This guide will provide steps for getting backups of disc-based games running on the Xbox 360 on hacked systems using FreeMyXe. I'm assuming you already backed up the game; if this isn't the case, watch MrMario2011's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7EKfEYYP0
Feel free to turn this guide into a video, or make improvements (or maybe automate this, this gets tedious 😴) ! No credit needed.
You'll need:
- Xbox Image Browser - https://consolemods.org/wiki/File:Xbox_Image_Browse_v2.9.0.350.zip
- Iso2God (includes XeXTool) - https://github.com/r4dius/Iso2God/releases/tag/1.5.0
- An ISO of the game of your choice 😊
- A 360 hacked using Bad Update, patched with FreeMyXe
I'll be using Halo: Reach in this tutorial.
Make a folder anywhere, then set it up like this:
Note
If you store tools like these in different places, go that route. This is meant to be the easiest for people who have never touched these tools before.
Create the directories Contents and Temp, they'll be empty for now.
Now, go to Xbox Image Browser and set it to compatibility mode for Windows 7. I got issues with it starting when it wasn't in compatibility mode, but you might have no issue.
Now, open it, select File, Open Image File, and then select your ISO file. You should get somewhere here:
Find every .xex and .dll file in here (including subfolders!), right click them, and click Extract. Select the Temp folder we made earlier.
Keep the Image Browser open for now.
Open a Command Prompt window in the Temp folder.
Tip
You can type "cmd" into the File Explorer bar to open a Command Prompt window easily.
Type the following command: for /r %s in (*.*) do ..\xextool.exe -m r -r a "%s"
This tells the Command Prompt to run xextool for every file in the folder.
Go back to the Image Browser, then for every .xex and .dll file, right click and select Replace. Replace the file with the patched one in the Temp folder.
Caution
This immediately modifies the ISO file. Make sure you have a backup of the original, unmodified one!
Click File, Close Image, then exit. Delete the files in the Temp folder; they're no longer needed as they're now in the ISO.
Open up Iso2God. Click "Add ISO", then set the ISO Image to your now-modified ISO file. Set the GOD Path to the Contents folder, and the ISO Path to the Temp folder.
Note
We don't need the ISO file Iso2God generates; it can be safely deleted when Iso2God is finished.
It should look something like this at the end:
Try removing all padding beforehand to save disk space. A small number of games might get weird with this, usually crashing on startup. If this happens, try Partial or Untouched.
Click Add, then Convert. Let it do its thing; it might take a while.
And you're done! You can find the GoD-formatted game (a folder) in the Contents folder. You can put it on your 360 any method you like (through a large enough USB drive, external hard drive, FTP, etc). The game can be played at any time while FreeMyXe is in effect. Keep in mind it'll show as Corrupted when it's in a stock configuration.