Extract Xbox 360/Original Xbox ISOs on PowerPC Macs With Nextract-XISO!

[alex_free]

Recently the Xbox 360 got an awesome soft-mod and I've been having a great time with it. One thing that bothered me was that the best tool for extracting original Xbox and Xbox 360 games was essentially unmaintained (you need to extract the ISOs then copy then to the HDD to play them, there are other formats yes but I like this one the best and it is very mod friendly too).

So I thought, how cool would it be to extract ISOs for the Xbox 360 (a powerpc console), with a powerpc Mac?

Nextract Xiso (NXISO)

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alex-free.github.io

GitHub - alex-free/extract-xiso: Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge.

Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge. - alex-free/extract-xiso

github.com

 

[jktwice]

Love it! Thanks for developing this useful tool. Imagine we had it back in 2006 or so!

 

[TheShortTimer]

Recently the Xbox 360 got an awesome soft-mod and I've been having a great time with it. One thing that bothered me was that the best tool for extracting original Xbox and Xbox 360 games was essentially unmaintained (you need to extract the ISOs then copy then to the HDD to play them, there are other formats yes but I like this one the best and it is very mod friendly too).

Is that based on this mod which boots from a live USB on each session? It's something that I've been meaning to look into after seeing this video appear in my recommendations.

So I thought, how cool would it be to extract ISOs for the Xbox 360 (a powerpc console), with a powerpc Mac?

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Nextract Xiso (NXISO)

Software, Docs, & More!

alex-free.github.io

GitHub - alex-free/extract-xiso: Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge.

Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge. - alex-free/extract-xiso

github.com

Once again you're a legend, @alex_free - my 360 has been inactive for ages and this is a great incentive to put it back into regular use. You've also provided a version for Intel Macs: which means I'm sorted on both platforms but I'll give this a go on my iBook G4 under Tiger.

 

[alex_free]

Is that based on this mod which boots from a live USB on each session? It's something that I've been meaning to look into after seeing this video appear in my recommendations.

Once again you're a legend, @alex_free - my 360 has been inactive for ages and this is a great incentive to put it back into regular use. You've also provided a version for Intel Macs: which means I'm sorted on both platforms but I'll give this a go on my iBook G4 under Tiger.

Thanks! And yes it is exactly that. What I posted is very easy to use (also can be done from a powerpc mac I think!). I recommend the xeunshackle ready to copy download. It has everything already in the right file structure so you just drag the files onto the USB drive (may have to use the 360hp command to deal with the hidden content folder Finder doesn't like, see readme and lmk if you need help). Love seeing my iBook G4 crunch through a Xbox 360 8.7GB ISO file (I copied it over via SSH).

 

[TheShortTimer]

Thanks! And yes it is exactly that. What I posted is very easy to use (also can be done from a powerpc mac I think!). I recommend the xeunshackle ready to copy download. It has everything already in the right file structure so you just drag the files onto the USB drive (may have to use the 360hp command to deal with the hidden content folder Finder doesn't like, see readme and lmk if you need help).

Excellent!

I'll dig out my 360 tomorrow when I'll have the time to play around with all of this and I'll let you know how I get on.

Love seeing my iBook G4 crunch through a Xbox 360 8.7GB ISO file (I copied it over via SSH).

How long did it take?

 

[alex_free]

Excellent!

I'll dig out my 360 tomorrow when I'll have the time to play around with all of this and I'll let you know how I get on.



How long did it take?

Not nearly as long as you'd think! Quite respectable. Again lmk I'm off work today I can help get you started I just learned all this 360 stuff a few months ago when this came out.

 

[alex_free]

@TheShortTimer another incentive for you, 1080p YouTube/media file conversion for the Xbox 360 in 2025: https://github.com/alex-free/xbox-360-media-center