xbox 360 backups

[jester20001]

I have just got my 360 modified so that I can play backups of my originals.
is anyone else backing up theres as Im quite new to console mods and may need some help if things dont go smoothly (and they often dont with me).

I have the instructions and the software and will be taking the top of my pioneer writer tonight so see if it works.

If anyone knows any does and dont they would be greatfully received.

cheers.

[jonc]

goggle or go and look at the torrent world

[jester20001]

where would I find the torrent world, is it near middle earth?

[wobblebottom]

Hi jester.. ( congratulations :ok by the way x)

I pressume he meant search thru the many many torrents available of xbox360 games available on the internet.. (torrents are a way of downloading)

best place is definately xbox scene for help and advice for backing up all games that you own etc..

if you are after new games to create then search thru various torrent sites, newsgroups etc..

Wobbs

[jonc]

ye but dont say you want to download game or anything like that on xbox-scene

[jester20001]

thanks wobble, it feels strange now Im married like I have to grow up or something but I dont want to !!!!!

I dont have internet at home until the end of the month cos we recently moved so its killing me, I keep logging in from work but its a hard life at the moment !!!

I have manged to rip disks I think but I cant burn them, let me tell you what I have done.

Install WXripper, taken the dual layer pioneer apart, I bought it pre hacked as it were with the correct bios flash on so it should be ok.

I put in an original disk click on find luky number click on stop, take the top off put PGR3 in click on spin, click on start dump then wait.

once done I have a 7.5gb iso fine which I try and burn with clode cd 5 but it gets to the end and after 40 mins says failed, I have some lovely coaters now only £1.20 each.

I think it might be the type of disks I have any suggestions ??

[pogg]

make surenothing but your anti virus is running on your pc i kept making coasters and when i turned everything off even the noip all was ok allways worked and no more coasters {turn everything off }:ok

[thetarget]

i burn all mine at 4X must have had about 3 coasters out of 60 games :biggrin

[ImCal]

I brought a 360 yesterday afternoon from rGos spent 420 on console and extras steering wheel 4 games etc etc

Where did u get your box done m8? and how much did it cost you?, i was quoted 50quid

i may do it myself this afternoon..

[wobblebottom]

mmmmmmm 50 where?

Kanection or whitedog?

[thetarget]

i done mine myself mate cost=alot of reading

£50 is too much mate but it is abit of a pain to do, but in the end all you are doing is flashing the dvd with new firmware


_http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showforum=169

check out the stickys mate theres one with guides for each dvd drive

you had best try to work out what dvd drive you have first (without opening the box ) ...when you open it it damages ms stickers/tags and voids the waranty

[thetarget]

oops i forgot to say.. i would play the box for or so make sure it wirks fine mate

[ImCal]

mmmmmmm 50 where?

Kanection or whitedog?



Nikki that will be Kanection ... just thought i would ask..


i done mine myself mate cost=alot of reading

£50 is too much mate but it is abit of a pain to do, but in the end all you are doing is flashing the dvd with new firmware


_http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showforum=169

check out the stickys mate theres one with guides for each dvd drive

you had best try to work out what dvd drive you have first (without opening the box ) ...when you open it it damages ms stickers/tags and voids the waranty



Ive got the video m8 from a pal and im already a xbox scn member so i was going to check it out, thanks for the reminding though m8 appreciate it, im 99.9% sure its the hitachi drive, but will be triple checking, i have no problem opening it up etc did my first xbox years ago with soldering iron etc, but eye sight has gone...

[ImCal]

Think im going to cheat and buy the X360 USB been told this can be used to flash the firmware and do a lot more besides etc.

[thetarget]

don't know much about the hitachi i was lucky and ended up with a samsung
ms 25 :biggrin

when you do flash it make sure you remove all other ide and sata devices from your pc lol i already flashed my pc dvd drive with xtreme xbox firmware by mistake lol by not doing that


also use the best media verbatium DL

[ImCal]

Cheers m8, just opened it up its the new Hitachi 78fk drive...which seems to be the standard now...so the above item wont work..

I only ever use Verbs m8,:biggrin

Once this is modded does it mean i can just dl games from the ngroups burn to dl discs and play them or does something else needs doing?

cheers

[thetarget]

there always pre patched so just burn with clone cd and play :ok

[ImCal]

Handy to know - cant put it down at the moment busy playing lost planet....:biggrin

[thetarget]

playing this myself

_http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1369/Lost-Planet/p1/

you should try pray mate its a great game

[ImCal]

playing this myself

_http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1369/Lost-Planet/p1/

you should try pray mate its a great game


Yeah i brought pray yesterday as well and tomb raider, when 5minutes turns into several hours, then all nights...then you know theyre good games:ok

[SKUNK1111]

I use datawrite 25 for 19 quid.
-http://rkmedia.co.uk/blank-media/product_info.php?products_id=43&osCsid=d376d687d5a86987fa22d69af5bd2e97
never had a problem with these disc 100% success.

[ImCal]

I only ever buy verbs, But been reading good reviews about the Aone 8x Double Layer and at 8quidish a pack of 10 and made by ricoh and seem very compat with the 360, i may be tempted to buy a pack and try.

[thetarget]

so have you flashed it ?

[ImCal]

Yeah currently playing startrek - wow the hi def is movie like..

[jonc]

I want my one upgrade to 5.xtreme but i havent got the balls to do it my self

[jester20001]

had mine flashed by a shop in sheffield cost £50.
glad I did cos they broke it doing it and had to give me a new one.
become good mates with the shop owner now so with the discounts he gives me on disks and cases Im amking the £50 back.

just bought a new dvd rom drive of t'bay so I can rip games, I will keep you posted how I get one.

not much good with consoles, give me a server anyday !!

[jester20001]

finally copied my first game!!!

bought a samsung dvd rom with some flashed firmware off ebay for £18 then ran xbox backup creator to create an image.

it creates a 7,5gb image in 15 minutes which I think is very quick.
The used clone cd to write the image to a traxdata purple DL DVD using a pioner 111 with flashed firmware that took 50 mins.

just played the copy (project gotham) on xbox live no problem.

after all this messing, including taking the drive apart and borrowing 24 season 2 diak 3 as read on a forum I am well chuffed.

going to clone all my originals now!! and then some.

the whole lot cost me £18 plus postage for the dvdrom £30 for the writer and £15 for 10 disks so not bad really.

going to try the wii now as the wife just bought me one for my birthday.

[ImCal]

Anyway Brought some of those Aone disks made by Ricoh - worked in the dbox 360 like a dream 7.ish for 10, wrote to the disc using my samsung writer took roughly 15minutes to do so at 8 speed.

got 3 original games and 7 back ups....:evil:

tempted to trade in my 3 originals.

[thetarget]

is right mate your all sorted then

got 3 originals and about 60 backups lmao



is star trek worth downloading it has bad reviews ? cant always trust reviews

[SKUNK1111]

it killin me in hard drives havin all these 360 images backed up.

[jester20001]

got star trek last week, never been a treckybut thought I would try it.
didnt like it really thought it was very boring.
but if you have th ebandwidth why not !!

[ImCal]

is right mate your all sorted then

got 3 originals and about 60 backups lmao



is star trek worth downloading it has bad reviews ? cant always trust reviews


The graphics are ok, the game play is pants....looked cool for a short while, became boring after 10 minutes.

[jonc]

I was thinking of getting a Backup sammy drive of ebay but not sure what there like any seen them
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-XBOX-360-TOSHIBA-SAMSUNG-DVD-DRIVE-ROM-VER-MS25_W0QQitemZ250078079633QQihZ015QQcategoryZ11284 6QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
or is it cheaper just to get a lens to tell you the truth when it comes to stuff like this i aint got a clue thats one of the reason am to scared to upgrade my firmware

[thetarget]

i already replaced the lens on mine :biggrin was easy cost £15



if you dont have a clue about things like this mate you had best take you box to somone that does to get it flashed

if you mess it up you could endup with a dvd drive that has about as much use as a brick aka "bricked drive"

also to replace a dvd drive in a 360 you need to extract the firmware
from your old drive first, there is a code in it that makes that drive work
with your xbox motherboard if you don't have that code it don't matter how many new drive's you buy they wont work

lol anyway you would have to flash the drive with the firmware
same as with a hacked firmware.

[jonc]

Where did you get your lens from and was it easyer than replacing a new drive ....When i got my x60 the lad give me a backup of my original firmware

[ImCal]

They sell the replacement lens on ebay ive seen them ie

_http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-XBOX-360-LASER-LENS-SF-HD63-SAMSUNG-HITACHI-LG_W0QQitemZ130075289780QQihZ003QQcategoryZ112848Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[thetarget]

best thing to do is to take out the laser you have now and on the back of it is a small number staped into the plastic thats the model number


use that to make sure you get the right one there not all the same

i got mine here
_http://www.mrmodchips.co.uk

on these lens's pcb there is a small blob of solder that needs removing (anti static point) for it to work
if you order from ebay some of the sellers will remove this for a small fee or even for free

[jonc]

Thanks...........are these only for Hithi SF HD-63 drives
from www.mrmodchips.co.uk

[thetarget]

best way to find out is take your laser out and look to see if it has SF HD-63
on the back of it

be carefull not to damage any of the ribbon cable's

its the only sure way to tell

i would just look it takes 10 mins and you can leave the case open to fit the new one when it comes

the SF HD-63 was the same laser that was in my samsung ms25 drive

[countzerouk]

Will these flashed 360s play any region game (assuming monitor is multiformat). I'm seeing loads of USA games on the torrents - will they work?

[thetarget]

only if there multi region i myself only ever download full pal uk games

[countzerouk]

Ta v much

[ImCal]

Decided to put some more games from hdd onto disc last night everyone burned ok burnt at 2speed to make sure and not one is working - comes up with disc needs cleaning yet previous discs play no problems...

i read that they may need a ss.bin file (security file) i came across _http://www.ubclass.org/X360SS/sslist.htm but this link doesnt work for me, anyone else know of else where to get the ss.bin files from..

[ImCal]

bump

[johnno25]

Imcal

Try ___http://ss.softmodfiles.net/___ should have what you need

[ImCal]

cheers m8 much appreciated.