I can’t tell you how long I have personally been waiting for xbmc to work on my mac/pc(5+yr). Yesterday, the day epically took place; and to my amazement it was all I had anticipatively expected. It’s still in beta.1, but working great and available for Download Here!!!

You can download the Latest XBMC SVN build directly from the \bleeding edge\ T3CH website. High quality pictures in comments.

Thanks to ****Podger*** and others from xboxhacker.net there is no longer a need for the passkey when flashing your 79 Hitachi drives. This news is tremendous. Before this tool the 79 Hitachi was by far the most difficult and troublesome xbox360 drive to mod. Tutorial in comments.

Passkey No Longer Needed!

If your purchasing a new xbox-360 with manufacturing date after 8/11/08 chances are it will have the “lite-on” dvd-drive that is currently (read only) and unmodifiable. You may also find these in recently repaired systems from Microsoft service center. The drive tray looks just like a BenQ/Phillips drive, so it is difficult to identifying systems that have this drive. See the comments for a tutorial on Lite-On detection.

Currently there is no way of conventionally mod/flashing this version of dvd-rom, but it is possible to dump the “lite-on” so that you can get the key and just spoof it as another drive (Hitachi/Samsung/Benq). It’s not super easy and extra hardware is needed, but probably worth it if you really need that new xbox modded. If you can find the “Benq drive” decently priced that’s the ideal way to go.

A great “Tutorial” for spoofing the lite-on (source: Xboxhacker.net) can be found in the comments.

Looks just like a BenQ…

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If your surprised to find your latest wii mod-install project ending in fail you probably have the new* pesky D2Cv2 or D2E motherboard. Your old modchips won’t work with these systems. As of the time of writing this, I’m recommending the “D2pro9 v3″ (note: D2Pro9 V2 can have eject issues with d2c2[use v3]).

The third version of “D2Pro9 v3″ has just been release as of late July 08 to support “D2E” chip-sets.

D2Pro2 9 Wire Install…