Cracked Samsung SDG-605B/616T/616F Firmware for Xbox 1 - V2

[stonersmurf]

samsung/toshiba sdg-605F does not work as far as I know. If you did flash your drive with this firmware it might kill the drive.

edit: yep

the 605F has a completely different hardware, flashing this bios to it will kill the drive.

[Arakon]

the filename doesn't matter at all, it's whatever you want to give it.

[geebee]

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SO I DECIDED TO SCREW BACKING UP MY FW AND JUST WENT AHEAD TO FLASH IT WITH MTKFLASH IN WINDOWS INSTEAD OF DOS
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are people mental? You fail to back up the original firmware so decide to proceed anyway? Just give your xbox to charity...before you break it.

[sababa]

ok thanks for the reply
1. i am aware that i might fry my drive, but i'll just get another drive if that happens, its no biggie for me
2. even if my dvd drive is not compatible, i should still be able to flash it
   can anyone explain why it failed to initialize device? maybe its my chipset, but if my chipset was not compatible, how did it identify and query that device in the first place, or does the chipset only pertain to the actual flashing and not the querying for devices, my pc identified and found my xbox dvd drive just fine, so what am I doing wrong?

i was thinking this wasn't compatible but that doesnt explain why i cant still flash it period, on the knowledge base wiki, it lists the samsung/toshiba sdg-605F as one of the compatible drives for the hack... so i'm confused


the reason it also failed to backup my firware in dos is because it couldn't initialize the device, that's my hunch, what should I do to make it initialize?

perhaps its the way of "hotswapping it" can anyone explain the steps they did in hotswapping theirs, i read several tutorials but app. i'm doing something wrong

btw: looked up my emachines t1105
these are the specs
CPU:  Intel® Celeron® Processor 1GHz (w/128KB)
Operating System:  Genuine Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition2 
Chipset:  Intel 810 chipset, 100MHz FSB
Memory:  256MB SDRAM
Hard Drive:  20GB HDD
Optical Drive:  Built-in 12x Max. Write CD-RW Drive; 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
Video:  Intel DirectAGP 3D (810 shared)
Sound:  Intel 82801 AC '97 Audio
Modem:  56K ITU v.92-ready PCI internal Fax/Modem
Peripherals:  Keyboard, Mouse, Stereo Speakers
Ports/Other:  2 USB ports (1 on front bezel), 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 2 PS/2, Audio In & Out, 1 Midi/Game on front bezel, Mic-In & Head Phone jack on front

[duggyuk]

can this be used to dump 360 discs

a) onto the xbox hd as isos?
b) onto a PC via a cable?

any of these viable?, opening up the 360 seems like a huge effort, were it not for the cost of replacement media, i wouldnt even bother

also why not plop the images on that huge xbox harddisk, its not doing much else anyway :-)

I think this fw wont read the SS on a 360 discs though?

[Arakon]

no.

and if you mean the 360 HDD.. just how exactly are you going to install a homebrew application on the 360 that launches games that NEED to be in a hacked dvdrom drive off a HDD?

[uberfry]

think he means to just dump the 360 games + SS using the normal xbox

[duggyuk]

think he means to just dump the 360 games + SS using the normal xbox

thats EXACTLY what i mean, the xbox1 is just collecting dust so was wondering if i could use it to do this. Its dvd drive is not being used much at all as i use xbmc for media (video/audio) over ethernet (or transfer to hd and play from there).

Its less hassle than opening the 360 and flashing the 800 firmware when i want to dump a 360 game. Its also less risky as getting spare xbox1 parts (a blown/badley flashed drive) is easier and cheaper than getting a 360 one.

I know we cant sign 360 exe files (yet) :-)

[Arakon]

still, it's not possible. besides, you couldn't even fit a full 360 game image on the original xbox HD.

[duggyuk]

still, it's not possible. besides, you couldn't even fit a full 360 game image on the original xbox HD.

thats a shame :-(

Theres a 200GB drive inside the xbox, with around 170GIG free, space is no issue :-)

[sababa]

when flashing the hacked fw onto your samsung drive for xbox 1

the xbox only has an ide cable and interface right?
-i only noticed that

so i understand that you can only flash it with a SATA interface on your motherboard
..............so.........

that can only mean that you have to get a ide to sata converter to hook up your ide cable from your xbox 1 samsung to your pc's SATA interface/controller...........right?

so I need to go buy a ide to sata interface correct? isn't this what all u guys did?

[Arakon]

you're mixing up two entirely different things here. sata is only needed for the 360 sata drive, not for the xbox 1 drive.

[sababa]

hey i when out and bought a sdg-605b samsung for xbox 1 from a friend
after i had several failed attempts of not being able to flash my sdg-605f

i followed commodre4eva's instructions in the readme and read through all these threads
i flashed it in ATAPI mode with mtkwinflash.exe
i flashed sdg605b.bin

it said success

i rebooted and then i tried to play a normal retail disc once i put my xbox back together, but the drive won't even eject

could anyone care to explain where i went wrong here? or what they did to succesfully do thsi xbox 1 hack different from what i've done?

someone told me that this fw hack just makes the drive visible on the pc so u can rip games, so how would i make it compatible to play on my xbox, but my sammy drive was visible on my pc in the first place before i ever flashed any drive