BurnerMAX payload tool 0.15 (XGD3 360 format on many more drives)

[Armadillo]

Adds support for full burns of XGD3 titles on many drives, rather than just the IHAS series. Temporary patch, has to be run every time a new disc is inserted.

Official release of the BurnerMAX Payload Tool – works with most MTK chipset based DVD burners (Liteon etc)
- No need to flash burner firmware
- Delivers a realtime payload to increase capacity of DVD+R DL discs to support XGD3
- Support for stock iHas B, C, and D burners, all makes and models
- Support for many of the Liteon iHAS Clones
- Supports many other models such as ASUS, Samsung, Pioneer and many others
- Supports many Liteon and Samsung USB External Burners
- Supports many Liteon IDE Burners
- Supports any disc burning software – we recommend iMGBURN

Source & full readme

Xecuter

 

[Sicklyboy]

Oh hell yes, that's so cool.

I bought a 224 without knowing which rev it was, turned out to be a C. Ordered a 424 and got a B. But this really opens up the realm of possibilities to other people with different drives.

 

[FAST6191]

Nice, I saw most of the compatible burners were getting to be fairly pricey online.

 

[DinohScene]

Nice to see that there are more burners compatible with LT Max.

No more hoarding from people that want to make money off off it.
Those people disgust me!

 

[Armadillo]

Nice, I saw most of the compatible burners were getting to be fairly pricey online.

Ebay sellers are going to be pissed

There was some Sony Optiarc that appeared recently as well that supports overburning out of the box, which people had tested and said was fine as well, but was not available in Europe.

This works fine on my pioneer 219L. Didn't bother to burn anything as I don't need to (Jtag & a RGH console), but patched fine and capacity of disc changed.

 

[Moose13]

I just put in a bid today for a version B drive...I got one from Newegg yesterday and I had no idea I would have a B/C problem, until I went to flash the drive.
Now I hope I can cancel my auction, which I'm the high bidder.

 

[purechaos996]

Is there like a full list of supported drives, the provided info is kinda vague.

 

[Armadillo]

Is there like a full list of supported drives, the provided info is kinda vague.

Well there's a start here

http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?p=702267#post702267

There is never going to be a full list of X drive supported though, as it's not for one specific drive. If it can find and patch what it needs, then it works, if it can't, then it won't. MTK based drives should work, so that's a start. Other than that, you'll just have to wait for people to test and say whether it works on X drive.

 

[purechaos996]

Well there's a start here

http://team-xecuter.com/forums/showthread.php?p=702267#post702267

There is never going to be a full list of X drive supported though, as it's not for one specific drive. If it can find and patch what it needs, then it works, if it can't, then it won't. MTK based drives should work, so that's a start. Other than that, you'll just have to wait for people to test and say whether it works on X drive.

Ahh I wasn't aware you could just run it on any drive and test it yourself haha. Thanks mate!

 

[DinohScene]

Although this is released a few days ago and pretty old news already.

C4Eva released a new tool to burn XGD3 games on discs without the use of a hacked iHAS drive.
You'll still need to search if your drive is compatible since not all drives are supported.

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C4E’s BurnerMAX Payload Tool in association with Team Jungle & Team Xecuter
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Official release of the BurnerMAX Payload Tool – works with most MTK chipset based DVD burners (Liteon etc)

- No need to flash burner firmware. Delivers a realtime payload to increase capacity of DVD+R DL discs to support XGD3
- Support for stock iHas B, C, and D burners, all makes and models
- Support for many of the Liteon iHAS Clones
- Supports many other mnodels such as ASUS, Samsung, Pioneer and many others
- Supports many Liteon and Samsung USB External Burners
- Supports many Liteon IDE Burners
- Supports any disc burning software – we recommend iMGBURN

How it Works
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Load your favorite burning software. Insert your blank DVD+R DL disc. Send the BurnerMAX Payload. Re-select your drive in the burner software and the capacity will be increased.
You will need to send the BurnerMAX Payload evertime you insert a blank DVD+R DL disc.

Special vendor specific commands are sent to examine in realtime the drives custom registers, searching for specific DVD+R DL blank media capacity and layer capacity parameters.

If found these registers are modified using another set of vendor specific commands.

Due to the use of stock firmware and different burner makes and models, any settings the burner has play a more important role.

For iHas burners B, C and D, recommended settings are:

Force Hypertuning – Enabled
Online Hypertung – Disabled
Smartburn – Enabled
Overspeed – Enabled
OPC history – Do not clear

Results may vary depending on hardware and disc brand.

Verbatim DVD+R DL (Singapore Manufactured) Blank Discs are recommended for best results.

I would like to wish everyone a merry xmas and a happy new year – many more goodies are coming……

Thanks go to Team Jungle for their hard work and efforts in the development process.
Thanks also go to Team Xecuter for their support to this project.

I wish to dedicate BurnerMAX Payload Tool’s release to the victims of the Connecticut school massacre and the bravery of the school teachers involved who saved many lives.

Changelog
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v0.15 – First release

Source: HB-Connection

 

[FAST6191]

Is this a new version or did Armadillo beat you to the punch?
http://gbatemp.net/threads/burnermax-payload-tool-0-15-xgd3-360-format-on-many-more-drives.339524/

 

[DinohScene]

Afaik it's the same version.
I actually completely forgot that Armadillo posted the news tbh.

Feel free to delete it or leave it as it is

 

[science]

So, what does this do? I can burn a game and put it in any 360, flashed firmware or not, if I burn it with a compatible drive?

 

[DinohScene]

It only allows some drives to burn XGD3 games.
You still need to flash your 360 for it to accept backups.

 

[flo]

Are they as safe on Live as the ones burned with iHAS ?