Hacking Xbox 360 DVD Drives

I am going to be really thorough with this tutorial. First to start off, some programs are illegal. Therefor these programs will not be linked to.

Warning: This WILL void your Xbox 360's Warranty! As far as online, right now as long as you run all of the proper checks on games, you will be safe to play online, however the risks STILL exist of getting banned. You do not have to worry about game updates, but when a new Software Update is release by Microsoft, do NOT upgrade to it yet. Simply unplug your Ethernet cable and wait for me to give you the OK to go online and update. We never know if Microsoft will implement any security checks. If there happens to be one, some day an update that checks for this, you will need to revert back to your original DVD drive firmware.

Requirements

• Philips (BenQ) or Samsung Xbox 360 DVD drive
• Size 8 torque screwdriver
• Size 3/32 flat head screwdriver
• VIA Chipset (about 16$ http://tekgems.com/Products/la-pci22-vt6421a.htm)
• USB Pen Drive
• IXtreme 1.41 firmware (Illegal to link to)
• IPrep (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools/iPrep101.php)

Since I myself have only hacked Philips (BenQ) and Samsung DVD drives, this tutorial will only be for those who have those DVD drives. You can open your Xbox 360 drive to find out which one you have, before opening the Xbox 360. Here is what they look like:
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f.../Philips-1.jpg
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f.../Samsung-1.jpg

The top is a Philips and the bottom is a Samsung. It is also possible to hack Hitachi drives, however I have had no experience doing them, and it is a completly different process. Hitachi drive's look like this:
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f.../Hitachi-1.jpg

If you do not have any of the above DVD drives, then you can not hack your 360, so don't even bother opening it. Currently LiteOn drives are currently a work in progress on hacking, but right now can not be hacked.


Disassembly (Remember this will void your warranty!)

Remove anything on your 360. Hard Drive, Memory Card, Controllers, ect.

First remove your faceplate:
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f...aceplate-1.jpg

Now you can void your warranty. You can slice, pull, or rip the warranty off. It's up to you:
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f...Warrenty-1.jpg

Now there are 12 clips that keep the grill to the top and bottom of the 360 into place. Use the small flat head screwdriver to do this. You will find out that you will only be able to get about 10 of these clips open. This is fine and you can proceed through the rest the disassembly. When you fully have everything done you can simply reach in the back and unclip them with ease:
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f...09/Clips-1.jpg

Now look closely at the back of your 360. You will see small notches. Take your small flat head screwdriver or a flat pointed object and push it in the first notch to the left of your ethernet port until you hear a click:
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f...Notches1-1.jpg

When you first hear the click sound you may think you broke your 360, but you didn't it will easily snap back together when we are finished. Continue on to the right until you get them all:
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f...Notches2-1.jpg

Now that you have done that just remove the case and under it will reveal your reason for having a torque screwdriver. Simply unscrew all six of the screws I have marked with red arrows using your size 8 torque screwdriver:
https://www.consolediscussions.com/f...ueScrews-1.jpg


Flash Preparations
Install IPrep and open it. Open your IXtreme 1.41 firmware (you can use google to find it) and find the firmware that matches your DVD drive, for example Samsung. You will also need to pick your speed. I picked 8x because it was a little bit slower, but your Xbox 360 DVD drive doesn't spin as fast therefor you do not hear the loud roar sound. Anyway, in Iprep select your firmware and then load it up.

You will then need to select your VIA Raid Controller and enable Patch MKFlash.

Next up you need to select your USB Pen Drive and select format and make bootable.


Creating a Backup of the Xbox 360 DVD Drive
You need to turn off your computer. Remove EVERYTHING that could potentially be flashed in your computer, Hard Drive, DVD Drive, ect.

Step 1:
Turn on your computer and go into setup. Make your USB Pen Drive boot on load.

Step 2:
Take your Xbox 360 DVD drive and unplug the Sata cable out of the back and hook your longer one up to your computer and Xbox 360 DVD drive. Leave the Xbox 360s DVD power cord along with the 360s Video Component and Power cables plugged in. (Yea the Video Component cable MUST be in. Not a HD Cable.)

Step 3:
Boot up your 360 and computer.

Step 4:
Follow the on-screen directions from IPrep. When it ask you if you agree type "y" (don't type the quotations in anything I tell you to type with quotes.) and hit enter.

Step 5:
The next screen will defer from what you will need to type. We are going to backup your Xbox 360 DVD drive firmware. So if you have a Philips DVD drive you are going to type "dBen" and your 7 and 5 digit serial number from the back of your 360 case.
EX: dBen 12345 1234567

If you have a Samsung DVD drive you are going to type "dSam" and your 7 and 5 digit serial number from the back of your 360 case.
EX: dSam 12345 1234567

When it asks you to turn off the DVD drive, unplug the power from the back of the Xbox 360s DVD drive. Then plug it back in when it asks you to. IPrep will walk you through everything. You may have to repeat this a few times.

Step 6:
After all that is done it will say:
Reading Bank 0...OK!
Reading Bank 1...OK!
Reading Bank 2...OK!
Reading Bank 3...OK!
Reading Finished!

Warning: If it does not say "OK!" on any of the banks it read, do NOT continue! Just shut down everything, remove your 360 from your computer, and send me a PM alerting me as to what happened.

If everything says ok, turn off your 360 and then turn your Computer off.


Flashing
After turning your 360 and computer off, turn your 360 and computer back on. This is the hardest part, as anything you could do is risky. Something as simple as your power going off it could mess everything up.

Step 1:
Follow the on-screen directions from IPrep. When it ask you if you agree type "y" (don't type the quotations in anything I tell you to type with quotes.) and hit enter.

Step 2:
The next screen will defer from what you will need to type. We are now going to flash your Xbox 360 DVD drive firmware. So if you have a Philips DVD drive you are going to type "fBen" and your 7 and 5 digit serial number from the back of your 360 case.
EX: fBen 12345 1234567

If you have a Samsung DVD drive you are going to type "fSam" and your 7 and 5 digit serial number from the back of your 360 case.
EX: fSam 12345 1234567

When it asks you to turn off the DVD drive, unplug the power from the back of the Xbox 360s DVD drive. Then plug it back in when it asks you to. IPrep will walk you through everything. You may have to repeat this a few times.

Step 3:
After all that is done it will say:
Writing Bank 0...OK!
Writing Bank 1...OK!
Writing Bank 2...OK!
Writing Bank 3...OK!
Writing Finished!

This is the important part. If anything failed during it, well you better pray your backup works.

Step 4:
Leave everything connected for a few seconds just to be safe. Then unplug the sata cable from your computer and Xbox 360 DVD drive. Reconnect all of your Hard Drives, DVD Drives, and whatever else you disconnected from your computer. Go back into the boot mode and change it to the settings you had before. Reconnect the 360 sata cable to the Xbox 360 DVD drive and follow the disassembly instructions in reverse to reassemble your 360.

I will make a tutorial for burning games soon. Enjoy! :cool:

:D I was gonna say I thought you didn't want to cheat but..

I guess you can't really consider having illegal games on your Xbox 360 cheating. Just PIRATING 0_o but if you don't get the cops you won't have a problem ay?

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Originally Posted by -.Z3U5.-

:D I was gonna say I thought you didn't want to cheat but..

I guess you can't really consider having illegal games on your Xbox 360 cheating. Just PIRATING 0_o but if you don't get the cops you won't have a problem ay?

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Yep....

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Originally Posted by -.Z3U5.-

:D I was gonna say I thought you didn't want to cheat but..

I guess you can't really consider having illegal games on your Xbox 360 cheating. Just PIRATING 0_o but if you don't get the cops you won't have a problem ay?

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Who said anything about pirating? I just like having the ability to backup my games so that if one breaks in half I don't have to worry about it.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMcKinney

Who said anything about pirating? I just like having the ability to backup my games so that if one breaks in half I don't have to worry about it.

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.. I need to look up the definition of that still :D

but having a backup of the .ISO or what ever is illegal after 1 day right?

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Originally Posted by -.Z3U5.-

.. I need to look up the definition of that still :D

but having a backup of the .ISO or what ever is illegal after 1 day right?

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I'm not to sure on copyright law, I hear people saying 24 hours of anything downloaded that's copyright your suppose to dispose of.

Nice... i might buy a 360 now, lol.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMcKinney

Who said anything about pirating? I just like having the ability to backup my games so that if one breaks in half I don't have to worry about it.

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Yes, Johnny gets very physical with his dvd's. : D

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Originally Posted by BlackVenom

Nice... i might buy a 360 now, lol.



: D

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go for it dude they're like 200 bux now

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Originally Posted by BlackVenom

Nice... i might buy a 360 now, lol.



Yes, Johnny gets very physical with his dvd's. : D

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That's just creepy...

No you can keep a copy of your game forever as long as you bought it.

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Originally Posted by H0LY.J3SUS

No you can keep a copy of your game forever as long as you bought it.

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We're referring to downloaded ones. I believe if you download a copy of a game you already own you have to delete it within 24 hours, or something like that.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMcKinney

We're referring to downloaded ones. I believe if you download a copy of a game you already own you have to delete it within 24 hours, or something like that.

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Oh but who's gunna care?

Oh im doing this for my school project BTW, and building a turbo controller. (You think you could make a lag switch TUT for 360 also)

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Originally Posted by H0LY.J3SUS

Oh but who's gunna care?

Oh im doing this for my school project BTW, and building a turbo controller. (You think you could make a lag switch TUT for 360 also)

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I have been through like 5 Ethernet cables. The lag switch tutorials don't work for 360.

what is the point of buying a pci card that has sata if your computer already has a sata port? wont using an internal port work??


ALSO:

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMcKinney

I have been through like 5 Ethernet cables. The lag switch tutorials don't work for 360.

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im pretty sure they do work, but it is extremely retarded because most games have protection against that, so you get disconnected...

the next best thing is actually taking up bandwidth on your connection...that sort of works, but its hard to get the desired outcome...most of the time ur jujst lagging and people can get free kills off of you instead of the other way around

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Originally Posted by ferndogg03

what is the point of buying a pci card that has sata if your computer already has a sata port? wont using an internal port work??


ALSO:


im pretty sure they do work, but it is extremely retarded because most games have protection against that, so you get disconnected...

the next best thing is actually taking up bandwidth on your connection...that sort of works, but its hard to get the desired outcome...most of the time ur jujst lagging and people can get free kills off of you instead of the other way around

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I said that lol, they don't work for the 360... However they may work for other systems.

Lol, I believe its your upload speed that effects the other gamers. Just upload something to like megaupload using their toolbar and limit the upload speed to like 20kb.

Yeah you don't have to buy anything to flash your 360. You can just connect teh SATA cable from your motherboard to the 360 drive.

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Originally Posted by poop-is-brown

Yeah you don't have to buy anything to flash your 360. You can just connect teh SATA cable from your motherboard to the 360 drive.

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You can run IPrep to test if your built in card will work. You must have a check next to MTK Flash. If there is no check then you must buy the card.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMcKinney

You can run IPrep to test if your built in card will work. You must have a check next to MTK Flash. If there is no check then you must buy the card.

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Pretty much any new Chipset will work. (you''re right, you still need to check it though)

Erm....Does this hack work for the New Xbox 360 dashboard that just came out? I mean, I don't have a computer that has a SATA cable just yet, or a chip card for that matter, but if i dont get something of the sort, I don't want to crash my Xbox DVD drive because of it being non compatable with the new board.

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Originally Posted by Deathscreton

Erm....Does this hack work for the New Xbox 360 dashboard that just came out? I mean, I don't have a computer that has a SATA cable just yet, or a chip card for that matter, but if i dont get something of the sort, I don't want to crash my Xbox DVD drive because of it being non compatable with the new board.

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I wouldn't try it right now. The new BenQ's seem to be messing up. IVIUPPET screwed his over with a bad flash. If you don't want to screw up your 360...DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS.

Oh, and yes, the hacks work with the new dashboard. And you HAVE to have a chipset for your motherboard unless your computer is like over 15 years old.

Well i did my reaserch long before seeing this thread posted. I'm highly aware of the risks of flashing any type of system. A bad flash can screw up the entire thing. I've done that quite a few times with my PSP. Although, things can be fixed if you still have a few boot files and the previous FW of the bricked item.

But i do have an interesting question, i understand there are sata cables that hook up via USB. Any idea if that would work or not? And if not, why so?

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Originally Posted by Deathscreton

Well i did my reaserch long before seeing this thread posted. I'm highly aware of the risks of flashing any type of system. A bad flash can screw up the entire thing. I've done that quite a few times with my PSP. Although, things can be fixed if you still have a few boot files and the previous FW of the bricked item.

But i do have an interesting question, i understand there are sata cables that hook up via USB. Any idea if that would work or not? And if not, why so?

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1. A bad flash can fuck up your 360. Forever. You're lucky if you can fix it. End of story, it's not as easy as the PSP.

2. A USB SATA would most likely not work. It's not directly into your motherboaard, and the drive wold have to be formated for windows to work (most likely)

How so? Isn't only the drive involved.

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Originally Posted by Deathscreton

How so? Isn't only the drive involved.

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Yea, if you brick your drive you can just buy a new drive. Holy Jesus doesn't know what he's talking about =/

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMcKinney

Yea, if you brick your drive you can just buy a new drive. Holy Jesus doesn't know what he's talking about =/

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I thought so. And whats the whole purpose of backing up the FW for the Drive?

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMcKinney

Yea, if you brick your drive you can just buy a new drive. Holy Jesus doesn't know what he's talking about =/

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Thats a bull shit post right there Johnny. I do know what Im talking about. I didn't mean the whole 360...because we all know that what you're flashing is the DVD Drive.

And if you do fuck up, the Errors can be fixed, depending on what they are. But if the Flash fucks up, and you get E64 (not E74) then your at a loss for a DVD drive.

E74 and E64? What in the world?

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Originally Posted by Deathscreton

E74 and E64? What in the world?

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E64 is currupt drive firmware
E74 is some graphics card problem.

Damn RoD.

do i really need to buy the VIA Chipset? cause im flat out broke

apparently theres an easier way now with jungle flasher..ima try that and let u guys know how it goes

EDIT:
I flashed my drive using jungle flasher. it was easier than this tutorial so ill talk to johnny about updating it. I can now play my backups ;) thanks to holyjesus' vids on patching and burning your isos

hmmm is it hard to put the sata chip in your computer do you think a dell diminsion 3000 has the chip set already thanks who ever answers back p.s august batman sick

yo dude. thanks for the thread. going to try this when I get my x360 elite. :D

JungleFlasher is sooo much easier.