Hack 55. Share Your Saved Games

Use the Xbox-Saves Manager to use other people's saved games.

The Xbox-Saves Manager is a useful app for the Halo fan. This program allows you to save your saved profiles and game variants on your PC. While it's true that you can do this with an Xbox memory card, this app allows you to do it without having to share the physical card between users. This means that you can share saved games with your buddies over the Net.

Xbox-Saves Manager is simple to use. Just like an FTP app [Hack #54], you enter the IP and user information for your modded Xbox and then simply connect. Xbox-Saves Manager shows you the saves on your Xbox and on your PC (see Figure 6-27).

Once you have connected to your modded box, you can simply transfer files back and forth. In this example, the profile "Invis Cairo" in being transferred from the PC to the Xbox (see Figure 6-28). By using this shared profile, you can skip all the steps required to setup the infinite camo hack [Hack #42]. Once you have transferred the file, boot up Halo 2 and select the profile (see Figure 6-29) that's all there is to it. See http://www.xbox-saves.com/ for more information about using game saves.

Figure 6-27. The Xbox-Saves Manager

Figure 6-28. Transferring a profile to the Xbox

Figure 6-29. Using the saved game profile