Ian ScottAre you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. https://picoide.com
tecteun@polpo cool, would be awesome if optical disk emulation works in an original Xbox 🤩
wolrah@tecteun @polpo Not saying it wouldn't be neat, but I'm curious what the benefit would be of an ODE for OG Xbox?
It's been about a decade since I was active in the "scene" but as far as I was aware every disc title ran fine off the hard drive with a modded BIOS, and the Xbox remains one of the easiest consoles to both soft and hard mod, if not the absolute easiest.
Mine is a v1.0 with the Thompson drive that was already dying 20 years ago but I haven't felt a need or desire to put a disc in it since I finished ripping my game collection.
@wolrah @polpo well, bootstrapping a new hdd, for exactly that reason, the thompson being very unreliable... (last time I tried to run a Hexen iso, it was really on its last legs). I remember using a dvd was really the only way to create a new hdd filesystem from scratch (although, that might already be possible with only a pc? idk, anyway, yesterday, it seemed like a good thing to have an ODE, preservation-wise 😆 but you could be right!)
@tecteun It's possible to do it from a PC as long as the console is already hardmodded or you have the HDD key from the EEPROM, it's also possible from the boot environments offered by fancier modchips like Xecuter3 and Xenium Ice.
Apparently these days there's an exploit called "ENDGAME" which loads purely from a memory card in the dashboard so a disc isn't even required for a softmod anymore.