Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject: Playing games from an external harddisk or network?
Hi, is there a utiltity or program to load a game from an external harddisk or network? To make it clear, XBMC for example can load media from external sources but not games. So is there like a program like boxexplorer including a network browse function, or is this impossible? Thanx in advance!
(I posted this as well in the software section, but I am not sure I'll get an answer there, the post may be deleted if answered.
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wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:
Not sure you can but if you could it wold be so slow from the type of connection that it woldent be worth playing.
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:
Oh and the onley app that will let you use a larger external harddisk is something like xdsl but you cant play xbox games from that.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject:
Well i guess you could but it would be better and easier to use an internal hdd. _________________
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject:
You can edit to play roms from you pc seems to run good for all but pcsx and N64.
boobs Xbox-HQ Elite Member Xbox Version: V1.6 V1.3 Modded: X3CE
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject:
how did game get on there in first place
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject:
boobs wrote:
how did game get on there in first place
What are you talking about?
boobs Xbox-HQ Elite Member Xbox Version: V1.6 V1.3 Modded: X3CE
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:03 am Post subject:
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XBMC for example can load media from external sources but not games.
it like he tryed it and it has not worked so he must of copy the game from xbox to pc then to external harddisk or he downloaded a game off internet and now is trying to get it to work from external harddisk
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject:
Hey. Why would it be slow? Loading via a network for example would probably be quicker than from a dvd. I wouldn't come up with this question of course, if I had not just the standard xboxhardrive But let's not make this a part of the discussion, I just want to know if it's possible (and how!)
And eh boobs, anyone can physically put content on a network or harddisk, so I don't know what's ur point.
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject:
Well it wold be slow since you got to wait for the info to transfer from the pc to the xbox then when it gets thare the info wold use cpu power then it wold be trying to run the game thats more cpu use it wold take more memmory then the xbox has and more cpu speed then it has.
Just think about how long it takes to ftp a game to the hdd then add running the game and processing the button comands it just cant be done with the limits of the xbox.
As for running it from an ex hdd that wont work brcase the xbox wont reconize more then i think 4gb from an out side sorce.
You wold need to run the ex hdd from a controle port which wold make it think it was a memmory card so it gets limited.
Sorry guy just cant be done.
You can add on more hdd's but then you need to add a switch to select wich hdd you want and put a dash on both hdd,s.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:26 am Post subject:
its not doable because once the game is executed it takes over the system and you no longer have control over the network,
for it to work you would need a low level operating system to exist, or some kind of network control built into the bios
and loading games from the 100mbit network would actually be faster then loading them from the dvd drive,
stock xbox drives are ~6x speed MAX, which is 7.93MBs and thats only at the very end of the dvd,
you can get 12.5MBs transfer on a 100mbit network, and that speed would only be affected by the size of the files _________________ Xbox v1.0/1.1/1.5/1.6a
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