Xeno GC modchip help?
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Xeno GC modchip help?
I recently bought one of the Xeno GC chips off of eBay and it seemed to be working for a while. Games kept giving me read errors after playing for a few minutes so I kept trying to adjust my pot tweak. Nothing seemed to make it better so I checked my soldering to make sure that I wasn't having any short circuits that could be causing my problems and I didn't find any shorts with my multimeter. I tried booting in to the Xeno's menu by holding start while the system boots and all I got was this.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? I'm going to try ordering two or three new chips if there isn't anything I can do to try to salvage this one. Shipping on most of them takes forever though.Re: Xeno GC modchip help?
I believe your laser has had enough or you're using poor quality media. The GameCube is very picky with DVD-R. If you can boot to that shell (shipped on all XenoGC 2.0 chips) then the chip is working just fine.xx77Chris77xx wrote:I recently bought one of the Xeno GC chips off of eBay and it seemed to be working for a while. Games kept giving me read errors after playing for a few minutes so I kept trying to adjust my pot tweak. Nothing seemed to make it better so I checked my soldering to make sure that I wasn't having any short circuits that could be causing my problems and I didn't find any shorts with my multimeter. I tried booting in to the Xeno's menu by holding start while the system boots and all I got was this.Does anyone know what the problem could be? I'm going to try ordering two or three new chips if there isn't anything I can do to try to salvage this one. Shipping on most of them takes forever though.
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Re: Xeno GC modchip help?
Is that what the boot shell is supposed to look like? if so then I believe its my media.emu_kidid wrote:I believe your laser has had enough or you're using poor quality media. The GameCube is very picky with DVD-R. If you can boot to that shell (shipped on all XenoGC 2.0 chips) then the chip is working just fine.xx77Chris77xx wrote:I recently bought one of the Xeno GC chips off of eBay and it seemed to be working for a while. Games kept giving me read errors after playing for a few minutes so I kept trying to adjust my pot tweak. Nothing seemed to make it better so I checked my soldering to make sure that I wasn't having any short circuits that could be causing my problems and I didn't find any shorts with my multimeter. I tried booting in to the Xeno's menu by holding start while the system boots and all I got was this.Does anyone know what the problem could be? I'm going to try ordering two or three new chips if there isn't anything I can do to try to salvage this one. Shipping on most of them takes forever though.
Re: Xeno GC modchip help?
Yep, on a 2.0 that's the shell (as crappy as it is). It's meant to list multi-game disc entries but being an original disc or single game disc, you just get that mostly blank screen locked in 50Hz.xx77Chris77xx wrote:Is that what the boot shell is supposed to look like? if so then I believe its my media.emu_kidid wrote:I believe your laser has had enough or you're using poor quality media. The GameCube is very picky with DVD-R. If you can boot to that shell (shipped on all XenoGC 2.0 chips) then the chip is working just fine.xx77Chris77xx wrote:I recently bought one of the Xeno GC chips off of eBay and it seemed to be working for a while. Games kept giving me read errors after playing for a few minutes so I kept trying to adjust my pot tweak. Nothing seemed to make it better so I checked my soldering to make sure that I wasn't having any short circuits that could be causing my problems and I didn't find any shorts with my multimeter. I tried booting in to the Xeno's menu by holding start while the system boots and all I got was this.Does anyone know what the problem could be? I'm going to try ordering two or three new chips if there isn't anything I can do to try to salvage this one. Shipping on most of them takes forever though.
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Re: Xeno GC modchip help?
Just ordered some (hopefully) higher quality discs to burn. I triple checked the modchip and its just fine, also apparently the menu I had been looking at online was just the older versions menu. No matter where I tweak my potentiometer (Between 0 ohms and 280 at intervals of 10-15) I always end up with a DRE within 20 minutes. It's at random intervals and different points in the game so its not a bad burn or a bad ISO, should either be my media or my laser at this point.emu_kidid wrote:Yep, on a 2.0 that's the shell (as crappy as it is). It's meant to list multi-game disc entries but being an original disc or single game disc, you just get that mostly blank screen locked in 50Hz.xx77Chris77xx wrote:Is that what the boot shell is supposed to look like? if so then I believe its my media.emu_kidid wrote:
I believe your laser has had enough or you're using poor quality media. The GameCube is very picky with DVD-R. If you can boot to that shell (shipped on all XenoGC 2.0 chips) then the chip is working just fine.