Anyone up for some xlink kai gaming?

witnessmenow

Hey Guys,

Would anybody with Jtaged xboxs be interested in having a few co-op games some time (Horde mode in Gears, Terroist hunt in Rainbow 6:LV etc)

I'd be open for suggestions on what games to play

Anyone interested?

Reamer Fanny

I definitely would if I could get the damn thing to work!

Myrddin

Yep, I'd be interested in seeing how it all works so count me in.

Stuxnet

dont forget us outcasted lepper cfw ps3'ers !!

"unclean unclean...."

TouchingVirus

I'd be into trying this out too

witnessmenow

Hey guys,

Good to see some interest

Do you want to try organise a game for some day this week?

I guess the game depends on the numbers.

Decent list of system link games here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_360_System_Link_games

Games I would suggest is:

Rainbow 6 Las vegas 2

[2-4 Players] There is a terrorist hunt mode where you work as a team to take down a building full of AI openents. Really good fun locally anyways. Would love to give it a go at some stage.

Black Ops
[2-18?] There is the obvious deathmatches etc, but killing some zombies would be my pref

Gears of War 2
[2-5] Horde mode goodness

L4D2
[2-4] Wouldnt be my first choice as I am also part of the glourious master race of pc gamers, but if there was a gang up for playing I could be tempted.

I think black ops is the only one I have with me, but I'm sure I could collect the other ones from home if needed

Consolepros

Count me in too

witnessmenow

More the merrier

My brother has a Jtag too and so does another friend of mine so there is a couple of more people in the pool of players.

If anyone is online later on that has Black-ops, I might try get it up and running just to see does it work.

Myrddin

witnessmenow wrote: »

More the merrier

My brother has a Jtag too and so does another friend of mine so there is a couple of more people in the pool of players.

If anyone is online later on that has Black-ops, I might try get it up and running just to see does it work.

Yep def interested. What do I need to? :o

witnessmenow

I dont know :P

I was going to look at it this evening.

I only used xlink kai once before on the original xbox, and in truth it was quite awkward! It involved making your xbox speak to your pc, which was communicating with the xlink servers. Im hoping its been made easier

Freestyle dash has a xlink kai setting on its main menu, so without looking into it Im hoping they have removed the need for the PC application.

Guess we'll find out later!

Would you be around after 9:30 Enternow?

witnessmenow

Ok it looks like I might have missed a step, the ping limit is probably still on my xbox. I think I need to get a patch to remove it. I needed to reflash my Jtag any ways its running old software

Myrddin

Ah so the pc functions as a proxy of sorts does it? Is there much to removing the ping limit? Think of me in these matters as a "Lulz, watz is it i need 2 du 2 get on de web with de ex box" type person

Yep I'll be around at half nine and thereafter for a bit

TouchingVirus

Not tonight I'm afraid guys, tomorrow night though I'll see about it

Myrddin

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Not tonight I'm afraid guys, tomorrow night though I'll see about it

Did you say that in a bouncer kind of way?

TouchingVirus

No, but now that you pointed it out it sounds kinda like the stuff they'd say to underagers

Myrddin

TouchingVirus wrote: »

No, but now that you pointed it out it sounds kinda like the stuff they'd say to underagers

Flashbacks of my teens Anyway, looking forward to seeing this thing in action...is it generally rated well?

witnessmenow

Just had a quick browse around while on a tea break. This may be useful:

http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41096&sid=d02a0177fc8419d70a8190311f7f27be

Myrddin

Still at the dash launch stage, it won't seem to either launch of find my ini file :mad:

Myrddin

Dashlaunch simply doesn't work for me 90 mins in so far & I've tried everything I can think of, doesn't help that every site on the net has different methods of installing it.

I've set the directory of both FSD 2.0 & XexMenu, renamed the file to launch.ini. Made a folder on the root of the drive called dashlaunch, put all of the files in it, including the new ini file, ran the installer, rebooted holding whichever of the two buttons, standard nxe each time.

Myrddin

Got the b*****d :cool: The instructions are about as reliable as a plumbers estimate (no offence to any plumbers here ). Onto the final step!

Reamer Fanny

There's an installer included it's a once off install just take launch.ini and put it in the root of hdd, edit it to point to fsd something like, hdd1:\fsd 2.0\default.xex

witnessmenow

There wont be any xlink kai from me this evening, like a idiot i brought my xbox down to Limerick, with no controller!!

I'll see can I borrow one of one of the guys in work tomorrow, although I'll probably be watching the soccer tomorrow night.

Myrddin

justryan wrote: »

There's an installer included it's a once off install just take launch.ini and put it in the root of hdd, edit it to point to fsd something like, hdd1:\fsd 2.0\default.xex

Tried that, the installer wouldn't find the ini file until it was placed into the installer\files directory on the 360. Once in there, it found it & flashed the settings. Have it booting standard nxe now as default, fsd 2.0 with A, xexmenu with b (this isn't working yet though, I'll look into it tomorrow).

I've registered on the Xlink site, downloaded & installed the proggie so far, just gotta get the 360 to see the xlink engine on my network, any ideas?

Reamer Fanny

Mine goes straight to fsd 2.0 on boot try either hdd1 or hdd in the config always put launch.ini in the root of the hd

Myrddin

justryan wrote: »

Mine goes straight to fsd 2.0 on boot try either hdd1 or hdd in the config always put launch.ini in the root of the hd

It wouldn't find the ini at the root of the hdd (for my setup anyway), however id did find it in the install\files directory, & is now perfect. I installed dashlaunch throught the method in Witnessmenow's link in this thread, so maybe it makes a difference this way? Dunno, it's working now anyway.

Just gotta resolve the xexmenu on button b problem, & the 'xlink engine not found on network' problem in FSD 2 (I think that's something to do with 3rd party connections or some similar setting). I'll have a look today at them & hopefully have it ready for when we all have joypads

Reamer Fanny

Get Xlink Kai running on your PC and the Xbox 360 on the same network Freestyle should be able to find the engine on the PC, I could get everything set up but could never actually get into a game, it would always timeout perhaps it will be different if we host in Ireland

Myrddin

Ok I've sorted it. You have to select allow 3rd party connections in the Xlink configurator. I also had to change the default port from 30000 to 0 as I'm using UPNP port forwading.

This lets me log into my Xlink account from the FSD dash (which is a seriously nice piece of homebrew I might add). From there, I can browse servers/games etc, pick & launch one with the selected game. From within the game, do I go to system link? As I've just tried that & there were no games found in the lobby

witnessmenow

Is anyone around for a while today? I've got my xbox updated and hopefully without the ping limit now. Just about to go setting up xlink now

EDIT: well first hurdle, they give me a download link to linux tar ball, intstructions on how to install it, but i figure our from the forums that it is not working

I'll have to make do with windoze

witnessmenow

Pretty sure I had this setup at the weekend, i could browse and see lobbies , but there was no games for me to join, there was one game that was full, rest were empty

TouchingVirus

I got this set up. I don't know about the pinglimit though because I'm on the newest dash (12625). Would be happy to try it out over the weekend

Myrddin

TouchingVirus wrote: »

I got this set up. I don't know about the pinglimit though because I'm on the newest dash (12625). Would be happy to try it out over the weekend

Count me in, I get see, access & join lobbies...but they're not appearing in game when I go to system link...

witnessmenow

I might be around ok.

If you boot into the latest freestyle it should tell you beside your avatar guy if you have the ping patch activated or something.

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Myrddin

witnessmenow wrote: »

I might be around ok.

If you boot into the latest freestyle it should tell you beside your avatar guy if you have the ping patch activated or something.

Pre-submit edit:

That's running nice & cool, is it only booting up there?

witnessmenow

yeah. ive left it on since that and Im at 42 51 51 now.

Its a Jasper chipset with no mods

Reamer Fanny

I'm up for testing this out anyone else online?

Reamer Fanny

Check this site out for cool Freestyle Dash 2.0 themes http://spiffy360.com/themes.php?category=2

TouchingVirus

Right then, I don't have the ping limit patched because I'm not getting what you posted wmn

Myrddin

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Right then, I don't have the ping limit patched because I'm not getting what you posted wmn

Prob to do with the new dash is it?

TouchingVirus

EnterNow wrote: »

Prob to do with the new dash is it?

Yup, Dashlaunch isn't out for the new dash yet and that patches out the ping limit. I might see if I can patch it another way though

Myrddin

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Yup, Dashlaunch isn't out for the new dash yet and that patches out the ping limit. I might see if I can patch it another way though

Ugh, am I gonna have to go through all that dashlaunch mallarky again? Or will I be able to simply drop it into where the old dashlaunch is working from, & expect it to use that same ini etc?

Reamer Fanny

I'm still on 12611 and I've got the patch installed as wmn has shown

Myrddin

justryan wrote: »

I'm still on 12611 and I've got the patch installed as wmn has shown

Same here, but the damned lobbies arn't listed in the games menu's after joing them

TouchingVirus

EnterNow wrote: »

Ugh, am I gonna have to go through all that dashlaunch mallarky again? Or will I be able to simply drop it into where the old dashlaunch is working from, & expect it to use that same ini etc?

Drop and patch

Reamer Fanny

I think a lot of it has to do with the region because your connection will degrade if it needs to connect to a host in another country, so if someone where to host here we probably would be able to get a game going with no timeouts

Myrddin

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Drop and patch

Repatch? For example, everythings working with dashlaunch at the mo, I can access FSD, Normal dash or XeXMenu with a give button (or lack of). So when I drop the new version in, will it not be a case of just dropping the programe files over the old ones? Or will there be repatching needed?

Myrddin

justryan wrote: »

I think a lot of it has to do with the region because your connection will degrade if it needs to connect to a host in another country, so if someone where to host here we probably would be able to get a game going with no timeouts

So would that explain why I can browse the lobbies through FSD, join one & then start a game. But upon going into system link etc, there's nothing there....?

Reamer Fanny

I think so well that's my theory anyway, TV, EnterNow and witnessmenow send me your user names and I'll meet you on there

TouchingVirus

You'll have to re-patch (re-install). It's patching the loading sequence to run it's XEX file (which then reads the ini file and launches your applications).

This is "forgotten" when you update to a newer dashboard, it doesn't run the dashlaunch xex file to run your apps, it just boots the NXE.

Myrddin

I'm EnterNow (original I know ), I;m signed in now in the general area

TouchingVirus

You guys aren't in no general area :P Orbital France is the server I'm on anyways. Username same as here

Reamer Fanny

I'll be on there in a minute