For those who have been keeping up with the Xbox Live Chart Activity, we have some more updates for you guys. As usual we have the top ten games played over the original Xbox Live, the new Xbox Live, and the most downloaded games from the Xbox Live arcade.
No surprises here for the top three games being played over Xbox Live. We still have the trinity of
Gears of War
Crackdown
Halo 3 Beta on top.
Aegis Wing has been bumped off the list as the Hour of Victory Demo joins the top ten. The most downloaded games over Xbox Live Arcade has Pac-Man C.E., Madtracks, and Worms taking the first, second, and third slots, knocking down Double Dragon, XEVIOUS, and Rush n' Attack.
Not much has really changed with regards to the top ten games in both the original and new Xbox Live with the games just moving around a bit. XBLA is bit more varied considering how many games are added into the list regularly.
Without further adieu, here are the top ten lists for all three divisions.
Xbox 360 Top Live Titles:
Gears of War
Crackdown
Halo 3 Beta
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
Guitar Hero II
Forza Motorsport 2
Hour of Victory Demo
DiRT Demo
Call Of Duty 3
GRAW 2
Top Arcade Titles:
Pac-Man C.E.
Mad Tracks
Worms
TMNT 1989 Arcade
Double Dragon
UNO
3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures
Castlevania: SOTN
Pinball FX
Catan
Original Xbox Top Live Games:
Halo 2
Battlefield 2: MC
Counter-Strike
Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
Call of Duty 3
Madden NFL 07
Forza Motorsport
Rainbow Six 3 BA
FIFA 07
Rainbow Six 3
Robinsod released a new version of the 360 Flash Dump a developer’s tool that will allow you to decrypt and extract various parts of a Xbox360 flash dump.
What's new/fixed (since v0.2)
* Fixed CG extraction * Reverted CE.cab to single file (thanks Takires) * As TheSpecialist said extraction of CE section is now working, and what a pig it was Wink, you may now right click and select 'Extract' and get just the raw, decrypted CE Section or Kernel(s). Selecting Kernel(s) causes the application to extract the base (typically 1888) HV and Kernel as an uncompressed file - "xboxkrnl.1888.exe". The option to extract them as a .cab file has now been removed. If 1 or both of the patch (CF/CG) slots are occupied they will be applied to the base kernel and the result is also written as a file - xboxkrnl.XXXX.exe.
For example, if you have a base kernel (1888) and 2 patches (2858 and 4552) in your flash dump, load into the tool, right click on CE and choose kernel(s) you will get 3 files:<.i>
- xboxkrnl.1888.exe The base HV & kernel, no patches - xboxkrnl.2858.exe The base HV & kernel, patched to 2858 - xboxkrnl.4552.exe The base HV & kernel, patched to 4552
* I noticed an odd bug in the upgrade process while developing this tool. I have some dumps from a box where 4532 is upgraded to 4548. As I noted the other day the first 0xBB40 bytes of CG are stored immediately after CF and the remainder is stored in FS blocks (there's a list in the CF header and they also appear in the FS as sysupdate.xexp files).
Well it appears during the update process from 4532 to 4548 the CG data for 4532 was deleted but the list in CF is still valid. This is odd since 4548 was not a lock down version was it? Yet it would be impossible to roll back from a corrupt 4548 to 4532 * Its very interesting to diff. 4548 and 4552 they have << 100 bytes of differences so I guess the exploit fix was pretty small Wink.
Now you may have read this and are not quite sure as to what it all means. What it means is developers are getting a much more in depth look at how the 360 works. The end result of better knowledge of how the system works. This will pave the way for what most of you modders out there have been waiting for.
Homebrew Applications
Don’t get me wrong all the hard work that has been put into dvd firmwares is greatly appreciated, but I’ve been waiting for homebrew for quite some time. Play backup copies of games is nifty and all, but running apps on my 360 one day is what gets me worked up like the day before Christmas when you know you have a great present waiting.
Of course there will still be a lot of work, and hard hours ahead, but the developers are just one step closer to enjoying the full potential that the 360 is. Big thanks goes out to those working on this.
Cue the super-sad Hulk walking away music up and watch as the Halo 3 beta hitchhikes away again, off to find another job as a cook in a small town that doesn't know his terrible secret. You've just got a few more hours of lasering and Warthogging and bubble shielding before you're cut off for 107 entire days. Soak it up my friends, soak it up.
But don't be sad. See, we found a farm that has a lot of other Halo 3 betas on it. It'll have plenty of room to run around and shoot itself out of man cannons. It's just going to love it there. What's that? Can you visit the Halo 3 beta? ... Well, no. See, the farm is really far away. But if you comment in this thread with some of your happiest memories, it'll be almost like it never died! Wait, did we say died? We meant moved to the farm. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Codemasters have announced that an Overlord demo is now available from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The new demo weighs in at 891.8mb.
Overlord is a title that gives players a horde of gremlin-like critters and a land to set them loose in. Controlling a mysterious figure that has inherited the legacy of the evil, long-dead Overlord, the player emerges, near death, from the ruins of the old Overlord’s Dark Tower. Only the player’s actions will determine if they will rise to become the new all-powerful Overlord; it’s all down to how much of a bad ass they want to be in order to succeed… evil or really evil! Played out with plenty of black humour and dark irony, the game will immerse players in twisted parodies of classic fantasy scenarios and characters.
For more information on Overlord please browse the 360-hq.com games, screenshots and movies areas.
iXtreme firmware 1.2 for TS-H943 Xbox 360 has been released. It has stronger protection. No word on the release date for the Hitachi drive as of yet.
Nfo Follows
Media Stealth, Disc-Jitter, Disc-Lockon, FirmGuard, Xbox 360 backup firmware modification!
Features
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(v1.2) Extra verification performed on Stealth backups
(v1.1) Extra verification performed on Stealth backups
(v1.0) Defeats all current Xbox Live detection attempts
(v1.0) Boots ONLY Stealth Xtreme Xbox 360 backups
(v1.0) Boots ONLY Stealth Xtreme Xbox 1 backups
(v1.0) Boots all Xbox 360 originals
(v1.0) Boots all Xbox 1 originals on Xbox 360
Use on Xbox Live at own risk
Technical details
------------------------ Defeats all current Xbox Live detection attempts.
Thanks to everyone on #FW, Xboxhacker.net , Xbox-Scene.com, and xbins.Org for their support. Keep up the good work everyone. [email protected]
June:
Call of Juarez
Fantastic Four Rise of Sil
Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
Tenchu Z
Ratatouille
Dirt
The Darkness
Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix
Hour of Victory
The Bigs
Transformers Cybertron
Transformers The Game
Overload
July:
NCAA Football 2008
Vampire Rain
Project Sylpheed
All Pro Football 2K8
Two Words
NASCAR 2008
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