QUOTE(Raiden-snake @ Oct 15 2007, 08:16 PM)

I just buy a european halo 3 bundle that comes with a benq drive, after talking with some guys that flash dvd drives for xbox360, they said that they can send me a hitachi 78 drive already flashed, and i only need to replace the benq drive for the hitachi to play backups. Can someday tell me if this is true? Tanks.
Sorry the englis, im portuguese.
It is possible, however it isnt plug and play. You have to flash your benq key to your hitachi drive and spoof the version strings to report as your benq drive. Without that, you will get E66 and will not boot 360 media.
Caster.
QUOTE(Raiden-snake @ Oct 16 2007, 02:25 AM)

i think i m gone chance the xbox 360 for an older model, this new have the new falcon board and hdmi, but it have the benq drive grrrr.
Why does everyone think having a benq drive is bad. It is better than a new Hitachi and soon you will be able to get a new hacked firmware for it.
The benq will become the new Samsung must have drives.
QUOTE(Raiden-snake @ Oct 15 2007, 09:48 PM)

Because is almost one year since microsoft release benq and still today we dont see a firmware.
Yes, but up until a month or so ago, we didnt have an economical way to read the firmware from the drive. The only way previous to that, was to have a $400 programmer. There is no point in a firmware without a cheap way to read/write the drive.
That being said, the firmware should be out within the next couple of weeks, assuming there are no snags.
Caster.
This post has been edited by caster420: Yesterday, 02:52 AM