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[italiano86]

Hi guys, I decided to join this forum since this place appears to be the most knowledgeable forum I could find. I'll tell you exactly what I did and tell you the problem I am having.

For starters, I have a 360 premium with an ms28 drive. I downloaded iPrep and made a bootable usb stick using the ixtreme1.2b(slow read) firmware (also selected the via scsi controller, since it showed up, now alot of times it doesn't). I dumped the orig.bin perfectly as well as the drive key. Here's where stuff started to go downhill.

After dumping the original firmware, samtool would not automatically start for me and no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to do it's thing with the hacked firmware and the original firmware. I ended up using these commands to create the 3rd hacked firmware:

Note: the usb stick is C since it's the only drive plugged in

samtool C:\backups\xxxxxx\yyyyy\orig.bin ixtreme.bin (then hit enter)
did this and it told me I am ready for flashing.

copy ixtreme.bin C:\backups\xxxxxxx\yyyyy (then hit enter)

cd /backups/xxxxxxx/yyyyy/

copy ixtreme.bin hacked.bin (then hit enter)

cd..

cd..

cd..

iflash xxxxxx yyyyy

I do all this and do the console power trick to get it to flash and it worked perfectly, tells me to reboot the pc.

Now I backed up dead rising perfectly, and used dvdmulleter to ensure the ixtreme copy was perfect, and it says it is. But when I put the disc in the drive it says insert dvd, game, etc...

I burned the image with my plextor 716a with the latest firmware, and made sure the correct layer break was entered.

I used dvdinfopro to make sure the verbatim dvd+r dl was being burned as dvd-rom, but it's weird because under the +rw tab, dvd+r dl is grayed out, even though under plextools and imgburn the book type setting for my burner is set to dvd-rom.

Anyway, I have reached two possible conclusions. My plextor has some wierd auto book type setting which the program can't overwrite, and the burn gets messed up. Or, When I flashed the drive the way I did, that it possibly used the orig.bin file instead of the hacked.bin file, even though the procedure I did makes sense.

Another thing that is really screwing up is my new via vt6421 card, most of the time it doesn't show up in the hardware manager or iPrep as well as when flashing the drive. It was hit or miss trying to flash it when it's detected it works fine, but getting it to show up has been hit or miss.

Do you guys have any suggestions for me as to what I can try? dvdmulleter says my backup is perfect with ixtreme firmware. I don't have another backup since dead rising is the only game I own, and cant' exactly test it in another flashed 360. This is soo frustrating, and has to be the most complicated thing I have ever done before, lol.

Hope the read isn't too bad and I was clear enough, thanks.

PS: if there is another alternative to using samtools or iflash to ensure the right firmware gets flashed, please let me know.

[italiano86]

The original still works tho, and I made sure the layer break was correct, even in the mds file. Is it possible when I flashed the drive that it used the orig.bin instead of the hacked.bin? I seriously don't know what to try right now, wanted to get this working but it's a mess. Thanks for the quick reply.

[sosotiit]

How have you made the backup?
Drive/FW/Software?

thks, soso

[italiano86]

Just tried to flash it again in my bros computer using the via raid card. My pci slot must not be seating the card properly which is probably causing it to not show up sometimes. I originally made the orig.bin from the iprep boot disk, by typing idump then the serial, then I manually created the hacked.bin by typing the commands using samtool.

Is there another way for me to create another hacked.bin while on the desktop and not in dos?

The info was in my first post, I don't blame you for not reading it all, it's long lol. My drive is an ms28, using ixtreme1.2rev c (quiet version), and again, I used iprep, then samtool to create the hacked.bin, then i flash with serial to finally flash it.

Again, if anyone knows of a way for me to take my orig.bin and make another hacked.bin on the desktop I would be grateful.

If the hack is ok, I still have another problem with the game backup. When I insert the backup, I hear the drive spin up about 8 or 9 times then stop altogether, saying insert dvd or game. The original still plays.... Oh yea, the hacked.bin and orig.bin are the same size, 256kb, is that right?

Is it possible the backup is just bad, even though the image came out perfectly with dvdmulleter?

[sosotiit]

QUOTE(sosotiit @ Oct 26 2007, 09:22 PM)

How have you made the backup?
Drive/FW/Software?

thks, soso

-soso

[italiano86]

I couldn't make the image, my friends over at xbox360iso were nice enough to make me an image since I don't have the drive to rip my own, I have already spent enough on the equipment itself to flash and actually hook the 360 up to, lol.

The image is completely stealth patched, ntsc for my console and checks out perfectly with dvdmulleter with their database and archive.

I seriously want to get this first backup to work, because I'm not going to buy another game until I know I can safely store my original disc and play a backup, just call me paranoid.  

PS: Sorry Soso, missed your last post.

[sosotiit]

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