XBOX360.Topology.Data.ALL.XGD3.GAMES.MERRY.XMAS.2011-12-25-XBOX360TEAM

**raelmadrid** · 25th December 2011

NFO:

Topology Files for iXtreme LT+ v3.0



Released: 12/25/2011

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After an exhaustive development process we are pleased to release these disc

profile topology patches for the iXtreme LT+ v3.0 firmware.





These patches are based on millions of angle measurements spanning hundreds of

hours to get the most accurate values possible.









There are currently two patches available:









1) XGD2.COD-BO.COD-MW2.Halo-Reach.top.data.v1.bin





   SUITABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING GAMES ONLY:





   a) Call of Duty: Black Ops





   b) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2





   c) Halo: Reach (XGD2 ONLY, don't use this on backups of the XGD3 beta)





   These games have the exact same topology and therefore can share the same

   profile data. This was confirmed by doing at least 35 iterations of profile

   data for each game and analyzing the results. Over millions of measurements,

   not a single one deviated from the median by more than 1 degree, and there

   were no cumulative effects at all. These games are identical in the way they

   were mastered.













2) XGD3.Profile.ID.F87A804E.top.data.v1.bin





   Suitable for all XGD3 games with this disc profile ID:





   0C3DF524599094E6CB87ECC8-F87A804E





   This covers all current XGD3 releases (at the time of writing) except for

   the Halo: Reach XGD3 beta.





   Check bit.ly/ap25list and stay up to date with the latest news on the usual

   sites so you don't end up patching and burning the wrong data if a new XGD3

   game comes out with a different disc profile ID (there are several more

   already waiting in dae.bin).













Media ID shouldn't matter since we always check our data against all foreign

versions of games in DAE.bin using the targets from the v12 table and several

unique per-Xbox v8 tables. Again, stay up to date with the latest news in case

this situation changes.





P.S. You may be thinking that it's better to use topology data taken from a

specific title or pressing... and that may be true... but only if you do a

multitude of iterations and take the average values. You would most likely

end up with extremely similar data to ours (if your drive and disc are OK),

with only very small deviations where measurements were right in between two

integers, and could effectively go either way.





We certainly don't want to discourage people from doing their own measurements,

but please be aware that it is very easy for some drives to screw up an angle

measurement, and even small screw ups or a general bias in timing can have a

great impact on LT+ responses.





P.P.S We've included an example of how we process our multitudes of iterations

in case you think this is all a bunch of BS. It's a massive html file so be

careful if you don't think your system or browser can handle it.









More patches will be released in the coming days or weeks as required.









Thanks go to c4eva, Seacrest, Team Jungle & Team Xecuter.





Enjoy and Merry Christmas! We look forward to all future challenges in 2012.

**TheThingIs** · 25th December 2011

So do we patch MW3 with the generic patch then? MW3 isnt even listed on http://bit.ly/ap25list. How do you find the profile ID of an image?

or am I being thick? lol

**Tim.Lad** · 25th December 2011

it does say

This covers all current XGD3 releases (at the time of writing) except for
the Halo: Reach XGD3 beta.

so i think the generic one will do...

**ilscuro** · 25th December 2011

To find out the profile id of a disk open xbox backup creator click image tools, get region and load the iso

Just done mw3 with generic topology file and all good