YLA G has worked out a tutorial on how to customize your Google personal page to display wanted game cards of your friend. Pretty useful trick to try out.

You can view the full tutorial [here]

Thanks for the email and the tutorial, YLA G!

Why every company hates DivX? Maybe the piracy problem lies behind it. But that can’t stop us from looking for our own way to support it.

This is a tutorial on how to watch your DivX videos on your Xbox 360. The reason I didn’t use “streaming”, is because the solution is not streaming the video directly, but converting your DivX video into WMV stream on-the-fly.

You can read the full article [here]. You need a Media Center PC to use this solution.

Rymez2k from the Xboxhacker forums has successfully transfered a game save from his Xbox to his Xbox 360 and the save was functional. The way he went about doing it, however, was rather complicated:

I have succesfully got a FIFA 2004 save loaded on my 360.
Basically the steps I took are as follows:

Loaded original FIFA 2004 Game in my xbox 1
Created a profile/save.
Went into Edit Profile and changed the Profile Name, First Name, Last Name, And MyTeam.

FTPed across the following directories on UDATA4541003b and TDATA4541003b to a directory on my PC.

Then loaded up linux PC (Which has the new FATX support.)
dd out the second partition 0x130EB0000 to the end to a file (Approx 14Gb)
dd if=/dev/sda of=Partition1.dd skip=4995776 bs=1024

then mounted this image using the loopback device
mount Partition1.dd /mnt/xbox -t fatx -o loop

Next I copied the UDATA and TDATA direcories over the current ones which are at CompatibilityXbox1

Unmounted the image and dd the image back to the hard drive.
dd if=Partition1.dd of=/dev/sda seek=4995776 bs=1024

Then loaded up FIFA on my 360 and I could load the profile I had saved earlier on my original xbox.

I intend to test this with Rocky Legends aswell as that is the only other xbox 1 game I have at the present moment.

Notes. 4541003b is the game code. These codes are easy to work out.

This procedure might help people who want to transfer saves over to their 360.

Also I won't supply any images/files so please don't ask.

Ensure you know what you are doing, I take no responsiblity if you trash your pc/360 drive.

Colin Munro has released his MacOS X driver for Xbox 360 controller. Here is more information:

I have created a USB driver which allows you to use the XBox 360 Controller on an OSX machine, including support for the Apple Force Feedback library. I plan to release this as Open Source using the GNU Public License, but intend to tidy the code up a little first - so the initial release for people to try is binary only ;)

The ZIP file contains an installer package, which when run will install the driver, along with a preference pane to test/configure it.

Currently, the following settings need implemented:

• I don't think settings are persistent
• More settings, e.g. trigger deadzone, button remap/
• Force feedback may elongate effects
• Force feedback (DirectInput-style interface) emulator may need more work
• Preference pane currently only tests rumble motors, by creating a force feedback interface but then just using the Escape functionality
• Driver needs to handle more possible errors.

Download: [Xbox 360 Controller Driver for MacOS X]

Hackaday has posted a mod for using ATX power supply for your Xbox 360. Might be an option when your big black brick goes over heat.

You need to cut the power cord and wire it with a 5V plug, then connect it with the 5V output of the ATX power supply. Then, short-circuit pin 13 and 14 with a clip instead of cutting the wires in the original article.

Hmm… at least this mod doesn’t noticeably void your warranty in case anything messed up…