Usb Storage Xplorer Options

[slasherking823]

Here it is:
Description: Drive Eplorer that works on USB storage devices formatted by the Xbox 360

Port of my old multiplatform fatx driver, now it has a gui.
It works!

http://halo.gruntmods.com/Files/Xtaf_Release_Gui_.rar : has built in updater, will update upon launch ( thanks to gruntmods for server )

Linux/OSX(currently broken due to obfuscation, will fix later)
You need to install mono to use this on those systems( i will not provide help on installing mono)
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
To run: Open a terminal, type "mono /path/to/xtaf.exe" without the quotes
Currently, user v33 with linux/OSX, as for now linux/windows version are merged


THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE: Expect bugs
For support, and to post bugs, visit http://darkjump.co.cc/forums

V33: Fixed many issues, it now should handle cache partitions correctly, pulled out of beta for now.

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Update, v35, fixes hdd support
Update, v36, I made the mistake of posting on se7ensins, got flamed, new option for one of their idiots.
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V42: hdd support should be stable along with large usb devices, if your hdd does not load then try unchecking the load method option in options
Full changelog available through link inside application.

This post has been edited by slasherking823: Dec 20 2010, 08:39 AM

[Guily6669]

This post is mostly for slimshady322 to read, so dont waste ur time reading it

I agree with u slimshady322, but hey u can't imagine the number of cheaters out there, im in almost all of those "hack forums", and there are hundreds of ppl trading M$ pts and live cards for like a full unlocked game (all the gammerscore and shitz), also there are tons of tuts how to easily do that, but was only for who had the hardware to conect the hdd to the pc, now anyone can do that and it kinda suck...

I hate cheaters too, i hacked my account gamerscore, but only my offline account, my live and unique account i use to play games has only 3900gs in it and i have my 360 for more than a year (dont play much in it)...

I kinda dont like this usb update at all, but hey im so damn happy to have my hdd back, because I tried to uncripple my hdd, i soldered the right resistances and all that stuf and in the end the app couldnt detect my paralell port which has the right drivers installed and is working fine, i even tried all my bios settings and no result, so i shit on that, and now i have my hdd back wooo thank M$ for that, although they didint had any right to ban the hdd which is not a part of the "live".

Also i know how to hack the gamerscore and never to get caught (timestamps, right order, always change the info on the "3 spots ~full gs, all unlocked achievments and all unlocked achievments/gs for that game "). But i never did on my account, although i did to my friends, because like everyone i see they'r interested in be the best and have lot's of gammerscore which suck, i dont care anything about my GS.

Although im afraid i may get a account ban or gamerscore reseted in my account, but thats just because i played a lot more in my banned console, i had 9000gs in my unique profile, i removed the flag from the ban and put it in a not banned console, but i coudlnt login on live it said i had some data bad, so i started all over again.

I restored my account from live with 3000gs in it, and then i played in the banned console, and my saves were almost at the end of the games, and i unlocked only the last achiev. on this account, and i fixed again my profile and this time i could connect on live with it and it updated my account with the achievments i did in the banned console. So im afraid i might get reseted, because i didint unlocked the achiev from the right order, but still i didint cheated, i had 9000gs in my banned console because i earned them.

I only hack my saves to get like money and shit..., and i loved to steal ppl«'s cars back in forza 2 woo old times, i have like 30 awesome paints i stolen from ppl's forza 2 and i can resign them all in one pack for other account and play with them LOL, but still hacking GS is total LAME.

ps: there are even ppl selling their UBER accounts for 500$ on Ebay sad bastards...
ps2: sry for my bad english

Hey Guily6669

that's nice, i'm definitely gonna take a look into it, nice piece of hardware didn't even know it existed, thanks.

I'm glad i helped. And although we now can use pens, i still recommend u buy something like what i said, it will never be a waste of money, because u can check all the hdd and u will see everything like a real explorer when using 360explorerextreme2, u can see the hdd partitions, and u have all the folders named in there, and it's faster and easier to put something inside, u can acess the 00000... folder and even do a full backup of ur data in ur pc, so u can have 999999Tb of installed games although ur hdd is only 120gb, because u can have the game installed in the pc and if u may want, u can simply move it to ur hdd when u want...

This is how the files look like when conecting ur hdd to the pc and using 360explorer:

Some games saves important data in cache folder...

In the compatibility folder are xbox 1 emulator updates to run xbox 1 games...

Inside content any folder in there with numbers and letters is a profile and the 00000... folder is the 360 console <<profile>>, that's where it goes all the data that doesn't belong to any profile at all, and therefore aren't blocked to any profile and can be used by any profile, but files can still have a console lock in them...

ps: and for 4$ which is what i paid, i even won more, because if i would buy only the external sata connection in a pc store i would pay 4$ only for it...
Keep Cool

This post has been edited by Guily6669: Apr 10 2010, 01:41 AM

[slimshady322]

This post is mostly for slimshady322 to read, so dont waste ur time reading it

I agree with u slimshady322, but hey u can't imagine the number of cheaters out there, im in almost all of those "hack forums", and there are hundreds of ppl trading M$ pts and live cards for like a full unlocked game (all the gammerscore and shitz), also there are tons of tuts how to easily do that, but was only for who had the hardware to conect the hdd to the pc, now anyone can do that and it kinda suck...

I hate cheaters too, i hacked my account gamerscore, but only my offline account, my live and unique account i use to play games has only 3900gs in it and i have my 360 for more than a year (dont play much in it)...

I kinda dont like this usb update at all, but hey im so damn happy to have my hdd back, because I tried to uncripple my hdd, i soldered the right resistances and all that stuf and in the end the app couldnt detect my paralell port which has the right drivers installed and is working fine, i even tried all my bios settings and no result, so i shit on that, and now i have my hdd back wooo thank M$ for that, although they didint had any right to ban the hdd which is not a part of the "live".

Also i know how to hack the gamerscore and never to get caught (timestamps, right order, always change the info on the "3 spots ~full gs, all unlocked achievments and all unlocked achievments/gs for that game "). But i never did on my account, although i did to my friends, because like everyone i see they'r interested in be the best and have lot's of gammerscore which suck, i dont care anything about my GS.

Although im afraid i may get a account ban or gamerscore reseted in my account, but thats just because i played a lot more in my banned console, i had 9000gs in my unique profile, i removed the flag from the ban and put it in a not banned console, but i coudlnt login on live it said i had some data bad, so i started all over again.

I restored my account from live with 3000gs in it, and then i played in the banned console, and my saves were almost at the end of the games, and i unlocked only the last achiev. on this account, and i fixed again my profile and this time i could connect on live with it and it updated my account with the achievments i did in the banned console. So im afraid i might get reseted, because i didint unlocked the achiev from the right order, but still i didint cheated, i had 9000gs in my banned console because i earned them.

I only hack my saves to get like money and shit..., and i loved to steal ppl«'s cars back in forza 2 woo old times, i have like 30 awesome paints i stolen from ppl's forza 2 and i can resign them all in one pack for other account and play with them LOL, but still hacking GS is total LAME.

Well I like two things about this update: I can use a usb stick to take my game save or profile to a friend and play there (restoring the gamertag takes some time and my game saves would stay at home and taking the HDD to a friend is always risky and it's heavy) and I also have another console I only use for watching TV. That console does not have a HDD so the a cheap usb stick enabled it to play H.264, MKV etc. content.

Since I am not going to use it for hacking, cheating or anything (except for maybe creating my own custom theme using non-gaming related pictures) I don't really have a problem with how it works. However if others do (people that were unaware of the possibilty before) those things on Live and MS has to ban or take away their achievements that would piss me off because it would make the impression that xbox live is not safe or hacked. I know it has been this way before but not to this extent.

I now kinda agree with you that an encryption would be better but only given the circumstances that it is strong enough. A weak or breakable encryption would only suck because well it would be ineffective.

However I don't know if it is even possible to make such an encryption given the time hackers and modders will waste breaking it.

I also know how to do these things (flashing a console's DVD drive, using game saves to cheat or editing your profile on the PC), but I chose not do so because I bought the console to play honest with it. I also respect it when people or a company invest time or money in a product and if I want to play I game I will buy it or rent it. I know this attitude might be the minority on this forums, but I wanted to say this anyway.

[punkreas]

That console does not have a HDD so the a cheap usb stick enabled it to play H.264, MKV etc. content.

Is it possible to play mkv files on xbox? Anyway, how it looks about installing Media Update to xbox by USB? I am not able to connect to live (for obvious reason )

[slimshady322]

Is it possible to play mkv files on xbox? Anyway, how it looks about installing Media Update to xbox by USB? I am not able to connect to live (for obvious reason )

Sorry if I have awoken false hopes, but MKV is probably not gonna work for your ("for obvious reason "). That Option Media Update adds support for H.264 playback. That means that the xbox 360 can use its hardware to decode H.264 content.

Additionally, the update also enables support for the MP4 and AVI container. Those are the extensions that files with videos in the H.264 codec have. MKV is not supported by the update because it is difficult to really support MKV because the container can hold mostly anything (not only H.264 or DivX, like AVI does). E. g., MKV can also be used for DVD rips which use MPEG2 which the Xbox cannot play so easily.

These rules or restrictions only apply when playing videos from a USB drive or when streaming the files from the PC.

Anyway, enough about that.

Another option (the option I use for MKV (and also MPEG2, AVI, etc.)) is to use a PC with Windows 7. Windows 7 (with the Media Center, included in Home Premium and better) also adds support for H.264, but again not for MKV. But since you can do pretty much with a PC (add codecs etc.), there is an app by DivX that will allow MKV playback (complete with H.264 video and AC3 (Surround Sound) or AAC audio). If you start Windows Media Center on your Xbox (your PC has to be turned on and set up before of course), you can then play pretty much anything, including MKV. I have chosen this option for all of my media, including live and recorded TV because it is really easy to use.

But AFAIK WMC in disabled on banned consoles.

Short Version: I use a PC with Windows 7 Media Center to stream the MKV videos to the Xbox, playing from older OSs or from a USB drive will not work.

EDIT: Yeah well I only have the Optional Media Update on the usb flash drive and it works fine, enabling the playback of said content.

This post has been edited by slimshady322: Apr 10 2010, 11:34 PM

[Evtrek]

Sorry if I have awoken false hopes, but MKV is probably not gonna work for your ("for obvious reason "). That Option Media Update adds support for H.264 playback. That means that the xbox 360 can use its hardware to decode H.264 content.

Additionally, the update also enables support for the MP4 and AVI container. Those are the extensions that files with videos in the H.264 codec have. MKV is not supported by the update because it is difficult to really support MKV because the container can hold mostly anything (not only H.264 or DivX, like AVI does). E. g., MKV can also be used for DVD rips which use MPEG2 which the Xbox cannot play so easily.

These rules or restrictions only apply when playing videos from a USB drive or when streaming the files from the PC.

Anyway, enough about that.

Another option (the option I use for MKV (and also MPEG2, AVI, etc.)) is to use a PC with Windows 7. Windows 7 (with the Media Center, included in Home Premium and better) also adds support for H.264, but again not for MKV. But since you can do pretty much with a PC (add codecs etc.), there is an app by DivX that will allow MKV playback (complete with H.264 video and AC3 (Surround Sound) or AAC audio). If you start Windows Media Center on your Xbox (your PC has to be turned on and set up before of course), you can then play pretty much anything, including MKV. I have chosen this option for all of my media, including live and recorded TV because it is really easy to use.

But AFAIK WMC in disabled on banned consoles.

Short Version: I use a PC with Windows 7 Media Center to stream the MKV videos to the Xbox, playing from older OSs or from a USB drive will not work.

EDIT: Yeah well I only have the Optional Media Update on the usb flash drive and it works fine, enabling the playback of said content.

PS3 Media server is probably the best streaming app there is. It works perfect with the 360. Ignore the name it works for the xbox too. Does not matter what O.S you are using either. Use the transcode folder and you will have no issues if your pc does not suck. I play .mkv files everyday with zero problems. You can have the media on any drive any folder rather then your documents.

The program smashed TVersity.

[slimshady322]

PS3 Media server is probably the best streaming app there is. It works perfect with the 360. Ignore the name it works for the xbox too. Does not matter what O.S you are using either. Use the transcode folder and you will have no issues if your pc does not suck. I play .mkv files everyday with zero problems. You can have the media on any drive any folder rather then your documents.

The program smashed TVersity.

I haven't tried this PS3 Media Server out but I will be taking a look at it. Is the Xbox 360 hardware used to play the MKV (H.264) files? Because if it is not then it's really worth downloading it for me. Also does the app support TV tuners?