new freeboot unsigned xex's and more

Ok guys and gals the it gives me great pleasure to send you a link to the video I just posted on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0k9ugTSAMc

All I can say is I told you guys about two months ago that this was coming but no one believed it, so this should stop all the arguing homebrew on the 360 is a reality not just an expensive dev dream anymore. I'm out.

 

My XEX's are public for both Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST.

 

XeNoN.7 and I knew it was possible for a while now which is why we prepared our firsts mods with the title screen "proof of concept when homebrew is released". Not to mention I called this "proof of concept" of retail running homebrew a "hybrid" back when I understood little about retails running devkit code. We saw this years ago. Also on Xbox-scene none of us denied homebrew was coming out we said it wouldn't happen over night and it would take months, and it did. Okay so no further adue everyone shut up about I told you so's and go look in the file downloads section in the next 5 minutes.:clap:

 

Amen to that

 

Well obviously it was possible, I remember being told a couple of years back when a friend got something running on Kingkong that it was possible. I just didn't think it'd happen past 4929 to be honest.

I'll speak for myself as to why I released my XEXs.

I did it to get se7ensins kids and other people off of my ass for being a greedy nut. All I did was get bitched at for releasing something no one can use. So I released the ODST XEX.

I talked about this when I released it.. You can see it all here..
http://rework3d.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=82317

 

I'm also pretty sure you didn't expect people to be able to use it on live too.

Well enjoy it while it last till M$ comes out with the smack down:rambo:

 

Just out guys a new XBR with more support for xex's ect and like PIRS loading.

 

Good for someone without a disc drive ie me.

 

I thought you couldnt play on Live with the hacked kernel, seeing as you would need to update, and doesnt Live have security checks? Unless i'm out of the loop somewhere.

 

Well some fun facts pnet arcade games do indeed work, and games that where unlocked with the arcade license tool are the full version as well, but as of yet I've been unable to connect to live with one of those games which isn't a bad thing. I've only tested pacman and mortal kombat 3 though so it's not like I went threw them all. But there will be better things then arcade games to come in the future, more then likely I mean haha.

 

You will get disconnected from games that are PN only and do not have a Live counterpart. That is what I believe your disconnection is coming from.

 

Well MK3 and Pacman have been out for ever. I thinks it's like the review games that came out for the retails awhile back that disconnects you from live it just doesn't allow networking over live. It's not that big of a deal really I was just saying.

 

So uh no one buy a cygnos360. Worst design ever who ever thought it would be a good idea to make the pcb solder directly onto the mainboard has lost their mind. If I knew that was the design I would have never purchased it. mainboard -> wire -> pcb is the only way things should be. Because of this little flatmount design I pretty much think I rendered my 360 hackless. I soldered the pcb to the mainboard and the pcb to wire to 330 ohm to wire to top of board and the rest to bottom of board. I turned on the xbox 360. Wouldn't turn on... So seeing how awkwardly my rev d cygnos sat over my xenon's flatmount solder points I unsoldered them. Well they are so close together that the solder crossed over so I was forced to remove it and then uncross the solder. By the time I had the cygnos uninstalled the 360 booted up fine again. However the cygnos looks like the flatmount portion of it is rendered useless and the mainboard has lost some of its solder joints and I can't lay them back down because the solder wont stick to the plastic board. So I'm pretty much fucked. Exploitable kernel yes, cygnos360 yes, 80 bucks out the window and hackless 360? Yes.

 

I haven't installed my V2 yet, but it does look really easy to do, worst case your out $30 but you should still be able to hack it with the LPT port and all that from the top side.

 

1. I'm out of 80 bucks. That thing just arrived today and it LOOKS easy but you are soldering close to three demensions. Mainboard - PCB - and any port 1.5 cm away from it. One cross and everything goes dead, I stick to wires why the hell would they design the chip that way. Makes uninstall impossible as well.

2. I don't have an LPT port nor do I want run around town looking for old computer parts and or anything else.

I'm so beyond pissed the children outside are cowering. Hawk how far do you live from fucking kansas? You want to take a crack at this with your chip?

 

From an engineering standpoint the direct solder method is much preferred. Wires introduce problems. That said, doing direct soldering is more difficult than just soldering wires.

Two things though since you said it didn't work on first try:
1) Did you remember to lift the CE pin on the Xbox 360 NAND chip?
2) Did you remember to clear the varnish off the lower left solder point on the board before attaching the chip?

Following on with that, if you have destroyed the Cygnos, the 360 is still hackable. Just use the single NAND XBR image. You don't *need* a Cygnos to perform the hack.

-hl718

 

I'm a good bit from kansas, but you have inspired me, If I get time tonight I'll do that, it just all depends what happens tonight if I'll have the time or not. I know LPT wouldn't be a problem, but if u messed up solder pads and all that it might be toast for the chip.

I do agree that the uninstall is almost impossible and they should offer a wired solution for people if they need to put it on a different box. But I'll report back later tonight once I have it installed.

 

Sounds like a personal problem to me, since myself and many other users have had no problem. Quick-solder points only really create a problem if you attempt to remove the chip. The only reason you would run into such issues is if you have 0 soldering experience and/or a shitty soldering station.

 

I should also add that de-soldering the quick-solder points causes issues when you use an iron, that's well known with any chip design that uses it. Perhaps you should have used a heat gun and done things properly? Or an even better idea: solder it correctly in the first place.