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

[twizter]

I do see a xbox-linux driven dvdrom flasher existing in the future, but really we should start a new thread for that.

[Arakon]

http://arakon.dyndns.org/backup.html

A rather basic tutorial that's supposed to sum up the information in this thread. If you find any issue with it, let me know.

[Poulpy]

Hi everybody, first of all i might be in the same "kind of situation" as erac3rx so lot of experience in X1 less in 360 (not enough time i guess). I live in a french speaking part of Europe so please apologize me for any mistakes.

First for ERAC3RX :
When reading this post the first thing i thought is : If i could simply use MTKflash working on my xbox to flash DVD drives directly, it would be amazing, combined with a virtual C: softmod it would be the perfect Live friendly modding.
So i tried the following things :
1. boot MKTflash through the DosXbox emulator... well no suprise it didn't work (maybe if modified it would but unfortunatly the Xboxport isn't opensource)
2. I thought about the way you could boot win95 or WMware or Wine on xbox Linux but haven't tried either yet.
3. I looked for Firmware flashers under Linux... well most says too boot a DOS bootable floppy with guess what .... MKTflash I managed to find other like Binflash which seems great but then again only for Nec based drives.
Anyway haven't succeeded yet but i didn't spent much time either ^__^' its getting late in Europe and i'll look to it deeper this weekend. If you have any propositions feel free to contact me i'll check what i can do.

Now about the thread :
I must say i'm quite choked by all the flaming, i'm speaking only on my behalf but TheSpecialist, commodore4eva, Germia and many others have saved me great deal of personal research only by reading their posts and i'm gratefull to all of you who focus on what needs to be done.

I wish you all a very intense end of the week and a special thanks to TheSpecialist for not releasing the firmware, i would have never got that far by myself if you hadn't teased us so much    (unfortunatly i didn't go further than building my own 360 DVD power cord and playing with it  ) and for Commodore4Eva thanks for teasing us even more 

PS: Thank you Arakon for the recap
To finish with a question to all : Did anyone achieve anything with the region flag ?

[wans]

http://arakon.dyndns.org/backup.html

A rather basic tutorial that's supposed to sum up the information in this thread. If you find any issue with it, let me know.

Nice at least this info is in one place, i thought the thread was going to go to the dogs a few posts back!

[SniperKil]

http://arakon.dyndns.org/backup.html

A rather basic tutorial that's supposed to sum up the information in this thread. If you find any issue with it, let me know.

you might want to add the info about changing the retrys in the options to 1, and when it craps out at 7% to pick create dummy data, dont ask again, and then click the selection button...

[evestu]

http://arakon.dyndns.org/backup.html

A rather basic tutorial that's supposed to sum up the information in this thread. If you find any issue with it, let me know.

nice

thanks for putting it in a detailed way

 

[silverpalm]

I wish you all a very intense end of the week and a special thanks to TheSpecialist for not releasing the firwmare, i would have never got that far by myself if you hadn't teased us so much  Grin  (unfortunatly i didn't go further than building my own 360 DVD power cord and playing with it  Roll Eyes ) and for Commodore4Eva thanks for teasing us even more  Grin

i dont get it does this method work with 360 drive fw and i need a different power supply for the drive if i connect to the pc,sorry would someone just explain it please.i know this trad is for the sammy xbox 1 drive but how come everyone keeps refering to the 360 drive.sorry once again if i sound like a dick for asking

[Arakon]

The read retry part is in there I did add the other info, though, thanks.

[Geremia]

after 6 DL blanks and 2 days, it's finally working here too.. all cause of the SS being off by a single byte.

just for curiosity, can you try to hexedit the fw and change the value F9FA00 to match your mistaked SS PSN in nonworking disk you have?

tried that, no go.. I set the PSN from F9FA00 to F9F9FF and it wouldn't read either the working or the non-working disk.
unless there's more calculation required?

My backup has 2 SS, on F9FA00 and F9FA01, and if i hexedit the fw, it works in both cases, but not with F9FA02 (blank sector).
thespecialist initially decoded F9FA00 as part of instruction, not pure data referring to the sector, but my 2 hexedit seemed to think different, i'm just curious, but doesnt' make sense to burn another disk to be sure
BTW, F9F9FF is part of the game partition.
BTW, even if this is a refer to the F9FA00 sector, a DVD5 solution would take care not only of this, but also about the media type check the fw should perform as first step of authentication (not only the xbe), as far as i can read on other threads. You have also to modify the "game partition layout" inside the SS, because SL disks have different track layout of DL disks, and SS is checksumed someway, right?

[Arakon]

after 6 DL blanks and 2 days, it's finally working here too.. all cause of the SS being off by a single byte.

just for curiosity, can you try to hexedit the fw and change the value F9FA00 to match your mistaked SS PSN in nonworking disk you have?

tried that, no go.. I set the PSN from F9FA00 to F9F9FF and it wouldn't read either the working or the non-working disk.
unless there's more calculation required?

My backup has 2 SS, on F9FA00 and F9FA01, and if i hexedit the fw, it works in both cases, but not with F9FA02 (blank sector).
thespecialist initially decoded F9FA00 as part of instruction, not pure data referring to the sector, but my 2 hexedit seemed to think different, i'm just curious, but doesnt' make sense to burn another disk to be sure
BTW, F9F9FF is part of the game partition.

eh? I have several hundred megs of blank space between the SS and the game data.
in my case the SS is shifted upwards by just one byte, i.e. instead of starting at 1DD830800, it starts at 1DD8307FF. since it starts in one sector and continues in another, could it be unreadable?

[Geremia]

after 6 DL blanks and 2 days, it's finally working here too.. all cause of the SS being off by a single byte.

just for curiosity, can you try to hexedit the fw and change the value F9FA00 to match your mistaked SS PSN in nonworking disk you have?

tried that, no go.. I set the PSN from F9FA00 to F9F9FF and it wouldn't read either the working or the non-working disk.
unless there's more calculation required?

My backup has 2 SS, on F9FA00 and F9FA01, and if i hexedit the fw, it works in both cases, but not with F9FA02 (blank sector).
thespecialist initially decoded F9FA00 as part of instruction, not pure data referring to the sector, but my 2 hexedit seemed to think different, i'm just curious, but doesnt' make sense to burn another disk to be sure
BTW, F9F9FF is part of the game partition.

eh? I have several hundred megs of blank space between the SS and the game data.
in my case the SS is shifted upwards by just one byte, i.e. instead of starting at 1DD830800, it starts at 1DD8307FF. since it starts in one sector and continues in another, could it be unreadable?

ahhhhh ))) 1 byte, not 1 sector, ah ok, that's unreadable then

[madwill]

Back to topic-
Some news would be nice commodore4eva on any progress made peeps im sure are all waiting for a post from you,hopefully you are too busy hacking the 360 firmware maybe darren could send ms a mail telling them that youve killed the 360 too then lol.
Keep up the good work and once again congrats

[anarchy99]

i have a Samsung SDG-605F or so unleashx says any chance i can use this
is it close enough to the SDG-605B  if not any chance of it being modified to work

[Arakon]

is this an original xbox drive, or a modified pc drive? the original 605F will not work (usually found in 1.6 boxes), it has a totally different chipset and this firmware would not work, and may even kill the drive.

[twizter]

i was told a 605F = 605B = 605T but 605a wont work and they should all work with this firmware....but im not certain on this. Can someone please provide some specs or proof or something that can provide a reason ?

[ 04:01:37pm] •  Re: Cracked Samsung SDG-605B/616T/616F Firmware for Xbox 1 - V2
[ 04:01:40pm] •  wont work for 605F
[ 04:01:45pm] •  i just opened mine and i have F
[ 04:05:09pm] •  it should work, they all use the same firmware
[ 04:15:07pm] •  oh, u said before 605a didnt work,  or something
[ 04:21:49pm] •  f is different than a
[ 04:22:19pm] •  but same as b and t
[ 04:44:03pm] •  and i'm not sure about e, but apparently that is somehow differnt also as it is a pc drive that isn't moddable for use in xbox, or atleast no one has done so yet
[ 04:44:10pm] •  and i have a few 605e's

[Geremia]

xbox 605F has different firmware and hardware than 605B
605F fw x204 works on standard 616EEB
605B fw x010 works on standard 616F/616T

[Arakon]

you're mixing up 616 and 605 drives, twizter.
there's 605B and 605F, both which are original xbox 1 drives which use different hardware and are not compatible.
616 is the PC drive variations.

[twizter]

ahhh, well that sucks.... i guess i wont test this hack out... o well, 605F useless!

[dom0012]

ok i was reading Arakon's Tutorial and i was confused by this part:

"Now comes the difficult part: First, put in your movie DVD and run DVDInfoPro (http://www.dvdinfopro.com/). Select "Media Info", and select "physical format information" in the Advanced dropdown menu. Click OK and note the last three bytes of the first line (they'll normally be in the range of Fx xx xx).
You have to calculate the proper offset for the security sector now. In a hex calculator, substract the Offset from the full length of the image that you figured out using dvdinfopro (i.e. FCA6FA - F9FA00 = 2ACFA). Now multiply your result by hex 800 (2ACFA x 800)"

Subtract the offset from the full length of the image? FCA6FA is offset and F9FA00 would be the full lenth of the image? And you get both of these results from dvdinfopro?


Also this i was confused about:
"Open the raw dump in Winhex, select "Goto", and enter your result, and check the "end (back from)" option.
It will jump to the position you need to insert the SS to.. however make sure it's at the beginning of the line, it may jump one byte too far up (see picture)."
one byte too far? is that where the red X is marked or the highlighted 00's in blue?

[twizter]

one byte too far? is that where the red X is marked or the highlighted 00's in blue?

as indicated by this:

Clipboard data, and "write".
It will paste the SS over the blank data previously there.

the red x marks the line which you might think to put the SS data but you shouldn't, the first 00 of the next line is probably where it should be placed.