Re: RE: XBOX Softmod - there *IS* a god, - and he effing hates me!

[James Reed <james.reed@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

So sorry to hear of your troubles!

I found the hardest bit of the process was in fact copying the exploited
gamesave across. I had an impossible time trying the get it to work with
the Action Replay etc. I eventually used an Xbox linux distribution CD,
which will boot on a normal PC. This can read and write the Xbox file
system natively, so using a USB adapter you can mount it and copy the
files directly over.

Although it's not much consolation, the message you had about it being
an invalid format is normal the first time you connect something like a
USB drive. In theory, it should then format the drive using the xbox
memory card filing system (which isn't readable by a normal PC - hence
the need for Xbox linux above). However, it should then have been
formattable by your pc...

In terms of getting hold of stuff, the best way of doing it is to get
into the xbins repository. This allows you to bypass all the dubious
websites, awkward links etc and also it's pretty up-to-date. The
traditional way of doing this is to log into an IRC channel on Efnet,
send a message to the bot which then provides you with login details for
the actual website.

I've now found a utility which does all this automatically:

http://www.seekandestroy.net/2008/08/02/auto-xbins-2008/

I've just tried it and it's great!

You'll find all the stuff you need there for softmodding etc.

The softmods are found here - /XBOX/Console Based
Applications/exploits/_Packages/

There's a wide variety of other interesting and useful stuff in there,
such as emulators, games, other apps etc. There is some Auto-Installer
stuff in there too.

Hope things are starting to work!

James


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