On another forum a few of us are in the Dash preview / Kinect beta and have been packet sniffing our consoles when updating the dash to a new beta build. (see here if you wish:
http://digiex.net/gaming-section/console-gaming/7041-known-360-builds-ms-server.html)
The end goal of this is to have working offline updates of the various Kinect dashboard betas, with working avatars.
We can obtain the actual system update easily, however getting the avatars to work when updating is proving more difficult.
To obtain the actual system update we simply packet sniff the update process, then download it with a web browser, like in the screenshot below:
http://users.digiex.net/insanenutter/media/360/12603-systemupdate.jpg So for example the 12603 update can be downloaded from:
http://download.xbox.com/content/xenon/12603/su89433E9D8FC4B3B8FC5BBDDD943DE71FBED207E6.bin
After that all we need to do is:
- Create a folder in the root of a Fat32 formatted USB drive called $SystemUpdate
- Rename su89433E9D8FC4B3B8FC5BBDDD943DE71FBED207E6.bin to su20076000_00000000
- Place it in the folder and it will ask your console to update when the USB drive is inserted.
So updating the console offline is easy, which I guess is the main thing as this dashboard can be archived and used by anyone in the future.
Of course we can also obtain the files that get dumped on the hard drive for avatars and such by packet sniffing:
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/fb5c6cbfbd847b520f6606865abf898a6107a036.xcp?n=AE37B4BF29BBB714
http://download.xbox.com/content/xenon/12603/su89433E9D8FC4B3B8FC5BBDDD943DE71FBED207E6.bin
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/manifests/01803D46265C9BF6/system.manifest
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/CFFC6BF756383A0892A7CC5713A6EAE0BA44939E/FFFE07DF00000002.cab
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/216897370A59B58681CF4A3DF22BF46E5F833A9D/FFFE07DF00000006.cab
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/F1DFF8F3680FFEA51F879C0B72FCE3BB0170A5C3/FFFE07DF00000008.cab
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/AAEE3DFD3CFE07FC699CA0F633298F4AD97DE90A/FFFE07DF00000001.cab
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/EAF06E294B1E9ABD1C47A3AFAC1ED5ED8B0619FC/AvatarEditor.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/40A3513EB72AD18EDF8B85DD6392957FDD0D036D/BiometricSetup.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/68B69D6CB2A20799D8BEDF6C0B582F9C586D9931/Dash.AttractionScreen.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/FC6DD7209B57BD1D10DFFA037B33D19D68A4621D/dash.ExtraAVCodecs.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/DA6F3F60C08340E5C842D8A5393CC43D0C244AF6/Dash.FieldCalibration.lex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/6D0A41140A5A0620456935AA9876198D2ADC8219/dash.firstuse.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/1DF79159C9FDC8DABCDC625EDC7FFB3F45A8E102/Dash.MP.Offline.lex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/C6FF4B81DA1865DF44D411E81E970B2EF2748A9B/dash.natalpregame.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/E4C0B2A06BD215FDADD1328BED763B0821349077/dash.NuiFirstUse.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/18F19AB0BECA8B2D98F23A4F2C960F9A7CAA15EC/dash.nuihub.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/795216D20656F365B1BFD9BCD172630940B7D4B8/Dash.NuiTroubleshooter.lex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/F3A1CD0C765235F2BB4F468F67FC42406F580B9E/dashnui.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/3C65E37CAF6B33C646E06627C433C1A2DDFF60E1/Guide.AvatarMiniCreator.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/F95DF1C67B85E9A64F0058143173DD8A25436D20/Guide.NuiTroubleshooter.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/17D006AA9B4099B68216E63E9B3CCCFAF0209999/livepack.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/DECC79BCADA37CF1F53EEEB75625683A83B160C8/mediasite.xzp
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/966F2237415A6C9CFDFB2821A3AF99D3D27CE8F4/natalsu.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/2CD65090120CC552AF384CBBB9940A0E19FBFF92/nuihud.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/8C9FF5B864CF98AA1983736F3BE06470B3B9AE78/Xam.Community.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/D0BA5689D1A13FA5560A25F239C8935D84B08D0C/Xam.LiveMessenger.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/FE7A5F9EFA04A675CB14369C52D22640BD38FD52/Xam.WordRegister.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/B4D0FE21AD216A44E45E1BF1E43D699AD187DAF5/XimeDic.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/E4C2A6FDF84719676A51D306D916E1F2125AB71B/XimeDicCh.xex
http://download.xbox.com/content/fffe07d1/files/9CABF291723A63E89D7554A232D1924F289ED4E3/ximedicex.xex
This is where we now have problems, when placing those files in the $SystemUpdate folder we can not get the 360 to use them in the update process.
Using the 12603 update as an example:
su89433E9D8FC4B3B8FC5BBDDD943DE71FBED207E6.bin has been renamed to su20076000_00000000 - This file has to be renamed for the 360 to find the update and allow you to flash it.
Now on the leaked 12416 update which has working avatars the following .cab files have no file extentions, so I have removed them.
FFFE07DF00000001.cab renamed to FFFE07DF00000001
FFFE07DF00000002.cab renamed to FFFE07DF00000002
FFFE07DF00000006.cab renamed to FFFE07DF00000006
FFFE07DF00000008.cab renamed to FFFE07DF00000008
This is where I think we now have problems, it appears that in system.manifest the update process looks for a file called Xna_TitleLauncher.xex which we have not obtain by packet sniffing the update process.
This appears to be present in the 12416 update with working avatars (you can download that here:
http://digiex.net/downloads/download-center-2-0/xbox-360-content/dashboard-updates/6652-xbox-360-kinect-dashboard-update-2-0-12416-0-avatars-download.html )
We also have a file called fffe07d1/c49408b9f1639f2866e18e4dcdb31d0538628c08.xcp which i'm not sure if something needs to be done with that or not.
Any thoughts on this?
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