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Team Xecuter has announced their newest product for the Xbox360 — Blaster360!

Quoted from their website:

We have designed this to be as ergonomically sound as the Xbox 360 itself. Its functionally perfect and works so good that we believe all firmware modders will be using this as standard by the end of the year, it just makes life SO MUCH EASIER !

Imagine using this along with the X360 USB - Firmware modding has never been so simple !

Blaster360 features:

• Once installed never open up the case again to update firmware
• Works with ALL drives
• No soldering, no cutting, no problem !
• 5 minute install
• Xbox Mode & PC Mode Switch
• Modeb Enabled for Hitachi
• Molex Power connector (no lugging around the 360 PSU)
• Superior quality design
• Ergonomically matched to the 360 case
• LED Glow feature
• LED Glow Off / Led Perm On / LED Off switch

- source: Xecuter

Incase any of you are wondering about the Call of Duty 2 tournament taking place on Xbox Live, I have received an email from MaHan05 of our Xbox360 Hacks forums with some detailed prize info regarding the tournament.

Congratulations once again!!

Congratulations on making it into Round 3 in the Xbox 360 – Be the first to play Call of Duty 3 Tournament. You have all shown that you have what it takes to defeat your opponents, but now it’s down to the wire. The winners from Round 3 will be deemed the top 24 finalists and will be eligible to win the Grand Prize!

Grand Prize (24): Twenty-four Grand Prize winners will be selected to have the opportunity to preview the video game “Call of Duty 3″ for Xbox 360® at Activision headquarters in Santa Monica, California before the game’s official release date to retail stores. Each grand prize winner will receive a grand prize package consisting of the following: (1) Round-trip coach air transportation for one (1) person from the major airport nearest the winners residence to Santa Monica, CA; one (1) night hotel accommodation at Doubletree Hotel in Santa Monica or similar hotel (as selected by the Sponsor); Airport transfer to and from the hotel in Santa Monica; Breakfast, lunch, dinner while in Santa Monica; One (1) SWAG keepsake bag including: (one 1) iPod, one (1) iPod skin, one (1) hat, one (1) t-shirt, and other Call of Duty merchandise TBD by Sponsor.) The total approximate retail value of each grand prize package is $1,555. Total value of promotion is $37,320.00″

Congratulations to MaHan05 for a victorious win last night — good luck in California previewing Call of Duty 3!

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Kreon has released an alternative firmware version for Samsung SH-D162C PC DVD-ROM drives; allowing you to easily create backups of your original Xbox and Xbox360 discs. v0.80 includes a lovely little list of features:

• Full challenge/response functionality.
• Two types of unlock for XBOX 360 game discs. One for making xtreme style images and one for making wxripper style images.
  Both types of iso can be made using isobuster. Ripping using wxripper isn’t supported for the time being
• A ‘lock’ function that will cancel any enabled unlock state. This can be very useful for custom applications.
• ‘Error skipping’ which basically speeds up the error handling of the drive. A complete wxripper style image (including video) can be obtained in 15-16 minutes, when error skipping is enabled. Getting through the critical area of LBA 19408-20479 will take you more than 20 minutes alone, if error skipping is disabled
• A much more streamlined command interface which is good news if you intend to write an application that makes use of the drives extra features.
• The drive will default to unlock state 2 and error skip enabled when a 360 media is inserted. You can in other words use isobuster to obtain a wxripper style image without issuing any commands to the drive
• RPC1 support (RPC-2 actually but with automatic change of drive region and RCE support)

Here it is…. the first all in one PC DVD-ROM drive with full XBOX360 backup capabilities. Full image and SS extraction functions have been implemented in this release, while still maintaining all the basic functions of the DVD-ROM drive.

Why not V1.00? Well… I’m still working on hardware correct timing of response types 5 & 7, which ultimately is the right way to do this.

Studying a large amount of security sectors has shown however, that all (to my knowledge!) current games uses the same timing scheme, which makes faked timing possible. This release makes use of faked timing, and will use fixed values for all timed values. A ‘jitter’function has been added that will make the fixed values vary sligthly, effectively making any attempt by M$ to detect a specific timer pattern for copied games impossible.

Additional [technical] details can be found in “Read Me.nfo.”

Download: Alternative FW for Samsung SH-D162C

Thanks for the email Liliputt.

- source: Kreon