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USING DOWNLOADED XBOX 360 GAME SAVES
Now you’ve backed up your Xbox hard drive’s valuable content to your PC (see Section 3.c.) and familiarised
yourself with the basics of the Xbox 360’s file system (see Section 3.d.), it’s time to get to the good stuff!
Game saves for Xbox 360 are readily available for download from a variety of sites on the ‘net like
www.360gamesaves.com
. When you find a game save you would like to use on your Xbox 360, download it to
your PC’s hard drive and follow the steps below.
USING DOWNLOADED GAMESAVES – A STEP BY STEP GUIDE
Extract the Downloaded Folder
Files downloaded from
www.360gamesaves.com
are in compressed folders using the RAR format. Use a
program such as WinRAR (
www.rarlab.com
) or WinACE (
www.winace.com
) to extract the compressed folder
into a new, uncompressed folder. Make a note of the folder name.
Open your Profile Folder
Connect your Xbox 360 hard drive to your XPORT dock (as described in Section 2.d.) and open the ‘Content’
folder on Partition 3.
Now you need to open the folder for your gamer profile. Because there may be more than one profile on your
hard drive, you need to identify which profile is which. A good way to do this is to count the number of saves
available in your profile (using the Xbox 360 dashboard) and then find the profile with that number of saves on
your hard drive using XPORT 360.
When you have identified the profile you would like to put the save in, click on its folder (or click the ‘plus’
icon) to display its contents.
Identify the Correct Part of the Downloaded Save
IMPORTANT!
You need to identify the correct part of the downloaded gamesave before adding it to your
profile.
Some gamesaves have been uploaded to
www.360gamesaves.com
and the gamer that created the gamesave
has included his profile folder in the .rar, others have been uploaded with only the game folder included.
The profile folder is the 16 character folder starting with “E000…”. You want the folder
below the profile
folder
(if it has been included) otherwise it will not work.
Example: If the folder you have downloaded is called “E0000C3E5A4FAEE5”, you need to open that folder and
find the folder inside, named something like “4E4D07D3”. It is the folder named “4E4D07D3” that you will be
dragging into your chosen profile.
Drag the Downloaded Gamesave into XPORT 360
