Unlocking Xbox Emulator on XDK

[hl718]

I've messed around with a bunch of stuff on the XDK, but haven't yet messed around with this. Some of the recovery discs allow the Xbox emulator on the XDK to work just like the retail versions. Most recovery discs that I've used don't allow the Xbox emulator to actually boot an Xbox disc.

Since I've seen folks talking about this, I figure it's already been done so in the interest of saving time:

1) What do you have to do to get the Xbox emulator on the XDK to play retail Xbox games?

2) What do you have to do to get the Xbox emulator on the XDK to play debug Xbox games?

3) What do you have to do to get the Xbox emulator on the XDK to attempt to run any XBE you throw at it? (ie games not on the official BC list, be they unsupported retail titles or interesting debug discs)

Right now my XDK can't even run Xbox Originals from Partner.net. Oops.

-hl718

[Xenon.7]

You want your XeXDK to play debug or retail games?

Use Xbdm Ini Recovery, launch it, create a new ini, itll reboot(but freeze), so manually reboot, run it again, this time select Copy MobileJ Settings, itll reboot(but freeze), so manually reboot.

Now you should have a Y:\\ drive. That is your compatibility folder. Get the hacked compatibility for devkits from "somewhere" and place it in there and your good to go. ;)

[Dark Seraph91]

You might not have a Y:\\ Drive. Mine says Xbox360 Dashboard or something like that.

[Xenon.7]

You might not have a Y:\\ Drive. Mine says Xbox360 Dashboard or something like that.

My Y:\\ drive is labelled as Xbox 360 Dashboard.. ;x

[Pikkon]

For the most the xbox 1 compatibility needs to be added manually.I remember using a old method to open up the hidden volumes in 360 neighborhood using the 3424 recovery disc but it doesnt work on newer kernels.

[LEo]

I formatted my new hdd with some recovery (I believe it was 6995.1) and I did the whole xbdm recovery ini and it never added any dashboard partition to my hdd. I had to manually add the partition using the following method

Create Partition 2

I did some analysis myself and got it working too Here's how I did it:
1. Open your drive with Winhex (like described before)
2. Goto the Edit -> Define block. Choose beginning 120EB1000 and end 130EAFFFF and press 'ok'
3. Goto the Edit -> Fill block. Choose 'Fill with hex values', enter 00 and press 'ok'. This will clear the partition.
4. Now we have to add the partition headers. Goto (alt+g) offset 120EB0000 and edit to make it look like:
120EB0000 58 54 41 46 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 01
120EB0010 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
5. Save it. Now we're almost done, only have to fix up the 'cluster map'. To do this, goto offset 120EB1000 and edit it to make it look like:
120EB1000 FF FF FF F8 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
120EB1010 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Save it and then your drive will show partition 2 in xplorer360! Dump all files from partition 2 from some HDD that has the emulator on it (either a 20 gb or 120 gb, doesn't matter), save those files from partition 2 to your PC. Attach your WD BEVS drive, and drag the 'index' file alone first to partition 2! After you've added this particular first file, you can add the rest to the partition.
After you've copied all files (you should be able to use all xplorer versions by the way, doesn't matter which one, hexedited/modded or not), your emulator should work.

After that I was able to find my Y:dashboard volume on neighborhood and backwards compatibility worked perfectly

[t3stuser]

Hey, is it possible to start EvoX and XBMC with this method? If yes, how?! Only some Emulators are running with this hacked Compatibility Update at the moment. Greets

[Dark Seraph91]

Hey, is it possible to start EvoX and XBMC with this method? If yes, how?! Only some Emulators are running with this hacked Compatibility Update at the moment. Greets

Not much of that sort works. I Think unleashX works.

[hl718]

You want your XeXDK to play debug or retail games?

Use Xbdm Ini Recovery, launch it, create a new ini, itll reboot(but freeze), so manually reboot, run it again, this time select Copy MobileJ Settings, itll reboot(but freeze), so manually reboot.

Now you should have a Y:\\ drive. That is your compatibility folder. Get the hacked compatibility for devkits from "somewhere" and place it in there and your good to go. ;)

I've tried these steps (at least what I think are these steps) a few times and I'm not getting anywhere.

Any chance of getting a more step-by-step approach? Changing xbdm.ini on the recovery disc doesn't do squat.

-hl718

[LEo]

Do what I said about manually adding your partition 2, thats the only way you can add it. It worked great for me and a friend

[hl718]

Can that be done without cracking open the HDD case?

Ideally I'd like to make the change without breaking any seals. Hence the original method described by Xenon and Dark Seraph is most appealing, if possible.

-hl718

[neull]

Can that be done without cracking open the HDD case?

Ideally I'd like to make the change without breaking any seals. Hence the original method described by Xenon and Dark Seraph is most appealing, if possible.

-hl718

You can get one of the transfer cables that come with 120GB hard drives on ebay. They're usually cheap, and will allow your hard drive to be seen through xplorer360.

[KIWIDOGGIE]

Also the Xport360 will alow memory cards aswell. You have to look around because the stores where I am dont sell it anymore

[Pikkon]

I thought xplorer360 was incompatible with 360 dev hdd's.

[LEo]

Can that be done without cracking open the HDD case?

Ideally I'd like to make the change without breaking any seals. Hence the original method described by Xenon and Dark Seraph is most appealing, if possible.

-hl718

I believe you have to actually connect the hdd to a sata port to get this to work. I tried every single other method to add it and none of them worked except this one. I tried with USB, but the hex editor wouldn't let me open the hdd, it did when I connected it to a sata port

[hl718]

In that case I'll see if Xenon 7 or Dark Seraph makes a repeat showing in the thread. For various reasons I can't really crack the seal on the hard drive for this unit. If one of them (or anyone else who knows) could clarify the steps needed to make this work with a recovery disc (or edited recovery disc) that would be awesome.

-hl718

[Xenon.7]

I've tried these steps (at least what I think are these steps) a few times and I'm not getting anywhere.

Any chance of getting a more step-by-step approach? Changing xbdm.ini on the recovery disc doesn't do squat.

-hl718

Are you implying you didn't actually use the XbdmIniRecovery.xex with the steps I used? Because I would try that, I don't think editting the xbdm.ini on the recovery would do much.

Otherwise try leo's alternative.

If you didn't use the XbdmIniRecovery you can IM me on AIM at: xl DeToX lx

Whenever I'm available, you can message me and just tell me who you are and I'll help you out with those steps I gave.

[Dark Seraph91]

In that case I'll see if Xenon 7 or Dark Seraph makes a repeat showing in the thread. For various reasons I can't really crack the seal on the hard drive for this unit. If one of them (or anyone else who knows) could clarify the steps needed to make this work with a recovery disc (or edited recovery disc) that would be awesome.

-hl718

if you have the latest Recovery Try that one. it seems to Format with hard drive with different partitions. Might fix your issue.