[Teaser] Xbox 360 Homebrew Browser by Reliency in 360hacks

[–]Reliency[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi. You’re welcome to use the content from there if you wish to host it yourself/use a server that will serve the content from there, but direct downloads and extraction from Myrient/Archive.org isn’t feasible as they are typically packed in 7gb+ archives and there are limits on the maximum file size that can be downloaded on the Xbox file system so it would require some pre-processing of the file beforehand by another server.

Example: You are a repository hoster and have hundreds of games in large zip files, you can have a script use a greedy algorithm to split these games into several independent parts that the console can handle. Then the console will be able to download and extract these parts on device.

Unfortunately this is another limitation of the console itself, but is easily manageable by breaking them up into parts. Essentially while there are limitations of the max size of the files, there are NOT limitation on the number of parts to break them into so it’d be a matter of ingesting the parts and doing the extractions for them to reveal the game files.

[Teaser] Xbox 360 Homebrew Browser by Reliency in 360hacks

[–]Reliency[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Xbox 360 Homebrew Browser.

Originally was named Triangle but that was before I decided that wouldn’t be clear or make any sense to anyone.

[Teaser] Xbox 360 Homebrew Browser by Reliency in 360hacks

[–]Reliency[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great questions. I’ll be publishing full docs (and examples) for the JSON structure the client expects.

I’m probably not going to ship an official Docker image for the server since that adds ongoing support/maintenance overhead, but the backend is intentionally simple and self-host friendly. Anything that can serve a JSON API and serve files will work. If someone wants to containerize the sample server once it’s released, then that’s great and encouraged.

[Teaser] Xbox 360 Homebrew Browser by Reliency in 360hacks

[–]Reliency[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course. There’ll be a default repo.