September 9, 2006Alternative FW for Samsung SH-D162C
Posted by greg
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
Can also confirm that I used this and Schtrom360XtractV2.1 to back up my
Hitman Blood money game with no issues. Schtrom360XtractV2.1 does give an
error about SS.bin not being extracted (confirmed by Kreon this is just
cause 2.1 does not recognise 0.8 version) but if you ignore this and
continue with the backup and then use CloneCD it works with no problems at
all.
I tried this last night (after taking about a week to find a damn DVD drive to upgrade). It works great. Much easier than using the 360 drive (stops me havinf to dismantle the 360 anyway).
how do i play backed up xbox 360 games. where do i have to go, what do i need.
Quick one, just got an xbox360.
if you i flash my drive, will i be able to use xbox live? I’ve not registered it yet.
Thanks
hi just made a copy of ‘burn out’ using the OPA-XTREME-HITACHI-7IN1-V2_1 tutorial put the game in the 360 and it’s reading it as a audio cd what have i done wrong??? I got the ss.bin files and iso image using the Samsung SH-D162C drive - V0.80 as i have a hitachi drive in my 360.