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General
To communicate with the Flash Controller you need a device which is captable of the Xbox 360’s SPI Protocol. There are ready-to-use devices you can buy or, if you aren’t afraid of soldering your own hardware, DIY homebrew devices. Basicly: Get the device programmed (if needed) and solder it according to the Diagram to your Xbox’s mainboard - you can start reading/writing to your NAND after installing the needed drivers.
DIY / Homebrew
LPT SPI Programmer
This type of programmer isn’t really recommended as it’s awfully slow and can probably cause high failure rates.
Description coming later…
USB SPI Programmer
Needed material:
- 1x 50X100 PCB
- 1x 12 MHz Resonator
- 1x 220nF Capacitor
- 1x 100nF Capacitor
- 1x 10 kOhm Resistor
- 6x 100 Ohm Resistor
- 1x 1 Row x 10 Pin - 2,54mm Pin Headers (male)
- 1x 1 Row x 10 Pin - 2,54mm Pin Headers (female)
- 1x PIC 18F2455-I/SP
- 1x USB Conector (female)
- 1x Matching USB Cable
- Wire
Program the PIC with your favorite PIC Programmer (Can be build or
bought - for building one yourself the “ART2003” is recommended) with
the latest “Picflash” HEX file.
LPC2148
Description coming later…
AT90USB162 Programmer
Description coming later…
Ready to use
There are several ready-to-use professional products like: Team Xecuter NAND-X, Maximus 360NandFlasher, Matrix SPI Programmer etc. They arrive preprogrammed and can be used directly with Software like NANDPro to interact with the NAND Flash.