[Hilo oficial] iXtreme 1.61. LiteOn, BenQ y Samsung

Fuente: http://twitter.com/TeamJungle


-C4Eva announced he's working on a new firmware on IRC:
"[c4eva] new fw in dev/test - ixtreme LT (Lite Touch) - more efficient , minimal patching , all aspects of fw indistinguisable from orig, no more bans, No ETA!"

We do not have more details atm.
As far as we know the 3 'test boxes' C4Eva has running (see here) are still fine (not banned).
So there's NO ETA for the firmware yet (dont ask) but it should come out for Lite-On drives first.

News-Source: #fw@EFNet

Fuente: http://www.x-scene.com/



-iXtreme v1.61 FW para Samsung y BenQ Drives
>> Una nueva version (v1.61) del firmware iXtreme de Samsung y BenQ ha sido liberado. Una versión LiteOn está todavía en desarrollo y será lanzado más adelante (NO ETA).

Estos Fueron puestos en libertad sin Ningún tipo de readme o NFO, pero los comentarios de los primeros usuarios aseguran que funciona bien como v1.6 con activate.iso.

Fuente: http://www.x-scene.com/

-NFO.

Team HyperX Presents IXtreme 1.61 firmware for Benq and Samsung drives
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IXtreme fw for Benq and Samsung drives!


Features
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-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
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Strict Wave 4 compliance means wave 4 games will only boot if they have correct PFI/DMI/SS and timestamp for wave 4

Strict drive speed compliance means games will only boot if drive is set for the initial speed of 12x, any modification of this make games fail to boot

SS v2 suports multiple timing samples for challenges type 5 and 7 , stroing them in the SS. This is a pre-requiste 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 approach and continue to monitor for its usage.

With drive in Windows mode (Tray half open on powerup) 0800 mode is activated allowing easy dumping of game disc including SS v2. In this mode the drive is also able to output drive key, fw version and drive type by using a simple custom inquiry command.

Game exceptions are integrated in the fw for games that do not comply with the strict wave checks but are legitimate. These are Dance Dance Revolution Universe, Stoked, Ping 17 disk, afro samurai

One shot boot mode allows you to boot a Wave X or non stealth game by using the activate.iso disk as a flag. Just insert the activate disc and the next disc inserted will boot without any strict checks. This will still utilise full stealth if available. As soon as that disc is booted the flag is cleared, and you will have to re-insert the activate disk again to enable one shot boot. As always use with caution.


Note for unofficial releases:

It is highly recommended that you do not flash unverified or unofficial releases. We often do not implement specific
security features in beta firmwares that are neccessary precaution's to help keep everyone as safe as possible on Xbox Live.

Fuente: http://www.xbins.org



-Un disco de Xbox 360 está dividido en particiones.
Una de estas particiones es la partición de video que muestra un video cuando metes el disco en un reproductor de DVD. Éste video te dice que metas el disco en una consola Xbox 360, tontainas.

Microsoft puede mirar si la partición de video de tu "backup" coincide con lo que tendría que haber en esa partición, para así apuntarte en la lista de "Sparrows"
Para evitar esto, el firmware del lector hace un chequeo (similar al que hace ABGX), de forma que si la partición de video no coincide con ninguna conocida, el juego no arranca.
De vez en cuando, esta partición cambia, y es lo que llamamos Wave.

Normalmente, las actualizaciones del sistema ocupaban poco, y venian en un lugar distinto del disco.
Cuando MS lanzó la actualización NXE, ésta no cabía en su sitio de siempre y lo que hicieron fue meter en la partición de video, lo que dio lugar a la Wave 3.

Como ahora todas las actualizaciones del dashboard vienen en la partición de video, cada vez que sale una nueva actualización la estructura de la partición varía, por lo que nos encontramos con un error en ABGX, diciendo que esa partición no coincide con las conocidas, y en nuestra consola, que se niega a arrancar el juego.

Ésto no significa que el juego esté mal ripeado y que Microsoft nos vaya a cazar por no usar un juego 100% stealth, simplemente es un juego con la actualización de agosto de 2009 metida donde hasta el momento venia la de otoño de 2008.

POR ESO NECESITAMOS ACTUALIZAR ABGX Y EL FIRMWARE DEL LECTOR, porque ambos detectan que la partición de video ha cambiado, y la consideran erronea, cuando lo cierto es que el ripeo sigue siendo stealth, solo que tenemos que explicarles que eso no es un error, sino un juego Wave 4.

Aqui es donde entra el juego el activate.iso.
El activate.iso simplemente le indica al lector que se relaje, que deje de comprobar capas y que se dedique a arrancar el juego.
Evidentemente esto es una temeridad, puesto que puede que el juego esté mal ripeado, pero para eso tenemos ABGX, para contrastar con otros users que el checksum del juego es válido, descargando el .ini de sus servidores y haciendo un chequeo completo para verificar que estamos ante un juego stealth al que ABGX todavía no sabe verificarle la Wave 4.

En un primer lugar se dijo que todos los firmwares 1.51 podrían arrancar juegos con Wave 4 porque eran firmwares más relajados que el 1.6.
Al final esto se desmintió y sólo es posible con unidades Hitachi.

Por último, los juegos son Wave 4 porque incluyen la actualización de Agosto de 2009, que cierra la puerta al homebrew, y no se deben confundir términos.
Una cosa es actualizar el lector para jugar a los juegos Wave 4, que no es obligatorio (si tienes hitachi 1.51 o 1.6+activate.iso para el resto) aunque sí muy recomendable; y otra cosa bien distinta es actualizar la consola con el último dashboard, incluido en toda esta hornada de juegos que es OBLIGATORIO para que estos juegos arranquen y que cierra la puerta al exploit JTAG que PUEDE llegar a permitir la carga de código sin firmar.

Lo que nos atañe en éste hilo es lo primero, poder cargar juegos sin activate.iso ni nada, asegurando que tanto ABGX como el lector de nuestra consola comprobarán que el juego es stealth antes de dejarnos jugar.

http://www.gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=187512 escribió:14:10 IRC:
c4eva:\ixtreme 1.61 Yes thats its name, will be the out by next week
or the end of the month it all depends on how i feels...

Traducción por Euler.


-Principio de listado de juegos con Wave 4 funcionales con iX1.51 para Hitachi, iX.1.6 mas activate.iso en todos los lectores menos Hitachi y iX.1.61 de Samsung / BenQ.

Fairytale Fights. Lanzamiento:23/10/2009
Cars: Race o Rama. Lanzamiento:30/10/2009
Tekken 6. Lanzamiento:30/10/2009
Dragon Age: Origins. Lanzamiento: 05/11/2009
Madagascar Kartz. Lanzamiento:06/11/2009
Divinity 2: Ego Draconis. Lanzamiento: 06/11/2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Lanzamiento: 10/11/2009

Posiblemente todos los que salgan después de estas fechas.

Info de la mano de ABGX360:

2009/10/15:

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Wave 4 and YOU v1.1 by Kushan
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A n00b's guide to everything Wave4

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What IS "Wave 4"?
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A regular, retail Xbox 360 disk is split into several sections or "partitions". One of these partitions is known as the "video partition". Before March 2009, this partition simply contained a video that would play if you inserted the disk into a regular DVD player, the video would basically tell you that you were an idiot and need to put it into an Xbox 360 to play it.

One of the ways Microsoft can detect you being a dirty, filthy pirate is to scan this video to make sure it matches with what is supposed to be on the disk, so to protect you, the firmware itself does a quick checksum of it and if it doesn't match with known video data, it wont boot. Every now and then, this video changed, with each change being called a "wave".

Normally, system updates (dashboard updates) are stored on a different part of the disk, taking up about 8Mb of space, however in November 2008 Microsoft launched the "NXE", a completely new Dashboard for the system. Along with the new dash came Avatars, making the whole update substantially larger (somewhere in the region of 130MB). This meant the update wouldn't fit on the disk in the same partition that previous updates were located and so instead the update was placed within the video partition. This was known as "wave 3" and hit around March 2009.

As Microsoft now distributes new Dashboard updates in the same partition, each time the 360 gets a software update, we will see a new "wave" a few months later. There was a Dashboard update in August 2009 and that is now being distributed with the latest games. This is known as Wave4. Its identical to Wave3, except the video partition now contains the August 09 Dash update. The first known game to have this was Cars Race-o-rama.

Now, its important to remember that iXtreme was designed to PROTECT you and part of that protection is the "video partition" check. When this video partition changes, the firmware doesn't know if its just a new "wave" or if its a bad rip and thus opts to not boot it.

When wave 3 hit, iXtreme 1.51 was quickly released to tackle the problem. This was a temporary fix only, the firmware simply does not do the video partition check and thus boots ANY wave, up to wave 4 and beyond.

However, this in itself is "unsafe". If the disk is fine, then you'll be fine, but if the video partition is in any way corrupt, iXtreme 1.51 will still boot it and thus you could be detected by Microsoft and banned. This also is not helped by the fact that some impatient, idiotic people decided to "patch" Wave3 games with Wave2 data in order to get iXtreme 1.5 or below to boot it. This is a great way to get yourself banned and thus iXtreme 1.6 was created.

ix1.6 will only boot games that have the CORRECT video partition, up to and including wave 3. This means that if you have a Wave 3 game that was patched with a Wave 2 video partition (aka a great big bullseye for Microsoft to target), iXtreme 1.6 will not boot it but ix1.51 will.

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Will I need a new firmware to play Wave 4 games?
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IF you are on iXtreme 1.5 or below, Wave3 games will not boot for you and thus Wave4 games will not either. In this case, YES you need to update your firmware!

IF you are on iXtreme 1.51, then ANY wave will boot fine, including Wave4 however you must be EXTRA careful as you are not protected against corrupt or incorrect video partitions. This is one of the many reasons to always use abgx360. If a game is fully verified, playing it on iXtreme 1.51 is just as safe as playing it on iXtreme 1.6 - this includes Wave4 games.

IF you are on iXtreme 1.6, you can ALSO play Wave 4 and above games, however you need to use a special activation disk to do so. This was added to the firmware specifically for this eventuality - the disk activates "one-shot-boot" mode, essentially it allows iX1.6 to boot any game you insert into the drive, even if its not properly stealthed. You simply insert the disk into the drive, let it spin up (it will say "play DVD"), then swap in your Wave4 game. You will need to do this each time you want to play a Wave 4 (or above) game. Don't worry, if the game has all the necessary stealth data, then iX1.6 will still use it, so if you boot a VERIFIED Wave4 game using this method, you should be just as safe as you were booting a verified wave 3 game.

The disk is available here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5ed5xr and needs to be burned to a DUAL LAYER disk, but entirely on the first layer (do not set a layerbreak and when imgburn prompts, tell it to burn to the first layer only).

A new iXtreme firmware will eventually be released with strict wave4 support (no activation disk needed), however some time needs to pass before this happens. Although Cars: Race-o-Rama was the first game to appear in the wild with Wave 4 video, it was not necessarily the first game to be pressed with it. Also, during a wave transition there are often a few exceptions to the process which also need to be known about. There will be no timeframe for this, so do not ask.

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What about abgx360? Will that need to be updated?
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abgx360 v1.0.1 (latest as of time of writing) does not recognise a "wave 4" image and will report a POSSIBLE corrupt/bad PFI/Video partition, however the program is actually still completely compatible with Wave 4 games. Once a Wave4 title is verified, abgx360 will still download the .ini from the database and fully check out the image. If the image matches and the game is verified, then it has also passed the stealth checks and thus it is as safe to play as any wave3 or wave2 game.

abgx360 v1.0.2 will be released with full Wave4 recognition in a similar manner to the new iXtreme; that is once the transition date is known and any exceptions are noted.

En desarrollo nuevo Ixtreme y nuevo abgx360, segun dicen, aunque el juego sea wave 4 si pasa las comprobaciones del abgx360 y usas el activation disc en 1.6, es tan seguro como jugar a un juego con wave 3

¿Y no van a sacar una forma de parchear los juegos para poder usarlos directamente con el firm 1.60 tal y como hicieron el 1.50 y wave3?

Un saludo

Puedes cargarlos con el disco de carga. Te descargas la última release de tu firmware, grabas el .iso en un dvd de doble capa como si de un juego se tratase, y lo metes en la xbox360 justo antes de meter cada juego wave4 al que quieras jugar. Lo que comentan es que si el disco está bien grabado y tiene stealth actuará como tal, pero si está corrupto o no tiene stealth también cargará, por lo que has de tener cuidado con lo que metes. Eso si, si no conectas al live despreocupate porque traga con todo
PD: Estos juegos nuevos incluyen la actualización que elimina el homebrew!