Xbox

• Intro to Xbox

XBMC

• http://xbmc.org
• Wiki

Softmodding

• XboxScene - Softmodding for absolute beginners
• XboxScene - Using a USB stick to transfer gamesave exploits
• TechFreaks - Modding the Xbox in 10 Minutes
• TechFreaks - Installing a Larger Hard-Drive into a Modded Xbox
• EuroGamer - Razz's fool proof Xbox softmod guide
• AfterDawn - How to get on xbox live with softmod
• Biline - UXE softmod Installation Tutorial (one of the clearest)
• Software Method HOWTO
• Datel (proper place to get latest PC ActionReplay software)

TSOP Flashing

• Biline - TSOP Flashing Tutorial
• Xbox-Linux.org: TSOP flashing HOWTO
• How to find your Xbox version from Serial Number (mine's a 1.3)

HotSwapping

• see also Trav's favourite instructions

The hot-swap method allows modding via direct access to the Xbox hard-drive and it doesn't require any special hardware or specific Xbox software like "Action Replay". Here's what you will need to softmod with hot-swapping (taken from tutorial here):

• An xbox
• Access to your hdd. via hotswapping to a pc.
• xbox hdm (Used in this guide)
• Uxe complete (xbins)
• knowlege with xbins, you are going to need it!!!!!!!

First thing you will want to do is read the 'readme' in UXE complete. Open the support folder in this package. For the sake of confusion, we will ONLY run 71-fonts-install.bat, then nkpatcher-06-install.bat. THIS IS COMPLETLY NECESSARY (note this is different for LARGER HDDs, refer to the readme)

Now open the Linux folder in xbox HDM. You will see a C, and E, folder among others. Open the C: folder and copy all the contents of UXE complete's 'uxe-c-replace' folder. Then open HDM's E folder, and copy UXE Complete's E/ 'root' folder to xbox HDM's E: folder. Now open the xbox HDM folder, and double click 'make-iso-win'. This will create an iso burnable to a cd with DVD DECRYPTOR (or another program that burns isos)

Now you will want to do gain acces to xboxhdm with the xbox hd's hotswapped to the pc. The first thing we will do is hit 1 then enter. You will see a penguin and a bunch of text. assuming you hotswapped correctly, type 'xboxhd'. it will ask you yes or no. and obviously you will say yes. Now its time to rebuild your HDD. If you dont care about your gamesaves or music thats on your hdd, go to 'rebuild xbox hd from scratch' if you do, go to 'rebuild xbox c partition' and after you do go to xbrowser and copy the root file over to the xbox's E:.

Now for the easy part!!!!!! Turn Xbox off, count to 5; turn it back on with no disk in the DVD tray. This should have booted to a black screen with white text. Go to the first option.

Congrats!! you now have a modded xbox. You will be able to copy games, play emulators, run unsigned code, and an endless number of apps.

Connecting Xboxes over WAN without using XboxLive

• XBConnect
• TeamXLink - another XBoxLive alternative
• GameSpyTunnel

Game controllers

These are just USB 1.1 with an extra yellow wire that carries a CMOS level hsync signal for light guns. Because the ports use the older USB protocol, they'll probably be useless for playing video or music directly from a flash device as the 12mbit max data rate is too low when you consider the actual data rate may vary wildly within this range.

• USB on xBox

Levi

Levi says: you format a usb stick with ur xbox, copy the softmod installer, and the splinter cell game save to it, from ur PC, using a program called action replay Levi says: then u plug it into ur xbox, and copy the to files to ur xbox using the microsft dash Levi says: and then use the original game Splinter Cell, and load it up Levi says: then load the save game once ur inside the splinter cell

Nad

Here's some documentation on my own modding progress. I'm following the Bline instructions and using the AR code from Datel, and using the exploits for the "007: Agent Under Fire" game from here. I'm using an XBox to USB adapter to transfer the exploit using a USB storage device.

The first step is to erase the memory stick using the XBox. This went fine, but I had trouble in the next step of getting the game-save-exploit onto the memory stick using a PC running Action Replay. I couldn't get it to work on my 4GB RunDisk device, but it worked on my old 128MB DSE MP3 player (but only when used with a USB extension cable for some strange reason!). The images below show the successful installation of the driver in the Device Manager, and the big green AR light in the Action Replay program.

As long as the big AR light is green, you can copy the exploit. I dragged and dropped the Waffle Tools zip file from explorer into the "memory" pane in Action Replay, and it copied across in a few minutes.

Next I fired up the XBox and inserted the USB drive containing the exploit, went into "memory" settings, selected the USB device, and then selected the 007 save which showed up in the content list. After selecting the save you press the right direction on the pad which brings up "copy" and "delete" options for the item, select "copy" and then select "hard disk" as the destination.

Once the exploit has been copied onto the hard disk, I inserted the 007 game, selected "load mission" and selected "hard disk". The xbox then rebooted and the exploit's dash board loaded. I selected "Waffle Tools" and then "Install UXE". That was it done!

The next step was to FTP in to the XBox and copy the Backup and backup-linux directories. I had to adjust the XBox's IP address first because my wifi card was on the 192.168.0 subnet which the XBox also uses by default. (change from DHCP to Static or you can't edit the IP). I used the gFTP FTP client on my laptop to connect to the XBox and transfer the files. I had to unset the preserve permissions option in gFTP before the transfers would work because the files exhibited some strange incompatible permissions attributes.