How to play Wave 4 Games without updating. Activate.iso/0800 [REAL & EASY!]

**alunfennell** · 17th October, 2009, 12:22 AM

With all of this WAVE 4 talk, I thought I would post a tutorial on how to play Wave 4 games. Because it seems like no one really understands what is going on.

What exactly is Wave 4?
In my opinion I would not call what is going on right now "Wave 4", Its sort of like Wave 3.1. Cars Race o Rama seems to be the first Xbox 360 game with the 'Wave 4'. Basically, Wave 4 is Wave 3 with the new 8498 NXE update. Since iXtreme v1.6 checks the video partition CRC (for security) to only boot Wave1/2/3, it will not be able to boot the new Wave4 discs although firmware 1.51 will.

What are the solutions?
1.Downgrade your firmware to iXtreme 1.51
2.Use this activate.iso/0800 method to boot your discs

What is activate.iso?
Activate.iso is designed to enable One-shot boot mode for the iXtreme 1.6 firmware. One-shot boot mode allows you to boot your unstealthed, modified or "Hybrid" backups without any strict stealth checks. This method is also called 0800.

F.A.Q.'s?
What games are Wave 4?
Cars Race-O-Rama, Lips number 1 Hits are the only Wave 4 games ATM.

Do you have to put the activate.iso disc in everytime before inserting the Wave 4 game?
As of right now yes this is the only possible way.

Will another firmware come out so you dont even have to use this process?
Probably in the future but we dont know when.

Downloads:

Activateiso.rar

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Tutorial:

1: You need your Activate.iso file above.

2: Once you have the activate.iso file, you want to drag and drop or save it to your desktop.

3: Insert a DVD+R DL into your DVD burner.

4: Now open up Activate.iso with any burning software you use. (I.E. Imgburn, Clonecd, etc...)

5: Now in your burning program go into your write setting tab and make sure your layerbreak is set to the Calculate Optimal setting. Also check your booktype for DVD+R DL and make sure its on the DVD-ROM setting and that your write speed is at 2.4x.

6: Start Burn!

7: As soon as the burn starts a message will pop saying, ?that the image is small enough for a regular DVD R, do you want to continue anyway??
*(You want to choose yes because burned to a regular DVDR the Activate.iso wont work!!!)

8: Next another message will pop saying, Even though the image is small enough to fit into one layer its best to write in both layers, do you want to go away from the normal and write in only one layer?? (Now I want to stress READ THIS MESSAGE CAREFULLY!!!!)

Choosing "Yes" will cause all data to be written into the first layer.

Choosing "No" will cause data to be writing into both layers.

CHOOSE YES!!

9: It will burn then finish?

10: Insert the Activate.iso disk into your xbox 360. It will read for a little longer than usual then finally it will say "Play DVD". Press "A" on your controller and a video should pop saying: picture at the Bottom

11: Now just eject the Activate.iso disk and insert your unstealthed, modified or Hybrid disk and it will load!!!

Few parts of this tutorial were taken from other sites, partial credit goes to them

**djjwdubz** · 17th October, 2009, 10:34 AM

thanks but i dont no if i need this but thanks 4 telling us

i had no prob when wave 3 was out so do you think i will have a problem with wave 4 i have had my xbox flashed since 24th October last year can you help me please

plus if we do this new patch will we be able to go online when the game is out thanks if any help is given

**robbo947** · 17th October, 2009, 10:35 PM

Ok, Brilliant post (I think) but why can't I get LIPS to work...???

According to the dude that did my 360 I'm running on 1.6 version.

I have tried 4/5 different discs, still no luck.

I load it and it tells me I should play the disc in an XBOX 360, I wait around 30 secs, Take the disc out, Put lips in and what do I get, The XBOX 360 Logo, any help at all would be brilliant,

Robbo

**alunfennell** · 18th October, 2009, 02:23 AM

Originally Posted by robbo947

Ok, Brilliant post (I think) but why can't I get LIPS to work...???

According to the dude that did my 360 I'm running on 1.6 version.

I have tried 4/5 different discs, still no luck.

I load it and it tells me I should play the disc in an XBOX 360, I wait around 30 secs, Take the disc out, Put lips in and what do I get, The XBOX 360 Logo, any help at all would be brilliant,

Robbo

I would think myself you have 1.51 loaded on your drive it turns out that only Hitachi iXtreme v1.51 will boot 4th Wave backups ! and BenQ/LiteOn/Samsung iXtreme v1.51 will NOT boot 4th Wave, If you know what Drive you got then it might answer your question....

**bagwell358** · 18th October, 2009, 06:20 AM

Is there a prognosis on when we will start seeing wave 4 games in regularity?

**robbo947** · 18th October, 2009, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by alunfennell

I would think myself you have 1.51 loaded on your drive it turns out that only Hitachi iXtreme v1.51 will boot 4th Wave backups ! and BenQ/LiteOn/Samsung iXtreme v1.51 will NOT boot 4th Wave, If you know what Drive you got then it might answer your question....

Hello, thanks for the quick reply, Ok I asked the dude that flashed my 360 and he said I have 1.6 and a BenQ drive, does that make sense??

**smirnoff_rules** · 18th October, 2009, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by robbo947

Hello, thanks for the quick reply, Ok I asked the dude that flashed my 360 and he said I have 1.6 and a BenQ drive, does that make sense??

sounds like your burning the activation iso on both layers on your dl disc , u only need to burn on one layer

on another note . l cant believe for one minutes m/s forget about the activation iso ?

**alunfennell** · 18th October, 2009, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by smirnoff_rules

sounds like your burning the activation iso on both layers on your dl disc , u only need to burn on one layer

on another note . l cant believe for one minutes m/s forget about the activation iso ?

The setting that needs to be change in Image Burn is the layerbreak. Under the "Write Tab" select, "Calculate Optimal" this then burn to one single layer !

Originally Posted by smirnoff_rules

m/s forget about the activation iso ?

No Because it looks like MS are going to jump from one wave to another with different releases by launching Wave 4/5/6 and possably a seventh in a way of Fuc!ing up backup copping, Wave three has been very short lived and 4 is to be no different ....Expect a Wave 5 in the early part of 2010

**cunny** · 19th October, 2009, 01:15 PM

Thanks alun added to guide and sticky at top of page.

**kramer1990** · 21st October, 2009, 05:32 AM

same here. can't run LIPS on my iextreme 1.6 flashed unit.
tried using the activate iso disc but still no luck

**psychoduck** · 21st October, 2009, 02:59 PM

Thanks for the help, hope it works for me.

Are the games safe to play so long as we're offline? or can i expect a ban the next time i go online, even without one of these games in my console (due to achievements and such?)

**robbo947** · 21st October, 2009, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by kramer1990

same here. can't run LIPS on my iextreme 1.6 flashed unit.
tried using the activate iso disc but still no luck

Yeah same here, I can't seem to crack it "/

**psychoduck** · 21st October, 2009, 03:32 PM

just tried using this with 1.51 and it doesn't work.

Thinking of upgrading to 1.6, but before i do that i want to know it will work for sure on my BenQ drive.