Robin Hoods Playground

Hi,

I'm not a newcomer by any stretch to flashing 360 drives, but I attempted my first drive swaps tonight and they haven't gone as planned.

I've had 2 consoles passed to me, both with virgin Hitachi 78's onboard which weren't reading retail discs. I decided to dump the Hitachi's and spoof brand new MS28s with their firmware. Everything seemed to go to plan, but on rebuilding the consoles with the new drives onboard and firing them up I get the 'Put this disc in an Xbox 360 console' message

Here's what I did:

Using JF 0.1.66B and CK3:

(1) I set the Hitachi's to Mode B then dumped their original firmware to file. I saved key.bin's at the same time for good measure.
(2) I sent Sammy unlock to the MS28's, and once in vendor mode, dumped their original firmwares to file.
(3) In the firmtool tab, I set the Hitachi OFW as source, and the MS28 OFW as target, then hit the manual spoof key.
(4) The Hitachi's key was copied across, and the target (MS28) showed up spoofed as the Hitachi 78
(5) I wrote to the MS28s, and got success messages.
(6) I sent outro to the drives, restarted JungleFlasher, and the drives appeared as Hitachi 78s.

What have I done wrong that these MS28s will not play retail games? I don't want to drop iXtreme CFWs onto them if I don't have to...

Thanks for taking the time!

there is a chance the v28 did not have a good firmware in them to start with.
it looks like you did the steps right
i would try and find a copy of a orig v28 dvd drive firmware and flash that in
you are not saving yourself by not flash in cfw
being that you are having to spoof the firmware you cant go on line with it
i would just get a cfw and put the key in it and spoof it
and test

Thanks for your time CoFree

These consoles don't belong to me... they belong to work colleagues, who both said that they didn't want CFW installed. I did explain to them that if they went online with a spoofed drive and retail discs they'd probably feel the hammer anyway, but they were pretty insistant. Xbins don't host OFW do they, so any idea where I might find Sammy OFW other than a virgin Sammy console?

Duh, forget that last - I have copies of the OFW of every drive I have ever flashed.. there'll be an MS28 in there somewhere!

yep that is what you need to do
it can be hard to get the orig firmware if you dont have it your self
the v28 is common

Thanks for the pointer CoFree, I'll try respoofing with one of those MS28 OFWs

Well.... this is a little embarrassing

The 'put this disc in an X360' message was indicating a bad or wrong key. But I was confident that I had dumped valid keys for both Hitachis and spoofed them correctly. So before I did much elese, I decided to swap the drives from console to console, just in case I had mixed them up. Bingo! Cased closed.

It's easy to get the tricky stuff right and totally screw the simple stuff up I guess!