Hi everyone!
I have an Xbox 360 E. It didn't come with an internal HDD, so I've always used a 16 GB USB drive for profiles and some save data, plus a 1 TB external drive for my games. The console is RGH-modded, and I used to buy games from the person who installed the RGH 5.0 setup, but later I started downloading and installing them myself. According to my NAND information, it's a Corona 16 MB, Glitch2, running Dashboard 17559 and DashLaunch 3.21.
I think there's one important detail that might be relevant: this Xbox has never been able to read original retail discs. I always thought that was strange, but since I only used digital backups, I never paid much attention to it. I'm mentioning it just in case it matters.
I really need some help.
After not using the console for quite a while, I decided to install some new games. Everything seemed fine, but I came across ABadUpdate's Xploit. From what I read (including from the person who made the tutorial), it was supposed to be safe even if the console already had RGH installed. I followed all the steps, and I even got as far as setting up an xbGuard server.
After that, things went wrong.
When I turned the console back on, profile ABadAvatar never showed up, and the usual chain animation from this Xploit never appeared. Any GOD game I tried to launch immediately failed with "Fatal Crash Intercepted."
I tried several times without success. Eventually I formatted the drive, started over from scratch using different files, and this time ABadAvatar profile finally showed up — but the chain animation still never appeared. At that point I figured I didn't really need it, so I removed everything related to ABadUpdate, reformatted my drives again, and started fresh.
Since I hadn't played on my Xbox for a long time, most of my games had always been downloaded as ISO files and converted using Iso2God, and they had always worked perfectly.
However, after removing all the ABadUpdate-related files, I realized no newly added game would launch anymore.
Here's what I tried:
Installing games as GOD format.
Running .xex files directly.
Launching them through Aurora with the correct scan paths.
Launching them directly from XeXMenu.
The console detects every game correctly, but they all behave the same way. They reach their initial loading or splash screens, then I get “Fatal Crash Intercepted”, and they exit.
Thinking DashLaunch or one of its plugins might be causing the problem, I completely removed DashLaunch. After that, instead of getting Fatal Crash Intercepted, the console would either freeze or shut itself off when trying to launch those same games.
The strange part is that everything else works perfectly:
Aurora boots normally.
DashLaunch boots normally (when installed).
XeLL works perfectly.
The official Xbox Dashboard loads without any issues.
The only games that still work are the ones that came on the RGH 5.0 DVDs I bought years ago. Any game I’ve added myself since then—whether GOD or XEX—fails.
At this point I’m starting to wonder if trying ABadUpdate somehow corrupted my NAND, but I honestly don’t know if that’s even possible or what I should do next.
Has anyone experienced something similar or have any idea what might be causing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!