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*** Maximus Announces the 360 Lizard ***
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jpizzle
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1. December 2010 @ 04:25 |
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originally posted on PSX-Scene.com:
More than a year of research and development was poured into Maximus Lizard and today this bad ass lizard has seen the light and comes packed with really cool technology. The Dream of every DVD Firmware Tester has come true. And Do you Know What That Means?
No more:
Sata Drivers
Win64 Problems
PC Hanging
PC Forced Reboot
Multiple Computers to cover all drives
Its time to start in the Lizard Way. Your PC fades into the dark as you enjoy freedom like never before!
Lizard equals FREEDOM. With Lizard, you are investing in a professional TOOL that will not be limited to a few quantity of drives. Also there is NO RESTRICTION on the kind of file you can open, read or write.
At Maximus, we take engineering seriously. You can trust that Maximus Lizard relied on a deep research and lots of time prototyping, and will offer you RELIABLE FREEDOM LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HAD BEFORE !!
LIZARD FEATURES ARE TRUE FEATURES! With Maximus Lizard, you won't have another tool in the background doing the real flashing work, this is because the Lizard features are built right into the hardware device itself.
Some notes about the features:
a) Some features may not be available at launch but will be later with a secure firmware update.
b) Some features may require additional accesories that will not be available at launch, but they´re come very soon!
Feature List (Non extensive):
Hardware Flasher with Unlock, Read, Write, Erase and Key Retrieval
Support for all 360 Drives, Samsung, Hitachi, Benq, Liteon, Slim
(yes it also UNLOCKS and READ KEYS on the latest 0225)
Support is built in for MANY PC DVD SATA drives too
Support Onboard AES128 Key Verification
Several Modes of Operation - with PC conectivity or as Standalone Entity!
Expandable internal flash memory
Upgradable onboard firmware
Accesory Port (several very useful accesories already on the design bench)
Sexy Graphical Screen Display
Friendly Navigation Menu with simplified button count
Multilingual Support
Free UNRESTRICTED companion software
Credits:
Long live to all the scene pure heart contributors, some of them are my friends and really nice people, lots of their effort and knowledge its also embedded inside the 360 Lizard.
kai schtrom, geremia, c4e, team modfreakz, seventhson, tiros, the specialist, redline99, xorloser, MRA, podger, garyopa, birdy
Video: http://vimeo.com/17349981
Official Site: http://www.360lizard.com
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 1. December 2010 @ 04:26
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1. December 2010 @ 05:38 |
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Just tell me where to send the money! Thx for the update.
"All drives should be updated to Lite Touch + (LT+) firmware if playing on XBOX live. Samsung drives and pre-78/79 Hitachi drives do not utilize AP 2.5. All other drives are considered to be detectable by Microsoft (YMMV). Make sure all rips are ABGX verified, contain SSv2, and patched AP2.5 (where needed). XGD3 must currently be burned on new drive with PC Burner Max firmware for 100% rip. All modded consoles can be potentially unsafe for use on XBOX live."
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BIFF0
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1. December 2010 @ 05:56 |
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Think I will be buying one of these. Well Done all.
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1. December 2010 @ 05:59 |
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It's a Christmas Miracle! *sheds tear* Can you imagine how much time this will save you? Think of all the drives you can flash in one day!
"All drives should be updated to Lite Touch + (LT+) firmware if playing on XBOX live. Samsung drives and pre-78/79 Hitachi drives do not utilize AP 2.5. All other drives are considered to be detectable by Microsoft (YMMV). Make sure all rips are ABGX verified, contain SSv2, and patched AP2.5 (where needed). XGD3 must currently be burned on new drive with PC Burner Max firmware for 100% rip. All modded consoles can be potentially unsafe for use on XBOX live."
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1. December 2010 @ 08:12 |
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This is a *MUST* have! Thanks for the update!
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smiffy01u
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1. December 2010 @ 09:03 |
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1. December 2010 @ 09:11 |
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A "must have"; I don't know about that. All it does is eliminate the need for a pc. And I definitely wouldn't trust a stand alone unit which has just been released over a pc which methods has been proven for years now.
Plus you still have to prep the drives needing flashed. Meaning adding switches, cut & repair traces.
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1. December 2010 @ 09:17 |
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Originally posted by bhetrick:
Plus you still have to prep the drives needing flashed. Meaning adding switches, cut & repair traces.
Weird, modking30 said the opposite in his post about this....no cutting or soldering necessary
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1. December 2010 @ 10:22 |
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jp's original post above is a copy of what Maximus has on his site. Notice in the "No more" section it doesn't say anything about no cutting. Cutting traces was a HUGE HUGE HUGE deal for many people, so if it were so with the Lizard, I'm pretty sure Maximus wouldn't forget to mention it. All it states is that you don't need your pc anymore.
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No more:
Sata Drivers
Win64 Problems
PC Hanging
PC Forced Reboot
Multiple Computers to cover all drives
Its time to start in the Lizard Way. Your PC fades into the dark as you enjoy freedom like never before!
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Feature List (Non extensive)
- Hardware Flasher with Unlock, Read, Write, Erase and Key Retrieval
- Support for all 360 Drives, Samsung, Hitachi, Benq, Liteon, Slim (yes it also UNLOCKS and READ KEYS on the latest 0225)
- Support is built in for MANY PC DVD SATA drives too
- Support Onboard AES128 Key Verification
- Several Modes of Operation - with PC conectivity or as Standalone Entity!
- Expandable internal flash memory
- Upgradable onboard firmware
- Accesory Port (several very useful accesories already on the design bench)
- Sexy Graphical Screen Display
- Friendly Navigation Menu with simplified button count
- Multilingual Support
- Free UNRESTRICTED companion software
No where at all does he what so ever make mention of no more cutting.
Over in X-S, Foundmy posted:
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As I stated before maximus informed that if you have to prep a drive currently (rebuild pcb, cut traces etc) you still have to do it with this, this just removed the need for a PC.
I think some people jumped the gun when they stated it didnt need cut traces etc.
In post #12: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=724957&st=0
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Modking30
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1. December 2010 @ 10:32 |
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Glad I told you guys about this. Thanks for the post and beating me to the punch jpizzle. This will be the best tool yet!
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1. December 2010 @ 11:25 |
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Thanks for the info bhetrick. It's kinda neat that it can do it all in one little package but if it just removes the need for the PC and you still have to cut traces then it's pretty pointless for me and I probably won't be getting one
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jpizzle
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1. December 2010 @ 12:29 |
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yea this tool is not something I will personally be buying from either group, I prefer to use my PC.
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biglo30
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1. December 2010 @ 13:02 |
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Dang still has trace cuttin to do, just when I was thinking it was just a plug n play tool lol.
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1. December 2010 @ 15:04 |
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Originally posted by jpizzle:
yea this tool is not something I will personally be buying from either group, I prefer to use my PC.
Well for me, it's just waiting to see the features of both group's device. Then I'll make a choice. There has been at least 10 times (or more) that I have been out of town and someone who's sees my box in action wants their box done on the on the spot this tool would come in handy.
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nicke20
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1. December 2010 @ 15:25 |
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Originally posted by eebeejay:
Originally posted by jpizzle:
yea this tool is not something I will personally be buying from either group, I prefer to use my PC.
Well for me, it's just waiting to see the features of both group's device. Then I'll make a choice. There has been at least 10 times (or more) that I have been out of town and someone who's sees my box in action wants their box done on the on the spot this tool would come in handy.
and you could do their xbox on the spot with this tool and nothing else?
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1. December 2010 @ 16:00 |
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One thing that would definitely worry me; how does the Lizard get power? Does it have an ac adapter or battery powered?
If batteries then what happens if you're mid-flash and the batteries die?
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nicke20
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1. December 2010 @ 16:06 |
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Originally posted by bhetrick:
One thing that would definitely worry me; how does the Lizard get power? Does it have an ac adapter or battery powered?
If batteries then what happens if you're mid-flash and the batteries die?
I know it sound almost unbelievable, but about 8 years back i was doing a bios update on a pc and halfway through the write stage we had a power cut. I think id be using duracells and new ones almost every other write
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jpizzle
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1. December 2010 @ 16:07 |
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watch the video, it shows it runs on battery
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1. December 2010 @ 18:02 |
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if it's battery only you could easily get a 9v power supply and splice it in
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360lifer
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2. December 2010 @ 10:18 |
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Shame that it still requires all the cutting. If someone came out with a device that could do everything without having to do any prep work would make a ton of money in a very short time.
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2. December 2010 @ 11:17 |
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Does this work on the Liteon 93450C which requires to scratch the PCB and solder some wires?
-edit - just read the message above... that is a shame. Still a nice lil device for those that don't want to use a PC
sum1 already had stevedawg and stevedawg85 is longer than 10 chars :(
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m4r0v3r
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2. December 2010 @ 17:32 |
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Meh I'd rather use a pc
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comeunder
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2. December 2010 @ 20:58 |
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hello may I ask, if this removes the region protection? I want to play naughty bear on my asian console. thanks.
play,
play,
play,
play,
pl console destroyed
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2. December 2010 @ 21:11 |
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how the crap would this remove region protection?
Come talk with us on efnet at #elitemods !!! or just click ME
ALSO, DO NOT SEND ME MESSAGES ON LIVE REGARDING MODDING CONSOLES, OR HOW I PLAYED A CERTAIN GAME EARLY. I WILL NOT RESPOND. I WILL INSTEAD DELETE YOUR MESSAGE, AND BLOCK ALL COMMUNICATION FROM YOU. JUST SEND ME A PM ON HERE. |
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2. December 2010 @ 21:56 |
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It sprinkles a wee bit of region free fairy dust on the drive.
Everyone knows that.
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