xbox backup

[pike1346]

Hi,
I was just wondering if you guys could tell me how to back up mt xbox games. I am going to mod it in the future and just want to back them up now, if possible
any help would be appreciated

[yoda313]

Hello,
Remember, that should be for your own games. Check out www.xbox-scene.com and it'll give you a good head start. From what I've read it's easiest to back up with a mod chip so you may want to wait until you mod it.
Kevin
P.S. I'm thinking of doing the same for my own xbox I just got.

[LSchafroth]

Hi,
I was just wondering if you guys could tell me how to back up mt xbox games. I am going to mod it in the future and just want to back them up now, if possible
any help would be appreciated

I connect to my Xbox through it's LAN port via FlashFXP. When you install the mod chip adn put the EVOX bios and dashboard on it, it will have a ftp service running. I turn on the Xbox with it plugged into the lan, put in the game after it's booted up. If you turn it on with the game in the drive it will boot the game instead of the dashboard.

I then copy everything from the D: drive on the Xbox to my computer. I tell the FTP program to skip files of equal size and retry files that are smaller. sometimes it misses a few files. I transfer all of them again and it skips the good ones and finishes the bad ones. Much easier then trying to find out which ones did not work.

I load Nero 6 Ultra Burning ROM. Select DVD(UDF), check the Force Xbox compatibilty box. Drag the files on my PC to the Nero window and hit burn.

Put the DVD in teh Xbox and viola.

LS

PS This allows me to store the originals in a safe place sicne my kids destroy CD's and game disks on a regular basis!

[handyguy]

"Put the DVD in teh Xbox and viola."

It plays music?

AFTER you get a mod is when to ask how to back up games. Its a pretty long complicated process as they are in XFAT format.

[tmaxwell2435]

Not really. There is a program called DVD2XBOX that will copy a game to your hard disk. Then all you have to do it FTP it to your computer, create an ISO and burn it.

[jimmalenko]

You can use any FTP client you want once your XBOX is modded. I then use Craxtion 4 to create ISOs and patch them if required. I then burn the image with Nero.

[LSchafroth]

You can use any FTP client you want once your XBOX is modded. I then use Craxtion 4 to create ISOs and patch them if required. I then burn the image with Nero.

Do you have a url or document that shows which games need to be patched? I found one once but cannot find it.

I also saw a site that showed you how to re-encode movies and such to make them smaller to fit a 4.3gb DVD-r.

LS

[jimmalenko]

Do you have a url or document that shows which games need to be patched? I found one once but cannot find it.

No. I try to patch them all. If it doesn't need patching it tells you.

I also saw a site that showed you how to re-encode movies and such to make them smaller to fit a 4.3gb DVD-r.

That's the next thing I want to learn with the XBOX. I have found one site with instructions but the tools are basically outlawed because they're of microsoft origins.

[ps2daddy]

If you use the latest bio and dashboards you wont have to patch any games if you use the complex tools program to save it to your xbox AFAIK.

Also each game can be differnt as far as trying to make them fit some games you can just leave out certain files to make them smaller than 4.38GB so that you can play them.

[tmaxwell2435]

DVD2XBOX will also automatically patch XBE files if needed.

[ps2daddy]

DVD2Xbox works on most games but doesnt work on James Bond Everything or Nothing and a few other games but complextools seems to work on every game so far AFAIK

[handyguy]

"I also saw a site that showed you how to re-encode movies and such to make them smaller to fit a 4.3gb DVD-r."

Why don't you just use dvdshrink?

Also, Xbox Media Center is free....

But you need a modded box to get started as there are so many chips out there that we'd have to answer for each one.

[jimmalenko]

Why don't you just use dvdshrink?

AFAIK DVDShrink only does movies. I don't see what use it would be on an XBOX games when the way it effectively works is by estimating motion vectors. I don't see how you can use DVDShrink to literally shrink a binary file.

[LSchafroth]

Why don't you just use dvdshrink?

AFAIK DVDShrink only does movies. I don't see what use it would be on an XBOX games when the way it effectively works is by estimating motion vectors. I don't see how you can use DVDShrink to literally shrink a binary file.

Your not shrinking binary files. There are WMA and MPG files on the game disks. You can shrink the movies to save space.

LS

[jimmalenko]

Your not shrinking binary files. There are WMA and MPG files on the game disks. You can shrink the movies to save space.

Not to call you a liar or anything, but out of the 40 XBOX games I have, not one of them have MPG files on them. They have XMA, which as I understand it are effectively WMA files wrapped using tools in the XBOX SDK.

Have you actually used this method or do you think that conceptually it could be done ?

Wouldn't DVDShrink go through the rimorol of looking for IFO files, etc. ?

[LSchafroth]

Have you actually used this method or do you think that conceptually it could be done ?

Wouldn't DVDShrink go through the rimorol of looking for IFO files, etc. ?

Actually you may be right. I'm just going by what I saw in soem articles at http://www.xbox-scene.com

I could be way out in left field.

LS

[jimmalenko]

I could be way out in left field.

What....like....in the stands ???