Question: Xbox to Xbox Copy? -- Answer: Avalaunch!

Last night, I helped two friends mod their Xboxes. We added the Xecuter 2.6 mod chip with the Xapter solderless adapter and a 160GB hard drive. We started about 6pm and the final software installation finished around 2am. There were a couple of points of uncertainty, but everything was resolved and both are working great now.

One thing I learned this time was how to do Xbox-to-Xbox copies right. Sure you can burn things to DVD-R (or even CD-RW, in some cases) and then copy them back to another box's harddrive. Or you could ftp the files to a PC and then back to another Xbox. Both of those are fine for a few files, but when you're moving over 50GB of data, you want the fastest way possible. Enter Avalaunch.

Avalaunch is a dashboard replacement for the Xbox. Typically I use Evolution X, but I have Avalauch installed as well and it can be launched like any other app. After changing the xml config file to use static IP addressing and setting unique IP addresses, I connected the two boxes via a crossover Ethernet cable. Avalaunch's file manager was able to find the remote Xbox and display its disk contents in a separate pane.

Then I could queue up and copy whole directory trees from one box to another. On the theoretical max of 10Mbps links, the copies averaged about 8.8Mbps! That's excellent! Avalaunch is definitely the way to go for copying apps, games, and any other files from Xbox to Xbox. I'll have to give Avalaunch another look as a default dashboard as well. Posted by Chris on 9/16/2004 10:25:00 AM :: Permalink   
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