5[TUT] How to burn XGD2/XGD3 games

I've been seeing lots of people asking lots of questions about most things in here so i decided to make this. I have burnt around 97 games now and found out these methods work 100% in most cases and want everyone to know. 


- UPDATE -


Lt+ 3.0 is needed for fixing all problems with XGD3 games, the unrecognized error, and will allow you to play live safely after re-burning your ap25 games with topology data.


- Lt+ 3.0 released! * You can use the old jungleflasher to flash to Lt+ 3.0 before the new jungleflasher is out. Note that it will show as 1.1 until then. -Update- *New Jungleflasher is released! Supports Lt+ 3.0 for Lite-On and BenQ (Official Link): Link
Latest IXtreme Pack with 3.0 included: Link
For Lite-On use: LTPlus-0251-V3.0.bin For BenQ use: LTPlus-0442-V3.0.bin


- New Xbox Backup Creator released! : Link * Used to patch ap25 games and create topology data.
* How To Patch * : Open the new Xbox Backup Creator and go to Image Tools > select inject > load iso > click AP25 Sector > load median.bin and patch > burn with iHas Driver + BurnerMax Firmware.


- Universal Topology pack by C4Eva! : Link


All things needed: 


Dvd + r dl 8.5gb discs. (recommend Verbatims.)
DL burner.


Imgburn v2.5.6.0 (Newest as of now): Link1
Link2
- UPDATE - ABGX360 v1.0.5 (old): Link
ABGX360 v1.0.6 released! * Newest one, patches all xgd3 games, no need for XBC! official link: Link


Keep the exact same settings as old one just like in TUT and it will work perfectly! It will inject the topology data for you!


All Info Needed! (rite off official site):
Quote:
abgx360 v1.0.6 released!


Changes affecting all platforms:


- XGD3 support.
- Replaced AP25 replay sector support with support for topology data (for consoles which do AP25 checks -- make sure you have LT+ v3.0 or later).
- Added "Min Kernel Required" (to boot the game) when checking an XEX.
- Added improvements to AutoUpload (used by uploaders) including extended C/R for SS (using the original disc) to make sure files uploaded to the database have very accurate angle measurements.
- Added optional command line argument "--speed" for setting drive speed when checking a burned DVD. Example: "--speed 12" will attempt to set the drive speed to 12x. You can try to set any speed you like, but setting a speed higher than what your media supports may cause read errors if the drive's firmware doesn't govern it. "--speed 0" will set the drive's default speed.
- Added optional command line argument "--showsstable" for when you want to see the SS C/R data but you still prefer medium or low verbosity. The SS C/R table has also been updated with "Mod?" being split into "Tol" (response tolerance) for the CCRT entry and "Mod" (response modifier) for the drive entry, also "Pad?" has been renamed to "Typ" (type). Thanks Redline99!
- Added vendor specific additional info and bus type when displaying optical drive names (bus type displayed on Windows only).
- Updated the list of optical drive sense code errors.
- Updated the game ratings definitions.
- Fixed a bug which negated the ability to recover from a write error when rebuilding an ISO using the low disk space method. It's unlikely that a write error would be recovered on subsequent retries, but at least now it will write the data in the correct place if it does recover.
- Fixed a bug which caused "Unknown Media: 0x00000000" to be displayed if the "Secure Virtual Optical Device" media flag was set and the "XGD2 Media Only" image flag was not set (The "XGD2 Media Only" flag has also been renamed to "Original Media Only" in abgx360 since they are using the same flag for XGD3).
- The archaic caution message about angle 359 was removed, but you are still able to "fix" it if you still have iXtreme < v1.4 (really old and not suitable for XBL anyway).
- Ability to "extract entire video partition (253 MB)" was removed; this doesn't make sense for XGD3 and isn't even very useful for XGD2 since it was just including a bunch of padding data that isn't even part of the real video partition... it was only needed for very old methods of concatenating with stealth files and a game partition to make a working backup.


Note: The way video is checked/fixed is now a little different for both XGD2 and XGD3. The previous way was to check/fix both L0 video and L1 video off of L0, and then to check/fix "SplitVid" (L1 video on L1) afterwards by comparing it to L1 video on L0. Since XGD3 has no room for L1 video on L0, and to keep things consistent, video will now always be checked/fixed according to L0 on L0 and L1 on L1, and the "SplitVid" check is now gone (nominally). The only effective difference is that L1 video on L0 is no longer checked, but this is not a problem... it's not even supposed to be there and it's not visible to the host console when using a "safe" custom firmware. You can rest assured that only old and unsafe custom firmwares will read L1 video from L0; newer ones will read it properly from L1 (this is necessary in order to replicate the read/seek performance of an original disc).


There is also a big annoying yellow message if you have "Check/Fix Video padding" enabled and you check an XGD2 game with L1 video on L0 (or any data in that area). To make the message go away you will need to either add command line option "--pL0" to confirm that you want to blank it out (XGD2 ISOs without L1 video on L0 will appear to have bad video data when checked with older versions of abgx360), or you can simply disable "Check/Fix Video padding", as it still makes no difference in terms of stealth... this option only exists as a way to make sure ISOs are "clean", with no extra data in areas that aren't CRC checked. Note that this version of abgx360 doesn't care about L1 video on L0... it will pad L0 video with zeroes whenever video is autofixed or manually patched.


Sorry if the command line options are annoying (you can add them under the "Misc" tab of the GUI), but you can be sure that an improved v1.1.0 GUI is in the works...


Note: The GUI has not been changed and will still display version 1.0.2, don't worry about it as long as the CLI app displays v1.0.6
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Xbox Backup Creator (v2.9.0.350): Link


Others:


JungleFlasher V0.1.91 beta (300): Link


ABGX360 wave patches: Link


^ needed for AutoFixing XGD2 games that have corrupt or incorrect Video data (don't really need this, unless you get error similar to this: Failed to find or open 'Video_1914211B.iso)






Burning:


You can start by downloading an ISO dvd/game from here.
If your downloaded ISO didn't come with a .dvd file here is how to make one:


For XGD2 open up ABGX360 and change these settings: 












You want the region code to match your region so hit select.




select the region you live in then hit OK.




Now load your ISO file and hit Launch.
It will patch and stealth your game for better online safety.
Green writing = good
Blue writing = good/fixed files
Yellow = bad/check what it says


It doesn't create a different ISO it overwrites original.


For XGD3 which is not yet supported by ABGX360, you will get an error/message saying it doesn't recognize it. When new version gets released ill update thread which will allow you to patch XGD3. For now download the 0800 ripped games which are said to be safe. * Update *: You will need to use XBC (xbox backup creator) to patch the iso by injecting data and then burn your game (must re-burn all burnt games). All info at top of thread.


Right click on your desktop and then select text document.
Open the text document and copy and paste this into it:


LayerBreak=2133520
GAME.iso (text in red must be exact name of .iso game)


Now go to>save as>name it : exact name.dvd (make sure the extension is .dvd) and save it in the same place as your .iso.


Now right click on the .dvd file you just made and open with, notepad or txt editor.
Now lets change something, if your game is "XGD2" then change the layerbreak from "2133520" to "1913760".


Else if "XGD3" and you are not using an IHAS burner with CFW installed change the layerbreak from "2133520" to "2086912". This is for the 97% burns which fixes the black screen and kicked back to dash problem. 


If you are using the IHAS burner with CFW then leave layerbreak as is (2133520).




Now your going to want to:


Open up ImgBurn 2.5.6.0 and go to Tools, then Settings, then Write: change the Layer Break to, Calculate Optimal if you put your layerbreak as "2133520" in .dvd file or for anything else just copy and paste the layerbreak you set into to, and then hit OK.


ImgBurn Settings:








Focus on these settings and make sure you have the priority set to HIGH.


Now select Write image file to disc, then locate your .dvd and select it , it will load the iso itself. 


Then in the drop down menu on the left choose your correct drive. Then in the one on the right choose Write Speed of 2.4x. I use this slow speed to get better success rate and quality. 


Insert a disc, as i said i recommend Verbatims never had 1 coaster, with Memorex i had coasters. But still had success with Memorex and then hit Write!




Yours should be glowing.


You will then get a message saying,
There doesn't appear to be enough room... Select Write Until End Of Disc (Transcute)! Must click that one.


And there ya have it! Good luck , and i hope i helped!