xDrive 360 – Black Edition

After many requests we have made the xDrive 360 Black Edition for those with the Elite consoles. The price is the same as the first xDrive 360 and will be available from all Xecuter retailers from next week.

Note to current xDrive Users: Remember to switch to your internal stock (unflashed) DVD drive when performing system updates

Check it out at ModTraders.co.uk

x360Scrub v0.1b

Team XeLove released x360Scrub

x360Scrub will make an ISO as small as possible by removing garbage data
!!!IT WILL BREAK STEALTH!!!

Instructions:
1) Open the ISO you want to scrub in xbox image browser and create a layout file for the ISO
2) Open x360Scrub and follow instructions there

ToDo:
- Remove the need to manually create layout file
- Add better error handling

Official Site: n/a, by Team XeLove (#XeLove on EFnet)
Download: here
News-Source: gx-mod.com

Original Source: Xbox-Scene

IngeniouX Beta 2

Ski-lleR released a new version of IngeniouX, an Xbox 360 homebrew dashboard.
What’s new/fixed:
* On-board apps menu (press left stick )
* Small mp3 player (you need to add mp3 one by one, and list is not saved, will be soon, with folder adding)
* Extract and use of XBLA icon (extract time is now instant, instead of some seconds)
* XBLA launching
* OSD for the Image viewer (you can navigate between the image of a folder)
* Multilanguage (French & English, I can send you the string file if you want to translate it in other languages)
* Calculator (just for fun ^^)

Official Site: n/a, by Ski-lleR
Download: n/a (built with XDK)

Original Source: Xbox-Scene

Xecuter CK3 Probe v2 – The First No Solder Liteon Solution

After the amazing success of our LT Switch solution, we are pleased to launch the latest addition to the CK3 family of products – the FIRST complete NO SOLDER solution for the newer Liteon DVD drives – the CK3 Probe v2. This is targeted to installers who require a multi-use no solder solution to the new Liteon drives – or to the users who simply don’t have the skills to solder our cheaper LT switch alternative.

Still retaining the original CK3 Probe function of dumping the 74850 key, but now also enabling full firmware access of the new 83850V2 and 93450 drives – you can easily switch between PROBE and LT Switch Modes – A complete all-in-one solderless solution !

– Liteon 74850 – No Cuts Required – No Rebuild PCB Required. Switch to original CK3 Probe Function for DVD Key Extraction
– Liteon 83850V2 – 3 Small Trace Cuts (Same as LT Switch) – No Rebuild PCB Required. Special Conductive Glue supplied with kit to easily repair the cuts (Enough for at least 10 DVD Drives) – No Soldering !
– Liteon 93450 – 3 Small Trace Cuts (Same as LT Switch) – No Rebuild PCB Required. Special Conductive Glue supplied with kit to easily repair the cuts (Enough for at least 10 DVD Drives) – No Soldering !

Installers can use this again and again and again and again – No rebuild boards – no soldering – NO PROBLEM !

The CK3 Probe 2 connects to both the CK3 Lite and CK3 Pro connectivity kits and includes full status LED’s and an extra protection circuit against accidental shortages on the DVD PCB.

Resellers: ModTraders.co.uk

Stock is expected to ship within 2 weeks (Would have been this week as this has been designed and finished for a couple of weeks but it’s Chinese New Year). RRP $17.95

New Xecuter CK3 USB Drivers v1.1.0

The CK3 Pro / Blaster CK3 drivers have been updated to include official Windows 7 x64 support and other minor changes. This installer is now a complete all-in-one driver package for all supported OS.

From the Readme:

CK3 PRO / BLASTER CK3 Driver Setup Installer

Setup Installer Revision Note History
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System Requirement:
. Supports the following Windows OSes:
– Windows 98SE
– Windows ME
– Windows 2000 SP4
– Windows XP SP2 and above (32 & 64 bit)
– Windows Server 2003 (32 & 64 bit)
– Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 (32 & 64 bit)
– Windows Vista (32 & 64 bit)
– Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)
NOTE: For Windows 7, please use RC build 7100 or above.
. USB host controller
. Xecuter CK3 Pro (All revisions up to Rev D), Xecuter Blaster CK3

Supported device ID and product strings:
. VID_067B&PID_2303 for “Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port”

Release Notes:
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CK3 Pro Driver Installer v1.1.0
Changes from Installer v1.0.6.26:
Driver Changes
– Windows 98/ME Driver: v2.0.0.19
– Windows 2000/XP/Server2003 (32 & 64-bit) WDM WHQL Driver: v2.0.13.130
– Windows Vista/7/Server2008 (32 & 64-bit) WDF WHQL Driver: v3.3.10.140

Installer Changes –
– Fixed cannot run installer program in Windows 2000 SP4.     
– Change version numbering format based on Installshield 3-digit format.

Installer & Build date: 1.1.0 (2009-12-02)

Language Support:
– English (default)
– Chinese (Traditional)
– Chinese (Simplified)
– Japanese

Download from the Xecuter Download Page

Jungle Flasher v0.1.70 (86S)

Another JungleFlasher has been released. This time a small bug fix and extra language support.

Foreign Language support
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German, French, Greek and Portuguese added.
Spanish, Italian and Russian to follow.

Bug fix – Calib data not being flashed

Source: http://jungleflasher.net/170.html

XM360 v0.4

Team XeDev released XM360 v0.3:

This includes all of the features of XBLA Unlocker previously released by dstruktiv.
The additional “Collection Management” is contributed by node21.

What’s new/fixed (v0.4)
* Added ability to launch titles directly from the Scan list, or the Collection Manager List (for titles that you actually have) use the A button
* added support for multiple usb devices being connected
* More information is added the the resulting xbla_report.txt so you can choose to ignore missing titles that are rated very low.
* Some titleIds are intentionally duplicated since they exist in the wild, but aren’t on the MS web site. You should simply “Ignore” (with the X button) the versions that you don’t have (assuming you care about such things)

Official Site: n/a, by Team XeDev (thx to WarriorSan for the news)
Download: n/a (built with XDK)

Original Source: Xbox-Scene

XeLLous v1.0

Redline99 released a new version his modified XeLL (XeLLous):

Features (compared to mainline Xell):
* New network stack, lwip 1.3.0
* Uses correct MAC address if proper config blocks are in place
* Sets DHCP “hostname” for easy identification in DHCP assignments
* Refactored/New ata/atapi/mmc drivers
* Updated sfcx driver with hardware detection
* Many misc text changes/cleanups
* Many misc code tweaks/fixes
* Many new http features
Download Full raw nand backup
Download Decrypted Key Vault (if available)
Download Fuses (and DVD Key if available) as a text file
Download RAW Key Vault (equivalent to nandpro -r switch)
Download RAW Config Blocks (equivalent to nandpro -r switch)
Prominent display of CPU and DVD keys
Ability to set dvd key from Key Vault to DVD Drive
(possible use: fix bad key flashes to the original drive)
* Advanced Nand Flashing
Uses “slot” technique from usb as introduced by Flash360
Write Flash partition from usb (up to 66 MB)
Write Flash partition from optical media
Write FULL raw nand (up to 528 MB) from optical media

Future ?? Who knows when, maybe never, feedback needed/wanted ??:
* Faster nand speeds, ie: I can triple download speeds from http
* Downloading Encrypted KV and Config Blocks
* More Flashing features/bad block handling
* More HTTP features/tools
* Sata HDD Driver
* Full CPU Speed
* File System driver layer fat/fatx/iso9960/etc ?
* Read some sort of XeLLous.ini file for parameters
Such as: Network config, Order of operations, etc…

Official Site: n/a, by Redline99 (thx to hitman43 and WarriorSan for the news)
Download compiled version: soon
News-Source and More Info: xboxhacker.org

Original Source: Xbox-Scene

Hardcore Xbox 360 Game Cleaner v0.02

Ize on forums.xbox-scene.com released a tool that will allow you to easily reduce the size of your Xbox360 games (for homebrew Xbox360s):

I’ve thrown something together that at least batch removes systemupdates and replaces moviefiles with placeholders, it can also delete alot more based on simple config files.

I assume that you are saving your games in xexloader / xexmenu compatible path like: USB://Games/Game

You just select the folder usb://games and the program will scan for systemupdates, movies and if available for smart cleaner files (who isn’t really that smart ;p) compatible games

Download: forums.xbox-scene.com
News-Source: Ize on forums.xbox-scene.com

Original Source: Xbox-Scene

XM360 v0.3

Team XeDev released XM360 v0.3:

This includes all of the features of XBLA Unlocker previously released by dstruktiv.
The additional “Collection Management” is contributed by node21.

What’s new/fixed (v0.3)
* Changed source of data so now we have released date, rating (0 thru 20), and number of ratings
* The “B” button will change what you are sorting on (title, release date, rating, number of ratings)
* MAKE SURE that you delete your old xbla_titles.csv on the root of your USB drive if you have one there
* New script to recreate the database is included, but it take *MUCH* *MUCH* longer to run if you need to run it (you should only need it once a week or so when new titles are released, if you care to be that up-to-date)

Official Site: n/a, by Team XeDev
Download: n/a (built with XDK)

Original Source: Xbox-Scene