------------------------------------------ BIOS CHECKER v5.0 - by CrackJack Italy ------------------------------------------ NOTES ON RELEASE 5.0 - BiosChecker ported and compiled under Vstudio.NET 2003 - Some internal bug fixes - Released with bioses.ini version 01102004 whith some new bioses recognition: - SmartXX 3321 - SmartXX 3325 - SmartXX 3327 - Xecuter3 1777 - Xecuter3 1835 - Xecuter3 1859 - Xecuter3 1879 - Xecuter3 1884 - Xecuter3 1892 - Yoshhihiro 1MB Debug Multi2004 - Yoshhihiro 256k Debug Multi2004 (BFM) - Yoshihiro Debug 1.6 1MB Beta - iND-BiOS 5001 - iND-BiOS 5001 VGA - iND-BiOS 5001 VGA (BFM) - iND-BiOS 5002 - iND-BiOS 5002 (BFM) - iND-BiOS 5003 - iND-BiOS 5003 (BFM) Please report me problems about bioses recognition or bugs (especially regarding X3 bios recognition!) mailing me at crjackita@hotmail.com Greetings from Italy to all!! NOTES ON RELEASE 4.0Beta MAJOR UPGRADE - BiosChecker ad BiosScan now uses an external bios list contained in file BIOSES.INI. Everybody can now add bioses without problems. For notes about bios update read notes contained at the top of bioses.ini file. - Bioses checksums are now MD5 STANDARD. - BiosScan was totally rewritten and now can do 2 basic things: 1) Check a bios file to show you what kind of bios or multibios contains ("Check Selected Bios" button) 2) Calculate and add new Bios MD5 Hashes in file BIOSES.INI ("Update MD5 hashes in bioses.ini" button) - Added recognition of Xecuter2 4980 and 4981 REMEMBER TO COPY "BIOSES.INI" in BiosChecker and BiosScan directory!!! This release of BiosChecker and BiosScan is a major BETA release, so progz may be BUGGY. Please, post me feedback email to know if there are problems. Greetings from Italy! NOTES ON RELEASE 3.2 Major upgrade....back to the roots :-) - Removed "InMemory Bios Recognition" that causes bios recognition problems using dashboards different than Evox 3752 Hope to solve that problem soon....but real life problems are a lot and time to spend on xbox coding is few...... Added recognition of some new bioses: - X-Ecuter2 4979.06 - X-Ecuter2 4979.67 - Cromwell-2.27 - Cromwell-2.27b Added recognition of some Xbox TSOPS: - AMD Am29F040B - Winbond W49F002U - MACRONIX MX29F022NTPC - Hynix HY29F002 Remember that BiosChecker CANNOT recognize XBTOOLS modded bioses, original bioses only!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTES ON RELEASE 3.1 Minor upgrade, added some new bioses: - Cromwell 2.21dev - Cromwell 2.24a - Cromwell 2.24c - Cromwell 2.26 - DominionX 090x(F) - DominionX 090x(G) - Evox M7 - Evox M7 (EjectFix) - X-Ecuter2 4978 (192.168.0.9) - X-Ecuter2 4978.03 (BFM) - X-Ecuter2 4978 - X-Ecuter2 4978 (FixLauncher 1.0.1) - X-Ecuter2 4978 (FixLauncher NOGO) - X-Ecuter2 4978 (BugFix) - X-Ecuter2 4978.02 - X-Ecuter2 4978.03 NOTES ON RELEASE 3.01beta Minor update - Added recognition of Chameleon modchip and all other mods based on AMD 29LV800B flashroms - Fixed Xecuter 2 modchip recognition (in old releases identified as tsop because flashrom is the same 29F080B!!) NOTES ON RELEASE 3.0beta Major update: - Added BIOS recognition in memory (can recognize some colour bios variants too) - We are working on Software Exploit Mods recognition. Rudimentary algo added...hope to improve it soon. Added recognition of some new and old bioses: - 5558 Debug (BFM) - Xecuter2 4977 (BFM) - Original Debug - Original 5101 - Original 4132 - Original 4817 - OzXBios 2.12 Please be patient, this is a beta, probably buggy release! Thanks to all xbox scene and see you soon ;-) NOTES ON RELEASE 2.10 Minor upgrade, added some new bioses: - 5558 Debug - Chameleon Cromwell 1.8 - OzXBios 1.26a - X-Ecuter2 4977 - X-Ecuter FlashBios NOTES ON RELEASE 2.09 This is a minor upgrade, added some new bioses and recognition of one new TSOP fitted in 1.2 xbox3s Added recognition of bioses: - X-Ecuter2 4975 - X-Ecuter2 4976 (Rev.02) - X-Ecuter2 4976 Added recognition of new xbox TSOP: - ST M29F002BT70N1 (xbox 1.2) NOTES ON RELEASE 2.08 - From this release BiosChecker tell you what TYPE OF CHIP contains the bios (TSOP reflashed, LPC, Homebrew eprom/flashrom). Useful if you buy a new XBOX and want to know if the vendor has installed the chip that you want ;-) - Added recognition of TeamAssembly Dual Debug BIOS Please mail me to report problems in bios chip detection! Greetings from Italy to all XBOX scene. NOTES ON RELEASE 2.07 Added recognition of: - X-Ecuter II 4974 - EvoX D6 (EjectFix) - EvoX D6 - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrGreyblack) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrGreyblackNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrNoaniPurple) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrOrange) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrOrange2) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrOrange2Noani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrOrangeNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrPurple) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrRedblue) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrRedblueNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrWhite) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrWhiteNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrPurpleorange) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrPurpleorange-F) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrPurpleorangeNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrWhitered) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrWhiteredNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrBlue) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrNoaniBlue) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrNoaniRed) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(ErrRed) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973(XmasErrNoani) NOTES ON RELEASE 2.06 Added recognition of: - EvoX2.6 (EjectFixXecuter) - EvoX2.6 (Xecuter) - EvoX3.6 (EjectFixXecuter) - EvoX3.6 (Xecuter) - EvoX2.5 (E-Boot) - EvoX2.5 (F-Boot) - EvoX2.6 (E-Boot) - EvoX2.6 (F-Boot) - EvoX2.6V1 (Err) - EvoX2.6V1 (ErrBlue) - EvoX2.6V1 (ErrNoani) - EvoX2.6V1 (ErrNoaniRed) - EvoX2.6V1 (ErrRed) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (E-Boot) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (Err) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (ErrBlue) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (ErrBlueNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (ErrRedBlue) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (ErrEedBlueNoani) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (F-Boot) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (NoaniBlueE-Boot) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (NoaniBlueF-Boot) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (NoaniE-Boot) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (NoaniF-Boot) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (NoaniBlueExenc) - X-Ecuter IIv1 (Exenc) - X-Ecuter IIv1 4973 - X-Ecuter IIv1.1 4973 NOTES ON RELEASE 2.05: Another minor upgrade....many new bioses in last days!!!! Added recognition of: - X-Ecuter II 4972 Final (Xbox 1.1 - 256KB release) - X-Ecuter II 4972 Final (1.0 NoaniBlueErr) NOTES ON RELEASE 2.04: This is a minor upgrade....added recognition of: - X-Ecuter II 4972 Final (Xbox 1.0) - X-Ecuter II 4972 Final (Xbox 1.1) Thanks to TEAM X-ECUTER for having immediately sent us the new bioses ;-) Great job GuyX NOTES ON RELEASE 2.03: Added recognition of: - EvoX2.4 (Xecuter enc) - EvoX2.5 (ColErrEvoxXecuter) - EvoX2.5 (ColErrYboxXecuter) - EvoX2.5 (ErrNoaniNologoEvoxXecuter) - EvoX2.5 (ErrNoaniNologoYboxXecuter) - EvoX2.5 (XecuterEnc) - EvoX2.6 (EjectFix 1.0) - EvoX2.6 (V1.0) - EvoX3.6 (EjectFix 1.1) - EvoX3.6 (V1.1) - X-Ecuter 2 (V1.1) - X-Ecuter 2 (V1) - X-Ecuter 2 (V1 Noani) - X-Ecuter 2 (V NoaniBlue) Special thanks to team X-Ecuter that with his job makes possible the impossible! Thanks also to all those that help me to continue the development of BiosChecker with Bug reports, new MagicNumbers and suggestions! Greetings from Italy to all xbox-scene ;-) NOTES ON RELEASE 2.02: - Added recognition of Complex 4627 (1.03 Debug) - Added recognition of Complex 4627 (1.03 Retail) - Added recognition of EvoX2.4 ColorMod blue - Added recognition of EvoX2.5 ColorMod blue - Changed IRC server and channel....see the end of this txt ;-) NOTES ON RELEASE 2.01: This is a major release because we have modified the bios detection engines to detect SmallBioses and MULTIBIOS images too!!! The new engine is implemented in BiosCHECKER(xbox) and in BiosSCAN(win32). Now the updates list ;-) - Implemented the 256 KB and 512 KB BIOS size detection (thanks to GeminiServer for suggestions and MagicNumbers!!) so we can detect Homebrew ModZ without problems...or I hope so ;-). - Implemented MULTIBIOS detection (thanks to GeminiServer!!) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ColorErr) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ColorErrEvox) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ColorErrNoani) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ColErrNoaniEvox) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ColErrNoaniYbox) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ColorErrYbox) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ErrNoaniNologo) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ErrNoaniNologoEvox) - Added recognition of EvolutionX 2.5 (ErrNoaniNologoYbox) - Added recognition of Evox 2.4 BIOS - Added recognition of EvoX2.4 (NoAni) - Added recognition of EvoX2.4 (ErrNoAni) - Added recognition of EvoX2.4 (ErrNoAniNoLogo) - Added recognition of EvoX2.4 (ErrNoAniNoLogoY) - Added recognition of EvoX2.4 (ErrNoAniY - Added recognition of EvoX2.4 (ErrYbox) NOTES ON RELEASE 1.44: - Added recognition of Messiah-X bios - Improved recognition of Extender 1.1 bios and Enigmah-X bios - Renamed X-Ecutor Modchip bios to "X-Ecutor" (in the preceding versions named "X-Ecutor (dump)") to avoid misunderstandings. Thanks to Charles Lee, PRO CHIPS X,Pierre Groulx, Suey Johnson, Melih, Sebasse, Santino Fuentes and all other people that have mailed me MagicNumbers, bugs and suggestions!! To improve bioschecker I need you!!! Have you found an unknown bios? Please, mail me the MagicNumber so I can upgrade the software and improve bios detection. Have you created a new Bios Variant?? Mail me so I can add it to all others! I'm working on definit...
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