Proto:Xbox 360/Blades
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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.
Contents
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