si_kabayan Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 (edited) Lets share Linux tool to works with The Microsoft Original Xbox. xdvdfs fatx xbfuse xbdumper xemu wine redump2x Edited December 17, 2023 by si_kabayan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 xdvdfs xdvdfs is a collection of tools for interacting with XDVDFS/XISO images. xdvdfs is a new and modern alternatif to extract-xiso. It still actively maintained and developed, and has more features such as info and compress (to CISO format). An example of info usecase is to extract default.xbe from an xiso. ~$ xdvdfs info 'Ninja Gaiden Black.iso' /default.xbe Name: default.xbe Offset: 543156 Left Child Offset: None Right Child Offset: None Data Location: Sector 429192 (4571136 bytes) Attributes: Archive ~$ dd if='/mnt/hdocs/Redump/Ninja Gaiden Black.iso' of=default.xbe skip=$((429192*2048)) count=4571136 iflag=skip_bytes,count_bytes 8928+0 records in 8928+0 records out 4571136 bytes (4.6 MB, 4.4 MiB) copied, 0.0652378 s, 70.1 MB/s Note: Redump image has a video partition as big as 387 MB or 405798912 Bytes (1024*1024*387). So we need to add 405798912 to skip argument, e.g. skip=$(((429192*2048)+405798912)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 fatx fatx is Original Xbox FATX Filesystem Library, Python bindings, FUSE driver, and GUI explorer. If only it's more polished, fatx would be the best tool to work with ogxbox disk on Linux. But so far on my tests, it's not really reliable; sometime it's slow, failed to copy some files, etc. Fatx also able to format disk to use in ogxbox. But it only support F partition and does not create partition info (partition table?). Mounting custom partition is supported as long as we know offset and size of the partition. The copy - paste speed is faster than FTP, but slower than FATXplorer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 xbfuse xbfuse is using FUSE To Mount (Original) Xbox and Xbox 360 DVD Filesystems. Mounting xiso is faster, less space, and more convenient compared to extracting it. And using some file manager's script, mounting xiso is never been easier. Here's my nemo (Cinnamon's file manager) script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 (edited) xbdumper xboxdumper is what XboxHDM used to build disk. This latest source is from 2016, but compiled without problem on my latest Debian Sid. xboxdumper support G partition and will create partition table. Edited December 16, 2023 by si_kabayan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 xemu Probably not many people aware that xemu can be used for things other than gaming. If we run xemu with superuser right, it can has access to block devices. This mean we can use xemu to work with (ogxbox) physical disk, such as rebuild disk, transfer game, etc. Just make sure to select the correct disk, or you'll destroy your valuable data. Here's an example: First, plug ogxbox disk in to PC and then search for unmounted block device. ~$ lsblk -no NAME,MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda1 /srv/nfs/hdata ├─sda2 /srv/nfs/hdocs ├─sda3 /srv/nfs/hmedia └─sda4 /srv/nfs/hntfs sdb nvme0n1 ├─nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi ├─nvme0n1p2 ├─nvme0n1p3 ├─nvme0n1p4 /srv/nfs/nntfs ├─nvme0n1p5 / ├─nvme0n1p6 /srv/nfs/ntfs └─nvme0n1p7 /srv/nfs/data As we can see, sdb is probably the disk we are looking for. Run xemu as sudo: sudo xemu Adjust xemu's settings accordingly: Machine > Settings... > System > Hard Disk And navigate to /dev/ directory then select sdb Load installer/rescue disc: Machine > Load Disc... Reboot xemu: Machine > Reset Done. We can do everything as if we boot installer disc on real ogxbox. Use config file to simplified the process. We can also rip game using DVD2Xbox. Just boot xemu > run DVD2Xbox > Load Disc... > select game iso > start ripping. DVD2Xbox can also rip to iso, but: Wont remove random padding. So if the loaded disc is in redump format, ripped iso is still quite big. Solution: extract or pack redump using extract-xiso or xdvdfs first. On my test, Cerbios failed to boot this iso. So as of now, use M8+ xiso patched. FTP on xemu is slow and quite complicated to setup. Try to pack the files to be transfered into xiso (xdvdfs) format using extract-xiso or xdvdfs. Load the disc and then copy paste using dashboard's file manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 wine Well, wine is not really an ogxbox tool. But, when the tool we needed only made for Windows, wine will come in handy. No guarantee it will work though. Installing wine on 64 bit system will bring many 32 lib dependencies. So, I prefer to use wine distributed in AppImage format like this one: https://github.com/mmtrt/WINE_AppImage. I have much luck with its Stable release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 redump2x redump2x is a Bash script to convert ogxbox redump archive into xdvdfs (xiso). It's utilize xdvdfs and driveimageutils attacher. Features: convert redump iso or archive to xiso format. copy game's certificate to attach.xbe. sanitize xiso filename (to conform FATX limitations). split xiso into two equal size. add game cover to be displayed on UnleashX dashboard. join splitted xisos. update attacher, artwork, filename, and directory name. batch processing. Disclaimer: This is shameless plug. I wrote this script. The quality probably not that satisfying, but so far it's fit my need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylverReZ Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Is this tool safe to use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 It's open source. And as long as you know what you're doing, I think it would be fine. The only risky app in the list is xboxdumper, which probably can destroy your data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_kabayan Posted May 21 Author Share Posted May 21 On 12/16/2023 at 11:52 PM, si_kabayan said: xbfuse xbfuse is using FUSE To Mount (Original) Xbox and Xbox 360 DVD Filesystems. Mounting xiso is faster, less space, and more convenient compared to extracting it. And using some file manager's script, mounting xiso is never been easier. Here's my nemo (Cinnamon's file manager) script. Nemo script above is 404. Here's the correct link. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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