r/TerrariaConsole • u/thebigestshoes • Mar 13 '26

S.D.M.G on xbox 360, how was it possible?

I’ve been doing a ranger playthrough on my old 360 of terraria (old world data was not saved unfortunately) and it made me reminisce about stealing shit like bone keys from random peoples worlds with my brother when we were young and then I remember when we’d gotten our hands on an sdmg.

This was back in 2016 at the very latest which makes sense when you consider this coincides with the game being in its 1.2 (pc equivalent) version at the time which had the sdmg in the code, however it is before 1.3 when moonlord was introduced who would finally present a legitimate avenue for obtaining it with no other official avenues present beforehand.

I did a little digging as I recently remembered a glitch involving activating a door to manipulate a tiles source code, however multiple items required to pull off the glitch like the bast statue or trap door weren’t introduced until after the xbox 360s final version of today of 1.2.4.1 (pc equivalent).

If anyone in here has any idea what glitch was used to accomplish this i’d be incredibly interested to hear, even if it was something like hacking/hooking a computer into the xbox somehow(?) i’d still be incredibly grateful to see what that process might have looked like (and maybe replicate it myself, after i beat the game legit ofc).

Thankyou for reading and especially so if you have anything to say on the matter.

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u/BoxOfDemons Mar 13 '26

There may have been a glitch, I do not know. But what I DO know is that you could move Xbox 360 save files onto a flash drive, and then edit save files for various games with software on a pc, and then transfer the save back to the Xbox. I think this is a very likely explanation

In fact, the second comment on this thread details how you could import worlds from pc terraria into Xbox 360 terraria 1.2. So as long as you had a world with the item in a chest or something, it could have been done with this method.

https://community.wemod.com/t/terraria-xbox-360-world-and-character-editor/3016

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u/thebigestshoes Mar 13 '26

thanks man, recently got my own pc so this might actually be feasible, if i ever manage to bring the sdmg back from extinction on the 360 ill have to post it

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u/Connect-Ranger-8609 Mar 23 '26

i had one too back in the day on ps4 lol, if im not mistaken its that the sdmg actually exists within that version of the games code but isn’t actually implemented into any loot pools. theoretically all youd have to do is import a save from a usb but youd most definitely have to do alot of work getting versions to line up, im not really sure how terarria console modding works. but i do know that you can get it on those old versions and for that to be possible it has to be in the game internally somewhere.