I've had a modded xbox for a couple years now. The only thing I know how to do on it is burn games from discs onto the hdd. On my dashboard I see there's an Emulators tab, I click on it and nothing is there. I don't have the first clue about how to get any kind of emulators on the console, or any games. I've read the noob thread thats pinned and I'm still lost. What are the first steps I have to do to get these emulators on my console. How do I get them on the console? Do I burn them to a cd rom and put it in the drive? I have nooooo idea lol. please help. dont flame me. The main systems i want is SNES, sega genesis, n64, and possibly ps2. I mainly want SNES and N64. Thanks guys. sorry for the pathetic post.

in short :

1 - Hook up crosslink cable between your pc and your xbox

2 - read the faq on how to connect your pc to your xbox with an ftp program (not that difficult)

3 - read the xbins faq on how to get on xbins.
(get mirc program and visit xbins chat, talk to bot and get info to connect, then with ftp program connect to xbins server and get files)

4 - unzip emulator into a dir

5 - connect to your xbox via ftp program

6 - copy neogenesis directory into your emulators dir (so that its F:\emulators\neogenesis\default.xbe ) (or wherever your emulators dir is)

7 - copy roms in f:\emulators\neogenesis\roms\
(may be zipped or unzipped but not rarred or 7zipped or any other form of compression)

8 - reboot xbox and start neogenesis from your emulators section of your dashboard.

9 - do it more often and learn how the xbox thing works

10 - become amazing at it and replace your crummy outdated dashboard with the latest amazing version of XBMC with the 360 skin and rejoice

11 - Admit that you're really Bill Gates and write me a fat check so i can retire.
maybe.. train some kids to take over my task as amazing answering person..
a whole.. squad of VampX's so to say..

I think you came to the right place

First off, it is possible to get all those emulators on the box, except PS2. You can, on the other hand, get PSX.

You can put them on a cd or put them on the hdd. I keep everything on the hdd so it is easier and I don't have to mess with cd's. Just file transfer your stuff over to the xbox or burn it onto a cd.

You need to get the emulators, do some reserch here to learn about different ones. You are on your own getting the emulators and the roms. (can't discuss where to get them here) (Google is your best friend) Look up Surreal 64 for (N64), and ZSNEXBOX (SNES).

Basically, If you put them in the right directory on your hdd, with the roms in the right folder for each. Each emulator will appear in the list on your dashboard, in the section labeled "Emulators".

How big is your hdd? Have you worked with emulators before? Research this stuff and you'll be able to figure it out. Don't sweat it man, these guy will help you. You have been missing the best part of xbox modding!

PS. I wrote this before I saw Vamp's comment. Yeah what he said . You make me laugh VampX

oh wow awesome. so how does it work? Id rather burn the emulators to a data disc. however, I download the emulator for say snes, then what? burn it on a data cd and pop it in my xbox and transfer? i saw a kid on youtube used a program called flash fxp, and i guess he had his xbox connected to his computer. and as for the emulator. i think i found a site to download it. so after i download it, do i have to unzip it? or just burn the zipped file on the disc then worry about unzipping it on the xbox? lol thanks guys.

and honestly i dont even know what size the hard drive is. maybe 300gb or more? I have like 10-15 full xbox games on it and i think i have a good bit of memory left. its an xecuter mod chip. avalaunch dash. and in the bottom right corner it says "Alpha v0.49.1" my guess its a old "crummy" version as vampx said. since the console is a couple years old already. lol.

It has to be unzipped, to work.
Unzip the emulator, within the folder, there will be multiple folders. One of them will be named "roms", put your roms in there, (zipped or unzipped).

If you want, put the folder now on a cd and burn it.

go in to your xbox file explorer and copy the emu folder to a directory of your choosing. (probably: e:\emulators\ or f:\emulators\.

Once it is copied, either restart your system or go into the folder and launch the "default.xbe"

Your emu will load up and should now show up on the dashboard.

If you have a hdd that big, than you should have no problem with it. You might run into your xbox not reading a cd -r, depending on which version you have, but dvd-r's should always work fine.

do i unzip the ZsnexBox_2.99b1 on the computer or on the xbox?

i unzipped it and it went into the folder, i went into the roms folder and there's nothing there, just a file called "placeholder"

the problem is i downloaded what i think is the emulator and here its like 33.8 mb .....im soo lost!

It must be unzipped to work, so, do it on the computer first.
The roms folder is empty, because you don't have any roms yet. You must get those manually,
After you get the roms you want, put them in that folder ("roms") and burn the whole thing
("ZsnexBox_2.99b1") to your disk.
Then, simply copy the whole folder, ("ZsnexBox_2.99b1") to your "e:\emulators" directory.


EDIT: no, that is the emu by its self. you're good.
EDIT 2: -33.8 mb is fine.

okay. so the size of that folder is fine at 33.8? i thought it should be bigger than that. ill look for roms now.

I already find 33megs to be quite large for an Emulator, most are like 5 megs.

can you use roms off of this site i have...its a computer site... are roms roms? no specifics for computers or not?

Roms are roms, Yes they are universal. just make sure they are for the right system

EDIT: zsnexbox 3.5 is the latest.

idk, i earched zsnexbox and it came up and i downloaded it...it also says somethin about it on this link http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EE...klZhSBxbHJs.php

well, i got the snes emulator to work and have over 30 games on it just curious as to how I add more roms to the emulator. since i burned the cdr and burned it from that onto my hard drive, i didnt get to put the emulator right where it says emulator on my dashboard. instead i have to go to the file manager and go into the F drive and into "dvd2xbox003" where the emulator folder is that i created. so how do I add more roms to that emulator? thanks guys! this forums is numero uno for mod advice!

You don't have an emulator directory in drive e: or f: ? Try and go make a new folder in drive: e: inside the file explorer. Name it "emulators" and then put your zsnexbox emu folder into the "emulators" folder.
The emulator should show up on your dashboard under "emulators" now. (always restart the box). If not, try the same thing, but this time in drive f.

You can get more roms by grabing some more and putting them on a disk again. Then just copy those roms into the "roms" folder located in the emulator folder, where ever you put it on your box. (but like I said, put the zsnexbox folder in your new "emulators" folder first.

haha awesome, im lovin this. i got it in the emulator tab. do you know how to get out of the a game once you're in it? like i have to restart my console every time to play a different game. let me know, thanks

OK.. here it goes... ready....

Click down on the right analog stick.

I suggest getting some more emus and really messing around with this stuff, You'll learn a lot just fiddling with it.

Then when you want to take on a bigger challenge, check out the RessurectionXtras. It has everything you need to know all on the front page on how to add box art , video previews and more to your emulators.

alright, got it man, thanks. just curious as to where i can find an n64 emulator? can you give me any clues on what to type in on google to get the best one? lol. thanks

surreal64 xxx beta 5, or some thing of that nature. Setting up surreal64 is kinda "another ball game".

You can find plenty of info about surreal64 right here at xbox scene.

well, i read up on the surreal64 emulator and it doesn't seem like its much different than the others. it seems like itll either work with what I have, or ill have to update my xbox/reflash. (God help me if thats the case)...im almost finished getting all the roms i want..so the moment of truth will be coming shortly. ill keep ya posted. any tips on the install would be appreciated lol.

okay, i burnt the surreal emulator w/ the roms onto a disc and my xbox isnt reading it...i also put snes roms on the disc in a separate folder and it didnt show those either

Alrighty, I got the N64 emulator up and running. i just have to learn how to tweek some of the games and research which ones play best w/ which emulator/rice plugin etc etc. Now another question. Xbox games...do i need an xbox emulator for my xbox to play xbox roms? hoooooow does this work lol. thanks guys.

you just play the games themselves as you normally would... or you can use dvd2xbox or the xbmc file manager to copy your xbox game disc to the harddrive. you don't use an xbox emulator to play xbox games.... it is still an xbox after all.... that's just silly.

There's no such thing as xbox roms.

hey vampx, here we go again...........

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so theres no way to get a bunch of xbox games off the net and play them on my modded xbox? i have to go and buy the discs or rent them to burn them?

And with xbox games you mean the one you normally would buy in stores right? not homebrew i mean.

what do you mean homebrew? sorry im new to this lol. but yea, what i mean is, say I want to play The elder scrolls morrowind, how can i get that without buying/renting the actual game? is there a place online to download xbox games?

"Sorry, these aren't the droids you're looking for"

Seriously man, go buy the xbox games you want to play and rip them to your harddrive, no one here is going to promote piracy to you which is basically what you are stating you are trying to do. You won't get those answers here. X-S scene does not promote piracy, don't be in the long list of fools that have asked that question here and gotten flamed and some banned for carrying it one step further.

Im not flaming you man, but just because we like to mod our xbox's, that does not mean we are a bunch of pirates.

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Quite correct. I recommend reading the site rules before posting again.