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Game Consoles Discuss, XBOX, USB keyboard and DosXbox at Consumer Electronic products forum; Today I put DosXBox (x86 for the XBOX to play Dos games) on the box and it works like a charm. Most games run without any hassle. Just one thing: I can't input anything, as I don't have a keyboard hooked up (virtual keyboard sux). I noticed these cables that

Dee-ehn (Retired Administrator): Posts: 15,203; Posted: 23-01-2005

Today I put DosXBox (x86 for the XBOX to play Dos games) on the box and it works like a charm. Most games run without any hassle.

Just one thing: I can't input anything, as I don't have a keyboard hooked up (virtual keyboard sux).

I noticed these cables that transform an XBOX controller port into an USB port. They are used for hooking up USB keyboards for use in Linux.

Well that's great, but what I want to know is wether such a keyboard can work in DosXbox? Anybody with experience here?

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crustyteacup (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 370; Posted: 24-01-2005

well dosbox does support usb devices (like gamepads) so it should be able to see the keyboard, so i'd say yes it will work.

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Dee-ehn (Retired Administrator): Posts: 15,203; Posted: 25-01-2005

That would be great

One more question: can I connect a USB hub to an XBOX controller port so I can put both a mouse and a keyboard on one port? Or would I need two cables?

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crustyteacup (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 370; Posted: 25-01-2005

yeah you can connect hubs to it and connect up a bunch of stuff, i've done it with linux (xebian distro), but i haven't tested it with anything else apart from that. These days i just tend to use two seperate cables as i don't like a hub cluttering up my desk.

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Mr. Belvedere (MyCE Resident): Posts: 15,624; Posted: 25-01-2005

Practically all usb keyboards and usb mice work. Even in some legal games suchs as Phantasy Star Online there's keyboard support.

I have a Packard Bell (hey! it was only 10 euro!

) usb keyboard and mouse. The mouse plugs in a usb port on the keyboard, so that i will only need one connection on the xbox to plug them in. And it works great! I can surf, chat, play point and click adventures in scumm vm with it and use Dos.

P.S. Dune II on a tv is awesome!

P.P.S. There are also lots of ports of open source games such as Open Transport Tycoon and DoomX.

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Dee-ehn (Retired Administrator): Posts: 15,203; Posted: 25-01-2005

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Originally Posted by Mr. Belvedere

Practically all usb keyboards and usb mice work. Even in some legal games suchs as Phantasy Star Online there's keyboard support.

I have a Packard Bell (hey! it was only 10 euro!

Hmm that PB keyboard and mouse sounds good. Is it still available in some shop? Price is very interesting as well

I already put Dune II on my XBOX... it's hard to play with only a virtual keyboard though

Is there an XBOX version of TT? Wow I gonna Google right away!

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crustyteacup (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 370; Posted: 26-01-2005

i got the action replay keyboard, stupidly thinking that its "the only keyboard for xbox", however when i got it, it was just an ordinary usb keyboard with an adapter, so i paid more tham what i needed.

@Mr. Belvedere, do you use xebian at all? If you do, do you know how to make the desktop (and all the menus) fit into the screen? I've been trying for ages but can't seem to get it done.

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Mr. Belvedere (MyCE Resident): Posts: 15,624; Posted: 31-01-2005

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Originally Posted by crustyteacup

Nope, don't use Xebian. I just use the EvolutionX dashboard and tweaked it a lot

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The current version of DosXbox (version 8 or someting) includes profiles, better emulation and more memory. The major drawback of the DosXbox is that everything is emulated through software, the vga, the soundblaster, the mouse, keyboard, eveything. This gives a lot of timing issues on games who use the VESA standard (emulated as well). Games which use nifty tricks to enhance the graphic performance are even crappier (Doom 1 for instance).

Dee-Ehn: Sorry, the keyboard was a one time offer at the local hardware store

A little list:

X86/PC
Bochs
DosXbox

32x
Gens (xport)
Gens X
Neo Genesis
Xenesis

Apple 2
Kegs-X

Amstrad
Arnold X

Arcade
68000 X
Centipede
Daphne X
Final Burn X
FBAxxx
Kawa-X
MAMEoX
Mame X
U64x

Amiga
UAE X
UAE X v0.8.22
WinUAEX

Atari Multiple Systems
Atari XL

Atari 2600
Stella X
Z26

Atari Lynx
Handy X
Lynx Xbox

Atari ST
WinSTon

Colecovision
Adam X
Koleko X

Commodore 64
DC64
Frodo-X
Vice64-X
VicePet-X

Game Boy
Extreme GB
Gnuboy

Game Gear
Dega X
Dega Xbox

GBA
GBA X
U VBA X
VBA X
Xboy Advance

Genesis (megadrive)
Dgen
Genadrive X
Gens (xport)
Gens X
Neo Genesis
Xenesis

Intelevision
Bliss X

MSX
FMSXBOX
BlueMSXBOX

Neo Geo CD
NeoCD

Neo Geo Pocket
NeoPop
NeoPop X

Nes
FCE Ultra
Nester X
X Nes

Nintendo 64
Daedalus
Daedalus X
PJ64 Port
Surreal
UltraXle

Odyssey 2
Odysseyx 2

PC Engine
Hugo X
Xpce X

Playstation
PCSX Xbox

Sega CD(mega cd)
Gens (xport)

Neo Genesis
Xenesis

Sega Master System
Dega X
Kaster X
SMS Plus

SG 1000
Sc3X

Spectrum
Dreamspec
SpeXtrum v0.01 Alpha

Snes
Snes9x X
Xsnes9X

Vic 20
Vic20 X

WonderSwan
Oswan X
Wonderswan X

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anjilslaire (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 258; Posted: 31-01-2005

That's a great list, Belvedere. How is your box modded, btw?

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Mr. Belvedere (MyCE Resident): Posts: 15,624; Posted: 03-02-2005

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That's a great list, Belvedere. How is your box modded, btw?

With the X.B.I.T. modchip.

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anjilslaire (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 258; Posted: 04-02-2005

cool.

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crustyteacup (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 370; Posted: 04-02-2005

i've got mine softmodded, took along time to get everything done, especially upgrading the hard drive.....

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anjilslaire (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 258; Posted: 06-02-2005

I hope you used uxe as an exploit, with xboxhdm to prep the new drive. Xboxhdm is a wonder-tool for building new drives.
You know, if you use nkpatcher, you can have a shadow c:\ with retail files that makes your exploit untouchable by updates after the xbox has booted.

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Mr. Belvedere (MyCE Resident): Posts: 15,624; Posted: 09-02-2005

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i've got mine softmodded, took along time to get everything done, especially upgrading the hard drive.....

modding a xbox v1.0 - v1.5 is quite easy. Takes about 2 minutes

modding a xbox v1.6 takes some time, you gotta solder a lot of wires

installing a new harddrive takes a couple of minutes, but transferring the data back and forth can take up to an hour.

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anjilslaire (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 258; Posted: 10-02-2005

Hmm. It takes me only a few minutes to put the UXE with shadow c:/nkpatcher on as well.
Yeah, transferring can be tedious between hard drives.

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crustyteacup (CD Freaks Senior Member): Posts: 370; Posted: 10-02-2005

well i was a newbie when i done my softmod, for ages i couldn't get it to work as my dashboard was to new for the original exploits, then one day, i found out about uxe, and it was easy. The upgrading of the hard drive took forever! First of all, this is a note to anyone doing it, do not use windows based fatx tools, hdd driver is rubbish, and also use xbox hdm.

I kept getting error 6 all the time, when i used unlockx to lock the new drive, kept happening, so tried other methods of locking (config magic not working on my xbox!), none of them worked. Anyways eventually used xboxhdm, used the same key as with unlockx, worked first time. The i found out that hdd driver didn't image the whole drive at all, left all the folders, not the programs, and the ones that were left wouldn't work cause they had corrupt files, so used xboxhdn to do that as well, worked like a charm.

So theres my wonderful story, hope you all had as much fun reading it as i had typing it! Now i could do it again easily cause i know what i'm doing and what methods to avoid....

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rikmyster08 (New on Forum): Posts: 1; Posted: 18-12-2005

Hi i'm an extreme noob i just recently just got my xbox softmodded with unleashx dashboard. it was my understanding that and xbox couldn't read a keyboard without being modded with linux and therfore it would not be able to run console games. After reading this post it sounds like your saying you dont need linx to use a usb keyboard. Does that mean a connection such as this is possible.

USB Adapter for Xbox™ (female) (Lik Sang)
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?cat...oducts_id=2154

to this

Logitech® Cordless Desktop® LX 500
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/pr...CONTENTID=8773

I'm asking because i would like to use a wireless usb keyboard on my xbox for linkboks,xboxmediacenter, and dosbox but i dont want to install linux on my xbox.

I'm sorry for not posting in the noob section. any help would be deaply appreciated.

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