As far as I can tell, that section was to allow the xcode instruction set to expand, as the 5838 BIOS has considerably more xcodes than the 3944 BIOS. Next, some people believed that there was another unknown section between the xcodes and the copyright string. This leads me to believe that the first three BIOS versions that I have are compatible with the 1.0 MCPX, and the rest are compatible with the 1.1 MCPX. The xcodes in the BIOS versions 3944, 4034, 4134 all start with: The first couple of lines appear to be nonsense (they don't execute any functionality), but then the first actual codes that I have found are: These are the xcode operations run by the MCPX interpreter. It must be placed at offset 0x70 in the ROM image. This is a table of values used to initialize the MCPX southbridge. The purpose of the remaining values in the table is unknown. The first DWORD of the NV2A initialization table is the magic number 0x2B16D065 (called the "boot header"). On all Xbox BIOS, the NV2A initialization table is always at file offset 8, virtual address 0xFF000008. The second DWORD is the unmodified table pointer. The first DWORD is a pointer to a table of values that the NV2A northbridge uses to initialize itself, but with the least-significant bit always set to 1 (likely some sort of sanity check). These are largely the same from BIOS to BIOS, but with some differences.įor information how these sections are used, see Boot Process. The BIOS is split into different components. In other words, that 256 kiB of data is repeated 64 times. The next thing is that the BIOS is repeated from 0xFF000000 until it fills the rest of memory.
That explains how some BIOS chips are 1 MiB and some are 256 kiB. You'll notice it is the same file repeated 4 times. The BIOS image is actually 256 kiB, duplicated 4 times to fill the 1 MiB ROM chip.
On a standard Xbox, the BIOS image is stored in the Flash ROM. Unlike the PC BIOS, however, the Xbox BIOS image also contains the kernel in a compressed and encrypted form. Like the standard PC BIOS, it is responsible for initializing the Xbox hardware and booting the system. The BIOS (an acronym for Basic Input/Output System and also known as the BIOS ROM or Xbox ROM) is a firmware image that is mapped to the top 16MiB of the CPU's physical address space (0xFF000000 - 0xFFFFFFFF).
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