Halo 2 Xiso

[Magdalen Jhonston]

TheXbox is a sixth-generation console released by Microsoft on November 15, 2001. Known as the DirectXbox during development, it is notable for the specs having similarities to a PC, namely as a result of using familiar components around the x86 architecture. It had a custom Pentium III CPU at 733 MHz with 64 MB of RAM, and a custom Nvidia GPU codenamed NV2A at 233 MHz. The Xbox was often said to be the most powerful console from the sixth generation, and Sega later designed the Chihiro arcade system with the same components. It retailed at $299.99.

In addition to these, it is also possible to use the HDD image of the Xbox itself (the Xbox came with a HDD which it would store its firmware on, starting a trend that would soon become common) in place of the pre-installed dummy drive.

Alternatively, you can use a dummy hard-drive image. Games can still be launched using this, though it may cause an error prompt to appear when the official BIOS attempts to access it due to it being unsigned.

ISO files must be in the XISO format. It is not directly compatible with the original disc image, only the game partition. It is possible to extract the game partition of an original disc image with extract-xiso on a Windows or Linux PC:

There may tools out there aimed at creating images to be burned to smaller capacity DVDs designed for running on hacked Xbox consoles. Use of these tools is not recommended, as it is not compatible with many titles.

xemu is a free and open-source low-level Xbox emulator continuing much of the work done on XQEMU. It focuses on stability, performance, and ease of use. While still in an early stage it already runs a lot of commercial games. Xemu benefits greatly from having a high CPU core count, having at least four can dramatically improve emulation speed.

Standardized features available to all cores of this emulator: xbox.videomode, xbox.videomode, xbox.bezel, xbox.bezel_stretch, xbox.hud, xbox.hud_corner, xbox.bezel.tattoo, xbox.bezel.tattoo_corner, xbox.bezel.tattoo_file, xbox.bezel.resize_tattoo

Many games supporting 16:9 ratio are using anamorphic widescreen. To display them correctly, you should change the aspect ratio from Auto to 169 in the advanced options of the emulator. Note that some elements may display strangely: OutRun 2 stretches the selection menus (coming from the arcade version) but has a correct display while racing.

Another (easier ?) way which works fine on batocera, is to use a ftp client on xemu to access a ftp server located in your Lan. Android phones, for example, have plenty of applications allowing you to quickly set up a ftp server to share files. This will allow you to upload/download your game saves. Here is the procedure:

System Link is a form of offline multiplayer gaming on the Xbox and Xbox 360 gaming consoles over a LAN (local area network). Wikipedia has a list of supported titles. The option is sometimes buried deeply (ex: in OutRun2, it lays in OutRun Challenge > Race Mode > System Link).

Been out of the xbox modding game for a while. Was checking out some posts here and there and I see people mentioning xiso files. I understand ISO and HDD ready games. But what exactly is xiso and is there any noticeable difference between that and iso games? Really all I want to do is transfer some of my backups via FTP to my modded console's HDD. Since the xiso files are much smaller, it seems to me that they might be the DVD rips of games without all the extra 'fluff' of making a 1-1 DVD image of a game. Would that be correct?

Yes, an XISO disc image is an Xbox-specific game files only disc image. Also with the same dot iso filename but must smaller. It contains the ripped content from the XDVDFS (XDVD FileSystem) portion of a ReDump-style DVD disc image.

I've actually timed it and, depending on the size of the XISO file, I've burn a XISO to DVD and installed it to the HDD in almost the same time as it takes me to set up FTP. But that is only because I do not have my primary Xbox permanently networked.

Only thing to be aware of are the Xbox DVD drive disc media compatibility issues: DVD-R is the only type proven to be universally compatible; DVD+R is often OK but when it comes to CD and DVD-RW types the compatibility does depend on the drive make and sometimes even the disc media manufacturer.

This is a fork of XQEMU by the current most active dev. It is a little graphically buggy, but fast and seems to have the best compatibility for the games I am interested in. Much more stable than cxbx.

Add your games in ISO format. CXBX games in folders (or from your HDD) can be converted to ISO with the extract-xiso command-line tool using "-c" parameter. @Koroth pointed out that XDVDMulleter is also a good tool for this though I have not tried it.

I've been using C-Xbox Tool to convert my Xbox game folders to iso and using it's GUI you can queue a bunch folders for it to convert. I've only tested the iso's it created for Halo and JSRF but both worked fine using Xemu.

@Wally After the rebuild process I ended up with a ISO 6,9 GB in size. After a "Mulleted" rebuild pass (like described 5 comments above) I ended up with a ISO 4,35 GB in size (DVD5). That is the same size as the CXBX-R folder game I had and plays well in Xemu. Although this is not always possible.

For the -full-screen option, that does not work in the 0.5.0 release so I am still using the hotkey, but in the latest compiled binaries I saw on discord that they added the -full-screen feature so i will comment that in too with that note.

extract-xiso is easy to use on the command line. Actually i got the linux version in WSL and used a bash for loop to ISO up all my files in 1 go. Let me know if anyone is interested in how to do that. But looks like the XDVDMulleter program does that too.

It's actually inherited from QEMU - i found the parameter by searching for it when first trying to set the emulator up, but xemu has a new UI distinct from XQEMU. Seems that part was not carried over but they just added support for that parameter in one of the latest builds, apparently it was a 1-liner.

Hey guys - I've been dabbling with trying to get Xemu working now that significant progress has been made but, even after following Koroth's excellent guide through using XDVDMulleter I don't seem to be able to get it to work.

I have all bioses setup properly and have created playable xbox isos using several recommended programs like qwix101, createiso (xbox360 software) and xiso. No iso launches. It just returns to the iso selection screen.

Is your batocera an unofficial version of an update or has it been modified in any way? Also, batocera plus is not supported here. Look at the wiki and try Factory reset Or try a clean install of the stable version

I still cant load xemu after installing a video card that says it supports opengl 4.0. I installed an addon 1GB AMD Radeon 6450HD, inplace of the onbaord intel video card that doesnt support opengl 4.0

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