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[piggymouth]

QUOTE(TerminatR @ May 16 2006, 11:36 AM)

I don't see what the big deal is, if you have a hitachi drive, simply buy a new 360 with the samsung drive and return your old 360 with the new receipt.  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) Then you have a 2nd generation 360 that is less likely to get owned by the blinking red lights of death.

Worked for me.....if you are gonna be dishonest, might as well go the full mile.  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/jester.gif)

How did you get away with taking something back to the store "Opened"..?

Most of the stores will not take anything back if you open it. Is there a exception for video game systems in there policy?

The other problem with this is you don't have any guarentee that you'll get a sammy or toshiba on the return. Or can we pretty much say that all the Hitach's are out of production due to disc problems report to $M.

If I knew that I could get a Prem system with a 100% no return hassle policy, I would do this is a heartbeat.
For all the trouble I have gone threw in the past in returning stuff,  the Hitachi Firmware would be available before I could get the 360 back to the store and my money back.

[kowrip]

Hopefully, somebody is working on a hardware device to help prevent this from being detected on XBL.  If a device is released that can respond to the firmware updates/checks and apply them to a fake firmware stored in memory, this can be TOTALLY hidden from XBL.  Any updates initiated from MS (either through XBL or a game) would be done to this fake firmware.  As long as the DVD drive actually uses its hacked firmware, it would be able to play the copied games.  Maybe the Devil360 is such a device ?  Clearly, some hardware could be very helpful with this hack.

This post has been edited by kowrip: May 16 2006, 05:27 PM

[Questioner]

QUOTE(zerodefect @ May 16 2006, 03:47 PM)

yeah and who is your good source? our team developed our own hack before this one was even released, i think i know what im talking about. im sure it will only be a matter of a day or two before one of the other teams releases something as well. there is more then one team that used this hack sucessfully and im sure anyone over at the xbox hacker forums will confirm this.

Like thousands of other people, my source is the well respected and reliable http://foros360.com/ and its admins. Hardly pulling this out of my arse.

[wfarid]

QUOTE(johnnyrico @ May 15 2006, 06:48 PM)

too bad that they could find the MAc adress of the dude that way.
and wouldn't be surprised he made a mistake and posted an update of the progress from home once.
srsly, he should be careful now.
the orig xbox team indeed was bragging too much, but wouldn't be surprised MS will soon add soem dash code to check the firmware and if it is different from what it should be: WHAMBO: banned.

You can change your MAC address to whatever you want it to be... It's not that hard...

Good job to everyone who helped maked this happen. I'm excited to see what comes next...

And everyone crying about MS just need to relax. I'm sick of reading 200+ posts where some dude says how he's not going to use the hack because he doesn't want to get banned. Quit whining and don't use the hack, nobody is asking you to.

I'm hoping someone  can just crack the signature encryption or figure out the kernal (im not saying its easy, or anywhere near the easy area). That's what would truly unlock the 360's potential... I think there might be a need for a 360 developer to go rogue...

[darren_JJ]

QUOTE(zerodefect @ May 16 2006, 05:20 PM)

i think you need to get a clue man.. if you talking about thespecialist firmware, it wasnt held up. he was just to scared to release it (or just wanted to be the only one that can sell xbox 360 mods hahaha)

He didn't release the hack, but release the info on how to do it, so someone like commodore4eve could release it. I perfectly can understand his and his team positions. In case you haven't figured it out yet, 'commodore4eva' is an alias for somebody else at XBH.net. The guy almost never logs into this account (in fact, he even wasn't online for the last 3 weeks). Why ? Because he only logs into this account on a secure line (different IP/MAC) and not from 'home'.

Of course nobody of the team could release it under their own names, because of all their postings they made (using their own home lines). And even if commodore4eva is not an alias for somebody of the team itself (but another visitor of XBH.net), the people you are flaming now are the main reason you now can boot your backups. So I think you should think a little better before pointing your finger at people ...

[draken333]

QUOTE(piggymouth @ May 16 2006, 08:52 AM)

How did you get away with taking something back to the store "Opened"..?

Most of the stores will not take anything back if you open it. Is there a exception for video game systems in there policy?

The other problem with this is you don't have any guarentee that you'll get a sammy or toshiba on the return. Or can we pretty much say that all the Hitach's are out of production due to disc problems report to $M.

If I knew that I could get a Prem system with a 100% no return hassle policy, I would do this is a heartbeat.
For all the trouble I have gone threw in the past in returning stuff,  the Hitachi Firmware would be available before I could get the 360 back to the store and my money back.

Walmart has a 90 day return policy on opened xbox 360 systems. I purchased a core unit yesterday, went in my car powered up the 360 to check the drive. DAMN! it was another hitatchi. SO i walked back in there 10mins later, and said i would like to return this. They were sorta stunned because i just bought it 10mins ago. I said, oh i didnt know this ver. doesnt come with the HD. So they just looked at the contents and were like ok, no problem. Such idiots too, they didnt even check the serial number, i could have replaced a broken xbox in there.

[jamesrj]

How do I stop the xbox turning its self off after a few minutes ?

[Joergen]

By reconnecting your video cable to your 360. The 360 also shuts down if you pull out the video cable while its turned on, or if you flick the HD switch and plug it back in it can even give red lights errors.

[DeaL]

Hey all,

I've done exactly what's in the readme. I've managed to dump my firmware, but when extracting the key I get "BB BB BB FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF", which is obviously not my DVD key. I've tested it tho, but had to reflash it with my original dump.

Does anyone have a clue what could be wrong? Could it be the SATA controller on my ASUS mainboard? I know the reading and writing seems to work oke, but I'm not 100% sure since both tools (KDX and KeyGen360) gave me the same key result.

Thanks in advance,

Regards, DeaL

[knightfall]

I know others have talked about this, but i have been unable to find a pci card without 3112 chipset.  Even the maxtor seems to have problems.  Does anyone know a sata pci card that works.  Thanks

[TheAmazingXemo]

Just wanted to say:  confirmed working on nForce4 chipset mobo using the MTK-NF4 mtkflash.  Works like a charm!

[norinred]

If your drive is detected by the bios but windows doesnt detect it after you flash it with 0800, you may need to update your mobos firmware, i did that and everything works fine.

[piggymouth]

QUOTE(TheAmazingXemo @ May 17 2006, 08:35 AM)

Just wanted to say:  confirmed working on nForce4 chipset mobo using the MTK-NF4 mtkflash.  Works like a charm!

SWEET!!!  

This is the same chipset I have in my mobo.

Now all I need is that HItachi hack.
Damn it... I'd kill to have a Toshiba-Sammy.

[mattyv]

So I found an Intel MB (D865PERL) that let me dump the firmaware and reflash w/ 0800 FW. I manualy copy and pasted  my key in a hex editor and saved the Extreme FW, but I also used the PPF patched Foros KeyDrive extractor and patched a hacked FW file by that method. However when I view them in the hex editor, the 4000-4200 section look different. Has anybody encountered this??
Manual screenshot:

Foros hex screenshot:  

[chr0ma]

QUOTE(pash @ May 17 2006, 05:05 PM)

I heard you dont need mtkflash for Hitachi, i think it's easier to flash that Drive.

But i think Commo is not workin on a Hitachi firmware, he never anounced that. I hope some one else does.

SATIRIC ON:
Commo will be the remeberd as the guy who cracked the Xbox360.
Speci will be remeberd as a guy with no balls?
SATIRIC OFF

Yes, It's a shame that the people who have the Hitachi are probably not going to see a FW hack.  Personally, I think the whole Hitachi thing was fake..  Yea all the info was out there to recreate it, so it just seems funny that someone comes along with a whole nother hack for a different drive.. If all the info was posted and it truely did work we would of already seen a FW released for the Hitachi by someone!  The only reason Commodore did the Samsung was because that is the drive he has and from what I understand there are no plans on doing the Hitch and it makes sense if he doesn't have the drive.

So we get treated to fake releases, dangled infront of our faces to be told it's not going to be released and then get to watch a Samsung come out.  And no I won't spend another small fortune for a second box in hopes that I might get a Samsung..

I know, I'm whining.. but oh well deal with it.