Wasabi 360 Ultra User Manual - page 3
Initial Preparation
DVD Key
Before you can use Wasabi 360 Ultra, you must first obtain the DVD key that corresponds to your Xbox 360. Every
single Xbox 360 has a unique DVD key and you must obtain the one that specifically matches your Xbox.
While we are planning to update Wasabi 360 Ultra to support automatically extracting the DVD key directly from
your ODD, unfortunately this feature is not yet available and for now you will need to obtain your DVD key through
other means. We recommend the use of a piece of software called Jungle Flasher which can extract drive keys from
almost any Xbox 360 drive. You will need a way to connect the drive to your PC in order to use Jungle Flasher; often
this will involve additional hardware. Please see the documentation accompanying Jungle Flasher for further
information.
There are other means of extracting drive keys; any method is suitable providing you end up with the correct drive
key. Wasabi 360 Ultra currently supports ANY Xbox 360 drive regardless of the firmware version, providing you can
obtain the correct drive key. There is currently only one known drive where the key cannot be extracted from the
drive itself – that is the Xbox 360 Slim Hitachi DL10N. However in this instance, the drive key may still be obtained
from the Xbox 360 itself via the “reset glitch”.
Once you have obtained the DVD key for your Xbox 360, you should have a file called “Key.bin” which contains the
16‐byte key in binary format. If you have used Jungle Flasher to obtain your DVD key, you can generate a Key.bin file
by selecting the “FirmwareTool 32” tab and then pressing the “Save Drive Key” button. The “Key.bin” file must be
placed at a specific location on the HDD you will connect to Wasabi 360 Ultra. In the root directory of your HDD
there should be a folder called “wasabi”; if this does not exist then create it. Place the “Key.bin” file inside the
“wasabi” folder, so you end up with the file path “X:\wasabi\Key.bin” where X: is the drive letter for your external
HDD.
Hard Disk Drive
Wasabi 360 Ultra connects to external HDD’s via an ESATA port. Any ESATA enclosure is supported, along with USB
HDD’s if you are making use of the Wasabi ESATA ‐> USB adaptor. The HDD must be formatted with the NTFS file
system. Wasabi 360 Ultra will only scan the root directory for ISO files, so place all your game ISO’s in the root
directory of your HDD. The files must be named with a .ISO extension.
AP25 Setup
AP25 is a new Xbox 360 copy protection scheme affecting some of the more recent games, where a
challenge/response table is required in order for such games to boot with Wasabi 360 Ultra. The specific list of
games where AP25 is activated can be found here:
http://bit.ly/ap25list
. The challenge response table required for
AP25 is dependent on your Xbox 360 dashboard version; in order to use an AP25 protected game, you must first
obtain the correct AP25 table corresponding to the dashboard version you have installed. Team Wasabi provide
AP25 tables for various dashboard versions for download from the Wasabi 360 Ultra website. Inside the download
archive is a file named ap25.bin – place this file on your HDD in the wasabi directory, along with your key.bin etc.
Unlike with other solutions, you do not need to patch ISO files with “AP25 replay data”. This is handled for you
automatically by Wasabi 360 Ultra; all you need to do is ensure that ap25.bin has been copied to your Wasabi 360
Ultra’s HDD.
Even if you have no plans to play an AP25 protected game at the current time, we recommend that you install
ap25.bin regardless. This will lead to less trouble if you decide to play AP25 protected games in the future.
Please ensure that you familiarise yourself with which games are AP25 enabled for your dashboard version, and if
you will be using any of these games, ensure that you have correctly setup Wasabi 360 Ultra to deal with AP25 as per
the directions above. If you attempt to play an AP25 protected game without first setting up ap25.bin then Wasabi