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toolboc / psx-pi-smbshare

A swiss army knife for enhancing classic game consoles with Raspberry Pi
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(no an issue) posible to transfer games to internal hdd on og xbox? #22

Closed alfredox123 closed 3 years ago

alfredox123 commented 3 years ago

is it posible to transfer games that i have on my thumbdrive, connect it to the pi, connect xbox with ethernet cable to the same router, then remote control pi to transfer the games from thumbdrive to internal hdd of the og xbox?

toolboc commented 3 years ago

This is possible using a dashboard that supports SMB fileshares on the OG Xbox (for example XBMC4Xbox). By default, psx-pi-smbshare will auto-mount and serve USB drives via SMB to \\SMBSHARE\share.

In the XBMC dashboard, you could try to configure a new SMB source for this path, then copy files to the OG Xbox HDD using the filemanager.

In case anyone reading this is wondering, game backups cannot be streamed directly over SMB on OG Xbox at this time, this is due to technical limitations explained here, however, it is possible to use psx-pi-smbshare as a means of transferring games stored on a USB drive to the internal OG Xbox HDD for playback as OP has suggested.

alfredox123 commented 3 years ago

do i really need a router to make this happen? with a crossover cable can be done?

toolboc commented 3 years ago

A standard ethernet cable between the Xbox and the pi can provide a direct connection to the SMB share without the need for a router.

alfredox123 commented 3 years ago

i just tried it but it didnt connect, it worked connecting it with a router though. i dont know if renaming wifi-to-eth-route.sh has something to do?

toolboc commented 3 years ago

If you renamed wifi-to-eth-route.sh, you have effectively disabled the DHCP service that normally runs on the pi. The DHCP service must be enabled on the pi if you wish to access the SMB share directly using an ethernet cable connecting the console to the pi.