How to burn XDG3 games in OSX

2011-10-14

A few weeks ago, Microsoft released the first games with XDG3 protection and with that, we couldn’t backup our games anymore.

Thankfully c4eva came (again) and released LT+ 2.0 . But it’s not as easy as before to burn them.

To follow this you’ll need homebrew and install the following packages:

brew install dvd+rw-tools coreutils

Next, insert a blank dvd-dl and find in which device is your dvd writter is:

drutil status

In the right top corner of the output, it should show the device, mine is /dev/disk1. This is the reading mode, for the writting one prepend a ‘r’ in disk (e.g., /dev/rdisk1).

To burn the game, you need to truncate it first, then burn.

gtruncate --size=8547991552 game.iso
growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao -use-the-force-luke=break:2086912
-dvd-compat -speed=4 -Z /dev/rdisk1=game.iso

Remember to put the same device in growisofs that you read before.

You could create a bash script so that you won’t need to remember this in the future, just put this function in .bash_rc or .bash_profile

function xburn {
  gtruncate --size=8547991552 $1;
  growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao -use-the-force-luke=break:2086912 
  -dvd-compat -speed=4 -Z /dev/rdisk1=$1;
}

You simply put a blank dvd-dl, type “xburn game.iso” and in a few minutes your backup is ready to be served.

Happy playing, Gears of War 3 is epic btw..

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2011-10-14

Once upon a time there was this guy ‘kurayama’.

He was interested mostly in programming, games and hacking his OS.

You can find him here, ranting about random stuff and sharing his opinions and findings…