I see that you are posting quite a bit. Are you aware of the site here? :
http://xmugen.nugnugnug.com/ ? I have been playing xmugen since 05/06. I simply love it. I upgraded the hd on my softmodded xbox just for Xmugen. I have yet to have any experience with the 500gb boxes and Xmugen. I will tell you this it can be a finicky prog due to the caching of a swap file of either 512-712 on x i believe or 1gb-2gb on the e or f drives. Sometimes you do have to clear cache to make space. Sometimes ur not booting maynot even be a cache issue. Some xboxes seem to like it in a folder called Games others in a folder called Emulators. If you are going through quite a bit of xbox mugen modding it I recommend with all due respect against sloppy sloppy. It can drive you quite batty lol. Oh I almost forgot to mention another thing yo may notice is that on 1.6 xbox's the screen is slightly zoomed in. So ver 1.0 is ideal for mugen play. I reread some of your posts and to be honest I doubt that Xmugen is incompatible with any particular brand/version xbox(i have seen it on quite a few variations at this point I can't imagine that the brand/hd makes a difference) I feel that this is more of a format/directory issue. You may want to tinker with the setup i have uploaded here (it is for large hd's) and see how the xbox's like it:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/kfb3b8 (note I have since updated this quite a bit and even have the new cfem pack booting as will stay tuned for an update to this pack.) Nwayz hope this input helps ya! Now do me a favor and write a newb friendly tutorial to how to burn the iso to dvd. I know this can be done. I have no interest in one. Just for my small hd softmod friends. Ciao!
And yes I mirror your opinion I cannot believe it is not more popular. I am trying my best in my area in ny to change that. But it appears to be because of the difficulty involved/lack of awareness...
yeah im also trying to get mugen to become real popular around my area so far i have gotten a few friends to catch an interest on this, but im amazed how many people pass something this awesome without being aware.
i myself am trying to open a forum where people can trade characters that are no longer available.
and also i dont mind sharing my characters which i have tried to optimize for xmugen (i did it by extracting their snd files, doing batch editing of their sound files,and remounting their snd files to make them smaller and make them easier on the xbox's low 64 mb of ram. Also ive used utilities that help clean the sff files off them and they work great. im trying very hard to setup a small comunity where people can share m.u.g.e.n characters which are no longer found, or just share their m.u.g.e.n (windows or xbox) experience in general
maybe if i can get some members we can make a database of which characters run good on xmugen, etc
if anyone needs help drop a message or feel free to start a mugen related thread there.