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Community Hub

The Community Hub brings the wider Xbox and preservation workflows into one source-attributed, offline-capable workspace. Open it from the desktop sidebar or press Ctrl+K to focus unified search.

Integrated Capabilities

  1. Unified local search across games, identifiers, wiki knowledge, profiles, saves, achievements, files, and structured reference records.
  2. Structured extraction of motherboards, DVD drives, dashboards, exploits, errors, formats, repairs, and tools from cached source documents.
  3. Guided PC-to-console comparison using a captured, read-only console inventory and Aurora, Freestyle Dash, XeXMenu, or stock layouts.
  4. Explicit queueing of revalidated uploads into the existing persistent, resumable transfer queue. A preview never starts a transfer by itself.
  5. Profile dashboards summarizing saves, played titles, achievements, and gamerscore from local data.
  6. Read-only STFS package inspection and auditable package workspaces that keep an untouched original and manifest.
  7. Ownership-migration previews that record intended profile, console, and device changes without changing or signing the package.
  8. Block-level save comparisons with SHA-256 results and durable audit history.
  9. XDBF/GPD played-title history and bounded embedded-image discovery.
  10. Validated export of an embedded GPD image without modifying its source.
  11. Preferred artwork selection with Aurora, Freestyle Dash, and preservation archive export layouts plus checksum manifests.
  12. Multi-disc completeness audits based on scanned disc number and count.
  13. Duplicate previews using size grouping and SHA-256 verification.
  14. Selectable, recoverable duplicate actions that quarantine the original, optionally create a verified hardlink, and restore from the interface.
  15. Read-only FATX partition geometry, Xbox 360 USB container, and mounted-storage audits.
  16. Original Xbox default.xbe discovery alongside Xbox 360 collections.
  17. Plugin discovery, checksums, permission display, enable/disable state, and bounded ZIP installation or update with rollback.
  18. Recovery scans for partial files, interrupted jobs, incomplete snapshots, and failed operations, with conservative retry or quarantine actions.
  19. Dashboard compatibility probes for login, content-root access, resume, and advertised remote hash support on a trusted local FTP network.
  20. Cross-platform accessibility and packaging: scalable text, high contrast, reduced-motion preferences, keyboard hints, and Windows, Linux, and macOS build paths.
  21. Read-only extraction of supported consecutive STFS files with hashes and a portable extraction manifest.
  22. Non-personal .usmeta snapshot export/import for offline title and knowledge data.
  23. Library attention audits and privacy-conscious preservation reports.
  24. Reviewed correction-package exports and local hardware inventory records.
  25. Direct Xenia/Xenia Canary discovery and game launch controls alongside the existing snapshot-first save migration workflow.

Safety Rules

  • Sync plans are previews until the user confirms queueing. Queued jobs still run through the normal transfer controls.
  • Duplicate cleanup never deletes the only retained copy. Quarantined files remain under .unityscraper-dedup-quarantine and can be restored from the Preservation tab after checksum and path validation.
  • FATX images are detected read-only. Raw-device and raw-image writes are not implemented.
  • Package workspaces and ownership changes are previews. CON/LIVE/PIRS rebuild, rehash, signature, and ownership mutation remain disabled until independent verification and recovery are complete.
  • Traditional console FTP is unencrypted and is intended only for a trusted local network.
  • XboxUnity remains HTTP-only. This application does not invent or prefer an HTTPS endpoint for XboxUnity.

Data and Provenance

Migration 8 adds durable records for structured knowledge, sync plans, profile previews, played titles, embedded images, save comparisons, artwork exports, disc audits, dedup plans, storage audits, original Xbox records, plugin state, recovery events, dashboard tests, and accessibility preferences. It is additive and preserves existing databases.

Migration 9 adds plugin collection audits and duplicate-recovery records. Enabled plugins run during normal metadata collection only while their approved entrypoint checksum still matches. Long Community Hub operations run in a background worker; search results can be opened with Enter or a double-click.

Migration 10 records metadata snapshot operations, library audits, preservation reports, correction exports, hardware notes, and package extractions. Enabled plugins execute in a timeout-controlled child process; this improves crash and resource isolation but is not an operating-system permission sandbox.

Imported ConsoleMods, XenonLibrary, Free60, Redump, and No-Intro information continues to retain source, revision, citation, licensing, and conflict data. Redump and No-Intro DAT files remain user-supplied; copyrighted game content is never included.

Platform Notes

Windows and Linux remain the primary tested release targets. macOS CI builds an unsigned Apple Silicon application bundle and checksum. The macOS artifact is not notarized, and the documentation does not ask users to disable Gatekeeper. See MACOS.md for current limitations.