Tutorial written by : vokal4

I am assuming you already know how to ftp to your xbox using an Evolution-X dashboard.

1)Connect to your xbox with a ftp client like FlashFXP.

2)Locate a file called "NICKNAME.XBN" in your E:\UDATA folder. Once you have found it, just download it to any folder on your computer that you'd like.

3)Open WinHEX (I used version 10.55 SR-4 for this tutorial)and click & open the "NICKNAME.XBN" file that you downloaded to your computer.

4)If you opened the file correctly, you should see a bunch of numbers and at the right, some of their values. At the top (as shown in the picture below) should be your xbox's name.

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5)Now you can change it to whatever you want. Being that I'm not 1337, I haven't bothered using any crazy characters so I'm not sure if their would be any problems using them. Be sure of 2 things, that you keep the SM letters in front of your xbox's name, and that you have periods (".") between each of the letters.

6)At the end it should look something like this (look below) with a name that you prefer.

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7)Once your done customizing the name, just save it, upload it back into your xbox's E:\UDATA folder (be sure to click yes when your ftp client prompts you if you want to overwrite the old file).

8)Your done, enjoy! Now you don't have to go online (using xbconnect) and play with a panzee name like "Penguin" or "Prancer".

*Extra Note*-Occassionally some NICNAME.XBN files have other stuff below the name which I don't know what they affect. So don't worry about them, just change the top 2 lines if you want to customize your name, leave the rest the way it is.