Cobra BIOS v1.0, adios al swap

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A última hora de ayer, coincidiendo con el día de los inocentes anglosajón, fue liberada la esperada versión 1.0 de la Cobra BIOS (utilizada en el modchip Viper-GC para GameCube). Como ya se sabía incorpora un sistema de trucos similar al del action replay, el Idle bug corregido, posibilidad de meter varios juegos en un disco y, atención a la sorpresa, carga de copias de seguridad sin necesidad de swap. Lamentablemente no soluciona la mayoría de los parones que sufrían algunos usuarios con la anterior versión y la carga sin swap no funciona con todos los discos, pero el avance es ciertamente importante y prometen sacar pronto nuevas versiones. En el foro de scene podéis encontrar mucha más información.

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³                                                                          ³
³                        - COBRA FOR VIPER GC V1.0 -                       ³
³                                                                          ³
³                            1st of april, 2005                            ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  So, you were wondering what was the surprise in Cobra 1.0 ? Well...     ³
³  We are proud to give you the very first Gamecube BIOS that works        ³
³  Without swap. Seems that the Viper GC was unwittingly 2nd Generation    ³
³  from the very  beginning, since we made nice use of the lid switch      ³
³  sensor cable designed by the Viper Team. Thanks guys you made it easy   ³
³  with your foresight, for us to make the Cobra BIOS swapless. Don't      ³
³  mess with the disc & lid anymore. Turn on your console and play.        ³
³                                                                          ³
³  FEATURES                                                                ³
³                                                                          ³
³  - Direct boot of all media, without swapping!                           ³
³  - Automatic Media Detection: Insert disc, turn on GC and play!          ³
³  - Supports all regions PAL / USA / JAP                                  ³
³  - Play originals or backups from any region, thanks to the built-in     ³
³    region-free feature                                                   ³
³  - Idle-bug free (no more Disc Read Errors when the drive is resting :-) ³
³  - Unique MultiBoot feature: put several games on one single disc!       ³
³  - Disc Explorer to browse the content of original GC discs or DVDs and  ³
³    that allows you:                                                      ³
³      - To flash your Viper GC by burning the flash file on a DVD         ³
³      - To execute homebrew programs (.DOL) from DVD, and enjoy many      ³
³        already-released homebrew productions!                            ³
³      - To flash your Viper GC by burning the flash file on a DVD         ³
³      - To run the game you want from a MultiBoot compilation             ³
³      - To load cheat codes from disc into Viper GC Memory                ³
³  - Powerful Cheat Code System compatible with Action Replay codes,       ³
³    codes are stored in the Viper GC Flash so no memory card is needed!   ³
³  - Cheat codes can be either entered using Cobra Menus or loaded from    ³
³    a file using the Disc Explorer                                        ³
³  - BIOS Configuration stored into the Viper GC Flash                     ³
³  - Selectable default boot action (Main menu, Boot disc, Original BIOS,  ³
³    Disc Explorer) and special boot action (when the X key is held)       ³
³  - Calls Original BIOS Game Loader for 100% compatibility                ³
³  - Supports all hardware revisions (including DOL-101 units)             ³
³  - User-Friendly GUI                                                     ³
³                                                                          ³
³  So what do you need exactly ?                                           ³
³     - A Viper GC chip                                                    ³
³     - This very flash file                                               ³
³     - Some Compatible Media and a DVD-burner                             ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  WHAT'S NEW ?                                                            ³
³                                                                          ³
³  Well, as you can see from the feature list, there are a lot of new      ³
³  features we introduced in this release.                                 ³
³  - Direct boot of all media, without swapping !                          ³
³  - Fixed compatibility problem with DOL-101 units                        ³
³  - Automatic Media Detection: Insert disc, turn on GC and play!          ³
³  - Fixed Idle bug, you won't have any DRE if the drive is resting :-)    ³
³  - Powerful Cheat Code System compatible with Action Replay codes,       ³
³    codes are stored in the Viper GC Flash so no memory card is needed!   ³
³  - Cheat codes can be either entered using Cobra Menus or loaded from    ³
³    a file using the Disc Explorer                                        ³
³  - Unique MultiBoot feature: put several games on one single disc!       ³
³  - A lot of fixes and low-level changes                                  ³
³                                                                          ³
³  A Swap disc option was left in (called "Change Disc" as you could also  ³
³  replace a backup with another backup) to be totally backward            ³
³  compatible. Read more below                                             ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  USER MANUAL                                                             ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - If you want to use full-size DVD-R you can remove the top of the     ³
³     console. Team Xtender will be releasing replacement lids compatible  ³
³     with full DVD-R within two week. Best of all, we learned this week   ³
³     that they will be officially Viper GC branded!                       ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Flash the Viper GC with this BIOS then remove the parallel port      ³
³     connector from the programmer. If you prefear you can flash this     ³
³     BIOS from DVD if you have Cobra 0.3+ already running on your chip.   ³
³     We've heard Viper Team will release an USB programmer for the chip   ³
³     soon if you prefear USB.                                             ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Turn on your GC with the disc you want to run. It can be an          ³
³     original or a backup, but if it's a backup it should be filled with  ³
³     1.3GB of data at least (for now). If you have a black screen coming, ³
³     it's probably beause your Viper installation is not clean.           ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - While turning on your GC:                                            ³
³        - Hold Y to go to Main Menu (if it's not your Default Boot mode)  ³
³        - Hold X for the other boot mode (can be set in Config Menu)      ³
³        - Don't hold anything for Default Boot Action                     ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Select "Direct Disc Boot" if you want to play a backup or homebrew   ³
³     program from DVD. If you have problems using the Direct Disc Boot    ³
³     method with your media, you can still use the Swap trick.            ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - If you want to use the old Swap Trick Method (for discs that are     ³
³     not full or that have problems to sync with the Direct Disc Boot)    ³
³     boot your GC with an original disc. Then choose the "Change Disc"    ³
³     option and follow the instructions. After the swap is done, you      ³
³     can select Direct Disc Boot option again.                            ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Select "Original BIOS" if you want to play an original Game          ³
³     compatible with your GC region, or if you want to go into the        ³
³     Original BIOS menus.                                                 ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Select "Configuration Menu" if you want to change your Cobra BIOS    ³
³     configuration. The options are quite self-explanatory.               ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Select "Disc Explorer" to enter to browse the content or your        ³
³     original GC discs or DVDs. Supported file systems are FST            ³
³     (GC File System) and ISO9660. Joliet encoding is not supported in    ³
³     ISO mode.                                                            ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Enter "Cheat codes" to select, enable, disable and edit cheat codes  ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Enter "Disc Explorer" to select a game from a MultiBoot disc         ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .VGC file if you want to reflash  ³
³     your Viper GC without the need of the Parallel port programmer!      ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .DOL file if you want to run      ³
³     a homebrew program! (You can put up to 1.4 GB of homebrew things on  ³
³     a disc. We hope this will give some inspiration to emu authors :-)   ³
³     Our DOL loader is not perfect for now and works for around half of   ³
³     the public homebrew programs. Here are some of the programs booting  ³
³     successfully:                                                        ³
³     GC-Linux, Ascii Fighter, DVD Browser, CTR_GCS, CTR_SND, GBQ Gameboy  ³
³     emulator, PSOLoader "It's working" demo, Maze, Nitrorally,  Yeti 3D  ³
³     3D engine, Chip8 emulator, Snowlords game, Terranigma, XRick and     ³
³     probably many we missed!                                             ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .VGC file if you want to reflash  ³
³     your Viper GC without the need of the Parallel port programmer!      ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Enter "Disc Explorer" and select a .COD file if you want to add      ³
³     cheat codes for a game without the need to enter it using the pad!   ³
³                                                                          ³
³   - Make sure that the "lid passthru" wires of the Viper GC are          ³
³     installed correctly or the disc won't spin.
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  DIRECT BOOT LIMITATIONS                                                 ³
³                                                                          ³
³  THE MEDIA                                                               ³
³                                                                          ³
³  The GC drive in its default state only eats high-quality DVD-R and      ³
³  a few MINI-DVD-R. But a couple of weeks ago, speedi from the afterdawn  ³
³  forums found a nice way to tweak the laser so it reads almost any burned³
³  media including some DVD+Rs. We recommend doing this laser tweak if you ³
³  have any problems reading your DVDs. We are no laser experts, in fact   ³
³  we think it would be more appropriate to just lower the value of the    ³
³  variable resistor instead of setting it to an absoulte given value,     ³
³  but lots of people including us have been using this laser tweek for a  ³
³  couple of weeks without any problem reported so far.                    ³
³                                                                          ³
³  You don't need to encrypt the disc or use a special burner firmware     ³
³  to write the disc. Just burn your ISO/GCM (rename it to .ISO) with      ³
³  Nero (or any other tool).                                               ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  CHEAT CODES                                                             ³
³                                                                          ³
³  If you want to use cheat codes, enter Cheat Codes menu,select a game,   ³
³  check the codes you want to use, exit the cheat selector and enable     ³
³  cheats.                                                                 ³
³                                                                          ³
³  To add new codes follow on-screen instructions. The codes are           ³
³  compatible with decrypted AR codes. You can decrypt AR codes using      ³
³  the great GCNCrypt by Parayste. Never enter the first code of a given   ³
³  cheat code (validator code). You can also put .COD files on a DVD and   ³
³  load cheat codes from there, each file corresponds to one game.         ³
³                                                                          ³
³  For now we've reserved 4kb in Viper GC Flash memory to store cheat      ³
³  codes. If that's not enough we'll add some more space in next release.  ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  TROOBLESHOOTING                                                         ³
³                                                                          ³
³  - If the disc stops spinning in the menu it means that the drive can't  ³
³    sync with your media, or that there are not enough data on your disc. ³
³    In direct boot mode the GC is very selective about the media it       ³
³    takes. If you have any problem please try the swap trick. If you      ³
³    still have problems try with different media/burner. Make sure your   ³
³    laser is correctly tweaked!                                           ³
³                                                                          ³
³  - Audio Streaming: Some games use a special audio streaming mode        ³
³    that can be compared to CDDA. For now, the ISO of the file needs to   ³
³    be patched with 0rbital's great ViperTemporaryAudioFix 1.1+. If the   ³
³    ISO is not patched you'll have noise instead of music. We will try to ³
³    fix this issue so no patching is required. But in case we do, YOUR    ³
³    PATCHED ISOS WILL BE FULLY COMPATIBLE and still work with music!      ³
³    (so forget what is written in the fixer nfo file). Don't run the fix  ³
³    on ISOs that don't need fixing as it will only destroy them :-)       ³
³                                                                          ³
³  - Most multi-discs games are working, just play with Disc 1 until       ³
³    you're asked to change disc and make a save here. Then boot with      ³
³    Disc 2 instead. We started working on code to allow disc-change,      ³
³    and we'll integrate it in a new release.                              ³
³                                                                          ³
³  All those problems could be fixed in a next update.                     ³
³                                                                          ³
³  Before burning an image, makes sure it is 1459978240 bytes long else    ³
³  you may need to use the swap trick method.                              ³
³                                                                          ³
³  To know what's your GC Version code (2 digit number) go into Config     ³
³  Menu, then Version Info, 2nd page. First digit corresponds to GC        ³
³  mobo version, 2nd digit corresponds to drive version.                   ³
³                                                                          ³
³  IF YOU MAKE BACKUPS, DON'T USE ANY "WIPE" TOOLS TO SAVE SPACE. Unless   ³
³  you know it's REALLY working. Most of thoses tools only work because    ³
³  the current pso loaders patch libraries routines to emulate DVD. But    ³
³  on REAL HARDWARE, each file/fst has to be aligned on a 4-byte boundary! ³
³  Else nothing will work. Audio Files (for audio streaming) even need     ³
³  to be aligned on a 32kb-boundary ! So forget current "WIPE" tools until ³
³  they are fixed. But note that Garbage is NOT NEEDED by the GC. The      ³
³  files must be correctly aligned that's it. So if your "WIPE" tool is    ³
³  not changing the image size (meaning there's no relocation) then it's   ³
³  probably fine. Use FSTFIX by LOONYCUBE to fix bad rips.                 ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  TECHNICAL INFO                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  We'll release a command-line MultiBoot Disc maker next week if nobody   ³
³  releases a better one before we do :-) Here are the specs for Multiboot ³
³  discs. Note that every image should be aligned on a 32kb boundary.      ³
³  At offset 0x00: 43 4F 42 52-41 4D 42 31                                 ³
³            0x40: Position of the 1st image in bytes (Big endian)         ³
³            0x44: Position of the 2nd image in bytes (Big endian)         ³
³            ....: ...etc...                                               ³
³            ....: 00 00 00 00                                             ³
³                                                                          ³
³  The MultiBoot feature is stealth for the GC so it's 100% compatible     ³
³  with homebrew images. If you want to put several backups on one disc    ³
³  you'll have to remove the garbage at first.                             ³
³  The maximum size of a MultiBoot disc is 1459978240 bytes.               ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  THE RUMORS & EVENTS                                                     ³
³                                                                          ³
³  Lately there has been a few events we'd like to comment. First,         ³
³  congratulation to Utopia for the deobfuscation work you did and the     ³
³  release of Anaconda. We like your style :-) Except maybe for the        ³
³  "Mentalcube [...] did a well job while choosing the neccessary patches" ³
³  we find that "choosing" is not exactly the right term, as this patch    ³
³  is the results of tousands of lines of firmware code and several months ³
³  of hacking and debugging. And thanks for the obfuscation tips :-)       ³
³  Anaconda led to a lot of stuff from the best (GCOS) to the worst        ³
³  (people selling our code without authorisation). Anaconda code is       ³
³  a 1:1 rip of our code, except for the loading part running on the GC    ³
³  CPU that was rewritten by Utopia (they made it clear but some people    ³
³  just didn't get it).                                                    ³
³                                                                          ³
³  Now about GCOS. We like what you're doing, even if up until now you're  ³
³  using our code without authorisation. But we're releasing Cobra 0.4     ³
³  drivecodes under GPL license so it matches the license of other files   ³
³  you're using. Feel free to use, abuse it and improve it! ;-)            ³
³  Cobra 1.0 drivecode might follow in the future, but for now we chose    ³
³  closed source.                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  It appears that one of our beta-testers leaked a beta of Cobra 1.0 one  ³
³  month ago. We'll do all beta testing by ourselves now. We find it's an  ³
³  amazing coincidence that a swapless chip was announced two weeks after  ³
³  the leak. Please don't support thieves.                                 ³
³                                                                          ³
³  Oh and about Idle-bug, it was a BUG, yes a BUG of our old cobra         ³
³  code in the way we were handling a protection. The bug is now fixed     ³
³  and now the laser won't go out of the data area anymore, causing idle   ³
³  DREs when it couldn't focus.                                            ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  THE FUTURE                                                              ³
³                                                                          ³
³  There's MUCH more to come, you'll see soon :-)                          ³
³  And our low-level hackers are currently working on the disc calibration ³
³  code to improve Direct Boot Media compatibility. We'll mess with that   ³
³  only when we are certain that the code won't hurt your console!         ³
³                                                                          ³
³                                                                          ³
³  CLOSING WORDS                                                           ³
³                                                                          ³
³  Special thanks to E*Flash for his help, RoM for the early units,        ³
³  Melan for the /48 GC and to everybody that tried Cobra V0.4, posted     ³
³  constructive feedback. Thanks a lot for your patience. You'll never     ³
³  wait that long anymore for future release, this was a very special      ³
³  milestone :-)                                                           ³
³                                                                          ³
³  You are free to redistribute this package as long as it's not changed,  ³
³  patched, ported, or whatever.                                           ³
³                                                                          ³
³  Our code is free of any copyrighted code from third party.              ³
³  It is also free of any GPL licensed code, we have strong respect for    ³
³  other people's hard work. We only ask you to show similar respect       ³
³  toward our work. To put it in other words, if you are in the "right"    ³
³  side, draw the line between learning and stealing. Thank you.           ³
³                                                                          ³
³  Enjoy!                                                                  ³
³                                                                          ³
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19 comentarios
  1. Genial noticia [oki]

    La scene del cubo avanza muy rápido [tomaaa]
  2. Tienen que sacar algo mejor, algo que vaya como la seda [sati] [sati] [sati] [sati]
  3. Encuadro las caracteristicas.

    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

  4. Aunque mucha gente no lo valora creo que la implantación del AR es muy buena y práctica.

    Por otro tema el noswap nos subsana el poder jugar a juegos de doble dvd y otros menesteres supongo.


    Ahora ya solo les queda pulirlo, se agradecería compatibilidad con la Panasonic Q...
  5. El avance es muuuuuy grande, pero todavía sigue con eso de los parones.... [burla3]
  6. ahora que resulte ser una broma [qmparto]
  7. SrJimenez escribió:ahora que resulte ser una broma [qmparto]


    Pues va a ser que no, probada y funcionando OK
  8. sinceramente, es decepcionante, esperar tanto tiempo, para que traiga un action repleay, q en mi caso no llegare a usar jamas, y lo unico que se agradece como detalle es el no swap, y el multidisco, pero donde esta la sorpresa?, la sorpresa ubiera sido que se ubieran arreglado los fallos de lectura, si funciona ok el qoob me lo planteare ponerlo, pero por aora..... ademas detalles a contar me fallan mas juegos q antes, el prince of persia 2, al menos iniciaba el juego se veia la intro, y antes de terminar la intro petaba, pero aora ni eso XDDD, esta bien eso q los juegos q peten kizas lo agan antes de arrancar incluso, pero aun la estoy testeando, aber q tal espero q de verdad tenga mas compatibilidad y mejor calidad pq en otras palabras, me a defraudado esperaba mas,, si al final me va = q con el cobra 0.4 xDDD.
  9. Sacando lo del SWAP yo no le he notado tanta diferencia, he probado los juegos que me hacian parones, no cargaban o hacian el ruidito feo de sonido y andan todos iguales [ayay]
    Es mas el Virtua Striker que antes me andaba (con ruido feo) ahora no me funciona luego de la pantalla de selector de 50 a 60 me sale que el disco tiene falla y no puede continuar ¬_¬

    Pero igual siempre es bienvenido todo esto que estan haciendo y muchas cosas que van mejorando son grandes saltos por mas que uno los esperaba [bye]

    Salu2
  10. Ya falta menos, unos cuantos avances mas y chipeo mi consola.
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