wow this is amazing news for the xbox 360 scene. Maybe its time for me to pick one up.

thats great news, but I think Microsoft will now initiate a change with the system to stamp this out, as it seems like the hackers are gaining more control and knowledge of the Xbox 360

whey, just need to get my self a 360 now. thing is there isent a way of telling which drive your 360 has whens its purchased. might be unlucky and get one which hasent had its firm ware hacked yet.

@damo_red,
Most likelyyou would get one that could be hacked right now. To be sure you could buy it from somewhere you could take it back until you got a samsung. Even though the hitachi is hacked, all the revisions arent. Only Revision 47d. If I were you i would get a box and look at the picture i have included on this post and go get a samsung. Happy Hunting!
http://pictures.xbox-scene.com/xbox360/dvd/TS-HLG.jpg

evenetually all current versions of hitatchi and sammy drives will be hacked via firmware.

only thing that sucks about the hitatchi hack... says less compatatability with DVD-DL discs... lame

compatatability??? lmao... compatability

Why the hell do you post these news with "Another hacked firmware for Xbox 360" -headline? How about adding "dvd-drive" somewhere? These dvd-drive firmware hacks are useless.

How are they useless?

It seems like it will allow you to boot backups... That seems pretty useful to me...

Commodore4eva is one smart cat. Glad to see that someone is working hard on this. Keep up the good work & don't forget to use some of that smarts on the PS3.

What we really need is for the scene to agree on ONE dvd burner model as being a target, and make a custom firmware that can read off the security sector and set booktype for burning. Then the wxRipper method can be used to dump the image and no need to transfer the drive from your xbox whenever you want to burn. For the same price as a modchip can just go out and buy this particular burner and kills two birds with one stone... I really hate the idea of having to flash my rom every time i want to make a backup, it isn't designed to be rewritten every couple of days, one mistake and you have a bricked drive.

Seems like I'll go out and buy one today. NOT! The only way they have a sale on my hands is if they take away their pesky DRM altogether!

hmm i hope someone make a firmware for PC DVD-Writer drive tobe able to copy Xbox360 games correctly,

i dont like to re-flash my xbox360 drive every time i want tomake backup. althought when i mess the flashing process and damage the firmware, i still can force re-flash it. its too troublesome

Jondrew thx for your advice,

will see about getting a samsung one this weekend. thx

All i can say is Softmod please, I'm not gonna rip my Xbox 360 apart.

can someone please help me i have hacked my xbox 360 ts drive but it didnt backup a copy of orig.bin what can i do now?