Well here are the titles I have sucessfully made backups of:
- DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball
- Panzer Dragoon Orta
- Ghost Recon Island Thunder
- MVP Baseball 2003
- NCAA Football 2004
- Midnight Club 2002
- Midtown Madness
- Starwars Knights of The Republic
- LOTR Fellowship & Two Towers
The trick is to make sure you are running the newest signed Phoenix Bios Loader v1.3 (not the font signed or audio signed one, but the one signed with XDK kit), the most up to date EvolutionX dashboard and, if using a dashboard exploit, I'd recommend the bernie reloaded fonts or the bigfonts.tgz file. Please don't ask me where to find them. Just google for it and I'm sure you'll find it.
To make a backup, I use Dvd2xbox. This program will run 2 media check passes and patch the necessary default.xbe files. Almost all of the
games only needed the first media patch. Make sure that in the evox.ini file you turn off IGR settings. Some
games like the Matrix, fuck up with it on. (At least in my case). Lastly, I would use IsoCraxiontion version 2.2 to make the images. Make sure in preferences you use gdfimage instead of xiso. You should be aware that there are two version of gdfimage on the net: one called GNU GdfImage and the other GdfImage from MS. Go with the latter. It makes more reliable images. After that, your set to go. One of the problems you should take a look at might be a media or burning issue. I tend to be very conservative and do a test burn, record, and final verification on the dvd-rw. If it runs in the Xbox under Evox, than I'll burn it under a brand of DVD-R's that
work on my shitty Thompson drive. I use Memorex DVD-rW and DVD-r at burn no faster than 1x for the final mastering on DVD-R.
One note, with the Enter the Matrix, some of the file names are longer than the fatx file system will support. I believe it is arround 40 files. You need to download the patch utility that will rename the files and patch the default.xbe file so that you can upload back the the HDD. I forgot the exact name, search the forums.
Hope this helps anyone to make reliable back up of owned
games. I'll be happy to answer any PMs.