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As the title says I get a black screen saying no signal after I put in a burned pal copy of crash wrath of cortex on my softmoded original Xbox NTSC all my other pal and NTSC burned games work fine but this one just cuts the screen off any ideas?
Things I've tried
Force pal in unleashed x settings
Force pal on TV set
I've had similar problems running the odd NTSC game on a PAL system. I used Enigmah Video Mode Switcher for the problematic games.
http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...tcher-v2-(APP)
Thank you, this worked for Crash, however now I have another game that wont work, just a black screen this time its not changing to no signal the game is Spyro a heroes tail. I've tried all modes still black screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jackhammer
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Originally Posted by Akarawx
Is it another PAL game?
Try clearing the cache, I've had that work when I couldn't get games like Conkers to work.
No dice, sigh it didn't work from hdd either I'll assume bad rip? I got it from here though and the comments didn't mention it.
Black screens can be caused by
Video mode (covered) though you may need to change it back again
Cache (covered)
HDD installed game compat (Not related)
Too many games ran on a single Xbox system causing the local storage to hit it's max (this is not a space issue but a folder/file count limit) this will stop any new game or other software to the system to go to a black screen and stay there on boot
It could also be an issue with unleashed x itself, I can't be sure about that as I personally dropped that in favor of XBMC that has a few extra game fixes and plenty of nice little video mode options on a per game basis (not sure if Unleash used the video mode per game setup or not) Enigmah Video Mode Switcher is still recommended anyway though but I use a PAL xbox that I patched to NTSC and kept it that way but most of the games I have are NTSC even though the machine is PAL a few games I have had to set in PAL modes but those worked via the dashs mod without reverting to PAL display
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Originally Posted by Akarawx
Have you deleted all the cache files?
Delete your cache files. The following directories can be emptied (delete all the files inside, not the directories themselves).
E:\CACHE
X:\
Y:\
Z:\
If that doesn't work, maybe Zorlon will see this thread and have some ideas. He is much more knowledgable than me on this subject.
Did you switch the Video Mode back to NTSC with Enigma?
I cleared the cache files and made sure every drive was empty besides the default folders in them, maybe he'll have another idea. I'll just set the game aside for now thank you guys.
Yes, I've tried both pal and ntsc settings and also tried them all in unleashed x.
lol I already posted
Hmm it may be a bad image/copy after all let me just check my notes and see if I ever needed to fix that game for anything
P.S. are you using component cables or anything? i.e. using 480P modes
Sorry read that wrong, no I'm using stock rca cables
I had no notes on issues with the game anyway it should just work (my tests are all HDD tests so no CD/DVD tests done at the time)
on standard rca there would of been no video issues anyway even on a 1.6 xbox maybe if you had still been in PAL video mode or forced PAL/PAL60 mode but not with Enigma setting your machine back to NTSC mode running it in normal video mode/NTSC mode
Attachment 49872
This is what Qwix has for the iso
Also, I've tried playing from hdd I get the same black screen, Reading the comments from http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...l-%28NTSC-U%29 I can't tell if anyone else got it working or not (I know some didn't even know how to extract the files)
Hmm my copy is actually smaller in size 872.6 MB in qwix
EDIT I'm extracting it via Qwix then I will make a sfv file you can use to scan your copy, just let me know what shows as different then you can try the odd file from my copy and see if that fixes anything for you
P.S. with it being a Mix means it should support both PAL and NTSC modes
Note the sfv attached is from a scene release that may have something ripped out of it
everything checked out except different CRC error on default.xbe
try my copy then :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Akarawx
I'm off to bed now, so good luck :)
I've dloaded the copy from here: http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...-Tail-(NTSC-U)
I've extracted and FTP'd to my Xbox and it worked first time.
PAL softmod Xbox (Enigmah switched to NTSC) Using XBMC dash, tried UleashX as an app, still works.
Tried switching to PAL and still works.
Used FlashFXP to transfer the folder to Xbox.
Hmm still sounds like a cache issue, hopefully not the limit issue as nothing else new would work...
It worked with your xbe Thank you, I wonder why it didn't like it for me? .-.
Btw is there a fix for the limit issue? when i got this xbox it had over 200 different game saves on it...
The Xfat limit is 240
I do not remember how to fix that once it is reached though, that was why I hoped it would not be that, I'm sure I ended up formatting when that happened to me
I would try and prevent it by not letting get that far (I don't have my Xbox to hand at the moment Jackhammer may be able to tell you though) there are two location extra data is created one is just for saves the other is for data that is created when you first run the game
Oh okay, I think I know the locations you're talking about. I'm thinking of doing a full reformat when I upgrade to a 2tb drive later in the month, so I hope I don't hit that wall before then lol. Thank you for all the help, both of you.
Should of said but never delete all the saves some parts of that are used if you are using a softmod
Also when it comes to upgrading take into account that it takes an age to this to start with so it's a good idea to have minimal files on the HDD before updating to a new one
Not sure it matters as much for Mod Chip users though
Also not all HDD's work with the xbox especially softmod users as not all HDD's are lockable
http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?87071 = XBOX FATX limitations and notes it's worth a read
http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list lists HDD drives that work and some that don't but it tells you
I'm sure you must know this but the xbox uses IDE ports so unless you get a SATA/IDE converter you are not going to be able to use a 2TB drive in it, the biggest IDE drive is apx 750GB I think it was, as it happens that is what I use
Yeah I was going to get a ide bridge and use a seagate drive there only seems to be a few supported 2tb drives unfortunately
It might seem over kill anyway, but totally up to you
you can only format the max of a 1TB partition anyway and most dashboards that I remember only support a single games folder on a single partition
though I guess you could have video's or something on another large partition
Well I have been making my own linux distro for the Xbox for awhile now it's just a modified version of damn small Linux to use as a backup server for my other consoles on my network so 1tb would probably be ext4 format anyway lol
Upgrading HDD for modchip users is very simple, at least for the handful of different chips I've come across. No need for locked drives so you can pretty much use whatever you want.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorlon
I have never had any problem trying to use any different brand/model HDD but I've always used IDE drives (up to about 320GB iirc, but that's just the max size I've had in my possession).
I have read that quite a few people have had trouble trying to get 2TB drives working, but it is possible. I should really look into that myself at some stage.
Think I was wrong about a single folder for games at least for XBMC that I'm sure you can add sources to it from other folders, but XBMC is one of the more advanced dashboards
I might install it if I can have multiable dashes
I may use XBMC that has plenty of game fixes of it's own to start with and for me is the best dash out but I also use Avalaunch dash to get my FTP boosts when I copy games over
I use Avalaunch though as an app via XBMC to make it just too easy to swap to it and as it happens avalaunch has it own built in shortcut to go back to XBMC but even if a Dash does not have a shortcut you can just make one so yes it is possible to swap between dashboards
Thank you for your help with everything, if you wish you can close this thread.