Guitar Hero Metallica on XDK

Hi,

since I have a XDK at my disposal I sometimes transfer retail games to it to tinker with them and take a few screenshots.

To make this possible I patch the xex with xextool, removing all limits and signing it as dev xex. This worked like a charm till now, but GH Metallica exits back to the dashboard with a generic error message (no error code, just "cann't start") once I try to start the game.

Any suggestions/ideas what I can do to fix this?

Cheers, morphos

 

What kernel are you running.

 

Try removing compression with xex tool

 

question leo will people get banned playing games with the wave 3 security BS on an xdk ?

 

Wave 3 Security? Whats that?

 

You mean like banned, like people with modded xboxs getting banned off live, if then no. This has nothing to do with that, people get banned because the dvd drive reports a backup.

 

My metallica worked perfectly on my TEST kit with the NXE recovery CD's. The only thing is with the explorer 2 guitar if you hold a button down too long it crashes.

Hawk

 

Thanks for the hints, will give the un-compression a try.

Wave 3 is a new kind of copy-protection, e.g. Wanted and Metallica are Wave 3 protected. But that mainly bothers people who have their consoles chipped or drive flashed because it has to do with the disc layout afaik.

 

Hi,

uncompressing didn't help, thanks for the tip anyway.

@Pikkon: Kernel ist 7776.0, shouldn't be too old, all our "real" dev code still works like a charm

Cheers, morph

 

What pirates are calling "wave 3 security" seems to be just a new DVD Video partition.

I believe it was made to disrupt the "safety" instated by hackers on hacked firmware to keep discs with wrong data from booting. Such data is never used by the game itself but can be easily checked by the dashboard and then be used to determine if the disc is a illegal copy.

 

Yep. Microsoft wanted to put the NXE update on the discs, there is no space in the game partition for it anymore, so it's in the video partition now.

 

uhm if your running 7776 then thats your problem, I think with metallica You would need 7978 for it to run, Like said before Metallica is a game that requires NXE and 7776 isnt nxe, so go get yourself 7978 then report back.

 

True, no NXE XDK on the box. Will have to request a newer network recovery file. Thanks for the hint!

morph

 

Just remember when you update with the NXE recovery the hdd has to be formated,make sure to backup if needed.

 

yea and if they send you a Recovery disk please do not do anything like copy the files to your harddrive then run the recovery off of your hdd. please >.<

 

FYI the iXtreme 1.51 handles the Layer 3

Also try just patching to devkit and removing region (Region Free)

 

Where talking about a DEV/DEMO/TEST/DEBUG kit not a retail so ixtreme does not matter as the games are played off the HDD or emulated with the pc. Once you patch the xex you should be fine, but you will most likely need the NXE recovery because it ships on the disc with it, so chances are it will not play without it. This is the second game that I patched to work on my dev kit and it played fine and only crashed once.

Hawk

 

Wait so do all Xbox 360 games have to be emulated or installed to the HD? Pardon the noobish-ness but you can't play something from the optical drive?

 

Thanks everybody, the XDK upgrade did the trick!

Of course you can play from the optical drive. To play a retail game on a dev you have to change a few things in the executable though - most importantly sign it as dev instead of retail.

You would have to burn a new disc for every change you make and it is just cheaper and quicker to copy everything to the hard-drive and change things over the network.

morph

 

Thanks for the hint, but I suspected as much.
Would be interessting though, if the updater is smart enough to realize it is trying to format itself