palu, I am going to ban you if you keep asking the same $#!t over and over again without actually reading the info that is right here on this forum already.

Because if I did that, a $#!tload of threads that actually contain valuable info would be gone too. Just because a topic has reached the end of its usability doesn't mean it needs to be deleted, just not answered to any further.

and at this point I am closing it cause it's drifting off into BS again.

hrm.. python's not working right under win7 for me.. anyone gonne dump an updated xenon_hack.bin on xbins?

Of course.
It's:

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, Start, get the f*** out.

to do the timing attack, it would have to be a xenon.

definitely skip hitachi. I'd suggest just getting another liteon, in my experience, they read more media types than any other.

you now have a "braindead" console, so it won't turn on, and also can't trigger the mode needed to flash. you'll likely have to get a nand flasher, i.e. infectus or cygnos 2, to flash it now.

pressed disks are much easier to read, so they may still work for a while when nothing else works anymore.
the laser type is printed on the laser unit itself somewhere, then use that to search i.e. ebay, you'll find replacements for all drives there. you just need to remove the static protection solder blob at the back of it, then you can pop it in, no software changes needed.

I had it hang randomly once or twice detecting an usb keyboard, but the rest of the time it booted just fine.

no, the cpu key is NOT stored in the nand, but, as the name says, on the CPU.
and xell will display the cpu key without ever booting linux.. as mentioned several times before.

that "better tutorial" is a copy and paste job of the info here and the nandpro readme.

first posting in the general hacking section and 5th posting below yours in this section. open your eyes.

yes, you can change region that way, given that you have your cpu key.

1/4W is fine. getting the dvd key is already described in two threads here.

it's in the package in the thread about the same.

you need to solder. xenon is the very first 360 model. if you have anything but a xenon, you will have to wait. if you already updated the console to dash version 84xx, you are out of luck and have absolutely no way to get the dvd key.

xenon.elf is only if you happen to have some xenon.elf (i.e. some homebrew executable).

sounds like a laser issue.

I used 430 ohm and tmbinc said up to 1 kohm SHOULD work. Without the resistors, the exploit can't work, the dumping has nothing to do with the exploit itself.