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

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all who replied for the helpful suggestions and pointers...

I did eventually get the Action Replay to work on a different PC, and
once I had that working, everything else was pretty much as easy as it
should have been... - OK, one of the exploit files was 7.9MB and I only
have an 8MB memory card, so I had to copy over the two files separately,
but once they were both on the XBOX, everything else was >fairly<
straightforward.

That box is now modded, running EvoX, and working off a 250GB internal
disk.

I still have a couple of things that I need to figure out, but I expect
it's all pretty standard stuff from here on in:

a) How to format the G: partition, since only half the 250GB disk is
currently available (as the 120GB F: partition)

b) What various apps & utilities I want to load on to the box. - I
definitely want XBMC, and I think I may want to change the dash. But I'm
not sure what else I might want...

c) How to get my current collection of game disks ripped to the HDD so I
can take the machine out to the holiday home, but leave all the game
disks behind.

Having done one, I feel I've already gone through all the pain, so I'll
probably do another one tomorrow....

Cheers!

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of James Reed
Sent: 25 September 2008 21:29
To: UKHA Group
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] RE: XBOX Softmod - there *IS* a god, - and he
effing hates me!

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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