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OG Xbox Forums => Game Hacking => Xbox Game Forums => Forza Hacking => Topic started by: 2sweet4u on July 08, 2005, 03:13:00 PM

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: 2sweet4u on July 08, 2005, 03:13:00 PM

How come no one wants to tell anybody how to make downloaded saved files work? I can't use xbox live, since I have a softmod, and I am terrible at the game :( I just want to be able to get all the cars/modify them and play multiplayer with my brothers.

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: brienj on July 09, 2005, 11:47:00 AM

QUOTE(2sweet4u @ Jul 8 2005, 04:48 PM)

Use my Non-XBL AuthKey patcher program and resign the saves with the Non-XBL AuthKey. ;)

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: pr0nstar on July 09, 2005, 01:30:00 PM

your tool doesnt work im sorry brienj.... y dont you just post a link to a PATCHED NTSC XBE and a PATCHED SAVEGAME (100% beaten, all cars unlocked) so everybody is finally happy....

i dont get it ... y dont you just post that stuff already patched i mean wtf the authkey you provide is for everyone the same so plz do us all a favour and do the actual patchngi process and post the package at xboxsaves.com or even here... thx

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: brienj on July 09, 2005, 08:42:00 PM

QUOTE(pr0nstar @ Jul 9 2005, 03:05 PM)

WTF are you talking about, the program works great, and many people are using it just fine. It's user error, not the program that is your problem, and there are MANY reasons why I won't do it the way you wish I would do it, and bad-mouthing me and my program aren't gonna make me do it. Will you people ever get it through your damn heads? <_<

This post has been edited by brienj: Jul 10 2005, 03:43 AM

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: 2sweet4u on July 10, 2005, 09:36:00 AM

BrienJ, thanks, I found your patch and I'm going to test it out in a little while.

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: 2sweet4u on July 10, 2005, 09:52:00 AM

Hmm, so I got everything I need except the resign info.. and xbox-saves forums have been down for days i think

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: 2sweet4u on July 10, 2005, 12:02:00 PM

Alright I think I found the info, not sure. however, I used your patch and I have a question

when I'm resigning the save, do I still use
"[4D53006E]
ID=[4D53006E]"

or do I use
"[new save folder here]
ID=[new save folder here]"

or "[new save folder here]
ID=[23 (the number i chose when patching]"

I'm a bit confused.

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: 2sweet4u on July 10, 2005, 01:00:00 PM

Umm.. sorry for all the questions but another thing i realized is xbox save manager only reads the saves when theyre in zip files, so when i open the resigner, do I load the zip file to patch? Or do I unzip it and load the actual userprofile.xml file? also, if i do unzip it, how do I rezip it to make the save work again in the save manager.

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: brienj on July 10, 2005, 01:56:00 PM

QUOTE(2sweet4u @ Jul 10 2005, 02:35 PM)

Actually, it doesn't really matter what you put as the ID number, it is mainly just a convention so the entries are separated in the ini file. ;)

You will have to unzip your save, maintaining the folder structure, then take the userprofile.xml file and resign it, then put it back into the folder(s) that you took it from after extracting it. Then right-click on the main folder that contains the folder(s) and choose, add to zip, give the zip file a name, and make sure you save the folder info. Another alternative, is to open the original save file and drag and drop the userprofile.xml file onto WinZip and replace the existing one. Either method should work for you. ;)

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: 2sweet4u on July 10, 2005, 02:12:00 PM

Alright, if you don't mind, here's exactly what I did.

I patched the exe, now my forza shows up as Non-XBL Forza Motorsport on the game list, and the new save folder is working. I made a brand new saved game to check it out.

I unzipped the save file, and I put the UserProfile.xml file into the temp folder is the save resigner, and I opened up the save resigner, chose forza motorsport and then I chose the UserProfile.xml file and hit apply. Then I copied the userprofile back to the save file folder, and I FTPed the folder directly onto my xbox without using the save manager (because when I made a zip out of the folder, xbox manager still didn't find it for some reason) and when I went into the game, it was on the profile list, but it said damaged.

Did I miss something? P.S. The resign info I used was [4D53006E]
ID=[4D53006E]
Title=Forza Motorsport
SigKey=DD46A68DB08C6B0086FDE4F198E0C656
AuthKey=31A43F9B548DB278EF1D0AF8E74BD5B016324526
DataFile=UserProfile.xml
SigOffset=-20
DataOffset=0
DataLen=-20
SigType=NoRoam

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: brienj on July 10, 2005, 06:59:00 PM

QUOTE(2sweet4u @ Jul 10 2005, 03:47 PM)

Ok, you did pretty much everything correctly, however, I want you to start another new profile or delete that one and start over, then when you open the userprofile.xml file in XSavSig, DO NOT hit the apply button, instead, see if the calculated and current signatures are the same, if they are not the same on a fresh new save, your HD Key is WRONG. You must first fix that problem before you can do any hacking of the save or resigning. ;)

If however the calculated and current signatures are the same, you are doing something else wrong, but I am betting that it's just a wrong HD Key, that is the problem 99.999% of the time. ;)

This post has been edited by brienj: Jul 11 2005, 02:01 AM

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: 2sweet4u on July 12, 2005, 01:03:00 PM

Ahhh, I'll check that. I copied it directly off of the tv screen maybe I made an error.

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: brienj on July 12, 2005, 01:05:00 PM

QUOTE(2sweet4u @ Jul 12 2005, 02:38 PM)

Ahhh, I'll check that. I copied it directly off of the tv screen maybe I made an error.

Yeah, if you copied that way, it's alot easier to make a mistake. But yeah, if you started a new save, there wouldn't even be a reason to resign the save anyway, only if you modified it. ;)

Title: Making Downloaded Saved Games Work
Post by: sirpyke on July 12, 2005, 09:14:00 PM

say brienj i know this is kinda lame but can you do a tut on this? i want to throw in my modded cars but am kinda scared shitless about messing up something while trying to resign it...if it isnt too much trouble. Please.

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OG Xbox Forums => Game Hacking => Xbox Game Forums => Forza Hacking => Topic started by: 2sweet4u on July 08, 2005, 03:13:00 PM