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If you liked X360SAM (info), now you can flash BenQ/LiteOn the same way!

It will be a collection of batch files which allow you to “manage” flashing of BenQ and LiteOn firmwares in the same way that the batch files for X360SAM operate. In other words, the batch files are the same as the ones for X360SAM and Samsung drives, except:
1) they use FIRMTOOL instead of X360SAM
2) they use DOSFLASH 1.3 and DOSFLASH 1.7 instead of MTKFLASH
3) they’re for BenQ and LiteOn drives instead of Samsungs!

CHANGES SINCE LAST VERSION (apart from the LiteOn)
* BenQ files use DFLASH13.EXE instead of DOSFLASH.EXE
* If FIRMTOOL.EXE encounters a problem, the resulting BHACKED.BIN is deleted as it probably has the wrong key.
* If you run BENREMOD.BAT then change your mind, it exits cleanly.

Download N/A yet! Under Development, but check Eurasia.nu for anything new in their downloads section.

From engadget.com:

Do you really want to use your mouse / keyboard combo on your Xbox 360? Do you got the funds to drop $179.95 for the privilege? If so, then you should probably know that XIM’s ready and willing to oblige you. The XIM 2 module, which is supposedly plug ‘n play in nature, is at long last available for ordering, though it’s not quite ready for shipment.

Official Site: http://www.xim360.com

Klutsh released a new version of iPrep 101(info)(info)(info) a .NET application and collection of applications for use in flashing Samsung, BenQ or Lite-On DVD drives.

What’s new/fixed:
* Use of Fixed Drives (NTFS4DOS) restored.
* Ability to flash Lite-On drives 100% in DOS.
* Includes FirmTool 1.3.1 and DosFlash(info)(info)(info) 1.7.

Official Site: http://www.x-projects.org/
Download: here

We at Xbox360-Hacks would like to wish you all Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, and happy New Year!

Hope you all have a wonderful time!

- the Dashhacks Network

World first IXtreme fw for the unhackable Liteon drive!
Also for Benq and Samsung drives!

This has been a huge effort by everyone in Team Jungle comprising of the best talent in the world. It has been a privilege to work in the team which has enabled us to get to this point. Truly a worldwide effort and the greatest hack that i have been involved in!
The road has been a long one:
- getting the key serial output
- decapping the 1319L chip
- reading the embedded flash, very difficult!
- decrypting fw
- creating iXtreme
- creating Jungleflasher GUI+tools

Greatest teamwork eva!

Features
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Support for Liteon DG-16D2S unhackable drive
Flash from Windows with new Jungleflasher GUI
Smart Inquiry cdb for enhanced spoofing - Liteon
Enhanced c/r timing - all drives
Enhanced disc jitter - all drives
Enhanced spoofing support for Liteon - Samsung and Benq
Enhanced bad angle support - all drives
Secret Liteon MS Inquiry cdb support - Samsung and Benq
Half Open tray on powerup for Windows inquiry/flash mode - all drives
Disc lock/unlock cdb - Liteon Windows mode
Drive key+serial info cdb - Liteon Windows mode
More secure firmguard - Benq

Download: JungleFlasher 0.0.26 BETA here
Download: FirmTool 1.3 here
Download: IXtreme 1.5 n/a (built with XDK)

UPDATE 8:30PM EST
Just wanted to let everyone know there has been a tutorial compiled to assist with the installation of IXtreme 1.5 on the LiteOn!

This new tutorial addresses how to properly install PortIO32 into your system and the usage of JungleFlasher with VIA cards. This should help the users out there that are having issues with VIA and LiteOn!

You can view it Download: here

Special thanks to the #Stealth360 guys for compiling this!!!

UDPATED DEC 24th, 12:05A EST
A new release of DosFlash(info) - A MTK based flashing utility…
Whats New:
- now supports LiteOn PLDS DG-16D2S 74850C and Geremia’s LiteOn Erase and DvdKey method

Also included in the release are steps on using the software to dump (key/inquiry/identify), erase, and flash the LiteOn in both DOS and Windows! Read the full readme here for instructions

Official Site: N/A (by Schtrom)
Download: here
News-Source: xbins.org

It’s been out there on the net, and I wanted to do some research before posting it for everyone to read, and it seems legitimate.  For any of you that have removed power to, or from R6T3, or even removed R6T3 from the XB360 motherboard to prevent eFuse blowing; you will get E 80 at some point after installing the NXE update, and may render the console inert.   You need to replace (jumper in) the resistor with a 10k resistor if you lost yours, but if you did this for a reason; the kernel exploit, the next paragraph.

Now, If your 360 is modded, and you removed R6T3 resistor for downgrading; When NXE is installed, your 360 will be bricked, as  it now detects that the eFuse has not blown.  Before installing NXE, do this :
- solder back resistor (or any 10K resistor)
- reflash 1888 (each time you change kernel, dump it, reflash it, store it safely)
- upgrade to vulnerable kernel 4532 (each time you upgrade, 1 efuse blows)
- upgrade to a few kernels above that (using original games, not backups)
- now you are ready to install NXE with LDV>0 (number of efuses blown)
- NXE will blowone efuse, and things will be ok.

To flash back to older firmwares (never connect to live with older firmware because X: changes). Edit your current dump with robinsod’s flashdumptool, to see what your current LDV value is, then edit the older dump to write the same value so it will be accepted by your console.

More Info: The reason consoles are going 3-LOD with the NXE is due to the new GUI, which means more 3-D rendering.  Most of the 1st and 2nd generation boards will go 3-LOD while using the GUI alone, becasue the cooling down process will not be as frequent as with the original dashboard.

The NXE now extends to your hard disk or memory card.  It would be wiser to keep HDD, or memory card together with YOUR NXE firmware dump.  If you reflash older firmware and do a change in HDD, or memory card, when you reflash NXE firmware back?  NXE (M$) could detect that change and find it offending.  Who knows what would happen then, it’s just words of caution.

A document unsealed in a lawsuit last week suggested that Microsoft employees knew before putting the Xbox 360 on the market in November 2005, that the video game console could damage game discs.

Most of the declarations in the court case are sealed, but a newly unsealed motion (you can read it here) seeking class status quotes from the sealed declarations of Microsoft employees.

It quotes Hiroo Umeno, a Microsoft program manager, who said in a declaration, “This is … information that we as a team, optical disc drive team, knew about. When we first discovered the problem in September or October (2005), when we got a first report of disc movement, we knew this is what’s causing the problem.”
Because of the complaints, Microsoft considered three possibilities to fix the problem, but rejected all of them.

One solution would have increased the magnetic field of the disc holder, but it was dismissed because it could have interfered with the disc opening and closing mechanism. Another solution was possibly slowing the speed at which the disc was rotated (read speed).  That was also rejected because it could (would) have increased load times for a games to load.  A third solution, installing small bumpers, was too expensive. It would have cost between $35 million and $75 million.  That’s odd, because Llamma has this tutorial, that basically shows you how to install a bumper kit to keep the disc from hitting metal, and should cost YOU less than 6.00 for the materials.

Anyhow, yeah eventually, Microsoft did institute an Xbox 360 disc replacement program that sends out new discs to customers if their discs are damaged for any reason. The program only applies to Microsoft titles and costs $20 per disc.  This was also a problem when the collectible TINS were causing discs to be scratched in the packaging (Prey, Halo III).   Where’s all the crying about a law suit for that??  They were replaced also.

See how people are NEVER happy?  Fine, M$ knew there was an issue, as do many MANY other companies with products they put out there, like the 1st generation iPOD battery problem?   Sony’s PS2 and faling DVD drives, just like the original XB1 thompson drive.  They are all guilty of this, in one one way another.  What about people who have HD-DVD players, huh?  Even though a company tries to make right (though usually after being found out), people still cry law suit.  This will be another waste of time and effort.

Identifying a Jasper
The important text is the current rating on the 12V line, which is immediately to the left of the current rating on the 5V rail. The three options here are 16,5A, 14,2A and 12,1A. All that really matters is the last digit, if you see a 5 then you’ve got a Zephyr, if you see a 2 you’ve got a Falcon (most likely) or if you see a 1 you’ve got a Jasper.

Now it is said that some Jaspers have been mislabeled as 14,2A, but no Zephyr or Falcon has been mislabeled as 12,1A. The explanation is simple, this rating indicates what sort of power supply you’ll need to use with the machine. Zephyr and Falcon boxes can’t run with only 12.1A on the 12V rail, you’d end up with a box that either crashed a lot, rebooted or had other undesirable behavior (assuming it would even start, assuming you could even find a power supply that you could plug into it). There’s only one Xbox 360 power supply that can deliver a max of 12.1A on the 12V rail, that is the 150W power supply that is keyed to only work on Jaspers. Find a machine with 12,1A written on the back of it and you’ve got yourself a Jasper.

Confirming Your Jasper
The first Xbox 360 (Xenon) needs a 203W power supply. Falcon needs a 175W power supply but can also work with the 203W unit (it just doesn’t need to draw that much power so the 203W unit is overkill, but it’ll work. Jasper needs 150W but can work with a 203W and a 175W. In other words, the Xbox 360 power supplies are forward, not backward compatible.

Jasper Dissection
Xbox 360 Revision: CPU | GPU | eDRAM
- Xenon/Zephyr:  90nm | 90nm | 90nm
- Falcon/Opus :   65nm | 80nm | 80nm (80nm GPU here?)
- Jasper:               65nm | 65nm | 80nm

* Power Consumption
Xbox 360 Rev: Idle | Halo 3 | Rockband2 | Gears of War2 | BioShock
-Xenon : 2.3W | 155.7W | 177.8W | 167.7W | 177.1W | 172.0W
-Falcon: 2.8W | 101.4W | 121.2W | 112.8W | 121.5W | 115.5W
-Jasper: 2.0W | 093.7W | 105.9W | 101.0W | 105.9W | 098.1W

A iXtreme firmware is soon to be released for the Xbox360’s LiteOn DG-16D2S drive.

Release is scheduled for the day before Christmas. More details will be available upon release (Yeah, like how they’re flashing the Lite-On?). In preparation of the release, it is recommended that you purchase some of the available hardware listed below to assist you in the process of extracting the key. If you already possess and are capable of using a RS232 to TTL converter (serial) then you do not need to purchase any of the hardware listed below. If you have already dumped your key, no other modifications will be necessary.

Both Xecuter and Maximus offer Solderless (with the usage of the “Spear” or “Probe”) methods to extract your key.
If you already own a Xecuter Connectivity Kit v3, a tutorial on how to extract the key is listed here
If you already own a Maximus 360 Xtractor, the manual may be viewed here for usage.

Buy Xecuter Connectivity Kit v3 PRO: mrmodchips | divineo | consolesource
Buy Xecuter Connectivity Kit v3 LITE: mrmodchips | divineo | consolesource
Buy Xecuter Connectivity Kit v3 Probe: mrmodchips

There is not much detail here; we were under the impression the Lite-On has no FLASH to FLASH, so why are they releasing Lite-On firmware if there is no flash?  It has to be embedded in the chip on the logic-board.  I guess we’ll find out what’s going on before Santa arrives…

Here is his latest project, the Xbox 360 Portable; which was more appropriate name than “laptop,” because seriously, who’d put this in their lap? It weighs almost as much as his sister’s cat, he says.

This one is different from his other Xbox 360 laptop projects in several ways:
* Removable standard Xbox 360 hard drive for easy profile/data swapping
* Both memory card slots accessible, same reason.
* No keyboard; since, they have those chat pads for the controllers.
* Simplified layout of ports, and buttons.
* Internal wi-fi module, no external antenna (yay!), The antenna is strung out inside unit like other consoles/laptops.
* Looks neater with beveled edges, and Countersunk screws.