A non molti giorni dal suo annuncio, l'ormai famoso Commodore4Eva torna a far parlare di sè con un nuovo hack per il lettore Samsung: una nuova versione del firmware Xtreme è ora disponibile, precisamente la 5.0.

Le novità sono tante e interessanti, ne riporto alcune qua sotto:
- Supporto dei giochi Xbox originali e Xbox 360 su un DVD+R\-R single layer
- Supporto Xbox file .ISO anche vecchio stile (basta semplicemente masterizzare il file .ISO, non necessita S.S.)
- Supporto dei file .ISO Xbox360 (con l' uscita del nuovo QWIX, ancora non uscito)
- Supporto del disco Enable 0800.iso anche su un disco Signel Layer.

Per evitare l' errore E66 dovuto all'aggiornamento di ottobre è necessario patchare il firmware, copiando ORIG.BIN nella cartella del firmware Xtreme 5.0 e lanciare il file MAKEx50.bin REPORT XXX, a seconda del vostro caso e del vostro lettore (ms25\ms28)

Come di consueto ci sono due firmware, il firmware 5.0a SOLO per la lettura veloce dei giochi, mentre il 5.0B SOLO per la lettura lenta dei giochi. L'installazione di questo nuovo Xtreme firmware non ha alcun effetto sui supporti originali.
Che dire, Commodore4Eva colpisce ancora!

Di seguito il Readme.TXT:

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Xtreme firmware 5.0A and 5.0B for TS-H943 Xbox 360
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Single Layer!, FirmGuard, Two Speed, Media Stealth, One Firmware, Xbox 360 backup and extraction firmware modification!

Features
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(V5.0) Single Layer DVD disc support(+/-R) for both Xbox1 and 360
(V5.0) Xbox1 file ISO support - burn just game files to disk in ISO format
(V5.0) Xbox1 file ISO capacity increase to utilise full disk space for single layer
(v5.0) 360 file ISO support (Work in progress. New QWIX tool to come)
(V5.0) Supports older style XBox1 disk format (just burn game.iso)
(v5.0) Enable0800 disk now supported on single layer disk
(v5.0) New 5.0a (fast always) and 5.0b (slow always) read speed option (Originals unaffected)

Use on Xbox Live at own risk

Technical details
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Single layer disks now supported for both Xbox1 and 360. The disks can be in either the same normal raw dump method or in XBOX file ISO format.
This fully works with Xbox 1 using the new Qwix or gdfimage created ISO. The default.xbe must be unmodified and still be signed (If in doubt , copy from original)

360 file ISO is still in development. The exact structure for the 360 disc is being developed and a new Qwix will support the creation of these disks.

Xbox1 file ISo now supports full 4.7GB as no need for video partition etc.

FOr Xtreme 5.0A all backup Read Speed is same as original game disks 12x. Originals unaffected and no speed switch

For Xtreme 5.0B all backup Read Speed is quite/slow. Originals unaffected and no speed switch

Fall update 2006 included DVD Drive version lockdown on consoles manufactured around end of May/start of June 2006. These consoles are now locked to the version of DVD drive that came with the console. If the DVD drive is different than original drive, Error 66 will be displayed. The response of the Atapi Inquiry command is compared to the stored original drive response to achieve this. (Thanx to DeViLs360 for initial find. Consoles manufactured before end of May 2006 do not perform this comparison. Only MS25 drives affected by Error 66 with Xtreme 5.0 should use the Make file for MS25.

Changes have also been made to the resulting Hitachi/MS25 reporting firmware to make them more similar to their original firmwares.

To use the updated Make files (only if getting Error 66), just copy your existing Samsung firmware to the extracted directory and rename it to orig.bin. Then run the corresponding Make file for your Original drive. This will create the modified X50a.bin/x50b.bin.