Soft-modding Your Xbox The Easy Way!

@Skullface - Use Metoo

@Chow22 - You make sure you send over the main XBMC folder. Has to be the one that contains "default.xbe" and some 20 other files/folders. If that folder is inside a folder, it will not load when the xbox does.

@Arden 05 - Error 21 doesnt have any real meaning. But in this case it is probably due to the main .xbe files being corrupt or not being signed right.

There have been a few posts that show how to fix it in this thread. This guide is step by step, as I have done it a million times before and know it like the back of my hand. Using this mod, you do not need to FTP to finish the mod and play burned games.

I have read about SlaYer's boot disc v2.6 fixes the problem, you can give that a go. Here is the link for it. Pass is sevx2.6

Thanks for the reply SingaBoiy I almost lost it last night, but today is a new day and I feel much better. Ok with that said I have questions....

1) After a successful install and then error 21, how would Slayers installer V2.6 fix the .xbe problem because I think that's one of my problems. Meaning do I pop in the disk after a successful install? Where does the installer come in? Do I burn this Installer on to a dvd (its 158mb, I know it can't fit on my memory card, using AR). So please could you help me out on that (Thaks for providing the link as well :) )


2) What's the point of FTP? I just want to play burnt games and watch dvds without the device thats it. Should I buy a crossover cable? ( I work at Circuit City so I could pick one up). But In my case if FTP is not needed, I don't want it.

3) From my XBOX specs could you tell me the exact path to take (Meaning UDE or UDE2 -> then PBL 1.4.1 or PBL meetoo or - > etc.... (I believe I'm running version 1.0)

Thanks man I really appreciate your help, I just had to vent last night...I was trying all day to do this. :unsure: :)

Thank you for the help SingaBoiy. It is weird though when I copy over or create new folders for instance nothing shows up on the evox dashboard though if I switch to the mmx dashboard I can see them. I tried switch my ftp to non pasv mode which did not help. What am I doing wrong.

@arden -
1. SlaYer's will rebuild any corrupt files in the C:\. This is supposed to fix the error 21. After extracting, you will have a 300+ MB ISO to burn. I suggest using a cd-rw cause you have better odds of it working then a cd-r.

2. To play dvds (w/o the dvd play back kit) you will need to FTP in to transfer Xbox Media Center. I am not aware if SlaYer's has XBMC on it. I do know it has dvd2xbox though. So you could burn XBMC to a disc and use dvd2xbox to copy it to your xbox.

3. I suggest using UDE2 > Metoo > M8

@Chow - Make is so all the files for XBMC are in this folder:

E/Apps/XBMC/ <-- all files in there

All the files are in the folder. XBMC runs great in the MMX dashboard but not in the evox dashboard. I would prefer to use the MMX dashboard though. Do I Need to edit the evox.ini file?

Hmm... thats strange. Its not in Launch Menu > Apps?

No, not when I use evox. I can not see any of the folders that I created on E:\ .

Try C\ or if you installed a new hd, try F\

Sounds good I will try that out tonight. If I do have a game on the c: drive will that be detected on xbox live or am I good since my hd is locked.

If you dont have lots of music, you have roughly 4 GB of space on your xbox hd. You can fit 1 or 2 games on it. More if they are small.