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I'm Cleet. Cletus T. Pine.

PineCone

  • A content discovery tool, for original Xbox DLC and Title Updates.

How-To

  • Download the id_database.json
  • Download the appropriate binary for your platform.
  • Working Directory should look like this:
PineCone
|-- pinecone binary
|
|-- data
| |-- id_database.json
|
|-- dump
| |-- TDATA
| |-- UDATA
| |-- C (optional)
| |-- E (optional)
| |-- F (optional)
| |-- G (optional)
  • Run your binary from the commandline. e.g: ./pinecone (or pinecone.exe) (optional flags: -fatxplorer (Windows only, mount E as X in fatxplorer))

About

  • Our buddy Harcroft has been keeping a rolling list of missing content for nearly 20 years.
  • The idea of this software is to cut out as much of the manual digging as possible, and expand on it as a tool to archive this data.

Hows this work?

  • Drop UDATA and TDATA into a dump folder.
  • Analyze the dump for userdata and DLC's, User Created Content, Content Update Files.
  • (Optional) Analyze the dump for Homebrew content in a C E F G folder structure.

Todo

  • Disect Disk images
  • Import archived dumps
  • Export output for easy viewing
  • Add more flags for more specific searches
  • Create "Homebrew" JSON file to identify homebrew content.
  • Beautify output, to make it easier on the eyes.

Experimental Flags

  • -fatxplorer: This flag will use a mounted E drive on partition X to scan.
  • -update: This flag updates only the JSON. Useful between builds without major changes.
  • -statistics: This will output statistics of the JSON, i.e totals.
  • -titleid=ABCD1234: This will output the JSON details on a specific TitleID when provided.

Example output

Local JSON file exists.
Loading JSON data...
Traversing directory structure...
Found folder for "Advent Rising".
Advent Rising has unarchived content found at: TDATA/4d4a0009/$c/4d4a000900000003
Title ID 50430001 not present in JSON file. May want to investigate!
Traversing directory structure for Title Updates...
TDATA/4d4a0009/$u/test.xbe: 87088e689b192c389693b3db38d5f26f2c4d55ae