Thread: How to play pirate games on XBOX360

Originally Posted by ABD

ill answer question one for you. Not all the dvd drives in the xbox 360 have those drives. The only way to make positively sure what type of dvd drive you have is by opening up your xbox (if you dont want to open it up to look at what type of drive you have, then why are you wanting to flash it :P)

I was asking if I could identify what drive the XBOX360 has by looking at the box before buying it to avoid buying one with an unmoddable Philips drive. I know I have to open the consola in order to flash it lol.
Thanks for all your help

you can try using this site Xbox 360 DVD Drive Database it should help you identify the drive.
all the info you need should be on the box and you want to look out for the team I.D and lot #
those are the most important, try and match them to one you find in the store and this should
help you avoid the lite-on. the older the better the chance it wont be the lite-on. but I hope this
helps you.

What seems to be the problem? It seems relatively simple if you read the guides right. I have done a couple of dozen boxes myself, and came across 1 that I could'nt do. As of know it's the lite-on with the new motherboard, Anything after august or september i think. Samsung, Benq, and Lite-On almost uses the same technique. U will need a pci to sata card with via 6421 chipset. Hitachi are alittle different, but are able to be flashed with sata motherboard via , firmware toolbox. Gotta get them in mode B. Also you have to get the key from the drive first, before u start flashing anything, or you'll be without an xbox, cuz u cant just put any other drive in their. Kind of like a lock of motherboard and dvd drive. Burning games are really easy, you can do yourself. I recomend Verbabim DL made from singapore. Singapore, makes a different and very good disc. Expensive though. Use img burn and burn the dvd file, or use xbox backup creator. Alway's use ixtreme firmware, but due to recent ban's, it's really unclear if it is stealth firmware, or something else. I would hold off a bit, till new firmware kicks in. If you need any help, pm I'll help with what ever i can also.

Pretty sure I just bricked my hitachi :( Everything was going well and then Jungle Flasher froze, after a while it came back as unsuccessful and then my 360 drive stopped working and the power light stayed flashing.

Apparently I was not as skilled as I thought. C'est la vie

At what point did it fail? were you writing the firmware to the drive when it failed?
and have you tested yet it to make sure it can still play games?

It had just completed a succesful stabilty check and started the firmware procces when it became non responsive.

I have not checked if it can still play legit games, I gotta pull the drive open manually. Honestly I just kinda assumed it wouldn't, but I guess it's silly for me not to check.

question. when doing the whole dumping and writing process, did you happen to use the 59/58 drive revision? im just checking because your drive might be a 79/78 it should say the version number somewhere on the label on the drive.

Nope, My drive was actually 47, so I went with that.