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While I do acknowledge that this might not be the most common use case, some users (including myself) have a large library of over 350 titles on a NAS device. I'd rather be able to stream games directly from the NAS, rather than constantly freeing up space and transferring files over via FTP. I know it's not a priority, but if and when the developers decide to bother with rewriting the plugin; my only request is make it so you can specify an IP address instead of the NETBIOS name (and possibly make credentials not a mandatory parameter). If we're that concerned about overhead and performance, then I would suggest making an NFS plugin to go alongside the SMB one. All the NAS devices support NFS, and there's even freeware available to set up NFS shares from Windows. Just thought I'd give my 2 cenz again, since the ConnectX subject was brought up again (and I'm one of those who eagerly await for an optimized version). PS: Maybe this is a stupid conjecture, but can't we use LUA to have ConnectX only scan for the available content, and then have the selected game (upon launch) get preloaded to a temporary storage via the ftp protocol? (Then erased once we close it) ..I mean, we gotta have something (even if it's hacky) until and if we ever get a proper SMB/NFS implementation. PS2: Yes I know about netISO, it just doesn't fit my use case, sorry. I want to be able to browse and select directly from the console.

Sorry for the wait..... The testers havnt gotten a new build to test in over a month. Most of the bugs have been worked out, since we patched out NetISO, in this build. The major holdup is the WebUI for Nova. There was a lot of updates to the FSPlugin, and it was rebranded as Nova. The since Aurora supports LUA, I think one of the new features they are working on for the WebUI, is a LUA editor, and a bunch of other stuff. As of this point, I am fairly sure that is what is holding up the release. Then again, the dev scene has been fairly quiet, so I dont know what has been going on in the last month or so, as I havnt been around much...... Been working on other projects, and life...... lol.

We have enough testers for now. People who ask dont get picked. We pick people we think will be benificial to the team in one way or another, and people we trust from their contributions on this forum, who have lots of experience with troubleshooting problems both on the xbox and different software. We also dont generally ask people who want to be testers. As for Nova, yes it will be included, but it is basically the same as what you have had. The major new feature was NetISO, and that is being pushed back. So, other than some modified text, and backend bug fixes, it will be the same experience for the end user.

From what I can surmise, we will get to see NOVA though.. If it's stable, it's good enough, even if NetISO doesn't make it into this release. Should you require additional beta testers, I can help you out as well.

So then no netiso? And possibly never at all then?

At this rate sooner rather than later, the devs had to roll back the changes for netISO, which took a bit of time, and due to the nova release, there was some stuff with the FTP server that needed modified, and while the devs were there figured they would fix a bug or 2 that had been around for a couple of years, but was minor. Then there are some fixes for the stuff for the WebUI in the new plugin. It should be soon, but being one of only testers, outside of the devs, that currently has an xbox, and being in the middle of packing my house, mine is in a box, so it might be a couple of weeks. I think there is still some work that needs to be done on the WebUI end, so that might work out well, since I dont know when the final test build will be passed on. Other than that from what I can tell, there are some new graphical elements that are being worked on for XUI stuff..... So, it is getting more attention then it has in about 2 months. We have lives outside of this, and work on it when we can.

Great news team. Would be nice to run from netiso and free up another hdd. Already saving a ton of space on my blueray games from PS3netsrv on NAS. If not, no worries, Aurora already made my xbox great.

The nas is a dual xeon running one of the Linux based nas OS's. It has docker support so I can run pretty much anything I want on it quite easily, and I do. Would love it if someone could test netiso with multiple consoles. Even if it can only support one console could run multiple instances via docker (provided someone ports to *nix) and just point to the same iso.

As of this moment, I dont know if anyone has tested more than one console from netIso, I know I havnt, as I only have one modded console at the moment. There is hope for a linux version of the server, but it wont be until after it is released, as the server should be released with the code, so it can be ported to other OS's. As far as your nas system goes, that depends on your nas system. If you can create and install packages for/on your nas it shouldnt be much of a problem. You could probably even use a raspberrypi for this as well, if your nas doesnt allow custom package installs. You still have to wait until it is ported though.

How many Xboxes can stream from netiso at once? I hope it her there is a Linux version of the server or it is opensource. Would love to get it sorted so I can run it on my nas system.

because netiso mounts god files as well, so you dont have to convert it to extract it, you can mount it, then see all of the files like you inserted the disc.

There are things i understand and some don't... NetIso would be a great stuff for sure but an Internal HDD must be still needed for at least TU and DLC although. Assuming the fact you own a Xbox 360 Jtag\Rgh large capacity HDD's recommended. I don't see the benefit of it, sorry.

Having netiso would be fantastic here because then when I have a party I do not have to find a way to distribute a game across all of my consoles. Most just sit idly waiting for parties.

good things comes to those who wait would choose to wait for new features to be implemented first version 0.6 is working just fine and without new features we would end up with same release not worth the wait in my opinion netiso is really cool one keep up the good work guys peace

My personal goal is to get out at least one more release, we have a lot of awesome features that are just waiting to get into public hands. If it includes NetISO and WebUI- awesome, but if not, awesome as well. After 0.7, i dont know what's going to happen or what a potential release schedule could look like.

We sincerely prefer to have a release like this, webui and NETiso could see in 0.8, we already wait too long and we are looking forward to what has already been done, so if you are thinking about postponing I say no! hahaha, we expect these new features at 0.8

Are you voting to put off aurora 0.7b until netiso and webui are finished and tested, or are you voting to put that off until 0.8b, and get the initial update for nova, and what is completed in aurora 0.7b? The webUI hasnt even made it to the testers yet, so who knows when that will be finished up, and waiting for it could put off the release of aurora 0.7b for quite a while. It really doesnt matter to me, as I already have what they are going to release, if the community decides it wants to put off some of the bigger features for a christmas time release.

The bugs in aurora 0.7b outside of nova have been fixed for close to 5-6 months, and I will say we came across some interesting bugs. lol. We were trying to get the webUI fixed and themed for aurora, and bring a better option then connectX for games, that could be updated, and ran faster. Are those things needed no, but personally, I like the idea of netISO, even if it is for ripping iso images to the hdd, since you can mount it, and then run the game installer script. It would make life so much easier for me, in the sense that I wouldnt have to say go get this app to convert that from god to iso, then get this app to extract the iso, then ftp that to the console. It is put the image in a folder, scan the paths on the server, go to the xbox and mount it, then do it how you would with any disc game, or just play it as is. That is from a help desk capacity though, which is kind of what I do on this site. Dont get me wrong, it is great for playing games as well, but due to what it is, it doesnt add games to coverflow, or any of that, like connectX does, it sees it as if you put a disc in the console. I didnt test it with music isos, or dvd iso's, but the ISO loader on the server could probably do that easily with minimal code changes as well, if any at all. Should totally bring that up to Ro, cant believe that I just thought of that. lol.

That is all part of LinkV2, which is still in early development, so it hasnt even been added. What was seen in that teaser thread is some stuff that was being tested privately, The trainer stuff is not in the plugin yet either. So, while the test code exists, it is in a seperate project currently, that will later be merged into this version of Nova. The plugin is one of the most tricky things in Aurora, as it runs in a seperate memory space, and while those things may make it in, it is tricky because you can only access like 8MB of memory that is put aside by the kernel for the hud. The plugin then overwrites the memory space. This means that while we will try to add all of those features, and keep what is already there, it will take some very lean code, and even then, might not be possible to include everything, and keep it stable, and/or fast. we dont know until we write it, and test it, and optimize the shit out of it. And even after all of that, it might still not be enough to get everything that was teased in the plugin. This is a bit more complicated then writing Aurora, in the sense that we can take advantage of the game space memory with Aurora, as it is essentially a game as far as the xbox is concerned. The HUD on the other hand is a very clever hack, as microsoft never intended any application to be able to take advantage of the hud memory space. The only time that memory space is taken advantage of on a retail console is when playing original xbox games, as they needed every bit of memory they could get to pull that off due to achetecture changes, and even then, some original xbox games/homebrew dont really play all that well, or at all. So, my guess is, that in order to take advantage of the hud space there is some tricky assembly code that goes into it, as microsoft didnt write functions in the XDK to do that, which makes it way more complicated to write than any other type of app for the xbox. Dont get me wrong, a lot of games and apps take advantage of ASM, just because you can further optimize some things, if you know what you are doing, than the compiler can. Long story short expect an aurora themed version of the freestyle plugin we have been using for 5 years now, rebranded as nova, or you are going to be severely disappointed. If a greyed out netIso makes it in, then it will be maybe 1% better as far as end user features go, as that will be disabled, and useless, even if you were to enable it, by modifying the theme, it wouldnt be useful without the server for the PC, unless you want to do some network protocol analasys, and try to reverse engineer the server with only the client half of the communication. That would be one hell of a challenge at that, not impossible, but not a beginner project at all either. As I have said already, most of the changes are back end bug fixes, and changes to make it more compatible with the code base of aurora, and to get it ready to add some of these new features you want so much.

ConnectX is similar in a way, but NetISO kicks the shit out of ConnectX as far as loading times go. If using a wired network connection, it is as fast as loading off the hard drive. The main issues I found with it were things like the server "soft crashing" if the network connection dropped, and if you "eject" the iso, and there is a game in the drive it would launch the game in the drive, but if you are using an svod, it would dump you back at NXE. The server crash issue isnt actually a crash, you just cant connect to it again until you restart it, but the program is still running. Also, I only had one Jtag to test with, so it might not handle multiple sockets from different xboxes very well. In that sense alone, I think it would be good to get an initial release out to the community to help track some of these bugs down. As for the new WebUI, even the testers havnt gotten that yet to test, but even when I was running FSD, it was a feature I didnt really use, outside of the smart glass like app that was created for phones that worked with it, and even that I only played with because it was a cool concept, but didnt really do much for me. Then again, this is coming from the guy who wrote the cheat manager for the emulators just to see if I could get game genie codes to work with the retro arch cores for aurora, then never actually used the codes while playing any of the games outside testing the app that generates the files. It was more of an interesting project, then an I want to cheat thing. My niece and nephew like the codes though, so that is good I guess. lol. That being said, that app has gotten alot of downloads since I released it, even though I never actually finished adding support for the rest of the emulators out there, so I am happy it was useful for someone. I kind of figured someone else would have picked up the project, and continued it. There was a lot of interest in the code, which I released, then nothing ever came of it, at least that I know of. lol. Wow.... That last part was way off topic.

that good to know how things are going around, I thought a lot and for me I choose to webui, with its new encryption HTTPS instead of NETiso since I have all my games in my HD and would not need said, conect x is similar and does well work ,. Thank you all and have a Merry Christmas!?

LATEST REBUG FIRMWARE BUILDS D-REX Cobra 7.02 EDITION – INSTALL ON DEX PS3 SYSTEM REBUG 4.65.1 D-REX EDITION – OCT. 29TH 2014 (See below for full D-REX EDITION features) REX Cobra 7.02 EDITION – INSTALL ON CEX PS3 SYSTEM REBUG 4.65.1 REX EDITION – OCT.. 29TH 2014 (See below for full REX EDITION features) FEATURES FOR REBUG REX/D-REX EDITION FEATURE – Dual LV2 Kernels CEX/DEX (Swap your EID0/LV2 kernel using Rebug Toolbox in seconds) FEATURE – ALL Retail functions available in CEX mode (No need to install different firmware) FEATURE – ALL Debug functions available in DEX mode (No need to install different firmware) FEATURE – ProDG Connectivity in DEX mode (Disabling Cobra recommended?) FEATURE – QA Token compatibility FEATURE – OtherOS++ support enabled (Use Rebug Toolbox to Boot OtherOS with different LV1 patches) FEATURE – Package Manager (Replacement for the standard ‘Install Package Files’ option) INCLUDED – Rebug Toolbox 02.02.1 (Install included Rebug Toolbox or higher for full compatibility) PATCHED – LV1: Disable System Integrity Check (Safe to use with mismatched COREOS/SYSCON versions or if PS3 is not QA enabled) PATCHED – LV1: Undocumented function 114 (Allow mapping of protected memory) PATCHED – LV1: Skip all ACL Checks (Needed to allow booting of OtherOS) PATCHED – LV1: Peek and Poke support (Unused LV1 call 182 and 183) PATCHED - LV2: Peek and Poke support (LV2 Syscall 6 and 7) PATCHED - LV2: Peek and Poke support for LV1 (LV2 Syscall 8 and 9) PATCHED - LV2: LV1 CALL System call (LV2 Syscall 10) PATCHED - VSH: Allow Unsigned act.dat and *.rif files PATCHED - VSH: Disable Unlinking/Deleting of act.dat FUN FEATURE – Fake Save Data Owner (Use Game Saves from ANY Owner) FUN FEATURE – Lock/Unlock Trophies FUN FEATURE – Cinavia protection fully disabled (Supports optical media/bd iso, AACS must be decrypted) FEATURE – QA Token compatibility FEATURE – OtherOS++ support enabled (Use Rebug Toolbox to Boot OtherOS with different LV1 patches) FEATURE – Package Manager (Replacement for the standard ‘Install Package Files’ option) FEATURE – Cobra 7.02 (Updated Cobra to 7.02) FEATURE – 1.30.33 MOD (Full Webman intergration supports both CEX/DEX 4.65) PATCHED – LV1: Disable System Integrity Check (Safe to use with mismatched COREOS/SYSCON versions or if PS3 is not QA enabled) PATCHED – LV1: Undocumented function 114 (Allow mapping of protected memory) PATCHED – LV1: Skip all ACL Checks (Needed to allow booting of OtherOS) PATCHED – LV1: Peek and Poke support (Unused LV1 call 182 and 183) PATCHED - LV2: Peek and Poke support (LV2 Syscall 6 and 7) PATCHED - LV2: Peek and Poke support for LV1 (LV2 Syscall 8 and 9) PATCHED - LV2: LV1 CALL System call (LV2 Syscall 10) PATCHED - VSH: Allow Unsigned act.dat and *.rif files PATCHED - VSH: Disable Unlinking/Deleting of act.dat PACKAGE MANAGER Package Manager is a replacement for the standard Install Package Files option under Game in the XMB. It allows for the install and deletion of .pkg files from dev_hdd0/packages, dev_usb/packages and the standard Install Package Files locations. In addition to this, your downloaded PSN content ‘bubbles’ will appear under this option instead of cluttering your Game menu with uninstalled content. USAGE: Navigate to Game in your XMB and click on Package Manager (It will be where Install Package Files usually is). You will find three options. PlayStation®Network Content Manage your downloaded PlayStation®Network Content. Install Package Files INSTALL package files from Storage Devices and your PS3. PS3 Hard Disk (dev_hdd0/packages) Package Folder (dev_usb/packages) Standard Package Location (Standard Install Package Files locations) NOTE: The Install All Packages is only available by pressing the TRIANGLE button when the Standard Package Location option is highlighted because the PS3 will only install ALL packages from the root of a storage device as of the moment. Delete Package Files DELETE package files from Storage Devices and your PS3. PS3 Hard Disk (dev_hdd0/packages) Package Folder (dev_usb/packages) Standard Package Location (Standard Install Package Files locations) DELETING FILES: 1: Highlight the file you would like to delete and press TRIANGLE. The sidebar should appear. 2: Press CROSS on either Unlink or Unlink(Folder) (Both do the same thing for now). REBUG TOOLBOX Rebug Toolbox is application designed to complete the full function of REBUG REX EDITION firmwares. Besides from performing the CEX/DEX EID0 and LV2 Kernel Swapping it is also an FTP server and is packed with a bunch of other useful tools. INSTALL: 1: In the PS3 XMB go to Game menu 2: Select Package Manager 3: Select Install Package Files 4: Select PS3 Hard Disk 5: Select REBUG-TOOLBOX-02.xx.xx.pkg Cobra 7.02 Auto-Boot: Plugin System (sprx) ISO Suppport: PS1/PS2/PS3/PSP/DVD/BluRay Network Support: PS1/PS3/DVD/BluRay PS3 games with files > 4GB on external USB HDD (FAT32) Blu Ray Movie region free functionality[/size] NTFS HDD Support[/size] PS2 ISO Support for BC (HW) / non-BC (SW) Consoles[/size] Syscall 11 – Toolbox CEX/DEX Support *PS2 Support on Internal HDD ONLY: dev_hdd0/PS2ISO/ General Cobra Plugin Information Support for plugins at boot time:The number of vsh plugins has been increased from 1 to 7 slots. Slot 0 is reserved for use for iso plugins (netiso.sprx and rawseciso.sprx). Slots 1-6 are for boot plugins. Plugins are loaded in the following way: text file: /dev_hdd0/boot_plugins.txt shall contain a plugin path per line. How to Install a Plugin: Copy plugin_name.sprx to you internal ps3 hdd (ex: /dev_hdd0/). Create or Edit boot_plugins.txt in the root of the hdd (/dev_hd00/boot_plugins.txt) and add a line for the new plugin. Assuming you placed the sprx also in the root of the disk, add: /dev_hdd0/plugin_name.sprx). Add a new line for each plugin. Then Reboot PS3 Console! In the event of a bad plugin that crashing the system and causes a pseudo-brick A Safety System has been designed: Enter PS3 Recovery Mode and select the option “Rebuild database“. The recovery process, emer_init.self, will mount dev_hdd0 for a short moment, Cobra core will detect that and it will delete boot_plugins.txt. Cobra core won’t load vsh plugins when there is not VSH: like for example, in recovery and update modes. Cobra 7.02 PS2 Features (4.65 Cobra) PlayStation 2 on NON-BC Consoles Software (SW) Emulation:Support for PS2 ISOs in non BC consoles was removed in Cobra 4.30 (usb), due tops2_softemu missing. It has been re-enabled now by hacking of ps2_netemu. You can use it in the same way as before, just load an ISO and launch from disc icon, Cobra core takes care of rest. No need for encrypted isos, isos patched with limg sectors, etc. Just your normal PS2 isos dumped from discs. However, there is no support for optical discs in ps2_netemu.Note: Don’t forget to set the memory cards in XMB, in the old memmory card utility for PS/PS2, as ps2_netemu won’t let you assign them in game. PlayStation 2 on BC Consoles Hardware (HW) Emulation: PS3 Models: CECHC, CECHE, CECHA and CECHB Backwards Compatible (BC) Consoles will still use their respetive emulators(ps2_emu, ps2_gxemu), which have much better compatibility and also support optical discs, original or backup. IMPORTANT INFORMATION QA SUPPORT QA is supported in all REBUG FIRMWARE. It is good practice to enable QA for a smoother experience on any CFW not just REBUG. OTHEROS++ SUPPORT OtherOS++ is supported by all REBUG REX EDITIONS and will detect your existing OtherOS HDD partition. However none of the REBUG REX EDITIONS have emer_init.self patched (create smaller GameOS partition). We are working on a solution to this from GameOS. In the meantime if you do want to create an OtherOS partition you have two options: 1: Use a 3.55 firmware that already has emer_init.self patched to the size you want. 2: Patch REBUG 3.55.x REX EDITION in PS3MFW Builder If you choose option 2 we highly recommend that you ONLY patch emer_init.self. Also the resulting PUP will only be able to be installed on 3.55 firmware as the spkg_hdr will be mismatched. REBUG 4.21.x AND HIGHER INSTALL: From XMB install REBUG 4.21.x AND HIGHER over any 3.55 OFW/CFW/MFW or the same or lower firmware version CFW with spkg sig check patched or any firmware version CFW with spkg sig check patched and QA enabled. UNINSTALL: From XMB REBUG 4.21.x AND HIGHER can be uninstalled with the same or higher firmware version OFW/CFW/MFW or with REBUG 3.55.x REX EDITION on a QA enabled PS3 or with the ‘999’ DOWNGRADER if QA was NOT enabled. Known Bug(s) PS2 Pad Sync – As of 4.50 Enjoy ~Codename: REBUG Team. Codename: REBUG New Team Members: ** Joonie ** ** Habib ** - Without them this version of Rebug would never exist. These are some very talented developers so please show them the same respect you have shown us over the years. Codename: REBUG would like to thank: graf_chokolo (as always) and The Three Musketeers for the work they have done in the past and (hopefully) future. Big thanks to: naehrwert - For scetool (its elf compression played a big part in 4.21.1) deank - Helping us get the Rebug Toolbox up and running, and Webman aldostools m@tsumot0, haxxxen – Webman MOD 1.30.33 Our BIGGEST thanks: flatz - Helping with the OtherOS testing and well… You know what you did.. 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