Using the Xbox's Max Drive (Cheat Saves) on Shenmue 2 :D
0An example of how the Xbox's Max Drive works on the Original Xbox and this is when it gets a little complicated & slightly expensive.
This Max Drive does not work on modern computers like a windows 10 laptop you can load up the software but the USB device which comes with the Max Drive Software disc will not be recognized.
I wasted so much time trying to get that to work then I realized months later the only way it would work is if you had a Windows XP PC or at least I hoped it would. (£64 It buffs eBay).
After setting up the software for the disc it also downloads the driver for the USB cable automatically using wizard off the disc on a Windows XP PC when on Windows 10 nothing happens even when searching manually for the drivers on the disc it finds nothing lol.
Here we go then:
Open up the Max Drive software you have your game saves on the right and your USB saves on the left.
All you do now is click on your mouse on the file/game save you want like example Shenmue 2 loads of money and place it on the left-hand side and it will copy the game saves to your green USB device.
At this point, you would take the green USB device and place it in your Xbox USB cable in controller port 2. Unfortunately, the game saves has to be transferred to your Xbox hard drive the game cannot read from your USB device if it can I do not know how to do that lol.
I would then go to the Xbox main menu, click a on memory, click left onto controller 1 then press a then I would press down to the Shenmue 2 game save.
Now the tricky part if you press a it only allows you to delete not copy lol. Instead, click right then press a and it will give you the option of copy and delete. At this point press a on copy, then a again to copy the save to your Xbox hard drive or to overwrite any current game save.
Then press b twice, press right then a on the Xbox hard drive then scroll down to example Shenmue 2 then press right to see your game save.
At this point, I would put my game disc in and this process will vary from game to game depending on how the game lets you load saved data. For Shenmue 2 its click on continue and load your save file.
Hopefully, this helps you decide if it's worth buying :D
Also, here's a link to a game save list for this cheat device:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ua7dn3dXs&list=PLI8XxYYbNaZPbODBno5J-ZesgdZ6SLgIC&index=1
This is a one-level playthrough of Halo using the Max Drive game save files:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA7npPsXFlo&list=PLI8XxYYbNaZPbODBno5J-ZesgdZ6SLgIC&index=4&t=1211s
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