Well, I see a lot of questions as to which versions of each game are exploitable or not. So, I figured I would make this topic and hopefully it would clear some things up.

Mechassault

The ONLY Mechassault that is exploitable will have the following code written on the outer ring of the foil on the underside of the disc: MS02301L



007: Agent Under Fire

All non-platinum hits are exploitable. Some platinum hits are exploitable. If you have a 007 platinum hits, take a look at the disc and compare it to the following image.



Splinter Cell

To the best of my knowledge, all Splinter Cell games are exploitable, including the platinum hits versions.

BTW: Can somebody pin this please?

I agree, pin this. It would have saved me $10 from buying a non-exploitable 007!

very nice, pinned

Wow, today i felt like an idiot walking into gamestop and asing for a non-hits Splintercell when they gave me one. now i feel like and even bigger idiot....lol but thats ok either way it exploited yay!

I found myself an original Mech Assault game. Tried the softmod. Batch fail error.
My disc does have the above number followed by 4 more characters.

<number above> L0 1B

Anyone know if i have correct version??

Ehm i thought all PLATINUM Splinter Cells didnt work? I could be wrong though.

Nice job man good you took the time for this

never heard of a batch fail error, non exploitable copies of the game simply say "unable to load save" or "not a valid save" or something to that effect


nope, AFAIK all platinum SCs DO work, either the game sells to slow for MS to bother patching or they have just given up patching the savegame exploits

Is there a way to tell which 007 platinum hits is exploitable from an unopened copy? Like barcode or packaging?

sorry for the late reply, but i belive there is a simialr code o the one on the disc on the back of the package, however anythign new in the store is likely to be a new copy and when buying used games at gamestop or eb they will just grab a disc from a box and it may or may not be the one from the case you have

Exactly, I have a 007 Agent under Fire 1448507 disc that is in a 1448521 case. Oh, and yes it is exploitable.


PS, just thought I would add my disc number if any ran accross it when looking.

Okay, I finally got this all working together and wanted to share my experiences so it's on the forums and searchable in the future. This is updated info for today 01/04/2006 and was done in St. Louis. I have the exact same 007 AUF CD as the previous poster and I just picked it up from Game Stop for $6.99. Most older copies work great with this and they are cheap & easy to find.

I have only wal-mart around me so I went there and bought two usb flash drives. One was SimpleTech USB Flash Drive 128 MB and the other was a MobileMate 256 MB drive made by SanDisk. The SimpleTech drive WOULD NOT work with my 1.0 XBox, it said that the memory card was damaged. The MobileMate 256 MB one did work, it cost $18.88 so it was a pretty good deal!

I bought the USB 2 XBox adapter off of Ebay for $7.00 all together and the mobilemate formatted just fine. The only problem was my computer and hacked version of Action Replay would not recognize the card. To fix this I folled the instructions at: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/USB_Storage...mory_Card_HOWTO and miraculously the usb card was recognized by windows as a MaxDrive XBox device. I was then able to transfer the saved 007 game via the hacked version of Action Replay onto the new USB flash drive.

After it was transferred, I booted up the XBox with 007 in it and plugged in the adapter cable and usb flash drive. The game recognized a save game on the drive, loaded it, and the machine rebooted to a softmod install menu. When this happens you can use the Auto-Installer Deluxe CD (found in the usual places) and load up all the softmod software to the harddrive to make this semi-permanent. In the end it cost about $34 starting from nothing, but all the stuff is reusable for other stuff.

During my travels one thing I did notice that I thought was funny, which was that gamestop stocks the USB flash drives in stock, makes me wonder if they know about the mods. I didn't look into it though, since I thought I'd find a better deal on a thumb drive at wally world. I hope this clears some stuff up for people trying this, it does work but it can be aggravating trying to find the right flash drive and figure out how to get it recognized on both the xbox and PC.

cheers,
xeno

I dunno why, but I find it quite funny when I read about people actually buying USB adaptors for the Xbox, when installing one is free, and even a n00b can do it, AND without solder


Hell, all my mods on my Xbox are solder free, as I'm terrified of using it as I've never had good experiences with it.

I was laughing at it too. I never had to buy a usb adapter or a thumbdrive.. Just used a xbox memcard. The easiest way is to have a friend with a modded box point the file on the card for you. But most likely as me, This was not the case. So i just chopped off the end of my xbo controller and spliced it with a end of a usb dapter. so the pull away part is now like a y adapter for both usb and xbox. I installed the action replay , loaded my savegame of choice on it. copied that save game onto my hard drive, booted my game and loaded said save game. ftp into my box, setup my new dash manual. Took my the whole day the first time i did this to a box. I had error 21 and the like, but now with ecperience i canmod a box in 20 mins with including data transfers and everything. If i wanted i got a little kit to mod the whole city if they wanted. just park the box and a service man will be right there sir, swipe the card in the slot and sign here.. lol...

Find this quite funny....

Know how Bunny found a firmware flash that lets backups play on unmodded boxes?

Well how about this.

What if you plug in the flashed DVD player in an xbox and just popped in AID...

Sounds crazy but it may work 0_o

This wouldn't work, because the hacked firmware only allows for game backups to run, not homebrew.

and it wasnt Bunnie, it was TheSpecialist, and he is not releasing the hack....and what xboxgamer said

Ok, so any Splinter Cell will work? Because at one point I was going to softmod my 1.0 with it, and when I loaded the save, it froze. I don't have Platinum Hits version, and i bought the game about three months after it was released.

(i dont have the number on disc at the moment, I'll look for the disc quick)

Yes, it will work. The reason why the save froze is probably because you were using a corrupted save. If you find the save freezing, check these things for the best compatiblity.

1. Download your gamesave from xbins. These are official saves and will never be corrupted.
2. Use an official MS memory unit if you can. An Action Replay and other third-party memory units are of a lesser quality and have been known to corrupt gamesaves - especialy with larger-sized saves.
3. Make sure there are no other Splinter Cell gamesaves on the xbox hard drive.
4. Make sure you have both Splinter Cell saves. I am not 100% sure, but I believe there is always 2 saves for Splinter Cell. In my experiences, one was always called LINUX_profile and the other is called INSTALL_linux.

It should work for you, I have used Splinter Cell many times and never run into problems.

I use a platinum hits edition splinter cell for my softmodding. So I can confirm that they do work.

I did the splinter cell one and followed everything perfectly but then it freezes when i start the linux profile.
help?

look two posts above yours

I had this problem as well. I'm guessing you are using the component video cables, right? Go into the MS Dash and turn off support for 480p, 720p, and 1080i. Then it will work without freezing. Once you are completely done with your softmod you can go into the MS Dash and put things back the way they were.

I struggled with this for a while, and couldn't find that solution anywhere, so I hope this helps someone!

With the SC exploit, I read that the Linux save needs to be the only save on the xbox, I have not tested this out.

Well, i just ordered a original (classic, as it says on the site ) Splinter Cell (Pal).

Is there any difference between PAL and NTSC Splinter Cell saves?
I once saw someone posting that his savehack for NTSC was completed, but that the PAL version still needed work, but i cant find anyone else mention any difference.

Yes they are different, Krayzie's for SC has 2 different installers, 1 for NTSC the other for PAL...

Thanks, but i saw that when i downloaded it.
Already modded 3 boxes with it

how do you turn of support for 480p 720p 1080i from the dashboard? i cant seem to work it out. cheers charlie.

have any tips on getting auf serial at the store??? i dont wanna get another wrong one another 10 bucks down the drain

Thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine, I've managed to snag copies of the now-missing disc photos. Here they are, re-uploaded:

Mechassault

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/5049/maut9.jpg

007: Agenet Under Fire

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1323/007workju8.jpg

Thank you, Darth753. I have relinked the original post to your photos.

i have the splinter cell game in a 3 pack with other tom clancy games...will this one work? and greatest hits MA doesnt work right?

You'll have to try it and let us all know. No, the Platinum hits MA wont work, infact they fixed the exploit way before it became a platinum hit.

Also, another thing that can stop Splinter Cell from running the exploit is when you have the optional maps downloaded from xbox live or from the splinter cell bonus disk installed as they cause the xbox to freeze. remove them and you should be fine.

Joe