we have progressed alot & now things are starting 2 look like the should have from the begining, Who needs complicated xip xaps to modify soon it will be as easy as abc. We are now looking for feature requests tell us what you want in nexgen ect. I can tell you now a new skining interface will be introduced the way it functions I can't say as of yet but will make it better for skinners.
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(Saturday 28 August 2004 20:24 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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tHc dashboard hibernation over
>> From JbOnE on xboxdash.net (tHc LITE(info), tHc Original(info)):
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No rest for the wicked apparently ... and right back to work I go
It's with great pleasure that I can say I will have an alpha in a very select few testers hands as a birthday present to myself (Sunday), so you can tell this is going to be a full court press till completion. Don't expect to see any screenies till I get to the mesh stage of this project - well maybe a couple of suprise bonus feature screenies along the way.
Implimented so far:
* all runs from one directory - no more dependency on files on c partition
* total removal of xip protection... period
* dongle free dvd playback
Still to come:
* ftp
* custom mesh format as well as original
* skinning/materials loaded from xbx/ini as well as changable in dash without need for reboot
* extended use of filesystem removing dependency on items being in xips
* removal of 100 soundtrack limit
... tons more - but if ya know them all now - where's the fun in that? Now all I gotta do is come up with a 'kitchy' name for this dash, hmm ... hit me with name ideas in #xboxdash
Stay tuned for updates as they are worked in... and welcome to the rebirth of the dash we all love
In related news, authors of thc-orginal-mods, please see this forum topic!
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(Friday 27 August 2004 20:37 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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New survey shows video gaming has finally overtaken PC gaming
>> From tomshardware.com:
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Though electronic gaming arguably first gained national popularity first with devices now refered to as console systems, such as the Atari 2600 and Colecovision, the PC soon became the place to go for the majority of gamers. The PC's ability to be upgraded and take advantage of the latest advances in technology meant it was likely to have the latest and greatest games that would push the envelope visually. This year, for the first time the majority of gamers are reporting that they now turn to other sources for gaming than the traditional PC.
The annual "Digital Gaming in America" survey, published by Ziff Davis' Media's Game Group, found that 54.5 million households played video games and only 52.3 million Americans played PC games.
The study revealed other new trends including gaming's pull of consumers away from television. Twenty-six percent of those surveyed said their TV viewing had decreased during the last year.
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Read the whole article on tomshardware.com.
Thanks to Gamester17 for the news.
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(Friday 27 August 2004 17:18 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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W.I.P. xBomberbox2 beta3
>> From tafididi.com:
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We saw there's a lot of interest in xBomberbox2(info), that's why we are going to post a new release online this week-end that will fix some bugs and will bring some other good surprises ... thank you very much for your support and if you try to reach us use tafididi [@t] hotmail.com.
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(Friday 27 August 2004 02:39 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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New Halo sp-mp map conversion and Halo 2 movie
>> From halomods.com:
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* Xbox: Hangar-X Conversion by Juggler
Xbox Featured ModsThis is a sp-mp conversion of X-10 Hangar from the Pillar of Autumn. It replaces bloodgulch. This mod features:
FRG, Banshee, Modified Ghost, Modified Warthog, Lightning Cannon, ORIGINAL SHADERS BITMAPS AND LIGHTING, Modified shotgun w/ minirocket, Walther PPK, Overcharge Sniper w/ Sentinal contrail, Modifies assault rifle, Most weapons are enhanced to shoot farther and have better accuracy to suit the level, Great gameplay for 4-16 players, CTF support, FULLY COMPRESSABLE!!, SYSTEM LINKABLE!!, Best played with all vehicles
To play, unRAR the file, then transfer the file "cache003" to the X Y or Z drive and play Blood Gulch
More info/download: files.halomods.com
* New Halo 2 Video
This is the first ingame Halo 2 tournament ever captured on video available online. This is NOT A CAM - it's a DIRECT FEED of someone playing against a whole lot of people on the Zanzibar map. This is the same version as the E3 demo - so this is NOT THE FINAL version! It is roughly 18 minutes long, and roughly 122mb big.
Download: .torrent (bittorrent client) or halo2.filefront.com
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(Thursday 26 August 2004 15:30 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Team Avalaunch hats on sale now
>> From teamavalaunch.com:
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Well, they've finally arrived: the exclusive 2004 Team Avalaunch(info) hat. Be the first kid at your company to walk into work with one. Amaze your friends and family with it's ability to unzip into an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT HAT* (note: only a slightly different hat. for real.)
Wanna buy one? Go to http://www.teamavalaunch.com
For pictures of the hat (taken by HSDEMONZ): Click here
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(Thursday 26 August 2004 08:00 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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X-Tender Case Mod released *updated*
>> From teamxtender.com:
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The X-Tender kit allows you to unleash the power of your Linux machine by adding the necessary space to support up to two additional internal hard drives! Molded to perfectly integrate with your Xbox, this kit comes with a custom front panel, with 3 activity LED, a custom made hard drive mounting plate to accommodate one or two additional drives, and a custom molded rear panel. Specially designed X-Tender rods are included to internally support the expansion, allowing you to securely reassemble the machine. Additional space on front panel will allow the support of one LCD display on each side of the system, or additional LED or cold cathode lighting.
You can switch between the drives with the front panel buttons: When the Xbox is powered off, press front panel button 1 for 2 seconds to start with hd1, press front panel button 2 for 2 seconds to start with hd2, press front panel button 3 for 2 seconds to start with hd3. When the Xbox is already powered on then you can do the same so the Xbox will reset and boot from the other hard drive.
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*update* Team X-Tender informed us there was a slight mistake in the text on their site. You can switch between HD's with the front panel buttons, NOT with the remote control. Above text has been updated accordingly.
Official site: teamxtender.com
You can buy the X-Tender from lik-sang.com (59.90USD or ~49.58EUR)
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(Wednesday 25 August 2004 20:32 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Team Xbox-Linux looking for translators and non-english maintainers
>> From xbox-linux.org:
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We already have German and French sections on this website, but not all articles are available in these languages yet. We are also looking for people starting sections for other languages. Look at Xbox-Linux:Languages for details.
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(Wednesday 25 August 2004 15:00 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Xecuter 2.6 pictures
>> This is not officially released news, but we found out some pictures with some info of the upcoming Xecuter 2.6 were posted by a Team Xecuter operator on IRC. Here they are:
More (higher quality) pictures: Picture1 - Picture2 - Picture3 - Picture4.
The Xecuter2.6 will use the same pinheader / wires adapter / d0lanhdd connectors as the Xecuter3 that will allow easy upgrading. The Xecuter 2.6 design is ready and should be available in shops around next week.
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(Wednesday 25 August 2004 00:26 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Official website for .X files
>> From kernelbase.com:
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Crispware has been hard at work making a dedicated .x file site.
http://xfiles.kernelbase.com
Please send all Your .x and preview pictures, in zip or rar format, to submit [NOSP@M] xfiles.kernelbase.com
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DirectX .X files are used to change the text under the Xbox-logo during bios boot-up. Using KernelBasher(info) you can change the microsoft text into a text or image you choose.
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(Tuesday 24 August 2004 19:23 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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XBpartitioner 1.0RC1
>> NghtShd released a new version of XBpartitioner(info) - an Xbox harddrive partitioner and formatter. What's new/fixed:
* No longer warns on LBA48 version 2, since it works around the ver 2 bug.
* Will allow single partition formatting on X2 4979-4981.
* Automatically uses 32k clusters when formatting ] 256GB partitions.
* Cluster size used displayed when formatting.
* Fixed some UI bugs.
Official Site: n/a, by NghtShd
Download: n/a (built with XDK)
News-Source: xbins.org
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(Tuesday 24 August 2004 12:34 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Official X2 programmer guide
>> Team Xecuter added a new guide on their website: Guide to using X2 Programmer with X2.x Lite/Lite+ & X2BM v2.2.
Check it out here.
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(Tuesday 24 August 2004 12:27 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Xenium OS 2 Beta 2
>> From teamxodus.com:
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We have just released a Beta for Xenium OS(info) 2.
Apologies for our silence and delays are naturally in order but we hope that recent announcements and developments can at least offer some justification and explanation. Your involvement and contributions with bug reports has been overwhelming and much appreciated. We have worked through all of them as thoroughly and diligently as possible and now feel we are confident for this public release. With your help, we believe that we have now drastically improved the overall stability of the kernel, and are nearing a "final" 2.0 release. The only reason we are not deeming this revision "2.0 final" is that we still have a few kinks to work out with some of our newer features. As we wanted this release to be as rock-solid as possible, those features are currently still disabled. Once we get the last few bugs worked out of these components, we will release "RC1," and if no major issues are reported, will deem the image "Final".
A quick word about where we'll be going from here:
When 2.0 "Final" is released, it will actually be released as XeniumOS 2.0.0 as we will be moving to a new method of versioning. From there, when we release minor updates, bugfixes, and small feature changes, we will increase the subminor version number. So, the first release after 2.0.0 will be 2.0.1, and will be primarily minor changes. When we release a new version with several new, major features, we will increase the minor version number, going to 2.1.0. When drastic changes have occurred to the OS, we will increase the major version number, bringing us to 3.0.0.
We believe that this new system will help to drive more frequent revisions, and create a clear distinction between minor and major version changes. We hope that you will realize how serious we now are in acheiving targeted goals and in responding to consumer reports quickly.
Changelog for Beta 2:
+ Preliminary Quickboot support (press button AFTER power-on)
+ Added remote gamepad emulation via telnet
+ Added "Restore Factory Defaults"
* Improved organization of settings menus
* Reduced flash space consumption
* Changed backdrop
- Fixed problem with HDD Upgrade Wizard not copying some Live information properly
- Fixed a rare race condition which could lead to OS corruption during flashing
- Resolved several Kernel Panics related to saving configuration to flash
- Fixed a bug in the directory enumerator that would cause problems with some filenames
- Several additional updates to filesystem and IDE/ATAPI drivers
- Improved Flash/Ram Filesystem Performance
- Fixed some protocol handling problems with FTP server
- Fixed improper handling of corrupted system date/time
- Resolved several memory leaks
Legend:
+ Addition
- Bug fix
* Change
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Official Site: http://www.teamxodus.com
Download HDD version: here
Download ISO version: here
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(Monday 23 August 2004 18:03 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Project Jihad W.I.P. update
>> Jihad(info) is a homebrew arcade/adventure game for Xbox currently in development by 'The unProfessional'. The game is designed to be a free, fun, multiplayer homebrew game for everyone to enjoy. From theunprofessional.com:
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Well I'm getting back into actual visual work, so I'll have some things to post on the website. As you may know, I've been working (whenever I can) on networking and physics, and honestly, there isn't much to see in those regards. Physics still aren't cool enough for me to brag :) But as soon as they are, I'll post vids.
I just posted a quick screenie demonstrating the particle system. This doesn't show much, but it's already capable of all sorts of effects, such as rainfall, snow, smoke, flames, fountains, etc. The pictured flame effect, in combination with good smoke would look pretty badass IMHO. I'm working on better smoke textures, and possibly shaders, to spruce that up.
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Forum Discussion Thread: forums.xbox-scene.com
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(Monday 23 August 2004 14:51 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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xBomberbox2 beta2
>> Marcel popo and farid released a new version of xBomberbox2(info) - a homebrew game based on BomberMan. What's new/fixed:
* New XXL arenas (BIGGER arenas) with teleporters
* 3 new characters, like Sonic
* 2 new static cameras
* Cup Mode added
* Fast ignition of bombs, selection of the numbers blocks on screen, pad rumble, pause, set bots level, set custom time of a game, ...
This is an update only, you need xBomberbox2 beta1 installed and replace/overwrite the old files with the beta2 files
Official Site: http://www.tafididi.com
Download: n/a (built with XDK)
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(Monday 23 August 2004 00:06 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Frosted Bios Loader 1.0 RC2
>> Tomilius released a new version of Frosted Bios Loader(info) - a boot from media bios loader based on the Phoenix Bios Loader(info). From Tomilius on forums.xbox-scene.com:
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Major New Features:
* Skins
* Splash Images
* "Screenshot" support (output to JPEG or Bitmap)
* Support for EvoX M8's 2bl (will work with the bios from rmenhal's metoo m8 package)
* "Command-line" support
JPEGs and PNGs are supported for skins or splash images. PNG alpha channels are accepted. Paletted images may not work well - too bad.
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Official Site: n/a, by Tomilius (Forum Thread)
Download: here
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(Sunday 22 August 2004 19:11 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Tokyo Wars W.I.P. update
>> Tokyo Wars is a homebrew tank game in an urban environment currently in development by Team AfterShock. From shizno on aftershock.xbox-scene.com:
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I have been busy this week playing on xbox live, but I did get a bit done.... which are:
1: Bullet to Tank collision detection....
2: Smoke particle effects for damaged tanks
3: Cloth 'physics' for SCENERY flags (poles), even though its not physics, just a sine wave running through the vertex buffer making it look like the flag is waving in wind... for the actual flag for the gametype Capture the Flag, I might use actual physics like HALO but thats still up in the air.
4: There is a poll on the site now for what the game should be called, either Tokyo Wars, Apocalypse (something here) or Other.
5: Decided I might shrink the level yet again, and turn the game into a fast, party game (because I think it would be a better overall game this way, instead of boring tank sim crap)... but that's not 100% certain yet....
Here is a screenshot of two tanks testing out the new collision and flag physics, USA and New Zealand flags.
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(Sunday 22 August 2004 16:56 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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Neo Dash X Beta v1.0
>> From gueux.net (translated from french):
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Neo Dash X, developed by Modman, Alphaxav and Ginji-san, is a dashboard based on 4920 Microsoft dashboard including tHc LITE(info) functions and adding new features:
- 7 tabs
- Directs links to apps,emuls...etc menus
- 2 orbs on main menu
- Integrated Orb to apps,emuls...etc menus
- Tabs transparency when there are on top or on bottom
- MemoryX integrated
- ControlPanel integrated
- Backgrounds system management :
* Up to 20 differents backgrounds
* Random backgrounds system on boot
* Real time background changing on each screen with white button
* Disable random feature with left thumbsticks
* Rename Tabs or news menus display name (games, apps...) from config.xbx
- 5 bakcgrounds are included.
Some screenshots are availabled here: screenshot1 - screenshot2 - screenshot3 - screenshot4
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Official Site: http://www.gueux.net (official forums)
Download: n/a (built with XDK)
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(Sunday 22 August 2004 16:53 EST) - (Category: (default)) - (Posted by::
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