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Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: NerdENerd on November 20, 2004, 05:54:00 PM

I think a great feature for dvd2xbox would be a game manager.
The file manager is great for people who understand what they are doing but I have installed it on a few noobs xboxes who have stuffed their xbox buy deleting the wrong stuff while trying to free up some harddrive space.

What would be a good solution would be a game manager that listed the game sizes in e: f: & g: \games and allowed you to delete the selected game. This would make it much easier for noobs to free up harddrive space with much less risk of damaging their xbox and deleting stuff they should not.

Last time I went round to my brothers place he had nothing on his harddrive. No dvd2xbox, xbox media center or emulators I had put on there because his has no idea about computers and deleted them while trying to make space to put a game on there.

Another useful feature would be to recognise Craxtion multi game disks and list the games on the disk and allow you to copy the games you want to properly named folders on the harddrive rather than game1, game2 etc.

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: kilroy1 on December 01, 2004, 10:04:00 PM

My suggestion for improving DVD2XBOX would be:

Ability to copy a game spanned across multiple discs

Granted, I have a DVD Dual Layer burner, so it is easy for me to make backups of my games that exceed teh 4Gb boundary of a DVD-R -- however, the damn DVD+r DL media is so expensive that I'd rather not.

My suggestion for the DVD2XBOX application would be to look for the presence of a special file on a DVD that is being copied to the Xbox HD. Something line "MULTIDISK."

If DVD2XBOX detects this file, it would read it and know to expect more discs whos contents would be copied into the same directory. the MULTIDISK file could be XML and could contain information like "Disk 1 of 2." Upon copying all the files on the first disk, DVD2XBOX would ejct the first disk and prompt the user to "insert disk 2 of 2" and press Start to continue.

I'd rather pay $0.25 x 2 for DVD-R disks instead of $10 bucks for a single DVD+R DL disk.

Yes, I know that technically I could accomplish this today by putting a copy of the game's default.xbe on both disks, but I'd have to start a new copy operation for the second disk and as we all know, DVD2XBOX would attempt to copy it to a submenu with "001" appended to the end of the path.

I'm just suggesting to make the process "idiot proof"

-Kilroy

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: kilroy1 on December 05, 2004, 09:44:00 PM

Suggestion: Add F: support by default

I can't figure out why support for E: would be enabled by default and not support for F:.

Yes, I know I can press the white button and enable it, but when modding boxes for friends, I sometimes forget. Then I have to walk them through enabling it which is a PITA.

Since you shouldn't dump games to E: anyway (unless you prefer to get banned by XB Live), whay enable it in the app by default?

-Kilroy1

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: WiSo on December 06, 2004, 11:30:00 AM

If using the stock hdd e: is the only available partition. enabling f: per default could cause noobs to think that they have a f: drive and would post thousands of threads that dvd2xbox failed to copy it.

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: Vayate on December 06, 2004, 06:19:00 PM

I recently tried to backup two games in a row (Rogue Agent and another game). The first backed up properly, but DVD2Xbox failed to read the second game. I got the dvd2xbox001 directory option, which I changed, but when the backing up began the progress bars and such were buggered. It said I my overall progress was 2000+% done and the data remaining to copy was -2GB. You might want to look into this.

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: SEHF on December 06, 2004, 06:30:00 PM

SUGGESTION:  Add USB Flash Drive(Thumb) Support!

IT would be cool to have this so I could sometimes use my pendrive, 1 GIG, to transfer files back and forth!

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: kilroy1 on December 06, 2004, 07:58:00 PM

QUOTE (WiSo @ Dec 6 2004, 08:02 PM)

If using the stock hdd e: is the only available partition. enabling f: per default could cause noobs to think that they have a f: drive and would post thousands of threads that dvd2xbox failed to copy it.

WiSo: Acceptible answer and positioning understood.

How about the ability to add support for F: by default to the XML configuration file? This way, when I'm building a bunch 'o Xboxes for friends, I can use my config file and not have to worry.

It's a shame to make comprimises for noobs. Allowing for a configuration setting in the XML file should satify all involved.

Then again, why not just detect if F: and/or G: is present and if it is, then enable it by default, unless disabled in the XML file. This would be the most idiot-proof approah in my opinion... It cant be that difficult to detect the presence of a partition.

-Kilroy

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: Heet on December 06, 2004, 11:39:00 PM

Funny you say that about F being enabled by default.  I get boxes returned all the time because I forget to enable it.

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: Rodent on December 07, 2004, 03:03:00 AM

well,
just make F/G enable/disable from XML,
so one can select what he needs.

Another Option would be an auto detect feature:

If F = 0byte disable

If G = 0byte disable

rgds
Alex

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: WiSo on December 07, 2004, 12:52:00 PM

QUOTE (Vayate @ Dec 7 2004, 02:51 AM)

I recently tried to backup two games in a row (Rogue Agent and another game). The first backed up properly, but DVD2Xbox failed to read the second game. I got the dvd2xbox001 directory option, which I changed, but when the backing up began the progress bars and such were buggered. It said I my overall progress was 2000+% done and the data remaining to copy was -2GB. You might want to look into this.

difficult to say what happened but usually if it can't read the game properly the whole copy process may produce weird results. try to reinsert the game and wait until the statusline is updated.

Title: Dvd2xbox Sugestions
Post by: WiSo on December 07, 2004, 12:56:00 PM

QUOTE (Rodent @ Dec 7 2004, 11:35 AM)

well, just make F/G enable/disable from XML, so one can select what he needs. Another Option would be an auto detect feature: If F = 0byte disable If G = 0byte disable rgds Alex

I took the code from XBMP and they had lockup problems with auto detection. Then it wasn't changed for a long time. Maybe I give it a try with the method u suggested but make auto detection configurable via the xml.