Things you will need:
Double-layer DVD Burner
Double-layer DVD (media; I recommend Verbatim)
Flashed Xbox 360
Abgx360 program (stealth and validation checker program)
ImgBurn (DVD/CD burning program)
Internet connection (for your Abgx360)
**Notes!!**
Okay, first thing you need to do before you do anything, is to make sure you have a Flashed Xbox 360. If you don't, then you should stop reading right here unless you are planning on taking it to a friend's house who has one.
Secondly, if you have AnyDVD running, kill it. It can cause problems with the regional settings during the DVD burning. What does that mean? Mostly that you just wasted a DL-DVD because either the software won't beable to burn right and give an error, or it will burn but won't work on your Xbox360.
Third, you need to make sure that the *.ISO that you downloaded is compatible with your Xbox360. This is why you need to know what firmware version you have. Most games that come out are for iXtreme 1.51 or higher (also known as Wave3), and it's best to keep that updated. Also make sure that you have it for your country. RF=Region Free, means for anyone. NTSC/U = USA Only. NTSC/J = Japan only. PAL=Europe only. NTSC= USA and Japan only. Asia=Asia (duhh). You should know what kind plays in your machine. Each game (and almost all game covers) state what it's for. If yours doesn't, go to your local game store and just look at the covers.
Fourth, ImgBurn isn't the only program you can use. Any DVD burning program that allows you to manually break up the layers will work. CloneDVD is another good one that allows you to do that, but I find that ImgBurn is the easiest to work with (also free
).Now that we got that out of the way, lets get down to the naughty. First thing you want to do is download the programs needed. For ImgBurn, you can search here on SSWarez to find it. I know I've uploaded one of the latest ones. That and they are always updating that program, so me including a link here might not be the latest one by the time you read this.
For Abgx360, though, you can download it from here:
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/293941254/abgx360_v1.0.1_CW_BY_madmax0150.rar
Since they've updated the program, there isn't a whole lot of things you need to change from the default, which is rather nice I must say. However, goto the Options and Autofix tabs and just go through and make sure they look like this:
Everything else, the default will work just fine for it.
Okay, now you are ready to check for stealth and if they screwed up something!
Press the little folder button and then look for your game's *.ISO file. Select it, and then hit the Launch button. A Window will display like this one:
As you can see, on mine there are 4 kinds of colours: Blue, Yellow, Green, and Grey (the fuchsia colour is my own typing
). Grey is just a standard colour text; Blue is used for when it downloads new files. The 3 you need to really look for are Red, Yellow, and Green.Red means there is a serious problem and the file needs to be fixed or is unfixable. With this new program it will attempt to autofix it. If it can't, then it will remain red and not have any Green text below it.
Yellow is a cautionary one. As you can see on mine, at the top I messed something up with the *.dvd file and Abgx360 fixed it and then made a Green text stating that it was fixed.
Below that is the game information and the next Green text is the Regional Code. This is what you need to pay attention to, to see if you can play it on your system. Posters mostly do put the right Regional Code on there, but sometimes they mess up so you need to pay attention to that.
The next yellow statement on there, just states that this game's angle is meant for only iXtreme 1.4 and below. But since we want to play newer games, we'll need a newer iXtreme firmware anyways. So we can ignore this message. 4th Green Text down states what kind of Video partition this game has. This particular one is a Wave3 and requires iXtreme 1.51 or higher to play. Make sure your firmware on your Xbox360 is at or is higher than what it says you need to play it!.
The next set is the crutial ones, it looks for the Stealth files and verifies them with the online database, so make sure you are connected to the internet before running this program.
**Note** Almost all games that haven't been released for sale to the public will fail the Stealth Verification. This is because the creators of Abgx do not have *.dvd file from the game disc to compare the data to. Never play a game online that doesn't pass verification! It will more than likely get your Xbox360 Banned (not your gamer profile but your system itself!). If it doesn't pass verfication and it isn't released yet, then wait until the release date to verify it. However, if you can't wait to play it, you can play it as long as you don't sign in to XboxLive. Doing so is at your own risk mind you.
Now the rest of is (well all of it actually) is really automated. So you just need to make sure that everything that needs to be Green is in Green, there are no Red Text and maybe one Yellow Text. If there are more than one, there should be a Green Text following it saying it was fixed. Otherwise, proceed with caution!
Now once it runs through (and it's highly suggest that you let it run through it's course), you'll now have a game *.ISO and a game *.DVD file. Both are needed to burn the game to a DVD.
Speaking of which, after Abgx is done, close out of it and lets go over to ImgBurn.
Upon opening up ImgBurn, you have 6 catagories to choose from, but we don't want any of those just yet. Go to the top, select Tools and then down to Settings.
There are lots of settings that you can play with, but that will have to wait until later when you are done burning your Game. Head over to the Write tab and on the right hand site you see "Options Layer Breaks (For DL Media)". Select the option of "User Specified" and in the blank box below that, put the numbers 1913760 in there. You can actually find this number in the *.DVD file you just created with Abgx, by opening the file with Notepad (in case you forget/lose it).
After that, hit "Okay" and now lets begin burning the Game.
Back at the main menu, select the category of "Write image file to disc" and on the next screen, you'll see at the top that it wants the source file. Select the folder with the magnifying glass on it and locate the *.DVD file that you just created (alternatively, you could just double click on that file in the fold). Make sure it's the *.DVD file and not the *.ISO. Now for the buring speed.
Since this is a huge file that we are burning, we want to burn it at a nice and slow speed. Slower we burn it, the less chance we risk a bad sector on the DVD. 1 bad sector could ruin the whole thing for us! So while 1x would be perfect, it would also take about 2-3 hours to burn. Who would want to wait that long for 1 game?!? So we want the next best thing, which is 2x, or whatever the slowest your DL-DVD will burn at. Most will only go down as low as 2.4x, which is still just fine (even if you select 2x and your DL-DVD can only go down to 2.4x, the program will correct the speed to 2.4x). Once you select that speed and inserted your DL-DVD, hit the burn button and go watch a movie because it will take a while! Normally for me it takes about 40-45 minutes to burn 1 game, which isn't bad because I can catch up on my TV shows that way
Once it's done, and no errors have occurred while burning it, pop it into your Xbox360 and have some fun!
Dont forget to say Thank You
and if dont say thank you, you will anser to him --->
jk
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