To those who have no idea what this whole iXtreme and Flashing thing is, let me try and give you some insight.

iXtreme 1.6 Firmware is for flashing the Xbox 360 DVD Drive. The purpose of flashing the drive is to allow Backups to be played. What are backups you might ask?

Backups are a duplicate copy of a Xbox 360 game. They are burned on Dual Layer DVD's, which requires the use of a Dual Layer Burner as well.

With the latest iXtreme Firmware, currently version 1.6 for the LiteOn, BenQ and Samsung drives, all backups are required to be stealth. However, their is the option to bypass the security scan, with the use of Activate.iso, which is included with iXtreme 1.6 Firmware.

Stealth Firmware in short, tricks the console into thinking the game is a real official copy, and thus, will allow you to play the game. Now theirs are risk involved when flashing your drive.

First, theirs always the possibility of getting banned on Live. Though with the current release of iXtreme 1.6, it makes it much harder to allow yourself to get caught. Playing backups that you've received before they are released is a way in getting banned.

If you play a game that is not stealth, and go on live, is another way of getting caught.

So how do i flash my drive? I want in!

Flashing your drive requires you voiding the Warranty on your Xbox 360. You'll be required to take apart you console, which will allow you to get access to the 360 DVD drive. Now their are 4 types of drives out their you might run across, depending on how old the Xbox is your trying to flash.

There are four types of Xbox 360 Drives.

Hitachi
Samsung
BenQ
LiteOn

Now out of all 4 of them, the LiteOn drive is typically the hardest to flash. Dumping the key requires the use of a Connectivity Kit. I use the CK3 Connectivity kit with the addon probe.

Flashing the Samsung, BenQ, and Hitachi's are typically, a fairly easy process. Something that is shared among of 4 of them, is the use of a Key. Their is a key that is on the firmware, for each drive, that matches the console. If these keys don't match, you loose your gaming platform, and now have a DVD player.

Hi.
I've just got my box modded with iXtreme 1.6. I've heard today that the next xbox update is August 11th 2009. Would be greatful if someone could help with my questions:-
1) Can I apply the next Xbox update from Microsoft whilst still on 1.6?
2) If I can, can I still use my backup games?
3) If I cant, will then be a iXtreme update and how long is it before the new update comes out after the xbox update?
Cheers!

As we don't know how MS checks for modded firmware, these answers apart from Q3 are a best quess.

Q1) yes

Q2) yes

Q3) If a 1.61 or 1.7 firware is to come along it will be done so when it's needed.
You can rest assured that if needed, the great minds involved in the 360 modding scene will make it as soon as they can.

Thanks for the reply. Just one more question if thays ok.
Assuming that's it's ok to intall the next Xbox update on the 11th aug, if by chance the box gets banned is there a hack to unban the console. I read some geezer in France had worked it out by modding the EPROM with that of another console.

Cheers

It can be done but it's not an easy process.
If you were to get banned, then buying another 360 is the easy option.

Cheers for the reply. To be honest there's 3 in the house getting used and a spare aswell. Only mine on live so wouldn't be a problem, but as mines an elite, I'd like to get it fixed if possible.

Hi, I have just flashed my first drive a lite-on with the 1.6 firmware, now when i put a back up in the xbox do i have to make the cd from the included iso and put that in the drive in order for the back ups to play ?

thanks
Acestu

Hi, just a quick question. I hav Xbox 360 flashed with ixtreme 1.51 (i think). I only play games offline but I would like to use Xbox LIVE to keep in touch with other gamers and update my avatar.

Will I be banned from xbox LIVE even if dont play any games. Is there a way for them to detect the games that I played while offline from Xbox LIVE ?

When i load the ixtreme 1.6 firmware in JungleFlasher i see the version for samsung TS-H943A ms26. This work too with my TS-H943 ms25 ?

Thx

tullio2k wrote:When i load the ixtreme 1.6 firmware in JungleFlasher i see the version for samsung TS-H943A ms26. This work too with my TS-H943 ms25 ?

Thx

Download the Samsung ixtreme 1.6 firmware.