xbox live computer client

[warz]

Has anyone thought of making an xbox live client? Support logging in as an account, retreiving friends list, sending/receiving messages, etc?

I wonder how difficult this would be. Anyone seen anything similar to this idea?

[UserLoser.]

Has anyone thought of making an xbox live client? Support logging in as an account, retreiving friends list, sending/receiving messages, etc?

I wonder how difficult this would be. Anyone seen anything similar to this idea?

Where/how would you start this?  I'd be interested, but how?  Put a game DVD in system and do something with the files I'm assuming?

[warz]

Nah. xbox live is very similar to battle.net. I'm assuming i would need to have a modded xbox, atleast to look at game/network files. Probably would take a router to capture online packets. I'm not sure. I've been doing research. Right now I don't think there's any way for me to actually inspect what it does? I haven't tried putting halo 2 in my computer yet, though. I'll do that soon.

[DeTaiLs]

I remember sombody a long time ago trying to make a server for xbox live for freinds to play on maybe search for that and get some information

[hismajesty]

I remember sombody a long time ago trying to make a server for xbox live for freinds to play on maybe search for that and get some information

A few of those exist now.

[MyndFyre]

Nah. xbox live is very similar to battle.net. I'm assuming i would need to have a modded xbox, atleast to look at game/network files. Probably would take a router to capture online packets. I'm not sure. I've been doing research. Right now I don't think there's any way for me to actually inspect what it does? I haven't tried putting halo 2 in my computer yet, though. I'll do that soon.

You know, you don't need to do it to your router.  Before I bought a separate wireless adapter for my Xbox, I used to use Windows Internet Connection Sharing -- I'd set my wireless adapter on my computer to be the Internet connection, and then connect my computer to the Xbox with a crossover ethernet cable.  All Xbox network traffic then went through Windows, so you could packetlog it with Ethereal.

[warz]

Hm, I might try to rig something like that up.

Similar to like

dsl modem -> computer -> xbox, instead of..
xbox <- dsl modem -> computer

[SNiFFeR]

http://www.xbconnect.com/

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

Mod the X-Box: http://ix86.cold-chaos.net/forum/index.php?topic=287.0

As seen, you can run stuff off of it, so why not do something like that?

[UserLoser.]

Mod the X-Box: http://ix86.cold-chaos.net/forum/index.php?topic=287.0

As seen, you can run stuff off of it, so why not do something like that?

Explain how this is done?

[Newby]

It revolves around mod chips. There's a way to mod the motherboard or something inside the XBox to boot a fully functional Linux distro. You can't play games on your XBox ever again, but hey, it's a pretty damn cheap decent server.

[warz]

I believe there's ways to flip a switch on some mod chips or something that revert the xbox back to an 'unmodded' style. You can still play xbox and xbox live if you want. Although, this has nothing to do with what I was wanting to do, but it's still a neat topic.

I was just talking about creating a bot for windows that emulates an xbox signing into xbox live.

[Newby]

I believe there's ways to flip a switch on some mod chips or something that revert the xbox back to an 'unmodded' style. You can still play xbox and xbox live if you want. Although, this has nothing to do with what I was wanting to do, but it's still a neat topic.

That chip doesn't turn it into a full Linux server. It just allows you to store games on your hard drive and play 'em from there, and play other games for different systems.

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

It revolves around mod chips. There's a way to mod the motherboard or something inside the XBox to boot a fully functional Linux distro. You can't play games on your XBox ever again, but hey, it's a pretty damn cheap decent server.

Actually, one of my friends did this and wrote emulators so he could still play all his games (on his 400gb HD).  He also wrote a emulator for PS2, and is working on one for GCN.  With the ripping XBox can do, all he does is go to Blockbuster and he's got most console games.  Bam.  But then again, he IS completely insane.

[hismajesty]

Is there anyway to do this sort of stuff on PS2? I don't really play console games that much and don't have many games (which one of those is the cause of the other?) but it'd be nice to rip some from BB.