QUOTE(ereet1 @ Jun 26 2006, 06:12 PM)

to sum it up looks like they are going to merge the firmware so you can do both (play games, get SS, one flash file). I'd wait around for that, certainly would make life alot easier.
No, that's not what I am talking about. This is from what Geremia on Xboxhacker.net posted:
A specific advice about this fw patch
At unencrypted 3E7FC you must see 00 00 00 00, this is the workaround to disable checksum.
If you patch orig.bin you have 666460F7
If you patch orig-e.bin and then decrypt it with firmwarecrypt (just to see if code is ok), you have 00 00 00 00
So, this seems that you need to patch the encrypted fw
Just a precision, as seventhson says, the hitachi firmware is not encrypted, it's only scrambled, but folks like to call a bitswapping + xoring an encryption.[i]