January 8, 2010
From team-xecuter.com:
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A few days ago we announced that we had designed a simple circuit to enable full firmware read/write on all versions of Liteon drive up to the very latest 93450.
The response was unprecedented – especially from installers who were given generous wholesale discounts by all of our resellers.
After reading an enormous amount of feedback we made some extra changes to the design in time for shipping to resellers next week:
* Redesigned circuit to give a cleaner filter when switching to Vendor mode. No more read errors !
* Enlarged solder points to give an easier flow to the Liteon PCB points – Noob friendly !
* Added Read/Write Mode LED (RED)
* Added Normal 360 Mode LED (Green)
* Upgrade the switch to a stronger more robust model
* Changed location of LED so they can be viewed when Liteon PCB is installed to its case
* Slight improvement to the PCB shape so it sits firmly and accurately in place when soldering.
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Official Site: http://team-xecuter.com
January 7, 2010
FreeXeX released a new version of QuickBoot.
What’s new/fixed:
* Added Support for making Games on Demand containers
* Added Support for all 3 USB slots. When you specify “usb:\” as the path it will now scan up to 3 usb drives looking for the file.
* Added Debug logging, this will create a debug.log on the root of ubs0 if an error is encountered
* Reduced file size of generated container from 804KB to 284KB
About QuickBoot:
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QuickBoot allows you to build “short cut” LIVE containers that will allow you to launch applications directly from NXE.
The three main advantages of this are:
* Saves time by loading the application directly, rather than having to use XexLoader to browse the file tree and find the executable.
* Bypasses the 4GB size limit on live containers as you’re not actually storing the application data in the live container, merely making a shortcut to it.
* Allows you to load applications off of external hard drives etc. straight from NXE.
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Official Site: http://freexex.xboxapps.org
Full readme/nfo: xbins.org
Download: n/a (contains files built with XDK)
Techradar.com posted more details about how much power the ‘chipless’ Natal will consume:
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“Natal has to work on the existing hardware without taking too much hardware processing away from the games developers,” Kipman [Natal's lead developer] noted, adding that Natal consumes between 10 to 15 per cent of the Xbox’s computing power.
“When we train this ‘brain’ we are telling it: this is the head, this is the shoulder. And we’re doing that over millions of frames,” adds Kipman. “When it sees a new image it can tell you the probability it’s seeing a certain body part based on that historical information.”
This is how the a 50MB Natal software can recognize up to 31 different parts of the body in any video frame, running up to 30 frames per second (the hardware, that is, not the game you are playing).
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Full Story: techradar.com
From dailytech.com:
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As the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) gets under way in Las Vegas, peripheral maker Razer announced it has made several gaming accessories for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console. The Razer Onza “professional gaming controller” for the Xbox 360 is a controller that includes adjustable tension on analog sticks, two multi-function buttons, and unique customization for gamers.
The controller is available with a $49.99 MSRP.
Razer also announced the Chimaera gaming headset which provides 5.1 Channel surround sound, comfortable, adjustable sizing, and a microphone for voice chat. Razer is promoting the headset as one of the few Xbox 360 headsets providing full stereo-grade sound, with most third-party headsets offering lower sound quality.
The Razer Chimaera headset has a $129.99 MSRP.
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Full Story: dailytech.com
