Now that you've
flashed your Xbox 360's firmware to enable the playing of backup discs, you probably want to start actually backing up those expensive games you bought in case they get scratched or perhaps even melted by your toasty 360. And luckily for you, CleverMod has posted just the step-by-step instructions you need for ripping your games and then burning the images onto dual-layer DVDs -- but keep in mind, you're voiding about a million warranties with all of this flashing and ripping and such. Basically, CleverMod's method involves disassembling a DVD drive so that you can switch discs without hitting the eject button, and then installing a program called WxRipper that finds a so-called "magic number" from any regular 8+GB dual-layer DVD. The program then uses that data to unlock a substituted 360 disc and dump a RAW copy onto your hard drive, which can be burned onto a blank disc and presumably played using the Commodore4Eva hack on Toshiba-Samsung drive-sporting 360s. And just to be super clear, if you don't own a copy of the game you're ripping, then you're not allowed to do this (i.e. Blockbuster, GameFly games are off-limits).
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posted May 21st 2006 4:30PM
Yea Im a newbee when it comes to stuff like this. I see like 3 different ways to back up my games. None of which I can really follow when I use the directions giving i never get the next step to come up with my programs. I really could use some help in understand these processes. Can any one help. Thanks
5 clicks and you're DONE really easy http://howtoburnxbox360gamesontodiscs.jimdo.com/
Hi i see you are not sure about buring 360 games ??? well i have my own software ive developed just for burning xbox 360 games its a simple yet powerful software with no need to enter any layerbreak settings or booktype setting just choose your ISO game file and click burn. visit my site at www.cookiesxbox.co.uk for more details on a demo video on how it works
You need your XBox360 to be modified with a mod-chip before you play games or movies.
Of course it can play any game of your own, and any movie (also DivX as you asked) as you wish after you get your XBox360 mod-chip installed!
It's a very mature technical now so it won't have problem if you get your XBox360 modified.
Also you can download any PAL or NTSC XBox360 game as you wish online now.
About the downloading and backup and copy games service: There are serveral sites providing such download services. They are very excellent on the contents, not only Complete big XBox360 games like Metroid, LOR, American Idols and Guitar Heroes etc. But also many movies, XBox360 tv shows, music and videos much more!!!
All you need is to join one of those sites to download so many resources. So you can download all those media as you wish!
And some sites can provide simple software help you to burn the ISO Games into DVDs, it is very easy and fast. After the instructions by them, you can go ahead to play those games you burned onto your XBox360.
Maybe a good review site to those download sites might help you very much on judging which is one is the best for you:
http://www.great-monitor.com/reviews/xbox360.htm
Good luck and have fun with your XBox360!
i was looking to buy a X Box360 off ebay when i saw one that said it played back up disc. didnt know what that was so i did google like i do 100 times a day and i find myself laughing at this site and the comments...I LOVE IT! i'm sort of a techy/thug so the tech talk mixed in with the trash talk is great...oh and free information is the future everybody will still get rich and richer. and u wont go to hell if u copy things...i think. lol
THERE'S A GAMEFLY AD AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE!...LOL
its ok to make your own backup copy, you deserve to have it for life coz its not cheap! but pls. never to sell it! just Remember.. He who Does no Good does Evil enough.....
Hi all, If it weren't for people that managed to hack these hard drives/bioses and firmwares where would the Playstation 3 be now? as to this date there is still no firmware hacks or modchips etc for this console yet and who do you think you have to thank for that? thats correct the original hackers and crackers out there! so basically the scene has become stronger! Yes, they do say that they are over 1/2 way there to cracking the PS3 firmware/Bios but still after a year that's good going so basically they're learning,evolving! and eventually they will be that much stronger because of the crackers out there! eventually there will be no way atall to break the encryption to make bacups and all. I'm all for making backups of software that I own and sometimes stuff that I don't just to see what the game is like and If I don't like it I won't buy it, i'll delete it so sometimes it's a case of try before you buy but I know that 99% of people out there aren't like that and are just there to take what they want and f***k everyone else,But hey, that's life hey? that's why there's criminals out there that will rob your house,car,person! pretty much the same thing if you ask me! Anyway good luck whatever you do but remember whatever you do now you may not be able to do in the future so make the most of it whilst you can!!!
Textbook has a great PDF that explains everything you need to mod your xbox360 and to burn games to play on it.... It was really useful for me...you can check it out at http://www.threesixtylog.com/2008/03/04/textbooks-hacking-the-xbox-360-for-noobs-2008-edition/
sweet tbh
haha petes ragin
"We do not support piracy in any way with this tutorial!"
Yea right then dont post it,real bold move engadget everyone knows this is going to be used for piracy why post it ?
damn beat me to it! :(
What are you doing!!!!!!! Bill Gates is reading this site!
For those who are questioning whether this advice is being used for legitimate reasons or not get lost either use the advice or get the fuck out of here you stupid bastards your just wasting your time and everybodys elses.
Are people actually going to do this for personal use? Seems a bit risky to me. I guess if your a bootlegger on the streets this could bring money fast and you don't need to tell them that you need to "hack" the 360. Oh God.
lol 360 may actually be worth it now. i have an xbox and the homebrew is excellent, xbmc is the only reason it ever gets powered up. cracked 360 and a Wii instead of a PS3? i think so... now i may also have a reason to put windws on my intel mac
Casio's compact 10 megapixel EXILIM EX-Z1000 could be used for kiddy porn but you people didn?t have a hissy fit when it was posted. Stop complaining about access to information
This article does not belong here on Engadget. Shame on you guys!
I have a better idea. Get a job and buy your games.
I support those who're trying to hack the 360 for homebrewing.
No, I'm NOT going to 'backup' my friend's games to play on mine. I understand that game developers too deserve to earn.
What I really want is something like XBMC for 360. I want to play video files on my PC on the TV screen. MS wants me to have MCE to play that?? And after I have paid over 400 for the console? Even if I did have MCE, they won't allow playing of one of the most popular format Divx/Xvid? (I know about the workaround; but it isn't in-built).
What MS should have done is to enable playing of video from regular XP on 360.
I know I'll be jumping on the modchips once they come on & something like XBMC arrives for 360.
Say, guys, how long do you think it might be before we start seeing things like XBMC for 360?
HAHA, you know that halfo of these "backup" copies are just going to end up on ebay anyway. And also; those people who coment just to say "first post", if you don't have anything intelligent to say, don't say it
what retard compares piracy to kiddie porn? Seriously how stupid are you ?
It's called a metaphor, dumbass
All that's too risky just to play backups, especially for my $400 system. Not to mention, can't play backups on Live. And no Live is sooo yesterday. I had my Xbox modded, 'cause it could do a lot more than an unmodded one, but I think I'll stick with re-purchasing damaged discs for now.
what is wrong with the spread of information? if you dont want to pirate games then dont. engadget is just deploying already known information. they arent making you pirate games. so just read it for what it is and not cry about it.
And just to be super clear, you can exchange your broken/scratched discs back to the store if its damaged. I am dissappointed in engadget.
#14
It's going to have a dual firmware switch so you can play live ok and switch it for backups
seems like a lot of bother, why not just buy the game?
Interesting comments. I can't help but think "are the people here who think it's bad to put this up"......
- Thinking it's bad because they might have their wrists slapped by the man.
- Worry that engadget is helping the (actual) criminals in posting this "secret" information.
- Thinking it's immoral to make a backup of something you paid, lets face it, LOADS of money for.
Or..
- all of the above
- they have no idea themselves.
Man, there is some serious confusion over these subjects. I think in a few years we are going to hit meltdown and everyone is going to stop doing anything for fear of.... I DON'T KNOW!..... AHHHHHHHH!!!
Anyone who cares, here's what MS has come up with so far to prevent the DVD firmware hack. Pretty funny :)
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEulkuFkykSyphsMUv.php
didn't the original review say that "you can not boot from dvd-r" so u'll have to have the original anyway. It'll be useless to sell it or do anything with back up copy if u can't boot it, unless u have the original. So kinda defeat all the piracy stuff, doesn't it?
#15..... only if you buy them from a store that sells the insurance...the you still have to buy the insurance..and its usually only 12 months
Wow, this is really a shining moment for all of Engadget's corporate sponsors.
Perhaps tomorrow we will learn how to steal cable?
damn engadget... i thought you were better than that... if people need to find this stuff its easily available elsewhere (this is what google is good for). you know billy g reads this site. no more interviews for you...
While it's certainly up for discussion as to whether Engadget should be going into such detail about the actual process of modding the 360, I believe it's important for news of this mod to be posted. Console modding affects those who do it and those who don't so we should all know it's happening.
People actually do back up copies of their games. I make a disk image of every PC game I own, so that I can keep the disk in pristine condition. It's sad that these days, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
Devil's advocation: I have friends who have fruitfully produced cute, albeit destructive little brats who have the amazing ability to completely annihilate anything of value within a few seconds of laying hands on it. For them, modchips represent a very useful, very legal way of backing up irreplaceable $50-60 games.
For the other 99% of the population, yes, this will only be used for piracy.
Is it /really/ worth it? The trouble you go through to get the "backups" is so arduous that you might as well get a second job and earn the money to buy the games legitimately.
hmm is posting about how to make bombs etc legal? if that kind of stuff is classed "freedom of information" it wouldn't be so good.
Engadget should be more responsibe....but it's what we want to know!
i would rather they posted it!!! :) let the copying begin........
engadget did nothing wrong by making this post. if your not going to copy games illegally then dont!!! so what they posted this article! stop worrying about what other people may or may not do and just worry about yourselves! "shame on engadget" have an open mind. cant you read something and not feel all "guilty" just by reading it? so much to the fact your trying to police the fact that other people may read it or even TRY it?
What I dont understand about these things is, if you are making a 1:1 image of the original disk, and then burn it to a new disk, why do you need to 'flash' the xbox to support it, surly there should be a way to actually stop using backup disks, and using real 1:1 images that the box cant tell if it is a clone or the real thing... what makes the original actually diffrent from a cloned copy?
So if i flash my 360, i can play my backups too?
Actually, just to be super-clear, I believe it's still illegal to make backup copies of games you own.
Xendris - all the game publishers I know will replace damaged or defective media. I have kids and have done this. Same with DVD's. You do have to send them in; it takes a bit of time to get it back.
I would really like a way of having the game image on the xbox 360 hard drive, and some type of copy protection encrypted to my xbox user account proving ownership. Maybe one day....
I am a bit disappointed in engadget for posting this ? maybe 1 out of 100 will use it legitimately.
I have owned chipped PS2?s , I never modded my xbox 1 nor will I mod my xbox 360. Fortunately, I can buy or rent the games I want.
My, my, what a bunch of haters here. Jusst because you don't like it doesn't mean that Engadget should be blasted for it. If you don't believe the backup excuse, then you have never had small children around your stuff (don't go preach to me about not letting them near my stuff; my little cousin, 6 years old, can climb to great heights if there is so much as a bump on the wall and keeps getting to my movies, destroying some in the process, no matter how high I put them)(His parents also refuse to believe that their little angel could do such a thing to my movies, so don't tell me to complain to them either) Small children are the reason I am thankful for living in China, land of the $1 movie. I couldn't afford to keep replacing my collection like that if movies cost $20 like they do in the US.
Making back-ups of media you own is entirly legal and protected by law in the USA. Unfortunately a little gem called the DMCA came along and made it illegal to break the digital protection which would allow you to make the legal backup...
Just remember - they put these laws in place to protect *your* rights as consumers!
Yes..... melted...scratched......that's what my backups would be for........
#29, yes it is, and #35, no it isn't
Sorry, that would be #33 (AndrewNeo), not #35