130w ago - Today C4E released his iXtreme LT Plus Firmware Pack for XBox 360 along with an AP2.5 Patch Pack for LT Plus and a new JungleFlasher v0.1.76 Beta with iXtreme LT+ support from Team Jungle.

Downloads: iXtreme LT Plus Firmware Pack / AP2.5 Patch Pack for LT Plus / JungleFlasher v0.1.76 Beta / LT+ UART Enable Patch

To quote from the NFO file: Official release of C4E's iXtreme LT+

• Supports Benq and Liteon Drives (74850, 83850V1, 83850V2, 93450)
• Optimized PFI code to accommodate AP25 SS data
• Defeats current AP25 protection
• Protects console from logging AP25 violation
• Full disc stealth used by default
• Waveless booting, disc images are assumed to be correct!
• Split-Vid used as default

If booting an AP25 title without AP25 SS game will not boot but will still be protected from logging AP25 violation on current dash 2.0.12611.0. If LT+ encounters an unknown AP25 challenge, game will not boot but console will still...

182w ago - Just under two weeks ago it was reported that C4Eva is working on a new XBox 360 DVD Firmware dubbed iXtreme LT (Lite Touch).

Today Team Jungle have posted the following progress updates on it via their Twitter page, as follows:

• Lots of performance data put into fw!

• Note: Backups need to have SplitVid from now on to be safe for LT

• LT is not only Lite Touch, lots of great new code making this version the most accurate fw eva!

• New code looking good, lots of new code!

• iXtreme LT for all drives, in dev/testing and going well. No ETA!

The upcoming XBox 360 Firmware aims to be as close to the original as possible, with hopes of less possible bans via detection.

185w ago - Today Team HyperX has released IXtreme 1.61 Firmware for Benq and Samsung XBox 360 drives alongside the updated JungleFlasher v0.1.67 Beta.

Download: BenQ iXtreme THX v1.61 / Samsung iXtreme THX v1.61 / JungleFlasher v0.1.67 Beta

From the NFO file:

IXtreme fw for Benq and Samsung drives!

Features:

• Strict Wave 4 compliance! hybrid (modified disks) will not boot!
• Strict Wave 3 compliance! hybrid (modified disks) will not boot!
• Strict drive speed compliance - 12x only for game discs!
• Support for SS V2!
• Integrated 0800 for game dumping including SS v2!
• Full support for all known game exceptions! eg ddr etc!
• One shot boot mode! - allows a one off boot of gamedisc without -stealth/partition checks (will still use stealth), use activate.iso disk to activate each time!
• Support for easy drive key/version info cmd, same as liteon!
• Strict stealth/wave checking, one shot boot mode will boot wave(x)!

More Info:

Strict Wave 4...

187w ago - It appears Microsoft is now including the most recent major Dashboard Update on new game discs, specifically the Summer/Fall 09 update that brings the NXE dash to 8498.

As a result, they are closing the exploit used for the Free60 JTAG/SMC XeLL (Linux homebrew) hack.

To quote: "The first game confirmed to have this update on the disc is Cars Race-O-Rama. They added the new update into the video partition on the disc, which makes the partition larger than it always has been on older games.

Previously there were 3 known good sizes for the video partition, they were known as wave1, wave2 and wave3. One of the security features in all iXtreme firmware (except 1.51) is a check on the size of the video partition to make sure it matches one of the known waves.

The firmware will not boot any game that does not match a known wave, this is done to prevent booting bad backups and getting banned on Live. Since this new game has a larger video partition that does not match any of the 3 known waves, it does not boot.

This new game with the larger video partition is the start of "wave4" and our hacked firmware will need to be updated to accept this new size as a good value. The ETA...

207w ago - Today Team HyperX presents IXtreme 1.6 0800 XBox 360 firmware for Benq, Samsung and Liteon drives.

Features:

• Common API designed for easier application use!
• Support for SS V2!
• Direct 0800 mode for game dumping including SS v2!

This firmware is =NOT FOR USE IN A CONSOLE= and is provided with the intended use of being in a dedicated "ripping" drive.

Download: IXtreme 1.6 0800 XBox 360 Firmware (Benq) / IXtreme 1.6 0800 XBox 360 Firmware (Liteon) / IXtreme 1.6 0800 XBox 360 Firmware (Samsung)

This means:

a. Does not need your DVD key,
b. Does not need spoofing as another drive,
c. Does not need to use the tray half open and
d. Does not need to use the activate.iso to use this firmware on the pc.

More Info:

SS v2 supports multiple timing samples for challenges type 5 and 7, storing them in the SS. This is a pre-requisite for SS v3 which has support for the so called AP2.5 check. Since this has never been used or may never be used by MS we will adopt a wait and see...