bios Qoob 1.2

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- qoob BIOS v1.2 -

 

27th of april, 2005

 

This is the v1.2 final.

 

FEATURES:

 

- Direct boot of all media (including DVD+R),

without swapping!

- Fastboot of both original and backups

(this time with autodetection for original games)

- Disc swap support! (one game on multiple discs)

- Multigame support! (one disc with multiple games)

- Less DREs than older BIOS!

- Disc browser for ISO9660-DVDs, supporting

Joliet for running homebrew .ELF/.DOL files

- Disc check feature

- All the usual stuff

- Network support, look below!

- Panasonic Q support (yes, you've read right.)

 

Sorry for not having too many updates this time, but we thought

that multigame support might be a good idea. We first felt a bit

sorry to "use" loonycube's very good work on the windos tool

which generates the multiboot images instead of writing our own

fstmerger, but as loonycube are an independent scene group and

not directly related with any modchip group, we think it's ok.

 

In the end we made the boot method compatible because we felt

that it's the best for the users.

 

(A side note: somebody noticed that you can in fact launch

.iso / .gcm files burned on dvd as iso9660. Good catch!

But please, don't do this, as it will break the whole file

alignment. At least for games with streaming audio this will

be fatal. We might remove this feature again, so don't even

think about making compilations as iso9660.)

 

We added support for the Panasonic Q in this release. There's

no way to connect the lidswitch for the Q now. Just leave it

unconnected. It will increase the boottime by some seconds,

so it's not recommended for normal cubes, but it works.

 

(In case you care: the Q has a 2001/08/31 drive firmware,

which handles the tray and the eject button. Everything else

is just like a normal japanese cube.)

 

We tried a small DRE work around, but this of course doesn't

fix your media. If you have DRE problems, please try checking

the disc with the integrated disc check (hold 'A'). If you

get errors here, you *have* a media problem. We try working

around this, but this won't fix the root of the problem.

 

The new windows software has support for directly flashing ELF

and DOL files. When selecting the file, be sure to select the

right filetype, otherwise it won't work.

 

The next paragraph shouldn't be required anymore, but for the

people interested:

 

--------------| Some small technical information:

 

All flashed "blocks" have a 0x100 bytes header which looks like:

 

00....03 ID (either "© " for a .GCB file or "ELF\0"

and ELF, more (like DOL and BIN) to come soon)

04....f7 description, will be shown in boot menu

f8....fb reserved

fc....ff size (in bytes), must be multiple of 64k

 

If you have flashed an elf file, it should appear in the boot menu,

so you can run it. All blocks must start at 64k boundaries.

 

--------------| About the network support:

 

IP address is currently hardcoded to 192.168.1.32. This should fit

most people. (Hint: Even Windows supports more than one IP address

per network adapter. No need to break your network.)

 

We will make this configurable in the next version, don't worry.

(Sorry that we didn't got this into 1.2.)

 

Network support comes from tmbinc's fine IPL replacement (thanks,

man!). We removed GPL'd parts before (especially the gc-linux based

network driver) and replaced them with own. LWIP's license is

BSD-styled and tmbinc's stuff is public domain, as he stated. We

hope it's ok, but we would had done it in a very similiar way, so

we better used the time to improve it than to reinvent the wheel.

Oh, the /DVD-rip support has been recoded, but it was only like 5

lines of code thanks to the nice httpd design.

 

This only applies to the network stuff. Every other GC code was

completely recoded by our team.

 

Supported stuff is:

- DOLUP (upload dol/elf on port 4000 - no bin yet)

- HTTP ("/DVD" for ripping discs)

 

--------------| About the game disc swap support:

 

This support won't be 100%, but it should work for most of the

unplayable games.

 

The lid switch will be autodetected - if you leave the lid open

while booting, it's ok - you won't be able to swap discs then.

 

If you have the lid closed, you can open it while playing and swap

the disc.

 

When closing the lid again, it takes some seconds until the drive

continue reading again. It will take ~20 seconds or so. Don't worry.

We try to fix this for sure, but we think it's ok.

 

--------------| About the audio fix

 

this bios has - since ever - an integrated audio fix. Some people

have messed up their backups with "fixing" the data so it works

with older bios which don't fix the audio streaming. We feel a bit

sorry for these people, so in this release you can press 'START'

while booting to disable the builtin audiofix.

 

Please, people, don't mess with your GCMs! Most things will only

make things worse, not better.

 

--------------| The mp3 player...

 

I know that it comes a bit late, but this release includes the

infamous qoob mp3 player *with full source*.

 

Simply flash the elf file somewhere on the qoob. Be sure to

select the "elf" file type! Now it should appear in the "flashed

applications" menu.

 

To launch the mp3 player, put in your iso9660/joliet formatted

disc with mp3 files on it. When you enter the iso browser, press

'B' and select the mp3 player. You should now enter the mp3

browser. Select your favourite mp3 and press 'A' to hear it!

Press 'B' to return to folder.

 

Expect some improvements here.

 

The mp3 player uses libmad as well as some convenience functions

here and there (libm). It's free as speech so do whatever you

want with it.

 

--------------| network / dvd upgrade

 

This release includes a network / dvd updater. Just run the

update_12.elf somehow (either by burning as iso9660 to a dvd

or by uploading per network).

 

If you burn it to a cd, make sure to fill up the dvd to at least

1.2GB of data else the gc drive can't read it.

 

--------------| Inside the qoob bios...

 

Well, we might have made it a bit *too* easy since somebody leaked

a 0.5 beta which was never supposed to go away. Anyway, it did, so

we prepared some (rather lame) excuses:

- "The code did evolve a lot since q0.5. q0.5 was nearly based on

c0.3 (plus our way of doing nonswap-booting), but it did

change a lot since then."

- "c0.3 *was* the basic idea of dvd-rom patching, and we worked

on top of that."

and finally:

- "it might be only 12 lines of code, but they were so hard to

write that MC needed 3 months for it."

 

We promise again that we haven't seen any beta of c1.0. We

saw the first nonswap bios after our bios was already finished.

 

Yes, again for you: We had noswap working before we even saw

screenshots of cobra 1.0.

 

Our code is based on anaconda, nothing newer. Everything since

then was improved by US (except that we made multigame stuff

compatible for obvious reasons).

 

Finally we invite everyone to take a look at our drivecode and

analyze it. Go improve it and release it as your own bios!

 

We were the first one bringing you the audiofix, dvd+r noswap,

Q support, multidisc support, so please shut up telling we only

rip stuff - it's simply not true, though we understand that

owners of other modchips don't like to hear that.

 

Changelog:

 

1.2:

- Panasonic Q support

- Multigame suport

- minor bugfixes (workaround to some homebrew lib, iso9660 fix,

some old games didn't work due an apploader bug)

 

1.1:

- disc swap feature for games

- network support

- audio fix can be disabled

 

1.0:

- initial release

 

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aïaïaïaïaïaïaïaïaïaïaïaïaïaïaïïïïïïï

 

je pense que la qoob va suprasser la viper

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le cobra 1.2 a interet de se grouiller a sortir

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au fait ya quoi en + que sur cobra 1.1?

 

eh ben riennnn

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hum y'a çà: (pour le moment)

 

- Disc swap support

- Disc check feature

- Network support

- Panasonic Q support (on sait jamais^^)

- MP3 player (bon çà c'est pas grave)

 

la viper a pour elle:

- cheat codes

 

conclusion: si t'es un petit joueur, prends la viper ^_^

 

 

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Euh la viper fait deja ca :

- Disc swap support

- Network support (ripper)

 

Ca va venir :

- MP3 player (bon çà c'est pas grave)

 

Bref la viper et la qoob sont quasiment les memes..

En gros arreter de dire que l'une est mieu que l'autre...

 

C'est pareil !

 

 

 

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mais évidemment!

c'est pr çà que j'ai mis ce smiley :

 

à une semaine près, ce sera la même chose pour les bios en gros

 

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ps: c'est vrai que sur un forum, il est parfois difficile de se rendre compte de la manière dont sera pris un post, en ce qui me concerne si jamais je fais un commentaire, c'est certainement pas à prendre comme une attaque (et c'est qque chose que je ne ferai jamais sur un forum!)

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moi je suis tres content de ma viper tout ce qu'il manque c'est le support des jeux en 2 CD apres je demande plus rien.

 

La team qoob fait du beau boulot mes respects !!