Thanks to RRoD, the Xbox 360 scene now has four XGD3 games available for download (if you can find it). These ISO rips wouldn’t have been possible without c4eva’s hard work. Below, you’ll find the list of XGD3 ISOs, an overview of XGD3 backups, best practice and settings, and instructions for burning XGD3 backups with ImgBurn and GROWISOFS.

XGD3 game releases (by RRoD):

• Gears_of_War_3_READNFO_XGD3_0800_USA_RF-XBOX360-RRoD

+-RELEASE.DETAiLS
ReleaseDate… 2011-09-30
Source Media……. XGD3 DVD9
Filename…… rrod-gow3.rxx
Source Region…… NTSC/U
RarCount…… 84x100MB
Playable Regions… REGION-FREE
Format…….. ISO
Verified……….. Yes

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Antman1, a forum member of cygnos360, has written up a nice tutorial on how to turn your Xbox 360 into one bad-ass dual-booting machine—one side Reset Glitch Hacked (RGH) and the other a standard retail dashboard with Live access. Therefore, when you’re in the mood to play homebrew games, you can simply switch to the RGH mode and when you’re ready to jump onto Xbox Live, you can switch back to the standard Xbox 360 dashboard with Live access.

You’ll need the Cygnos360v2 Rev. E hardware for this tutorial. In addition, the author of this tutorial used an Xbox 360 Falcon version.

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If you want to learn more about how the xKey device works, you may want to check out these videos below. The first video provides a demonstration on the xKey menu, as well as a run through on how to install the xKey device. The second video shows off the base menu navigation of the xKey.

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