Hacking Driver: SF confirmed to be first XGD3 game

[Fudge]

As the summer winds down, a surge of games are being released - Madden NFL 12, Deus Ex and Dead Island, there is one bringing all of the attention. That game is Driver: San Francisco. The wheelman is back but he's coming with that new anti-piracy feature called the XGD3 disc format.

The conclusion has been made after the game failed to verify in ABGX. What does this mean? Take a read:

At this stage in firmware development, Driver: San Francisco is playable if you have an Xbox flashed with LT+ V1.9 or higher as it has support for XGD3 originals. However, it will be unplayable as a backup until LT+ v2.0 is released. In Addition, it is not known if Driver: San Francisco has any other protections such as AP2.5 (which would in turn require LT+ V1.91).
Driver: San Francisco is scheduled to drop next week Tuesday. (At least in North America)

I honestly thought it would be Gears 3. Oh well, not to excited for this one but I really hope Dead Island is XGD2.

 

[FAST6191]

Yeah I saw rumblings of that yesterday.

Oh well Driver.San.Francisco.JTAG.XBOX360-COMPLEX in the meantime- the game as a GOD install (I presume they did a hard drive/NXE install, fired off NXE2GOD and ripped the result). I lack a good NFO and I am far too lazy right now to go hunting for it.

Interestingly the release is said to only be 6.5 gigs (far short of the max XDG2 limit that other games brush up against all the time) but I will leave it to others to speculate on what it represents.

 

[Armadillo]

Nice

. Wonder if it will work on 12611 with dashlaunch taking care of the version check or whether I'll finally have to upgrade.

Size, well a god will be missing the video partition and random padding and all the other stuff that's on a retail disc, not sure if that would make it that much bigger though, so maybe they are just using it as security now, regardless of game size.

 

[Brian117]

I thought Halo: Reach was the first to use the XGD3 format? Not only for the beta testing, but I thought future distribution copies had the XGD3 format.

 

[Armadillo]

Works fine on 12611 using extracted files (god2iso, then 360 iso extract) on fsd. Fun game. Shifting mechanic is good, makes for some fun gameplay choices

.

 

[Nujui]

Yeah I saw rumblings of that yesterday.

Oh well Driver.San.Francisco.JTAG.XBOX360-COMPLEX in the meantime- the game as a GOD install (I presume they did a hard drive/NXE install, fired off NXE2GOD and ripped the result). I lack a good NFO and I am far too lazy right now to go hunting for it.

Interestingly the release is said to only be 6.5 gigs (far short of the max XDG2 limit that other games brush up against all the time) but I will leave it to others to speculate on what it represents.

Got one for ya.

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Driver San Francisco © Ubisoft

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Region : Region Free Languages: En,De,Fr,Es,It
? Size : 6.5gb Genre : Racing ?
? Platform : XBOX 360 JTAG ONLY Date : August 2011 ?
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Release Info: ?
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Developed by Ubisoft Reflections under the direction of the creators of the
original title, DRIVER San Francisco marks the return of the established
video game series that has sold 14 million copies worldwide. Gamers will
play as Detective John Tanner on a relentless manhunt for crime lord
Charles Jericho through the hills of the City by the Bay. Thanks to a
groundbreaking gameplay feature, players can now seamlessly “shift” between
well over a hundred licensed vehicles, keeping them constantly in the heart
of the action. With its timeless setting, unique car handling and renewed
playability, DRIVER San Francisco will revitalize the classic free-roaming,
cinematic car chase experience for the current generation of gaming
platforms.



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This is the first game using the new XGD3 format wich currently is not
readable with any of the common rip drives until new rip fw/tools arrive.
So here is a GOD container for everyone with a JTAG console - enjoy!

Copy the files to your hdd under /content/000000000.../ and simply start
it from your dashboard.

#fw dumbass of the week: apathy

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