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Xtreme Firmware Install Guide for Toshiba/Samsung Drives

Posted May 20, 2006 at 11:10PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Samsung, xbox 360 titles, Xtreme Firmware

Xtreme Firmware is a modified FW of the original Xbox Samsung SDG-605B/616T/616F DVD-ROM drive. The original FW prevents booting raw (non-retail) copies of a game from a DVD-R or other recordable media with the assigned XBE file 'mediaflag' assigned by MS for each game.

The mediaflag then tells the Xbox which media (cd-r, dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw, hdd, dvdxbox, dvdxbox360, etc) the XBE is allowed to boot. By changing the mediaflag in the XBE header, Xtreme FW breaks the signature of the file, stops the detection and allows raw copies to boot.

You're probably raring to proceed to the tutotial, but first the obligatory disclaimer:

Anything you do to your Xbox is at your own risk!
This is NOT an encouragement for committing software piracy and illegal duplication of copyrighted materials.

Got that? Okay then here are the stuff that you need:

A Torx 10 screwdriver
Thin Tweezers (or similar)
A PC with SATA connectors - but NOT the Silicon Image Sil3112 SATA chipset, these will not work (ATM?)
A Hex editor
The Firmware package

Make a boot disk by formatting a floppy and ticking on "MS-DOS system disk" or something similar.
After the disk has been formatted, copy MTKFLASH.EXE and MTKFLASH.TYP from mtkflash183c.zip to the floppy disk.
For nforce4 motherboard, use the same files from the archive MTK-NF4.RAR.
Keep your Xbox 360 plugged in (but turned OFF) next to the PC with it's DVD ROM drive powered by the Xbox console, but connected to port 1 of the SATA on the PC.
Remove/disable all IDE channels except for the floppy disk and all SATA ports except port 1.
Make sure the PC is set to boot from the floppy disk.
Turn on the PC, but leave the Xbox 360 OFF. Wait until a command prompt appears then turn ON the game console. Type the following on the PC:

mtkflash r /m backup.bin

Plug the PC drive back in and re-enable all the applicable IDE/SATA channels and boot into Windows.
Press 1 to select SATA master.
This will back up the original firmware to the disk - DO NOT LOSE OR MODIFY THIS IN ANY WAY, if you screw up you can easily restore the original firmware with this file and put the 360 back to factory.
Turn off Xbox360 and unplug the drive from the PC.

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i seem to remember when this hack was first in developement there were some people saying things like "dumb hackers" ....."your gonna go to jail for not wanting to pay for a game" now thats fine thats theyre opinion but then there was this one guy who said ohhhh what was it ohh yea....."THIS FIRMWARE HACK DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO PLAY BACKUPS OF GAMES ITS JUST SO YOU CAN FIX *****" or something along those lines i told him he was wrong he still argued and now all i have to say is X-box 360wned

# Whoops! — Guest 2006-05-21 06:40

I tried this yesterday with a friend who is pretty good at dismantling things and breaking them...... Everything went well until the floppy corrupted when it was writing the flash!

Whoops! - my drive now seems dead, my pc doesn’t see it, neither does my 360.

Can anyone help?

# #3 lol you took the risk — Guest 2006-05-21 06:54

you did a bad flash now your drive is dead so it needs to be reflashed but im not sure if thats possible i havnt tinkered much with that hack do to the risk and well i dont wanna mess with my 360 i like using live and i like playing online

none the less goodluck but you might have freied your dvd lol

# it can be fixed — Guest 2006-05-21 08:09

I had same problem, my drive was dead but I fixed it by using my backup orig.bin

I had to buy another system though, connect it to my pc so it would detect in bios then hot swap with my old DVD drive and re-flash, drive became responsive imedietly

this was because of bad key patching, make sure you get good help when patching you key otherwise you might have issues.

cheers

# sucks — Guest 2006-05-21 08:24

crap crap crap :)

# works fine 4 me — Guest 2006-05-21 08:40

nocomment

# NO! — Guest 2006-05-21 09:56

okay, just for any noobs that are reading this, i HIGHLY dont recommend trying this. From someone who used to be on pspupdates all the time, a LOT of people bricked their psps because they messed around with their firmware when they didnt know what they were doing. Just wait, soon a program will come out where u just hook it up to your PC and click "start". DONT try this yet unless you are very familiar with what is going on.

# don't listen to this guy — Guest 2006-05-21 10:10

..he sounds like a noob.

The tutorials are easy to follow.

Sounds to me like Mr Brett doesn't have a samsung drive ..!

# no idiot — Guest 2006-05-21 15:22

i dont know what kind of drive i have, im not going to try this because i dont mind paying for games, and i probably would mess it up just like #3 did. he followed the oh-so-easy installation guide and look what happened. accidents happen, and all i said was do this very cautiously if youre going to. good job on being a total focktard

# i agree — Guest 2006-05-22 08:27

i agree . this is to risky just wait there will be enough hacks in the future just like the psp and the normal xbox . but im not using this hacks because i wanna play on xbox live

# where do you download the firmware package — Guest 2006-05-22 16:35

I know this may seem pretty stupid to some of you but where do I get the firmware package?

# help — Guest 2006-05-22 16:48

hi all where can i get detailed instructions on how to flash my drive and other junk? and i live in Aus and i dont own a xbox yet and wont till i understand the instuctions and till i find out what drives are in Aus.

email tutorial to the_serpo@hotma il.com

# Guest 2006-05-22 17:21

@12 Cody ... you back up the original 360 one then edit it... (its the scary part of the tutorial)

If you didn’t get that from reading the tutorial... I’d suggest you stop now rather then risk turning your 360 into a big doorstop.

I’m not trying to be mean…. But things can go wrong even if u do it correctly… (e.g. no3 . corrupt floppy)

# true true — Guest 2006-05-23 02:38

good point #14 i should probebly wait till somthing easyer comes along

# get sum1 else to fo it — Guest 2006-06-15 00:22

id love to try this but iknow a person who will do it for me for £30 and he guarantees them so if he breaks it he pays simple

# No Drive Detected — johnnybravo 2006-06-23 11:42

Hi guys, I have got to the stage where i connect the drive to pc and typed the command as described but im getting the error "No Drive Detected", i've tried on a sata (3512) and a sata (ALi) but same error.

I still think its the SATA thats not working but wanted to see if anyone had any ideas of settings i might need to change to get it working.

BTW opening the box wasn't easy at first but if you look at the catches at the back of the xbox with a torch you will see how they work and not much force is needed. I scuffed mine a little but its still in one piece!!

# lost dvd key... — Guest 2006-10-28 01:39

hi mates,

I took the risk. Everthings seems ok except DVD drive. :((( It doesn t work neither orginal nor copy dvds. I tried to hack it with firmware hack using Hexeditor, between the rows of 4000-4200. It seems that I have one chance, which is reload the orginal backup.bin. I hope it will recsue my dvd palyer and xbox 360. Can some one please help me?

p.s: One of my forum mates advised this method and told me it was too easy to hack it. Then, he open my xbox 360 and hacked it. It seems that he hacked me rather than my xbox. :((

# after doing this — Guest 2006-10-31 16:53

xecuter is releasing their 360 blast. This should make this process easier (since the hardest part is getting the case off).

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