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This looks like a fantastic tool, thank you!

You've come to the right place. Get a hold of darkmurf as he seems to be the resident skin expert.

Also, you probably need to install a newer version of dashlaunch.

You may need to port forward your router. Google is your friend on this.

No. You can't play bf3 from a hard drive and still play it online without modding your Xbox in one way or another. The only way around that would be to buy it as a game on demand if it is available as such. Even then you're still going to be paying for the same game twice.

This is the most epic post I have ever seen. No questions easily answered by searching Google. No complaints about a product that is totally awesome and completely free. All you want to do is donate money to a deserving team of developers. I second this request. You sir have restored my faith in humanity.

As a word of caution, make sure the update you download is the same one as the dash your console is currently running. Otherwise you risk bricking your console.

Here's how you do it: 1. Take out your old lame small hard drive, 2. insert your big awesome new hard drive. note, you may have to remove your old hard drive from its enclosure and put your new hard drive into said enclosure. Your Jtag can handle any size of 2.5 inch (laptop) ntfs hard drive. Just go to system settings and format it when your done installing it. Also, bridging your board is an uneccesary risk. Just turn your parental settings on and make sure your console can't connect to Xbox live and can't create new live accounts. install dashlaunch and make sure that the XAM is patched to not accept updates.

Nope! You live in a world where you can not be coerced into doing anything you don't want to do, therefor you do not have to update if you don't want to.

That's pretty slick!

I recall something similar happening doing an RGH for a fellow. He wanted to update so I was walking him through the steps. Like yours, his console updated, but then wouldn't run homebrew programs like Xexmenu correctly. It would also run stock just fine. Push your eject button to turn your console on and let me know if Xell Reloaded boots. if it doesn't than you might have the same problem. We found out that he had built an image for RGH2 when his box was running on RGH1. Once we had switched that around the box ran just fine. I am intrigued and want to know how this turns out for you. Also, as I understand it the latest version of dashlaunch should fix your COD problem!

I think that is a fantastic idea....

I love this app, thank you for the release blakcat! This thing really made things easy when I did my first Corona board.

Get your laser replaced, sounds like a hardware failure and those lasers die all the time.

I think you'll have to use a resigning tool like horizon to assign your avatar items to your profile in order to use them. I don't mess around with that much, but google is your friend.

I am very excited about this new development, can't wait to see it in action! Now if we could only access netflix as well without having to use playon...

I posted a link to that tutorial at the top of the page. Enjoy!

-This article is a work in progress, pictures will be forthcoming. Also, any suggestions from site moderators or otherwise are very appreciated.- This tutorial starts out with a history lesson about how your RGH/Jtag works and why it is important to keep it up on the latest version of Xebuild, dashlaunch and Freestyledash. It will help fix problems with avatars, the Kinect sensor and your Xbox not beeing able to run certain games. I also wrote this tutorial for a GUI (Graphical user interface) instead of a command prompt because if you're using a tutorial in the first place, you're probably not comfortable with using a command prompt. Plus, there are so many beautifully written GUI's out there I can't find a reason not to use one. The Programs we are going to be using today are going to be: Xebuild Gui 2.086 by Swizzy which can be found here: http://www.homebrew-...-support-added/ As well as Nand flasher 360 for Xbox v1.2 by Trancy which can be found here: http://www.realmodsc...r-360-for-xbox/ (Thanks Jpizzle) -OR- If you have a RGH'ed Corona with a 4GB Nand then you will need Simple Nand flasher v1.2 instead of Nand flasher 360. Simple Nand flasher can be found here: http://www.homebrew-...x/nand_flasher/ Be sure to unzip all these files to their own folder before attempting to use them. I decided to write this tutorial because most requests in the help section proceed somewhat like this: "Halolz 4 and FSDD3 ez not wurking, plz hlp!!!!!" "What kernel are you running?" "FSD333!" "No, I mean what is your microsoft dashboard kernel?" "??!?!???" "-.-" The newer games can not run under the old dashboard kernels because they utilize some of the programming and features of the newer dashboard. FSD3 is much the same, at it's core, Freestyle Dash is written as a game and not a replacement for the Microsoft dashboard. Without the capabilities of the newer Microsoft dashboards, the old Microsoft dashboards can not understand some of the features used in FSD3 and the newer games. The difference between your console and a stock console is that a stock console runs off of Microsoft's retail kernel. Your console runs off a kernel called freeboot and this is what allows your jtag to do all of the wonderful things that it does. Both the freeboot and the retail kernel are stored on the Xbox 360 motherboards on board memory chip. This is called a Nand. The Jtag hack works by overwriting the retail kernel with freeboot. So now that you have a better understanding of how your console works, we can get around to updating it. First and most important, boot your console to Xell by pressing the eject button. When it boots, it'll give you a lot of random script, but at the end it will give you the numbers for your DVD drive key and your CPU Key. Write down the CPU key and make sure that it is perfect! An important note here, if you have an older version of Xell it may not give you your CPU key at the end of the program. If that's the case copy the characters from fuse set 04 and 05 to get your CPU key. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it. I like to take a picture with my phone so that I know I didn't write it down wrong. Go ahead and type your CPU key into a text file that you can save on your computer. This way you'll always have it. Second, load up Nand Flasher 360 for Xbox onto a usb drive and insert it into your Xbox. This is a fantastic, easy to use program that you can launch from Xexmenu or Freestyle dash through the file manager. Once launched you can read and write to your Nand. Navigate to the default.xex file inside the nand flasher 360 folder to launch the program. When the program launches it will give you three options: Dump NAND/Flash Write Nand/Flash Shutdown Select Dump NAND/Flash, the program will ask you where and you want to tell it to dump to your usb drive. The program will name the Nand dump orig_nand.bin. You now have a copy of your nand and your cpu key. You now have nearly everything you need to update to the latest freeboot kernel. The next step is to insert your USB drive back into your PC and open Xebuild Gui on your PC. I like to use the Freestyle Dash Installer to install Dashlaunch for me so I'm going to go ahead and untick "include Dashlaunch" in the misc options on the right hand side of the program. At the top left of the program is a field called Source File. Click on open and select your Nand. It should doesn't automatically select the build type based on the information on your NAND. I use a Jtag system, therefore the program automatically selected "Freeboot (Jtag)" in the build type section. If it doesn't automatically fill in the build type, you'll need to select it yourself. If you don't know your build type, call up whichever shadowy figure hacked your console in the first place and ask him what the build type is! About halfway down is a field called CPU Key. Open up the text file with your CPU key and copy the key over to the CPU Key field. A few lines below the CPU key is a drop-down box called kernel version. Select the latest kernel (At the time of writing, the latest kernel was 2.0.16197.0) and Xell-Reloaded if it isn't already automatically selected. You're all ready to go! At the bottom of the program is a big button that says, "Generate Hacked Image". Select that and the program will create a new version of Freeboot for you. It will be called updflash.bin and should be saved in the same directory as your nand dump. The next step is to plug the flash drive into your Xbox, turn you Xbox on and load up nand flasher 360 again and this time, instead of telling it to dump the nand you're going to tell it to write the Nand. It will bring up a file manager, simply navigate to your usb drive, take a really deep breath and select updflash.bin. Congratulations! You just updated your Xbox without having to pay some seedy jerk (like me) in a repair shop $50! Remember, if your Xbox asks if you want to connect live after you update like mine did, tell it no! Microsoft is sneaky... Your not done yet however, once you've shut everything down and rebooted to make sure it really did work, you need to go back to Xebuild gui with your usb drive plugged into your PC. Click on the download section on the right hand side and select your usb drive in the USB Drive drop-down box. Make sure that 2.0.16197 (Or whichever kernel you selected earlier in this tutorial) is selected on the dasboard version and then click on "download avatar update". This will get you all the bits and peices needed for your avatars and all of your kinect stuff. Once it's downloaded, click on "prepare Drive". This will load the update onto your usb drive. If you plug your usb drive into your Xbox and the system update doesn't initialize, simply rename the "$Systemupdate" folder to "$$ystemupdate" once that is done, stick it back in your xbox and when it asks you if you want to update, say yes! Also, one caveat, when you plug your kinect into your xbox after you have followed this tutorial it may ask you for yet another update. Say yes and the kinect will install its system integration files onto your Xbox. And that's it! Once you've finished that you'll want to get the freestyle dash 3 installer which can be found here: http://www.realmodsc...f3-freestyle-3/ I find the easiest way is to use the installer on a usb drive, but others like burning the iso. But that's another tutorial for another time. Be sure that when you install that your Xbox is connected to the network and that you check the "remove previous installs", "install dashluanch" and "download latest updates" boxes. It will save you a lot of headaches later on. Last of all, be gracious, a lot of people have put in a lot of hard work behind the scenes to bring us these fantastic programs. I have no idea how to code a program but I do know it takes a LOT of time and meticulous work. They have no expectation of compensation, but continue to contribute to the scene because they love what they do. I have benefited greatly from their efforts so I am more than happy to provide answers to questions about their products whenever I can. A big shout out to the FSD team who continues to blow the socks off of the Microsoft dash at every turn. Coz, who can't help himself but make dashlaunch better and better. I mean, c'mon, custom boot animations? That's just awesome! Thanks be to GliGli, the man who single handedly resurrected the Xbox Scene with RGH. A big thanks to Swizzy and Trancy, the authors of the programs used in this tutorial and a big thanks to Jpizzle for authoring this fantastic website where you can ask the dumb questions that would get you flamed anywhere else.

This is my favorite skin as well, I remember the version I had used to play "Le Onde" in the background. Any chance this could be added to your version? A toggle on/off button for those who don't care for it would probably be a plus.

The power button will do fine.

I'll send you a quick tutorial through your PM that should sort things out for you!

That's... not a sentence.

Ha ha! No worries man, this site is all about being helpful, it's just that a lot of guys get their box modded by an installer and have never even heard the words "dashlaunch" or "freeboot" before. I just think it would save everyone a lot of time and confusion if they had a baseline to start from. Anyway, feel free to PM me with your problem, I'd be happy to help you work your way through it! That also goes for anyone reading this post.

1. Is my Microsoft kernel updated to the latest version of freeboot/xebuild? 2. Do I have the latest version of dashlaunch installed? 3. Do I have the latest version of Freestyle Dash? It boggles my mind when someone can't understand why their jtag running on kernel 7371 can't play Halo 4. Your Xbox 360 has assets built into the system update that your games and even Freestyle Dash 3 need in order to operate correctly. Kinect games in particular that use avatar assets that are found in the system updates. There are many fantastic tutorials available on this website as well as around the web that can show you how to do this. There are even some great programs in the download section that can make this process even easier. At Jpizzle's suggestion I have edited the tutorial I have been sending around that addresses how to update your console and have posted it here: http://www.realmodscene.com/index.php?/topic/349-update-your-rghjtag-with-xebuild-gui-and-nand-flasher-for-xbox-360/ This tutorial will help you do the following things: -Fix problems with Avatars/Avatar items not showing up. -Fix game compatibility problems (games that won't play or won't play properly, etc...) -Update your console's Freeboot Kernel, FSD3 and Dashlaunch.

Is your Microsoft kernel up to date? You may need to install the latest version of freeboot to get the full funtionality of Freestyle dash 3.