How To: Stealth Patch XBOX 360 Games On A Mac
This is a tutorial on How To Stealth Path your XBOX 360 games on a Mac. After much searching on google I have had a really difficult time finding anything to help me stealth patch XBOX 360 games on Mac that I’ve downloaded from the internet.
OSx360 Stealth Not Verified
So this is sort of a follow up tutorial for How To Burn your XBOX 360 games on a mac. If you’ve opened OSx360 and the Stealth verification failed then you can’t burn the game and even if you could, you probably wouldn’t be able to play it in your XBOX 360 console.
This tutorial will explain in detail what you should do if Stealth doesn’t pass verification in OSx360. First you must download an application. The application we will need is called abx360, you can google for it or download it below. This application will fix an unverified stealth patch. ( Most of the time )
Download and install abgx360. Once it’s installed, open the application and then open up your ISO file of the game that didn’t pass the Stealth verification by clicking on the blue folder icon to the right of the text input field. You should have something similar to the below illustration.
abgx360 Open
Now click on the AutoFix tab and copy the settings below.
abgx360 AutoFix Tab
When you have everything set correctly you can click on the blue Launch button at the very bottom it should turn green when you hover over it with your mouse.
abgx360 Launch
After clicking on the Launch button, a Terminal window should open and you should start seeing a bunch of text similar to the below. DO NOT INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS. Let it do its thing.
Notice the lines in Red, the game I am working with has a blank DMI, a blank PFI and my Stealth check has failed. These are all bad things and fortunately are all things that abgx360 will fix for us.
abgx360 Terminal
You will notice that towards the bottom you’ll see some nice green lines of text. PFI, DMI, Video and Stealth have all been fixed, now it just needs to verify the CRC of the ISO. Let it finish, be patient this could take a few minutes. Finally we know that the program has finished when we see the line AutoFix was successful!
You can now close the Terminal and abx360. Now you can follow my tutorial on how to burn your XBOX 360 games on a mac using OSx360 and when the Verify screen pops up you should see something similar to the following.
OSx360 After ISO is fixed
Everything looks good, Stealth Check has passed, PFI and SS Sector Data are Valid, DMI is Valid and all is right with the world. Now go ahead and burn your game and enjoy.
Hopefully I’m not repeating what someone else has already done but like I said, I have not been able to find a good / if any tutorial on the internet. Please let me know if I missed something or you have some questions or need some help.
Andres,
Can you send me a screen shot of the error message ?
Chris
Tony,
If abgx says that it can’t find the game in its database then the game is probably too new still. Has it been officially released ? Chances are that it has been patched correctly but I would wait until it can be verified with abgx.
Chris
Hey Chris, thanks for all the info on your site. I didn’t have a clue what to do and now i’ve burnt 3 games successfully from using a combination of your program ISOx360 and abgx360gui. My question for you is about WAVE4 games, such as Tekken6 and the new Grand Theft Auto. both of these don’t pass the verification/stealth so I am reluctant to burn them. Are there going to be newer updates to abgx360gui and your own program ISOx360 that will incorporate WAVE4? Or is it a firmware issue? I have iXtreme 1.6, will a newer version when released sort the problem?
Like I said I’m new to this so excuse me if there are things that are obvious, any help is greatly appreciated!
cheers
Ben,
If you have iXtreme 1.6, all you need is the activation disk to play wave 4 games. Do a search for ixtreme 1.6 repack and the activation.iso file should be in there. As far as verification is concerned, my software uses a modified version of abgx to verify ISO’s, so as soon as they release a new version of abgx along with the source code, then I’ll be able to incorporate wave 4 into my software. For now you can load the ISO into isox360 and then look at the CRC and verify them with the CRC’s on http://abgx360.net/verified.php
Hope that helps.
Chris
HI Chris,
how do i burn an activation disk for wave 4 using a mac? does your iso360 do the trick or would toast be the better option?
ian
Ian,
You can burn it using Disk Utility. That’s how I burned mine without any issues.
Chris
Chris,
Here is my problem – and I think I have the answer, I just want verification. I was using iburn360 to burn my iso’s. I would check the iso’s first with abgx and then burn. Well with the recent wave ban i went and checked some ISOs and got the same video error’s as the first commenter.
Failed to find or open ‘Video_0E58FB9D.iso’ (No such file or directory)
This is a very large video partition that isn’t hosted on the database…
You will have to find it elsewhere and put it in your StealthFiles folder
AutoFix Failed, Stealth is still uncertain
But that’s what’s happening now. So the question is – are these ISO’s useable – abgx can’t go over those ISO’s and fix them because I think iburn360 messed them up. Are they still safe to use even with the modified video partition that iburn360 put in?
thanks!
Jim,
I’m almost 100% sure that it is iBurn that is corrupting the image. If I were you I would stay away from iBurn and use my application instead. iBurn modifies the image to try and get around setting the layer break correctly.
Just out of curiosity, which game is it that you are trying to burn. I’ve burned about a 100 or so and never had this problem.
Chris
Some games, like need for speed shift are not burning through the osx360. They return a 0 lenght archive when I drop them in the program. Am I doing something wrong?
l tried this tutoral and it doesn’t work.
i already have the unpassed stealth on osx360
can you help me ?
thx
Have you tried my app? ISOx360 ?
You should have more luck with that.
Hi, with this process can i play in xbox live without worries about banning?. Or i shouldn’t play online at all?. Stealth patch means that’s like an original game isn’t it?
Hi Chris,
First of all, great tutorials on your website, I really appreciate it!
But now I’ve got a question. I’ve recently downloaded The Bourne Conspiracy. Put it in abgx tells me it’s a Wave 2 game, but it wasn’t stealth-patched.
After the abgx run was completed all the lines were green and had confirmed that the autofix was complete.
Now I import my .iso file in OSx360 and it says that my stealth is still Failed and it tells me that the Media ID link is Invalid ( for whatever that is.. )
I’ve burned the game before reading your tutorials with iBurn 360, but all result the Xbox gave me was like there was no disc in it at all. I could open and close the tray like you would when there’s no disc inside. So I’m a little afraid that if I burn the game using OSx360, including these failed stealth and invalid Media Link, I can throw away another expensive Daul Layer.
Do you have any clue what’s wrong?
Thanks already!
)
Grizz
( actually my name’s Chris too, but then everybody here will be confused, since I’m not an almighty information guru like yourself
Grizz,
Please try burning with ISOx360 that should work for you.
Chris
harzek,
If you don’t want to get banned then you shouldn’t mod your 360. That is the only way to keep from being banned.
Chris
Dear Chris
Hi, please can you help me I need to know whether I need mod or we say crack my Xbox 360 arcade PAL to play the games which i download from any torrent site and bur DVD using your project ISOx360, please advise me should I mod or crack or chip the new console of mine. As currently I just have 2 original games. So will it work without mod or crack or chip.
Thanks in advance
abbas,
Without modding your XBOX 360 you will not be able to play back ups.
Chris
Hi Chris – I have ben reading your blogs and still cannot fathom out what im doing wrong. ABG says (in yellow) PFI does not match data & video partition does not match known data but neither did PFI. At the very end it claims all CRC’s match & Stealth passed. When i drag the original iso into OSx360 it says Stealth failed / PFI Invalid. My question is:
Does ABG create another iso file or modify the original one? I have made countless silver coasters and my kids are laughing at me!
Regards
Chris
Chris P,
Chances are that you are trying to burn or check a game that is not in the ABGX database yet and therefore can’t be verified. What is the name of the game?
Chris
Hey I tried downloading a Left4Dead2 Torrent and whatnot. I have the .iso file and Im using OSx360 and abgx360 GUI Like you suggested.
So I ran the .iso through the abgx program and it went to terminal and did all of the necessary functions, so what I was asking is, when I go to OSx360 I pick my .iso file, but it never gives me the option to burn the .iso into the disk.
I have tried using several discs, all of them have enough space and are empty.
Does the program abgx save the patched and fixed version of the game to a different location?
Sorry if i sound like someone who doesn’t have a clue as to what he’s doing. In this case, I sort of don’t since its my first time.
If you could get back to me that would be pretty awesome.
Pedromac06@yahoo.com
Or respond to my comment on here.
-Pedro
I ran abgx360 on Madden NFL 11. It checks the database and says that it’s stealth patching it, then checks everything and it’s all passed and valid.
Then when I try to burn it in ISOx360, it still says invalid! What the crap?
Thanks for your two burning-360-on-Mac posts, man.
Peet,
My software will not validate anything over wave 4, so if it validated in abgx360 then you should be able to burn with ISOx360 just fine. Don’t worry about the validation.
Chris
It says: “Failed to find a verified ini file for this Xex… you need to enable online
functions (assuming your connnection works and the db is up) if you want to
check for a verified ini in the online database AutoFix Failed, Stealth is still unverified”
What can I do?
Hi, I insert iso file but the programme doesn’r read it at all. Could you please help me?
when i run it the .iso in abgx360 it would say ” verification was successful ” but when i put it in osx360 it still comes up “stealth checs: failed and the PFI sector data.. cant seem to find out the reason for this.. burned 2 disks and both read as DVDs any help would be great
Josh,
What wave is it? Did you check the ISO with abgx360?
Chris
Hi Chris,
I have run abgx360 for star wars unleashed and have gotten a ‘success’ message but osx360 still says has several invalid fields and it won’t let me go ahead and burn. I looked up the game on abgx and found it to be a wave 3 i believe. Any ideas as to why and how to fix the problem?
Thanks
Estevan,
Try my software, ISOx360, that should work.
Chris
Hi Chris,
I installed the abgx360 on my mac which is running snow leopard and I did what you said about the settings. When i click on launch this is what i get:
Last login: Sat Jan 29 22:03:31 on ttys000
abgx360 -pcx –af3 — ‘/Users/Dakrt/Downloads/alt.binaries.games.xbox360/#alt.binaries.games.xbox360 Presents [reqid12952][Mortal.Kombat.vs.DC.Universe.UNCUT.XBOX360-VATOS] [~:85] – ‘vts-mc. yEnc/vts-mc/vts-mc.iso’
dakrt-leopard:~ dakrt$ abgx360 -pcx –af3 — ‘/Users/dakrt/Downloads/alt.binaries.games.xbox360/#alt.binaries.games.xbox360 Presents [reqid12952][Mortal.Kombat.vs.DC.Universe.UNCUT.XBOX360-VATOS] [~:85] – ‘vts-mc. yEnc/vts-mc/vts-mc.iso’
>
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It just stays like that… so i quit out of it. Is there something special i need to do?
Thanks
Dakrt
Dakrt,
Wish I could help you out but I haven’t used abgx360 in well over a year and I’m not active with the 360 community. You could try asking on the abgx360 forums.
Chris
hi chris! just a question when i click launch nothing happens..no new window is showing..
Ben,
Are you talking about abgx? I’m not sure what version they are up to, but you may want to check on their site to make sure you have the latest version.
Chris
Hi Chris,
I found your tutorial but it’s not working for me.
The file did not pass stealth, so I ran it trough abgx360.
But when it’s finished the file still won’t pass stealth.
What am I doing wrong?
thanks
Quato,
Depending on what Wave the game is, it may not work. Stealth checking in ISOx360 only goes up to wave 3, anything beyond that will fail. If abgx says everything is good than you should be ok to burn.
Hope that helps.
Chris
Chris,
Wondering if you are still flashing xbox 360 drives? You flashed ixtreme 1.5 for me about two years ago, now I need the new ixtreme LT+ to play the new ap25 type games. What is the cost for a return customer?
Brian,
Wish I could help you out, but I got rid of all of the equipment I used for flashing drives about a year ago and haven’t done any since then. I’ve also been out of the scene for quite some time now so I wouldn’t even have anyone to recommend you to. Sorry hope you can find someone that can help you out.
Chris
Hi
I have a new XBOX 360 250g
I’ve downloaded Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 iso.
I have burned it using Toast and Isox360, i have run the agbx360 and it says: ERROR: Failed to find or open ‘Video_1914211B.iso’ (No such file or directory)
AutoFix Failed, Stealth is still uncertain
unknown-f8-1e-df-e2-a1-5f:~ murray_182$
Any help or suggestions?
Also i have done nothing to the console so when games have been burned they come up as a dvd and cannot play.
Thanks
I’ve tried what you said and other peoples advice along with other mac 360 software and ended up with coasters. I tried your advice in this guide and the file is recognised but it just says the image type is unknown the iso is 0 bytes and the other stuff n/a so I can’t burn. Could you help me out?
AB,
Have you verified the file with abgx360? Does it verify ?
If you are having problems with burning software you can try my new app that I’ve developed, isoBurn, you can get it from the Mac App Store.
Hope that helps.
Chris
Does this whole process work for Kinect iso? I tried stealth Patch Kinect game and Autofix was successful. However, when I bring it unto the abgx360, everything is N/A and there is no format type.
Amy,
I can’t say that it should or shouldn’t work, I’ve not tested a kinect game but I would imagine that the process shouldn’t be any different then for any other game. I would suggest trying a different image, the one you have may be corrupt.
Chris
Hey Chris,
I am new to the burning world.
I just downloaded an .iso file of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and I ran it through abgx360 GUI to stealth patch it. First time I did it some yellow text came up and said it couldn’t verify it. Second time I ran it through it was all green text and said everything was fine. Now I have the file in OSx360 and it says the Stealth check failed and the PFI Sector Data is Invalid.
Do you know what I should do to fix this?
Thanks a lot man, for you time and for sharing your program.
Micah,
If everything checks out in abgx then you are ok to burn using osx360 or isoburn from the mac app store.. you can ignore the warnings in the burning program
Chris
Hi there.
First of all, excuse me for my poor english. I’m from a distant land
When I use the Skyrim.iso on OSX360, the program doesn’t recognize the image as an xbox360 one, but as “unknown”.
When I use the abgx360 and I launch it, there’s a yellow text message sayin’ “ERROR: The_Elder_Scrolls_V_Skyrim/Skyrim.iso isn’t recognized as an XBOX 360 ISO or Stealth file!”
What can I do? I have downloaded two different “skyrim.iso’s” from two different places, but none of them works.
Skyrim is a new release and is probably XGD3 which when I checked last abgx360 does not support yet.