Please help me i'm stuck with xbox and mameox

[8ruc1e]

The emulator is on my x box and working fine.

Thats the good news.

But i am wishing to add alot more roms to it.

I am using boxplorer i select my target directory as the roms folder in the mame folder i then go to look for my source but the x box will not pick up the dvd i burned the zipped rom to. It reports no disk in drive d or blank ???

I must be doing something odd as it see every other disk i put in.

I do have a samsung drive so i tried it with a cd as well but the same thing happened.

I am now stuck when i put the dvd back in my pc it can see all the .zip files so where have i gone wrong.

The roms are not in a folder just in the root of the disk.

I thought it was going to be easy choose my dest choose my source copy accross and hey presto " Maybe not "

[old engineer]

Are u not able to FTP into your Xbox?

...This is the 'normal' way to add roms m8

...The disc U made up 'aint bootable, hence the Xbox can't recognise it!

[nimbles]

boxplorer is pretty old and as old engineer said doesn't pick up cd's/dvd's burned in a non xiso format.

you wanna try either avalaunch or unleashx as their file manager's are far more developed. Get yourself a copy of avalunch from one of the "usual places" and if you haven't got any way of ftping (this would defintely be the easiest way to do it) create an xiso (with qwix, simplexiso or craxtion) of the folder you get when you unrar the the contents of the avalaunch rar folder, (remembering to rename avalaunch.xbe to default.xbe- so that it will boot from a cd) burnit to a cd-r/cd-rw seeing as you have a samsung drive. Use the file manager in avalaunch (scroll down a bit and its there) to copy the contents of the the avalaunch folder to somewhere on your xbox (the place where you keep your other apps would be a good place- create a folder called avalaunch- you can do that with avalaunch too just press start in file manger once you've navigated to where you keep you apps- that way evox will automatically pick it up as an app next time you reboot).

then reboot launch avalaunch- bung the cd in and then copy it to wherever your other mame roms are stored.

personally i'd get a ftp connection- but still install avalaunch anyway- i wrote a heavily annotated avalaunxh.xml settings file with aim of helping new users of avalaunch get started download it here (http://www.geocities.com/nimsivakumaran/xbox/avalaunch/avalaunch.xml). It should work as it is if you have no internet connection via your xbox

[sammy_510]

i use boxplorer to transfer avis to the xbox no problems and they aint xiso disks. the only time it dosen't see the disks is if they are burnt as muti session disks. so try non multisession and finalise.

sammy

[pepsik]

i use boxplorer to transfer avis to the xbox no problems and they aint xiso disks. the only time it dosen't see the disks is if they are burnt as muti session disks. so try non multisession and finalise.

sammy

how do you burn your disks? UDF mode? I got a sammy drive and I struggle to get boxplorer to read data disks

[nimbles]

yeah for boxplorer can't read iso9660's probably burning with nero in udf/iso "force.....xbox" mode

oh well- avalaunch,unleahsx and xbmc all can read em so they've all got in built file management so its not a big issue anymore i guess

[sammy_510]

"how do you burn your disks? UDF mode? I got a sammy drive and I struggle to get boxplorer to read data disks"

i burn my disks with stomp recordnow max 4.5. i just select data disc drop in my files, burn and transfer to xbox using boxplorer. they are udf format which i assume is default as i never changed any settings. the only other thing that i need to do is if the file names are to long the xbox wont copy them over so i always shorten them before burning.

sammy

[nimbles]

ok thats explains it a bit- i always write non xiso's in iso9660 mode (better compatibility with xbmc- for large file sizes) and for some reason my dvd-rom drive in my pc doesn't like udf format discs- so is9660 is good for me