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>> From the readme/nfo: [QUOTE] I made this PGR2 editor about 3 years ago. It sits on the PC, has full FTP functionality, so you can go from PC to XBOX via ethernet, and does all the slider-type stuff that people ask for with 2 key extras:
1: A full torque/horsepower graph that can be edited in realtime 2: A peak horsepower/peak torque gear ratio converter, so when you hit peak revs, the next gear will drop you straight into peak torque, so you're always on power. Oh yeah, lots of sliders! [/QUOTE]
>> Kernel Master informed us he released a new version of EkszBox-ABX - an audio extraction/conversion/injection tool which supports multiple xbox/xbox360 audio/container formats. What's new/fixed: * 40 formats supported. * Adf support (GTA: Vice City - PC ver). * Big support [Beta stage] (EA). * Cab support (Forza Motorsport). * Sh4 support (Silent Hill 4). * Wpx support (Capcom Vs SNK 2 EO). * X360 Xwc support (Darkness). * Improved X360 Xwb compatibility. * Fixed/Improved Fsb support- Full BioShock support (PC). * Folders contained in container formats are created (rfa, rcf, pod, piz, map, lug, cab). * Many different spec'd Wma's are now supported in Xwb FileSwap (mono/48/22.5khz etc.) * Hybrid mode SCX now always uses medium buffer size. * SCX now calculates Ogg filesizes based on frame info. * Built in media player which supports audio playback from most Xbox container game formats Plus support for: Mp3, Ogg^, Pcm, Wma, XbAdpcm, Asf, Avi, M2v^, Mpg, Mpeg, Wmv, M3u. * Media player playlist looping & loop region support. * Xbox Adpcm codec included: Installer can auto-install/auto-uninstall it. * List has been made virtual (Very fast). * Functional list item renaming. * New gui. * Easy window moving. * Fixed minimized extract dialog close glitch. * Files are now numbered according to the max number of files contained. * Exe file drop support. * Better drag & drop implementation (Inc. folder support). * New options inc. AutoSCX, AutoGui-Clear, AutoXpand, Show Hints. * Exe is no longer compressed (Slightly better general performance). * Renaming files has been improved, works properly with Scx now also. Put %n in rename files textbox for number, %a for archive name, %f for filename: e.g Music [%n] - (%a). * Certain Xwb info shown in gui (Looping/remove loop tail etc.) was not being read in release version- fixed. * Disabled fileswap (Menu) for X360 Xwb's, as they were never supported. * SpeedHack now sets nearly all status message pause times to zero. * Illegal filename characters are disabled from being entered. * 99 character text edit limit imposed. * Max path check upon file extraction. * Existing folder check & folder creation error checking. * Various more idiot protection mechanisms. * Removed a number of redundant options. * Fixed: FileSwap drag & drop bug. * Fixed: Main popup menu appearing when right clicking buttons/textboxes. * Fixed: Various error checking bugs. * Fixed: Minor memory leak contained in the extraction code. * Added BioShock (PC), Capcom Vs SNK 2 EO, GTA: Vice City (PC) to the Xct database. * Note: Don't use old settings files with newer versions as it may cause problems.
Microsoft Gets Tough on Naughty Gamer Mottos: 24h Ban
>> From joystiq.com: [QUOTE] Even though your "Bros b4 hos" Gamer Motto may be both poignant and accurate, you may want to rethink it if you plan on playing on Xbox Live this weekend. Savings sultan CheapyD warns that his account was suspended for around 24 hours for his seemingly innocuous motto of "Konichiwa, bitches!" Another user on the site got a similar punishment for "called the hit ŝoop," which is probably a bit more fair. [/QUOTE]
>> From Team Xtender: [QUOTE] XCM 360 Air tube (White LED) will be released soon XCM 360 Airtube wind tunnel, match perfectly with our XCM 360 replacement case ,or combine with XCM core cooler (Laser core) for outstanding outlook.
First actual pictures of Xbox 360 Arcade bundle leaked, with packing list
>> From arstechnica.com: [QUOTE] Here it is, straight from our super-secret inside source. A few things are now confirmed: the system will come with a composite cable, both the system and the controller are still white, and a Pac-Man and Uno game are coming with the system. Old news for us, but it's good to have confirmation.
If this launches at the $279.99 price point that we're being told to expect, it's going to be a very attractive bundle for parents this holiday season.
>> A few weeks ago we told you the Xenon360 replacement cases for the Xbox360 were finally ready. In meantime we received samples of the case from xbox-central.com and below you can already find a few high-res pictures of the Black Xenon360. A Crystal Clear version is also available, we'll show you pictures of that one soon. The case features a textured deep matt black plastic that looks really nice. Unlike the original case the Xenon360 does not have those irritating clips on the back of the case, so re-opening this case should go a lot faster. The ventilation holes on the back and sides are also bigger that the original case which probably results in better air in/outtake and thus better cooling. The case comes without the plastic vents though, so you'll have to use the ones from your original case. A full review of this case will follow later.
Front and back of the Black Xenon360. This case is currently only available for non-HDMI models. The back just opens and closes without having to '(un)clip' or (un)screw anything left: half-installed Xenon360 | right: close-up of the textured plastic. left: side of the Xenon360. As you can see there's spot in the middle. A jewel will fit there, but those weren't ready yet when they shipped us the sample. They told us it'll probably look a bit like the Xbox1 s-controller jewel but then in black/silver and with 'xenon360' written on it. As soon as we know exactly how it looks we'll let you know. | right: Xenon360 next to Xbox360 Elite. The Xenon360 features deeper black than the Elite
Microsoft Working on a PlayStation Home-Like Service?
>> From teamxbox.com: [QUOTE] Daniel Schiappa, general manager of strategy for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, the unit responsible for Xbox and Zune, told attendees at a virtual worlds conference in Austin that "by next year, you'll probably know more about why I'm up here."
Austin360.com reports that later Schiappa hinted in an interview that Microsoft is considering launching some sort of virtual world offering that would span across its gaming, PC and mobile device offerings. Schiappa said that most likely, any foray by Microsoft into the world of avatars or social networking would begin with PCs, then move across Xbox and finally into its mobile phone business. [/QUOTE]
>> From next-gen.biz: [QUOTE] Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian has forecast a 30 percent year-over-year rise in North American September software sales, largely driven by the release of Halo 3.
Microsoft recently announced that Halo 3 had grossed $300m at retail by early October. Sebastian believes the majority of that figure came from North America and suggests that Halo 3 will be the primary factor in ballooning September software sales. The release of the Bungie-developed shooter, along with prior price cuts to the Xbox 360 range, leads Sebastian to believe that Microsoft's hardware sales will be up for September [/QUOTE]
>> From gamespot.com: [QUOTE] Now comes further evidence that the Core's days are indeed numbered. Photos obtained by GameSpot show that retailers are already erecting displays touting the Core's long-rumored replacement, the Xbox 360 Arcade SKU. As previously speculated, the display shows the console will come bundled with a wireless controller, a 256MB memory card, and five arcade games. Microsoft declined to offer comment on the photo of the console.
Kreon's Alternative Firmware for Samsung SH-D162C/SH-D163A v1.00
>> Kreon has released a new version of the alternate hacked firmware for the Samsung PC SH-D162C and SH-D163A DVD-drives. From Readme/NFO: [QUOTE] A year has past, and the time has come for a small maintenance release. While the V0.80 release has performed rather well, there's always room for improvements, even though most of them are well hidden and probably won't be noticed by most people.
Changes/fixes in this release.. * Major cleanup of code - the SH-D162C and SH-D163A now share the same code. This has been a painful job to do, but will make future updates so much easier to handle. * The firmware is now based on the official SB01 firmware as opposed to SB00 for earlier releases. * Fixed a potential problem with the way that the RPC patching was done. * The laser head is now parked in a known and safe position following SS extraction. This should fix the clicking noise, that some people experienced from time to time. * RPC settings stored in flash mem of the drive is now reset. This is not important for the patched firmware, but will leave the RPC settings as they came from the factory, if someone, for some strange reason, should decide to go back to a non patched firmware. * The feature list has been expanded to hold seperate feature entries for XBOX and XBOX360 * Fixed a bug that caused flashing of the drive to fail under some conditions (read "updating from V0.80.." below)
This is what you get.. * Full challenge/response functionality. * Two types of unlock for XBOX 360 game discs. One for making xtreme style images and one for making wxripper style images. Both types of iso can be made using isobuster. Ripping using wxripper isn't supported for the time being * A 'lock' function that will cancel any enabled unlock state. This can be very useful for custom applications. * 'Error skipping' which basically speeds up the error handling of the drive. A complete wxripper style image (including video) can be obtained in 15-16 minutes, when error skipping is enabled. Getting through the critical area of LBA 19408-20479 will take you more than 20 minutes alone, if error skipping is disabled :( * A much more streamlined command interface which is good news if you intend to write an application that makes use of the drives extra features. * The drive will default to unlock state 2 and error skip enabled when a 360 media is inserted. You can in other words use isobuster to obtain a wxripper style image without issuing any commands to the drive :) * RPC1 support (RPC-2 actually but with automatic change of drive region and RCE support) [/QUOTE]
Official Site: n/a, by Kreon on xboxhacker.net (thx to ivc for link) Download: n/a (might be illegal under DMCA/EUCD)
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>> From xbox360fanboy.com: [QUOTE] Back in July, Microsoft dropped the price of the Xbox 360 HD DVD player add-on to $179 in the US and threw in five free HD DVD movies as part of the Perfect Offer promotion. Well, that promotion was scheduled to end on September 30th, but now it has been re-instated until next year with a new set of movies to choose from. The new five free HD DVD offer started October 1st and runs through February 28th, 2008 where with any new HD DVD player purchase, customers will get to choose five free movies. [/QUOTE]
Xbox 360 secrets: After Falcon comes Jasper with 65nm GPU
>> From Dean Takahashi at Mercury News: [QUOTE] Jasper is the code name for the next motherboard for the Xbox 360. It will becoming next August, in time for next year's holiday season. Jasper is going to have a 65-nanometer graphics chip from ATI Technologies, as well as smaller memory chips. That isn't much information, but it's enough to tell us about their cost-reduction plan. If you ask me, it's a bit of a slow pace.
I don't know why it will take Microsoft essentially three years to cost reduce the size of the graphics chip through a manufacturing shrink. It doesn't seem like they're in a hurry to launch a redesigned Xbox 360 graphics chip, considering that Intel introduced its first 65-nm chips a long time ago. ATI uses TSMC to make its chips out of Taiwan, and TSMC hasn't been the fastest at moving to 65-nm manufacturing. I understand these tasks are difficult and they take a lot of engineering resources. Microsoft has had to divert a lot of engineers to debugging problems with Xbox 360 reliability. Even so, you would think that they would have moved faster, since the move to 65-nm graphics chip will likely be one of the best things they can do to improve the reliability.
Here's something that Xbox 360 buyers will want to know. Both Falcon and its predecessor Zephyr (used in the Xbox 360 Elite) have different thermal solutions than the original Xbox 360. You've seen the heat sinks in the cut-out photos posted elsewhere. The Microsoft engineers believe those heat sinks will be sufficient as a solution for keeping Xbox 360s from overheating. From their point of view, you don't have to wait until Jasper to get a reliable machine. [/QUOTE]
>> From next-gen.biz: [QUOTE] Yaris, an Arcade racing shooter that is free to download via Xbox Live in the US and Canada, is the first advergame to be distributed over Microsoft's online games service, reports the New York Times.
"People can time shift, they can do all sorts of different things to avoid advertising," said Kim McCullough, corporate manager for marketing communications at Toyota. "That's why we have to move beyond traditional advertising to do things that are really engaging for people." [/QUOTE]
Janco: GTA IV Could Reach 6-9 Million In First Week Sales
>> From gamasutra.com: [QUOTE] Janco Partners' Mike Hickey estimates 4.4 million Halo 3 units sold in its first week, noting that the figure corresponds to a 67% attach rate to U.S. Xbox 360s and 46% for Europe and the U.S. combined. That's far higher than the 3.3 million units Halo 2 sold in its first three weeks -- a mere 30% attach rate to the U.S. Xbox installed base at the time.
Saying that even anticipating a 20% attach rate for GTA IV was exceedingly conservative, Hickey noted that while it may not reach the 46% rate Halo 3 achieved, even a 30% attach rate would mean first week sales of 6.2 million units -- far above Halo's own. "If the upcoming release of GTA IV attached at the same rate as Halo 3," said Hickey, "the title could conceivably ship 9.5 million units of game in the first week, producing an astonishing $466 million in sales," concluding that the title, despite the delay, could have a "profound impact" on Take-Two relative to current financial projections. [/QUOTE]
Xbox 360 Sales to See Minimal Impact from Cheaper PS3, says Analyst
>> From biz.gamedaily.com: [QUOTE] According to Jesse Divnich, an analyst with the simExchange (an online prediction market for the game industry), Microsoft's newly announced holiday bundles (which include Forza Motorsport 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance) will lead to a slight dip in U.S. Xbox 360 hardware sales as consumers wait for the new bundles at the end of the month. The prediction market shows a decreased forecast for Xbox 360 sales in October from an expected 315,000 units down to 304,000 units.
That said, Divnich noted that "Microsoft will more than make up for the lost 10,000 sales in November and December when the bundle is released," and that the bundle "will ultimately increase Microsoft's market share in the home console market and will continue to widen the gap between the Xbox 360 and Sony's PS3."
"The prediction market is expecting a $399 PS3 to have minimal impact on Xbox 360 sales overall," Divnich commented to GameDaily BIZ. [/QUOTE]
>> T3CH released a new SVN compile (rev10457) of XboxMediaCenter(info) for Xbox1. This T3CH-compile is a complete snapshot of what is in SVN at the time the build was compiled, with just a few small additions.
Special Notes and Added/Noteworthy/XML/Script changes: * added: ftp client can now do active mode. use url syntax ftp://host/dir?active[=ipaddress:port] * added: <angle> tag to container labels. * added: allow filesystem to handle mms:// urls by falling back to their http:// variant * added: complete thumb management for plugins in the video library. note: the video library plugin entry has a separate thumb from the media source * added: plugins now inherit folder.jpg or default.tbn thumbs * added: video plugins node to video library * Apple Movie Trailers (AMT) script updated to rev1526; now includes AMT plugin installer. Separate AMT plugin removed. * I'm including the XBMC Win32 PC environment.exe that is meant for skinners & python developers, read more about the concept here. It was built using Microsoft DirectX Summer 2004 SDK. * I've tweaked the win32 run_me_first.bat so it runs and then unmounts the virtual drives when you exit.
Keep in mind this is a SVN snapshot of the current development tree. It's not an official (stable) point release. Use only if you know what you are doing.
>> Maximus released 360 Firmware Toolbox(info) v4.5 - a graphical tool to handle several common dvd-drive firmware tasks. From Readme/NFO: [QUOTE] MAIN NOTE: THIS TOOL DOES NOT MAKE YOUR VAD6038 DRIVES RUN BACKUPS ON ANY WAY, THERE IS NO RELEASED IXTREME NOR XTREME FIRMWARES FOR VAD6038. THIS TOOL NEITHER ALLOW DIRECT READING/FLASHING OF THE VAD6038 FIRMWARE YOU STILL NEED DUMP THE FIRMWARE WITH DOSFLASH Tools or with external programmer.
WHATS NEW ON V4.50: - FIXED: Properly support Handling of VAD6038 Firmwares (see notes). - FIXED: Previously Hitachi spoofed drives were not visible on toolbox anymore now you can see it and unspoof it or re-spoof them - FIXED: Several other bugs
Release Notes: The VAD6038 firmwares are tricky, the KEY could be placed on too many places, and the code locations could vary a lot between same ROM drives. (Like on Hitachi 78/79 drives but on VAD6038 there are a lot o of posibilities) This Toolbox support the 2 retail VAD6038 firmware versions known till now. (62430C and 64930C). You can now: - Read / Extract Keys - Spoof Samsung/Hitachi drive as Benq - Spoof Benq drive as Hitachi/Samsung [/QUOTE]
Official Site: n/a (by Maximus) Download: n/a (might be illegal under DMCA/EUCD) Full Readme: xbins.org
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>> From engadget.com: [QUOTE] As reader Ty claims, apparently the above Xbox 360 melting occurred when he and his pals, setting up to conduct a furious Halo 3 LAN match, ran out of space enough for an Xbox everywhere in the house except on the kitchen stove. Someone turns the range on and presto change-o: grilled Xbox. Ok, the story doesn't quite add up, but there's no denying the box is melted.
Xbox Rewards Buyers this Holiday with Two Free Games
>> From the press release: [QUOTE] Hot on the heels of a price reduction for all Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft is now giving holiday buyers even more value by including two great games with every Xbox 360 console and Xbox 360 Elite, a retail savings of $90 for consumers. The acclaimed "Forza Motorsport 2" (Microsoft Game Studios) and "Marvel Ultimate Alliance" (Activision) will both be included for the recently reduced prices of $349.99 (U.S.) for Xbox 360 and $449.99 (U.S.) for Xbox 360 Elite. Both bundles will be available retail-wide by the end of October.
Xbox 360 offers the best value this holiday and is the only place you can play all the titles in the greatest holiday line-up of video game in history. This line-up includes "Halo 3" (MGS), which became the fastest-selling video game ever and is making history as one of the biggest entertainment launches of all time.
"Halo 3" (MGS) is just one title in an incredible holiday line-up that are all only available on one game platform, Xbox 360. Starting with "Madden NFL 08" (EA Sports), Xbox 360 has an unprecedented string of no less than seven blockbuster titles, each of which we expect to sell at least a million units, including "BioShock" (2K Games), the record breaking "Halo 3" (GS) "Project Gotham Racing 4" (MGS), "Mass Effect" (MGS), "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock" (Activision) and "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" (Activision).
Xbox 360 is home to the most critically acclaimed next generation games according to Metacritic.com, the leading aggregator of game reviews from more than 100 publications. Of the top 30 next generation game titles on Metacritic.com, 21 are on Xbox 360 and five games exclusive to Xbox 360 score above 90 out of 100. In fact, "Forza Motorsport 2" (MGS) has received an aggregate review score of 90, producing a "Universal Acclaim" rating.
The most-respected game reviewers have spoken and according to them, Xbox 360 has more than double the games of the Playstation 3 and Wii receiving a score of 90 or higher. [/QUOTE]
>> From TMF on xboxhacker.net The Philips DROM6316 drive is still using x360 retail benq firmware and dvd key. A small modification enables to run backups. (please don't ask for the firmware, it's not my project and still not finished!!) Eject function is now almost fixed. Open/close tray options also works through dashboard.
proof video on youtube:
(thanks to Schtrom, Redline99, Uberfry, Tiros, TheXone and some other guys)
X-S note: This is not new information, but a progress update. It will hopefully be possible in the future to run a ixtreme variant on this drive. XBH thread: xboxhacker.net
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