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[Chan163]

Here is a question that is probably major off topic:

I have the SH-D162C with kreon 0.81 and it runs just fine. The thing is that I have a Wii too (like many others) which I want to chip. I read that I need a LG whatever drive to backup the games. The question is if that would work with the 'kreon'ed drive too, or if not, if kreon would be so nice to implement this feature too (much to ask, I know...). It's not the price of LG drive, it's just that I don't want to put an additional drive in the PC (I already have three... ). And I guess there are many people out there that would be interested in such a solution...

[DuBob4432]

QUOTE(Chan163 @ Jun 28 2007, 07:16 PM)

Here is a question that is probably major off topic:

I have the SH-D162C with kreon 0.81 and it runs just fine. The thing is that I have a Wii too (like many others) which I want to chip. I read that I need a LG whatever drive to backup the games. The question is if that would work with the 'kreon'ed drive too, or if not, if kreon would be so nice to implement this feature too (much to ask, I know...). It's not the price of LG drive, it's just that I don't want to put an additional drive in the PC (I already have three... ). And I guess there are many people out there that would be interested in such a solution...

w/ the availability issues of the sh-d162c drives i am sure if there was an easy way to allow another drive to do this it would have been done long ago.  i don't think it is that they don't want to do it for others, possibly more like other drives don't have certain capabilities internally that the sh-d162c drives have since i believe they are very close to the actual samsung 360 drives.

[Spartiku5]

Just picked one up from www.dabs.com here in the UK

[antyn]

Just got one from dabs.com uk as well. £14.55 including shipping is a bargain  

[mchipser]

i remember there was a site that claimed they will be able to use the LG 8164 series drives to rip 360 games with a update.

here is from thier site

"xbox8164Adapter Firmware Released: Read Originals

Xbox General
The guys behind the Xbox8146 Adapter informed us they now released a modified firmware for the LG GDR-8164 PC drive that will allow the drive to read original Xbox discs.
This 'Xbox8146 Adapter' adds a connector to the LG-8164 PC DVD-drive (requires some easy soldering: see installation diagrams), so you can connect the special Xbox 'yellow' power/eject DVD-cable to the drive. This allows you to use this cheap (~15-25usd) PC drive, that easily reads any cd/dvd media, as a full replacement drive for your Xbox1. While you could boot any Xbox code from CD-R(W) and DVD+-R(W) (on a modded Xbox1 of course) with this drive it couldn't read/load original Xbox discs.
That's why they now released a modified firmware for this LG GDR-8164 drive that will allow you to boot original Xbox discs on your modded Xbox and it'll even be able to read the content of original Xbox 360 discs (it can't be used to extract SS (yet) though):

Last time we introduced our product, the 8164 adapter. Because it has been more and more difficult to find replacement drives for your broken or bad reading drive, we developed a adapter to offer a clean and easy solution for everyone.
The adapter makes a LG-8164 PC drive function in a Xbox(1).

The only disadvantage of this product was: it couldn't read originals. Thanks to MrPresident this problem is now solved with the new xbox8164flasher.rar firmware.
You can even use this firmware to extract Xbox 360 games.
After installation it will play all media CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD+R and originals!
Flashing the drive is very easy, we even included a windows GUI flasher. Installation instructions are in the readme.txt

We continue coding to offer complete Xbox1 drive emulation for non-modded Xbox's and SS extraction for Xbox 360 games."


Not sure if it is true as their website is now down... I did however buy this adapter for one of my xbox1s and it works pretty good..

This post has been edited by mchipser: Jul 12 2007, 12:33 AM