Capt Moore

I just wanted to post a couple of things. First of all, thank you so much. I have an Xbox all set up using these files. I did have a problem transferring the “Gun” as the file names were too long, and cci/xiso files didn’t load either. I wound up replacing the game with an hdd ready version. Everything else transferred fine. i have one more hiccup, the first time I transferred a game, in addition to the normal files i had some ._gamename files, when present they stopped the default.xbe from working to launch the game. (I later determined the files are a remnant when using macOS on other than Mac formatted drives, like exfat. My solution was to use an app call blue harvest to clean the drive and remove all of the ._ files.) I found the torrent stalled too much to useable, it was estimated to take months to complete, so I used the google drive links instead and copied the files to my personal google drive before downloading. I still had to hit the reload button in safari when the downloads stalled, but it would resume where it left off so it just took time. Thanks for all the work.

Thank you for the reply. I had a google account but not a paid google drive (until last night, I signed up for a 2 tb one just to get these files.) Unfortunately I haven't been able to copy the file files to avoid the download limit, I keep getting a very unhelpful (An error has occurred) after I attempted to use the make a copy function on any of the files. I have no idea why. I will keep trying google drive and the torrent.

I have been trying to get this for a couple of days. I got about 50 gb of these 7z files from google drive, now i keep getting download quota exceeded no matter what i try. i wonder if i paid for 2 tb of data (if it's even possible) if i could get it to copy and download from there? I don't use google drive, so not sure if it is worth the expense or even possible to get that much storage, or a reliable way to download it. I now have the torrent downloading very slowly., it can only find one person, and getting 60's kb/s down. It will take years at that rate. I also had no luck finding the dragon gamers direct downloads, i would rip the files from there if i could. Are these still available anywhere else? Or do i need to just download the even more massive redumps themselves from somewhere and covert the library on my own (i will probably just go back to select vimm iso files then.)

Thanks. I really have never done anything with thermal paste before, very limited soldering as well, but it might be good skills to learn at some point if I want to keep some of the classic (and current) systems working. (Apple IIGS, original xbox, xbox 360, xbox one x.) Depending on how long this coronavirus lockdown is for, I may pick up some other project systems as well to learn and fix.

I just did my first softmod. I used the splinter cell exploit, along with the rocky5 softmod instructions over on reddit's original xbox forum. The hardest part was getting some of the older software working on parallels windows 10 installation, and waiting for some parts due to shipping delays with the covid virus.

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Thanks for the perspective. From what I read before, it sounded like it pretty much was required to be done every so often. It's good to hear that it can be left alone (as long as there are no problems when using.)

Thanks for the videos, I am debating which way to go, I did pick up some cheap cables on amazon to tide me over.

I bought the startech one on amazon. Here is the link: https://www.newegg.com/startech-ide2sat2-ide-to-sata-with-odd-support/p/N82E16812400465?Item=N82E16812400465 I did some things wrong the first time. At first, I don't think I expanded the f drive, so most of the drive was vacant. I redid the copy from chimp the second time, but it all went into the F partition vs F & G. I would up installing an app from the softmod extras disk called XBPartitioner 1.3, then I choses a recommended setting (back for helps explains the controls) to create an F & G partition. Next I went into nkpatcher, and chose Hard drive: Populate Partitions: and chose both F: & G: (I think this game me the standard folders for those drives back.) I just set this up last night, so will check to see if there is any issues, but I think I did it correctly.

For what it is worth (probably not much) I used Filezilla on my mac to copy the chimp app over to my xbox for a clone, and it caused the system to hang after the first two ok checks. I was able to delete it, use another ftp app called Cyberduck, and then chimp worked without issues. I had no idea there was a problem with using Filezilla (something about permissions, I think), until I came across a reddit post from a couple of years ago mentioning that FileZilla transfers cause problems with the chimp clone app.

I ordered the parts for an hdd upgrade, amazon was so backed up I ordered most of the parts from newegg. I will probably have them Saturday (hopefully). The good thing is that after I replaced the drive belt for the second time in the optical drive, this time it appears the optical drive eject is working fully. My best guess is that I stretched the belt too much when installing the belt the first time, so the replacement was still too loose. I am glad there was two in the package purchased from eBay.

I won't bore anyone with the standard, introductory post, other than to say thank you to everyone on this and other forum who has helped me with my xbox repair and softmod instructions.

I coincidently just purchased an original Xbox (I have a 360/ One X) before all this broke loose, so I have been spending my time trying to repair the optical drive, and learn how to softmod/replace the hard drive.