View Full Version : Can I load games/emulators from network?
hi, i have some games in the pc hard disk (iso's).
is it possible to play them using xbmc the same way as we listen music or something using samba?
i already tried it but when i select the the default.xbe nothing happens (i extracted to a folder the image).
Gamester17
2004-02-13, 13:26
yes a such feature is impossible to ever implement into xbmc. only possibility would be for teamxecuter (http://www.teamxecuter.com) to implement it into a bios
has anyone tried (or succeeded in) streaming or running xb games from network server?
i'd like to do it within the evox.ini file, but if i have to use xbmc that's not a huge issue.
thanks,
rob
kompressor_uk
2004-04-09, 16:54
err to play games over your network you need to have networking running (from bios / app ).. when you load the game the abilitys of xbmc or evox for that matter will no longer be available, thus noway to play game over the network.
sorry dude
komp
i suppose this *could* be supported by a future bios, at the expense of decent network gaming. *still the only system that would work now that i can think of would be a program that 'buffers' the game from the network. *as in it deletes any game you had selected previously then copies the current game to the xbox. *this would only require one game to be stored localy at any one time. *of course this just saves people with small hdds ftping in every time they want to swap games. *of course how much of a pain in the arse a system like this would be depends on the speed of your network.
still for a lot of us this would take ages, and if anybody did program an app. like this i hope they would have the sense of humour to display a c64 style loading screen while you wait for the game to download for half an hour (or wayyy more for wireless b) just like the 'good ol days'.
it looks like a bigger hdd or dvd burner for you. as the option i have stated is, quite frankly, silly!
ttfn
the bios would need to support this. probably easiest way would be to have a bios with a built-in smb client, so some smb share shows up on xbox as a drive. need a pretty big bios to do this, though, as libsmb is over 2 megs. and you'd have to customize the bios to have your smb settings in it. if that was done though, shoudn't be too difficult. wouldn't need to buffer the whole game, the xbox would just see that network drive as if it were a local harddrive.
duh, completely forgot that once the game loads network connectivity is gone.
i do like the idea of a temporary load, but your right, even at 100mbps / full duplex it would take a 4gb game about 20 minutes to load.
my idea was to create a boot dvd with the network pointers to my server, pick the game, and play away. i'm now up to about 120 titles and i didn't want to burn and physically store those dvd's.
=====
so, any ideas about a usb hard drive, possibley connected through one of the controllers memory ports, or off the xb itself?
rob
i'm pretty sure that the usb hd to xbox thing has been asked and the answer was an empahtic no- plus i don't think its usb2 so i doubt 11mb/s is enough bandwidth for an xbox game
well i would like to thank everyone for being patient with me, i'm sure my question has been asked more than once.
i've seen plans somewhere that will allow a case mod that will allow you to boot from several hdd's; just one at a time. i'm thinking that will be my best option.
have a good holiday everyone,
robert
usb hdd - no for anything but fat-x was the answer. besides, usb is 12mbps, slower than the network. http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/forums/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif you'd need at least 100mbps to stream a game realistically, preferably more.
dgillings
2004-05-04, 20:17
you know this is not a un feable as you are all stating. you are correct that the library for running samba shares is almost 2meg, and as such a larger bios memory will be required (but that is what the next generation of chips is all about). once you have the samba share playing through the bios itself you need to worry about the inability of launching xbe's from your main pc, saving wear-and-tear on the original xbox's hdd (for those of you who haven't changed it).
i have a suspicion that xecutor have been working on the hard-coded bios for their next generation chip... i suppose we'll have to wait and see....
well nobody said you needed to use samba to share the drive. another sharing library would probably be smaller than samba, since it has all sorts of things which in reality you don't need for xbox streaming (do you really need workgroups, or even multiple users?)
Gamester17
2004-05-06, 13:17
well nobody said you needed to use samba to share the drive. *another sharing library would probably be smaller than samba, since it has all sorts of things which in reality you don't need for xbox streaming (do you really need workgroups, or even multiple users?)
true, team-xecuter could use either xns or xbmsp or even wrote their own protocol, all would be smaller (and faster?) than samba
indeed. and from what i understand, team xecutor already have a tcp/ip stack because they have an embedded ftp server in their later bioses. all they need to do is embed an nfs client and wham! you have an n: with 400gb free. :-)
DzNuTs22
2004-05-10, 20:29
my question is this...i backed up all my games to my pc hdd, but have yet to install a larger hdd on my xbox. i have heard that it is possible to load them via a lan from the pc. is this possible and if so could this cause any problems to my pc or xbox.
xbox: v1.5-xecuter2.3b lite-evox 3935-phillips dvd
Gamester17
2004-05-11, 13:07
i have heard that it is possible to load them via a lan from the pc.you heard wrong, it's not possible (and in any case that isn't a xbmc question). ps! merged post into existing xbox general discussion thread.
twinvipers
2004-05-25, 05:06
ok well i have recently got the xbmc installed and running. i have ftp access to my xbox and i have streamed over music, pics and movies with the xbms and it all works great. i have used dvd2xbox to copy a game and transfered it over to my pc but how and what do i use to play it????
and here is an easy question i'm sure what dose xbms, smb xns stand for???
marker03
2004-05-25, 06:03
these are all questions answered in manuals and tutorials..
first check xbox-scene.com tutorials and then come back with questions...
yes, please read up on the basic stuff. however it's amazing that you have gotten xbmp installed and playing streaming video from your pc but you have some misconception about xbox games.
dvd2xbox copies games from dvd to your xbox hard disk. nothing to do with your pc. you can't (yet) play xbox games on your pc. there's various things involved but once you have copied the game to the xbox you should be able to launch it from xbmp from the "my programs" section. i think a better way is to launch games from a dashboard, but anyway.
you can look up the acronyms yourself...
i don't think the two of you are understanding his question. he wants to store the game on his pc's hard disk and play it on his xbox by streaming the content over as it's needed, similar to the way he does with his videos.
as far as i know this is not, and never will be possible.
ooooooohhhhhh! i see (looks at title). :d
errr well (coughs) now that could be a little sluggish if it ever where possible. however, the games are hard-coded to look for files in their own directory structure so it might be hard to convince them to load and save files over a network.
interesting idea though. i'd suggest that you minimize pain and just get a whacking great big hdd for your xbox.
ruthless112
2004-06-09, 20:10
hey, i am currently using xbmc and i have it setup so once i go under files, i can view files on my computers network. i have my favorite game that i bought backup on my computer in a shared folder. i wanted to be able to go through my files.. then push a on default.xbe to load/run the game off the network. unfortuntly this does not work.
make it work dammit!
lol jk
it would be nice though so i do not need to buy a new hd for my xbox. just leave my backup (un-zipped) on my computers hd and execute the game off of their.
i understand i can only upload about 5 or so mb/s to my xbox, but i feel this would be efficient enough during game play. perhaps a little sluggish during launch.
please implement the ablility to launch *.xbe files off the network using, the my files portion of xbmc. this great idea could save each xbmc user money from buyin an hd.
oh master, you found an idea noone ever thought of before...
for real, this is impossible to do. the xbox can just run one "process" at once, and the same moment you launch a game, xbmc is no longer running. see the problem??
yes as pike has explained, the xbox can only run 1 xbe at a time. see the problem?
ruthless112
2004-06-10, 05:12
ok.
how does a program such as "unleashed" or evox run the games off the hard drive?
the game just knows the source of the files and goes right??
or is the problem because it needs some sort of a client to be running so it can access the network?
Gamester17
2004-06-10, 12:25
@ruthless112, read the existing thread that i merged your posts into (and eveyone elses posts who asked same question without seaching)
yes that's the problem. in order to stream from the network it would need a client running continuously in the background, to stream the rest of the game. however as soon as the game is loaded whatever dash is running is unloaded, hence no way to continue the streaming.
running form the hard drive is easy enough since once the game is running it knows just to load the game from the location of the main xbe, ie the dir on the hard drive which of course it can access anyway, since no streaming is needed. actually it's not that quite simple but that's the basic explanation.
ruthless112
2004-06-15, 20:29
well, arnt any of you super c++ programers!!!
lets make that damn bios!
i know some c++
editing the xecuter 2 4983 bios would be the best idea i think, to incorporate smb without the need of evox er whatever.
i have a slot on my chip for a 2mb bios. should do it?????
get to work super g33ks!
maybe :|
...
and what good would smb in bios do?
bios runs upon powerup, it then boots a program, a .xbe
it's the same when u launch a game from within xbmc, one program starts, the old one (xbmc) stops.
hi,
from the files button - i can execute the games on my xbox hard drive.
i mapped smb to a dir on my pc which had the same xbox files on it, but found that xbmc would not run them.
so the question is, can xbmc run games from a mapped drive as this would save me alot of hassle fitting a bigger one to the xbox.
search!!
this has been covered so many times. you can't play games off the network. if you need an explanation as to why not, please search.
ts
search!!
this has been covered so many times. *you can't play games off the network. *if you need an explanation as to why not, please search.
ts
i did, but alas it came up with no results.
i'm not sure what key words to use to describe what i'm looking for in this instance!
well i stream pc games over my network, and its a wireless 54g.
and i dont mean just installing them - i mean they run from the network - no files on the client pc at all.
all the movies run perfectly, the game does take a few more mins to load than from the hard drive, but the space it saves on my laptop iw well worth the wait. so as for the network not being fast enough - not true!
as for the other problems, well i'm sure some one with a good enough brain will suss it.
Gamester17
2004-06-20, 15:54
@umpa, (not possible), moving your posts to the xbox general forum and merging it with existing thread of other posts asking the same thing
not possible - they said that about putting a man on the moon!
i'll live in hope :)
not possible - they said that about putting a man on the moon!
i'll live in hope :)
hey your right! they did!
now all we need is billions of dollars worth of investment! years of development, some of the top brains in the country working on it, and a couple of thousand people put to work and we too can do it! xbox game streaming is within our grasp!
well maybe not. lots of things are possible, wether they are practical or not is another thing.
it's not gonna happen. believe me. sure it's possible on a windows machine but there is a whole operating system there to take care of the network and streaming on an xbox there isn't.
Gamester17
2004-06-22, 13:13
fyi, if you read the whole thread from beginning to end you would see that i meant it is not possible currently, i never said never, never :p
i suppose gamester17 is right. i shouldn't say never. i used to maintain that we'd never see a stand alone web browser on the xbox since it would be too complex a project. of course we do have one now albeit a very basic one.
redial325ti
2004-06-26, 19:00
hi i have a gigabyte network at home and 600gb in my file server, i was was wandering if it is possible to play games from a smb share, i tried adding a new <bookmark> to point to the smb share but it did not work. i also substituted the <path> for the g drive to point to the smb share but that also did not work. any ideas
tks
redial
well this is about to get merged with the already massive thread on this issue (as soon as a moderator turns up).
but answer this? how are you gonna run a game from network since the xbox can only run 1 xbe at a time?
(hint: guess what happens as soon as you try and run the games xbe).
wow this did get pointless! so i'll add another pointless idea....sorry.
is the xbox 'hard wired' to run only one executable at a time?
as the xbox can run linux it must be capable of multitasking. surely a dash could be made to run in the background handling the netcode alongside the game. ok you aren't going to get any performance out of it as that would most likely throttle the cpu, but it could be an option for dreamx owners couldn't it?
of course i'm forgetting that the games themselves are probbably designed to 'not play well with others' and not allow any other process to use the cpu.
err you could install xbox linux...and play linux games over your network :)
ttfn
one simple explanation is that that games directly access areas of memory when run, if a dash was running in the background they couldn't do this since those areas would not be available.
besides your right the xbox has nowhere near enough power behind it to run a dash and games at the same time. just look at how much of the 64megs is used when xbmc is idle.
there should be lots more info on xbox-scene's forum if your interested in a more technical explanation.
checked it out and i get what you mean. it's nice to *actually* learn things from a forum...who would have thought such a thing possible ;)
anyway it looks to me like my statement of it being an option for fully loaded dreamx owners remains true. what with the extra memory and processor grunt. still there isn't many of those about, and forking out the extra cash to remotely resource games (remembering this is only in theory) when compared to the cost of a decent lockable hdd finishes that discussion nicely.
so where are we with this...hmm....could be possible...but not worthwhile.
seriously guys you can pick up a decent 120 gig hdd for less than £40 now if you shop around, you don't need anything flashy to go in an xbox.
my hdd (a maxtor maxline ii ata 133 5400...warning not lockable) goes for around £140 now and that 300 gig. 300 gig!
if you stream your videos and store your games localy i would imagine that by the end of the xboxes commercial life you will be able to fit every single decent game on a 300 gig drive with change.
think about it guys...you are just going to have to find that space on your pc anyway if game streaming magicly becomes possible. considering the constantly falling prices of hdds the only reason i can think of for anybody wanting to do this is to serve the same games to multiple xboxes in one house. what doy you want? the moon on a stick? :)
ttfn
dude, i have just orderd a 300 gb maxtor.
if its not lockable, how does this affect running games from the hd ?
how did you do it ?
you can still run games from the hdd you just can't play xbox live. still with all the excellent tunneling software available why would you want to....for the privelage of voice comm?
i've sent you an email directing you to xbox scene and their numerous tutorials on hdd loading games. good luck :)
ttfn
Exist_To_Resist
2004-07-17, 19:42
i would definetely be happy to see if it were at all possible to execute programs over the network, that would be a nice feature.
not possible do a search to see why.
i've finally got my xbox and pc networked so they're both talking to each other and i can play pretty much every kind of file from the 'my files' folder except default.xbe files, which is a tad annoying because there is no way of viewing any directories that aren't on your xbox in the 'my programs' folder. can anybody help?
stu.
sorry, i've been answered elsewhere!
stcogoli
2004-08-10, 19:45
why isn't the following scenario possible:
make a list of all the kernel functions which access data on the dvd/hd, i.e openfile() etc. write a prog which redefines these functions for network use, i.e.
emuopenfile()
{
* opensambafile();
}
then load the default.xbe to memory and parse it to load its resources etc.. and patch all the original kernel functions with the emulated ones. start a new thread at the default.xbe entry point and put the original thread to sleep. in short, why not write a custom xbe loader just like was done for dlls.
edit: in fact, isn't this what caustik has already done? he can load xbes on the pc and emulate the xbox specific stuff so he probably has already written an xbe loader/emulation framework and the only thing that would need to be done is add the networking.
Hullebulle
2004-08-11, 02:43
why isn't the following scenario possible:
make a list of all the kernel functions which access data on the dvd/hd, i.e openfile() etc. write a prog which redefines these functions for network use, i.e.
emuopenfile()
{
* opensambafile();
}
then load the default.xbe to memory and parse it to load its resources etc.. and patch all the original kernel functions with the emulated ones. start a new thread at the default.xbe entry point and put the original thread to sleep.
in short, why not write a custom xbe loader just like was done for dlls.
yeah sounds easy. *:o
even tho i am a bit tired to read all the great "lets start games from my pc hdd" i am writing this.
think this way wouldn't be possible either cause the game expects to have 64mb of memory to play with? but you will have to keep the samba client and other stuff in memory for the "loader" when the game is running.
ps: even if it would be possible i don't know why ppl think xbmc should implement such a feature *??? but hey we are open source so everybody who wants to pick up the task.... feel free to code it. ;)
stcogoli
2004-08-11, 03:11
think this way wouldn't be possible either cause the game expects to have 64mb of memory to play with? but you will have to keep the samba client and other stuff in memory for the "loader" when the game is running.
forget about implementing this in xbmc! it would take too much memory away from the game. this xbe loader would have to be as lean as possible. i know this kinda makes the whole project irrelevant here in xbmc forums but this is where the good coders are so... i dunno how much space a bare bones stripped down samba client uses but i don't think
it would be very large. haven't xecuter been able to fit a tcp/ip stack in a bios? as for the 64 megs not being totally free, wouldn't that just cause more caching?
even if it would be possible i don't know why ppl think xbmc should implement such a feature
:shocked: :tear: i think this would be a great app (sob). i'm always stuck with no space on my xbox hdd. i think it would be much more useful than a lot of the stuff some devs are currently working on (including myself).
stcogoli
2004-08-12, 22:22
as for the 64 megs not being totally free, wouldn't that just cause more caching?
how silly of me, i forgot the x kernel doesn't implement demand paging. on top of that, i think titles can allocate memory wherever they chose so this could probably only work for a subset of games. *:verysad: *still, maybe its possible to find a workaround such as storing the emulated functions in unused kernel space and having the loader free its code space once its work is done... which kinda brings us back to a bios implementation.
hi,
i was wondering if it is possible to add a feature to xbmc that allows for applications and games to be executed on the xbox that reside on a network drive. * i'm slowly ruunning out of space on my xbox harddisk but have tons of storage space available on my network. *it would be cool if i could store my backups on the network drive and run them from the xbox.
just a thought...
haha..
here we go again.
you may want to search for the other million posts on this.
ts
sorry about that... i will do some searching...
any idea where i should start?
i think the thread is in the general forum.
but to answer your question quickly, the answer is no, not possible.
ts
BuckyBoy
2004-10-20, 02:37
in xboxmediacenter.xml i have the following bookmarks:
<myprograms>
* *<default></default>
* *<bookmark>
* * *<name>my network drive</name>
* * *<path>smb://mshome;guest@bucky/h/</path>
* * *<depth>1</depth>
* *</bookmark>
...
...
<pictures>
* *<bookmark>
* * *<name>my network drive</name>
* * *<path>smb://mshome;guest@bucky/h/</path>
* *</bookmark>
...
the one in pictures is working just fine.. but in "my programs" i get nothing (0 objects)
i have directory flattening turned off.
you can't run programs over the network.
BuckyBoy
2004-10-20, 05:45
it is possible.. the whole purpose of smb is to share filesystems. i think the problem is, when xmbc executes a game for instance, it gives complete control to that game. what u would need is an underlying os or loader or something that knows the smb protocol. however, i don't know if this would give memory addressing problems... need an expert xbox developer opinion here.
as mentionned, this is not possible. you are correct that the underlying os (which there is none) would have to maintain the smb connection.
so, unless your bios can do that(which it can't), you are sol.
please search the forums as this has been covered numerous times.
thanks,
ts
Gamester17
2004-10-20, 12:12
@buckyboy, moving and merging your posts into the existing topic thread on this. please read that/this full thread for full explaination.
summery: player games from network storage is currently not possible, and it never will be possible via xbmc. must have bios support!
BuckyBoy
2004-10-20, 19:34
u don't need bios support.. although it is nice because u could store the smb functions in bios to save some memory.
here's my plan:
make a loader program, which can execute an other game.xbe file.
the loader should :
- read the machine instructions contained in the game.xbe
- remap all machine instructions with memory addresses in them. (this is required because the loader itself is in memory too)
- convert all instructions where files are loaded to use the smb functions.
- execute the new machine instructions.
(the third step will be the most difficult one)
so the user now executes:
loader.xbe smb://.../game.xbe
if someone could show me the xbox development tools, i could make such a loader program for you.
Gamester17
2004-10-21, 11:48
sorry but your theory isn't sound in reality because the xbox bios only support one process at a time and your theory require two processes to be running at the same time , (that is both 'smb.xbe' and 'game.xbe'). i believe you misslead because you imagining how evox (evolutionx dashboard) igr (in game reset) function by loading itself persistant into memory and thinking that you could do the same for a smb.xbe, but sadly you're misstaken; the xbox bios get's loaded into a protected memory area at each boot and what evox does is hack that ram bios when evox starts so that ram bios in the protected memory area that the game will use will then be same/similar to xecuter2's bios which has the igr function built-in, so evox igr does not load itself like a separate igr.xbe process like you might think, (again because the xbox bios does only support one process). so even though i'm not a developer myself i'm sure you will draw the same conclusion as me based on that information/fact i've just told you (which was probebly news to you); in order to get smb to work with an existing xbox game you would either have to add smb-client support into the xbox bios, or alternativly hack the xbox bios and make it support more than one process (xbe executable) at once.
is it possible to setup a smb share to xbox games stored on a pc rather than the xbox's limited hard disk? its nice not having to swap dvds over all the time for games but i only have 3 or 4 gig on my xbox hard drive - only room for a few games.
i have tried it and it doesn't work for me. is this possible some other way, or could it be in a future release?
jmarshall
2004-11-03, 18:46
no, and no. (http://manual.xboxmediacenter.de/wakka.php?wakka=realfaq&v=1bxc)
go out and spend a few bucks for a decent size harddisk..... :stare:
maybe you can try complex tools, it said it supports the feature you want.
good luck,
j.
maybe you can try complex tools, it said it supports the feature you want.
good luck,
j.
no it doesn't
ChEeSyBoOfS
2004-11-04, 18:08
@jborer,
if you think about it a little, when the game kicks in..... you loose your dash.......you loose your dash, you loose your smb shares!!!!!!!
i have xbmc set up at home as part of my home network, and i love it, great job all developers.
i have a samba share set up for music, and for video, and these work flawlessly.
i have ripped a game of mine to the samba share, and i have set up the share as a bookmark in the xboxmediacentre.xml in the same way as the music and video shares. the bookmark appears in the list under 'my programs', but the icon for the game does not appear. i have set the depth to 2 to make sure the default.xbe would be found. it should only be one layer beneath the root.
can xbmc run games from a samba share?
thanks in advance.
whisla13
2004-11-18, 05:55
hey everyone. i was wondering if it was possible to create a network share containing backed up game files and from within xbmc, launch the game through the network?
i'd just like to bypass the time it takes for xiso to create a disc image and to burn the dvd. i would just copy all games to my xbox harddrive, but do not have enough space on it to do so. i would upgrade my harddrive, just don't have the money to get one now.
if anyone has suggestions on this, i'd appreciate it.
thanks,
-andrew
search the forums. this has been asked and answered so many damn times.
ts
whisla13
2004-11-18, 07:11
i did try searching before i posted. but i was getting so many results for everything i searched for. then i realized i had to put and inbetween every keyword.
a moderator can just delete this post.
thanks.
didn't look hard enough the first time, thanks for the heads up. i am going to add this to the wiki cause it really should be there.
gionmeri
2004-11-28, 23:49
can i play my games from the hard disk of my cumputer? :help:
no, search forums
:fixed:
is it possible to use xbmc to play a game from the computer hard drive?
search.. and if you don't find your answer, search again.
this has been asked so many times. please do search carefully.
ts
matt11601
2005-01-16, 07:11
it's not possible, xbox games need to be on the xbox hd or in the dvd drive to work
Hiromu666
2005-02-23, 10:42
like the topic says, i want to stream xbox games from pc (exactly like when you stream media files etc)...
:kickass:
ive tryed it with xbox media center 1.1.0 2005-02-08 and it shows an error screen when i load the default.xbe in the game dir!
:pirate:
:veryangry:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/forums/non-cgi/skin/default/images/m_search.gif
please help!!!
we have installed a game on the pc's hdd and we want to play from this pc's harddisk on the xbox, we want to stream the game.
we know it has something todo with default.xbe, we have to change it somehow to let the xbox know it has to read the pc's harddisk and not files on the xbox.
can someone please tell us how, and we know there is software around to do this
please help thanx. :help: :help: :help: :help: :help:
let me enligthen as to why you can't stream games through xbmc.
xbmc initiates net work connection to your pc, and is the logical connection between your xbox and computer, when you launch another program, it closes xbmc and dumps it out of memory, and then there is no software running to stream the game.
this pretty much means your sol, and there is no way it would work
whew, glad that someone answered that. i guess we can count on no more n00b's asking that now without searching. :nuts:
thanx for the reply, its just that someone told us that it was possible. i'm going to upgrade my xbox with a bigger harddrive.
Aron Parsons
2005-04-22, 23:41
seriously, how many times can the same question be asked? i've read this same question for over two years now. are people really this stupid? ???
theoutcast32
2005-07-16, 04:56
is it possible??
search.. been covered lots of times.
short answer, no.
ts
theoutcast32
2005-07-16, 23:38
so there is no way to play games from my pc hdd thats on the same network my xbox is on?
so there is no way to play games from my pc hdd thats on the same network my xbox is on?
did you miss something or what?
you were just told...no.
think about it for 2 seconds and you'll realise why.
here's the long story:
the xbox can only run 1 xbe at a time. it cannot run 2 or more at a time.
seriously, let that last statement sink in if you didn't already know it and you'll see why the answer is no ;)
so there is no way to play games from my pc hdd thats on the same network my xbox is on?
did you miss something or what?
you were just told...no.
think about it for 2 seconds and you'll realise why.
here's the long story:
the xbox can only run 1 xbe at a time. it cannot run 2 or more at a time.
seriously, let that last statement sink in if you didn't already know it and you'll see why the answer is no ;)
you wasted more time replying than i did :)
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Mayor_Quimby_Loves_Broads
2005-10-03, 02:37
hey everyone,
sorry if this question has already been answered, but i did a search for the topic at hand and couldn't find any posts! this is hardly unlikely since i'm sure ppl would want to know.
anway, is it possible to play ripped games over local network (pc hard drive)? i've read that this is possible using a modded xbox.
specifically, i was thinking that i'd find a way to add link to the game's default.xbe which resides on my pc hard drive in the 'games' section of xbmc? i mean if you can play from xbox's hard drive, why not be able to play over local network?
is it possible? if anyone has tried and succeded, please post a way of doing it. thanks a bunch in advance :bowdown:
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vote quimby!
no! impossible to have it over the network.
damn. i don`t know why you guys bother, idiots cant even be botherd to read this thread before asking stupid questions,
i`d close this thread because being at the top of the forum index isn`t helping matters.
lol.
blighty.
dbledeez
2005-10-15, 08:17
is there any way i can run games off of my computer hard drive and play them on the xbox? im able to play videos and music and pictures but it wont open an .xbe file thats stored on my computer? any way to do this? i sorta want to keep my original hard drive in there. i want to store my games on computer .. help! thank you
suggestion for forum rule:
add a list of q's that they must void their "right" to ask as a license agreement before entering the forum.
that would enable us to ban idiots, such as this guy.. of course, we could probably ban him on the grounds of not searching first as well.
argh
i am wondering if it is possible to game from an iso file that is being accessed via an smb share.
i was thinking someone may have an add-on or something for xbmc that could even mount it as a virtual drive.
not possible i think, at least through xbmc. when a game loads, xbmc is not running at all. therefore, no way to 'mount' an iso.
Roadmap123
2005-11-21, 12:25
i just read in the xbmc-faq that it is not possible to start programs out of smb-shares :-( due to the fact that faq is quite old, is this still a problem?
my problem is that i have two xboxes around my house connect to anetwork so it would be perfect when i can share several appilation on the network so both can use them.
when it isn't possbile to start programs over smb ist there any other chance to start sw from a network? is the maybe the possiblity to create a shortcut on the xbox to map a network dribve like a drive letter???
let's just entertain the thought a little bit.
how would you do this? by magic?
the xbox can only run one process at a time. since the kernel doesn't support smb, how do you see it implemented?
since you keep insisting although it's clearly stated in the faq that this is (next to) impossible, i guess you have a genious idea of how to do it..
no? didn't think so.
think, then ask.
Roadmap123
2005-11-21, 13:36
ok. let's explain my thoughts a little bit more...
due the fact that all the xbox-applications use realtive paths, and you can access smb shares for instance via xbmc, maybe the task ist to assign this maybe thru bios.
you're right the main task isn't the thing in xbmc, it's possible the thing to integrate smb into the bios. but is this really impossible at all?
the smb libraries are ~ 2mb. that's way too big to be placed in bios-space since it would eat up lots of memory that the apps expects to be there..
so imho, it's quite impossible..
Pablo The Don
2006-01-21, 22:56
i have this program called ccxgui it's s a stream program
so i can stream all my pc files to the xbox.
but can i stream games?
i have tryed it but.... no succes.
i've annybody's know's how tell me.......
Pablo The Don
2006-01-21, 23:10
well.. 1 time i did some thing and then i saw the other icon and then i push it and the xbmc went all black
are you sure it's not possible
do you know what ther start button of a game is....( the exstention) sorry for my bad englishh im from holland
you absolutely cannot stream games.
Pablo The Don
2006-01-21, 23:43
hmm oke thanks anny way
Gaara008
2006-05-17, 00:15
i've added a xbmsp server on my pc and have successfully been able to play videos from the network, but it seems like i'm not able to run games i have backed up on my pc over the network. i don't really have the room to keep games stored on my stock hdd and i don't really wanna go out and buy a new one for my xbox. is there any way to make games playable over a network?
I have the latest version of XBMC 2.0 and love it.
I am wondering how to 'see' my games that are on a network drive. I am networked and can see my shared files. But when I open 'My Programs' in XBMC I do not see a choice to navigate to my network.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
Why would you have a choice?? Games can't be played over the network.
Humm, That would be a good reason. Thanks.
I am pretty sure I could see my games in the earlier version of XBMC thus this question.
Why can't games be stored on a networked drive and then played from that location?
Humm, That would be a good reason. Thanks.
I am pretty sure I could see my games in the earlier version of XBMC thus this question.
Why can't games be stored on a networked drive and then played from that location?
This has been asked a million times. Go search.
TS
attack of the people who can't think about things before asking! coming soon to theaters everywhere! rated R for "Retarded"!
I was wondering if there was a way to stream any kind of file from my computer. What I was wanting to do was be able to run xbox emulators from a folder on my computer.
So, i guess what Im asking is how I can expand the file type limits I'm able to play through My Videos or My Pictures or something. I really dont care which category I have to go to in order to run ISO files or SRC emulator files. Is it possible? Do I have to edit some file or something? Is there any program that allows me to play different file types streamed through my computer?
Thanks in advance.
out of the scope for xbmc.. maybe a script.. also many emulators supports smb (network shares)
you can only stream media. you cant stream executables. and i dont believe there is any kind of vnc-like app you could use to remotely use your pc and see the desktop on your tv using your xbox.
is it possible to run xbox games off of my computers hard drive if im networked to both of them and running ftp server?
because i ahve lots of games on my hard drive my xbox just doesnt read a lot of discs anymore and plus my computer hard drive has a lot more room
thanks for reading
jmarshall
2008-07-21, 07:27
No.