XBox-Saves Manager
|   Public Beta 3      |              http://www.xbox-saves.com/

by TeamX4

Beta 3 introduces a new "Connection Manager" for managing connection details for
multiple XBoxes so users with more than one XBox can transfer their saves with
greater ease. The caching routines have been improved for greater speed and
accuracy.

We also welcome another new Xbox-Saves Manager supported website, www.gamesaves.de.
Using XBox-Saves Manager, you can now directly submit your games saves to the
following web sites:

www.xbox-saves.com
www.xemulation.com
www.gamesaves.de

If you have a web site offering XBox game saves and would like to accept direct
uploads of game saves from the software, please contact us.

Be sure to check out our new and improved website while you're downloading,
and post a message in our forums to let us know what you think and what you'd
like to see!

Usage

Its very easy to use, but we'll cover the basics here.

XBox-Saves Manager uses EvolutionX's wonderful ftp server to get at your
game saves. This of course means that you need to be running EvolutionX
before you can connect with XBSM.

The first thing you need to do is bring up the Options window from the Tools menu.
Then you should hit the network tab and tell XBSM what your XBox's IP, login and
password information is, so that you can connect. The rest of the options are
pretty straight forward, and you can play with them whenever you get a chance.
Once you've setup that information, hit OK and the Options window will close. You
can now hit the green Connect button on the toolbar and XBSM will connect to your
XBox and download the information it needs to create a list of all the saves on
it. You will then see whatever saves you have in the XBox pane.

If you want to send a save to your PC, simply select the save or saves you want
to send, and hit the arrow in the center of the window that points to the PC
pane. It will send the saves to your PC, compress and store them automatically
for you. Reverse this process to send saves from your PC to your XBox.

There is description data you can edit for every save on both your XBox and your
PC. Double-click a save to edit this info.

This just scratches the surface, there are a lot more features, but this help is
beta too, and isn't done yet. Play around with it and you should be able to
figure most everything out without any difficulty!

Known Issues

Only 3 things here for right now

1) Madden 2003 Profiles and Settings can not be copied without the game
complaining about them being possibly corrupted. My Franchise data loaded
just fine, including custom rosters and a custom team, just an FYI. We could
use some help on this one, so if you have an idea whats causing it, let us
know.

2) If you connect with XBSM to EvoX, and then start a game you can still try
to send a save game. This obviously won't work, and it generally makes
XBSM very unhappy. Try to avoid this. It doesn't like to be upset. We'll fix
this one soon. Really though, don't make it mad :)

3) XBSM currently relies on Microsoft's WInInet.dll for FTP connectivity and
Microsoft had bugs in their older versions of this DLL file. They fixed it and
it is distributed with products such as IE 5.5 (or higher), Windows XP, etc.
If you're having any connectivity problems between your PC and XBox and are using
an older version of IE and/or an older version of Windows, try updating to IE 5.5
or higher.

Support

The best place to find answers to your questions is through our forums, which
you can find at http://www.xbox-saves.com/ There are several testers who have
been using XBSM for a while in addition us who can answer questions and help
with any problems you may run into.

Version History

Beta 3 (December 27, 2002)
- Added a 'Connection Manager' for managing connection profiles for multiple XBoxes.
- Improved the caching of game save info for game saves which reside on the XBox.
- Added 'www.gamesaves.de' to the list of sites supported in the software for direct
upload of game saves.
- Game titles with high ASCII characters (i.e. trademark symbol, copyright symbol, etc)
in there title were not displaying correctly. This has been fixed.
- A few other minor bug fixes and tweaks.

Beta 2.1 (November 14, 2002)
- Enhanced 'Submit to website' so that it automatically brings you to the web site and fills in all
the information for you (i.e. game title, description, saved by, etc.)
- Added 'Connect to...' form for easier connectivity to different XBoxes without having to go into
the 'Options' each time.
- A few other minor tweaks
- A few minor bug fixes

Beta 2 (November 4, 2002)
- Added option to disable Advanced Caching Routines for XBox saves for people with multiple XBox's
- Fixed some problems with the zip routines that were causing errors during
imports and exports of saves, and also potentially prevented the extended save
information from being loaded properly.
- Re-enabled "submit to web site".
- Added "Links" menu with links to useful XBox related web sites.
- A few other minor tweaks

Beta 1
- Initial Public Release

Thanks

The crew at XBox-Scene.com for hosting our website.
http://www.xbox-scene.com/

Those mad hackers who wrote EvolutionX, which makes this possible.
http://www.valholl.org/

The other web sites offering XBox game saves who have supported us.
http://www.xemulation.com (special thanks to Skitals for the PHP upload script)
http://www.gamesaves.de
http://www.xbox-info.com

To all our testers, you guys rock!

TeamX4 is:

keiths@xbox-saves.com
savvy@xbox-saves.com
lc204@xbox-saves.com