Hitachi 79 - New Softmod - No Passkey

[waddpsw]

Woot - Finally

New softmod version has been worked out by Podger, Ogg and others at xbox-scene.

Video tutorial below. Happy flashing people.





Quote:
Good News!!!!!
Not quiet a soft unlock but close enough



Turorial:
1. Unrar the file
2. Burn the CD Image, I used ImgBurn....

3. Put 79 in Mode B
3. Insert the CD in the 79 and play the track, wait for it to finish...
4. Then press play again and straight away pause it, you should hear some noise
5. Eject the disk, using the eject button not the PC ( it does something different)
6. Run the the command in a command window
Unlock79 h
// where h is the drive letter of the 79
// this will error regardless, ignore the error

7. If all went well bit 4 of (0x5BD) should be set and the drive should be unlocked
8. Drive will dump and flash with Toolbox...
9. This is a tempory unlock, (0x5BD) is in RAM and would need to be done each time you power the drive, although I've posted how to by pass this with the drive unlocked with a passkey.....

10. Has not been extensively tested but worked on 6 drives to day so far...

Thanks to OggyUK, mp3boy, Antman1 with the testing.... Also RKO Pheonix needs a mention as he unwittingly leant his 360 to Oggy today.... and Seventhson for the help early on and his fabulous blog

[mickc]

9. This is a tempory unlock, (0x5BD) is in RAM and would need to be done each time you power the drive, although I've posted how to by pass this with the drive unlocked with a passkey.....


so what use is this?

[Al Bundy]

I think he means every time you want to flash the drive, you will have to use this method to unlock.

[mickc]

thanks ted
it make sense after rereading

[waddpsw]

9. This is a tempory unlock, (0x5BD) is in RAM and would need to be done each time you power the drive, although I've posted how to by pass this with the drive unlocked with a passkey.....


so what use is this?

Very useful i think, hence the post.

You only need to unlock the drive to flash it, unless you want to flash it again it dosnt matter that it is only temporary.

Regards

[nsdn]

probably only see 1 X 79 per month anyways...still better than passkey

[covert]

This is the new drive that could previously not be modded ?

[mickc]

This is the new drive that could previously not be modded ?

no this is a hitachi
came out around xmas not very common