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[SniperKilla]

QUOTE(Textbook @ Apr 28 2006, 02:05 PM)

I told Isobuster to Replace With Dummy Data and checked the box that said Always Apply Selection and then clicked Selection.  It started ripping and it was done within 10 minutes.  This is also unnerving, as the others said it took about an hour to rip Halo 2, but mine was done in 10 minutes.  Well, I now have a 7.85gb Halo2.tao file on my hard drive, as well as a 1kb Halo2.cue file.  This is the most I have done so far.  With so many differences between me and others, I'm pretty sure I did something wrong.  I am writing all this to supply as much information as I can about what I did, so the people who have tried this can tell me where I went wrong.  I think finding the firmware and flashing it is easy enough.  The hard part is making an ISO.  I can't even get a raw dump.  I still don't know how to go about getting the SS and hexediting or injecting that, but I think I should get a proper Raw dump first.  I think it's best to take this one step at a time.  I have a double-layer burner, 10 blank dl's, and I already flashed the drive with the hacked firmware.  I want to try this, but I will need some help making the ISO.  If somebody can help me get this, I'll write a clear tutorial on how to do everything step-by-step.  Just need some help making the ISO.

do this..

stick sin city in, once windows reads it, open WXRipper, hit stop drive, then eject the drive via the emergency hole or take it apart and swap it... swap the disc and push the tray back in with a decent amount of force so that it will click back over.., then hit start drive in wxripper..

then close wx, and open iso buster, change the retrys to 1, and then right click and make a .tao..

[SniperKilla]

QUOTE(ipodder2003 @ Apr 28 2006, 04:51 PM)

If I'm allowed to ask this, how exactly does the security sector "ripper" firmware work?

you flash it to the drive, put the xbox game in (no hotswapping needed)

open dvdinfo pro, make sure your drive is selected in the bottom left dropdown, then on the lower right dropdown pick send custom command, change the size to 12, and enter in the following.. starting from 0 and ending at 11

AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 00 C0

then click send

it will come up with some hex values, click the right most icon on the top bar, should say save to binary file.. and save it...

theres your SS

[Textbook]

@Sniperkilla,

Thanks for trying to help me.  I tried following your instructions, but that isn't working at all.  I'm not sure if my drive is hotswappable or not.  Each time I use the pinhole, the light comes on my drive, like a normal eject.  It is detecting the emergency eject, I don't think it's suppossed to.  I'm saying this because when I push on the tray, it senses me pushing it and loads the tray back in like normal.  I don't think my drive will work with the pinhole or with wxRipper's assembly-only instructions.  The drive starts spinning up automatically after the swap.  I've tried doing the hotswap many ways, and have come up with two different results.  When I tried my way, it detected bad sectors immediately, and made a .tao 7.85gb - the size of my original dvd.  When I tried your way, it only detected the short video and made a 14mb .tao file that only took 5 seconds to create.  I tried using my friends laptop with the pinhole and it did the same thing.  Is there any other way to make a RAW dump?  Perhaps by hooking up an Xbox DVD drive, use TS's DVD drive unlocker, and then using Isobuster?  I think it's impossible to use my PC DVD burner to make a RAW dump - I'm not sure why others can get it to work.

[SniperKilla]

QUOTE(Textbook @ Apr 28 2006, 05:26 PM)

@Sniperkilla,

Thanks for trying to help me.  I tried following your instructions, but that isn't working at all.  I'm not sure if my drive is hotswappable or not.  Each time I use the pinhole, the light comes on my drive, like a normal eject.  It is detecting the emergency eject, I don't think it's suppossed to.  I'm saying this because when I push on the tray, it senses me pushing it and loads the tray back in like normal.  I don't think my drive will work with the pinhole or with wxRipper's assembly-only instructions.  The drive starts spinning up automatically after the swap.  I've tried doing the hotswap many ways, and have come up with two different results.  When I tried my way, it detected bad sectors immediately, and made a .tao 7.85gb - the size of my original dvd.  When I tried your way, it only detected the short video and made a 14mb .tao file that only took 5 seconds to create.  I tried using my friends laptop with the pinhole and it did the same thing.  Is there any other way to make a RAW dump?  Perhaps by hooking up an Xbox DVD drive, use TS's DVD drive unlocker, and then using Isobuster?  I think it's impossible to use my PC DVD burner to make a RAW dump - I'm not sure why others can get it to work.

try this, bluecop got it to work by dumping the video partition, then unlocking it and dumping the game partition, and then combining with a dummy inbetween..

http://www.xboxhacke...msg7290#msg7290

[Flexmaster Frag]

carranzfp has now made it easier to patch the image with the SS:

http://www.xboxhacke...=33&topic=708.0

[Textbook]

QUOTE(SniperKilla @ Apr 28 2006, 05:39 PM)

try this, bluecop got it to work by dumping the video partition, then unlocking it and dumping the game partition, and then combining with a dummy inbetween..

http://www.xboxhacke...msg7290#msg7290

Thanks, I'll try that and let you know if it works out.  I appreciate the help.

[Textbook]

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Read capacity io succesful. Returned data ->
00 34 5B 5F 00 00 08 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode sense io succesful. Returned data ->
00 1A 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 3E 12 01 01 01 D1 01 55
99 A5 72 DF 7F 28 B4 74 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Read DVD structure IO succesful. Returned data (only first few bytes) ->
06 64 00 00 D1 0F 31 10 - 00 06 06 00 00 F9 F9 FF
00 20 33 AF 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Number of entries in challenge responste table = 23
Mode select IO succesful
Mode sense io succesful. Returned data ->
00 1A 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 3E 12 01 01 01 D1 01 C0
99 A5 72 DF 65 2D B6 F0 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode select IO succesful
Mode sense io succesful. Returned data ->
00 1A 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 3E 12 01 01 01 D1 01 55
99 A5 72 DF 7F 28 B4 74 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mode select IO succesful
Mode sense io succesful. Returned data ->
00 1A 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 3E 12 01 01 01 D1 01 55
99 A5 72 DF 7F 28 B4 74 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Read capacity io succesful. Returned data ->
00 34 5B 5F 00 00 08 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Reported capacity bigger than standard xbox video partition. Unlocking seems to be succesful !

So then I load up isobuster and it complains about no file system.  I hit cancel.  Isobuster shows that the disc has 6.85GB of data, which is the correct size according to other users.  Everything so far so good.  Start the rip, and I get the bad sector error at 2%.  Choose to replace with dummy data for all selections.  Ripping continues, but very slowly.  After 3 hours, the progress has halted at 32%.  The drive's laser can be heard just going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.  Halted at 32% and the current game.tao file is 2,269,511,680 bytes.  I just can't win.  Hotswap with eject hole is not working and using the unlock method isn't either.  Any ideas why?

[ipodder2003]

QUOTE(SniperKilla @ Apr 28 2006, 04:09 PM)

you flash it to the drive, put the xbox game in (no hotswapping needed)

open dvdinfo pro, make sure your drive is selected in the bottom left dropdown, then on the lower right dropdown pick send custom command, change the size to 12, and enter in the following.. starting from 0 and ending at 11

AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 00 C0

then click send

it will come up with some hex values, click the right most icon on the top bar, should say save to binary file.. and save it...

theres your SS

Greatly appreciated, thanks as always SniperKilla.

On a side note, has anybody found any cheap DL dvds?

[Cookiesrus]

QUOTE(darren_JJ @ Apr 28 2006, 04:24 AM)

Not yet ... Just wait ... It will only take a couple of weeks. We'll talk again soon ...
I don't see how this is development ? This is destroying.
Well, first of all I do hope they will send out a strong signal to the community by arresting this idiot. Secondly, I hope they'll start detecting and banning all cheaters from LIVE. But I seriously don't know how swift MS can respond and how difficult it will be to detect/ban all pirates/cheaters ....

Just to clarify things about editing game files.

Most hacks require an edited xbe file, for these cases applying hacks is impossible as it breaks the signature of the file and renders it unbootable.  Unfortunatley Halo2's hacks work differently, you modify the map files, although they are encypted, just not to the same extent as an xbe.

Out of interest, i decided to set about making a modifed game disc simply to test if it worked and what consequences would come from using the hacked disc on xbox live.
Obviously i am not going to go into detail about what hacks were performed or how to apply them, its not that im anti hacker or anything i just dont think cheating should be on live.

So, what do we know.   Bungie has a checksum in place that can detect modified maps, if you load a modified map of any sort, could be a nemisis package or simply cheats applied to a map, you will get banned.  This is FACT.

I decided i would remove my HDD maps (had a modified Lockout on there) and download fresh versions from xbox live, I even went as far as deleting the updates and re downloading them just to be on the safe side.

I loaded up my modified disc and went online for around 30-40 mins about 10-20 of wich were in Team Training the rest was custom games that i created.  When i signed out and tried to sign back in, I was notified that one or more players on this xbox had been permenantly suspended from matchmaking.

So for those of you that care, Bungie at least have thier bases covered.  Xbox live wont die as the whole proccess of ripping a disc patching the SS, THEN modifying the game content and burning it back to a DL will be FAR to complex for 95% of the cheaters on live.

And for those of you that will flame me for even trying this, I dont play Halo 2 and for the record i dont really play much xblive at the minute, I did this out of curiosity only.  
And to the cheaters, dont ask how this was done, i WILL NOT give ANY information.

[ipodder2003]

QUOTE(Cookiesrus @ Apr 29 2006, 10:49 AM)

Just to clarify things about editing game files.

Most hacks require an edited xbe file, for these cases applying hacks is impossible as it breaks the signature of the file and renders it unbootable.  Unfortunatley Halo2's hacks work differently, you modify the map files, although they are encypted, just not to the same extent as an xbe.

Out of interest, i decided to set about making a modifed game disc simply to test if it worked and what consequences would come from using the hacked disc on xbox live.
Obviously i am not going to go into detail about what hacks were performed or how to apply them, its not that im anti hacker or anything i just dont think cheating should be on live.

So, what do we know.   Bungie has a checksum in place that can detect modified maps, if you load a modified map of any sort, could be a nemisis package or simply cheats applied to a map, you will get banned.  This is FACT.

I decided i would remove my HDD maps (had a modified Lockout on there) and download fresh versions from xbox live, I even went as far as deleting the updates and re downloading them just to be on the safe side.

I loaded up my modified disc and went online for around 30-40 mins about 10-20 of wich were in Team Training the rest was custom games that i created.  When i signed out and tried to sign back in, I was notified that one or more players on this xbox had been permenantly suspended from matchmaking.

So for those of you that care, Bungie at least have thier bases covered.  Xbox live wont die as the whole proccess of ripping a disc patching the SS, THEN modifying the game content and burning it back to a DL will be FAR to complex for 95% of the cheaters on live.

And for those of you that will flame me for even trying this, I dont play Halo 2 and for the record i dont really play much xblive at the minute, I did this out of curiosity only.  
And to the cheaters, dont ask how this was done, i WILL NOT give ANY information.

[Cookiesrus]

QUOTE(ipodder2003 @ Apr 29 2006, 06:44 PM)

Honestly, excellent testing. Good to know... and I'm glad that XBL won't be even more infested with cheaters.

Thanks!

[Mega_mil]

Yeah I keep hearing that they are sitting on a patch. It would make sense since the same info on xboxhacker was available to everyone so M$ probably stuck one of their crew to re-create the patch and then figure out a way to stop it.  It's going to be easy with the 360 but I don't think the first xbox has a chance in hell since it's not really live-based like the 360's fashboard is.  So if M$ did release a patch, you would not be able to download any demos or the other stuff.....I guess I'll go pick up a used core system to test this on once the 360 version comes out.

[Flexmaster Frag]

QUOTE(Mega_mil @ Apr 30 2006, 04:57 PM)

Yeah I keep hearing that they are sitting on a patch. It would make sense since the same info on xboxhacker was available to everyone so M$ probably stuck one of their crew to re-create the patch and then figure out a way to stop it.  It's going to be easy with the 360 but I don't think the first xbox has a chance in hell since it's not really live-based like the 360's fashboard is.  So if M$ did release a patch, you would not be able to download any demos or the other stuff.....I guess I'll go pick up a used core system to test this on once the 360 version comes out.

If you want to save a little money, you can piece together a new barebones 360 for around $140-160 if you already have the PSU.

[Mega_mil]

QUOTE(Flexmaster Frag @ May 1 2006, 02:25 AM)

If you want to save a little money, you can piece together a new barebones 360 for around $140-160 if you already have the PSU.

  Really......I already have a PSU from my first 360 but do you know where I can get the rest of the parts from....

[Cookiesrus]

QUOTE(fr0zt @ May 1 2006, 03:40 AM)

Hey, when I flashed my Samsung SDG-605 (Not SDG-605B) I first unlocked my drive with the unlocker. I then tried to flash it with MtkWinFlash and recieved the following error:

Press Browse Load A Bin/Hex And Flash.
ERR: fail to identify flash type!
Please wait a moment...
Complete! Please restart your computer

I'm just wondering if this flasher supports the SDG-605 and if this worked... Buying a DL DVD will be $10, so I don't want to buy one if I know it's not going to work. Thanks

Not 100% sure, but i think only the SDG-605B/616T/616F revisions of the drive can use this firmware, that would explain the failure to identify the flash type.

If you are paying $10 per disc it would not be worth your while trying this, I payed around $3 per disc and have a few coasters from trying to figure out where the SS data was supposed to be patched, not to mention that out of 4 samsung drives i had available only 2 of them would actually read from the second (game) layer, hence I thought SS was patched wrong and tried the sectors above and below.

Funny thing is, the samsung from my media box plays pretty much anything you throw at it, except DVD dl's, my old box that didnt believe it had a dvdrom however plays them flawlessly.