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- qoob BIOS v1.3 - 14th of may, 2005This is the v1.3 final.FEATURES: - Direct boot of all media (including DVD+R), without swapping! - Cheats (AR required, look below) - Fastboot of both original and backups - 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 - Customization feature - In Game Reset by pad (L+R+Start) - Force Videomode for games--------------| Videomode force:Starting from this release, you can force the video mode forgames. This should work for almost all games, but it won'twork for homebrew.It should be compatible to almost all games, but you might mess up timing if games are not supposed to run in a certainmode.You can force progressive output. Yes, this even works for(most) PAL games.You can set the videomode of the qoob bios itself. In caseyou have a VGA adapter, we're sure that you appreciate this.Still, forcing the video mode involves modifiying the game'sintended behaviour. Use this option only when required. It'salways better to let the game configure the video mode (PAL60,Progressive - hold B button while starting the game!)We implemented this option only as a last resort, for example for progressive on PAL games. (Yes, PAL gamecubes supportprogressive. You need the component-cable, of course.)--------------| In Game Reset:You can InGameReset with Start+L+R. It might not work on allgames. It does not work on homebrew.--------------| Cheats:This release is the first one which supports cheats. The onlyreal sources for Gamecube cheats is the Action-Replay-Database,available for free on the codejunkies.co.uk website.We know that developing cheats, especially the advanced cheatsby Datel, require a lot of work. Therefore we decided to do ourbest to not rip off Datel.The qoob bios does not contain a special piece of software called"cheat engine". The cheat engine is a small part of software,which executes the entered cheats in the special "AR"-Format.Instead, we require to use the cheat engine of a real AR. TheBios can rip the cheat engine from an AR-disc. It will then be stored in flash, so you don't need to swap the disc eachtime. Cheats are also stored in memory. We provide a tool to generate the qoob cheat compilationsfrom .cod (basically decrypted AR codes). We will lateronpublish a tool which can manage these data better, but rightnow it should be enough.We think that requiring an action replay disc once is the best compromise between being user-friendly, not breaking any copyrights (more an ethical problem than a technical) and usefullness.We included a compiled version of mario's big collectionof .cod. Thank you for your work! We hope it's ok to includeyour collection here.Cheats don't include useful information which game theyare belonging to. Thus you have to select. We know thatthis is a PITA because you can store all codes in flashand it's going to be a big list. We implemented somefuzzy logic to determine the most "fitting" cheat,but you can have a sorted list with the L/R-buttons, too.--------------| Customization:It's possible to replace the standard qoob background picture.It must be encoded as an MPEG1 I-Frame. We've choosen this format because it's way easier to decode that JPEG while havingat least similiar performance. You can generate these logos for example with TMPEGEnc. Be sureto encode in MPEG1 only (MPEG2 doesn't give a real advantageon single frame sequences while complicating the stuff a lot).Resolution must be 640x480. You can disable the status information in the configurationmenu. If you don't, make sure that you have a black backgroundas certain stuff will be overwritten by the text.As always, we will continue to improve this, which moreconfigurable colors, positions etc.The MPEG decoder is based (but HEAVILY simplified) on apublic domain mpeg decoder software.--------------| Panasonic Q: 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.--------------| div stuffWe tried a small DRE work around, but this of course doesn't fix your media. If you have DRE problems, please try checkingthe disc with the integrated disc check. If youget errors here, you *have* a media problem. We try workingaround this, but this won't fix the root of the problem.The new windows software has support for directly flashing ELFand 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 "(C) " 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 menuf8....fb reservedfc....ff size (in bytes), must be multiple of 64kIf 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 defaults to 192.168.1.32. This should fitmost people. (Hint: Even Windows supports more than one IP addressper network adapter. No need to break your network.)If you want to change this, you must prepare for some hex-editing(sorry). Store the configuration, read the configuration blockwith the flash tool, and load it into an hex editor. at offset108, 10c, 110 you have to insert the IP, Netmask, Gateway.You *must* specify a non-null IP for each of the three.(You either know what this means or you have to wait for thenext version!)Example:00108: 0A 00 00 10 FF FF FF 00 0A 00 00 01would be IP 10.0.0.16, netmask 255.255.255.0, gateway 10.0.0.1.Network support comes from tmbinc's fine IPL replacement (thanks,man!). We removed GPL'd parts before (especially the gc-linux basednetwork driver) and replaced them with own. LWIP's license is BSD-styled and tmbinc's stuff is public domain, as he stated. Wehope it's ok, but we would had done it in a very similiar way, sowe 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 wascompletely 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 theunplayable games. The lid switch will be autodetected - if you leave the lid openwhile 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 swapthe disc.When closing the lid again, it takes some seconds until the drivecontinue 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 fixthis bios has - since ever - an integrated audio fix. Some peoplehave messed up their backups with "fixing" the data so it workswith older bios which don't fix the audio streaming. We feel a bitsorry 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 onlymake things worse, not better.--------------| network / dvd upgradeThis release includes a network / dvd updater. Just run theupdate_13.elf somehow (either by burning as iso9660 to a dvdor by uploading per network).If you burn it to a cd, make sure to fill up the dvd to at least1.2GB of data else the gc drive can't read it.Changelog:1.3: - Cheats (ActionReplay required once) - Cheats: Current Game fuzzy autodetection - Configuration can be done in Menu - Settings can be stored in flash - DRE fix / swap support can be disabled - Time fixed - Background can be changed, texts can be disabled - In Game Reset (IGR) - Video mode force (for games) - Video mode configurable (for menu) - Progressive support (even for PAL) - Flash tool doesn't store full path anymore1.2: - 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 disabled1.0: - initial release
