Wave 4 to Wave 3 Tutorial & Software Mac & Windows
So apparently there are some tutorials floating around that show you how to convert wave 4 games to wave 3 games. What most of them don’t tell you is that by doing this, you are setting yourself up to get banned from Xbox Live.
Patience truly is a virtue here. I know everyone is eager to play Tekken 6 and a few of the other wave 4 releases. I honestly don’t see problem with it as long as you play those games offline. Is it really worth the risk of getting banned ?
For those of you that absolutely must play wave 4 games, I have listed the tutorial for you below on how to convert wave 4 games to wave 3 games, but again please don’t play on Live with these games because there is a very good chance that you will get banned. What this hack does is it uses a wave 3 video file and since the sizes between the wave 4 and wave 3 video files differ, you will receive CRC errors in abgx360.
Here’s the tutorial:
You’ll need the following software:
- Xbox Backup Creator 2.9 ( Download Windows )
- abgx360 ( Download Mac | Download Windows )
- The wave 3 to wave 4 pack ( Download )
NOTE: You can use either Xbox Backup Creator or abgx360 to patch the wave 4 game to a wave 3 game. I’ve put together 2 tutorials. One using Xbox Backup Creator to patch and then abgx360 for verification. The other one is at the bottom and uses abgx360 for both patching and verification.
Using Xbox Backup Creator
- Under Action, change it from extract to inject
- Click on PFI Sector and choose the ISO of the game and then choose the PFI file provided with the wave 4 to wave 3 packs.
- Click on Video Section and choose your game ISO and then choose the provided video file
- That’s it for Xbox Backup Creator
Using abgx360
- Open your ISO
- Put check marks in the following on the Options Tab
Check/Create .dvd file
Check Stealth
Verify is Stealth Passes
Check/Fix Video padding
Use Colors
Check for updates
Check Game Partition CRC when needed - On the Manually Patch or Extract Files Tab make sure nothing is selected.
- On the AutoFix Tab Check Mark the following
Adjust angle 359 for iXtreme < v1.4
Fix C/R Table if data is invalid
Adjust angles that deviate more than 3 degrees from their CCRT targets
AutoFix Threshold – Level 3 - On the Misc Tab
SplitVid: Add it if it doesn’t exist or isn’t valid
Images: Extract images when using HTML output - Click on Launch
- abgx360 will most definitely present you with CRC errors because the game is no longer stock.
- When abgx360 has completed you can go ahead and burn your game using the regular burning method
Using Only abgx360 to perform the hack and verify
- Open your ISO
- Put check marks in the following on the Options Tab
Check/Create .dvd file
Check Stealth
Verify is Stealth Passes
Check/Fix Video padding
Use Colors
Check for updates
Check Game Partition CRC when needed - On the Manually Patch or Extract Files Tab do the following
Check Patch even if stealth passes
Check Patch even if these files are invalid
Check Patch Video
Check Patch PFI - Still on the Manually Patch or Extract Files Tab, next to Patch Video you should see an empty text box and a gray button with 3 dots, click on that button and choose the Video File from the pack. Do the same thing for Patch PFI and choose the PFI file from the pack
- On the AutoFix Tab Check Mark the following
Adjust angle 359 for iXtreme < v1.4
Fix C/R Table if data is invalid
Adjust angles that deviate more than 3 degrees from their CCRT targets
AutoFix Threshold – Level 3 - On the Misc Tab
SplitVid: Add it if it doesn’t exist or isn’t valid
Images: Extract images when using HTML output - Click on Launch and wait for abgx360 to finish patching the ISO when abgx360 reads Press any key to exit … then it has completed patching.
- You can now close abgx360 and re-open it to verify that the ISO is indeed a wave 3 now.
I myself haven’t tried this particular tutorial, I just placed it here from gathering bits and pieces online. I would urge you to do this as a last resort and remember not to play these modified / downgraded to wave 3 games on Live.
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Glad to hear it.
HI chris can you help me trying to convert a wave 4 to wave if the disc is already burned? thx in advance
Katim,
I’m not sure if this method will work or not but you can try the following. I’m also assuming that you are using a Mac. Insert the disc into your burner.
Open up a Terminal Window ( Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal )
Type the following command “dd if=/dev/DVDDRIVE of=/gamename.iso” without quotes where DVDDRIVE is the path to your dvd drive such as sd1, sda, etc… and gamename.iso is the name you want the iso to be.
When that’s done you can follow the rest of the tutorial for converting from wave 4 to wave 3 and then re-burn the game.
I haven’t tried this method and therefore cannot guarantee that it works. Your best bet is to get the original ISO back from wherever you got it from and do the conversion before you burn it.
Chris
Hej!
This app is intel macs only, right?
mikey,
Yup, only for Intel Macs
Chris
Hey chris
i have a stupid quastion, how do you exactly do to verify with abgx360 that it´s a wave 3
please answear how to verify that the iso is wave3 with abgx360
thnx in advance
Robert,
When you run your ISO file through abgx360 the software will tell you in the terminal screen what wave the ISO is.
Chris
hi cris when i try to burn a iso file i get :
Unable to automatically determine image type
do you know what this is?
What about wave 5 ISO ‘s for macs?
Using the abgx360 only method on iMac.
Blur worked %100 fine following the guide.
But tried Red Dead Revolver I got “Play DVD”. This is not uncommon anyways, but tried Dans method mentioned on the 1st page of comments and it worked perfectly, so make of that what you will.
So super thanks to both Dan and Chris.
BTW, didn’t like Blur. Come on Bizarre, bring back Project Gotham!
Invisiblekid,
Glad you got it working, I agree with you on Blur, it sucks. I think Forza is awesome.
Chris
dannyput,
Which software are you using?
Chris
Lenny,
I have not had a chance to test Wave 5 yet.
Chris