New retail games that need patching

[4me2]

>> HSDEMONZ (Xbox-Scene Forum Head-Moderator) warned me that several new games need patching before you can run them from HD (or backup them).

[QUOTE]
Well... a number of new games being released lately have changed the placement of their MEDIA descriptor in the DEFAULT.XBE files of the game! Current Titles affected so far:
All-Star Baseball 2003
World Series Baseball 2004
High Heat Baseball 2004
Rayman3

... all need to be patched. Owners of these games will need to PATCH these games.. so that they can be properly backed up! This is the same mess that ENIGMAH BETA and XTENDER users faced in the beginning. Now ALL Modchip users will need to apply some sort of patch to make these titles WORK! (that is.. until a new BIOS is release.. that fixes this in memory!)

Until then.. we have the fine research conducted by XEERO of XBOX-SCENE. He did the detective work.. and was the first to post details of why these 4 games needed patches!

He learned that you need to change a string in the original DEFAULT.XBE

From:
00 74 4B E8 CA FD FF FF 85 C0 7D 06 33 C0 50 50 EB 44 F6 05

To
00 74 4B E8 CA FD FF FF 85 C0 EB 06 33 C0 50 50 EB 44 F6 05

and the above 4 games would function properly as a backup from disc or hd!

XEERO wrote a Tool that will do the patch automatically.
Download: here. http://dwl.xbox-scene.net/~xbox/xbox...h-xbpatch2.zip

COPYHUNTERS created a tool based on XEERO’s research.
Download: here. http://dwl.xbox-scene.net/~xbox/xbox...BE_Patcher.zip

There is no knowing if these tools will help will all new games that come out…

There appears to already be one variation of the new XBE… MVP Baseball which has it’s HEX as:

C7 75 0F E8 A1 FE FF FF 85 C0 7D 06 33 C0 50 50 EB 44 F6 05

C7 75 0F E8 A1 FE being different from the four other titles. However.. changing the 7D to EB still fixes the problem!


http://www.xbox-scene.com/

For More news on these new PATCH issues.. Read
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.p...T&f=11&t=37308

[fe_man2000]

Thanks for the Info 4me2 - thats important news.

Cheers
Ironman

[Freaky]

yeah sure is m8, thanks for postin this, its something everyone is gonna need to know at some time or another.

the link for the autopatcher is wicked aswell

i thought they would start doing this sooner or later with xbox games, but as there is already a circumvention for it then its a lame effort on thier part dont ya think.

thanks m8

[donty]

Just a few points....

XBEs have always been protected this way and the check position has not changed .. It just has been modified to ignore whatever you put in the 02 00 00 place.

The check works on the basis of the if then else scenario

Basically what it does is:

if condition = valid then
jump to another part of the xbe
else
set some conditions
jump to a part of xbe
return .. (exit xbe ... back to dash)
end if

Now what the patch does is changes the if condition = valid then jump command to just jump anyway and those making sure that the nasty code is not implemented.

And as for MVP Baseball this game is not protected and the xbe has been like this for a very long time. Well it is protected but the FF FF FF works cos its done with an old dll library.

[BlackBeard]

Does the patch allow the game to be run from H/D or does it only allow from a DVD/R - I am having 'fun' getting Rayman3 to run from H/D

[4me2]

both.

[mummikub]

thanx for the info was wondering why rayman 3 was booting back to the evox dash

[Yazmon]

Arnt the groups released with patches? (Seen a few go by...)

[Mookie]

Not all groups are on the ball with the pre-patching xbox images before release or releasing patches afterwards.

Riot seem to be the pioneers on the Xbox with nice routines etc. the rest seem to follow, having said that they've missed the odd media check in the past and other groups like CSISO have not tested their releases before releasing either.

We knew the simple fix of 'FF' would not last forever, there was never a need to use 3 FF's to create the jump by the way but there's always different ways of doing things...

ADR Xbox Beta Mod Patcher 1.21 did a good job on the old stuff, we'll just have to use the ADR Patcher 0.5 to search for specific strings in future but that should only be necessary each time they update the kernel.

[Mookie]

Jurassic Park - RIOT needs a new media fix, they patched the XBE using the old method 'FF' at offset 214.

ADR Patcher 0.5 XBOX routine found 1 location and fixed the game first time, I believe they released a fix for it too.

Other auto tools should work also.

[4me2]

Originally posted by Mookie
Jurassic Park - RIOT needs a new media fix, they patched the XBE using the old method 'FF' at offset 214.

ADR Patcher 0.5 XBOX routine found 1 location and fixed the game first time, I believe they released a fix for it too.

Other auto tools should work also.

yep worked with copy hunters patcher.

I wasted two dvds first though, I wish these buggers would check thier work before releasing.