If you need to use DummyCD because you are using a CD-R / CD-RW, you MUST use the new version 1.1 as the 1.0 version didn't work at all. You can grab this here:
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DJB Administrator
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Welcome to Xbox-Hq’s latest piece of work, the Auto-Installer Deluxe v1.0.
This has been developed on and off since September 2004, just after the
Xbox-Hq EvoX Auto-Installer v1.3 Final was released.
It has evolved from being just an EvolutionX / Microsoft Dashboard installer with a few Applications, into a Multi-Dashboard installer with many Applications and Emulators. In other words, there’s no need for separate Emulator and Application Auto-Installers now, as its all-in-one now.
What you have here is also the most up-to-date Installer, including the latest versions of software possible, and offcourse the latest BIOS ROMs (Evox M8+).
Thanks must go to all the Xbox-Hq members, without your support I wouldn’t have bothered to push this latest version to the limits it has reached. I have tried to incorporate most of the suggestions and ideas I have gathered over the months via our forums, but alas some of them just weren’t practical once implemented into the package. I hope that you all still find this useful enough to meet most (if not all) of your needs.
Big thanks must go Forahobby, Realmccloy, and Sjohn for their efforts contributing to this package, without your help I’d probably release yet another non-fully tested installer.
Because of their help we’ve have been able to test on various versions of Xboxes, from v1.0 up to v1.6, so hopefully there shouldn’t be any problems this time around.
Now, for some actual details about this User Manual.
This Manual will explain how to do the following things:
• Burn the ISO image on to appropriate media for your Xbox DVD Drive.
• Format a New Hard Drive.
• Prepare a Retail / New Hard Drive with needed folders.
• Install the Microsoft Dashboard and another dashboard of your choice.
• Install Applications needed to play Media and rip from DVDs.
• Install Emulators and how to insert your favourite ROM files before you burn the ISO.
• How to set up a BFM BIOS on your Xbox (useful for Debug reasons and when you want to use a more recent BIOS without re-flashing your chip).
• How to set up XSelect so you can boot a program of your choice when
your Xbox boots.
The installer will also install lTools (which is game save exploits used for softmodding) to your Hard Drive, but as of yet we haven’t been able to create documentation on preparing a new HDD in an existing modded Xbox and then using it in a non-modded Xbox. This will be covered more in a later version.
I hope you all enjoy our work…
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Chapter 2: Features
Contents of the Auto-Installer
This installer boasts to have more installable features than any other installer. Here is a list of what’s included in the package.
BIOS
Comes in 256k, 512k, and 1mb flavours (except for X3 which is only 1mb, and the MS BIOSes which are set sizes).
Evox M8+
Evox M8+ 137 GB+
Evox M8+ Stealth
Evox M8+ Stealth 137 GB+
Evox M8+ 1.6
Evox M8+ 1.6 137 GB+
Evox M8+ 1.6 Stealth
Evox M8+ 1.6 Stealth 137 GB+
iND 5003.06
iND 5003.06 Stealth
iND 5003.67
iND 5003.67 Stealth
MS BIOS 3944
MS BIOS 4034
MS BIOS 4132
MS BIOS 4627
MS BIOS 4817
MS BIOS 5101
MS BIOS 5530
MS BIOS 5713
MS BIOS 5838
Xecuter2 4981.06
Xecuter2 4981.06 EjectFix
Xecuter2 4981.06 Stealth
Xecuter2 4981.06 Stealth + Ejectfix
Xecuter2 4981.67
Xecuter2 4981.67 EjectFix
Xecuter2 4981.67 Stealth
Xecuter2 4981.67 Stealth + Ejectfix
Xecuter2 4983.06
Xecuter2 4986.67
Xecuter3 1957
Xecuter3 1957 v1.6
[i/]Install the non-MS dashboards to either C, E, F, or G.
The config files have been set up to search these setups:
E Drive - E+F Drive - E+F+G Drive[/i]
Microsoft Dashboard v5960 Revision 185EAD00
AvaLaunch 0.49.2
EvolutionX 1.8.3921
EvolutionX 1.8.3935
Media X Menu 0.9n6
UnleashX 0.37.1205A Build 534
Xbox Media Center 2004-12-08
Applications
Install to E, F, or G either as a package or individually.
Available Tools launchable through the Auto-Installer
BIOS Checker
ConfigMagic Final v1.6
Xbpartitioner
Features of the Auto-Installer
Here is a list of features that the auto-installer covers:
• Boots on a modded or soft-modded Xbox. Modchip users must be using a proper BIOS (NOT Cromwell) and Softmod users must have already installed their game save exploit before attempting to launch this.
• Install Dashboards, Applications, and Emulators anywhere on your Xbox.
• File Manager built into the installer, for easy deleting / copying.
• Boot either the Microsoft Dashboard, or any Dashboard stored on C, E, F, or G Drive directly from the installer.
• Format Drives (now includes formatting cache drives as an option, it will even detect a new hard drive on first use and Format it automatically).
• Prepare Drives (each drive is done separately now, and includes DVD-X as part of the preparation).
• Flash BIOS / (Un) Lock Hard Drive via Evox setup on the Installer CD.
• Install Ltools (Softmod tools) to a HDD, ready to export to a memory card.
• Install UXE to your HDD.
• Use XSelect to boot various Dashboards and Applications.
• Use PBL Metoo Edition to boot a BFM BIOS (great for if you have an old BIOS on a modchip and you don’t want to reflash). This comes in a single and dual mode, the dual mode using a Debug BIOS.
PLEASE NOTE: Only the BIOS is supplied as part of the Debug setup, so it is up to you to grab the XDK and put the correct files on your Xbox.
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Chapter 3: Burning and Preparing the ISO
Burning the ISO
I’d suggest using DVD Decrypter as the burning program, mainly for the fact that it will allow you to verify the DVD once it’s recorded. Alas, if you don’t have a DVD Writer you can just use Nero to burn it to a CD-RW.
A wise move would also be not to burn the DVD / CD at the fastest possible speed, for DVD’s I recommend 2x or lower. If you are using a CD, about 24x should be sufficient. A small tip with using a CD-RW: If the CD-RW has been previously used, erase the CD completely using a Full Erase (not a Quick one).
It’s been well documented that Xbox DVD Drives will only play certain types of media, so in order to help you out I managed to find a nice little table showing what’s compatible with what drive (check Appendix B in the PDF Manual for more information).
If you need to determine which kind of Drive you have, take a look at the pictures in Appendix C, and that might be able to help you out.
Using DummyCD
This is a little PC/DOS program I quickly threw together.
When I built the ISO I put a 1 gigabyte dummy file in the ISO, this is so when it’s burned to DVD it should be able to be read easier. This program replaces the 1 gigabyte dummy file with a more appropriate 100 megabyte file, which will allow it to be burned to a CD-R / CD-RW.
The process is quite simple; just make a copy of the ISO into the folder which contains the files for the DummyCD program. Then, just click on Start.bat (located in the DummyCD folder) and it will do the rest. Once it’s finished it will create a file called aid10new.iso, which is the resized ISO.
Using Recreate
This is another little PC/DOS program I made.
It will extract the ISO to a folder called temp (which is stored in the same folder as the program), then gives the user a pause break (opting you to press a key to continue). This gives you the opportunity to manipulate the files in any way you see fit, before recreating the ISO. Just follow the on-screen prompts and you should be fine. Just like DummyCD it will create a file called aid10new.iso with all the additions. To execute this program, just click on the Start.bat program found in the Recreate folder.
In Appendix E (in the PDF Manual) I’ve explained all the different locations of the files, so you can now easily change things like adding your own personal IP settings, adding skins, or even adding ROMs into the Emulators.
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Chapter 5: Install Guide for a Retail HDD
This little walkthrough will get you up to the point where your Hard Drive is ready to store games / data, plus 2 dashboards.
The Retail Xbox HDD is already formatted, and has the Microsoft Dashboard already installed, so unless you want to do a total rebuild of the Hard Drive, it is unnecessary to format the whole drive.
NOTE: Make sure you back up your E Drive which contains all your game saves; otherwise you will not be able to recover them after a format.
Unlocking your HDD
There’s two ways this can be done, either through the Flash Bios / (Un) Lock Hard Drive section of the Auto-Installer (which is very quick and efficient), or there is the program called ConfigMagic (which seems to be more popular).
When using the option from the Auto-Installer (which launches the Flash Bios / (Un) Lock HDD section) all you have to do is scroll down to the bottom of the new menu that appears (you’ll notice that it’s a completely different format from the rest of the Installer) and select Unlock HDD. The program will ask for confirmation, and upon confirmation it will unlock your Hard Drive.
When using ConfigMagic, wait for the program to start and show you all the information about your Xbox (the DVD and Hard Drive). It will say whether or not your Hard Drive is locked or unlocked. To change this, press the START button, and a menu will appear on the left-hand side of the screen. Then you’ll be given the option to unlock your Hard Drive. After this is done, reset your Xbox to continue with the rest of the installation.
Formatting your HDD
Select the Format / Prepare HDD menu and you’ll see this screen:
If you want to completely clean your Hard Drive, select the Format Retail HDD option, otherwise the other options available are Format C, E, and your Cache Drives.
Drives F and G are not available on a Retail Drive.
Preparing the needed folders for your HDD
Preparing the HDD will copy blank folders on your desired drive. This is a list of the folders that it will produce
Apps
Emulators
Games
GamesHomeBrew
Music
Videos
As well as this, it will also copy DVD-X to your Apps folder.
To do this, simply select the Format / Prepare HDD Option from the main menu. The options to prepare the drive are at the bottom of this menu:
The section that I have highlighted in green shows where you can select to prepare your drive. Of course since it’s only a Retail HDD we can only prepare E Drive on this one.
Installing the MS Dashboard on your HDD
This is as simple as selecting Install Microsoft Dashboard on the main menu.
If you wish to use Region-Free patch, it’s available in the Tools section. There’s also an option to remove the patch, which basically just copies over the unpatched file again.
Locking your HDD
There’s two ways this can be done (just like with unlocking your Hard Drive), either through the Flash Bios / (Un) Lock Hard Drive section of the Auto-Installer (which is very quick and efficient), or there is the program called ConfigMagic (which seems to be more popular).
When using the option from the Auto-Installer (which launches the Flash Bios / (Un) Lock HDD section) all you have to do is scroll down to the bottom of the new menu that appears (you’ll notice that it’s a completely different format from the rest of the Installer) and select Lock HDD. The program will ask for confirmation, and upon confirmation it will lock your Hard Drive.
When using ConfigMagic, wait for the program to start and show you all the information about your Xbox (the DVD and Hard Drive). It will say whether or not your Hard Drive is locked or unlocked. To change this, press the START button, and a menu will appear on the left-hand side of the screen. Then you’ll be given the option to lock your Hard Drive. After this is done, reset your Xbox to continue with the rest of the installation.
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:24 am Post subject:
Chapter 6: Install Guide for a Large HDD
This little walkthrough will get you up to the point where your Hard Drive is ready to store games / data, plus 2 dashboards.
Once a brand new Hard Drive is detected by the Auto-Installer, it will automatically format it for you, so there is no need to format drives unless you want to start fresh with your Xbox.
NOTE: Make sure you back up ALL of your Drives which contains all your game saves; otherwise you will not be able to recover them after a format.
Unlocking your HDD
There’s two ways this can be done, either through the Flash Bios / (Un) Lock Hard Drive section of the Auto-Installer (which is very quick and efficient), or there is the program called ConfigMagic (which seems to be more popular).
When using the option from the Auto-Installer (which launches the Flash Bios / (Un) Lock HDD section) all you have to do is scroll down to the bottom of the new menu that appears (you’ll notice that it’s a completely different format from the rest of the Installer) and select Unlock HDD. The program will ask for confirmation, and upon confirmation it will unlock your Hard Drive.
When using ConfigMagic, wait for the program to start and show you all the information about your Xbox (the DVD and Hard Drive). It will say whether or not your Hard Drive is locked or unlocked. To change this, press the START button, and a menu will appear on the left-hand side of the screen. Then you’ll be given the option to unlock your Hard Drive. After this is done, reset your Xbox to continue with the rest of the installation.
Formatting your HDD
Select the Format / Prepare HDD menu and you’ll see this screen:
If you want to completely clean your Hard Drive, select the Format Large HDD option, otherwise the other options available are Format C, E, F, G, and your Cache Drives.
Preparing the needed folders for your HDD
Preparing the HDD will copy blank folders on your desired drive. This is a list of the folders that it will produce
Apps
Emulators
Games
GamesHomeBrew
Music
Videos
As well as this, it will also copy DVD-X to your Apps folder.
To do this, simply select the Format / Prepare HDD Option from the main menu. The options to prepare the drive are at the bottom of this menu:
The section that I have highlighted in green shows where you can select to prepare your drive. With a larger hard drive you should be able to Prepare E, F, and G Drives.
Installing the MS Dashboard on your HDD
This is as simple as selecting Install Microsoft Dashboard on the main menu.
If you wish to use Region-Free patch, it’s available in the Tools section. There’s also an option to remove the patch, which basically just copies over the unpatched file again.
Locking your HDD
There’s two ways this can be done (just like with unlocking your Hard Drive), either through the Flash Bios / (Un) Lock Hard Drive section of the Auto-Installer (which is very quick and efficient), or there is the program called ConfigMagic (which seems to be more popular).
When using the option from the Auto-Installer (which launches the Flash Bios / (Un) Lock HDD section) all you have to do is scroll down to the bottom of the new menu that appears (you’ll notice that it’s a completely different format from the rest of the Installer) and select Lock HDD. The program will ask for confirmation, and upon confirmation it will lock your Hard Drive.
When using ConfigMagic, wait for the program to start and show you all the information about your Xbox (the DVD and Hard Drive). It will say whether or not your Hard Drive is locked or unlocked. To change this, press the START button, and a menu will appear on the left-hand side of the screen. Then you’ll be given the option to lock your Hard Drive. After this is done, reset your Xbox to continue with the rest of the installation.
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Chapter 7: Installing Hacked Dashboards
Firstly, select the Install Hacked Dashboards option from the menu.
Next, it will give you a selection on where you wish to install the dashboard (either C, E, F, or G). People using the stock standard HDD that came with their Xbox will only be able to use C or E, and if you HDD isn’t larger than 120 gigabytes you can only use C, E, and F.
After you’ve selected the drive to install it to, you are given the option on what dashboard you want to install. So select your choice of dashboard and continue….
The next screen can vary depending on what drive you’ve decided to install to. This is where you select how the dashboard will scan the drives for files to execute from the dashboard. Here’s a list of the choices:
Retail HDD (E)
Large HDD (E+F)
Larger HDD (E+F+G)
So, if you have a stock HDD you’d obviously pick the first option, as it will only scan the E Drive. If you have an upgraded HDD (120 gigabytes or less) you would select the second option, as it scans both E and F drives. And of course there is the last option which is used for hard drives bigger than 120 gigabytes.
Small tip, you might want to delete the game save that the Auto-Installer creates after you are done. It will be an UnleashX game save. Please note this will always delete settings if you were using it prior to using the Auto-Installer.
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Chapter 8: Installing Applications
Select the Install Applications option from the main menu.
Next it will ask where you want to install the Applications, the possible choices are E, F, or G Drive.
Once you’ve selected that you can either choose to install all the applications, or install them individually. To install all of them at once, select Install All Applications. To install them separately, just select the name of the program and it will install it for you to your desired location.
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Chapter 9: Installing Emulators
Select the Install Emulators option from the main menu.
Next it will ask where you want to install the Applications, the possible choices are E, F, or G Drive.
Once you’ve selected that you can either choose to install all the applications, or install them individually. To install all of them at once, select Install All Emulators. To install them separately, just select the name of the program and it will install it for you to your desired location.
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Chapter 10: The Tools Section
The tools section is basically a collection of modifications and add-ons that can be used on to your Xbox to enhance functionality.
LTools
What is it?
Simply, this is a set of Auto-Installers for softmodding Xboxes. The main draw behind using this program is that all you have to do is load the game save, and then hit a few buttons, and you then have yourself a newly Softmodded Xbox. This tool is feature packed, including up to 4 dashboards (Evox, Avalaunch, MXM, and UnleashX); a choice of the two most popular BIOS packs (X2 and Evox). It also allows you to play backed up and homebrew games.
Who is this for?
Those that want to play backup games without ever having to install a modchip in your Xbox, especially those that are worried about voiding your warranty if you wish not to open it. Of course if something happens and you are not able to get the exploit files off of your hard drive, your warranty will be void; however, you can always run this tool again, and uninstall to the configuration you had before you tried to mod your Xbox.
How is it used in this Auto-Installer?
Basically it only serves the simple purpose of copying itself to your E Drive. This is mainly for users currently with Modchips in their system, so they can easily transfer the game saves to either a compatible USB Memory Stick or Xbox Memory Card, and proceed to perform a Softmod.
PBL (Phoenix BIOS Loader) Metoo Edition
What this does is boot a BIOS file from your Hard Drive, instead of completely using the BIOS on a modchip. This is good if you have an outdated BIOS that doesn’t have the greatest support for IGR (In-Game Reset) like mine does.
The BIOS included in this package is the EvoX M8+, and I’ve pre-configured it so it has the Eject Fix and LBA48 (larger hard drives over 120 gigabytes) support.
I’ve made several versions that will allow the Xbox to boot different drives. So, basically the BIOS will boot the first drive (being the first letter after EvoX M8+), then if it doesn’t find nothing there it will check E, then check F.
The BIOS searches for a evoxdash.xbe file, so if your dashboard isn’t called this, you will have to change it. Here’s a list of the BIOSes that are included:
There’s also a dual-boot option which will allow you to use a second BIOS when you have your DVD tray open. I have set this to be a Debug (development) BIOS, as I feel it could be handy to a few people.
Even though I have included the Debug BIOS, you will still need to obtain the Xbox Development Kit (XDK) to finalise the installation of your debug setup. More information given in Appendix F on how to set this up. If you wish to use the Debug BIOS as your main, just simply rename xboxrom.bin to xboxrom3.bin (just temporarily), rename xboxrom2.bin to xboxrom.bin, and then rename xboxrom3.bin to xboxrom2.bin. Next time you boot, the debug will be default.
XSelect
This program is great for people that would like to launch a particular application, emulator, dashboard etc. on startup of their Xbox. Even though XSelect does take a little bit of configuring before you have it set the way you want, it’s not too complicated and be done quite quickly.
One small tip though, when setting the search parameters to look for files, make sure you clear the existing list and make it only search for *.xbe files, otherwise you’ll end up with hundreds of possibilities.
The best way to install this is to put it on the drive which is first booted by your BIOS (usually C, but sometimes it can be F). If you need to install a dashboard to the same drive as well, do that first. Then, rename the evoxdash.xbe file to something like evoxdash2.xbe, so that you can install XSelect without any problems. The good thing about XSelect is it will boot any file you want; all you have to do is set up a button to launch it.
UXE
UXE is an exploit package to use with Softmodded machines. It consists of a hacked xboxdash.xbe file, the exploit fonts, plus a BIOS Loader which will boot a dashboard stored on F, E, or C Drive. It originally only had the EvoX dashboard, but I customised this to get better use out of it.
There are two versions, UXE 61 and UXE 71. It’s recommended that you try UXE 71 first as it must be the most versatile. However if this doesn’t work you’ll have to use the UXE 61 exploits.
After this is done, just install a hacked Dashboard to either F, E, or C Drive (remember normal retail Hard Drives only have E and C) and you should be able to boot a dashboard straight away upon turning on your Xbox, after you install a dashboard through the Install Hacked Dashboards option in the main menu.
File Manager
This is a section built into the Auto-Installer which will allow you to have access to your Xbox hard drive. You can move, edit, delete, copy, basically everything you can with a normal windows interface, even view and create ZIP files.
This tool can come very handy while using this installer, especially if you want to rename and move files while installing various applications (for example installing XSelect and a Dashboard in the same root folder of a drive).
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