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[gawl4]

QUOTE(FinsternIRL @ Dec 13 2009, 08:15 PM)

you can extract the files from the title update, place them in the right place and patch them.

It would be nice if there was a tut somewhere explaining how best to do that.

[farmboynick]

QUOTE(dufc1983 @ Dec 14 2009, 11:00 AM)

surely if we delete title updates then that risks dlc not working for games like rock band 2 etc as you need these updates for most dlc to show

deleting the title update does not affect dlc i think you can still access the lot i can still access all rb & gh song packs + all cod & halo maps

[gawl4]

Fallout 3, Crackdown, and Burnout Paradise DLC I know for sure won't work without the patches.

[bigazz]

anyone got HD Trials to run right with XBR?  I assume we just have to wait for a new release with bug fixes

[pipeme]

QUOTE(farmboynick @ Dec 14 2009, 01:54 AM)

deleting the title update does not affect dlc i think you can still access the lot i can still access all rb & gh song packs + all cod & halo maps

This is what I am interrested in.  I am curious if you could get DLC songs from one console and just copy the song files onto another console and it will just work.  Or even get songs from rock band lego and copy it over to the RB2 folder.

This is the first thing I'll be trying when I get mine done.



This post has been edited by pipeme: Dec 14 2009, 04:11 AM

[evlspcmk]

running XBR Xenon, 500GB segate freeagent USB HDD,  only tried a few games heres the results

NFS pro street- no issues so far.

Beautiful Katamari- will start out good then freeze randomly a few minutes in.

Dead Rising- XEXloader will freeze when trying to open its folder USBHDD\DEADRISING\(patched contents of the ISO)

Ace Combat 6- works so far

Turok- dosnt work (may have to see if i patched it right)



any ideas why dead rising wont even open up its folder?

[majinsoftware]

Dragon age - stall after 11mins
JC Avatar - Stall after 9mins
Splosion man - stall after 11mins

They are the ones iv had problems on but theres alot that have been fine.

[splouce]

I finally got my 360 done this weekend,

Assasins Creed 2 skips and freezes and is basically unplayable after about 5-10 mins of play. I tried a bunch of Live Arcade games and they mostly seem to work like Castle Crashers and, Bejewled, Geometry Wars 1 and 2. I was also playing Braid and it works, but freezes sometimes and I had to reboot and then it worked again for a while, seems to randomly crash.

 I also tried them from different media, CD and DVD, and Internal HDD and USB stick and all replicated the same results. The freezes must be something in XBR as sometimes it works great and sometimes it does not.

Either way props to the guys who figured this out, it's cool to see what it can do and I hope to see more in the future.

Cheers

[dstruktiv]

QUOTE(Taher @ Dec 13 2009, 11:05 AM)

"Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2" runs fine.

Can you please tell me the size of the ripped folder on your Xbox hdd?

The disc I ripped on to my 360 came out as 3.46GB, but looking at various torrents for the game I see they're closer to 7GB.

[Jbonzo]

Yes i would also like to know how you can extract the files from the title update (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[bennybullfrog]

QUOTE(Jbonzo @ Dec 16 2009, 09:17 AM)

Yes i would also like to know how you can extract the files from the title update

You can use a program called wxpir
You can then use xextool to patch the default.xex from the game with the default.xexp from the patch.

This seems to work on some games, but I haven't managed to get it working on games with extra file and folders in the title update like GTA4 and Rock Band 2.

Has anyone had any luck?

[Mycah]

QUOTE(bennybullfrog @ Dec 16 2009, 01:53 AM)

You can use a program called wxpir
You can then use xextool to patch the default.xex from the game with the default.xexp from the patch.

This seems to work on some games, but I haven't managed to get it working on games with extra file and folders in the title update like GTA4 and Rock Band 2.

Has anyone had any luck?

Same question here.

These are the files in the rockband 2 update:

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\default.xexp   1,640,448
\gen   <dir>
\gen\patch_xbox.hdr   24,355
\gen\patch_xbox_0.ark   1,721,366

These are the files in the iso:

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\$SystemUpdate   <dir>
\charnames.zbm   258
\default.xex   11,546,624
\gen   <dir>
\videos   <dir>
\$SystemUpdate\su20076000_00000000   11,546,624
\gen\main_xbox.hdr   561,414
\gen\main_xbox_0.ark   1,825,856,401
\gen\main_xbox_1.ark   1,994,410,353
\gen\main_xbox_2.ark   528,021,036
\videos\letthereberock.bik   180,252,564
\videos\rb2_cinematic.bik   141,921,920
\videos\rb2_endcredits.bik   213,093,068
\videos\shell1.bik   5,068,384
\videos\shell2.bik   5,068,424
\videos\shell3.bik   5,084,632

Someone more familiar with the practices of these patch schemes than me told me this on IRC:

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MS restricts patches to just executables, and if you don't want to include the full file of an updated resource file, then it's up to the developer to implement their own patching scheme  (so that'd be handled by the xex)

Apparently these additional patches are handled by the app not by the MS xexp scheme.  Someone tried to to do the xexp and dump the .ark and  .hdr patches into the gen folder, but that just resulted in a dirty disk error.

So either we need to find where to put these patch files on the hard drive in a location the xex searches to do the patching, or find prepatched versions to put on the drive or something.  I'm not sure.

[bennybullfrog]

QUOTE(Mycah @ Dec 17 2009, 10:14 AM)

Same question here.

These are the files in the rockband 2 update:
These are the files in the iso:
Someone more familiar with the practices of these patch schemes than me told me this on IRC:
Apparently these additional patches are handled by the app not by the MS xexp scheme.  Someone tried to to do the xexp and dump the .ark and  .hdr patches into the gen folder, but that just resulted in a dirty disk error.

So either we need to find where to put these patch files on the hard drive in a location the xex searches to do the patching, or find prepatched versions to put on the drive or something.  I'm not sure.

Yeah I tried just copying the files into the gen folder, but got dirty disc error. I imagine that these are being patched in on the fly by the game itself like you said.

I also tried patching the xex and leaving the TU_* PIR in the cache folder with GTA4, but it still crashed for at the same place, although now that I think about it I didn't get the incompatible version error. I didn't try this with RB2 though, maybe I should have.

This post has been edited by bennybullfrog: Dec 17 2009, 05:27 AM

[keine]

QUOTE(farmboynick @ Dec 13 2009, 11:48 AM)

i have tried over 120 full games including Halo 3, Halo 3 Mythic & Left 4 Dead 2 all patched with x360gamehack and running on xbreboot via the consoles hdd sata with a 2tb hdd and they all worked perfectly the only games that have given me any trouble are xbla games there is about 8 of my 112 xbla games that freeze or have slow frame rates.
i think you guys must be doing something wrong

I wonder what it is that this guy is doing....not testing well enough, perhaps? This sounds like a very good success rate.
Anybody tried Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts. I'm getting freezing from both the Disc and from a USB Hard Drive.
Modern Warfare 2 played flawlessly.....actually I played the whole game, not one freeze.
Braid is finicky. I could swear that pushing alot of buttons quickly will freeze that game.
Anybody on Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts?

Can anyone confirm Left 4 Dead 2 as 100%?

This post has been edited by keine: Dec 21 2009, 03:18 AM

[pipeme]

QUOTE(Mycah @ Dec 16 2009, 11:14 PM)

Same question here.

These are the files in the rockband 2 update:
These are the files in the iso:
Someone more familiar with the practices of these patch schemes than me told me this on IRC:
Apparently these additional patches are handled by the app not by the MS xexp scheme.  Someone tried to to do the xexp and dump the .ark and  .hdr patches into the gen folder, but that just resulted in a dirty disk error.

So either we need to find where to put these patch files on the hard drive in a location the xex searches to do the patching, or find prepatched versions to put on the drive or something.  I'm not sure.

Really dumb question, but have you tried renaming patch_xbox.hdr to main_xbox.hdr and patch_xbox_0.ark to main_xbox_0.ark?  Maybe the patch files are just new files.  Even though the xex might do some on-the-fly patching, maybe if you just have the patch files as the default ones it will work?  Doesn't hurt trying I guess.