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The purpose of this instructable is to serve as a suppliment to anyone out there that has either soft or hard modded their Original Xbox (read: not the 360). Some parts also apply to Stock (non-modded) Xbox as well (in the case of XBConnect). This will allow you to enjoy your Xbox more fully, and as well you can learn a few tricks and maybe even make some new friends.
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The short, sweet, and simple definition for FTP is File Transfer Protocol, which allows you to have a simple way of transferring files between computers (or in this case, an XBox to your PC and back). With this being said you should get yourself a few essential materials for this.
A Crossover Cable (cheap and can be found at most electronics stores or made if you have the gear)
An FTP Program (i use Flash FXP but whatever flavor you like works)
A modded XBox (mine is softmodded with the tutorial that i published)
If you have XBMC installed as your Dashboard, you can find out your XBox IP address in the settings section (once you have connected your XBox to a PC via Ethernet with a Crossover cable). After you set it to be online (not hard trust me.. if you soft modded your XBox you can do this part yourself). Then simply open your FTP program, then in the section that allows you to set a connection, simply enter the IP address from the XBox (write it down and stick it on a post it on your computer), then enter in 'xbox' for username and password (that is the default UN and Pass for the Xbox). then its a simple matter of transferring the files from the directory on your computer they are saved on to the are on your PC to your XBox they go to usually on the E Drive (under the Dashboard folder for softmods). Then you can load the files in the corresponding subfolders (usually under Plugins, there are ones like Video, Audio, Programs, Emulators etc). You can usually find some of these folders in forums and with simple Google Searches.
A Crossover Cable (cheap and can be found at most electronics stores or made if you have the gear)
An FTP Program (i use Flash FXP but whatever flavor you like works)
A modded XBox (mine is softmodded with the tutorial that i published)
If you have XBMC installed as your Dashboard, you can find out your XBox IP address in the settings section (once you have connected your XBox to a PC via Ethernet with a Crossover cable). After you set it to be online (not hard trust me.. if you soft modded your XBox you can do this part yourself). Then simply open your FTP program, then in the section that allows you to set a connection, simply enter the IP address from the XBox (write it down and stick it on a post it on your computer), then enter in 'xbox' for username and password (that is the default UN and Pass for the Xbox). then its a simple matter of transferring the files from the directory on your computer they are saved on to the are on your PC to your XBox they go to usually on the E Drive (under the Dashboard folder for softmods). Then you can load the files in the corresponding subfolders (usually under Plugins, there are ones like Video, Audio, Programs, Emulators etc). You can usually find some of these folders in forums and with simple Google Searches.
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a while back my little brother got the brilliant idea of hard-restarting my xbox by pressing the power serge button on the power cord, this seems to have damaged the software for reading xbox games. it can read dvds and cds perfectly but if i put in an xbox game it plays the same sequence you get if you put an xbox game in a dvd player.
you wouldn't happen to have any tips on fixing this or maybe a place to find software reset disks? (i've read that you can make reset disks on forum sites but no one seems to want to share how and i cant find the info online) any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Chrimson_And_Clockwork-
i also can not currently mod chip it because i don't have the money to order a chip, and my intentions are to mod my xbox with as little money spent as possible for an amateur like myself. if all goes well i'll have an 'able on soon.
i do have a second question if its not to much of a bother, i'm trying to change to a bigger hard drive and what i've found says that i need a y splitter for the red/black/black/yellow cable attached to the hard drive, is there any major harm in making that cable instead buying it?
Sharing Media with your PC
that doesn't look like a PC to me my good manbut it is XP (but can run Vista Executables too ;) )
aslo, just a question, you knew that theyre closing down online halo 2 sometime around april, right? Will that interfere with XBConnect?