http://www.360mods.net/ 360Mods en-us Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:05:18 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly 360Mods News http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.360mods.net/images/logo.png http://www.360mods.net/ http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=118.html I have added the tutorial for using 79 Unlock to flash Hitachi ROM v0079FK and v0079FL drives to the downloads section of the site. You can download it here: http://www.360mods.net/Downloads/details/id=88.html or a direct link here: http://www.360mods.net/tutorial/Podger.pdf This will be included when the Textbook tutorial is updated, but because of the influx of people flashing 79 drives, I wanted to get this out as soon as possible. This will give me some more time to make other improvements to the Textbook tutorial. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:05:18 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=117.html podger over at xbox-scene and xboxhacker has just made it quite a bit easier on anybody looking to modify their Hitachi 79 drive. He has developed a method and application for flashing a Hitachi 79 without soldering and without opening up the drive at all. You can read the thread here. Please note that this thread is in the technical forums over there, so please do not post in that thread asking stupid questions. You can download 79 Unlock in our downloads section : http://www.360mods.net/Downloads/details/id=87.html Quote: Tutorial: 1. Unrar the file 2. Burn the Image.cue file with a compatible burning software, I used ImgBurn.... 3. Put 79 in Mode B 3. Insert the CD in the 79 and play the track, wait for it to finish... 4. Then press play again and straight away pause it, you should hear some noise 5. Eject the disk, using the eject button not the PC ( it does something different) 6. Run the the command in a command window 79Unlock h // where h is the drive letter of the 79 // this will error regardless, ignore the error 7. If all went well bit 4 of (0x5BD) should be set and the drive should be unlocked 8. Drive will dump and flash with Toolbox... 9. This is a tempory unlock, (0x5BD) is in RAM and would need to be done each time you power the drive, although I've posted how to by pass this with the drive unlocked with a passkey..... 10. Has not been extensively tested but worked on 6 drives to day so far... Note: If using the Xbox 360 to power the drive, remember to have the video cable plugged in or the system will power off after about 5 minutes. This must be a component or composite video cable. HDMI has no hardware detection, and because of this, the system will power off even with an HDMI cable plugged in. For anybody who has been unlucky and landed themselves a LiteOn drive, here is a little tease from c4eva himself. Quote: c4eva: i have found some things that are not yet known about the lite-on, it will be done! Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:05:48 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=116.html Before attempting to update the site to the latest version, I made a database backup on July 12th. There were too many problems with the upgrade and lingering issues that I decided to restore the database using this backup. The good news is that the site should be working 100% (hopefully). The bad news is any new forum posts or private messages (more recent than the 12th) are gone. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:59:26 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=115.html A LiteOn DG-16D2S DVD drive has been found in an Xbox 360 after being repaired by a Microsoft service center in Australia. The drive tray looks just like a BenQ/Phillips drive, so there is currently no external method for identifying systems that have this drive. Currently there is no method for dumping the drive firmware. These drives will most likely begin to appear in newer 360's in the following months. Source: Xbox-Scene Forums (forum member shauno) Photos: http://s286.photobucket.com/albums/ll88/sl4y3r666/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:56:16 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=114.html There was a minor Xbox Live system update released yesterday that adds support for the "Scene it?" trivia game joystick controllers. This is not the fall dashboard update, and no other features are part of this update. This update has been analyzed by firmware people and linux/homebrew people and seems to be safe on both fronts. Many people have accepted the update already and stealth backups are still working fine. People with the iXtreme firmware still have not been banned from Xbox Live. Another speculation was that Microsoft may try to fix or prevent the timing attack, used to downgrade the system kernel. tmb_inc has informed me that he believes the timing attack should still work with this latest kernel. I have already accepted the update, along with others, and I haven't heard any problems. I will be testing the timing attack soon, once I get some parts to build it. People with BenQ drives should know that c4eva is hard at work on the firmware front, so wish him luck. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:08:24 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=113.html Robinsod, in cooperation with Team Infectus and others from the Xboxhacker forums have a "proof of concept" in regards to downgrading an Xbox 360 kernel. Some modding enthusiasts will remember that on January 9th, 2007 an unexpected Xbox Live Dashboard update was released. Xbox Live director, Major Nelson had this to say about the update: Quote: Earlier today the team pushed out a dashboard update over Xbox Live. There is nothing major in this one, it just addresses a few performance and stability issues. In truth, it turned out that this update, which is Kernel and Dashboard version 4552, fixed what we call the "hypervisor exploit." This exploit allowed modders to create a modified King Kong game disc, and booting this would let the modder run the machine in hypervisor mode, allowing unsigned code. In layman's terms that means that with the Xbox 360 kernel version 4532 (Fall 2006) and kernel version 4548, the system was capable of running Linux or other unsigned code. An additional bonus was that the 4552 update prevented downgrading the Xbox 360 kernel. Before this update, it was possible to change kernel versions freely. Since this time, a lot of research and work has been into finding a way to downgrade an Xbox 360 kernel. The next step they found was that if you have your console-specific, individual CPU key, you could downgrade the kernel. Meaning, that if somebody had taken the time to run Linux when they had kernel version 4532, and use Linux to get their CPU key, they could upgrade to version 4552 or newer, and still be able to downgrade at a later time. This was a huge breakthrough, because it was like a shimmer of hope. Before this, it was thought that if you didn't take precautions before the 4552 update, there was never a chance of downgrading. Now, if a person could somehow find their CPU key, they could downgrade their Xbox 360. The problem shifted from finding a way to downgrade, to finding the CPU key. Fast forward to about a month ago. A theory was posted by Xboxhacker member arnezami. Instead of trying to find the CPU key, why not find the hash instead? The theory was that, in order for a hash to work, it has to check the kernel against a stored hash, and it does this on a byte-by-byte basis. They needed to find two hashes, one for the CB section and one for the CF section, both hashes are 16 bytes long. Essentially, one would go through every possible value for a single byte, recording the time it takes for the Xbox 360 to fail. When the first byte fails, the Xbox 360 fails right then. When the first byte is correct, the Xbox 360 then proceeds to check the second byte. This small difference in time must be large enough to be able to clearly identify. Using an Infectus modchip, Robinsod went through every possible value for the first byte, recording the time. One attempt was longer than all the others. He had found the first byte. This was repeated until every byte from both hashes was found. And, in the end, over a span of three nights, Robinsod had succeeded in downgrading an Xbox 360 without knowing the CPU key. This was purely a proof of concept at this point. Much more work needs to be done - like limiting the hardware needed to replicate this, fixing some minor bugs, and trying to automate the process. At this time, it is a very long and difficult process. Here's hoping that it will get faster, easier, and cheaper. Right now it looks like folks interested might want to purchase an Infectus modchip. This process would downgrade the kernel to version 1888, the original version when you first powered on the system. This can then be upgraded to kernel 4532. Then you can run Linux to find your CPU key and fuseset values. You can also use an xD memory card and installed reader to boot a different kernel just by inserting the xD memory card you want. Imagine a card for kernel 4532 to use Linux and run homebrew, a card with the latest kernel to use on Xbox Live, and even cards for different regions (you could switch between NTSC and PAL). Hopefully this will push homebrew development for the Xbox 360, which right now is nonexistant. The only homebrew making use of the hypervisor exploit right now, is Free60 Linux. With everybody having the ability to downgrade their kernel and use the hypervisor exploit, it would be nice to be able to run programs like Xbox Media Center, classic system emulators, and alternate dashboards. For all of you people who just care about playing backups and using modified firmware, this has nothing to do with you at all. But I promise the next news update will be DVD firmware related. Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:53:19 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=112.html Maximus has released 360 Firmware Toolbox v4.0. This version should be used by Hitachi v78 and v79 drive owners who want to flash their drive with a hacked firmware. This updated toolbox has the patches for iXtreme 1.2 Revision 2. Flashing a v79 drive is possible with this software, if an extra piece of hardware is present, like Team Xecuter's X79 (and I'm sure there will be others) You can find it on Xbins. Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:08:22 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=111.html iXtreme 1.2 Revision 2 for the Hitachi drives has been released. This is a fix for a minor bug with memdump, that may be checked for later down the road. Just like the Samsung update from 1.0 to 1.2 , the bug in the first release is currently not used for detection on Xbox Live, but there is a small chance it can be used at a later time. Get it on Xbins. Also, an updated tutorial should be available very soon, just having some difficulties with Adobe right now, but should get it sorted shortly for anybody who needs the tutorial. v78 and v79 owners - keep an eye out for an updated Maximus 360 Firmware Toolbox coming soon. Hitachi 79 owners might like this release Stay tuned... Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:49:58 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=110.html The iXtreme firmware for the Hitachi GDR-3120L drives has been released. This firmware supports stealth media, correct c/r timings, and refuses to load unstealth backups. As always, you can download the firmware from Xbins. The firmware is in the same "batch file" flashing package as the previous releases. If your drive is already flashed with an older hacked firmware (like C4Eva, Birdy's, Maximus, or GaryOPA) then you need to restore the drive first. Get the drive in ModeB, run a command prompt from the "iXtreme-HitachiAll-RTMv2" folder, and use the command: restore X ^ Where X is your Hitachi drive letter in Windows. After restoring your drive back to the original firmware, or if flashing the drive for the first time, you can then continue on to flashing. To flash the drive, you need to get your drive into ModeB, run a command prompt from the "iXtreme-HitachiAll-RTMv2" folder, and use the command: flashix X #### ^ Where X is your Hitachi drive letter in Windows, and #### is any 4 numbers Another important note! While this release includes the firmware for v78/v79 drives, it is not possible to flash either via software. Remember, with the 78 drives, the firmware was flashed using 360 Firmware Toolbox and the internal smart hack patcher. Until there is an update to 360 Firmware Toolbox, or some new kind of flasher - 78 owners cannot update to this new firmware. You would have to desolder your TSOP firmware chip and dump/flash it with a programmer, then resolder the chip back. This is an expensive and risky process, so I'd suggest waiting for an update to 360 Firmware Toolbox. Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:01:52 GMT http://www.360mods.net/News/article/sid=109.html iXtreme 1.2B firmware was released for the Xbox 360 TS-H943A Samsung DVD drive. This is just the "slow/quiet" version of the recently released iXtreme 1.2 firmware. Similar to the older A/B revision firmwares, the B version firmware reads backups at 4x. The drive is quieter and may help with reading backups on drives with poor lasers. Work on the iXtreme firmware for the Hitachi drives is going great. The final firmware for the version 47 drive has been completed. It still needs to be ported for the other version Hitachi drives. An updated firmware flashing tutorial will follow shortly behind the Hitachi release. Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:16:24 GMT