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[BrOkeFlOw]

I've been reading threads and tutorials for a almost two months, cause I've been planning to mod my friend's xbox.   I want to use the SC exploit to load ndure.

I have a chipped xbox, and am trying to use this to tranfer saves to a memory card to move the saves over to the unmodded box.  I started out by making sure niether xbox had any SC saves on them, erased the entire memory card, and then visited the usual places to find the exploit.

I got a few different versions of the SC gamesave exploit, cause the first never worked.
I have the original SC version that came with one of the first batches of Xboxes.

I've read about saves getting corrupted, and so have erased the gamesave exploit off my HD and memory card a few times, so I can restart the transfer fresh.  This I've done about 4-5 times, at least twice with each of the exploits I've downloaded.

Each time I get the gamesave onto the unmodded box, and load up the game, I see the linux profile.
Once I choose that it gives me a choice of checkpoints or levels.  Following every tut I've read, I choose checkpoints, and it freezes there.  It's not just taking a long time to load, cause I usually let it sit for about 10 mins before I decide it's stuck...

Any ideas ?

[chorizo1]

does the xbox in question have any LIVE downloaded SC content? or other saves for the game?

if so you need to delete that as well.

[BrOkeFlOw]

As far as I can tell no, there is nothing at all on the unmodded xbox.

Before I started trying to do this, I erased absolutely everything that I can erase through the memory function of the MS Dash.
Actually I erased all saves (even non SC ones) from my modded xbox too, just to be safe.

On the stock box, if I don't see anything listed through the MS Dash's memory function, is there anyway that there could still be anything left over that would interfere ?

After cleaning out both Xboxes, I then ftp'd the exploit files to my chipped xbox, used the MS Dash to transfer both saves (Linux profile, and linux installer ) onto the mem card, then transfered the saves from the mem card to the unmodded xbox.

Pop in SC, load up linux profile....always crashes whether I choose "Checkpoints" OR "Levels"

I tried to load it with the mem card still in the controller, without the memcard plugged in, tried the normal ntsc SC exploit, the UXE SC exploit.....they are all hanging at the same place. Just for fun, I tried to see if the softmod could run on my chipped box, and it also hangs at the same place.

Obviously I am doing something wrong here, but for the life of me I can't find it.

Is it possible that there are pre-platinum versions of SC that can't be exploited ??
Just so someone can double check for me, on the bottom of my SC disc, it has:
US01209A-L1  and then in smaller writing :  01+A03+

[chorizo1]

are you using a cheap memory card?

I did same thing as you, but I used the official M$ card. cheaper ones tend to corrupt large saves.

you should check if you have dash 5960 - does it have a LIVE tab in the dash?

[BrOkeFlOw]

I am using an official memory card.
The dashboard options I have are :

Memory
Music
Xbox Live
Settings

K 1.00.4034.01
D 1.00.5960.01

My Xbox can connect to the net fine, can make a connection with xbox live, but I have no live account.
Time and date set themselves (I assume through the net ?? )
Xbox is in English, normal video mode, dolby stereo


PS  I just wanted to add, thanks for the time you are taking to try and help.

[BrOkeFlOw]

[quaote]After cleaning out both Xboxes, I then ftp'd the exploit files to my chipped xbox, used the MS Dash to transfer both saves (Linux profile, and linux installer) onto the mem card, then transfered the saves from the mem card to the unmodded xbox.[/quote]

Yes, I did.
 Still no answer in sight.

[crackfeen]

haha best solution ever i had the same issue.. i don't know what's causing it but i had the same problem.. there are two links in the save file.. the checkpoints and levels.. the first one is the one you're supposed to go into to install the mod.. if you go into levels and bress B then go to checkpoints it should work.. try it

[BrOkeFlOw]

I tried that just now, and apparently it doesn't actually freeze when I choose levels....it's just that the screen doesn't change... I can use B to cancel out, but still once I select "Checkpoints" it freezes still.

I tried to press A then B fast, tried just pressing A, waiting a few seconds before pressing B....either way, once I leave the level selection, the checkpoints always freeze my xbox.

Does anyone have any ideas ? Or possibly any other information ?


Does someone have another way to softmod this xbox ?
I can open my pc case to try the xbhdm route, but I'd prefer to just use a gamesave exploit, cause there are few xboxes I want to softmod, and I don't want to open some of them (...warranty from removing the screws and such.

[BrOkeFlOw]

Ok I don't know why it has finally worked, I did exactly what I've been doing the past 3 days.
This time it's working with the "splinter_cell_exploit-ntsc.zip"   version.
The one I've been trying more often is the UXE SC exploit...  cause it never failed to transfer from the mem card to the HD, while the former usually takes a few tries for it to work.

For the 10th ? 11th ? time today I erased all traces of any saves from both xboxes and the mem card.

Ftp'd the "splinter_cell_exploit-ntsc.zip" exploit to my xbox, msdashed it to my mem card, and then msdashed it from the memcard to nonmodded box.  It took a few tries for the save to be transfered from the memcard to the HD, cause it failed a few times.  This is odd (to me) cause the other exploit never failed in transfer.  Inbetween failed transfers I erased all traces from the HD of the save and tried again till it worked.

This time it worked, and I was able to load into Evox. !!!!

Hurray for me.

And I can't leave out

A HUGE THANKS TO ALL WHO TRIED TO HELP ME

Thanks a lot, you guys.    

You can be sure you'll be seeing me around, but hopefully it's not with too many questions.

[crackfeen]

congrats! life sure tastes better after your first mod  

[chorizo1]

LOL, you had me stumped with this one.

congrats.

[jC!]

Bumping Post..

I'm having the same problem BrOkeFlOw did. I read though the post and tried everything. I'm now running K:4817 / D:5960. With the Ndure installers I get black screens, everything else, error 21. Each time a fresh install with everything on the unmodded xbox deleted and cleared. These blank screens seem to only happen with krayzies installers. I've tried everything, and nothing seems to work.

I have another post on the subject, but I thought I'd bump this one being that it's the problem I'm having, and it's a very recent post so this must be a new problem.