cobra bios v0.4

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J'ai tjr un pb sur mario sunshine moi il plante pendant le video au moment de prendre le truc qui ressemble à un pistolet à eau et la 0.4 n'apporte tjr rien de mieux pour mon pb

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Il est sur la page d'accueil de META et aurel51 le te l'ai uploadé....

 

Fichier correctement envoyé.

 

- Taille: 61 Ko.

- Type (Extension): application/x-zip-compressed (.zip).

- Nom: cobra04.zip.

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il faut toujours effectuer le swap mettre un original et changer avec le backup ?

 

 

au fait c toi jean qui m'as envoié les petites annonces ?

je laisse pas n'importe qui uploadé la c'est juste un sous dossier personne ne peut toucher au reste.

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Ce nouveau bios est parfait pour les consoles aux version x8

Pour ceux qui ont toujours des erreurs de lecture, avez vous graver vos disc à la vitesse la plus lente possible (1x ou 2x selon les graveurs) puis avez vous tweaker la lentille pour que sa valeur valeur varie entre 210 et 230 Ohms ?

Aussi, si vous avez graver des disc à partir d'image téléchargée il faut bien vérifier que les images fasse 1,4 Go si ce n'est pas le cas il faut utiliser le petit programme "Wiped GCM Fixer by SlideR/LOONYCUBE! v1.3b" sur les images.

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quelqu'un a testé le backup de resident evil 4 avec cette nouvelle version du bios?

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dla balle emulman, tu la trouvé ou le bios?

 

 

 

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³ ³

³ - COBRA FOR VIPER GC V0.4 - ³

³ ³

³ 19th of january, 2005 ³

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³ We promised you we would fix the latest drive issue within a week, so ³

³ here is the version 0.4 of your favorite Viper GC BIOS! If you had ³

³ tons of disc errors, you'll enjoy this new Cobra. Look at trouble- ³

³ shooting section for more info. Apart from that nothing was changed, ³

³ but there will be much more in the next release! Oh yeah... you can ³

³ flash this release from DVD if you already have Cobra 0.3 installed! ³

³ ³

³ What's the Cobra BIOS ? A special BIOS specially tailored for your ³

³ Viper GC that allows yo to run your backups (and now homebrew code!) ³

³ from the GC drive using DVD(-/+)R or Mini-DVD(+/-)R! You can also ³

³ enjoy imports (originals or backups) without the need of a boot disc. ³

³ ³

³ So what do you need exactly ? ³

³ - A Viper GC chip ³

³ - This very flash file ³

³ - Some Compatible Media and a DVD-burner ³

³ ³

³ ³

³ WHAT'S NEW ? ³

³ ³

³ - Fixed Disc Errors problem on drive 8 ³

³ - NTSC Regionfix issue on PAL systems is fixed! ³

³ - Wireless controller is now supported! ³

³ - Added a real GUI ³

³ - The following Cobra options can be changed (stored in Viper flash): ³

³ - Default boot action ³

³ - Boot action when the X-key is hold at boot time ³

³ - Video mode of the Cobra GUI (doesn't change Games' video mode) ³

³ - Behaviour of the lid sensor when booting Original BIOS ³

³ - You can get detailed GC Version Info ³

³ - You can explore the content of your GC discs (original and backups) ³

³ and even DVDs with ISO9660 filesystem! ³

³ - You can flash your Viper GC by burning the flash file on a DVD ³

³ (but don't throw away your programmer in case of a bad flash! :-) ³

³ - You can execute homebrew programs (.DOL) from DVD, and enjoy many ³

³ already-released homebrew productions! ³

³ ³

³ ³

³ USER MANUAL ³

³ ³

³ - Flash the Viper GC with this BIOS then remove the parallel port ³

³ connector from the programmer. If you prefear you can flash this ³

³ BIOS from DVD if you have Cobra 0.3+ already running on your chip. ³

³ ³

³ - Turn on your GC with an ORIGINAL DISC in the drive. ³

³ If there's no Title Screen coming, but the original BIOS instead ³

³ it's probably that you messed up your viper install:-) ³

³ Check that it's clean (and no wires crossing each other etc...) ³

³ If you have a black screen coming, it's probably because you have ³

³ some wierd BIOS we don't support (and don't know about) yet. ³

³ ³

³ - While turning on your GC: ³

³ - Hold Y to go to Main Menu (if it's not your Default Boot mode) ³

³ - Hold X for the other boot mode (can be set in Config Menu) ³

³ - Don't hold anything for Default Boot Action ³

³ ³

³ - Select "Boot DVD" if you want to play a backup / homebrew program ³

³ from DVD. "Please wait..." should appear. then "SWAP DISC NOW" and ³

³ the GC disc is stopped (and laser off). As soon as you see the disc ³

³ is slowing down it's safe to remove the original disc and put your ³

³ DVD-R instead. After a few seconds the drive will start to spin ³

³ again and disc will boot (if you didn't have enough time to do the ³

³ swap trick, turn off the GC and try again) ³

³ ³

³ - Remove the top of your GC if you want to use full-size DVD-R ³

³ ³

³ - Select "Original BIOS (Region Free)" if you want to play an original ³

³ import Game. ³

³ ³

³ - Select "Original BIOS" if you want to play an original Game ³

³ compatible with your GC region, or if you want to go into the ³

³ Original BIOS menus. ³

³ ³

³ - Select "Configuration Menu" if you want to change your Cobra BIOS ³

³ configuration. The options are quite self-explanatory. ³

³ ³

³ - Select "Disc Explorer" to enter what we belive is the best new ³

³ feature in this BIOS! It allows you to browse the content or your ³

³ original GC discs or DVDs (a swap trick is needed for them) ! ³

³ Supported file systems are FST (GC File System) and ISO9660. ³

³ Joliet encoding is not supported in ISO mode. ³

³ ³

³ - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .VGC file if you want to reflash ³

³ your Viper GC without the need of the Parallel port programmer! ³

³ ³

³ - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .DOL file if you want to run ³

³ a homebrew program! (You can put up to 1.4 GB of homebrew things on ³

³ a disc. We hope this will give some inspiration to emu authors :-) ³

³ Our DOL loader is not perfect for now and works for around half of ³

³ the public homebrew programs. Here are some of the programs booting ³

³ successfully: Kinderkram demo by Hitmen (you gotta see this), ³

³ GC-Linux, Ascii Fighter, DVD Browser, CTR_GCS, CTR_SND, GBQ Gameboy ³

³ emulator, PSOLoader "It's working" demo, Maze, Nitrorally, Yeti 3D ³

³ 3D engine, Chip8 emulator, Snowlords game, Terranigma, XRick and ³

³ probably many we missed! ³

³ ³

³ - If you didn't install the "lid passthru" wires of the Viper GC, then ³

³ simply tape down the lid sensor so the GC thinks the drive is always ³

³ closed. ³

³ ³

³ ³

³ THE MEDIA ³

³ ³

³ The GC drive in its default state only eats high-quality DVD-R and ³

³ a few MINI-DVD-R. But a couple of weeks ago, speedi from the afterdawn ³

³ forums found a nice way to tweak the laser so it reads almost any burned³

³ media including some DVD+Rs. We recommend doing this laser tweak if you ³

³ have any problems reading your DVDs. We are no laser experts, in fact ³

³ we think it would be more appropriate to just lower the value of the ³

³ variable resistor instead of setting it to an absoulte given value, ³

³ but lots of people including us have been using this laser tweek for a ³

³ couple of weeks without any problem reported so far. ³

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³ You don't need to encrypt the disc or use a special burner firmware ³

³ to write the disc. Just burn your ISO/GCM (rename it to .ISO) with ³

³ Nero (or any other tool). ³

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³ ³

³ TROOBLESHOOTING ³

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³ - Sometime the "SWAP DISC" message doesn't appear (or disc doesn't ³

³ slow down/laser is still on). If this happen to you just turn off ³

³ your GC and try again (ok, this is clearly our fault :-) ³

³ ³

³ - If sometimes after you swapped a disc there is a sync problem with ³

³ the DVD-R and origial BIOS is not loading, then try again. If this ³

³ happen very often, then you need a better media. ³

³ ³

³ - If the drive becomes idle for a couple of minutes, depending on the ³

³ media you're using it might loose sync, and hang ("Disc Error"). ³

³ This is a bug of ours we will track. For now, if this happens to ³

³ you, avoid going into "PAUSE MODE" in games. ³

³ It should almost never happen with Cobra 0.4, but it can sometimes. ³

³ Use good media and tweak your laser to avoid this. If you're using ³

³ full-size DVD, pad the image up to 2.5GB (yes, 2.5GB!), this ³

³ dirty temporary fix just worked for us (no more disc errors at all) ³

³ on one system that gave us some troubles. If you're using minis, ³

³ pad your image to the max (1.4GB). We now know exactly what the bug ³

³ is, and will fix it in a future release. ³

³ ³

³ - Audio Streaming: Some games use a special audio streaming mode ³

³ that can be compared to CDDA. For now, the ISO of the file needs to ³

³ be patched with 0rbital's great ViperTemporaryAudioFix 1.1+. If the ³

³ ISO is not patched you'll have noise instead of music. We will try to ³

³ fix this issue so no patching is required. But in case we do, YOUR ³

³ PATCHED ISOS WILL BE FULLY COMPATIBLE and still work with music! ³

³ (so forget what is written in the fixer nfo file). Don't run the fix ³

³ on ISOs that don't need fixing as it will only destroy them :-) ³

³ ³

³ - Most multi-discs games are working, just play with Disc 1 until ³

³ you're asked to change disc and make a save here. Then boot with ³

³ Disc 2 instead. We started working on code to allow disc-change, ³

³ and we'll integrate it in a new release. ³

³ ³

³ All those problems could be fixed in a next update. ³

³ ³

³ To know what's your GC Version code (2 digit number) go into Config ³

³ Menu, then Version Info, 2nd page. First digit corresponds to GC ³

³ mobo version, 2nd digit corresponds to drive version. ³

³ ³

³ IF YOU MAKE BACKUPS, DON'T USE ANY "WIPE" TOOLS TO SAVE SPACE. Unless ³

³ you know it's REALLY working. Most of thoses tools only work because ³

³ the current pso loaders patch libraries routines to emulate DVD. But ³

³ on REAL HARDWARE, each file/fst has to be aligned on a 4-byte boundary! ³

³ Else nothing will work. Audio Files (for audio streaming) even need ³

³ to be aligned on a 32kb-boundary ! So forget current "WIPE" tools until ³

³ they are fixed. But note that Garbage is NOT NEEDED by the GC. The ³

³ files must be correctly aligned that's it. So if your "WIPE" tool is ³

³ not changing the image size (meaning there's no relocation) then it's ³

³ probably fine. It is also possible to write a tool that re-aligns the ³

³ files of a badly-wiped image. ³

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³ ³

³ THE RUMORS ³

³ ³

³ We won't comment on the tons of rumors we read daily about the Cobra, ³

³ we can just say that what you don't read here is not official. But we ³

³ feel honored so many people decided to look at our code, too bad we ³

³ didn't expect your visit or we'd have added some funny hidden messages! ³

³ Depends on what your goal was, we made it even easier for you this ³

³ time. Just hold Z at boot time :-) ³

³ ³

³ ³

³ THE FUTURE ³

³ ³

³ Now that we have fixed the big issue with the 48 units, we will fix ³

³ our BIOS so the few people that still get a few Disc Errors sometimes ³

³ (with any drive) won't have any at ALL. (Same symptoms but the issue ³

³ is totally different). We'll also fix minor 0.3 bugs that people ³

³ reported. We have written a complete Cheat System compatible with ³

³ (decrypted) AR codes. The GUI for it has been partially written now. ³

³ (Maybe we can even support crypted codes if Parasyte allows us to ³

³ integrate his great GCNcrypt tool into the Cobra? :-) ³

³ We have lots of ideas to expand the Disc Explorer possibilities as ³

³ well! ³

³ ³

³ ³

³ CLOSING WORDS ³

³ ³

³ Special thanks to E*Flash for his help, RoM for the early units, ³

³ Melan for the /48 GC and to everybody that tried Cobra V0.3 and posted ³

³ constructive feedback. ³

³ ³

³ You are free to redistribute this package as long as it's not changed, ³

³ patched, ported, or whatever. ³

³ ³

³ Our code is free of any copyrighted code from third party. ³

³ It is also free of any GPL licensed code, we have strong respect for ³

³ other people's hard work. We only ask you to show similar respect ³

³ toward our work. To put it in other words, if you are in the "right" ³

³ side, draw the line between learning and stealing. Thank you. ³

³ ³

³ That's it for this NFO, hope we didn't miss some important point. ³

³ ³

³ Have a nice day :-) ³

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baten kaitos passe desu et le 0.5 arrive kan (jai pas encore la puce c juste pour savoir il arrive quand com sa sa mevite de bousillé un dvd pour le 0.4

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le 0.5 arrive bientot selon le .info. ils ont mis une semaine pour passer du 0.3 au 0.4, c'est bon signe.

j'ai une question, comment on reconnait la version de sa GC

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comment peux t-on voir la version de sa console au faite ? et existe-il plusieurs plan de montage pour la viper ?