The Black Art of Xbox Mods- P7:This book would not exist without all the incredible amount of diligence by individuals who freely gave their hard-earned knowledge to others. This book is not a unique work by any means, and although everything described herein was performed by me, I do not take credit for figuring out anything on my own. | 166 CHAPTERS EvolutionX Dashboard option is to just install a hard drive with 137CSB or less storage space which is I ll admit a ton of space for storing music files video files and programs. Wes i i p I PaiUion Tale if 8 J I Customizing the Xbox BIOS with XBtool. io xfed H _Cuarm BK5KS. CEtMKCF BlJ MnWiri P liadww P HHEDg - tf-fu F r vti - r 4 vk -j a k. D-4 dcfa jlt. trt C I .11. M Ct 1 if i - - . I- .1 imlitan Tek4 Feel free to modify the BIOS file in different ways and then try them out using the Xenium O S Launch menu. And get this you can even install multiple versions of the same BIOS with different options Did you notice that in the M7_Custom. bin file I created back in Figure the file is specified as the first default executable You can use this technique to configure the same BIOS such as EvoX M7 to launch multiple Dashboards. Chapter 9 covers the Avalaunch Dashboard and Chapter 10 covers Xbox Media Center yet another Dashboard that is more focused on media playback. In these upcoming chapters I will show you how to use XBtool to configure the same BIOS used by EvoX to fire up these other Dashboards automatically. The alternative without setting them as launch items is to run one of the alternates from within EvoX which defeats the purpose of having a multifaceted list of launch items made possible by Xenium s large flash memory bank 2MB doesn t seem like much but the BIOS files are only 256KB each . After you have the configuration you want just click the Save As button to save the BIOS to a new file then copy it over to the Xbox hard drive and install it as a new launch item. Using the EvoX Dash 167 Using the EvoX Dash The best overall feature of EvoX is the ease with which it can be customized. The interface uses a simple menu system with a scrolling highlight bar that you move up or down with the D-pad. You can edit the EvoX menu by simply modifying the evox. ini file. Tweaking EvoX Dash Let s take a look
