Illicitx and other warm-hearted users from Xbox-scene forums have made some great progress on making Xbox 360 running 3rd party swf files. According to his description, the reason why others failed to run 3rd party is due to a wrong compression method. The Xbox 360 requires v6/7 flash Zlib compression for the swf files to run. The resolution of the swf should be 1280*720@60fps, flash version 6 or 7. Animations are working.
After this great finding, he managed to replace HexicDeluxe.swf with a signed replacement HexicDeluxe.swf with a digital clock and a button example.
The digital clock has not been released yet, but you can play with the button example [here]. Note that the key mapping is not the same with the PC keyboard, quite some keys cannot be accepted and displayed.
Other details of the flash player in Xbox360 by Kanderson:
- The 360 Flash Player (xex) is extremely unstable, and seems to be unfinished as to date.
- Some of the game functions refer to XENON, which would also point to the dev status of the player and the game.
- The player plays Flash 6, but not all seems to be implemented; the 6 event system, and Object.registerclass (which is needed to code in the 6 style OOP way) don't work. Events need to be set like you should set them in Flash 5. (on a movieclip, using onClipEvent([event])).
- fsCommands do work, but are unstable, and can cause crashes. fscommand("exec", ".bladevicefile.xex"); does not work.
- Strangely enough hexic shows getURL being implemented for not only the "hacky" way of calling fscommands, hexic also uses a "real" getURL to go to the shop webpage. We've tried to do this, resulting in Arakon's 360 disconnecting from xbox live upon calling the command. This might point to the implementation of a webbrowser (!!!) either in the current 360, or in the XENON dev boxes.
- Animation works like it should, and judging by the game HEXIC, it runs extremely fast on the 360)
- There are some strange properties set on _root, supposedly for live support.
Great job buds! And thanks to Shannon for the news heads-up! =D
