Original Xbox (Pre-owned) for £19.99

Will_Tingle

I've made myself a USB lead, but none of my flash drives seem to be compatible with the xbox.

can someone reccomend a (cheap) flash drive tht the Xbox likes?

Has anyone tried hooking up an external HDD as a huge memory card?

fergual2

Will_Tingle wrote: »

I've made myself a USB lead, but none of my flash drives seem to be compatible with the xbox.

can someone reccomend a (cheap) flash drive tht the Xbox likes?

Has anyone tried hooking up an external HDD as a huge memory card?

Looks like older the better. Just scanned and compatible usb devices are....
* Sandisk 128MB CF card in a USB reader

* Kingston DataTraveler 32 and 256 MB. * Lexar JumpDrive Secure 128 and 256 MB (must be "Secure" -- other models may not work).

Personally I got lucky with the generic "barcadi" one a freebie from this sites freebie listings.

You should be able to pick one of these up for peanuts
Al

custardy

fergual2 wrote: »

Looks like older the better. Just scanned and compatible usb devices are....
* Sandisk 128MB CF card in a USB reader

* Kingston DataTraveler 32 and 256 MB. * Lexar JumpDrive Secure 128 and 256 MB (must be "Secure" -- other models may not work).

Personally I got lucky with the generic "barcadi" one a freebie from this sites freebie listings.

You should be able to pick one of these up for peanuts
Al

suppose makes sense given the size of OE memory card onthe xbox

Random

I had no trouble with a bigger Datatraveler, think it was a 1gb? I posted exactly which one I used on either this or the other Xbox thread, can't find the thing now to check what it was.

Will_Tingle

I got one - the "Sandisk Cruzer Freedom 256MB USB2.0 Flash Drive" is less than 2 quid from svp and works fine.

Random: my datatraveler 1gb just makes the screen flash!

Now, how exactly does one make the AR software "see" a USB drive?

irrelevant

Will_Tingle wrote: »

Now, how exactly does one make the AR software "see" a USB drive?

I posted the link a few pages back - instructions here (and Google's cache as I just had problems loading it.) You need USBview.exe which isn't linked from that page, but I got it from here.

It all worked for me with a pound-shop SD/MMC card reader and a 64Mb MMC. I got both save files onto it too, so how small are genuine memory cards??

I had to generate the datelinfo.xbx file by actually playing a game, saving it, then copying the file to the memory card, and importing it into action replay. Then I opened my new save's zip file, dragged out the datelinfo.xbx file, which I then dropped into the .zip files of the downloaded game-saves. It sounds harder than it was... The instructions for this on that linked page seem a little overly complicated.

Tharweb

irrelevant wrote: »

...so how small are genuine memory cards??

I was lead to believe one I won on Ebay was "genuine" but it was 16 MB and I only found out later than genuine ones are 8 MB.

It worked fine though so wasn't to bothered.

Random

Will_Tingle wrote: »

I got one - the "Sandisk Cruzer Freedom 256MB USB2.0 Flash Drive" is less than 2 quid from svp and works fine.

Random: my datatraveler 1gb just makes the screen flash!

Now, how exactly does one make the AR software "see" a USB drive?

Strange, maybe they're different types? Mine was a brown and white one.

I had a lot of trouble with Action Replay, instead I used Xplorer360 which was a lot simpler:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=628431

phatbhoy

Hi - been away for a bit - anyway success at last - it turned out my soft mod disc didnt have the apps on it, just the soft mod.

So I ended up using another download "autoinstaller delux" and now I have a variety of apps installed on the xbox hard drive - most of which I have no idea what they do.

I can use xbmc to watch films with no dongle - however a couple of divx films burned onto cds dont seem to work.

I now feel a bit underwhelmed - I thought xbmc would play anything? Is this not the case?

Tharweb

phatbhoy wrote: »

I can use xbmc to watch films with no dongle - however a couple of divx films burned onto cds dont seem to work.

I now feel a bit underwhelmed - I thought xbmc would play anything? Is this not the case?

I found mine to be fussy with CD's so I stick to DVD's. I have mine networked to my PC and prefer to stream directly from the hard-drive though.