Question about installing XBMC as a Dashboard.

Kai Beginner Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

My question is reguarding the very last step in installing XBMC as a dashboard but I will give a rundown of what I have done so far first.

I installed UnleashX V0.38 using this site:

http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/xbox-softm...-sid-4-0-a.html

Everything went smoothly except after the install the red light indicator on my xbox went on and the site doesnt say anything about a red light. I havent tryed playing a game yet and DVD movies dont seem to load from the dashboard so I hope this isnt a problem since I dont want unleashX as a dashboard anyway.

Anyway I got the FTP access up and working and followed this site for XBMC install:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/376141

The major difference is I'm not using the XBMC that that site links I'm using "XBMC-2.0.0-FINAL-FAT-T3CH"
The minor differences I noticed is I have an "X" "Y" "Z" folders on the Xbox HDD and there was no "Apps" folder in "E" folder like the site shows (hope that isnt an issue) so I created one to put the XBMC file in.

Now this is the step I'm currently at where I need to get the shortcut I created named "default.xbe" to overwrite the Unleashx.xbe. I cant find a "default.xbe" like the tutorial mentions should already be there. The only .xbe files I can find are:

C:\xboxdash.xbe
E:\evoxdash.xbe

Do I rename my shortcut to replace one of these or just place my created defualt.xbe in C or E?

This is probably so simple but I just dont want to mess it up as it could mean no dashboard loads if I get it wrong. Thanks for any help.

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 4371

RTFM!

http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=As_a_Dashboard

haha .. the download for the default.xbe is there plus the instructions to make the config file .. you can't just make a default.xbe .. read that link above carefully ..

i take it your using a softmod .. you need to find where unleashX is and put the shortcut default.xbe there .. its not xboxdash.xbe i can tell ya that .. it may be that evoxdash.xbe you have on your E ..

the XYZ drives make no difference , their always there no matter if you can see them or not , theirs nothing on them you need ..

Kai Beginner Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

Thanks. I did read the XBMC readme but evey other step is a link to another site saying read this. It sounds like if evoxdash.xbe is the only other file of that type on the drive then its just a matter of replacing that file.... hmm.