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Dupecheck removed

There has been little updates on this page lately and the dupecheck has not been updated since 2009 and are from now on removed.

Please refer to the great dupecheck at abgx (www.abgx.net)

Xbox 360 Wave4

Yesterday the first game with a new wave "Wave4" appeared on the market, which includes the NXE 8498 update. This will not boot on the newest iXtreme firmware unless you burn the activation disc and run that disc before you boot the game.

As of today there are no news of a new iXtreme firmware update and no signs of a BAN wave, but this could change with time ;-)

New Xbox360 Disc Protection

As FIFA 09 for Xbox 360 is patched with the latest update "New Experience" the flags that specify what media the game is allowed to run from have changed. Originally it was allowed to boot from a standard original Xbox360 disc, however now it is only allowed to boot from a new media type which is basically an updated version of the original Xbox360 disc type.

Those who have ever looked into the depths of the Xbox360 disc authentication scheme know that a "new" type of disc authentication has been in the works since the Xbox360 was released and first showed up on the Hitatchi drive. It is known as the AntiPiracy v2.5 checks, or AP2.5. Is this FIFA\'09 patch a sign that AP2.5 is finally going to see the light of day?

The original Xbox360 game disc was reffered to as DVD-X(info)GD2, which I presume stands for Xbox Game Disc version 2 (with version 1 being the discs used on Xbox1). This new Xbox360 game disc just seems to be reffered to as an "updated DVD-XGD2″ , however to avoid confusion I will call this new disc type "DVD-XGD2.5″.

Based on what I remember from when I looked into the disc authentication, I can see three possibilities. In order of likeliness they are:

1) Possibly the DVD-XGD2.5 disc is actually physically the same as the XGD2 disc but has support for extra unknown challenge/response checks.

DVD-XGD2 discs are authenticated by a series of challenge response pairs. The Xbox360 sends challenges to the dvd-drive and then the drive sends back responses to these challenges based on information on the disc in the dvd drive. If the Xbox360 deems the responses to be correct, the disc is authenticated.

Current Xbox360 dvd-drive hacks work since the challenge/response pairs are stored in the security sector on the disc, meaning that all possible challenge/responses are known in advance. The best way for MS to solve this problem is to use challenge/response pairs that are not known in advance to the dvd-drive. So if a hacked dvd-drive receives an unknown challenge it will not have the correct repsonse to send back, therefore the authentication will fail and the copied game will not boot.

MS could do these extra checks when you connect to Xbox Live, and could even save unknown challenge/response pairs to a file on the flash of your Xbox360 in order to do the checks offline. They could also save challenge/responses to your flash when you update your console via Live or an update on a game disc.

2) Maybe the authentication of DVD-XGD2.5 is a superset of the DVD-XGD2 authentication. Therefore the FIFA 09 game could be pressed on the new DVD-XGD2.5 discs and still pass the DVD-XGD2 authentication checks. Then when MS is ready to initiate AP2.5 checks they could patch the game to only boot if it\'s disc passes the DVD-XGD2.5 authentication.

According to c4eva the AP2.5 threat is real, but only MS knows if it will ever be enabled. DVD-AP2.5 involves host supplied LBA checks, encrypted with AES and LBA\'s are submitted by the host (Xbox 360).

Currently FIFA 09 is fine and xbox live logs can be found at xbins.org.

iXtreme v1.6 in the making

Currently the iXtreme v1.6 is in development now that v1.51 has arrived to all drives, first out is the Benq version that is in testing and then the rest of the drives will follow. The main focus with the new version seems to be the 0800 and SS V2 support that has been added.

Features:

• 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.

ABGX360 v1.0.0 with 3rd wave video partition support

Seacrest released abgx360 v1.0.0, the ultimate tool for Xbox 360 ISOs and Stealth files. This version includes support for 3rd wave that showed up of Tom Clancy HAWX and Major League Baseball 2k9.

Download is available at: www.abgx360.net