This project was intentended to be a proof of concept xbox 360 game downloader. I never expected so many people to see the post I put up online about it. I am sorry that my confusing, afterthought of a name caused issues, I never wanted it to do so. I respect the work done by the free60 project, though probably never will fully understand how much personal time and effor went into it. In short, I never wanted to make anybody mad, I just wanted to create a cool piece of homebrew.
Not affiliated with the free60 project
The X Store is a homebrew application for the Xbox 360 that allows games to be directly downloaded onto the Xbox 360.
- A JTAG/RGH hard modded console OR a console running BadUpdate/ABadAvatar
- The Xbox 360 must be connected to the internet
- Stealth Server
- Xbox Live
- Local web server
For detailed instructions on how to setup X Store, see the setup guide
If you are on version 0.2.10 or later, you can update to the latest version by selecting Update X Store when you first start the program. If you are on an earlier version, download the latest version from the releases page, and replace X-Store.xex on your console with the latest version this github repo.
| I cannot search for games | This is a known issue, and I do not know why it works fine for some, but not others |
| The download freezes or fails | If you have any slow or intermittent internet connection, it can cause the download to fail. Currently, there is no fix for this. Additionally, check you have enough storage space to download the game |
| 7zip or ISO decompression fails | Check your have enough free storage space. You may need twice the game size in free space to ensure the download does not fail. |
| ISO extraction fails | Check your have enough free storage space. Also check that the paths in settings.txt are correct. A common issue is when extracting to an internal hard drive, you must use hdd:\, NOT hdd1:\. |
- Will this work with BadUpdate/ABadAvatar? Yes, it should work on any homebrew capable Xbox 360 console
- Why is it taking so long? The Xbox 360 is (by modern standards) an old console. Attempting to download large games directly on the console over encrypted HTTPS is not a simple feat
- Does this require a stealth server? No, this program only requires an internet connection, no Xbox Live or Stealth server required
- Does it run in the background? No, you must keep the program open whilst downloading, decompressing and extracting
- Does this work with Aurora/FSD? Yes, this program will work with any dashboard that can launch homebrew apps.
- Why is the user interface so bad? I have very little experience with user interface design, and I have been more focused on getting the backend working. If you are skilled enough to make a better UI, I would very much appreciate it.
Many thanks to all of the open source projects that made this possible, including:
- XboxTLS by JakobRangel, for encrypted HTTPS communication
- Simple 360 Nand Flasher by Swizzy, to use as a base project to work from, as well as providing a simple, easy to use interface to output console style text to the screen
- extract-xiso by XboxDev, modified to extract ISO files directly on the Xbox itself
- LZMA SDK, to decompress LZMA and LZMA 2 compressed 7z files
- miniz to decompress the update data
- cJSON to parse the JSON data required to update the program
- Vimm's Lair, without which this entire project would not have been possible
- Firstly, while this program should not harm your Xbox 360 in any way, it is still in a very early alpha phase. As with all homebrew, run it at your own risk
- This program is in a very early alpha phase, and should be treated as a proof-of-concept. Bugs should be expected
- Depending on your local law, it may or may not be legal for you to download games with this tool. I take ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY for your actions
- AI. Yes, I used it. While this project is not vibecoded, there are many portions of this project where I made use of AI to assist in writing parts of the code
- This project has no intention of being affiliated with the free60 project. If you do not approve of this project's name, please let me know
- Clean up the very messy code
- Optimise 7z decompression, potentially implimenting multithreading
- Eliminate memory leaks
- Impliment a better UI using xUI
- Add support to download from ROMSFUN using flaresolver proxy - unlikely
- Add support to download from the Internet Archive
- Potentially make use of the triangle frontend when it is made open source
- Test to see if DOS 8.3 file name limitations affect FATX
Pull Requests are welcome