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Proto:Xbox 360/Blades

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This is a sub-page of Proto:Xbox 360.

This cactus is UNDER CONSTRUCTION
This article is a work in progress.
...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.
And you were just a scroll away from being fired too...
Oh dear, I do believe I have the vapors.
This page contains content that is not safe for work or other locations with the potential for personal embarrassment.
Such as: Rather questionable system information placeholder in 1529.
Hmmm...
To do:

More Pre-release dashboard screenshots. Since versions before 1873 don't run on Xenia, they can only be run on Alpha 2 - Beta 2 devkit hardware.

Early concepts for the Blades dashboard can be found here

Many of the earlier pre-release builds (especially before 2005) do not have a dashboard.

Pre-Release

What is interesting about these dates is that many of them came from mid 2004 to early 2005, around a year before the console came out.

2.0.0431.0

xeshellext.dll timestamp: 29 Apr 2004 23:41:03

2.0.0530.0

default.exe timestamp: 26 May 2004 22:06:13

2.0.0615.0

default.exe timestamp: 06 Jun 2004 12:17:56

2.0.0634.0

default.exe timestamp: 30 Jun 2004 22:19:11

2.0.1141.0

default.exe timestamp: 10 Dec 2004 19:34:40

2.0.1242.0

default.exe timestamp: 29 Jan 2005 06:28:57

2.0.1332.0

default.xex timestamp: 25 Feb 2005 23:18:42

2.0.1434.0

xshell.xex timestamp: 29 Mar 2005 17:01:40

2.0.1529.0

default.xex timestamp: 19 Apr 2005 13:13:57

  • Has a rather interesting early dashboard, it predates the final release by 8 months.
    • Features a different color palette for the Blades, looking quite duller with more shading.
    • Dashboard also features placeholder text for sections and descriptions and the overall layout for certain sections is different with early or different images and designs.
    • Uses the same navigation sounds as the original Xbox.
    • The System Info menu uses rather questionable placeholder text...
      • Notably, mentioning a questionable corporation named PETA, in which is about Dennis Rodman appearing in a campaign with them in February 2005.

2.0.1538.0

xshell.xex timestamp: 28 Apr 2005 22:56:33

2.0.1640.0

dash.xex timestamp: 28 May 2005 10:02:33

  • Dashboard graphics are updated and more closely resemble the final version though it is still not fully finished and still features some placeholder text and early layouts/designs.
  • Early version of the proper system info menu.

2.0.1746.1

  • Design is starting to get closer to the final release. Final icons have been introduced.

2.0.1838.1

dash.xex timestamp: 08 Aug 2005 19:06:47

  • Final boot animation has been introduced.
  • Nearly identical to the final release, apart from some of names and descriptions being different.

2.0.1873.0

dash.xex timestamp: 24 Aug 2005 13:38:52

  • Pretty much identical to the final release (2.0.1888.0).

Post-Release

2.0.3519.0

dash.xex timestamp: 14 Jul 2006 12:39:18

This dashboard was found alongside a build of Burnout 5, in its $SYSTEMUPDATE folder.

  • An internal dashboard with debugging features.
    • Has a Shutdown Dash (DEBUG) button in Console Settings.

2.0.6686.0

dash.xex timestamp: 15 Feb 2008 03:25:28

2.0.6719.0

dash.xex timestamp: 02 Jul 2008 19:43:11