For whom it may Concern....

[damien©]

Stick Xbox Live Arcade Games on a CDR/DVDR..?

Yep according to 360Gamesaves you can stick your Xbox Live Arcade games that are registered to your account on a CDR and play them of that, this may interest Core Owners or People wishing to free up some space on their hard drive.

Your'll need a couple of things to do it but if it interest you then read on....


We've made a little discovery here that may prove useful to 360 users without an expensive harddrive for their console.
Xbox Live Arcade Titles will execute when placed onto CDR/DVDR disks.

XBLA on HDD reside in this format on Partition3 of HardDrive. /Content/0000000000000000/*TitleID*/000D0000/*XBLA Game*

Burning this directory structure to any writable disk and placed in a console will populate the XBLA Menu with the titles on the disk. Of course, they will still run in TRIAL mode unless said console has purchased this content. However, we felt this was still useful for people with Memory Units that can only hold one title at a time or even people without any storage options at all.

Demos, Videos, Profiles, and Saves were also tested in this fashion but were not recognized by the system unfortunately. USB Drives and Memory Sticks also tested and not working for either XBLA or the latter.

Forum Discussion Thread: http://360gamesaves.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3381


Anyone who succesfully does this, please post back and let us know how it went on. Cheers.

[mjmaskrey]

Unless I'm missing something you'll need Xsata or similar before even contemplating this.

I don't think anyone here has bought one...well they haven't said if they have.

:)

[damien©]

Unless I'm missing something you'll need Xsata or similar before even contemplating this.

:)

Yes, you do need a tool like XSATA or a Home-made Version to some effect.

But in theory there nothing stopping you from downloading a CD/DVD image of the games you have or want as a trail onto a CD then putting it in your Xbox 360.

Obviously this won't appeal to the masses but I'm sure some people will find it handy and a space saver.

[bingo83]

My Mobo on the PC has an external SATA connection so that I dont need Xsata to read files on my HDD.

[Blaze Lord]

Or, more likely, there will be some places who host the arcade games. Since the permission to switch between Trial and Full has apparently nothing to do with the file itself, I'm not even sure this type of filesharing could even be considered pirating.

[damien©]

I'm not even sure this type of filesharing could even be considered pirating.

I can't see how, the files themselves are Freeware as it's a Trial Version of the Game and the Full Version can only be unloacked via your Profile.

I can't see Microsoft trying to fix this if it was accidental. It would be good if it worked for Gamevideos, Trailers, etc.

[Blaze Lord]

Unless they decide to start charging for some videos, then they might have backed themselves into a corner.

[damien©]

Does anybody know if you can run Xpolrer360 on MAcs?

[Blaze Lord]

I'm pretty sure you can't, and I would guess it's because there's a lot more work involved in getting a Mac to navigate an Xbox hard drive. For the same reason a Windows formatted iPod won't get recognized on a Mac, but the inverse of that will work.