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DARKSOFT CHIHIRO TYPE 3: New Firmware !

Quick Question: When you do the firmware update, do you do it through Wi-Pi or CF-Adapter, or hook up a PC and run the netbooter.exe ? What's the most straight-forward way of doing it? (I think Wi-Pi only has support for Net-Dimm Boards, which this would not cover) Something which could possibly be changed ;)
 
The majority of Type-3 machines have a net board in them. You'd transfer it to the machine in w/e method you want, transfergame.exe, etc.
 
DCrosby said:
Quick Question: When you do the firmware update, do you do it through Wi-Pi or CF-Adapter, or hook up a PC and run the netbooter.exe ? What's the most straight-forward way of doing it? (I think Wi-Pi only has support for Net-Dimm Boards, which this would not cover) Something which could possibly be changed ;)
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You can use the wi-pi and temporarily rename the firmware.bin with the name of a game.bin and load that "game"
 
Worked as described, I did have to take the bin after renaming it to one of the games for Chihiro that I wasn't going to play (and I renamed the existing game to .old, so I could set it back once done). After which I had to use 7Zip to make it .bin.gz to make a gzip package... so it would fall in like with what the Wi-Pi expected...
 
Hello all,

Sorry I wanted to ask, I have problem with Chihiro Type 3, I tried netbooting to upgrade the Firmware, but when doing so the Chihiro rebooted about 2 times then ended up with Error 31 and no change in system information. is there something wrong with the steps I've done? Thanks before
 

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On all Chihiro net-dimm supported games ? I remember seeing something like this on some of them like the gundam games as they need a specific board to run, due to the analog inputs.
 
DCrosby said:
On all Chihiro net-dimm supported games ? I remember seeing something like this on some of them like the gundam games as they need a specific board to run, due to the analog inputs.
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Gundams biggest blocker is it expects a specific netfirm revision that hasn't been archived. I ended up editing the game to just check the latest (plus a custom kernel, wont work on any public even hacked).
 

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If one has both tops on hand, say a type 1 top and a type 3 top.
My question pertains to this firmware.
If I update my type 3 top to this firmware, can I no longer use my type 1 top on it?

Or does this firmware only affect the top board and not the bottom board.
 
Crazy taxi 3 has issues on type 3 so I have kept a spare top around purely for it.

Type 1 & 3 the top portions interchange if you remove the 10ish screws.
Base bottom is identical.
Only have 1 working bottom currently.
 
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Hello, hit an issue trying to upgrade my firmware to FACTORYCHECKXB.512_hacked.BIN.7z with goal of running pair of Outrun2 from CF vs GDROM.

Partial recap on main xbox board, new paste, removed the danger cap, replaced the supercaps (guess not needed, oh well) new batteries all that.

Type 3 dimm, fat board with the IDE connector in the sexy top box that matches the profile of the Chihiro.

Chihiro specific zeropic from mitsurgi-w

I shot the file into it with triforcetools.py, got the updater. Hit next a few times and it said it was updating.

It never said "process completed hit button to restart" (Saw this from someone else's screen shot.) It rebooted on it's own and just went back into the updater.

I think I might of nexted all the way thru it and it ran again, rebooted again. Pulled power.

Now I get error 22, media board not responding.

Any thoughts where I went wrong? I have some spare parts so I have one extra media board and network board. I regret not taking pics, afraid to update the others.

I did not walk up the versions to latest firmware before the hacked version, and don't remember what it was running before hitting go.

I read that there is default firmware copy and then the updated firmware, and it should revert to default in case of issue. JP1 only pertains to the ethernet board's firmware right? Not the media board? TSOP swap?

Any pointers appreciated!
 
Assuming that you followed the instructions and put the jumpers as needed, then if it says bad media board, maybe there's a problem with your media board. Try swapping the media board with a working one and see if it works now. This firmware has been tested by hundreds of people, so we know it's good.
 
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Xbox clock cap.
It is insane they even got populated on the chihiro. Chihiro never used it.
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On the two Chihiros I just cleaned, one of them has a massive supercap underneath the xbox pcb instead of the factory time/date cap. It also looked like some of the SMD ICs had been replaced. The GPU looked different than the other one. Very strange. But they came from a pair of outrun 2s that were together.

Darksoft said:
Assuming that you followed the instructions and put the jumpers as needed, then if it says bad media board, maybe there's a problem with your media board. Try swapping the media board with a working one and see if it works now. This firmware has been tested by hundreds of people, so we know it's good.
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I didn't really see any specific instructions, I just read 15 pages on theis thread. I did the normal thing of setting the Type-3 NetDIMM to boot from network not GD-ROM, gave it a media board IP and gateway and pushed the file into it from my Linux server. I didn't do anything else.

I have two more working media boards, I can see what happens on the next one and document it.
 
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