Succesful Backup Swap On 360 !, Merged Topics Options

[xodus_xodus]

Hi,

This video shows the swap of a xbox 360 game with a dump of it on a cdr..

From this, we can deduce some information..

Take a look at it.

The video is there :
http://adn.nihlium.be/bob/HotSwap_by_sliders58.rar

many thanks to sliders58 from a famous belgium forum for this trial..


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EDIT MODERATOR: ... above link is down, here's another mirror and also 2nd video (much longer, more details) and 3rd video (showing that if you slowly swap the disc it doesn't work)

video1: http://www.youtube.com/?v=l0fkXld5Tqc
video2: http://media.putfile.com/x360gueuxbe_swap_methode ; http://media.putfile.com/x360gueuxbe_swap_methode
video3: http://media.putfile.com/x360gueuxbe_swap_slow ; http://media.putfile.com/x360gueuxbe_swap_methode

[Druggedpolak]

from what i see i think its still loading from cacheing (sp?)....
whats everyone elses thoughts? Also when he stops the disk to show us that it is a backup the game is still going... tell him to remove the disk but then not replace it with anything and see what happens..
i dont believe it though

[Tobb555]

someone already tried this on the forums and he came back and said it didnt work

[ravenslayer]

now thats some pretty fast swap he does there
i think i'm gonna try this for myself to see if it works

[modthebox.tk]

uhh.. ok.

it can't be that simple; it just can't..

This post has been edited by modthebox.tk: Dec 25 2005, 06:09 PM

[t_mac_ca]

WoW can anyone else confirm this working?

[OpticNurv]

i wouldnt doubt it working, but i also wouldnt doubt another update over XBL in the next few days here

[Anubis-MG]

Yep I already tried this method 3 weeks ago and I am the one that posted that is did not work.

Or it does work but only till the dvd drive has to read the disc to load a new area.

It would really be nice if these people would read the posts before doing things that others have already

done!!

[cyberg4]

looks nice! personally I wouldn't feel comfortable doing a swap like that in order to play my backups but it's a start. I might be willing to do it once in order to open a ftp server to softmod it (ie. one of the tracks if replaced with an ftp server). Unfortunately if this is real M$ will probably release a patch for it in the near future oh well it looks like a start.
Edit: Just saw Anubis' post. Looks like it may not work after all. but it may be a start.

This post has been edited by cyberg4: Dec 25 2005, 07:14 PM

[crosseye]

and the morons continue to reign. This is absolutely absurd. They got it to play a little video from a CD..OHHH NOOOO teh 360 has been haxored! As Anubis stated, you could do the same with a game disc also. The game will continue to play until the cache has been played out. Hell, I could put up a video of it playing without a disc, as long as the video didn't run past how far the game had cached ahead.

This post has been edited by crosseye: Dec 25 2005, 09:20 PM

[xodus_xodus]

I can insure you that it is not a fake.
He also reports that after when he has stopped the dvd to show that this is a dvd-r, the xbox did freeze.
but when he released the disc, the game just continued.. this is not on the video...
Therefore, this can't be just a caching result..
From what I understand there must be one media check at the beginning of the game.. then there are no media check after that..
I can try to ask him to do some trial but for each trial I must explain what the benefit of it..
The guy seems opened to suggestions..
S.

[rootofallevil]

IT WORKS! i tried it

[xodus_xodus]

Here is an other intesting trial..

take a blank cdrw of 700MB..
copy an xex file from a backup into this cdrw + as many files as you can...
burn and finalize the cdrw..

switch the xbox on..
once on the menu, put the cdrw in..

the game will start but the xbox will say that there is a read error with this cdrw.. because files are missing..

won't work with a dvdrw..

therefore, the X2 can execute cdrws.. and there is a media check..

This post has been edited by xodus_xodus: Dec 25 2005, 10:47 PM

[t_mac_ca]

Here is an other intesting trial..

take a blank cdrw of 700MB..
copy an xex file from a backup into this cdrw + as many files as you can...
burn and finalize the cdrw..

switch the xbox on..
once on the menu, put the cdrw in..

the game will start but the xbox will say that there is a read error with this cdrw.. because files are missing..

won't work with a dvdrw..

therefore, the X2 can execute cdrws.. and there is a media check..

So in theory i could burn the multiplayer part of halo2(which is less than 700mb) and burn it to a cd-rw and it should play?

[Druggedpolak]

i think there should be a test to see who gets into the hacking portion of the forum.
Why do all of you believe when a person says that they did something that they actually did it?
I bet the people that saw the video and said yeah it must work, wont even try doing it
also wouldnt you see this posted EVERYWHERE if it did work?