Seeking Help with XBMC for XBOX

[SteveJ34]

XBMC for the original XBOX seems like a perfect solution for a low cost media center solution.

I would like to find someone that has experience in this area and time available to assist.

I have the technical capacity to follow instructions but strain on available time.

If you have experience with soft mods, HD upgrades, and XBMC/emulator setup please contact me via PM or otherwise.

I look forward to any and all replies.

[waveryder]

XBMC is a fantastic AV solution. I have 2 xboxs one softmod the other with an executer chip in it. Although I upped the HD's in both I mostly just stream video and audio around the house on them. One connected to mu home theater and the other in the bedroom  . Softmodding is a doodle. Grab yourself a copy of Splinter cell and an action replay or xbox usb adaptor and install  the softmod gamesave. Once done ftp your xbox through evox (better than avalaunch in my humble) and make a directory on your xbox e: drive called dash. extract the latest T3ch XBMC release to it and reboot. Easy! Swapping out the hard drive is a little more complicate due to the keying of Xbox mainboards and drives. Just make sure you get the eprom.bin file from your UDATA folder when you FTP your box. Then use XboxHDM to create a bootable disk to setup your new HD. This is very easy to due and frankly there are masses of tuts on the net to do it.

[ark_ader]

XBMC is a fantastic AV solution. I have 2 xboxs one softmod the other with an executer chip in it. Although I upped the HD's in both I mostly just stream video and audio around the house on them. One connected to mu home theater and the other in the bedroom  . Softmodding is a doodle. Grab yourself a copy of Splinter cell and an action replay or xbox usb adaptor and install  the softmod gamesave. Once done ftp your xbox through evox (better than avalaunch in my humble) and make a directory on your xbox e: drive called dash. extract the latest T3ch XBMC release to it and reboot. Easy! Swapping out the hard drive is a little more complicate due to the keying of Xbox mainboards and drives. Just make sure you get the eprom.bin file from your UDATA folder when you FTP your box. Then use XboxHDM to create a bootable disk to setup your new HD. This is very easy to due and frankly there are masses of tuts on the net to do it.

I totally agree with this, except about swapping the hard drive.  You can get away by just having a NAS or a shared PC on the network.  The formats XBMC plays is really astounding, and it is a definate must for any living room.

Once you have your Flash Memory ready for the softmod then you can use that for any future softmod.  The best way I have found is to hack a Xbox controller and put a standard USB plug on, and buy a memory card to go into it, from there Action Replay will be able to transer the image over.  Look out for AID 5.0 as it will help in putting the applications on, including XBMC. Get it from Xbins.

EvoX is good but Avalaunch has some great tools available for it like Qwix.

If you need any help PM me or look at Xbox-scene.com at the tutorials.   

[waveryder]

I totally agree with this, except about swapping the hard drive.  You can get away by just having a NAS or a shared PC on the network.

You cant run emualtors/games etc; from a NAS or network share. HD swapping is a must in my humble. IDE HD's are so cheap now and lets face it unless you got a mad one to install every xbox game on your HD you dont need more than 120gigs in there.

The best way I have found is to hack a Xbox controller and put a standard USB plug on, and buy a memory card to go into it, from there Action Replay will be able to transer the image over.

Making a USB adaptor is really easy. I dont know what its like in the states but here in the UK you can pick up an XBOX USB adaptor for a lot less than you can pick up a second controller to hack. Be aware though not all flash memory will work with the XBOX over USB.

EvoX is good but Avalaunch has some great tools available for it like Qwix.

Qwix will work with any XBOX dash including evox and XBMC. Avalaunch gives it extra functionality but it isnt really applicable unless your transfering large amounts of games to your XBOX.

Lastly make sure you have a good quality component cable for you HTXbox. XBMC at 1080i is an absolutely amazing experience. XBMC also upscales all your video and DVD's to 1080i way better than the crappy upscaling DVD player I bought!!
My £0.02

[slycrel]

I totally agree with this, except about swapping the hard drive.  You can get away by just having a NAS or a shared PC on the network.

You cant run emualtors/games etc; from a NAS or network share. HD swapping is a must in my humble. IDE HD's are so cheap now and lets face it unless you got a mad one to install every xbox game on your HD you dont need more than 120gigs in there.

Most emulators allow for playing over a network (it's been a while, but I remember seeing those options on a number of my emulators).  As far as what he's asking for it doesn't appear to include ISOs for games.  If you're not ripping xbox or maybe PS2 discs to your HDD, 8 gigs is enough for most all the other emulators, assuming you don't just slap every rom ever made on there for every emulator.  A network share is the way to go.  That way when you get new media you can put it on your PC much easier than loading and deleting temporary stuff onto your xbox HDD.

Ultimately it's in how you're going to use it, a bigger HDD doesn't hurt anything, but it's an option not to use it if you choose to go that route.

[waveryder]

What's would be the point of storing PS2 Discs on an XBOX?

[Hoagie_one]

Steve, Sent you a PM

[ark_ader]

I totally agree with this, except about swapping the hard drive.  You can get away by just having a NAS or a shared PC on the network.

You cant run emualtors/games etc; from a NAS or network share. HD swapping is a must in my humble. IDE HD's are so cheap now and lets face it unless you got a mad one to install every xbox game on your HD you dont need more than 120gigs in there.

The best way I have found is to hack a Xbox controller and put a standard USB plug on, and buy a memory card to go into it, from there Action Replay will be able to transer the image over.

Making a USB adaptor is really easy. I dont know what its like in the states but here in the UK you can pick up an XBOX USB adaptor for a lot less than you can pick up a second controller to hack. Be aware though not all flash memory will work with the XBOX over USB.

EvoX is good but Avalaunch has some great tools available for it like Qwix.

Qwix will work with any XBOX dash including evox and XBMC. Avalaunch gives it extra functionality but it isnt really applicable unless your transfering large amounts of games to your XBOX.

Lastly make sure you have a good quality component cable for you HTXbox. XBMC at 1080i is an absolutely amazing experience. XBMC also upscales all your video and DVD's to 1080i way better than the crappy upscaling DVD player I bought!!
My £0.02

Your tuppence was well spent.   

There are issues with USB memory sticks and the xbox.  Just hack a controller and those issues goes away, and there is a nice side effect, as you can then use the controller with the PC.

I mean we can just reinvent the wheel for this guy and let him make all the mistakes, but to what end?  Hack the controller transfer the save game via action replay load the disc and install AID.  Done.

The NAS option is exactly that an option, and if you like waiting for ages for the app, game ot movie to transfer via FTP well thats just fine.  Its not just straight forward to up the hard drive like it is with a chipped xbox, and there is plenty of room for failure.

Just for the record, I had a full romset on Mamedox, Full set of Daphne on DVD and all the console games with XBMC on 8gb.  Its do-able, but so is upgrading to a 500gb drive.   

Just my threpence.