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Dash Launch 3.08

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Known Issues:

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- *** WARNING ***

    One of the testers observed a console reaching out to live despite liveblock only

    when fakelive or autofake was enabled.  If you intend a keyvault to not get banned,

    do not use it on a glitch/jtag machine!

- Autologin pop-up blob does not display properly... live with it.

 

Currently the project is missing the following supported translations:

Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese traditional

 

Currently supplied translations:

English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish

 

The skin pack includes the sources used to skin dash launch as well as the

string files if anyone wishes to create a translation to one of the above

languages (including English, as I know my explanations are not always easy to

understand.) Also included is a c# based editor for the string files to assist

in translation.

 

External fonts, background image and skins may be used by this,

simply place skin.xzp and/or font.ttf and/or background.png (1020x720) beside

default.xex. If neither location has a font file supplied the system font

on flash will be used.

 

 

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    Overview - what it does

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- It will launch a XeX or CON file from the path you specified in launch.ini

    as long as it's valid

- Depending on the button you hold when the xbox is trying to load the NXE, it

    will divert to the xex/con tied to that button or return to default as

    defined in launch.ini

- At boot time it is possible to subvert default item and/or NXE loading, but

    you must wait until the controller syncs to do so

- Depending which button is held when closing miniblade in NXE (use Y button to

    close, release then hold a QL button) it will quick launch a CON or XEX

    from your ini file

- allows one to patch kernel/xam at bootup with a freeBOOT patch style bin file

    from usb or hdd (in that order) must be in root of the device and be named

    "kxam.patch" and be no larger than 0x4000 bytes. Again, kxam.patch binary

    format is the same as a compiled freeboot patch bin, but uses real virtual

    addresses rather than offsets - as of 2.22 the first 32bit value must instead

    be the version of the kernel the patches apply to

- with the included patch set, launch.xex acts as a helper to detect when

    xbox1 emulator loads, allowing memory unlock patch and xbox1 emulator

    to function together

 

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    Installation

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- have the required hacked kernel version installed on the console

 

- get the installer to a place where you can run it, and do so. Follow onscreen

    instructions if any. The installer will prompt you if it needs to update the 

    kernel/hv patches and will give you an opportunity to configure stuff.

 

- edit the options, and dont forget to save them somewhere if you want them to

    be applied next boot. Don't forget to set configapp to the installer, so

    you can go to it any time via miniblades' system settings (hold RB to go to

    real system settings)

 

- the back button is your friend if you are wondering what button to push

 

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    Updaters and Avatars

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- this version of dash launch contains an update blocker that is enabled by

    default. There are two ways around this if you wish to install the bits and

    pieces used by the dash for kinect and avatars

    1 - place the updater that matches this version on removable media, and

        rename the folder from $SystemUpdate to $$ystemUpdate

        ----OR----

    2 - place an ini where dash launch can find it and set the noupdater option

        to false - noupdater = false

    Updates seem to work best if memory stick is inserted while in official dash

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NOTE that some games WILL prompt you to update the console if avatars are

    not installed, this doesn't mean they have an update to actually put in, it

    just means it needs avatar/kinect bins/resources to run

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    LIVEblocker

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- if you are like me, and keep your consoles off the net then this option is

    for you. It's capable of blocking the resolution of the LIVE specific

    servers and does so by default, with an additional option in the ini file

    it will attempt to block access to all MS servers. The default option is

    set up to block only LIVE servers, which still allows programs like FSD to

    access covers and such. The blocks lists are:

 

    weak:

        ^xemacs.xboxlive.com$

        ^xeas.xboxlive.com$

        ^xetgs.xboxlive.com$

        ^xexds.xboxlive.com$

        ^piflc.xboxlive.com$

        ^siflc.xboxlive.com$

        ^msac.xboxlive.com$

        ^xlink.xboxlive.com$

        ^xuacs.xboxlive.com$

        ^sts.xboxlive.com$

        ^xam.xboxlive.com$

        ^notice.xbox.com$

        ^macs.xbox.com$

        ^rad.msn.com$

        passport.net$

 

    strong:

        xboxlive.com$

        xbox.com$

        nsatc.net$

        microsoft.com$

        passport.net$

        bing.net$

        msn.com$

 

    where:

        somedomain.com$ = ends with somedomain.com

        ^somesub.somedomain = starts with somesub.somedomain

        ^somesub.somedomain.com$ = is exactly somesub.somedomain.com

 

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    Important - going to NXE

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- if you need to go back to NXE and have default item set in ini, HOLD RB while

    exiting game via miniblade or exit using one of the miniblade options like 

    family settings

 

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    INI notes

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-it's possible to have multiple ini files, priority is as they appear in the list

    (** it is NOT recommended to launch USB con/xex from hdd ini **)

    the first one found on the devices in that order will be the one used at boot.

    -see http://code.jellycan.com/simpleini/ for more info on the ini parser

 

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    autoswap option functionality

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    GOD ie:

        disk1 = Hdd:Content0000000000000000012345670000400001234567890123456789; 

            will have 01234567890123456789.data folder beside it

        disk2 = Hdd:Content0000000000000000012345670000400098765432109876543210;

            will have 98765432109876543210.data folder beside it

    EXTRACTED ie:

        disk1 = Hdd:gamessomegamedisk1default.xex;

        disk2 = Hdd:gamessomegamedisk2default.xex;

- GOD/NXE disk rips on the same media in the same folder will automatically

    be found with no special naming convention

- EXTRACTED games with the naming above for each disk with the disk# folders all in

    the same folder on the same media will be found without an ini file

- swapping between disks contained on different media is not supported

 

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    Caveats

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The work herein is presented as-is, any risk is solely the end users

    responsibility. While all of us are sorry when unforseen things happen, not

    every situation or mistake can be accounted for before they have been

    spotted. Please use responsibly.

 

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    Support (report bugs/request features)

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    english:        http://www.realmodscene.com/index.php?/forum/14-dashlaunch/

    french/english: http://homebrew-connection.org/forum/index.php?board=7.0

 

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    Thanks

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-Big thanks to those who opened the way and those who made it even more usable.

-Thanks to Tux, Arbiter, stk, the2000, Corrupted, tk_saturn and Toddler for all

    the bugs you caught trying to sneak by

-Thanks AmyGrrl for passing along the glitch and new ideas

-Thanks to Tux, Ironman, JPizzle and Dionis Fernandez for helping procure a

    Jasper big block console to extend testing and fix NAND MU corruption bug

    Dionis - you went above and beyond

-Thanks to vgcrepairs for providing the cygnos, dash launch likely wouldn't 

    exist without one

-Thanks to the FSD team, without your cheering this rewrite would have never been completed

-Thanks to Nate and Anthony for constantly reminding me that no, I'm not alone

-Thanks to FBDev and mojobojo for the data used for the patch options

-Thanks to sm32

-Thanks to unknown, you know why

-Extra Special thanks to SpkLeader, Boflc, and LordXBig

-Big thanks to Swizzy, the least bit for debugging readmes

-Thanks to XeBuild, keeping us on our toes and up to date

-Greetz to XeDev and RgLoader

-Thanks to Team Xecuter for thinking towards the future

-Thanks to vladstudio.com for "night launch"

-Thanks to Razkar for always spotting the hard to spot bugs

-shouts out to E Nellie and D33per, thanks to you this is still a sourceless release

 

~brought to you by cOz~

//2012

 

 

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    To Do

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- fix hud loading of nxe rips

- everything else

 

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    Known Bugs

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- some well used NAND images with earlier versions of DL already installed seem

    incapable of being updated with larger sized files, it is recommended for

    the time being to make a clean NAND image with the most recent/up to date

    image builder if you run into this issue

- nxe disk rips when launched from 16197+ metro still work, if you get an err

    dismiss it and launch again (it's a resource busy issue in official dash)

- I'm sure you'll find some bugs, please see the links earlier in this doc

    for a place to post them where they will be seen

 

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    Supported Versions

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    at time of this writing, this is ONLY compatible with RETAIL kernel versions:

9199, 12611, 12625, 13146, 13599, 13604, 14699, 14717, 14719, 15574, 16197, 16202, 16203, 16537

13599 is the first glitch version supported (embedded patches)

14717 is the first glitch2 version supported (embedded patches)

 

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    ChangeLog

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V3.08

- tweak xelllaunch, see it's readme for how it's changed

- all patch sets updated to support xebuild update server full use

- added xebuild update server and related options

- fixed a bug with signnotice on 13604 (and probably older)

- added 16537

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL9rrDXfhCU

 

I have put together a full tutorial on how to use the new XeBuild and dashlaunch with the amazing update feature, for the tutorial CLICK HERE

 

Thanks for the hard work you guys put into this. Promise to make a donation as soon as I find a new job!!!

OK,I think I found a solution....

I removed all usb drives and also the xbox hdd drive from the console,except a usb with dashlaunch 3.08 on it.

Cosnole started on stock dash,then used xexmenu (i run it from the internal MU,I have a Jasper 512MB) to launch dashlaunch from USB drive,and it updated fine,asked to update paches and to reboot.

Reconnected all usb drives and the hdd,console booted on FSD3 and runed dashlaunch to verify,3.08 was running!

Thank the hell out of you!!!!! Been getting the black screen for 2 days now. Tried removing & replacing all kinds of files. Took of the HDD & external & it worked flawlessly. Became a member just to thank you.