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    ReleaseDate... 2011-10-05          Source Media....... XGD3 DVD9     Filename...... rrod-nba2k12.rxx    Source Region...... NTSC/U     RarCount...... 81x100MB            Playable Regions... REGION-FREE     Format........ ISO                Verified........... Yes     http://marketplace.xbox.com/games

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    Winner of over 20 Sports Game of the Year awards last year, the NBA     2K franchise is back and bigger than ever. NBA 2K12 delivers more     action than any NBA game to date, putting gamers as close to the     court as possible without having to lace up a pair of kicks. Join     your favorite NBA stars in NBA 2K12 this fall.

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    Playable Regions: ALL (REGION-FREE)

    SplitVid, SSv2, AP2.5, and verified with abgx360!

    iMARS' release is completely missing the AP25 data and the SS replay     table. Their rls appears to be some form of ODDE rip, but with 2.0     offsets, and is missing the necessary stealth data. WTF kind of     messed up tools are you guys using? iMARS release definitely isn't     stealth, and actually won't even boot because of it. iMARS, the new     0800 v3.0 and XBC are both publicly available - why not use them?!     PEOPLE, THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY YOU SHOULDN'T BE PLAYING     UNVERIFIED RIPS!

    P.S. From this point foward, we're dropping the "XGD3_0800" from our     rls dirnames and going back to a regular naming convention form now     that everyone is well aware of the new XGD3 format and that 0800 is     the standard. All our rips will continue to be done with the new     0800 unless otherwise specified under the Release Details section,     or in the rls dirname.

    XGD3 BACKUPS OVERVIEW

    To end the confusion once and for all, *yes*, original XGD3 discs     have a higher linear/track density and therefore a higher physical     capacity than XGD2 and regular DVD+R DL media. As a result, XGD3 ISO     backups are larger as well.

    For XGD3 backup support, c4eva has introduced in LT+ v2.0 the LT-MAX     feature, which allows for XGD3 backups to use the maximum possible     layerbreak for regular DVD+R DL media, and therefore all of the     available space (8,547,991,552 bytes) of a regular DVD+R DL disc.

    Since there is still not enough space on a regular DVD+R DL disc to     hold the entire XGD3 game partition, not to mention the Layer 1     Video partition, this is not at all recommended as being "safe" for     Xbox LIVE.

    XGD3 backups will still boot and play fine on LT+ v2.0 as long as the     last approximately 1.7% of the game partition does not contain any of     the actual game assets, which it usually won't because the end of the     game partition is near the inner edge of the disc, and developers     will try to keep their game data near the outer edge (middle of the     game partition) to maximize read performance.

    Another necessary condition to booting and playing XGD3 backups on     regular DVD+R DL media is that the kernel or game code itself must     not perform any CIV (Content Integrity Verification) checks on any     part of this last approximately 1.7% of the game partition (or at     least it must not take any action after CIV failures). Even if there     are no actual game assets in this area, there is still pseudo-random     padding data which can be checked through CIV, and such checks can     even be added later to the game code through title updates, or to the     kernel through system updates.

    Just like XGD2, XGD3 backups still require the correct dashboard     version-specific AP2.5 replay data. As they've done previously, MS     has the ability to change the DAE.bin by way of a system update,     meaning you may need to re-patch/re-burn at some point. The abgx360     application and database will be updated accordingly to support XGD3.

    BEST PRACTICES AND SETTINGS

    The P2P XGD3 ISO rips that were floating around before this point are     for ODDEs and are not compatible as-is with LT+ v2.0. Their PFI, DMI     and SS sectors are in the wrong PSN (Physical Sector Number)     locations and they are missing the critical AP2.5 replay sector and     SS replay table. If you intend to play XGD3 backups on a firmware-     flashed 360, it's up to you to make sure you're using proper ISOs     made with 0800 v3.0, and to double-check by running them through     abgx360 before burning.

    Keep in mind that this is the first of several potential disc-based     backup solutions for XGD3. As such, it's recommened that all     subsequent releases maintain the full ISO size and associated     layerbreak (2133520) in the .dvd, which will help to ensure that they     will be forward-compatible should any media manufacturers step up     with new larger-capacity discs (which will be necessary in order to     make XGD3 backups as safe as possible on Xbox LIVE).

    The actual layerbreak for XGD3 ISOs is 2133520. However, when burning     XGD3 ISOs to regular DVD+R DL, ImgBurn will automatically reposition/     limit the layerbreak to 2086912 in accordance with the disc's maximum     Layer 0 data zone capacity (2,086,912 [LBA: 0 - 2086911]). The LT-MAX     feature in LT+ v2.0 will compensate for this and allow you to play     XGD3 backups with this wrong layerbreak, and therefore wrong game     partition data PSN locations.

    In the case of growisofs as instructed below, in order to avoid     errors when burning XGD3 to regular DVD+R DL, you may choose to first     truncate the ISO to 8,547,991,552 bytes, and burn using a reduced     associated layerbreak of 2086912. This should give you exactly the     same end result as ImgBurn or CloneCD.

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