The hurricane pack expansion can only be played from a previous made save file in the save room of chapter 1, so that's where the run starts from.

The original Xbox live service is long gone and so you can't start normally anymore.

I was thinking of restricting the start to only FamedMovie's save 9 slot file but there are some people who will actually have their own save file for the Hurricane Pack.

However I have no idea of anyway of tracking previous accumulated essence as the save timer still counts on it during practice runs where you do not save over it.

So I figured placing an arbitrary restriction on your end of chapter 1 essence count to 7000. FamedMovie's save starts at 4084 essence and the first forced fight has 6 grey ninjas so that gives an ok buffer for collecting extra essence. Also stuff in the expansion is super pricey so 7000 essence isn't as helpful as it seems.

If someone does have their own unique save file and it does exceed that then I guess I'll have to up the chapter 1 essence limit.

In going through the previous areas of chapter 1, FamedMovie forgot to pick up a great spirit elixir in the cave tunnels. So you're allowed to go back and get it and make another save with it in your inventory as well as fill your life up from blue essence from the bats.

Timing still starts from the chapter 1 screen after loading from the new save with the great spirit elixir and refilled health.

Hurricane pack category rules have been updated with this note.

With the update to Insignia, the Hurricane Pack is now fully playable on original xbox. So now you just need to softmod your xbox and follow the Insignia install guide.

On a side note, I encountered some errors on my install.

Error 21: This just means you need to reinstall the MS Dashboard files. Ftp them over to C:

Xbox Live can't connect: Manually setting DNS servers helped resolve

I had another error saying something about my account not having an active subscription, just clear the ticket cache from the Insignia installer to fix that.