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Xtreme Firmware v3.2 for TS-H943 Xbox 360 Posted by XanTium | August 29 11:12 EST

Commodore4eva released a new version of his Xtreme Firmware for the Toshiba-Samsung TS-H943 DVD drive with improved Media Speed Patch: Xtreme firmware 3.2 for TS-H943 Xbox 360 World first Media Stealth One Firmware Only Xbox 360 backup and extraction firmware modification! R.I.P. Poochini - A mans best friend! Features: * (v3.2) Improved Media speed patch, forced full speed on all media types! * (v3.1) Added Booktype overwrite patch (bitsetting to Dvdrom no longer required) * (v3.1) Added Media speed patch (drive treats backup disc speed rating same as original) * (v3.1) Fixed DVD Movie backup/Xbox 1 backup read bug. * (v3.0) Stealth Media implemeted into firmware. Backups now appear exactly as original disk regardless of which disk check command used by Xbox 360 * (v3.0) Enable0800 mode supports extraction of raw PFI (Physical Format Information) and raw DMI (Disk Manufacturing Information) * (v3.0) Support for loading of extracted PFI and DMI from disk * (v3.0) Non-Stealth Backups automatically enhanced with embeded PFI for Xbox 360 and Xbox 1 * (v3.0) Included new Video.iso for Xbox 360 and Xbox 1 backups, now the same as originals * (v3.0) Security placeholders/bad sectors for 360 backups are outside both valid psn ranges so they cannot be read/checked by 360 host * (v2.0) Extraction part of firmware enabled with Enable0800 DVD. ISO included. * (v2.0) In Enable0800 mode, allows drive to function natively under Windows without any hardware conversion/adaptors * (v1.0) Boots all Xtreme Xbox 360 backups * (v1.0) Boots all Xtreme Xbox 1 backups * (v1.0) Boots all Xbox 360 originals * (v1.0) Boots all Xbox 1 originals on Xbox 360 * (v1.0) Use on Xbox Live at own risk Official Site: n/a, by Commodore4eva on xboxhacker.net Download: n/a (might be illegal under DMCA/EUCD)

[XanTium]

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Technical details
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Backups now automatically have pre-locked PSN range same as stated in extracted PFI sector if exists, or embeded PFI, therefore cannot read extracted SS/PFI/DMI sectors from disk. Currently all original 360 games have same PFI sector but maybe not in future, hence new feature of extracting PFI in Enable0800 mode and read from backup at PSN $4fb1d (Xbox 360) and $605fd (Xbox1) or if these sectors are blank embeded PFI will be used
 
Backups now support loading of DMI sector. This sector is different for every original 360 game but is currently not checked for, but maybe in future hence DMI can now be extracted also in Enable0800 mode and read from backup at PSN $4fb1e (Xbox 360) and $605fe (Xbox1)

Firmware checks for Enable0800 security sector @ PSN 04FB1F and if found, enables 0800 mode of firmware.

ISO image Enable0800.iso included. Just burn and insert into drive when you wish to extract security sectors or dump games.

0800 mode of firmware deactivated by inserting game backup (Xbox 360 or Xbox 1) or DVD movie or turning off console.
Reads Xbox 360/Xbox 1 security sector from PSN FD021E (Layer 1)
Reads Xbox 360 security sector from PSN 04FB1F (Layer 0)
Reads Xbox 1 security sector from PSN 605FF (Layer 0)
Security sector must be extracted using Enable0800 DVD for Xbox360 games and Xbox 1 games

Flashing your drive
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For ms28 firmware versions of drive you will need to use the Vcc method or the VIA SATA 10 sec method to read/write flash. Refer to http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=535222

Advisable to make a backup of your dvd drive firmware first.("mtkflash r /m orig.bin")

In Windows, copy orig.bin to same directory as this release (same directory as xtreme31.bin and X360SAM.exe)

Double click "Make X31.bin" to create x31.bin (Xtreme31 firmware with your key from orig.bin). Thanks to eXOBeX for X360SAM.EXE

Copy x31.bin to boot disk

Power off PC

Plug SATA cable from DVD drive to PC. Power cable drive still connected to Xbox 360
Power on Xbox 360
Power on PC
Boot with standard dos boot disk with included mtkflash utility

Run "mtkflash w /m x31.bin"


Extracting Security Sector
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Ensue SATA cable is plugged from drive to PC.
(This is very important as may be possible in future for console to detect modified firmware due to Inquiry routine enabled for Windows)

Power on Xbox 360.
Insert Enable0800 DVD into drive. Wait 5 or so seconds then remove the Enable0800 DVD. Drive now in 0800 mode.
Turn on PC and wait for Windows to boot
Insert original game disk into drive and wait for windows to detect disk change
Run DVDinfoPro
Enter the following four custom cdb commands:

AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 01 C0
AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 03 C0
AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 05 C0
AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 07 C0

Then save hexadecimal display as bin file as SS.bin

Extracting PFI (Physical Format Information) Sector
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Run DVDinfoPro
From Advanced Commands pull down menu choose Send Custom Command
From Preset Commands pull down menu choose "00h Physical Format Information" from under the Read DVD Struct Commands heading
Click Send
Then save hexadecimal display as bin file as PFI.bin

Extracting DMI (Disk Manufacturing Information) Sector
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Run DVDinfoPro
From Advanced Commands pull down menu choose "04h Disc Manufacturing Info"
Click OK on Read DVD Structure Option window
Then save hexadecimal display as bin file as DMI.bin



Creating a game backup
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Drive is still in 0800 mode.
Extract Isobuilder.rar
Insert original game disk into drive and wait for windows to detect disk change
Run DVDinfoPro
Enter the following custom cdb command to unlock drive: (game data visable)

FF 08 01 01

Run Isobuster
Right click on DVD and select Extract From-To
Click Length and enter number of LBAs as follows:
 
Xbox 1 Original Number of LBA to read 3431264 decimal
or
Xbox 360 Original Number of LBA to read 3567872 decimal
Select User Data (2048 bytes/block)
Click Start Extraction
Enter filename as game.iso and click Save
Upon read error dialogue box choose fill with blank zeros for sector and select use this selection for all errors
Copy game.iso, ss.bin, PFI.bin and DMI.bin to the relevent isobuilder directory (Depending on Xbox 360 or Xbox 1 game)
Run build360.bat (Xbox 360 game) or build.bat (xbox 1 game).
These batch files now expect PFI and DMI bin files
Burn with CloneCd and choose the image.dvd file

Turning off 0800 mode of firmware
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Either insert game backup (Xbox 360 or Xbox 1) or DVD movie. This de-activates 0800 part of firmware or turn off console.


Thanks to everyone on #FW,  Xboxhacker.net , Xbox-Scene.com, Maxconsole.com and Xbins.Org for their support. Keep up the good work everyone.
[email protected]

[Craigsblackie]

Didn't notice any major improvements. Moto GP seemed a little faster to load. Saint's Row didn't seem much different ( thought the loading in this game was always good. )
At least we can enjoy the noisy 12x with our backups now too.

This post has been edited by Craigsblackie: Aug 29 2006, 04:06 PM

[xboxexpert]

I'm very happy this came out.  Thanks to all who make this possible.

[garifo]

just reflashed mine again....

[R-Dawggy Dawg]

keep crankin em out master c4e.

[rccool111]

This kid is insane. Thanks a lot bro.

[sbmd]

Sweet!!!


one ? though I am still on Xtreme 3.0, I plan on updating soon as I have just bought deadrising and it does not work on this firmware, can anyone tell me if there retail copy plays with this firmware?

The game loads and plays until after i get to the mall, once i jump out of the helicopter the game sits at the loading screen forever. I will have to go back to the original firmware again to get this game to play, as it work flawlessly in my other 360.


Thankx again and I love all the work that has been put into this project!!!!!!!!

[calvin940]

QUOTE(Craigsblackie @ Aug 29 2006, 11:37 AM)

Didn't notice any major improvements. Moto GP seemed a little faster to load. Saint's Row didn't seem much different ( thought the loading in this game was always good. )
At least we can enjoy the noisy 12x with our backups now too.

Well, something is amiss with your system then because the fw does indeed make the backups full speed.  You can tell by how the drive goes into overdrive just after the game gets recognised in the dashboard.  It fires up like a jet engine for GRAW, Burnout etc.  My backup of MotoGP boots just like my original whereas before I noticed a speed reduction in the backup.  Maybe you flashed with 3.1 by accident (which didn't have the speed patch working properly).

Calvin

[JohnnyVegas]

(v3.0) Non-Stealth Backups automatically enhanced with embeded PFI for Xbox 360 and Xbox 1


Did I miss the memo on this feature? What does this do exactly?

[piggymouth]

Can anyone verify that loading times have been improved..?

From what I read in the v3.1 thread, the load times got longer not shorter.

[spitron]

dont forget the hitachi drives  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[piggymouth]

I found the answer in the old 3.1 thread located here:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?sho...43410&st=75

They are confirming that backups are loading much faster including Dead Rising, which likes to load at every cutscene...uhhhh!!!!! Also Ghost Recon loads up quicker. I haven't flashed the update yet to my drive. I'm just posting what I've read in the previous form.

If anyone else notices a huge difference in loading times please post. The guys in the old thread used stop-watches. I'm just curious how much time is saved by updating. MotoGP is the only game I've seen to have a long load time that I have backed up.

Thanks to all who put there hearts and souls into these updates.  C4E

[Metsfan7]

OMgosh

Commodore4Eva is a monster.

Dude take a break and if you have time try and make a firmware where it is undetectable over live.

By that I mean firmware stealth.

And for those who are apposed to his.  

As for as I know you cant cheat with Backups because they are almost identical to the originals data wise.  

Trainers can not be implemented.

If I am wrong about the cheating thing, please correct me.

[Bwsk8]

QUOTE(Metsfan7 @ Aug 29 2006, 11:38 AM)

As for as I know you cant cheat with Backups because they are almost identical to the originals data wise.  

Yep, currently backups are the only thing possible. No modding.