Xbox config sector handling
Issue #118
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Can we add the ability to manage the config sector of the Xbox HDD?
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It is more to do with the Xbox live game save profile that is stored in that sector. There are a few games you can not play Without a live profile on the system the ability to backup and recover this sector will allow one to play such games as pranzer dragon orta. I can pass on a config sector backup with a live profile embedded for you to view. Currently no tool on the Xbox is able to recover this sector to a new drive that I'm aware of and requires a hex editor to patch the HDD from a PC or store a profile on a Xbox memory cart to play such games. If one could generate a live profile from XblastOS that would be cool also but there is technical issues around that I believe as it is Microsoft signed I believe.
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That's really interesting and I must say it could be useful!
I'm still puzzled as to why Microsoft wouldn't simply use files stored on a HDD partition. Having a fixed sector store data like that seems like it would limit the amount of live enabled profile on a single Xbox. Could the OG have more than 1 live profile per machine?
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As far as I'm aware it can have a max of 8 profiles on the hdd.
basically when you create a live profile it attaches to the xbox serverers and verifys the console is not banned and it sends back a paired machine account that ony that console can read as it is a fingerprint key pair. https://assemblergames.com/threads/xbox-live-accounts-xqemu-and-mu.60352
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There is now a new tool and source to create Xbox live account’s reversed from XOnline API.
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There isn't much to change that is useful on there:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020617181617/http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk:80/~lucien/computing/projects/xbox/XBOX-disk-layout.htm
What do you have in mind?