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[dupfold]

Hello

Recently got jtag'ed and installed larger harddrive. My understand is that it cannot directly play ISO's, so I will be installing each game from disc. This of course will take some time so wondering if there is a better way?

I've heard about Game on Demand and ISO2GOD but not sure what benefit this has? Had a loot at that app, but seem none the wiser?

Can someone explain please?

Thank you.

[opticd]

It saves a disk.  Why would you want to burn a disk of a backup when you can just convert it and send it over straight away?

[dupfold]

But what do you mean? Convert it to what? Is it simply an ISO extractor or what? Please can some one explain what ISO2GOD does and what does 'Game on demand' mean?

UPDATE: Just gave it a try. All clear now, simply an ISO extractor. Is there any downside to removing the padding at all? Why is padding even used in the first place? And still not sure what Game on Demand is please?

This post has been edited by dupfold: Jun 21 2010, 05:26 PM

[Andy Hewitt]

OK, one of the NXE dash updates allowed you to install the official game dvd into the internal HDD and run the game from there. This allowed a faster access speed to the data and the game ran without all the dvd access noise. The downpoint was that you still needed the original DVD in the drive to play the game as an anti-piracy measure.

Now if you were to download a game from the live servers (for example a game Demo) this would also run from the HDD but without the required DVD being needed for access (Its a download, you don't have a DVD) This is a GOD or Game on Demand title.

Team XeDev's release of NXE2GOD, is a simple app that runs on a JTagged Xbox and allowed all of your NXE (HDD) installed games to run similar to downloaded ones, by patching them so they did not not require a DVD in the drive. So it turned NXE games into GOD games .... get it so far ?

Now ISO2GOD does one better, instead of having to burn a DVD with the game, you can extract the ISO directly into a GOD capable package that you place on the Internal HDD as if you downloaded the title, or NXE/Patched it.

The Padding removal is just that ... Removes the crap and makes the installed file smaller, so only the required game data is used.

A bit more clear now? 1st post of the day and may be a little rambling .. LOL

This post has been edited by Andy Hewitt: Jun 22 2010, 05:20 PM

[dupfold]

Nice one Andy, cystal clear now thank you.

I'm liking the padding removal, but if not needed why is it there in the first place? I take it some games just need it? I've removed padding from about 10 games so far and all have worked apart from GTA Liberty Stories, which loads up until the point of episode select, I select an episode and then the 360 just hard resets?! Tried converting the game again but this time left the padding intact and it worked.

One more thing please, how do I go about converting and installing 2 disc games via ISO2GOD? Trying to convert/install Forza 2, but as its two discs and has the same media ID, kinda stuck as how to go about it?

[nuke888]

Can anybody also clear the differences in HD size saved with iso2god ? Reaso i ask this is because i have bout ten discs already burned that i would like to install but makin the iso on pc and then iso2god em will require quite much more time then just installing the discs via dashboard,so at the end what the hd space i may save
Would be useful an nxe2god that would remove padding and uneeded files over the dashboard installed games.

[Nuxtux]

QUOTE(nuke888 @ Aug 6 2010, 10:08 AM)

Can anybody also clear the differences in HD size saved with iso2god ? Reaso i ask this is because i have bout ten discs already burned that i would like to install but makin the iso on pc and then iso2god em will require quite much more time then just installing the discs via dashboard,so at the end what the hd space i may save
Would be useful an nxe2god that would remove padding and uneeded files over the dashboard installed games.

I had 70 games installed in my 1TB HDD. I had around 460GB of games installed. They were all installed in the partial option. I start to pick games at random and see how much smaller they would get if I covered them to removing full padding. I saw around a 500MB-700MB difference. So I thought to myself let say all of my games I save only 500MB, that is 500MB*70=34.179GB(that if all them were only 500MB) So then I said let say each game converted is 6.2GB in size(alot were smaller) 34.179/6.2=5.51. So that gives me 5 more full Xbox games and a few more arcade games I could fit in the same amount of space I was using up with just partial. I then start converting all the games I had in my HDD(xbox 360) to my computer so then I could transfer them over again.

The total size of that was 422GB in size. So I deleted all the Xbox 360 games on my Xbox 360 hard drive and started transferring all the new converted GOD games. I looked at my hard drive space and it was at 424GB. So in converting all my games to full padding removal I saved myself 36GB. I still got half a 1TB hard drive to still fill up. So that could just be 72GB in total I could save.

[vicicarus]

I have a question about this also. I used iso2god and it gave me a file with numbers "like a DLC file"and a much smaller iso. I was reading that the file ( with numbers ) goes into the partition 3, content/0000000000 folder so my question is what can I do with the rebuilt iso? Is this burnable? I have been using wx360 to convert my games can I convert the rebuilt iso made by iso2god to make a smaller file to install to my external HDD using wx360?

[vicicarus]

QUOTE(vicicarus @ Aug 15 2010, 10:34 AM)

I have a question about this also. I used iso2god and it gave me a file with numbers "like a DLC file"and a much smaller iso. I was reading that the file ( with numbers ) goes into the partition 3, content/0000000000 folder so my question is what can I do with the rebuilt iso? Is this burnable? I have been using wx360 to convert my games can I convert the rebuilt iso made by iso2god to make a smaller file to install to my external HDD using wx360?

Anyone ?