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[PC_Arcade]

Things you need :

An xbox360 with a Toshiba/Samsung Drive :
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A Torx 10 screwdriver
Thin Tweezers (or similar)
A PC with SATA connectors - but NOT the Silicon Image Sil3112 SATA chipset, these will not work (ATM?)
A Hex editor - I used : http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Downloads/hex-editor-free.html
The Firmware package
Some plasters

Part 1 - Taking the box apart

There are guides to this all over the place, I used this one as it was the most accurate and easy : http://www.informit.com/articles/article.a...26&seqNum=2

At stage 10 stop - DO NOT unscrew the black screws, leave them alone, they hold your heatsink on, all we need is access to the DVD drive

Part 2 - safety first

You will need a boot disk, so format a floppy disk ensuring the box that says "MS-DOS system disk" (or similar) is ticked, when this has formatted copy MTKFLASH.EXE and MTKFLASH.TYP from mtkflash183c.zip to this disk (if you have an nforce4 motherboard use the same files from the archive MTK-NF4.RAR)

Your xbox360 will need to be plugged in (but turned off) next to your PC
with it's DVD rom drive powered by the xbox, but connected to port 1 of the SATA on the PC

remove / disable all IDE channels except for the floppy disk and all SATA ports except port 1

make sure you have set the PC to boot from the floppy disk

turn on the PC, leave the 360 turned off for the time being, when you have a command prompt tuen the 360 on and type the following on the PC

mtkflash r backup.bin

press 1 to select SATA master

This will backup the original firmware to the disk - DO NOT LOSE OR MODIFY THIS IN ANY WAY, if you screw up you can easily restore the original firmware with this file and put the 360 back to factory

turn off the 360 and unplug the drive from the PC.

Plug the pc's drives back in / reenable all the applicable ide / sata channels and boot into windows

Part 3 - modifying the firmware

Each 360 DVD firmware has a unique key that marries your drive to your console, this HAS to match or the drive will not work, so we need to insert the key from your firmware into the modified firmware (which has no key).

Copy the backup.bin file from the floppy to your hard disk

Load the Hex editor then load backup.bin into it from your hard disk, the area containing your key is located at $4000-$4200 so press ctrl-G and type 4000 into the box, then click goto.

Using your mouse select everything from 4000-4200 (as pictured)

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press ctrl-C

Load the file from the Xtreme_Package called xtreme.bin, press ctrl-G type 4000 into the box and click goto

Press ctrl-V this will copy your key from the backup firmware you created to the xtreme firmware ready for use on your drive

save the xtreme.bin file onto the floppy disk

Step 4 - The scary part

Connect up the 360 to the PC as before, unplug all the drives again, boot off the floppy disk and at the command prompt type

mtkflash w xtreme.bin

Press 1 to select master

The 360 should at this point be hacked

In order to test whether it has worked, put an original game in, it should play as normal, then put in an xbox copy if you have one, it won't work, the emulator will say that thi game is not playable (or simillar), but it will recognise it as a game (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

If it did, put the 360 and the PC back together, put the plasters on your bleeding fingers and thumbs as needed

Hopefully not needed part - Troubleshooting

My drive won't boot anything! Originals say "insert in an xbox 360"

You've messed up with the key double check that you overwrote the are $4000-$4200 not inserted - the firmware should always be 256kb

My PC won't recognise the drive to flash it

Try another PC, or use a promise SATA PCI card, mktflash compatibility seems a little "flaky"

There's a compatibility list here : http://www.xboxhacker.net/forums/index.php...amp;topic=794.0



I've given this it's own thread as people still keep asking for a tutorial.

Hope the mods don't mind

This post has been edited by XanTium: Nov 9 2006, 11:55 PM

[|vibez|]

Great tutorial!            

Any chance of writing one for ripping and burning games?

[liteon6x]

ya that would really help i have wasted @ least 5 dual layers

[MrPhunkee]

Yeah nice one

A tut for wxripping and adding ss files would be great. Heres allready 1 for WX. Glad I have emergency button

http://www.360-scene...viewtopic&t=104

[PC_Arcade]

QUOTE

ya that would really help i have wasted @ least 5 dual layers

Yeah I can do that, although I haven't done the SS extraction myself yet, I've only got PGR3 working with a WXrippered image and the SS in the archive, I'll give the 0800 firmware a try at some point and write a tutorial

[Kafluke]

Everything worked exactly according to your tut but when I put a burned backup in it just says unrecognized disc.  I don't see where you say that it will recognize it as a game?  Originals play fine but I don't know how to play the backups?

[Shawn_S]

awesome thanks for this!!

[PC_Arcade]

QUOTE(Kafluke @ May 17 2006, 05:07 PM)

Everything worked exactly according to your tut but when I put a burned backup in it just says unrecognized disc.  I don't see where you say that it will recognize it as a game?  Originals play fine but I don't know how to play the backups?

That's almost certainly a problem with the game you've burnt not the firmware flash.

How did you create the ISO and burn the game?

[Kafluke]

I didn't want to reflash the firmware so I downloaded project gotham (which I own).  I assume its probably a raw dump.  I think that might be the problem.  

Without re-flashing the firmware can't I just find the SS online for that game and patch it and reburn?

[krayzie]

QUOTE(Kafluke @ May 17 2006, 07:22 PM)

I didn't want to reflash the firmware so I downloaded project gotham (which I own).  I assume its probably a raw dump.  I think that might be the problem.  

Without re-flashing the firmware can't I just find the SS online for that game and patch it and reburn?

Doesn't mather wether you own the game or not. Downloading games is piracy and this board does not support that.

[Kafluke]

my bad, I'll just flash the firmware and do the backup the long way.

[O_oTheGameo_O]

damn I have no floppy disks or floppy disk reader in my computer lol...  

[isoheppi]

i have both the ntsc and pal version xboxes. i have saved security sectors of my games but i don´t know which ones are the pal and wich are the ntsc versions, or is the SS same on PAL and NTSC ?. is there a way to find out ? or do i have to save all of them again ?

[cliffy88]

QUOTE(Kafluke @ May 17 2006, 05:07 PM)

Everything worked exactly according to your tut but when I put a burned backup in it just says unrecognized disc.  I don't see where you say that it will recognize it as a game?  Originals play fine but I don't know how to play the backups?

I'm having the same problem. Have you found a way to fix this yet? I also just changed my dvd+r DL setting by going through that 3rd guide. Is there a chance If I reburn a disk it might work correctly?

[Banditt]

Ok I went through this tutorial and watched the video on foros360.com

I am able to dump my firmware from the samsung drive and flash the edited firmware back. However the 360 won't even boot my originals when I upload the edited firmware. I am positive that the key has been entered correctly. I got the key by opening the original firmware (orig.bin) with the foros360 extractor/patcher v1.1 and then I open the ppf patched xtreme_proper.bin and paste the key in there. When I reopen the xtreme_proper.bin the key is correct and matches that of my original firmware. However it doesn't boot games when I flash the drive with it. I reflashed the drive with my original software and everything works like normal. I don;t get it.  

Any suggestions? Originally I had the samsung MN25 firmware if that helps.