downloading Xbox 360 demo's via your PC

[doobiwan]

Thanks "little birdie" (not that he can see the private thread)

It's pretty simple and involves using a packet sniffer to get the URL's of the specific content you want, the rest is really straight forward:

Getting it from pc to xbox, you need a simple http server on your pc. say for this game
Battlefield 2 :MC
/content/454187e5/25893027e5d9e7364b17c9163915ce518b52c260.xcp

you make a folder "content" in main server root.
Then make a folder "454187e5" in content
Then copy the file "25893027e5d9e7364b17c9163915ce518b52c260.xcp" into that dir.

Then if in windows, c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host -> open that file in notepad and put
msxb.vo.llnwd.net 192.168.1.2(where that is your pc's ip)...


HOST: http://msxb.vo.llnwd.net

Just add on the dir/file to the host above...


Battlefield 2 :MC
/content/454187e5/25893027e5d9e7364b17c9163915ce518b52c260.xcp

Burnout Revege
/content/454187dc/94b414aaf602bcc6e772e7a4c06603035c7e03df.xcp

Call of Duty 2
/content/415687d5/54b8df7199cd03edd4d24bb1b01058811a388b3c.xcp

ChromeHounds
/content/534587e4/d2a446d85f1988922a3506c0a2a32bedeb22c168.xcp

Dead or Alive 4
/content/544387d3/57fba8715c7ff57cc27ae06ae5db27f0e767f3b6.xcp

Dead Raising
/content/434307d6/bfee89117253ee1e74b03cb854b045b2c3746135.xcp

EA Sports FN 3
/content/454187e1/6b044f5630ea171328fca128bfc4892ce34dae20.xcp

FiFA World Cup 2006
/content/454187e7/9dfe58634768254e9d3f95b8f431fff93017d373.xcp

FIFA 06 RTFWC
/content/454187e2/933f68484f54128fa345744fb5215a404c0bc9cb.xcp

G.R.A.W.
/content/555387e1/94dd5c888ac7977f5b18b7bf24bbf321ac536a2d.xcp

Hitman: Blood Money
/content/534387dc/34ea9c22ed38f24ca898e13946a0bda5aad0eb12.xcp

Lost Planet
/content/434307d5/05561c1d3d53ba8fdea689c0b9990c19d244b09f.xcp

LOTR, BFME II
/content/454187df/8173e80a8303956740062b1f8048a2b463194687.xcp

MotoGP 06
/content/545187db/4feeedb8ffe131b217dd7b72302fe353add9ce55.xcp

NBA
/content/454187e0/263318e7078e4055a2c64c04fd587f8f316eb186.xcp

Need for Speed:Most wanted
/content/454187e3/a479be2ad02a340aac1da42e4fd419a6ec246bdd.xcp

Ninety-Nine Nights
/content/4d538806/8fa00fe3cf0b265d3665920a996dc8d08045cb74.xcp

Prey
/content/545487f3/9b6ce5e9dee3b4feea5195426f95ecc5c5a098fe.xcp

Rumble Roses Double X
/content/4b4e87dd/a3447fd8c70200daf38e3e3b52662c737ab67902.xcp

Saints Row
/content/545187e3/0731541c733508cc90994b114c258f9b60744a6e.xcp

The Outfit
/content/545187d9/0f13ae0c13440ba472523303fcc2875db0f7a5ef.xcp

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
/content/454187fe/437338b53a7c77e71dee5a523f5332d8a658c0ef.xcp

Tomb Raider:LEGEND
/content/534387d8/13912feb4074be1a90413d3427f80f096aaee02b.xcp

Top Spin 2
/content/545487ed/a3355bf06d064a98dacb8f04bedf020d3fd327bf.xcp

[sss]

and then how do we get it onto the xbox?

[sss]

and in other news i got my yellow belt

[doobiwan]

Congrats on the belt, I quit in protest when I went from 79% to 40% in 1 minute Yes I know it's my fault, but it's still really annoying I'm digging Zuma at the moment.

and then how do we get it onto the xbox?

at the top:

Getting it from pc to xbox, you need a simple http server on your pc. say for this game
Battlefield 2 :MC
/content/454187e5/25893027e5d9e7364b17c9163915ce518b52c260.xcp

you make a folder "content" in main server root.
Then make a folder "454187e5" in content
Then copy the file "25893027e5d9e7364b17c9163915ce518b52c260.xcp" into that dir.

Then if in windows, c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host -> open that file in notepad and put
msxb.vo.llnwd.net 192.168.1.2(where that is your pc's ip)...

[Ruslan74]

I am still digesting this as i eat... so would i have to install IIS on my XP machine to make this work?

And to sound stupid, where would i download the XBL demos? Or will your PC act as a router to the site above?

[SlappY]

Also... excuse my acute angle with the situation... but why would you want to?

[Ruslan74]

Also... excuse my acute angle with the situation... but why would you want to?

i think it would work wonders if you could cut the demo's on a DVD and share them amongst the boys. Thus avoiding downloading and using up your cap.

[doobiwan]

Well for one, You can't download while you're playing on live, but that's not the biggy.

We have an uncapped ADSL account at work, so I can download this stuff over the weekend and after hours at work, then upload them to my 360 at home without expending precious cap, or interfering with my gaming. It also means they're portable, so if there's a few of you you only have to download the file once.

@Useless - yes you need a web server on your PC, IIS or any other. I imagine you could use something light weight like Cassini as well.

The trick is to make the 360 think your PC is the default gateway, and your PC to fool the 360 that it's the content server. That's the whole bit with fiddling in the host file.

Once you've uploaded everything you'll have to set the 360 back to the initial settings.

[sss]

yeah.. your pc needs to be your 360's dns server... else it wont work.. but thats only 1 step

[doobiwan]

Well, I guess we're going to find out soon, I've pulled 4.1Gb of demo's over the weekend, so holds thumbs everyone

Next step:
360 - set PC as gateway
PC - add "msxb.vo.llnwd.net" to you host file to resolve to local IP and set up a virtual directory to mimic that of "msxb.vo.llnwd.net/content"