Try playing (Cars: Race-o-Rama) or new games that might have the wave 4 video layer without an update to “1.6 ixtreme” and the “Special Activation Disk” and you might be unpleasantly surprised that its not working. Currently the “Hitachi 1.51″ ixtreme firmware also works, but none of the other drive firmwares are acting with the same civility and respect. “Unless . . .” we bring 1.4 ixtreme into the discussion. This firmware will work with anything. You sacrifice security & features, so don’t think it comes without a price. If your getting tired of the what seems like an endless, extreme firmware update wave, then this might be for you. I recommend it for anyone who does not get on xbl(1.4 ixtreme, note: some drive 1.4 fw versions not available).

So, to recap, we need to use this “Boot Disc’ until a new firmware(ixtreme 1.61?) with the “special activation” that will be built in, eliminating this boot disc step(let’s hope it’s ready soon).

http://www.sendspace.com/file/5ed5xr burn to a DUAL LAYER disk, (do not set a layer-break and when imgburn prompts, tell it to burn to the first layer only). [ Description: One Shot Boot, Name: activate.rar ]