Hacking X360USB pro V2 - slight issues

[kristianity77]

Well, when i first switched to using the isomenu I left it as it was, in the folders, but for some reason, some of the folders were showing empty when there was ISO's in them thats why i changed it back to all in one folder.

I dont mind the two minute wait to be fair. Theres currently 172 isos so its quite a lot I suppose to read through

 

[DinohScene]

Hmm
As I have no Xkey, I hardly have experience with it.
I did install it into mates xboxes and for customers ;p

But yeh, it needs to scan everything and set .mp3/.jpg files for the games for the Xkey to load the ISO.
So it takes a while ;]

 

[kristianity77]

I had a go at making the 360 load thumbnails for each game, but couldnt get it to work. I read it was just including a jpg of the same name in the games folder but it wouldnt ever work for me

 

[DinohScene]

Saved it with the correct bit depth etc?

I never even tried it tho, nor do I know people that have it enabled ;p

 

[kristianity77]

Yeah I got it to work in the end but its all a bit pointless really. I thought you could browse by thumbnail but you can, all it does is shot you a cover when you pick it, totally pointless

 

[DinohScene]

Hmkays.
Bummer tho.

But hey, look at it this way, you can play backupped games whilst your originals are safe and you don't have to switch DVD's or ISO's ;]

 

[kristianity77]

Yeah exactly! And ive already found a couple of games id never normally give the time of day for and they turn out to be pretty good!

 

[DinohScene]

Ahah ;p

I'm glad it's all working~

 

[kristianity77]

So now ive finished putting everything on the drive, Im now beginning to play some of the games again that I was playing from disc and have noticed that load times are a hell of a lot longer than from disc. I thought it was my imagination but ive tried in emulation mode and then a retail disc and timed it and there is a noticeable difference. In game it seems ok. But there seems to be a tiny bit of stutter on some FMVs. Hmmm

My drive is formatted to NTFS but am reading (albeit on forums that are about a year old) that ext3 and ext4 are they ways to go to help combat this?

 

[DinohScene]

Do a HDD install (on your 360's HDD) to speed up loading times.

Afaik, other partition tables don't work.
I don't know why it's slow but USB should be faster then DVD (theoretically)

 

[kristianity77]

Yeah the HDD install works but yeah have read that EXT is a much better format for the drives. Its driving me nuts how slow it is. Now just need somewhere to put 2tb of info whilst i change the partition. Never easy is it!

 

[DinohScene]

Ahah ;p
Indeed it's not.

Meh, I meself don't have an Xkey.
Got a flashed and RGH box so I'm in no need for one either.
Personally, I don't mind a little loading.
If it's working then it works c:

 

[Walkin]

So now ive finished putting everything on the drive, Im now beginning to play some of the games again that I was playing from disc and have noticed that load times are a hell of a lot longer than from disc. I thought it was my imagination but ive tried in emulation mode and then a retail disc and timed it and there is a noticeable difference. In game it seems ok. But there seems to be a tiny bit of stutter on some FMVs. Hmmm

My drive is formatted to NTFS but am reading (albeit on forums that are about a year old) that ext3 and ext4 are they ways to go to help combat this?

I have this issue was some games, and some games are completely fine. I do hard drive installs now for the games I'm actively playing.

 

[kristianity77]

I have this issue was some games, and some games are completely fine. I do hard drive installs now for the games I'm actively playing.

Ive got the problem with all of them Ive tested so far, some are worse than others. Just to satisfy my curiosity I formatted a USB stick to EXT4 and ran an ISO that I tested and its a hell of a lot faster. Seems the linux programmed Xk3y prefers a linux formatted hard drive. Why I didnt spot this before I filled my drive up ill never know lol

 

[Walkin]

Cool, I'll have to consider converting mine now.

 

[Walkin]

Did you find a program that allows you to write to ext4 drives from windows?

 

[Mantis41]

Did you find a program that allows you to write to ext4 drives from windows?

http://www.partitionwizard.com/

 

[Walkin]

Thanks, I didn't realize that allowed you to write to the hard drive as well. I though it was only for creating partitions.

 

[Mantis41]

Actually I am not sure that does allow you to write files. My bad Unless this disk copy feature does the job

 

[Mantis41]

This is worth a shot if you don't mind taking a risk of data corruption.
http://www.ext2fsd.com/