How to use Xbox 360 Title Updates

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What a title update is

A title update is an official patch for an Xbox 360 game: the update the console downloaded from Xbox Live when you started the game. Each one is for one game (its Title ID) and one disc version of that game (its Media ID): a title update only loads with the disc version it was made for.

Where a title update goes

There are two kinds, and the file name tells you which:

• TU_ files, for example TU_1D4A1UQ_0000008000000.00000000000G2, go in the Cache. On the Xbox 360 hard drive the Cache is its own partition (Partition 3), and a USB drive configured for use in the Xbox 360 has one too, so use a FATX tool such as Horizon, USB Xtaf or Xplorer360 to inject the file.
• tu files, for example tu00000003_00000000, are the larger title updates games were allowed later in the console's life. They go in Content\0000000000000000\<Title ID>\000B0000, not the Cache: BioShock Infinite's (Title ID 5454085D) goes in Content\0000000000000000\5454085D\000B0000.

Every title update thread on Digiex says which kind it is and gives its Title ID and Media ID, and its zip is laid out to match: a TU_ file on its own, or a <Title ID> folder (holding 000B0000) to inject into Content\0000000000000000. Start the game and the update loads with it.

Every title update on Digiex

The Title Updates forum has a pinned A–Z index of them all, with Title IDs and Media IDs.

Guides

1. Extract and inject title updates with Horizon (hard drive or USB)
2. Extract and inject title updates in the Cache of a USB memory stick
3. Extract and inject title updates in the Cache of the Xbox 360 hard drive
4. Inject into Content on a USB drive (for tu files)
5. Configure a USB memory stick to be used as Xbox 360 storage

Finding your Media ID

Xbox 360 MP GUI reads the Title ID and Media ID of a game disc or ISO, and so does the Title Update Checker. A console running Aurora shows them on its game details screen.