I got an old elite with a BenQ drive that I will be sending to my nephew in Brazil and since he will never play on xbox live I want to flash it with the most compatible firmware so he can play both stealth and non stealth games. iXtreme blocks non stealth backups correct? What is the most universal firmware if you don't care about xbox live?

I guess I need to rephrase this. Is there a firmware that won't block non stealth backups?

LT does not check or care about stealth. So your best bet is the latest LT+ firmware.

What is the difference between the BenQ_iXtreme_LT_v1.2 and Benq_iXtreme_LT_Plus? I currently have it flashed with the BenQ_iXtreme_LT_v1.2.

LT v1.2 does not have support for AP25 titles. If you have updated the Xbox to the Kinect dashboard, you won't be able to boot AP25 titles until you update to LT+.

AP25 = Kinect games? That makes LT+ the latest firmware then right? I guess I will update to LT+ and update the dashboard then so he can play the latest games. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

ap2.5 = ap2.5. it has nothing to do with kinect, other than the fact that it was first seen with the dashboard update required for kinect (and any games that have come out since).

its a protection scheme present and enabled on halo reach, modern warfare 2, black ops, fable 3, need for speed hot pursuit, and assassins creed brotherhood.

microsoft can however enable the protection scheme on older games by dashboard updates.

Thanks for the info. Oh well I guess I will crack the 360 open again. They should move that 1.2 to the old firmwares folder on Xbins =p

I flashed the drive with the LT+ then downloaded the SystemUpdate_12625_CD and ran it from a flash drive. Now when I put a game in the drive it won't load. Any idea why?

Give more details as to what "won't load" means

I put the game in and start the xbox and it goes straight to the dashboard. The dashboard only gives me the option to open/close tray, I press open tray and it opens, I close it and it closes the gives me the message reading... and goes back to open tray and the game won't load. This is a backup game I haven't tried an original but I guess the result would be the same.

Here is my firmware update log:

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JungleFlasher 0.1.78 Beta (183)

Session Started Wed Mar 09 17:35:31 2011



This is a Wow 64 process running on 8 x 64 bit CPUs

portio64.sys Driver Installed

portio64.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !

Found 8 I/O Ports.

Found 0 Com Ports.

Found 10 windows drives C: D: F: G: H: I: M: N: O: P:

Found 1 CD/DVD drives D:



Drive is Benq..

Drive is Benq..



Sending Magic Keys to Drive on port 0x0170

..........................................

Done!

Sending Vendor Intro

Requesting Device ID

Manufacturer ID: 0xC2

Device ID: 0x11

Flash Name: MXIC(MX25L2005)

Flash Size: 262144 bytes

Sending Vendor Intro to port 0x0170



Serial flash found with Status 0x73



Sending Device ID request to port 0x0170

Manufacturer ID: 0xC2

Device ID: 0x11

Flash Name: MXIC(MX25L2005)

Flash Size: 262144 bytes



Getting Status from port 0x0170

Serial flash found with Status 0x73



Reading Bank 0: ................

Reading Bank 1: ................

Reading Bank 2: ................

Reading Bank 3: ................



Benq Dump file saved to BENQ-OFW.bin

Loading firmware from buffer

Inquiry string found

Identify string found

Drive key @ 0xE040 --------------------------------------

Firmware Osig: [PBDS VAD6038-64930C ]

Firmware is: iXtreme LT 1.2

Key database updated





Loading MTK_Flash source file

Loading firmware file G:\Downloaded Firmware\Benq VAD6038\Benq_iXtreme_LT_Plus\LTPlus-benq.bin

MD5 hash: ------------------------------

Genuine LT plus v1.0

Inquiry string found

Identify string found

Drive key @ 0xE040 77777777777777777777777777777777

Firmware Osig: [PBDS VAD6038-64930C ]

Firmware is: LT-Plus

Spoofing Target

DVD Key copied to target

ID strings already match

Serial data copied from Source to Target





Getting Status from port 0x0170

SPi flash found with Status 0x73



Sending Chip Erase to Port 0x0170

Erasing:............

Writing target buffer to flash

Writing Bank 0: ................

Writing Bank 1: ................

Writing Bank 2: ................

Writing Bank 3: ................



Flash Verification Test !

Reading Bank 0: ................

Reading Bank 1: ................

Reading Bank 2: ................

Reading Bank 3: ................

Write verified OK !



Sending Vendor Outro to port 0x0170

Drive is Benq..

I just saw on iXtreme that there is a newer IXtreme LT+ 1.1 Lite Touch Firmware Download w/ AP25 Support. Is that newer than the one I got from xbins?

Nevermind I'm an idiot. I forgot to plug in the SATA cable . I hope that doesn't get me flagged for a ban.

LOL yea no worries you are not the first person I have seen on here to do such a thing.


As for the ban your chances of getting banned is about the same as running custom firmware so no more or less chance that you have already put yourself in.