It may seem something like a magic box, miraculously discovering the portal in virtual reality. And indeed, video games are slightly similar to magic - inserted into the console disk, and the screen opens a parallel dimension in which it turns out to travel, fight, build, build relationships with game characters, unravel the riddles ...

Then, when a person is more destructed to the essence of the game itself and in the technology of the console, the range of magic is fluttered (although in really passionate gamers it is unlikely to disappear completely). Then we gradually begin to understand that games are created by the teams of developers and represent a complex program code. And the "iron" console is high-tech items used in many modern gadgets. And that there is a special firmware, or a set of software tools that allows the "gland" to recognize and run games.

Such a deepening in the magic of video games and its decomposition on the shelves can be quite useful for users of consoles. After all, even a schematic understanding of the components of the prefixes and processes passing in it helps to quickly cope with emerging difficulties, to conduct the necessary improvements in a timely manner. For example, Knowledge about the Xbox firmware will be given to understand whether to update the software console software from Microsoft when and how best to do it.

Z. why does the firmware change?

Gaming consoles are produced by manufacturers with an already installed operating system, without which the prefix simply could not include, not to mention the inability to start the game or access other exciting functions. But the evolution of the console does not stop after the removal of one model from the conveyor - development passes and in terms of improving the internal filling, and in terms of the development of the OS.

Official xbox 360 firmware updates and Xbox One.Microsoft manufactured by the company can download via the Internet. There is also a software for this gaming console, manufactured by third-party developers. These types of firmware are required for specific purposes.

LT + for xbox

The fact is that licensed Xbox games There are quite significant money, and the console itself is "locked", that is, at the program level, it is configured to make exclusively branded discs. To be able to run "pirated" products, the Xbox drive firmware must be replaced. This will also also independently record on optical disk Downloaded from the Internet game, and then run them on the console.

Very popular and functional is the firmware of the LT + drive. This software was produced with a sequence number 2.0, but now a more recent Xbox firmware LT 3 is already created. The outdated version has a very serious drawback - Microsoft programmers have taught their online service xbox-live Detect the non-sophisticated firmware, and ban for its use. This means that the owner of such a console will not be able to dive into multiplayer network games, and this significantly reduces the possibilities of virtual entertainment. And here firmware 3 0 xbox 360 It is completely devoid of this shortage, and after installing it, you can run completely any games on the console.

How to flash anxbox

Xbox 360 firmware can even be carried out independently. To do this, it is necessary to carry out some manipulations with the console itself and with personal computer. To decide on flashing, you need to have good ideas about the "hardware" and a computer software environment. In addition, it is necessary to enjoy a detailed and reliable instruction.

To flash an xbox is not a simple, and if you do not particularly understand the fillings and programs of the gaming console, it will be better to apply for this to professionals. For example, in our online store is carried out xbox 360 SPb Firmware.

Recording discs, take into account the firmware version of your XBOX

It is worth understanding that the sequence number affects what disks will be able to run your console. If you download the game from the network and plan to burn it on the disk, it will be necessary to do it taking into account the version of your firmware. To do this in copy programs optical disks Installed specific parameters. They also need to learn about the relevant detailed instructions.

FreeBoot - "hacked" system software on the gaming console!

In addition to installing special software For the drive, there is another way to "unlock" Xbox, which gives much more opportunities to use non-license products than just the launch of pirate disks. This is the replacement of the company's branded software on the "divided". Such a Dashboard (i.e. operating system Game consoles) will be called FreeBoot. Unlike LT +, where "hacking" concerned only the drive of the console, Freibut changes software all system.

FireBoot firmware allows you to run games from absolutely any media. For example, with a conventional flash drive and external hard drive. In addition, you can put a new Xbox hDDRegardless of its size, it will be enough to reformat it with the means of the console itself.

Of course, the main purpose of Freibut is the saving of user money. You can add free launch of any additions to the already voiced advantages of "hacked" Ixbox. installed games. For them, developers tend to charge an additional fee. If a install FreeBoot Xbox 360then the console will be able to use "Self-timer programs", like older emulators gaming consolescreated by enthusiast developers. Owners of Ixbox with Freibut will be able to launch games without regard to their regional affection.

FreeBoot Installation requires professional skills, and it really should be entrusted to experts (for example, what happened in the PiterPlay store). In fact, this kind of "dislocation" means the installation of a modified chip on the system board of the gaming console. After such a procedure, Xbox will begin a "new life". But it does not touch the quality and duration of the console - the "iron" console will work everything is just as well. And new software capabilities are able to give the user more freedom.

Doubtful ethicity of flashing

It is worth understanding that the modern gaming industry lives and develops in many respects due to the constant infusion of the money of the end users in it. That is, buying discs and updates, gamers give developers to the creation of new gaming masterpieces.

In this key, the Xbox 360 firmware "pirated" dashboard or the installation of "hacked" software on the console drives can have very negative consequences - if everyone is started to do so, then the video game industry itself will die from lack of money. Developers will not release new toys, Console manufacturers will cease to work on improved models.

Unlicensed Xbox One Firmware In general, there is - of course good! After all, not all gamers have the opportunity to buy expensive discs and pay for the installation of additions to your favorite games. But to use the "pirated" products it is necessary to be reasonably, respecting the work of developers and, if possible, making your money contribution to the development of the amazing world of video games.

Attention! If you have never come across such things, or the instruction described below you do not understand, you should not even start to flash your Xbox 360. If you do not comply with the firmware instruction, your prefix can stop working properly.

As you know, one of the very popular products of Microsoft is Xbox. And you probably know that MS Yaro emphasizes attention on the problem of using pirated software. And of course, they approached the defense on the Xbox. Accordingly, the prefix works only with licensed games. And here, in fact, several options, flash xbox or throw piles of money to buy discs. Many users choose the Xbox firmware.

At first glance, it may seem to seem to flash the console at home - a plain case, but you need to observe a strict sequence !!! And it is best to refer to the specialists.

Well, if you firmly decided to move your Xbox console at home, then follow the following instructions:

• Open the prefix housing. At first, on the panel, we open the clasp and shift the housing. Now remove the legs (rubber) to shift the latches you need a thin, long screwdriver.

• After you have escaped all the fasteners, including the side, you can open the housing of the Xbox-and after removing the hologram of the warranty. To remove the drive, you need to unscrew the screws on the housing and remove the "False panel".

• Now you need to make a boot floppy disk, in fact, this is the simplest task. To create a floppy disk, you need to go to "My Computer", on the floppy press PKM and click "format". A window appears in which you need to choose "Creating boot disk MS-DOS "and click" Start ". After the disk is created, download the DOSFLASH 16 program (everything is a miracle in this program :)) All the files invested in this program are copied to a floppy disk. (If you do not have floppy, do not hurry to get upset, the same can be done with a conventional flash drive)

• Now turn off the computer, and disconnect all SATA devices from motherboard. When you all disconnected, connect the Xbox drive to the motherboard (using the standard SATA loop).

• After you have connected the Xbox drive to your PC motherboard, turn on the computer and go to the BIOS. Select the device for downloading the same floppy disk or flash drive. We maintain changes, reboot PC. You will start DOS and you will see command line. In the command line, we enter dosflash16 then press the input and "0" or "1".

• Different letters and numbers started displayed on the screen, on 5 seconds you need to turn your console and turn it on the new one. The "Read" button will appear on the screen, click the letter R and then press ENTER. You will be offered to enter the name of the stored firmware. Turn off the PC and Xbox.

• Return all devices on your PC to your previous state (connect SATA back). We also return all the settings in the BIOS in the previous state. Turn on the computer as usual and insert blood flash drive or floppy disk. Unzip the archive with a firmware, we are interested in the "12" folder, which shows the future drive speed.

• The firmware you created before, copy to the "12" folder, and launch the Make ixtreme Firmware file, with extension.bat and press any key. After all the manipulations, a new firmware will be added (ix14.bin) to install it, repeat the actions described above, only together to "read" choose "write down".

After the games bought together with the prefix are passed, the question arises, how to save on the purchase of games, because licensed discs are not suiced. There are several options, and one of the most popular is the Xbox 360 drive firmware.

What gives the firmware Xbox 360

• Console with firmware can run games from any discs. It can be both licensed discs and copies of them. You can also write games yourself. For it, it will take stock empty DVD and a computer with an Internet to download games and record on blank.
• Xbox 360 with the latest firmware version (LT + 3.0 or LTU) saves the possibility of playing through Xbox Live. You can play online with other players with both licensed discs and non-license plates.
• For the consoles of other regions (NTSC-U, NTSC-J), the search for games becomes much easier. From torrents you can download the game of any region, Including with the translation into Russian for those games that were officially not produced in Russian.
• Xbox 360 firmware will allow collect collection It is the games that you are interested - even if they are no longer sold.
• Some launch games may require more new version System software ("Dashboard"). At the moment, Xbox 360 with the latest drive firmware you can independently update In any way: both through the Xbox Live, and from the game disks, and from the flash drive. This will not affect the operation of the firmware.

Which Xbox 360 can flash

IN currentlyThe firmware is possible for all Xbox 360 consoles, except those that were released in the fall of 2014 and later.

To determine, is the firmware installation on your Xbox 360 possible, Look at the production date on the case of the console or take the prefix in your hands and call us - we will help!

It is understood to each owner of the gaming console. Otherwise, the gaming system will not be able to read "non-rigging" discs. In order to flash the Xbox 360 does not require installation additional drivers and prescribe parameters in the computer. But independent firmwareAn inexperienced user can lead to sad consequences. Before flashing the Xbox 360, read this article and get a ready-made step-by-step solution.

What you need for firmware xbox 360

1. A computer having a SATA controller.
2. Floppy drive with a working disk or flash drive.
3. Screwdriver (hexagon) TX10.
4. Thin scissors and flat thin screwdriver.
5. The program "IXTreme Firmware".
6. A program that allows you to work with firmware.
7. When using a flash drive, you will need a program to create an FlashBoot installation flash drive.

The first step, how to flash, will update the Dashboard to version 13146. To do this, you need to do the following steps:

1. Insert a flash media into your computer and go to "My Computer".
2. IN " File System»Install FAT-32.
3. After the "Start" command, wait for the end of formatting a flash media.
4. Download Dashboard 2.0.13146.0.
5. After unzipping the file, copy it to the flash drive.
6. By inserting a USB flash drive in the Xbox 360, turn on the console or reboot.
7. In the window with the new update, click "Yes."

Connection Xbox 360 to computer

How to flash xbox 360 from scratch? To open the case of the console, you will have to remove the warranty label. After removing the main xbox panel, you need to remove the left leg of the console. Having moved the latch, the plastic top should be lifted. On the other side of the prefix, having moved six latches, the top and bottom plugs are completely removed. On the front side, four fasteners and the lid opens.

The bottom cover of the console is completely removed and the drive opening button is removed. For the final removal of the case, you need to unscrew the six screws, remove the drive plug, open two latches and pull up.

SATA wires connect one end into the motherboard connector, and the other in Xbox.

Then you need to download the program you choose, for example, the iXtreme Firmware or JungleFlasher of the latest version itself, the next step is to download the firmware.

By installing the program, you can proceed to the firmware itself. HBox turns on by pressing a fine tool on Power. The program is launched.

How to flash xbox 360? The firmware includes the following steps:

1. Connect the drive to the computer.
2. Read the drive data and key for the new firmware.
3. Create new firmware For the drive to which the data and the drive key are sewn.
4. Write a new firmware to the drive and check the performance.

After completing the firmware operation game console And the computer is disconnected, the drive is connected by the native SATA cable. A video cable is supplied to the screen. After turning on the console, a disk with a game is inserted, which, when conducting the correct firmware process, is defined as a game.

July 12, 2010 at 19:51

Unlock Xbox 360 at home. JUST FOR FUN!

• Computer iron

Never be a gamer, the console was still taking the sake of Fana. Why xbox, not PS3? The answer lies on the surface - the possibility of unlock. We will not discuss the moral side of this action, the guy of bread does not feed - give a new piece of iron.

Unlock is not particularly difficult, but on the last audits of the console with drives from Lite-ON ( FW Revision 93450C.) Do not do without an iron mode to enter the drive in VENDOR MODE. To produce iron modes, you can go a few ways - The Mra Hack, The Xecuter Probe II, The Xecuter Lt Switch, Vampire & Rebuild Board, Vampire W / O Rebuild Board.

The Mra Hack - simple schemewhich can be collected without special costs. You will need a mounting knife, a pair of wires, a resistor for 20 ohms and a switch to possibly the operational breaking of the contact. A big minus of this method - after the firmware it will be necessary to restore all the cut paths on the printed circuit board.

I chose the most rational and cheap option - Xecuter Lt Switch. Plus is that after soldering over the native board and the unlock of the console, it is not necessary to restore anything, it is enough to translate the switch to the Normal position from the READ / WRITE mode. It cost such a solution to me about 4 GBP without taking into account the delivery in some English online store for modding.

There are still a couple of unresolved questions. Firstly, I have no monitor at home, secondly, I have no Windows on any computers, Thirdly, all my computers are portable, it's nowhere to connect SATA lace. Well, I have as home Server ASPIRE REVO works, a couple of questions are solved, an HDMI image is displayed on a TV, connect to the Revo ESATA-SATA cord. What to do with Windows? Debian GNU / Linux is working on Revo and rework the sections, putting Windows in the neighborhood, somehow I did not want. Not a problem! There are wonderful distributions for this case from Aleks200059, the windows running from a USB drive. Wonderful!

Orders Xecuter Lt Switch, XCM 360 Case Opening Tool and eSATA-SATA. lace. Russia's post is always slowed down, but nothing, we have nowhere to hurry, the console is taken for fan, and not for games. Parcels go unusually long from all Asian corners, the last parcel came in 61 days after the order, if the memory serves me. From England, the parcel came in a couple of weeks. It seems that the last six months of parcels from China and Hong Kong deliberately slow down, well, oh well ...

The console is disassembled for 10 minutes using the XCM 360 Case Opening Tool, although it was easily able to do without it, as it turned out. Viewing, noted to myself, what a typical PC-shna assembly at the console, I also want to cry. Microsoft Such Microsoft ... Take an example from the same Sony, or something. The next day the drive was captured. Disassembled in a couple of minutes, you need to unscrew the 4 screws on the lower drive cover, disconnect 3 loops and unscrew 2 screws on the board. Shifting the latch to the right, we can pull out the fee and start working on it.

We cut the tracks and cleaner the platforms in the places indicated in the photo:

Running a folding:

With the help of a soldering station, the drive was smoked quite quickly without any problems on a lunch break. Turning the tracks with a calm soul gathered a drive and rushed home. Yes, be careful when connecting the loops, I managed to connect a wide loop with great difficulty, it enters the connector very tight, I was afraid to break it, but everything cost. Two narrow connected without any problems.

Establish to unlock

We translate the switch to Xecuter LT Switch to the NORMAL position and connect the drive to the SATA lace. Insert the power cord, the main thing is not to confuse the position of the power connector, when disassembling it is best to mark the marker in what position it connects. Turn on the console.

Download the Jungle Flasher program latest version, Run and go to the MTK Flash 32 tab. The drive did not want to be determined, as a result earned only in SATA MODE mode - Native IDE, in AHCI in any. For those who do not know, this mode is set to BIOS.

Turn off the console power. Transfer the switch to XECUTER LT Switch to the R / W position, click the button in the program Intro / Device ID, on the asked question Respond Yes. Turn on the power button again and translate the XECUTER LT Switch switch to the NORMAL position. After that, your drive will enter VENDOR MODE, and Serial Flash will be in status 0x72..

Now press the button Read. And we save the read original actuator firmware. Save this firmware in a safe place! You will need it if you suddenly decide to alter the drive again. The read firmware will automatically boot into the FirmwareTool 32 tab after you press the button. Yes.

There will be an automatic spoofing key with original firmware on modified, in my case it iXTreme Lite Touch (LT) 1.1.

How it looks like on the screen:

Press the button Write And waiting for the status WRITE VERIFIED OK!This means that all 4 memory banks have been successfully rebuilt.

Now we need to withdraw the drive from VENDOR MODE in normal modeTo do this, press the button Outro / ATA Reset.

All your drive is flashing. Turn off the console, disconnect the SATA cable from the PC, connect the native SATA cable from the console, turn on the console and test the fresh-wide drive. That's it. We collect the console and apply to the destination. Good luck!