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[Hopeful]

To the guy above

7 posts up on the same freakin' page

QUOTE(bricklayer @ Nov 28 2006, 10:25 PM)

just to advise the unwary 78fk owners!
there are fake firmwares about for this drive.
i posted info on the other site and got this verified by  garyopa.
it seems the fakes will brick your 78,so dont use it.
wait for genuine garyopa firmwares which no doubt will be verified in the usual places.

bricklayer,

Read before posting.

This post has been edited by Hopeful: Nov 29 2006, 08:42 PM

[toddgei]

QUOTE(Hopeful @ Nov 29 2006, 09:43 PM)

To the guy above

7 posts up on the same freakin' page

 

Read before posting.

But this is different though, the fake firmwares are ones that have to be used through a programmer that will brick your drive.  At this point there is no way to write to the chip unless it is removed so this firmware report is something entirely different hence the reason for the confusion because this release cant brick your drive because there is no way yet to write to the chip through software.

[Hopeful]

You have an intelligent note, however it is totally beside the point

"just to advise the unwary 78fk owners!
there are fake firmwares about for this drive.
i posted info on the other site and got this verified by garyopa.
(nevermind this line)
wait for genuine garyopa firmwares which no doubt will be verified in the usual places."

= 15 seconds of reading / obvious answer

This post has been edited by Hopeful: Nov 30 2006, 06:47 AM

[xboxto]

Been a quiet day today! no post on this or other sites!
Sure you guys are probably just hard at work! if you need a 0078fk give me a holla!

regards
xboxto

[thecheekymonkey]

QUOTE(taximan89 @ Nov 29 2006, 10:09 PM)

Can anyone confirm a software method has been released?
from: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=567312
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
            XTRM-HITACHI_v3.1 Stealth v78
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
*** MOST OF THE WORK IS FROM garyOPA, even most of this Readme File ***
                 *** TESTED ON V78 ***
FEATURES (my contribution on this release):

* Removed old media detection and replaced with better media detection
  (media detection ver 2) from Geremia.
* Incorporates Maximus Firmware Stealth (Full Firmware Stealth)

***********************************************************************

FLASH78.BAT: Flashes your drive with 3.1 Fw Stealth (Media Detect 2,
              F900 core and Firwmare Stealth
RESTORE.BAT:  Return your drive to original State, even if you have
              firmware stealth in your drive
*RECOMENDATION: If you have flashed your drive in the past use RESTORE
first. If it is a brand new drive use directly the Flash command you
like. If you dont plan to use your drive to dump games use the
flash15s.bat
* ALL NEW XTREME V3.1 FIRMWARE FOR v78 BUILDS OF THE HITACHI DRIVES!

   - includes "Security Sector Extraction" v78 Hitachi Drives

   - Included media detection 2 from Geremia and Maximus Firmware
     Stealth, this release just supports SS Extraction within Windows
     without the need to re-flash your drive back and forth between
     PLAY & RIP!
Flashing your drive
-------------------
FLASH22S.BAT automatically makes a complete backup of your firmware system

* To FLASH a drive, it must be in "Mode B" and have "Drive Letter"
* Then just run FLASH78 from "Command Prompt" while inside windows
* Prompt must be at the same directory with the rest of the files!

* FLASH78 needs two variables, the assigned "Drive Letter", and any 4
  numbers for the BACKUP directory, use a new unique number like 1572

  - This is used to make your BACKUP directory!

  - For Example: FLASH78.BAT H 1572

  - Will cause the FLASH after running to have, a BACKUP directory
    "X78-1572" and the program will store FIVE firmware files:

    ---- key.bin   ---- DRIVE KEY /// DRIVE KEY
    ---- was.bin   ---- Your drive before FLASH
    ---- gdrXX.bin ---- The untouch original fw
    ---- XX_22.bin ---- The patched Xtreme22 fw
    ---- now.bin   ---- Your drive after FLASH!

  - Where the XX in the above names will be the version of your Hitachi

* Program will not start unless a BACKUP is correctly made and stored!

* Flash will auto-detect your firmware build of your Hitachi drive.

* You can flash any drive, even "v1.1" or "f900" or your own hacks.

* System will check flashed firmware, and redo until 100% completed.

* Once you get the PASS / DONE line, you can shut-down the system.
FLASH15S.BAT is the same as above but, without F900 core, use this
if you dont want to extract SS with your drive.
Restoring your drive
--------------------
RESTORE.BAT automatically restores your drive back to original state

* To RESTORE a drive, it must be in "Mode B" and have "Drive Letter"
* Then just run RESTORE from "Command Prompt" while running windows.

* The new RESTORE does not need any backup, it will 100% restore your
  drive back to "ORIGINAL" state as long as it is visible in Windows!

* Program will not start unless it detects the version of your Hitachi!

* You can restore any drive, even "v1.1" or "f900" or your own hacks.

* System will check flashed firmware, and redo until 100% completed.

* Once you get the PASS / DONE line, you can shut-down the system.
Features
--------
Here it is, the long awaited World's first Xbox 360 backup firmware
modification to boot game backups on Hitachi GDR-3120-L DVD drives!

But, now complete with "Security Sector" Extraction to make your
own backup of original Xbox 360 and XBOX 1 games on your system.

Boots all Xtreme Xbox 360 backups
Boots all Xtreme Xbox 1 backups supported by emulator
Boots all Xbox 360 originals
Boots all Xbox 1 originals supported by emulator

Use on Xbox Live at your own risk
Technical details
-----------------
Security sectors are read in this order:

Reads Xbox 360 security sector from PSN 04FB1F (Layer 0)
Reads Xbox 1 security sector from PSN 605FF (Layer 0)
Reads Xbox 360 security sector from PSN FD021E (Layer 1)

Flashes sector 90003000 (Xtreme Custom Code)
Flashes sector 9003e000 (Master Checksum)
Flashes sector 90035000 (Security Sector Read)
Flashes sector 90034000 (Media Detect)
Flashes sector 90027000 (Challenge Response 2/2)
Flashes sector 90026000 (Challenge Response 1/2)
Flashes sector 90025000 (Mode B to A 2/2)
Flashes sector 90024000 (Mode B to A 1/2)
Flashes sector 9001d000 (Game Unlock)
Flashes sector 9001c000 (Drive Response Table Decrypt)
Flashes sector 9000a000 (UNDO Tray Tweak)
Flashes sector 90006000 (Mode B Tweak)
Extracting Security Sector
--------------------------

* Drive first be FLASHed with our Xtreme v3.1 firmware.

* Ensure SATA cable is plugged from Hitachi drive to PC.

* Ensure XBOX video cable is pluggd into back of console.

* Power on the Xbox 360 console.

* Open the drive Tray, by pressing the EJECT button.

* Pull the power plug on xbox 360 from back of console.

* This will force the console to leave the tray in the OPEN position.

* Plug the power brick back into the Xbox 360.

* Power on Xbox 360 using the "power" button.

* Drive is now in Mode B.

* Turn on your PC and wait for Windows to boot.

* Insert original game disk into drive.

* And wait for windows to detect disk change.

* Run the included "GETSS.EXE" program from a "command prompt" like so:

  - GETSS E SS.BIN

  - Replace the "E" used in the above example
    with the correct assigned "Drive Letter"!
Creating a game backup
----------------------

* Full info above to make the "SS.BIN" file first.

* Extract the included "ISOBUILD.RAR" package.

* Insert original game disk into drive.

* And wait for windows to detect disk change.

* 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 and ss.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)

* Ensure your burner will set the booktype of DVD+R DL to DVDRom

* Burn with CloneCd and choose the image.dvd file
Support & Thanks
----------------
Thanks to everyone at Xboxhacker.net for all their discussions.
Thanks go to Seventhson for flashsec and memdump.
Thanks go to Loser for firmcrypt.
Thanks go to Team Avalaunch for their support.

Many thanks to "Commorode4eva" for the original v47 release...
Many thanks to "Spectrum4eva" for the original F900 release...
Many thanks to "Birdy" for the Mode B tweak...
Many thanks to "Geremia" for the better media detection...
Many thanks to "Exobex" for Windows 2000 support.

QUOTE(toddgei @ Nov 30 2006, 07:48 AM)

But this is different though, the fake firmwares are ones that have to be used through a programmer that will brick your drive.  At this point there is no way to write to the chip unless it is removed so this firmware report is something entirely different hence the reason for the confusion because this release cant brick your drive because there is no way yet to write to the chip through software.

Sorry but your incorrect.

there are no releases out that will flash your 078 drive via software (the usual way)

there are no firmwares released that will brick your drive by using it with an external programmer.
cuz if you `brick` it with an external progger, you can just remove the chip and prog it again.

there are no fake releases out for the 078fk drive that will brick it.  i could be wrong, but i mean c`mon people use your brains, if using a dodgy fake 078 flash pack will brick, its got to some how write to the drive.

if it could do this, we would have a working software solution.


just wait for gary or for team-xecuter 9to release there chips)




ive just managed to do one of these 078 drives via the external method.

wasnt easy and 4 xbox 360s died along the way, but now that ive sussed out where i was going wrong (combination of dodgy progger and dry joints) i`m fairly confident i can do these no problems now.

but belive me it aint easy, and i`m certainly no novice to solder / re-work.

This post has been edited by thecheekymonkey: Dec 1 2006, 08:08 PM

[josseys]

Got my new xbox 0078fk done now so all good! But havin so many issues backing up games! I get my games from torrents for which i have the original of course. But i have used 6 dvd's not got any to wor?

there all pal im in uk! so that should be ok!

i burn using clonedvd, alcohol, nero and using printable dvd dl +r disks and verbitam dl +r disks.

Am i doin stuff wrong guys??

[thecheekymonkey]

QUOTE(josseys @ Dec 2 2006, 06:40 PM)

Got my new xbox 0078fk done now so all good! But havin so many issues backing up games! I get my games from torrents for which i have the original of course. But i have used 6 dvd's not got any to wor?

there all pal im in uk! so that should be ok!

i burn using clonedvd, alcohol, nero and using printable dvd dl +r disks and verbitam dl +r disks.

Am i doin stuff wrong guys??

have you actually got any backups working at all? if not them maybe your drive isnt done.

whats happening when the backups dont work?  on screen messages etc etc.


bit more detail.

also you obviously have a hitachi drive, what burner are you using?  hitachis work best with pioneer drive (rec 111d)

[josseys]

using pionner 111 bought today

none worked of mine but my mate lent me cod3 and it works ok! thats his backup! on same disks im using.

just does the not readable disk in the xbox main screen where it shows the drive pick

but when i put cod3 in it works fine.

[gugudelaroche]

some people told me the black dvd drive is automatically an hitachi 0078
can someone confirm me this
tanx in advance

[josseys]

QUOTE(gugudelaroche @ Dec 2 2006, 04:51 PM)

some people told me the black dvd drive is automatically an hitachi 0078
can someone confirm me this
tanx in advance

wats the manufacturer date on the back of the eggbox?

not true you need to check inside

[woodchin]

QUOTE

Got my new xbox 0078fk done now so all good! But havin so many issues backing up games! I get my games from torrents for which i have the original of course. But i have used 6 dvd's not got any to wor?

there all pal im in uk! so that should be ok!

i burn using clonedvd, alcohol, nero and using printable dvd dl +r disks and verbitam dl +r disks.

Am i doin stuff wrong guys??

Use CloneCD not CloneDVD burn at 2.4X

[josseys]

trying that as we speak.

so with the old disks when i put them in the drive i hear people on about the open tray error mine dont do that just goes to the xbox 360 online page thing and says cant read media? will see how this goes i guess.

its a pain till you find the best media and prog to use.

thanks for advise though.

[josseys]

Wlel that one didnt work either! FcuK SAKE!!!! nightmare.


so now used 10 disks!

5 verbitam ones 2.4 burn speed.

and mirror disks


used clone cd
clone dvd
nero
alcohol 120%

so i dont get it!

got a new dvd pioneer 111 bk

[woodchin]

Make sure you update the firmware of the Pioneer
Only use Verbatim or Traxdata 8X
Make sure the games you are burning are PAL and not NTSC (read nfo)
Are the images patched with SS files? If not, make sure they are (read nfo)
Burn in cloneCD at 2.4

[cboy82]

QUOTE(josseys @ Dec 2 2006, 05:17 PM)

Wlel that one didnt work either! FcuK SAKE!!!! nightmare.
so now used 10 disks!

5 verbitam ones 2.4 burn speed.

and mirror disks
used clone cd
clone dvd
nero
alcohol 120%

so i dont get it!

got a new dvd pioneer 111 bk

 i had problems with clone cd so i was told to try imgburn and i havent looked back since