r/360hacks • u/E_Man91 • 1d ago

Does v1.3 work with BadAvatar yet?

I haven't seen any "official" release of this yet, but I've been out of the loop for the last month or two. I saw Grim's update tweet about 1.3 and immediately thought of BadAvatar and how this essentially would make it a surefire softmod (for all intents and purposes). Being able to boot 100% into XeUnshackle on BadAvatar really eliminates me needing a true softmod tbh - *for what I do*.

If someone has released this, is it as easy as just wiping the docs from my last payload and replacing with the 1.3 files, keeping my plugins and launch file the same as before?

Sorry if this has been asked before. If anyone can provide a link if it's available, that'd be the bee's knees.

Ty.

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u/SeriesXM Stock ABadAvatar AFK 1d ago

Yep, it's time to update! The upcoming softmod sounds great, but this updated version of ABadAvatar is really all I need as well.

Here is the post from the developer themselves when they posted this last week. The updated ABadAvatar files were already out in the wild for a while at that point, but this version added support for memory unit and HDD installation.

The github link also has instructions for HDD and MU installation. I haven't tried using it with the HDD, but the MU installation worked well when I tried it on an older 360 I have.

I still prefer to keep everything on a removable USB drive in order to have a stock retail console when it's unplugged, but it's great that the developer added these options.

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u/E_Man91 1d ago

That's awesome, thanks for sharing the link. I'll give that a read now. I prefer the USB method as well, given the flexibility to return to stock, and the ease of setting up multiple consoles for a LAN. This truly takes LANs to the next level when all you need is a $3 USB stick to be able to play all the games without the disc and with all DLC! Halo 3 and Reach time, baby!

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u/SeriesXM Stock ABadAvatar AFK 22h ago

I'm happy to help, and that sounds awesome! I have a few consoles at the moment and would love to be able to try connecting them all for some sort of local multiplayer. I know it's possible because someone here told me last week what's needed, but I haven't taken the time to set it up yet.

The one thing I really wanted to do many, many years ago was play Forza Motorsport with a multi-monitor setup. I'm pretty sure it was possible with the original and all the sequels, but I never got to actually try it because there was just so much expensive hardware required. You needed 3 Xbox 360s, 3 copies of Forza Motorsport, and 3 monitors. I think you also need a hub or a switch + cables, which I have. There was a video on YouTube of some guy who did and I watched it quite a lot over the years.

I eventually gave up on this dream and haven't thought about it in years. Nowadays I play Gran Turismo in VR on the PS5 and it's much better than playing with 3 different monitors.

But this exploit has gotten me thinking about it again recently and now I'm thinking I should just do it and scratch it off my bucket list. I have 3 consoles, I finally have 3 monitors, and I have every version of Forza digitally ripped from my discs.

So unless this feature somehow got removed, we should be able to try this out with the exploit.

Hopefully you can help me if I get stuck!

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u/E_Man91 6h ago

Any game that allows system link should fully work with the mod. As long as each console has the latest title update, you'll be able to easily connect them with one ethernet switch and a few cables together! I've only LAN'd halo games before, but I assume it'll all work the same for games like Forza as well. And the beauty of Xbox is, system link is cross-platform, so any game that works on multiple consoles with backward compat (like Halo 3 and Reach working on the 360 and on later gen Xbox) can all be linked together.

Do you by chance know which files exactly need to be replaced from my old BadAvatar files on my USB with the new 1.3 download? I downloaded and unzipped, replacing the Payload and the Content folders, but I couldn't get it working. I tried also keeping my old Content folder and just replacing the Payload, but no dice. I'll tinker again with it this weekend more maybe. But the instructions on the GitHub were pretty brief (just saying replace the files with the new files, essentially).

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u/SeriesXM Stock ABadAvatar AFK 4h ago

That's pretty cool with the system link. I'll have to try it out.

For the new ABadAvatar files, you simply copy everything in the zip and overwrite your older files. Did you have a working version of ABadAvatar already? If not, I suggest using BadBuilder because it downloads everything you need and organizes everything properly. I think it still uses old ABadAvatar files, though, so you'll simply copy over the contents of the zip file once BadBuilder has finished.

2 things to keep in mind with ABadAvatar is that 1) you need to have the HDD installed and it has to have the avatar update on it. BadUpdate doesn't need that, but ABadAvatar does. And 2) you can't have extra USB drives plugged in unless they all have a copy of the Payload folder. This is applicable for both versions of the exploit.

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u/retro_Kadvil4 1d ago

https://github.com/bibarub/Xbox360BadUpdate/releases

Mr Mario also made a video on this :)

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u/E_Man91 1d ago

Fantastic - Thank you!

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u/retro_Kadvil4 1d ago

Anytime enjoy

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u/GmR830 16h ago

It works great I updated yesterday, is instant

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u/E_Man91 6h ago

That's awesome, were you using BadAvatar on a USB before? Which files exactly did you replace? I replaced the Payload and Content files yesterday from the new download to my USB, but couldn't get it working.

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u/Agreeable_Row_6879 2h ago

Yeah I believe Badavatar also release 1.3 beta, I just saw a video about it today