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FrostyTheSnowman released a new revision of his 360 Modification USB Drive.

What’s new/fixed in v1.6 Revision 3:
* General code cleanup on all scripts
* Powerpoint-style GUI added
* Disclaimer screen ad

Nothing major, just cosmetic and code cleanup. It won’t do anything better or worse than the previous version.

Some features of the new Cygnos360 V2.0
- downgrade Xbox360 (production before August 2007 and non-HDMI)
- switch between the kernel on your Xbox360 and the kernel on Cygnos360 V2 (for example; for region-code switching or switching to homebrew/exploitable kernel)
- no lifting of CE-pin, or cutting of traces necessary
- protect your data by storing offline information on the Cygnos360 V2 NAND-flash and avoid banning (dirty-NAND concept)
- directly downgrade on the Cygnos360 V2 NAND-flash
- easy quicksolder installation of Cygnos360 V2
- Cygnos360 V2 firmware can be up- and downgraded to any version in the field
- built from high quality components
- downgrading takes 1h15m on average on a middle-class PC - reading from and writing to flash takes less than a minute each
- easy to use
- a reliable solution for downgrading (Xenon mainboards)
- run Linux (Xenon mainboards)
- read and flash your Xbox360 and Cygnos360 V2 NAND-flash in less than one minute
- Infectus is no longer needed for any of the functions

Note:  If you have recently AutoFixed “UFC 2009 Undisputed”, “Red Faction: Guerilla” or “Up” using abgx360, it may have patched a corrupt DMI to your ISO.  This can be a ban causing mistake!

How can you tell if your ISO or Burned DVD has the bad DMI? Simply check the game with abgx360 on medium or high verbosity and look for “DMI CRC = XXXXXXXX”.

For “UFC 2009 Undisputed” the corrupt DMI CRC = 46C162C8
For “Red Faction: Guerilla” the corrupt DMI CRC = 580B3E16
For “Up” the corrupt DMI CRC = F9F50C0F

How do you fix it if you have the corrupt DMI? If you already burned the game and deleted the ISO you will have to copy the disc back to your HDD (ImgBurn is recommended for Windows users). Also make sure that you have online functions enabled in abgx360 for the next steps.  If you have played the games with the corrupted DMIs, you can be banned at the next wave.

For “UFC 2009 Undisputed” simply check the ISO with AutoFix threshold set to level 3 and it will automatically download the updated ini and patch a good DMI for you.

For “Red Faction: Guerilla” you will need to delete 1A5575DDA1D2466C.ini (if it exists) from your StealthFiles folder and then check the ISO with AutoFix set to level 3.

For “Up” you will need to delete E4F12417A1CB7F98.ini and Xex_A1CB7F98.ini (if they exist) from your StealthFiles folder, however there is currently no other verified rip of this game in the database so you will have to wait on that.

Where is your StealthFiles folder?

On Windows this is usually C:\Program Files\abgx360\StealthFiles\
On other systems this is usually ~/.abgx360/StealthFiles/

They apologize for this (they can’t be held liable for ANY bad ISO that you made, or downloaded), but this is a new type of corruption which seems to be associated with ripping via a certain USB->SATA adapter (they are not 100% sure of the cause yet) and DMI is now scanned for this corruption before being accepted into the database (so it won’t happen again).

Download Binaries: here (5.21 MB)
Download Sources: here

Neo Victor (douche-bag) of Team M-TEC has released Fusion firmware for the Xbox 360 drives Hitachi, Samsung and Benq. I don’t know much about the firmware and haven’t tested it myself, maybe it will brick your drive or make it explode?   You can find the discussion at eurasia.nu in the Xbox 360 tech forum. It is a mix of different firmwares according to the author with google translated features as follows…

Features of v1.1:

* Boot to the new layer of video
* Wave 3 with the upgrade of icrosoft’s NXE
* Make reading with speed of 2 to 12x
* It supports WAVE X
* Support for V2 SS
* 0800 Games for dumping including SS v2!
* supports games in stealth / partition on ”

This is a confirmed fake!  There was only the firmware “name” string that was changed, when compared to iXtreme v1.51 as seen here.

Someone trying to make themselves look cool *!FAIL!*

There are some posts out there in just a few forums, that there is a new firmware revision for the LiteOn drive; B3850c, with a MFR date of 2009-03-06.  Hardware revision A0A2.

It is said that when trying to extract the keys, they come up all zeros, or gets nothing with the spear. This has come up in a few German forum, and Eurasia. Not much else can be found on it right now. The Xbox-Scene forum says they are flashable, and patchable.  It seems like a big hype for nothing.

http://board.gulli.com/thread/1385872-liteon-v2—dg-16d2s-fw83850c/3/

That link is a forum that shows a BIG picture of the drive, it is a German site. Nothing has been confirmed anywhere else, or any place that is reliable. The people at the German site above are doing more arguing than anything else.

Microsoft - the manufacturer of the RRoD-prone Xbox 360 - has confirmed to Joystiq that it’s discontinued its policy of providing a prepaid box with shipping label, more commonly referred to as the “coffin,” for all Xbox 360 repairs. As of May 26 the policy was discontinued “in an effort to expedite the repair process.” Customers will have the option of receiving an e-label to slap on the box they ship their bricked consoles in, but the days of the “coffin” are now over. A Microsoft spokesperson tell us, “Customers can now ship their consoles themselves using an e-label provided by Microsoft and do not need to wait for an empty box to be shipped to them.”

I recently found this out (about two weeks ago), when a friend of the family called them (after I told him about the E74 warranty), to send his E74 console back.

FrostyTheSnowman released a new revision of his 360 Modification USB Drive(info).

What’s new/fixed in v1.6:
* Removed manual firmware dump check screen (due to keyboard incompatibility)
* Added firmware dump validation scripting (to replace manual checks)
* Added ‘Advanced Options’ menu
* Added direct custom firmware flashing menu for Samsung/BenQ/Lite-On drives
* Corrected USB Boot Drive Letter detection
* USB Drive can now be created with either FreeDOS or MS-DOS (compatibility fix for older PCs)

xbins.org

Release for iX 1.6 0800 for Samsung, Benq, and Lite-On…

* Hitachi Support Updated:
-Windows drive enum changed
-Successful Classic dump will detect and set correct drive type for pre 78 drives. Inquiry of spoofed drives would select incorrect version.

* DVDKey32 Support Updated
-better support for Maximus USB Xtractor - using FTDI api FTD2XX.dll

* General items Updated
-Improved launch times

Official Site: http://jungleflasher.net

A 0800 (ripping version) of the 1.6 series has been released to the BenQ, LiteOn and Toshiba Samsung drives. As usual Hitachi will be last to follow (if at all supported for 0800 mode)
Features:
-Common API designed for easier application use!
-Support for SS V2!
-Direct 0800 mode for game dumping including SS v2!

This firmware is =NOT FOR USE IN A CONSOLE= and is provided
with the intended use of being in a dedicated “ripping” drive.

This means:
a. Does not need your DVD key,
b. Does not need spoofing as another drive,
c. Does not need to use the tray half open and
d. Does not need to use the activate.iso to use this firmware on the pc.

More Info

SS v2 supports multiple timing samples for challenges type 5 and 7, storing them in the SS. This is a pre-requisite for SS v3 which has support for the so called AP2.5 check. Since this has never been used or may never be used by MS we will adopt a wait and see approach and continue to monitor for its usage.

ix16 0800 Commands
—————–
AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 00 C0 - SS/CPRMAI
AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 ID C0 - SS Challenge ID
12 00 00 00 30 C0 00 00 00 49 58 01 - ix Cmd 1 - Dumps key and rev 0×30 bytes
12 00 00 00 24 C0 00 xx xx 49 58 02 - ix Cmd 2 - Output 0×800 bytes from ram address
12 00 00 00 24 C0 00 00 00 49 58 03 - ix Cmd 3 - Toggles Lock/UnLock Game partition

Official Site: (n/a by Team HyperX)
Download: n/a (llegal under EULA/DMCA)

A new version of HDDHackr has been released, a tool that allows you to use some Western Digital laptop HDDs as the primary Xbox 360 HDD.

What’s new/fixed:
* Completely new version core
* Two flashing modes, Auto and Manual
* Western Digital Vendor Intro Power Brute for misflashed drives
* Minimized incompatibility problems
* Improved exception handling
* Confirmed HddHacker supports
- WD Scorpio Series BEVS/BEAS
- WD Scorpio Blue Series BEVS/BEVT
- WD Scorpio Black Series BEKT/BJKT
- WD VelociRaptor Series

Official Site: n/a, by Modfreakz, Schtrom and TheSpecialist (TS)
Download: here (does NOT include hddss.bin as it’s M$ Code)