Cobra 1 0 - Nytt bios fr viper

? ? ? ?ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒ ±? ƒƒƒƒƒƒ ±? ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒ ±? ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒø ?X ?€?‹‹ ?€?? ‹€?? ?€? ??‹ ?€ ?‹?€ ?‹ € ?€?€ ?€?? X? ? €€ € € €€? €€ € €€ ?€?€ €€ €€ ‹ €€ € €€ € €€? ? ? ? ± ? € ?€ ? € ?€?€ €€ ? ?€?± ?€€? ?€‹ ?€?€ ?€?€ €€?? ?€?€ € ? ± ? ? ?ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒ¥ ? ? ? ? ? - COBRA FOR VIPER GC V1.0 - ? ? ? ? 1st of april, 2005 ? ? ? ? ? ? So, you were wondering what was the surprise in Cobra 1.0 ? Well... ? ? We are proud to give you the very first Gamecube BIOS that works ? ? Without swap. Seems that the Viper GC was unwittingly 2nd Generation ? ? from the very beginning, since we made nice use of the lid switch ? ? sensor cable designed by the Viper Team. Thanks guys you made it easy ? ? with your foresight, for us to make the Cobra BIOS swapless. Don't ? ? mess with the disc & lid anymore. Turn on your console and play. ? ? ? ? FEATURES ? ? ? ? - Direct boot of all media, without swapping! ? ? - Automatic Media Detection: Insert disc, turn on GC and play! ? ? - Supports all regions PAL / USA / JAP ? ? - Play originals or backups from any region, thanks to the built-in ? ? region-free feature ? ? - Idle-bug free (no more Disc Read Errors when the drive is resting :-) ? ? - Unique MultiBoot feature: put several games on one single disc! ? ? - Disc Explorer to browse the content of original GC discs or DVDs and ? ? that allows you: ? ? - To flash your Viper GC by burning the flash file on a DVD ? ? - To execute homebrew programs (.DOL) from DVD, and enjoy many ? ? already-released homebrew productions! ? ? - To flash your Viper GC by burning the flash file on a DVD ? ? - To run the game you want from a MultiBoot compilation ? ? - To load cheat codes from disc into Viper GC Memory ? ? - Powerful Cheat Code System compatible with Action Replay codes, ? ? codes are stored in the Viper GC Flash so no memory card is needed! ? ? - Cheat codes can be either entered using Cobra Menus or loaded from ? ? a file using the Disc Explorer ? ? - BIOS Configuration stored into the Viper GC Flash ? ? - Selectable default boot action (Main menu, Boot disc, Original BIOS, ? ? Disc Explorer) and special boot action (when the X key is held) ? ? - Calls Original BIOS Game Loader for 100% compatibility ? ? - Supports all hardware revisions (including DOL-101 units) ? ? - User-Friendly GUI ? ? ? ? So what do you need exactly ? ? ? - A Viper GC chip ? ? - This very flash file ? ? - Some Compatible Media and a DVD-burner ? ? ? ? ? ? WHAT'S NEW ? ? ? ? ? Well, as you can see from the feature list, there are a lot of new ? ? features we introduced in this release. ? ? - Direct boot of all media, without swapping ! ? ? - Fixed compatibility problem with DOL-101 units ? ? - Automatic Media Detection: Insert disc, turn on GC and play! ? ? - Fixed Idle bug, you won't have any DRE if the drive is resting :-) ? ? - Powerful Cheat Code System compatible with Action Replay codes, ? ? codes are stored in the Viper GC Flash so no memory card is needed! ? ? - Cheat codes can be either entered using Cobra Menus or loaded from ? ? a file using the Disc Explorer ? ? - Unique MultiBoot feature: put several games on one single disc! ? ? - A lot of fixes and low-level changes ? ? ? ? A Swap disc option was left in (called "Change Disc" as you could also ? ? replace a backup with another backup) to be totally backward ? ? compatible. Read more below ? ? ? ? ? ? USER MANUAL ? ? ? ? - If you want to use full-size DVD-R you can remove the top of the ? ? console. Team Xtender will be releasing replacement lids compatible ? ? with full DVD-R within two week. Best of all, we learned this week ? ? that they will be officially Viper GC branded! ? ? ? ? - Flash the Viper GC with this BIOS then remove the parallel port ? ? connector from the programmer. If you prefear you can flash this ? ? BIOS from DVD if you have Cobra 0.3+ already running on your chip. ? ? We've heard Viper Team will release an USB programmer for the chip ? ? soon if you prefear USB. ? ? ? ? - Turn on your GC with the disc you want to run. It can be an ? ? original or a backup, but if it's a backup it should be filled with ? ? 1.3GB of data at least (for now). If you have a black screen coming, ? ? it's probably beause your Viper installation is not clean. ? ? ? ? - While turning on your GC: ? ? - Hold Y to go to Main Menu (if it's not your Default Boot mode) ? ? - Hold X for the other boot mode (can be set in Config Menu) ? ? - Don't hold anything for Default Boot Action ? ? ? ? - Select "Direct Disc Boot" if you want to play a backup or homebrew ? ? program from DVD. If you have problems using the Direct Disc Boot ? ? method with your media, you can still use the Swap trick. ? ? ? ? - If you want to use the old Swap Trick Method (for discs that are ? ? not full or that have problems to sync with the Direct Disc Boot) ? ? boot your GC with an original disc. Then choose the "Change Disc" ? ? option and follow the instructions. After the swap is done, you ? ? can select Direct Disc Boot option again. ? ? ? ? - Select "Original BIOS" if you want to play an original Game ? ? compatible with your GC region, or if you want to go into the ? ? Original BIOS menus. ? ? ? ? - Select "Configuration Menu" if you want to change your Cobra BIOS ? ? configuration. The options are quite self-explanatory. ? ? ? ? - Select "Disc Explorer" to enter to browse the content or your ? ? original GC discs or DVDs. Supported file systems are FST ? ? (GC File System) and ISO9660. Joliet encoding is not supported in ? ? ISO mode. ? ? ? ? - Enter "Cheat codes" to select, enable, disable and edit cheat codes ? ? ? ? - Enter "Disc Explorer" to select a game from a MultiBoot disc ? ? ? ? - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .VGC file if you want to reflash ? ? your Viper GC without the need of the Parallel port programmer! ? ? ? ? - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .DOL file if you want to run ? ? a homebrew program! (You can put up to 1.4 GB of homebrew things on ? ? a disc. We hope this will give some inspiration to emu authors :-) ? ? Our DOL loader is not perfect for now and works for around half of ? ? the public homebrew programs. Here are some of the programs booting ? ? successfully: ? ? GC-Linux, Ascii Fighter, DVD Browser, CTR_GCS, CTR_SND, GBQ Gameboy ? ? emulator, PSOLoader "It's working" demo, Maze, Nitrorally, Yeti 3D ? ? 3D engine, Chip8 emulator, Snowlords game, Terranigma, XRick and ? ? probably many we missed! ? ? ? ? - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .VGC file if you want to reflash ? ? your Viper GC without the need of the Parallel port programmer! ? ? ? ? - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .COD file if you want to add ? ? cheat codes for a game without the need to enter it using the pad! ? ? ? ? - Make sure that the "lid passthru" wires of the Viper GC are ? ? installed correctly or the disc won't spin. ? ? ? ? ? DIRECT BOOT LIMITATIONS ? ? ? ? THE MEDIA ? ? ? ? The GC drive in its default state only eats high-quality DVD-R and ? ? a few MINI-DVD-R. But a couple of weeks ago, speedi from the afterdawn ? ? forums found a nice way to tweak the laser so it reads almost any burned? ? media including some DVD+Rs. We recommend doing this laser tweak if you ? ? have any problems reading your DVDs. We are no laser experts, in fact ? ? we think it would be more appropriate to just lower the value of the ? ? variable resistor instead of setting it to an absoulte given value, ? ? but lots of people including us have been using this laser tweek for a ? ? couple of weeks without any problem reported so far. ? ? ? ? You don't need to encrypt the disc or use a special burner firmware ? ? to write the disc. Just burn your ISO/GCM (rename it to .ISO) with ? ? Nero (or any other tool). ? ? ? ? ? ? CHEAT CODES ? ? ? ? If you want to use cheat codes, enter Cheat Codes menu,select a game, ? ? check the codes you want to use, exit the cheat selector and enable ? ? cheats. ? ? ? ? To add new codes follow on-screen instructions. The codes are ? ? compatible with decrypted AR codes. You can decrypt AR codes using ? ? the great GCNCrypt by Parayste. Never enter the first code of a given ? ? cheat code (validator code). You can also put .COD files on a DVD and ? ? load cheat codes from there, each file corresponds to one game. ? ? ? ? For now we've reserved 4kb in Viper GC Flash memory to store cheat ? ? codes. If that's not enough we'll add some more space in next release. ? ? ? ? ? ? TROOBLESHOOTING ? ? ? ? - If the disc stops spinning in the menu it means that the drive can't ? ? sync with your media, or that there are not enough data on your disc. ? ? In direct boot mode the GC is very selective about the media it ? ? takes. If you have any problem please try the swap trick. If you ? ? still have problems try with different media/burner. Make sure your ? ? laser is correctly tweaked! ? ? ? ? - Audio Streaming: Some games use a special audio streaming mode ? ? that can be compared to CDDA. For now, the ISO of the file needs to ? ? be patched with 0rbital's great ViperTemporaryAudioFix 1.1+. If the ? ? ISO is not patched you'll have noise instead of music. We will try to ? ? fix this issue so no patching is required. But in case we do, YOUR ? ? PATCHED ISOS WILL BE FULLY COMPATIBLE and still work with music! ? ? (so forget what is written in the fixer nfo file). Don't run the fix ? ? on ISOs that don't need fixing as it will only destroy them :-) ? ? ? ? - Most multi-discs games are working, just play with Disc 1 until ? ? you're asked to change disc and make a save here. Then boot with ? ? Disc 2 instead. We started working on code to allow disc-change, ? ? and we'll integrate it in a new release. ? ? ? ? All those problems could be fixed in a next update. ? ? ? ? Before burning an image, makes sure it is 1459978240 bytes long else ? ? you may need to use the swap trick method. ? ? ? ? To know what's your GC Version code (2 digit number) go into Config ? ? Menu, then Version Info, 2nd page. First digit corresponds to GC ? ? mobo version, 2nd digit corresponds to drive version. ? ? ? ? IF YOU MAKE BACKUPS, DON'T USE ANY "WIPE" TOOLS TO SAVE SPACE. Unless ? ? you know it's REALLY working. Most of thoses tools only work because ? ? the current pso loaders patch libraries routines to emulate DVD. But ? ? on REAL HARDWARE, each file/fst has to be aligned on a 4-byte boundary! ? ? Else nothing will work. Audio Files (for audio streaming) even need ? ? to be aligned on a 32kb-boundary ! So forget current "WIPE" tools until ? ? they are fixed. But note that Garbage is NOT NEEDED by the GC. The ? ? files must be correctly aligned that's it. So if your "WIPE" tool is ? ? not changing the image size (meaning there's no relocation) then it's ? ? probably fine. Use FSTFIX by LOONYCUBE to fix bad rips. ? ? ? ? ? ? TECHNICAL INFO ? ? ? ? We'll release a command-line MultiBoot Disc maker next week if nobody ? ? releases a better one before we do :-) Here are the specs for Multiboot ? ? discs. Note that every image should be aligned on a 32kb boundary. ? ? At offset 0x00: 43 4F 42 52-41 4D 42 31 ? ? 0x40: Position of the 1st image in bytes (Big endian) ? ? 0x44: Position of the 2nd image in bytes (Big endian) ? ? ....: ...etc... ? ? ....: 00 00 00 00 ? ? ? ? The MultiBoot feature is stealth for the GC so it's 100% compatible ? ? with homebrew images. If you want to put several backups on one disc ? ? you'll have to remove the garbage at first. ? ? The maximum size of a MultiBoot disc is 1459978240 bytes. ? ? ? ? ? ? THE RUMORS & EVENTS ? ? ? ? Lately there has been a few events we'd like to comment. First, ? ? congratulation to Utopia for the deobfuscation work you did and the ? ? release of Anaconda. We like your style :-) Except maybe for the ? ? "Mentalcube [...] did a well job while choosing the neccessary patches" ? ? we find that "choosing" is not exactly the right term, as this patch ? ? is the results of tousands of lines of firmware code and several months ? ? of hacking and debugging. And thanks for the obfuscation tips :-) ? ? Anaconda led to a lot of stuff from the best (GCOS) to the worst ? ? (people selling our code without authorisation). Anaconda code is ? ? a 1:1 rip of our code, except for the loading part running on the GC ? ? CPU that was rewritten by Utopia (they made it clear but some people ? ? just didn't get it). ? ? ? ? Now about GCOS. We like what you're doing, even if up until now you're ? ? using our code without authorisation. But we're releasing Cobra 0.4 ? ? drivecodes under GPL license so it matches the license of other files ? ? you're using. Feel free to use, abuse it and improve it! ;-) ? ? Cobra 1.0 drivecode might follow in the future, but for now we chose ? ? closed source. ? ? ? ? It appears that one of our beta-testers leaked a beta of Cobra 1.0 one ? ? month ago. We'll do all beta testing by ourselves now. We find it's an ? ? amazing coincidence that a swapless chip was announced two weeks after ? ? the leak. Please don't support thieves. ? ? ? ? Oh and about Idle-bug, it was a BUG, yes a BUG of our old cobra ? ? code in the way we were handling a protection. The bug is now fixed ? ? and now the laser won't go out of the data area anymore, causing idle ? ? DREs when it couldn't focus. ? ? ? ? ? ? THE FUTURE ? ? ? ? There's MUCH more to come, you'll see soon :-) ? ? And our low-level hackers are currently working on the disc calibration ? ? code to improve Direct Boot Media compatibility. We'll mess with that ? ? only when we are certain that the code won't hurt your console! ? ? ? ? ? ? CLOSING WORDS ? ? ? ? Special thanks to E*Flash for his help, RoM for the early units, ? ? Melan for the /48 GC and to everybody that tried Cobra V0.4, posted ? ? constructive feedback. Thanks a lot for your patience. You'll never ? ? wait that long anymore for future release, this was a very special ? ? milestone :-) ? ? ? ? You are free to redistribute this package as long as it's not changed, ? ? patched, ported, or whatever. ? ? ? ? Our code is free of any copyrighted code from third party. ? ? It is also free of any GPL licensed code, we have strong respect for ? ? other people's hard work. We only ask you to show similar respect ? ? toward our work. To put it in other words, if you are in the "right" ? ? side, draw the line between learning and stealing. Thank you. ? ? ? ? Enjoy! ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒ ±? ƒƒƒƒƒƒ ±? ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒ ±? ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒ¥ ? ?€?‹‹ ?€?? ‹€?? ?€? ??‹ ?€ ?‹?€ ?‹ € ?€?€ ?€?? ? ? €€ € € €€? €€ € €€ ?€?€ €€ €€ ‹ €€ € €€ € €€? ? ?X ? ± ? € ?€ ? € ?€?€ €€ ? ?€?± ?€€? ?€‹ ?€?€ ?€?€ €€?? ?€?€ € ? ± ? X? ¿ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒŸ

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

fettehard (2005-04-03)

Noen som har testet denne?

MajsToffe (2005-04-04)

Sitter med GCOS 1.4 som bios..
går det då att byta till Cobra genom dvd?
Eller måste man koppla gcn till datorn? (skrivarkabel?)

Goku15 (2005-04-11)

can someone plz tell me how i can do this.
i hav unzipped with winzip and got 3 files.
wht shall i do then?
plz help guys!!! :(

ratbike (2005-04-14)

Vilket progr. bränner man GC spel med?Backup?/ En image med ändelsen .GSM? Hur bränner man det? T.F.Svar.

Freddish (2005-04-20)

hmm kan man använda deamon tools.. eller nått? :S

Freddish (2005-04-20)

och en fråga till är detta en gamecube emulator?:S

FlaMo (2005-04-30)

ändelsen är .gcm
döp helt enkelt om den till .iso och du kan tuta och köra i Nero.

muffp (2005-05-28)

Jag undrar samma sak som Freddish : är detta en GC emulator?

[email protected] (2005-07-24)

Det är ett program som du för över till gamecuben om ja fattat rätt

JetSetRad962 (2006-01-09)

Vad e deta??? en gamecube Emulator?? vill gärna veta skit mycket

_Bianc0neri_ (2006-04-25)

Måste man ha ett chip till denna ? hehe :D

marieomorgan (2007-02-02)

Hej snälla jag undra var jag kan få tag på cobra viper 1.0 vi har chipat spelet men får inte tag på programmet Snälla hjälp mig!!!