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Creating Xbox ISOs in Linux
One of the last remaining Windows applications that I had hung on to was the C-Xbox Tool. It was used to convert games backups from my Xbox hard drive to FATX ISOs.
The problem had always been that there was not a suitable program written for Linux. There were plenty of Xbox utilities for Linux that would extract or extract and upload an ISO, but nothing seemed to handle the repackaging task. I had tried to run C-Xbox Tool under the Windows emulator Wine, but to no avail. So, I just basically quit creating ISOs. Until this weekend when I had encountered the glitch that occurs in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
There were two issues that I had to work around in order to get this to work. First, I could not get the FTP to work in Qwix to get the game files. So I had to transfer them, before creating the ISO, using my regular FTP client – in this case gFTP. Second, I could not get Qwix to open the transferred game folder to create an ISO from it. My solution for this was to move the folder into Wine's simulated C: drive environment. There is a hidden folder under the user directory labeled .wine, and just below that is the drive_c folder. The contents of this directory will look familiar to Windows users. I copied the entire game folder into the drive_c folder and selected it on the Local folder line of the Source section of Qwix under the Create ISO tab from the left sidebar. It created my ISO pretty fast – considering the size – and I was able to bypass the glitch in the game.
Topics: Entertainment, Linux
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This seems like a good work around, but it seems like using virtualbox running a xp or win2k install would be better. I don’t care for wine, but I’ve had pretty good luck with virtualbox. If you use Ubuntu, you can even have automatix install it for you!
I completely agree. I currently use VirtualBox for viewing pages in IE, to run Photoshop and for producing Xbox ISOs. Wine falls short of virtualization, I am currently working on a post for using Virtualbox.