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[Hozy]

Theres a section on the 360 HDD in a partition, an folder called emulator, it has xboxdash.xbe in there aswell as all files to run it....

Burn a copy of halo 2 ss patched an whatever to run on the 360 via the firmware mod, but before burning h2, set it up so when u go to xbox live update, it actually loads a directory on the 360 itself... the xboxdash.xbe from the 360 hdd...

It's a crazy idea.. but you never know, you might get it to boot... if it links to content on the hdd it will boot...

In theory this would work....


Cheers
mat

[MGSolidus2]

Are you saying that as long as it links to the content on the HDD even though it is burnt to a CD? Chances are this won't work, as it will try to read off the CD, but there's a possibility it will work.

Or are you talking about taking the entire Emulator folder? Because chances are that would work better.

[Hozy]

QUOTE(MGSolidus2 @ Jan 29 2007, 01:03 PM)

Are you saying that as long as it links to the content on the HDD even though it is burnt to a CD? Chances are this won't work, as it will try to read off the CD, but there's a possibility it will work.

Or are you talking about taking the entire Emulator folder? Because chances are that would work better.

On the xbox1, the dvd drive in the file structure was referred to as a partition..

So really, if it is setup the same as on the 360, linking to the data may work... but then again, you could grab the entire emulator folder from the 360 & put it on with the game in a directory, so it links to the xboxdash.xbe an theres a possibility it will actually work & boot the old dash...

Is anyone able to try this?

Cheers
MaT

[MGSolidus2]

Sounds valid to me   I'd attempt it, but I don't own a 360 at the moment. Anyone willing to give this a go?

[Hozy]

From what I've found out,

I extracted the oem xbox dash files from the 360, & i'm going to attempt to run them on an oem xbox an see if they boot etc...

\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2\Compatibility\dash\xboxdash.xbe

and the link file

\Device\Harddisk0\SystemPartition\Compatibility\xbox.XEX CRC:ea5d689c

Cheers
MaT

[Shepdog]

I will if someone tells me what to do lol.  Ive got 5.2 on my drive along with my halo 2 backup on my hdd and a bunch of blank dvds.  I already know how to extract it and rebuild the iso I just need to know what to edit.

[Radioedit420]

yea this actually has more potency as a theory than many ive seen good luck on this the hope of homebrew on the 360 may just get larger
PS:this topic should be moved


This post has been edited by Radioedit420: Jan 29 2007, 04:11 AM

[Hozy]

the .xbe's are only 0.9kb an don't boot anything.....

Damn........... that sucks  

Hmmm

[MGSolidus2]

I own a program that can dissasemble .x86 files, but can also dissasemble .xbe's. The program is IDA, and can be found here: http://www.datarescue.com/

I was going to see what was contained in the .xbe's.

[Hozy]

I checked out the .xex link file an this is what i got

CODE

╔═[■]══════════ C:\Documents and Settings\HoZy\Desktop\xefu.XEX ═══════════2═══╗
║* XEX header                                                                  ║
║[-] image header                                                              ║
║  magic                                             XEX2                      ║
║  version                                           00000001                  ║
║  size of header                                    00002000                  ║
║  res                                               00000000                  ║
║  offset of file header                             000000c8 raw              ║
║  info table entries                                0000000e                  ║
║[-] file header                                                               ║
║  file header size     00000604                                               ║
║  image size           00300000                                               ║
║  key                  show raw                                               ║
║  length?              00000174                                               ║
║  image flags          00000400                                               ║
║  load address         82000000                                               ║
║  hash?                5a87e1c0b58790dcb6a59dc28c2195ea3cf9b70e               ║
║  unknown              00000002                                               ║
║  hash?                d9f50d9294e4b4c2f2fb1dae40bd1f66970eab1f               ║
║  unknown              00000000000000000000000000000000                       ║
║  crypted loader key   a951a2d95de2abf1cb8ea4b3876dea0e                       ║
║  unknown              00000000                                               ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╜

Anything useful there?!? This is just the first bit, the rest is all the LAN keys an stuff...

Cheers
MaT

EDIT:
File masks to say what it will boot on... (yes there editable & saveable)
(IMG:http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/341/filemaskts1.jpg)


(IMG:http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1615/rawkeylx0.jpg)
and this is the .xex's raw key... Is this useful for anything at all?!?

........ In theory... Is it possible to make a .img file boot content on the hdd?!? or something similar...

If you can modify the .xex for a game, so instead of it booting from dvd, to make it boot from hdd, dump the game on the hdd & have something load it...

Possible?!?!?

This post has been edited by Hozy: Jan 29 2007, 04:56 AM

[crasher0255]

Hozy the idea sounds feasible in theory at least, hope to hear some success stories about that one. Best of luck man!

[Hozy]

Ok i edited the image flag to xbox package & run from dvd/cd...

Put the .xex files & xbox compatibility files on a standard cd & burnt...

Cdr reads as a games disc, if i launch it, it goes to boot, then comes up disc is unreadable...

but it does read as a game....

Cheers
MaT

Anyone know where the arcade games are stored on the 360?!?!? downloaded arcade games..??

This post has been edited by Hozy: Jan 29 2007, 05:13 AM

[ausmods]

QUOTE

Put the .xex files & xbox compatibility files on a standard cd & burnt...

Cdr reads as a games disc, if i launch it, it goes to boot, then comes up disc is unreadable...

but it does read as a game....

Very interesting.....I wonder if thats because the disk is genuinly unreadable, or because the 360 rejects it?

[HoRnEyDvL]

Hmm very interesting good luck with the research if u need any help u know where to find team xos.
Might play around with it when i get a chance.

[Millenia1x]

i would really love to see a hack come from this

the only reak hack that works right now is the nes emulator someone made with xna
at least its full speed