Xtreme firmware for TS-H943 Xbox 360 released!!!

[k0mpresd]

i searched "layerbreak" earlier ..didnt really find very much information

[wiggim]

hi sorry please can someone confirm if this the way to dump my samsund h943 f/w

is it a cas of making a dos disc with the mk flash tools on it then pluggin in my 360 to my pc turn it on then use the dos to dump my firmware or is their a better way sorry if this has been asked all day i have been reading but not never sore any thing about obtaing a dump to play with.

thank you to any1 who takes the time just to help me out littlw of getting a dump of the f/w i can do the rest but just cant a dump of the f/w

Its in the firmwares readme the method that has to be used to flash. read the very first page of this thread I believe and it explains how to do everything to make 360 backups.

To make a dump you have to flash the other firmware to the drive, then load up windows and use the software as stated. a dos floppy with the 2 firmwares and mkflash is sufficient I do believe. use the commands in DOS to flash the new firmware, do your backup as needed, shut down, reboot to the flasher, write the 360 flash to the drive. power down and test.

[turboman29]

Hello guy's I've been keeping up with all the 360 news for some time now also I wanted to say.....

1.Yes this will make me go out and get a 360 NOW!   &  Microsoft will make a ton now..Just think of how many people will fu$# there 360 up and half to get a new one and guys like me sitting back and just wateing for this to come out you can bet your sweet ass I get a Xbox 360 in the next few days!!!
                                                             AND!!!!
2.  Thanks for the hack!!!! I can just see the specialist when he loged on today and seen this hack on the net :

[wiggim]

Hello guy's I've been keeping up with all the 360 news for some time now also I wanted to say.....

1.Yes this will make me go out and get a 360 NOW!   &  Microsoft will make a ton now..Just think of how many people will fu$# there 360 up and half to get a new one and guys like me sitting back and just wateing for this to come out you can bet your sweet ass I get a Xbox 360 in the next few days!!!
                                                             AND!!!!
2.  Thanks for the hack!!!! I can just see the specialist when he loged on today and seen this hack on the net :

Specialist hacked the hitachi drive though, not the samsung - same story in the end I guess though.. Either way I am interested to see what comes the next few days, as I am stuck on the other side of the river without a paddle.. With the big MS dash update coming in short I wonder how long it will take until MS makes it almost impossible for us to play a backup without first flashing the drive with custom firmware, or bans a wave of 360 gamers for playing online with backups.

[burgemaster]

im kinda hoping that the team that created the hitachi drive hack will now leak it out somewhere.. now tht the sammy drive is out.

well i got my fingers crossed anyways. i jumped for joy when i saw i had a 3120 drive after seeing that first video. now im gutted.

[hockeyGod]

i am able to extract/flash the drive's firmware. no matter what firmware is flashed, if the 360's DVD drive is powered on when my computer's BIOS is loading, it locks up. with the Xtreme0800 firmware, i power on the 360 while my bootloader is running (before windows starts loading) and the drive is successfully detected in windows. once in windows, the drive is listed as a CD drive when no disk is inserted, and as a DVD-Video disk with the title "XBOX360" when ANY disk is in the drive, whether xbox disk or not. is this the same for those of you who have been able to rip originals?

also, i believe i am able to successfully extract the security sectors as the tutorial suggests, but the 'unlocking' step (sending cdb FF 08 01 01) appears to do nothing. the disk still appears as a DVD video disk. any suggestions? anyone else have this problem?

update:

the TOC first loaded after windows starts is the one that is always shown whenever a disk is in the drive. for example:
-boot with a PC game disk in the Xtrm0800-flashed drive. windows correctly shows the contents
-eject the disk. windows correctly shows the drive is empty
-insert an xbox 360 game disk. windows reports that the original PC game disk is still in the drive

also, and i believe this is the same problem, unlocking the drive with DVDinfoPro does not cause the xbox game data to be shown. it still shows the DVD video files. any suggestions? anybody else have this problem?

[RAID]

why is clonecd telling me layerbreak=xxxxxx file not found   ??

Update de CloneCD to Version 5.2.8.1

[turboman29]

What do you guys think is it ....just DUMB luck the drive you get with the 360....or.......did the hitachi come more with the core one or the outher ...or do ya think that just what ever skid of dvd's they have on-hand are the one's they use..

SO everyone wich 360 did you buy and wich drive did you get? this would be good for a pole ...ya know

[xecuterbox]

OK I hexed in the SS into the null space, Reflashed the drkve and woh yes we have success

I used my pc dvd-rom drive to get into DOS, and had mtkflash on an IDE fat32 drive.

Ill just like to mention anyone with via & promise sata controller

in order for it to work, unplug all other sata drives, the sata boot mode needs to be IDE not RAID - and via SATA BOOT ROM must be disabled, finally the disc drive must be connected to a via port not promise.

[bosx2]

... the sata boot mode needs to be IDE not RAID - and via SATA BOOT ROM must be disabled, finally the disc drive must be connected to a via port not promise.

do you have options like these on a sata pci card too? My mobo doesnt have onboard sata, so I going for a pci card.

[serum]

2.  Thanks for the hack!!!! I can just see the specialist when he loged on today and seen this hack on the net :

Well, I think if he didn't want somebody to release the hack, that he wouldn't have published all details on how to do it, would he

Anyway, I have some SATA problems Anyone any advice on which adapter to buy ?

[silverpalm]

i have connected my 360 to my pc via my onboard sata,i restart my pc go in to dos mod then i start the mtkflash and i get the program to start it gives options like r: read w: write etc,
but when i try to r: read it give me bad promt command does any1 know what im doing wrong i can do the hexing part and the clonecd part no probs but i cant get a org dump of my f/w.

thank you for any help

[turboman29]

BUT he didnt post them all hu.....I just think its funny now... if you look at outher bord and what they are saying ...like I went to the xbox page and they think its a hack for on line gameing so we can get more kills ETC... .. "I put do you think it would work on my dreamcast or would I need a chip?" ...and another said microsoft is tracking all of US now ...lol..lol..funny stuff...

[syd41]

Ok, so I've got as far as having the drive recognized in Windows, loaded a game and then I run DVDInfo Pro (v4.56). I select "Send Custom Command" from the dropdown list and the CDB window flashes on the screen and then disappears???

Is it me, the version I'm using or something else???

Thanks...

[serum]

BUT he didnt post them all hu.....

Well, I don't know about you, but I've got a pretty good understanding about how the hack works Basically all there is to it: the xbox sends challenges, the drive sends responses and reads those either from disc of from the SS. if the responses match the ones that are in the encrypted part of the SS, that are sent to the xbox, then the DVD boots. So bascially all there is to it, is letting these responses match.

I haven't tried it myself, but I really wouldn't know what would be missing here, seems perfectly logical to me .... Quoted from the wiki on this site:

The DVD authentication works like this: After a disc is inserted, the drive checks to see if it is a ‘double layer DVDROM’. If this is the case, it reads sector $FD021E. This sector is called the ‘security sector’ (SS). The drive performs some basic checks on the disc. The xbox sends a first ‘mode sense’ and ‘mode select’ command to the drive, mainly to see if these basic checks on the disc passed. If so, the xbox issues a ‘read DVD structure’ command to the drive, to ask for a part of the security sector. This part contains a challenge/response table for the xbox. The xbox verifies the signature for the table, decrypts the table and starts issueing challenges to the drive. The drive descrambles another table from sector $FD012E (using the ‘challenge’ that is in the sector header of this sector, the ‘CPR_MAI’ field), containing the responses.
The xbox issues the challenges with a ‘mode sense’ and reads the ‘responses’ from the drive with a ‘mode select’. If all responses that the drive sends match the responses in the table that the xbox recevied, the xbox assumes an original DVD is in the drive.

And for the 360:

The authentication protocol is basically the same as the xbox 1 (see xbox 1 info in this wiki. However, the 360 uses a few different ‘challenge/responses’ types. Some responses are being read from disc. See the ‘challenge and response protocol’ thread by Robinsod.

I am not going to quote stuff from that thread, you can look it up yourself. Anyway, to me, it all perfectly makes sense (and I am not even a diehard hacker )

I just think its funny now... if you look at outher bord and what they are saying ...like I went to the xbox page and they think its a hack for on line gameing so we can get more kills ETC... .. "I put do you think it would work on my dreamcast or would I need a chip?" ...and another said microsoft is tracking all of US now ...lol..lol..funny stuff...

Yes, reading that 'other' board can be quite funny.

[mebigdave]

OK, I've spent most of the day looking for the Xtrm0800.bin firmware in all the usual places and don't seem to be able to find it anywhere! Asking for the software is against the rules, so if anyone wants to share in my frustration, please email your sympathy to mebigdave@gmail.com. 

I do have a question regarding playing originals once the drive has been flashed with the custom firmware. My understanding is that you backup the original firmware and then extract the DVD key. Then flash it with the Xtreme0800.bin firmware so that you are then able to backup the original and then flash it with the original firmware to play the game. Does this sound right?

[saldine1]

hi,kudos goes to commodore4eva for his great work.Im not going to ask any questions here only wrote to say that these forums are great. why? Because of the replys to questions people have are given promptly and with patience.Especially the moderators who actually help and clarify certain things,which i have seen in no other forums. Great work and great site,hope to see you soon again

[spanky34]

Any word if commedore is working on a hack for the LG.  Or if any one is that plans to release it?

[Rogero]

Hello Everybody..
I just want to confirm that this firmware is great, I just backed up my Ghost Recon, flashed the xtreme firmware with my key inserted in
and the game just booted fine, there's a little delay at the first screen then it worked just like the original does, also I noticed
that the DVD drive of the 360 is running with a lower noise then it does with the original Disc,I made sure of this and that's true.

Thanks for the author of this hack, the moderators and all other helpfull users..

Regards.

Rogero

[klexen]

Ok my bios detects the TS H943, on "Third Channel Device 0" PIO MODE [AUTO] DMA Mode [AUTO] SATA MODE: Sata-I (1.5gbps)

When it boots from floppy I'm left at the A:\> I type "mtkflash r /m orig.bin" and then it comes up with:

Port: 170, Master/Slave: a0

Or "No Drive Detected"

(blinking curosor here)

And does nothing...  Any suggestions?