X360 firmware hack spreads to Hitachi drives
The first firmware hack was mentioned in March 2006, capable of booting a backup of one single game via the Samsung DVD drive. Although hacker ethics stopped the guys building that from distributing, one guy made millions of warezkiddies in the world jump with joy last month by releasing it. And now that same guy has released a modified version of the hack for most of the other half of Xbox 360s, those containing a Hitachi-LG 47D DVD drive .
Straight from the release notes:
Features
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Boots all Xtreme Xbox 360 backups
Boots all Xtreme Xbox 1 backups supported by emulator
Boots all Xbox 360 originals
Boots all Xbox 1 originals supported by emulator
Use on Xbox Live at own risk
Especially note the last part. Apart from doing your part in destroying creativity in the gaming industry, you’ll also still obviously be detectable as using a hacked firmware as predicted. Do notice that new games enforce new dashboard updates, and as such it is obviously possible that future games will no longer work on your hacked machine or that it might even get bricked by an update. And you still need to void your warranty and do the dangerous flashing process yourself, with even more chance of bricking. If you bought your 360 recently, you may also discover your firmware to be embedded in epoxy to avoid exactly the hack that you are trying to do… after voiding the warranty.
DVD firmware in epoxy on new 360’s
Thnx MrMoen and TheMART.
how do you “flash” the firmware? i dont know a whole lot of people with a firmware writer.
It tells you in the nfo what you need to do. Its very easy but not worth it to be honest.
The good thing about this hack, there maybe someone out there you can get unsigned code to run which would be great for the homebrew seen.
If you seriuosly what to do this wait for the dual firmware mod which will be released soon
Why would people waste their time with this? Homebrew is shite anyway. Why can’t people just leave things how it is, instead of pointless modding that gets you nowhere, except that you can say “I cracked it”. Great, now fuck off outta here
Homebrew is what made the original Xbox great.
My Xbox running XBMC with all my CD’s and DVD’s ripped to it is amazing as a budget Media Center.
The DVD Firmware hack on the 360 isn’t really something i’m interested in, but it may spur others on to unlock the 360’s true potential.
Rossoko Uk how can you say homebrew is shite?? You mad??
The xbox360 dashboard is based on homebrew from the original xbox.
Im with you Ungreat XBMX rocks and i cant wait until we are able to run it on the 360 and use the power of the machine to have great apps and emulators
well said
People waste their time with this because they can get a great system with cheap games ($free).
It’s not ethical, but then again, neither is downloading movies, mp3 from the net…
As they say, he who never sinned can trhow the first stone…
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how easy is it to mod an original xbox and put nes and snes games onto it? i am so bored and have not touched it in a while, and it has never been online.
This doesn’t allow unsigned code so it’s useless for homebrew; it’s pretty much only useful for playing from what could charitably be called “backups.”
Things like the XBMC won’t work with this.
Anyone who said homebrew shite may not have chance to see XBMC.
That “homebrew” apps is by far exceed all media players in any form including XBOX 360 shitty media player and WinXP MCE.
P.S. The epoxy glue on flash chip has nothing to do with this hack. You can flash firmware using PC via DVD Drive’s S-ATA interface.
LOL not only was the author of the news item unable to report it without putting an editorial slant on it, but he wasn’t even able to get his facts straight.
who gives a shit? just rent the fucking game or buy it.