Hacking One XBLA game (Portal: Still Alive) does not return to Aurora on exit

[NormalMisha]

I have about 30 or so XBLA games which launch fine in Aurora and return to Aurora dash on exit. I just added Portal: Still Alive (to replace The Orange Box), but on exit it returns me to the stock dash. Does anybody know how the auto return stuff works? Presumably this one (or a few) game is programmed to do something slightly different on exit and Aurora\dashlauch has no hook for that thing.

Have you ever seen this with any other game? If you happen to have Portal: Still Alive and Aurora, could you try it next time you're on your 360?

Cheers,

Misha

 

[NormalMisha]

Addition: It only does this if you exit the game using the game's Exit menu item. If you exit via the Guide button it goes back to Aurora.

How queer, but no biggy.

 

[godreborn]

The stock dash is called dash.xex iirc. It's probably not possible to get that exit command to work with dashlaunch.

 

[NormalMisha]

The stock dash is called dash.xex iirc. It's probably not possible to get that exit command to work with dashlaunch.

Yeah, it's just strange, because every single other XBLA game I have works fine when you exit via the game's own Exit To Arcade menu item. Maybe Portal: Still Alive is pretty much a straight copy of the Portal code from The Orange Box so it exits differently to all other XBLA games.

Ah well, cheers.

 

[godreborn]

I didn't even realize that xbla had an exit button. maybe the way that game exits is unique?

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I have the game apparently, and yep, it does the same thing to me.

 

[NormalMisha]

I didn't even realize that xbla had an exit button. maybe the way that game exits is unique?

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I have the game apparently, and yep, it does the same thing to me.

Sir, thanks for checking and confirming that it fails for you too. I can sleep easy knowing that there is no point me trying to find another dump. Well, unless we have the same one and it is buggy. Very doubtful. It's bizarre that devs. weren't all forced by MS to call the exact same function (or whatever) to exit a game. The Portal guys went rogue.

Cheers.

 

[godreborn]

I have almost the entire xbla collection, which only takes up a few hundred gigabytes. I'm missing a few games, so I'd have to use xm360 to see what those are. I was collecting those games. however, I just don't play the system anymore.

 

[NormalMisha]

I have almost the entire xbla collection, which only takes up a few hundred gigabytes. I'm missing a few games, so I'd have to use xm360 to see what those are. I was collecting those games. however, I just don't play the system anymore.

Chuck it my niece and nephew's way then...

 

[godreborn]

what's a game that exits to the Aurora dash with the exit or return to dash option? I'm using FSD2 btw, since it seems to work with my setup faster. I want to test it on my system, and since I have about 780 xbla games, I'll probably have the game.

 

[HollowGrams]

I have almost the entire xbla collection, which only takes up a few hundred gigabytes. I'm missing a few games, so I'd have to use xm360 to see what those are. I was collecting those games. however, I just don't play the system anymore.

My XBLA set is 400GB and im pretty sure I only have half or so.

 

[godreborn]

don't know why. mine is less than 400GBs, and all games work:

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000D0000 is xbla games sub folder.

 

[HollowGrams]

don't know why. mine is less than 400GBs, and all games work:


View attachment 263927

Probably DLC + Updates - My set has all in 1 except for whats missing.

I saw a set of almost 1TB floating around.

 

[godreborn]

I got all mine from xbox360iso. there's a few more files beyond the 000D0000 folders. I saw one was 00007000 (possibly a mistake on my part), which I'm not sure what that means. I think 00005000 is xbox classic and 000040000 is demo. I don't have any dlc or title updates for any of the games that I know of.

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there's 721 files total, so about six are not xbla.

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my memory is telling me that 00007000 is god games, but I may be wrong.

 

[HollowGrams]

I got all mine from xbox360iso. there's a few more files beyond the 000D0000 folders. I saw one was 00007000 (possibly a mistake on my part), which I'm not sure what that means. I think 00005000 is xbox classic and 000040000 is demo. I don't have any dlc or title updates for any of the games that I know of.

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there's 721 files total, so about six are not xbla.

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my memory is telling me that 00007000 is god games, but I may be wrong.

Correct 00007000 is GOD

XBLA:

000B0000 = Title update
000D0000 = Game
00000002 = DLC

 

[godreborn]

I have most of those memorized, because I do everything manually. I even have some of the more obscure ones memorized like the ones I mentioned above. I'm pretty sure those are correct. whenever I got to play an indie game in dashlaunch, it detects one demo game on my system (probably xexmenu).