Commodore4eva Xtreme Firmware for Hitachi-LG 47D Xbox 360 DVD Drive

[ArroW_64]

>> It's released! Commodore4eva, who already released a modified firmware for the Xbox1 Samsung drive and Toshiba-Samung TS-H943 Xbox 360 drive some time ago, now released a modified firmware of the Hitachi-LG GDR-3120L Xbox360 DVD drive. This release will only work if you have a Hitachi-LG with FW version 47D, FW version 46D will need a different release that will be out later (it patches the onboard FW and does not fully overwrite it, so it's easy to understand you will need a different release for a Hitachi-LG drive with firmware 47D and 46D).
The procedure to flash your drive is easier than with the Toshiba-Samsung drive, because you will just have to update a few banks of your FW flash chip (done fully automagically with a bat file included in the release). This means you will not have to first dump the FW (although we suggest you do this and if you follow the procedures in the Commodore4eva readme below, the xtreme.bat file will auto make a full backup prior flashing. If you want to backup your FW manually ... this guide should help), get the key, patch the key on the modified FW and reflash the whole modified w/ key FW to the drive. Instead you can directly partially 'patchflash' the onboard chip with the modified code keeping the rest of the FW (like drive key) untouched.
Also, unlike the Toshiba-Samung, the Hitachi-LG drive will be recognised by Windows in modeb ('debug'), so it'll make flashing the drive easier and it will not require an additional FW to raw dump your Xbox 360 discs in Windows.
However, just like with the Toshiba-Samsung H943 drive you will have to burn your games on dual-layer DVD+DL discs (even if image is below 4.7gb ... this is because of security checks on layer0) and you'll have to use raw/unedited images patched with the Security Sector (SS) and of the same region as your console (or if game is regionfree that's fine too of course). A good guide on how you can dump your own games, get SS and patch it is available here.

Which drive do you have? Toshiba-Samung or Hitachi-LG ... here the easy 'tray check':



To see the version of FW your Hitachi-LG drives has you will have to open your case (and void warranty) though, as far as I know. The FW (rom) version is written on the sticker on top of the drive (red circle on image below):




Here the Readme/NFO of the release by Commodore4eva on xboxhacker.net:

Here it is, the long awaited World first Xbox 360 backup firmware modification to boot game backups on Hitachi!

Features:
* Boots all Xtreme Xbox 360 backups
* Boots all Xtreme Xbox 1 backups supported by emulator
* Boots all Xbox 360 originals
* Boots all Xbox 1 originals supported by emulator
* Use on Xbox Live at own risk

Technical details:
* Reads Xbox 360 security sector from PSN 04FB1F (Layer 0)
* Reads Xbox 1 security sector from PSN 605FF (Layer 0)
* Flashes sector 9003e000 (Master Checksum)
* Flashes sector 90035000 (Security Sector Read)
* Flashes sector 9001c000 (Drive Response Table Decrypt)
* Flashes sector 90003000 (Custom Code)
* Flashes sector 90027000 (Challenge Response)

Flashing your drive:
xtreme.bat automatically makes a backup of your dvd drive firmware called orig.bin.
Plug SATA cable from DVD drive to PC. Power cable drive still connected to Xbox 360
Ensure Hitachi drive is in 'mode b' either by two wire trick or slax linux boot cd
Go to Windows
Run xtreme.bat batch file from a dos prompt specifing drive letter eg "xtreme.bat g"
All done!
Run restore.bat to revert to original firmware eg "restore.bat g"

Thanks to everyone at Xboxhacker.net for all their discussions. Thanks go to Seventhson for flashsec and memdump and Loser for firmcrypt, without these tools this would not be possible.

Hitachi drive seems to be less tolerant of dual layer media. Try a few times to boot a backup.
Firmware for 46 version will be released soon but I cannot test it. Code is offset slightly throughout the firmware.

[neodeo2]

wo kann mans runterladen ?

/edit @xbins habs gefunden

[chris365]

Also coole sache,

aber das is jetz net für alle hitachi oder????

Da gibts doch verschiedene, oder???

Klärt mich da mal auf.

EDIT:

Kenn mich schon aus, man sollte hald zuerst mal lesen und dann posten

[dks]

nur 47D (Dh soll auch schon wo geklappt haben, DJ nicht)

[crash]

47D steht da nur weil es für beide geht also DH und DJ die sin nämlich völlig gleich

[Rusty2000]

bis jetzt geht nur das Hitachi 47D. wer eine xbox vom releasetag hat, hat denke ich mal ne 46D rom version. abwarten und tee trinken.

[dks]

laut diverser user auf xboxhacker gibts beim 47DJ kein zugriff

http://www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?...&topic=1333.80

mag zufall sein ich hab nur die ersten 2-3 seiten gelesen

aber alle DJ scheinen nur
DeviceIOControl() failed 0
failed to stop the disc (sense: 02/04/01) als fehler zu bekommen...

das nächste problem, offenbar haben ernom viele user auch probleme mit diversen dl medien bei hitachi

dann bleibt das samsung zumindest vorerst die erste wahl...

[crash]

ich hab auch n DJ und bei mir hatter ohne murren geflasht ...

[nEogEnEsis]

mhh.... hab blöder weise 46DH mal hoffen das da auch recht schnell was kommt

[neodeo2]

auf der seite 7 oder 8 steht dass 46DH=47 ist

@crash habe auch DJ klappen auch SKs ?