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Update: the F-360 TEAM has released KDX v1.1 - just a minor update:

• Complete language support
• Fixed bug with variable keys of Samsung firmwares

Download KDX v1.1

Update: scener, along with the help of juanker and Apolo [the F-360 team], have updated Key Drive Xtractor (KDX) to v1.0!

New in v1.0:

• Compatibility with Toshiba 46DH and 47DH and Samsung MN25 firmwares.
• This software can extract the key of any firmware supported and modify it easily
• Complete graphic environment
• Very user-friendly
• English version and Spanish version

Download KDX v1.0

Scener has released a tool to ease the process of extracting and writing the unqiue DVD key to and from the Hitachi DVD-ROM firmware bin [file]. Essentially this avoids having to hex-edit the file manually when hacking your firmware.

Features include (from the readme.txt):

- Program can patch any keydrive into any Hitachi firmware file
- Program can check if a firmware file is encrypted or not
- Program show the keydrive of a Hitachi firmware file
- Program can extract the keydrive into a key.kdx file
- Program can show the key extracted to a key.kdx file
- Program can create custom key.kdx files

Download:
Key Drive Extractor 0.5

TeamXecuter has made it apparent their Xbox360 DVD to PC adaptor will be shipped soon - no price is set yet; however, it’s supposedly affordable for the end-user. There will also be bundle kits available - both the HDD adaptor and the DVD adaptor. At the same time you can expect to be using the DVD drive firmware reader/writer allowing you to trick the 360 into booting backed up games.

Great news!

Well this doesn’t come as a surprise to me:

In a joint announcement, Microsoft and the manufacturer of the Xbox 360’s CPU, Chartered Semiconductor, have announced that the console’s processor will receive an upgrade in 2007. The upgrade will move the chip’s design to a 65nm manufacturing process (the existing CPU is based on 90nm technology) which will provide lower power consumption and a smaller heat output. It’s expected that the upgrade will not alter the processor’s performance as this could cause compatibility issues with games already released or currently under development for the Xbox 360.

- source: joystiq

Datel has come up with a better memory solution than the memory unit (aka memory card), and would be the 4 Gig hard drive that plugs into the usb port. It’s only 2cm, by 5, by 5.7, and is under four onces. So not very big, and not very heavy, but the price is $149

Datel was in the news earlier with their hard drive for the Sony PSP. Now they offer a hard drive for the popular Xbox 360. The 4Gb hard drive acts like a Flash drive for the Xbox 360, it connects via USB 2.0 to the 360. It does not require any external power source and has a green glowing power Xbox 360 button on the case. However with a litte tweaking you can connect any USB 2.0 external hard drive to the Xbox 360. The Datel XBox 360 4GB is compact and weighs only 4 ounces.

Source: NewLaunches