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Drew826

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« on: August 19, 2002, 05:04:00 PM »
umm...you don't have to have an ftp connection to play games off the hard drive. you just set up your menu.ini file manually, or have it list them automatically. or use boXplorer to run the games. there's no reason to run games from an ftp client
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cyrusuncc

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« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2002, 05:23:00 PM »
yeah.. if you don't feel like editing menu.ini just put the games in e:\games and go to Launch menu.  Then choose launch games off hd

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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2002, 11:30:00 PM »
I'm writing a util that will generate a custom menu.ini for evoX, and I'm hoping to get a beta version up on the 'net tomorrow night. I'll post a link in the forums to it so you guys can try it out and give me some feedback. It should hopefully make the menu.ini process easy to customize for everyone!
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« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2002, 06:09:00 AM »
Jesus christ.

If you did it right you do not have to ftp to your xbox as the menu.ini if let in auto mode will add the games for you.


So soon as you edit the menu.ini file it will go into mannual mode so stuff that
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Drew826

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« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2002, 08:38:00 AM »
There is a utility to customize the menu.ini file. It's called Notepad.
Check out how easy this is:

Step 1: Open Notepad.
Step 2: Open menu.ini (although ini files should already be associated with notepad, so you can probably simplify those 2 steps by double-clicking the menu.ini file)
Step 3: Add your item in whatever group you want, or create a new group for it. For example:

Section "Emulators"
{
Item "Sega Genesis Emulator","e:\emulators\dgenx\default.xbe"
}

You can change the name or the path to reflect where your game/app/emu is located.

Step 4: Repeat as necessary
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