A Complete Guide On Stealth Patching!


Lately there have been a lot of questions about Stealth Patching X360 games, it can be very confusing at first (even to me) due to the many programs & methods out there that help you patch your games. I wrote this tutorial to try and help explain the current and best programs out there to help you stealth patch your games. I will ONLY be covering stealth patching for Xbox 360games (Not XBOX 1). This is my first guide on stealth patching, so please correct me if I’m missing something, or something isn’t exactly right.

I. Getting started
II. How to tell if your X360 ISO is stealth patched
III. Ripping 360 Backups to your computer
IV. Patching unstealthed backups


I. Getting started:


First, if you haven’t already. You will need to download Net Framework 2.0 This is needed so that XDVDMulleter may work.

Next, you will need the latest XDVDMulleterBeta 10.2 - Password: supertrix

If you would like to create ISO images of your old unstealthed backups, I recommend you also download IMG Burn v2.3.2.0 so you can rip your backups to your hard drive.

If you want to convert/create ISO images into Splitvid format then download
Xbox Backup Creator v2.6 - Password: supertrix


II. How to tell if your X360 ISO is stealth patched:


For this first method, we will be using XDVDMulleter Beta 10.2 to check an X360 ISO’s Stealth Status.

Step 1:

Select View ISO Details and click the Browse button to search for the ISO file. Once done, click Next.




Step 2:

You should now be viewing the ISO details. Here, you will see the ISO Region, if all boxes are checked it means it is region free. Most importantly though, you will see the Xtreme Compatibility section.



If you see the iXtreme Compatible box checked, then this means that your image is properly stealthed, no further work needs to be done.


III. Ripping 360 backups to your computer:


I will be using IMGBurn for this section, although Nero works just as well I personally favor IMGBurn because it can’t get any easier than putting your 360 Backup in your DVD Drive, and loading up IMGBurn to rip it.

Step 1:

After you have inserted your X360 Game, Open up IMGBurn and make sure it is set to Read Mode as shown in this picture. Then proceed to ripping it, by clicking the disc to image option.

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Step 2:

I renamed the XBOX360 Game to Dead Rising, since I am actually using an unstealthed backup that I have which I will be converting so it can fully work on iXtreme (Look down at the next section). Ripping a backup may take longer than what it would take if you actually ripped a retail X360 disk (15 minutes). So wait patiently.

Step 3:

Once you see the ”Operation Successfully Completed!” press OK.

You now have a 1:1 backup image of your 360 Image.


IV. Patching and unstealthed backup:


In this section I will be using XDVD Mulleter to fix my unstealthed Dead Rising.ISO that I made back in Section III. This will basically give a demonstration of how to patch a completely unstealthed X360 game.

Step 1:

Open up XDVD Mulleter and go to View ISO Details again. Next, Browse your Hard Drive and load the backup that you wish to stealth patch.

Step 2:

Once Mulleter loads the ISO you may notice a few errors such as the one below. This is completely normal. Just press OK



You may be prompted to fix your video partition, press Yes to fix it.



It will automatically begin to fix your Video Partition, just wait patiently it won’t take long.



Step 3:

You should notice a few things right away, even though the partition file was fixed it obviously didn't fix the SS,DMI,PFI files, both the SS & iXtreme Compatible boxes aren’t fixed yet. Thus, your ISO is still not stealth patched.



Step 4:

Click on the CRC Checking Tab, and then Press on Autofix. You should receive a few messages, just click yes on any of them.

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NOTE: Sometimes you will receive a message saying “Game not found in database” this just means that no stealth files have been uploaded to the database yet, usually this happens when games are brand new.



If you would rather stealth patch your games manually, these two sites should cover most of your games:

Download the stealth files you require for the game of your choice and select each file individually to patch (eg.PFI, DMI...)

Once it is done fixing it, you should see something similar to this box.

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You finally now have the iXtreme Box checked, and if you had the SS,DMI,PFI boxes unchecked they should now be checked.



Step 5:

We aren’t done yet however. To be sure that the whole ISO is in good shape, we will check with the online Mulleter Database and see if the ISO is 100% stealthed. Go to the CRC Checking Tab once again, and this time press the CRC Details button. Check both the “Check Game Data” (May take sometime) & “Check online Database” options and then press the Check button. Wait until it is finished.



Hopefully everything well, if it did you should see a box that says “Stealth files checked out perfectly”

NOTE: Again, If you get a message saying “Game not found in database or ini file could not be loaded” then this means that either your game isn’t recognized by the database or the game is too new and hasn’t had any stealth files uploaded to the database yet, don’t worry. As long as you have the iXtreme box checked you should be fine.

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Links are down for SS .bins, will add new ones when home from work.

I have made this thread into a sticky as it is more updated than my thread so I will remove mine but remember if your xbox 360 isn't modded their are the ebooks that I put both into premium and as a torrent.

XBOX360 Not Modded? - This May Help :

For a guide to modding your xbox 360 you can check out the Illustrated step by step ebook Hacking the XBOX360 For NOOBS (2008) - It also has more about backing up and burning games!

You can find it here on Premium - Hacking The XBOX360 For NOOBS (2008)

OR

You can find it on torrent here - Hacking The XBOX360 For NooBs (2008)

AND for premium members

Xbox 360 iXtreme 1.4 Firmware for all drives + Guide + XDVDMulleter 10.2

This is for anyone who wants to mod their Xbox 360 by flashing its DVD drive with hacked firmware, or anyone who has already had this done but wants to keep up to date with the releases of hacked firmware to take advantage of new features as they develop and minimise the chances of being banned from Xbox Live.

These are on offer EXCLUSIVELY to premium members in out premium section (so if any of our regular members want it you know what you have to do ).

Xbox 360 iXtreme 1.4 Firmware for all drives + Guide + XDVDMulleter

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