jayfoxrox / dump-xbox-dvd

A tool to dump XGD for the original Xbox

A tool to dump original Xbox games to redump standards (and better). Based on FreeCell.

DO NOT USE THIS TOOL FOR PRESERVING YOUR DISCS YET

Supported drives / firmwares

Currently only Kreon 1.00 has been tested and confirmed working. For a list of drives supporting this firmware, check this article on XboxDevWiki.

Building

• Install zlib
  • MSYS2: pacman -S zlib
  • For other platforms check your platforms documentation
• Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/JayFoxRox/dump-xbox-dvd.git
• Change into the repository folder: cd dump-xbox-dvd
• Create a build folder and move into it: mkdir build; cd build
• Run CMake to generate build files cmake ..

You can now use your platforms build system to compile. For most platforms this can be done by running make.

Running

Insert the game disc you want to dump into your drive which is connected to your system. Then run:

xbox-dump-dvd <drive name>

Typical drive names:

• Linux: /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1, ..
• MacOS: IODVDServices[/0], IODVDServices[/1], ..
• Windows: D:, E:, ..

Note that you need administrative / super-user permissions on most platforms.

License

Licensed under GPLv3 or any later version. Refer to the LICENSE.txt file included.

Also, this software makes use of the MD5 implementation of Alexander Peslyak. This is found at http://openwall.info/wiki/people/solar/software/public-domain-source-code/md5 Changes were made for OpenSSL compatibility and a small casting patch for g++ support. These changes are released under the same license as the original md5.c file.

Finally, this software makes use of the SHA1 implementation of Steve Reid, Ralph Giles et al. Changes were made for OpenSSL compatibility and using standard c types in the header. Also, SHA1HANDSOFF is defined to protect input data. These changes are also released under the same license as the original sha1.c file.

dump-xbox-dvd's Issues

Not enough filesystem error checking

No proper error is thrown if the disk is full or the host runs out of memory.
This should be fixed to avoid broken dumps and other serious issues.
Other spots in the code will also be affected by this.

Kreon feature 0x0221 description wrong

Is "Xbox 360 full challenge response functionality" but should be ~" Xbox full challenge response functionality""

zlib should be optional

zlib is currently a REQUIRED dependency.
It is still unclear if zlib will be used in the future and compression will probably be fully optional too.

cmake instruction on MSYS2 possibly incorrect

When attempting to run cmake on MSYS2, I needed to run cmake .. -G "MSYS Makefiles" instead of cmake .. in order for zlib to be properly found. This may be a quirk with my version, but I felt it was worth mentioning.

Release as a library

The tool should also be released as a library so a GUI / scripts can be added more easily.
Another solution would be a stable protocol / interface for the input/output and CLI arguments.

Not enough sense error checking

If the drive fails, the sense error will be mostly ignored.
A proper error report should be given.

Estimated time to finish

There should be an indicator how long the dump will still take

Security sectors not dumped

On drives which support it, this tool should also dump the security sectors and also give the option for more accurate dumps overall.
[lib]friidump should be submoduled probably?