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Before you do anything to your Xbox, neither Xbox-Scene nor I, will be held responsible for any stupid mistakes you make that may break your Xbox and render it useles!!!



How to Softmod Your Xbox


On a happier note, it would take a complete idiot to mess anything up, it's quite easy, just make sure you follow all of the steps CAREFULLY!!!
Ok, as you know, to start off, you will need ONE of these 3 games:
1. James Bond: Agent Under Fire (Try to get a non-platinum copy. If it is platinum, make sure it has the Serial #: 1448517 NOT 1448527)

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2. Mechassault (A non-platinum version is needed.) [IMG]http://www.replaygames.com.au/product_images/product_160.jpg[IMG]

3. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (NOT Pandora Tommorow, Chaos Theory, or Double Agent. Platinum & Non-Platinum versions will work)


[IMG]http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/xbox/splintercell001.jpg[IMG]

Once you have gotten ONE of these games (just rent one of 'em from Blockbuster, you won't need it after the softmod is complete), you will also need an Action Reply memory card, or
some other way of transferring your files over to your box.

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Lastly, you will need an internet connection, an IRC client (http://www.mirc.com), an FTP client (Smart FTP and WinRAR (WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files)
First thing you need to do is acquire an All-in-One exploit package. Where do you get this? Follow the guide to xbins: http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/xbins.php
Look for Krayzie's Ndure in /XBOX/exploits/_Packages/Krayzie's Ndure Installer/ and download the Ndurev1.1.rar file.
For the purpose of this tutorial, I will be giving you the instructions as if you were using 007: Agent Under Fire, as this was the game I used, and it worked like a charm. But keep in mind; all exploits are pretty much the same.
Extract the zip file that relates to the game you're using.
Open the file with WinRar, and extract the files to a location on your pc. Navigate to the gamesaves folder, and extract udata.rar to your memory card.
Turn on your Xbox, and plug in the memory card. Navigate to memory> Controller 1 on your xbox. Copy the 007 gamesave to your hardrive. Start up 007, and click New Game. DO NOT CLICK LOAD GAME! That will result in a freeze. Play the new game until the cutscene is over. Then click start, and quit game. Once at the main menu click load game, and hard drive. This will start the softmod installer.


It should take you to a screen somewhat like this.

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Click "Create EEPROM backup", then, “Backup EEPROM” Once it's finished go back to the menu and click "insall basic softmod". If your dashboard is not ver. 5960, it will give you an error. If it does, go back and click "minimum softmod install". Choose the dashboard you want (UnleashX, or EvolutionX). I prefer UnleashX, but it's your decision When finished, it should ask you to restart your box. Make sure you take 007 out of the disc drive so it does't auto boot.
If everything went correctly, your Xbox should be successfully modded and you will be greeted with an UnleashX (or Evolution X) dashboard.

[IMG]http://pictures.xbox-scene.com/4/unleashx/mkjones_Entry_3.gif[IMG]

OR

[IMG]http://www.tdubel.com/artikkelit/kuvat/evolutionxasent/1_8_3285.jpg[IMG]


FAQ


When I try to install the softmod, my LED turns red. Does this mean something’s wrong?

No, the installer will make your power light turn red. When the softmod is completed, you can even make your power light turn off!

I get an error saying my dash isn’t ver. 5960, what now?

If you want, you can exit the softmod and update your dash. You can do this by putting a Live compatible game (post halo 2) in your xbox, and clicking xbox live (you don’t need xbox live for this). This will proceed to update your dashboard to ver. 5960. If you don’t/can’t do this, just click “install minimum softmod”.

What dashboard is better? UnleashX, or EvolutionX?

I personally use UnleashX, but it’s recommended that you get XBMC.

How do I get XBMC?

Go to the usual places.

Where is the usual place?

It’s in my tutorial, read carefully you n00b!

Is there another option to Action Replay?

You can get the files from a friend with a modded Xbox, or buy MegaXKeys online
Link- [url]http://modtown.co.uk/mt/review2.php?id=megaxkey[url]



If you find anything that should be added to this FAQ/tut, PM me, or post in this thread.



Credits

Written By: Me (tnine)

Pictures: Google Images, and cerealkillajme
Edits: Xombe and deadparrot

How to Use Action Replay With a Flash USB Drive


To begin with, you will need the software USBview.exe from usbman.com. You need a USB storage drive, I suggest a USB stick, the Action Replay software, you can get at the Support menu from CodeJunkies.com, and a USB adapter for the Xbox. To do this, you need to plug your USB stick (or other mass storage device) into the regular USB female port of the the adapter, and the Xbox controller male port into your Xbox. Now, start up the Xbox dashboard and go into "MEMORY": an error message should now pop up and say that the memory card wasn't working properly and has now been erased. Don't worry, this is normal; this means that the USB stick has been formatted and can now be used as a regular Xbox memory card.

Now, take out your USB stick and plug it into your PC USB port. Open USBview.exe. You should see these two rows and these digits beside them:

idVendor: 0xyyyy
idProduct: 0xzzzz

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Copy down the yyyy digits, and the zzzz digits and keep them for later.

After installing the Action Replay software, go to C:\Program Files\Datel\Action Replay XBOX\Drivers and open up xbreader.inf and scroll down to the [_Devices]

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Now, delete the digits beside VID_ and PID_ and replace the VID_ digits with the yyyy digits, and the PID_ digits with the zzzz digits. Edit the first line AND ONLY THE FIRST LINE! Now, save xbreader.inf. On Windows XP: Go to Start, Control Panel, and click "switch to classic view" on the left hand side and the top.

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On other versions: Go to Start, Settings, Control Panel.
Double click on System, click the hardware tab, and click Device Manager. Expand the Universal Serial Bus Controllers row, right click on USB Mass Storage Device and click Update Driver. Now, on the Hardware Update Driver window, select "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)", and click next. Select "Don't Search. I will choose the driver the install". Click next. Select "ActionReplay XBOX" and click next.

Now, you have just made the USB stick work as a regular AR memory card with no (known) data corruption. In order to get ANYTHING on the card now, we must make the saves compatible.

Find your game save exploit of your choice and unzip it. You should have two folders: the actual game save exploit that makes the xbox crash, and the Evolution X folder, or raincoat BIOS flasher folder, (if you're doing a TSOP flash), or the UDE intaller if your using the ltools UDE installer. I will show you ldot's ltools UDE/2 installer for Splinter Cell. The same basic method applies, except the file and folder names may be different:

5553000c (game save exploit; #'s will be different depending on what game you are using)

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21585554: (the actual linux-based UDE installer)

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Use an existing save that came with the AR software and copy the datelinfo.xbx file into the first file directory in both of the saves. If you installed the AR software into it's default directory, go to "C:\Program Files\Datel\Action Replay XBOX\Saves" (without the quotes).

[IMG]http://img17.exs.cx/img17/6662/pic12.png[IMG]

So, the folders should go from this:
5553000c
l(#s and letters)>TitleMeta.xbx
>TitleImage.xbx
>8D5BCE250B35
21585554:
l(#s and letters)>TitleMeta.xbx
>TitleImage.xbx
>000000000000

...to this:
5553000c
l(#s and letters)>TitleMeta.xbx
>TitleImage.xbx
>datelinfo.xbx
>8D5BCE250B35
21585554:
l(#s and letters)>TitleMeta.xbx
>TitleImage.xbx
>datelinfo.xbx
>000000000000

Now, drag and drop to Action Replay and your game save exploit should be complete and reader to use!

Note: GAME SAVE OR .XBE EXPLOIT FROM XBINS IS NOT ACTION REPLAY SOFTWARE READY, AND YOU MUST PUT THE DATELINFO.XBX FILES INTO THE APPROPRIATE DIRECTORIES!!!!

Uninstalling


You might want your USB storage back to back up your files, pictures, music, etc, and to do this, you remove the AR driver from the USB stick, so here's what you do:

Plug your USB stick in to your PC (DON'T OPEN THE AR SOFTWARE!). Go to Control Panel, System, click on the Hardware tab, and click Device Manager. Go to USBIO controlled devices, right-click on ActionReplay XBOX, and click
uninstall. Go through the wizard and you should have your regular USB stick back.


FAQ


What USB drive should I get?

Any USB drive should work just fine. I’d recommend a well known brand though (for reliability).

How much space should my flash drive have?

I wouldn’t suggest more than 128 mb. But if you think you might use it for transferring files after the softmod, you might want to upgrade that to a 256 mb/512 mb. Stick.

This doesn’t work for me… why?

Maybe your USB drive is broken, or maybe the fash drive is incompatible… Let me know if this happens, so we can work it out.

Credits

Written By: Me (tnine)

Pictures: Google Images
Edits: deadparrot

Next up, installing a new hdd!