new freeboot unsigned xex's and more

Well I have a couple of old lpt cables,if you want one you can have it for shipping.

 

Okay so

Xenon -> 330ohm -> the solder terminal for SCSI -> into parrelel port -> profit?

do I need the diode?

 

Are you implying I don't? So you and your friends know what you are doing, but haven't bothered to research this until now? Makes perfect sense.

http://www.free60.org/Reading_out_NAND http://www.free60.org/JTAG_Hack

 

I never said that. I'm saying I need to get this on track because I have people waiting on me. You implied that I did not know what I was doing anyway so there is two sides of the coin. At anyrate I am frustrated so you can see why I don't appreciate down talk at the moment so sorry if I am coming off strong. Also I have been doing research for a while back when XeDK's weren't even widely known. This exploit just allows me to do the same as well as people whom want me to test some features in order to assist me as well as them in making sure exploit runs more like a dev more specifically the freeboot hack. After I am done testing for this I will move back into XBR to do my own research. So as you may know XeDK's never required hardware modifcation, so yes this is new to me but its not the first mod chip I have ever installed. Also thank you for providing links.

 

I'm guessing that you've not made many custom cables over the years, eh?

First off, that's not a "female SCSI faceplate" in the diagram. That is the back side of a MALE DB25 connector. There's no cable attached to it because you're creating the cable. The lines in the diagram are drawn to show you which pins to solder the wires to.

The DB25 connector was first used for the LPT/Parallel/Printer port. Because the part was so common, and because it provided enough lines for the original revisions of SCSI, it was used for external SCSI devices.

Note that LPT devices and SCSI devices are NOT compatible, even though they use the same physical plugs. This actually caused some issues for Iomega back in the day, because by the time the first Zip drives were released SCSI was someone common on the Mac side of things, but relatively unknown on the consumer level PC side of things. John Doe consumer would go to the store to buy a Zip drive and see a port that looked compatible, only to get home and find out that not only did it not work, but it might have caused potential damage.

Remember kids, just because the parts fit doesn't automatically mean they should be connected.

That said, a male DB25 is a male DB25. If you've got old parallel or SCSI cables laying around that you don't need and they've got the connector snip that bad boy off and go to town.

Now, if you want to be slick you should make the wires as short as possible and mount the DB25 connector on the side of the Xbox 360 case. Then use a DB25 Parallel extension cable (M/F) to connect the Xbox 360 to the PC. Like this:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=203081402&listingid=30107574

If you do this you'll always be able to reflash with Nandpro, but you won't have to keep the Xbox 360 open or rewire the solder points every time you want to read or write to the flash.

-hl718

 

.. and I thought I was slick. That's a pretty good idea, here's what my Xenon looks like:

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1055/dsc00356o.jpg

 

Jester, lllsondowlll, no need for drama. Like Kev said, we're all here to help each other. To be honest you both came off slightly elitest with your respective comments. Jester with the talking down and lllsondowlll with the boasting about XeDK knowledge and having people "waiting" on you.

It's best to remember that we don't all know everything. There's nothing wrong with saying "Hey, I don't know/understand this." No one needs to brag about what or who they know and no one expects anyone here to be a know it all. We all help anyone, be they total noob or longstanding expert attacking a difficult problems.

ASSEMbler is a drama free zone. That's one of it's main draws (aside from the shared knowledge of course).

-hl718

 

I did 200 custom XLR cables to make stage pockets for 26 hours straight at work (I am a sound man) So I do have the feel of it

I got the part about creating the cable had to do it with XLR.

Well thats the first, I have always considered "if it fits, its the same" which is why I needed "printer cable" cleared up to be sure

I used to have SCSI which is why I am familiar with the type of cable, threw it in the garbage though because... well who uses it? At anyrate my 360 is bare mobo with led front panel and fans. Nothing more so I don't think the case thing really matters all that much but thank you for clearing all that stuff up for me.

Hopefully I will get this done by tomorrow and maybe I will have some more to share to celebrate.

 

Not bad at all. I just *hate* hanging wires that can catch on something. Especially when one end of the wire is directly soldered to a board. Mounting the DB25 port on the case is an easy way to end up with a job that both looks professional and is quite functional.

-hl718

 

The whole thing was cleared up but its nice to hear the voice of reason. I'm not trying to sound like a VIP, I'm simply stating I'm taking a long time and I have messed up with my board and now I need help so i don't pretend to know it all which is why I am grateful for everyone's help so far. As I said before I'm on edge with a lot of stuff I am suppose to be doing. Not trying to boast sorry if I am coming off that way. Like I said much frustration.

 

Heh, most of the time, you're probably OK. It's those times when you're not that it bites you in the ass. I've seen people fry some very expensive equipment in the past because they assumed that "if it fits, it's the same."

SCSI is still in active use plenty of places. SATA is the defacto standard on consumer level gear, but if you're talking professional level servers you're not going to bother with SATA. The disk arrays are usually all SCSI.

With a frankenboard like you're talking about a nice clean port probably isn't a big deal, but if you end up doing boxes for friends, go with the mounted port. It'll make updating their boxes in the future a LOT easier since you won't have to resolder the internal connections.

Looking forward to seeing the final product.

-hl718

 

I was thinking the same thing hl718 about flashing the nand nice and easy.I definitely want to add a DB25 connector to my 360,I've got plenty of old cables here so I might give it a go.

 

Ugh god. If only radioshack was 24/7. Well anyway no use crying over spilt milk tonight. I will wait untill the morning and begin with the mass insanity. Soldering wires is the easy part though, I am just preparing for more roadblocks. Thanks guys for the help and I will be sure to pick that stuff up tomorrow.

 

you can still wire it @ the top if you haven't completely melted thepoints. can you make a pic please?

Forza 2 is on usenet btw.. torrent & scene stuff is following soon.

 

I found the connector,Im going to use this.
http://www.l-com.com/item.aspx?id=3256

Just need to figure out a good spot to mount it.

 

Hopefully ill pick mine later today, I will hopefully add a parallel port to my 360, accessible through the top with another cable. Pics later, its currently at the shop. I suck at soldering, but atleast ill be mounting the connector in a cool place, later today ill check if it fits under the hdd grill.

 

lol hdd grill. Anyway going to go pick up the stuff. Cross your fingers.

 

There's been last minute efforts on hacking DLC and marketplace contents for the simple purpose of contents piracy. Well ... With signatures checks removed we got to the point that editing media or container flags is enough to turn demo/trial stuff into full versions.

I expect Microsoft to retaliate. And I expect it to be nasty.
So I say that 'The cat is out of the bag.'


But it was nice to put a PIRS package of MAME360 on my memory unit and have it play some arcade game ROM on a hacked Falcon 360.
Man, "I'm loving it!":drool:

Ps.: I was able to make my own original/legit console's "Optional Media Update" run on the hacked system by simply editing flags on it's PIRS container.

 

They did not have the diode instock.