Important!!! Read the following if you plan on using these plans! I really mean it! I'm getting a lot of requests for my plans. Here's the problem: I didn't use any. At least not the kind that you can follow and build your own from. What I did use was a set of png files that show the side view of the entire machine, and a drawing of the control panel from above. I figured out the exact dimensions as I went. I do not recommend downloading these files and using them as a "written in stone" template. Instead, use them as a guide for designing your own. You are going to have your own needs which will require modifying these diagr...

I recently tried to unlock a xbox hard disk. Here's what I learned : Recent ATA specs allow some hard disks to be "locked" (see t13.org for the gory details). A hard disk will report its "security" status in the last bits of the identify packet. A disk can be locked with a 32 bytes password. The locking will be effective after the next poweron of the disk (or the next ide reset ; I don't know exactly ; but rebooting the computer was enough). Once locked, the disk can't be accessed anymore. It's still detected and you can issue ATA commands, but it will respond with errors. You can unlock a disk, but you need the same 32 by...

Download the new version of the MAME executable and copy it where you have installed your MAME (for example C:/Programs/MAME/) Download my update package. Copy the contents to a folder (for example C:/ROMS/) Launch CLRMAMEPro which will look like this: Click on CREATE and the window will open that allows you to search for the executable of the MAME (next to the DESCRIPTION item, edit the version of the MAME referred to). Then click on CREATE PROFILE , then click OK .