ISOx360 Alpha Release
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- Intel Processor
- Dual Layer DVD Burner
Installation:
So today I have decided to release the an Alpha Version of ISOx360. You can download it from my projects page.
ISOx360 makes burning XBOX 360 games on your Mac just about as simple as it can get. Simply download ISOx360 and extract the .dmg then open the .dmg and drag ISOx360 to your Applications folder to install. Once installed you can launch ISOx360 and you should be presented with a screen similar to the illustration to the left.
Step 1 – Open the ISO:
When ISOx360 first launches, the Open pane is selected, from here you can click on the Open Button in the lower left hand corner. You’ll be presented with an open dialog, select your ISO and click Open. After a few seconds you will see that the Game Name, File Type, File Size, and Stealth have been updated. If Stealth says Valid, then all is good… go ahead and insert your blank Dual Layer DVD, select your speed, and click on Burn.
Step 2 – Check Verification Details:
If you want you can check the Verification Details by clicking on the Verification Details tab which will give you detailed information in regards to the Game and Stealth. If anything didn’t pass here then you should try to run the ISO through abgx360 and send me feedback from the Debug Tab.
ISOx360 - Verification Details Pane
Step 3 – Burn:
Self explanatory, if everything verified and you are ready and eager to play your game, then by all means, don’t hesitate any longer. Go ahead and insert your blank Dual Layer DVD, select your speed and click on Burn.
Step 4 – Feedback:
Probably not the most important step for you, but the most important step for me, I need everyone that decides to use this application to please send me feedback. This helps with bug fixes and future version releases.
I have made the process very simple. Just click on the Debug Tab within ISOx360 and then click the Feedback Button. You can fill out a comment if you want, you can fill in your e-mail if you want. You don’t have to fill in anything if you don’t want to, just click on the send button and ISOx360 will automatically send me its application logs.
NOTE: ISOx360 is no longer support and will no longer be available for download as of 6/21/11. I have developed a new app ISO Burn that will be available on the Mac App Store sometime mid-July. I’ve made a post about ISO Burn here http://chris-fletcher.com/2011/06/20/new-app-from-empoc-media-iso-burn/ click on the link to read more about it. ISO Burn WILL NOT be a replacement for ISOX360 and will not offer any ability to verify XBOX360 disc images. It will however perfectly burn XBOX360 images as well as many others.
I’d like to thank everyone for their support, ISOx360 had a great run at just over 20,000 downloads that I count from this blog alone. I hope that everyone finds ISO Burn just as useful and easy to use as ISOx360.
UPDATE 6/23/2011 – isoBurn has been submitted to the Mac App Store, to read more about it and see some screen shots please visit http://empoc.com/isoburn
any possibility of having a ppc version?
That would require rebuilding abgx360 to run on PPC which right now is more trouble then its worth to me. You should still be able to use ISOx360 for burning though. I am working on my own code for verifying stealth, etc… but it is a long process, when its done though, there should be a version available for PPC
Looks great so far, I’m glad someone picked up where OSX360 left off.
I’m using the Matshita drive and have already made 2 coasters (one with osx360 and one with ISOx360). Do you think this is due to the drive or something else? If so, can you recommend a good external burner for Mac?
Andy,
Thanks for trying it out, could you give me some more info. The best thing to do would be to go to the debug tab and click the feedback button. That will tell me mostly everything I need to know.
One thing to note about the Matshita burners is that they are low quality, mix that with low quality media and you’re almost guaranteed a coaster, what type of media do you use ?
For a burner I use LG and for media its usually either Sony or Verbatim and I get a perfect burn every time.
Thanks for the info. I switched to verbatim discs, and now it seems to be working fine.
No problem, glad you got it working
Had a few bug reports of the burn not completing, stopping after 5 min, etc…
So here’s the deal, if your mac has a Matshita Drive which is a low end burner, you should use high quality media, for example Verbatim. I’ve tried using Memorex in the past and for some reason even with the new mac’s that use the LG drives, the memorex discs have a problem with the layer break. It appears that the first layer which is the Video layer is burned fine, the second layer won’t burn.
So I tried different media, first I tried Verbatim which worked 100% of the time, when I ran out of those I tried Sony, the ones they sell at K-Mart, no issues with those either. So if you’re having issues try different media.
Chris
I have burned about 3 or 4 coasters with OSx360 using Memorex and Sony discs on my iMac Matshita drive. Everybody should use Verbatims, I haven’t burned one coaster with them so far.
Also thanks for continuing to develop an app for burning xbox games.
Forgot to ask…
Does ISOx360 automatically set the layer break to 1913760?
Yes, the layer break is automatically set.
Verbatim all the way, although I’ve had luck with the Sony’s that I get from K-Mart, Memorex are just a lost cause all together.
Hi Chris, I have been using various programs on my mac’s to burn 360 games, and after a search for updated progs have found yours
I burnt call of juarez BIB and ice age 3 no problems at all today. I always run the games through abgx. question i have is, how are you referencing your verification checks. thanks, Andy
also your forums wont let me register on isox360.com
Hi Andy, I’m actually using abgx within my software, I wrote a wrapper to grab the output from abgx. As far as the forum is concerned, what is the problem you are having when you try to register ? The reason I ask is because you aren’t the first person that reported a problem, and when I try to register it works fine.
@Chris
Hi Chris,
thanks for the response. if the checks fail then, I should run abgx to fix the iso i assume or does your program do this as well? By the way very good piece of software you have. I am impressed by it. It’s about time the mac had a good 360 burning program!
The forum does not do anything it just refreshes the page. i click register and the page just refreshes and i get no registration page (most odd?)the top of the page says support forum, but that is all i get, with register, faq, search, login. thanks, Andy
Thanks, right now ISOx360 only verifies the ISO to make sure everything passes before burning. In a future release I am planning on implementing abgx’s autofix functionality, that way mac users will have an all-in-one solution to burn 360 games.
I’ll check on the forum and see what’s going on, can you tell me which browser you are using ?
Thanks,
Chris
@Chris
Hi Chris,
thanks for the info.
i have just registered with safari 4, firefox 3.5 still displays no nothing? problem seems to be with firefox.
cheers, Andy
@Chris
$5 donated as well
Just posted a topic in the forum letting everyone know that there seems to be an issue with firefox and being able to register.
Thanks for testing.
Andy, thanks for the donation, much appreciated
Hey Chris, thanks for the great instructions and great app, really helps, but do you need a modded xbox 360 for these games to work or will this screw up your xbox?
You’re welcome, yes you do need a modded xbox, which is something I can do for you. I charge $50.00 to mod the Xbox 360
Hey man, just burnt 3 games with ISOx360 and all worked perfectly. i have ben using TDK discs. finally a great program for all us mac users who own an xbox 360 and wish to burn games. All i use now is abgx360 and ISOx360 for all my xbox game burning. i read in an above post that you were going to try an integrate them. that my friend would be the ultimate program.
keep up the good work and thankyou.
Thanks, and yes I’m working on integrating the autofix feature of abgx, thanks for letting everyone know about the TDK discs, just out of curiosity, what brand burner are you using ?
Hi,
I love the software and appreciate the hard work that you must have put in to it. I have one question though. I use an external DVD Burner (Samsung model) but although it is recognised in the Debug panel and it knows a disc is inserted I can’t find an option to burn using this drive. The front panel just says that no media is inserted as I guess it is looking at the internal drive.
Can you point me in the right direction for using an external drive to burn
Thanks in advance
A future release of ISOx360 will include an option to select which drive you want to use for burning.
Do you know if iso360 shall work on Snow Leopard?
ISOx360 has been confirmed to work on Snow Leopard, although I have not tested it myself
I’ve tried burning various games and each time the burning process ended without any warning at anywhere between 20 and 50 %.
I’m using verbatim discs and have a 1,5 years old macbook pro.
any idea what’s the problem?
Thanks! Great work!
You’re welcome
have you used the feedback form to send me debugging info ?
not yet, will today.
idiot me, chris!
didn’t properly patch the games before burning so that must have been the problem.
just succesfully burned my first ever game and it went all the way through 100 %. and worked in the console too!
Hi,
when I drag my image in all is ok. I hit burn and it just sits saying “Media Detection in Progress” and does not go any further. I am using Snow Leopard on a Mac mini with 2GHZ INtel Core Duo and 2GB 667 MHZ DDR@ SDRAM. Please advise.
Thanks for the hard work.
Simon,
Can you send me the log ?
Mr. Fletcher- I sent you the debug information.
I am so confused why it won’t work!! I have the Matishita (whatever its called) drive and when I try burning it just stops- the thing at the top disappears- but right before it does I can sometimes make out it says like RMI fails or cache– or you should know? It goes off so quickly its hard to make out–but is it the burner or iso?
Hey chris. im unable of make a proper burn. I do everything that is said above. I click the burn button and it starts to burn. But then it stops at 0.9%. I’ve retired multiple times and it always stops at 0.9%. Can you please help me, I’ve been trying to get a proper burn for the past 2 week. This is so frustrating. Thank you.
Are you using the latest release of the software ? can you tell me about the hardware you are using and which specific brand of disks you are using as well as what the name of the game is ?
Dan,
That sounds to me like a hardware issue, if you have an external burner you can try I would give that a go, if your burner is older and has been used a lot, the laser may be too weak to burn the second layer of the DVD
Hope that helps,
Chris
yes i am using the latest software. im using Matishita drive, and im also using unrarX to make the iso image. im using TDK discs. oh and the game is Madden 10, but ive also tried other game too.
Hi, Chris!
I think I have successfully patched and burned game, using agb360 and the latest version of ISOx360. But when i put the newly burned game into my console, it just comes up as a dvd. Do you have any solution for me?
Im not sure what kind of modding my xbox has been through, I bought i that way with some burned games which I play without any problems.
Hoping for a quick answer!
Regards,
Marius from Norway
Marius,
What version of iXtreme do you have your drive flashed with and what model drive is it ? What Wave is the game you are trying to play ?
Chris
I am not sure about my Xbox firmware. Is there any way to check it?
All I know is that when I play a burned version of FIFA 09, it works. And when I tried to burn a copy of FIFA 10 it failed.
Burned two discs, both showed up like dvds on my console.
Also want to brun COD MD2.
Marius
FIFA 09 is a wave 2 game ( iXTreme 1.5 and lower )
FIFA 10 is a wave 3 game ( iXTreme 1.51 and higher )
My guess is you have an older firmware that doesn’t support wave 3 games.
Ok, so I wont be able to play any newer, burned games until i fix it? Is it difficult?
Hi,
I’m trying to burn an iso that is wave 4. It now passes stealth check in abgx360 (new version has been released). But when I drag the iso file to isox360 it keeps on saying stealth failed and the burn doesn’t complete 100% either. It’s rather annoying, any suggestions?
Chris83,
isox360 will not verify stealth until I get some time to update the software, but it should still burn them fine without issues. Are you doing anything different when burning ? Using a different brand of disc ? etc…
Chris
The brand I’m using isn’t a common brand because I’m in China and getting quality brands of DVD DL is rare. A few weks ago I successfully burnt copies of FIFA 10 and Smackdown vs Raw 2010 using this brand. But when trying to burn GTA Episodes from Liberty City and Modern Warfare 2 it won’t work. When I have burnt it successfully, on my Xbox (firmware 1.6) just says DVD video. Maybe I haven’t burnt the activation disc correctly…
Oh, and my DVD burner is a matshita dvd-r uj-867
Hey Chris,
I was just wondering, on new games with Wave 4-5 i get abgx360 to verify that stealth check i passed. But in ISOx360 im still getting that Stelth Check is Invalid.
Can i still burn this game or how does this work ?
Best Regards
Thomas