honestly im not that excited, if it were used for homebrew capiblities sure id be excited. Guess its good if you want to back up your gaem and use the copy to play with in case it scratches the disc to death.
oh yeah.. that 007 game where you could use a softmod became a platinum hit on the xbox. It sucked ass...so it either got that from everyone buying it to softmod or for MS to have an excuse to re-release the game and fix the exploit.
I would think that MS will be one of the very early adopters of this, and the hole will be closed. At least with the current version of the hack, the xbox can still access the changed firmware, allowing to compare it to a list of approved checksums. I would think this ll hit live update in weeks from now. tubo
This got me thinking of that comparison 1UP did with the 360 and the Dreamcast. I guess this may be one more similiarity that they share, being able to boot backups without a modchip. Then again, the 360 rendition doesn't seem too user friendly at this time.
The chances of this firmware being public is pretty slim, the also managed the same for the xbox (1) and the havent released that aswell. I just hope that they make an regionfree firmware, that should make me happy
Well said. While I'm not going to defend anyting that M$, or any other corporation does for that matter (Nintendo, Sony, whoever), there is no denying the fact that 90% of the people that will use a hack like this will do so to play free games. Sure, there's other stuff that's beneficial and much less illegal (emulators, Linux, region bypassing) but if that were the only use, nobody would be on Usenet anymore.
I find this interesting from a technical point. I couldn't care less if they ever release the firmware or not; I'm never getting an X360. But it's probably best if they don't release it. Just like when the first emulators popped up on PSP. I personally have no interest in PSP emulation (if you want a portable ROMbox, get a GPx2), but I think it's an amazing bit of hacking/coding. However, all the required information is available. I'm sure it won't be too long before someone/a group with less morals do release a way to easily hack your 360 firmware. We all know that games piracy is big, big business. And to be able to sell boots this early into a console's life cycle is like a dream come true for some.
well nothing fuels piracy like expensive games but i would love to turn my 360 into media machine like my softmodded xbox . i don't care that much about live so that would be a good trade off. There would be alot of advantages like being able to play avi and mov files and hooking up a keyboard/mouse the advantages truly out weight loosing live.
I just hope the PS3 is hacked even faster. I might consider buying a x360 if the hack was public and I could add a larger hdd and store emus on and other stuff (like my xbox).
Now that the fundamentals are known, it won't be long until someone else figures this all out and makes the firmware public and develops the process further.
You guys do know that this hack only bypasses the media check right (DVD360 vs. DVD-R)? It doesn't do anything that would let unsigned code run on the 360, hence no emulators, media center, etc.
I know but this is what i want it for... Media center and emu goodness my fingers are itching right now.
Thats why this news is so dull. I'd like to see the Xbox 360 actually useful, like using it for MAME or other homebrew. Personally I don't think Xbox360 has much of anything worth money or even a DVD-R.
Playing emulators on an XBox though I've found lackluster at best. Even when memory isn't an issue, if the emulator doesn't support progressive scan, than the filters that make it look more like the real thing (namely scanlines) won't work. Just seems easier to play it on a PC with better quality.
this is microsoft attempt to get greater market penetration! if they let things easily piratable until holydays shopping and fix only later they'll sell LOTS of machines... and they could always close it with all their new releases and online services AFTER selling them... [\conspiracy theory]
I think that is a long shot theory, Microsoft lose money on hardware and make it back on software licensing. Any sale that is bought on the back of piracy is money down the toilet. The only useful thing about the extra sales would be as a marketing tool, and to woo the distributors etc. I suppose.
i want to do it so bad but i know i will kill my xbox...plus there isn't anything i want to play on it that i don't already have... think i will pirate king kong cause that game is hot...jk
A linux XBox 360 box would be very sexy powerful little beast indeed. Hopefully unsigned code abilities are to follow :icon_bigg
