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Re:How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard lo... by EatonZ on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:38PM (#34331884)
The dash is one of the last things loaded on the nand. At that point all the critical stuff has been loaded. They also had to compress the dash for storage on the nand, or else the file system would have went beyond capacity.
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Re:How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard lo... by iforgotpassword on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:57AM (#34336173)
What generation of Xbox did you test that on? A later one? Maybe the original flash chip was somewhat slower...
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