It pains me to even post this here but apparently the xbox is “retro” now. oh boy.
Anyway - my problem. I thought for sure that OG xbox games would work on a 360s, as long as they were on the backward compatible list. well, my luck, none of the ones i got work and they’re all on the list. I tried updating the 360 from a flash drive, it won’t detect the update. I can’t find a menu option to update. I would rather not connect it to my internet to update either if possible.
I tried reformatting the flash drive on the xbox itself then moving the update folder to it, that didn’t work, neither did formatting on the pc first either. I cleared the cache of the xbox hard drive (it has an official M$ 250GB drive).
It is not modded in any way.
Anyone have a fix for the manual usb update? This is a glossy xbox 360 Slim, for reference.
Update: literally the only way it would work was by creating a stupid xbox live account and logging in so it would download the update. the 7 mb update i also tried burning onto disc and flash drive, wouldn’t take either one. Going to really suck when all those servers shut down. Thanks for your help yall
The system update needs to be on a FAT32 drive without a label. The label shouldn’t matter. The update needs to look like a single folder on the root of the drive called $SystemUpdate. Plug it in, reboot the console.
If your console is modded it will specifically stop that process unless you rename that folder, but if you don’t know what you are doing then don’t mess with anything that touches the nand. Updating a modded box is its own process.
Also, just a fair warning, the Xbox compatibility files don’t come from a system update anyway, you need to use a program like Xploder to add the compatibility partition to your drive and manually copy it over. You should take some time and read up on SevenSins how to proceed.
Yeah looks like i need to find a dumb windows pc to do it. Darn. Id just buy an og Xbox since they are cheap but I have way too many consoles as is
You can get the game compatibility update here. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12129
Is there a reason you don’t want to just connect it to your internet though? I feel like that would be the easiest way if you want it to be up to date anyways.
I actually tried and it would connect but I couldn’t log into my account. I hate giving m$ a fraction of my time sl id rather use the USB router but I think I may need to partition the drive rather than just update.
This is why Playstation is the better console!