Xbox 360 firmware hack - what do you think?

14 May 2006

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Xtreme firmware for TS-H943 Xbox 360
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Here it is, the long awaited World first Xbox 360 backup firmware modification to boot all game backups!

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Features
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Boots all Xtreme Xbox 360 backups
Boots all Xtreme Xbox 1 backups
Boots all Xbox 360 originals
Boots all Xbox 1 originals on Xbox 360
Xtreme0800 extraction firmware enables drive to function natively under Windows without any hardware conversion/adaptors
Use on Xbox Live at own risk

Technical details
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Reads Xbox 360 security sector from PSN 04FB1F (Layer 0)
Reads Xbox 1 security sector from PSN 605FF (Layer 0)
Security sector must be extrated using Xtreme0800 360 firmware for Xbox360 games and Xbox 1 games
Will not boot Xbox 1 backups made with Xbox1 605b 0800 firmware (maybe in future release)



Seems weird that this comes just after e3, when people are pumped up about PS3 launch. I can see 360 sales rocketing now & rentals on the games going thru the roof.

 

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9913

 

Oh well, lock if you want to mods. Not sure it should be in the Dev forums tho?

 

Piracy can create a large install base , the PlayStation proved that. Everyone I knew got a PS1 because it could easily be pirated, and because they couldn't afford N64 carts

 

thats the number one eason it was very popular in latin america, why pay 1000pesos if you can pay 50pesos for a psx game?

 

Morality?

Does this patch allow someone to run homebrew on the system? An XBox360 linux machine would be very nice indeed!

 

No it doesnt. The only thing it does is allow you to use copied games.

 

so this is pure piracy? wow... -__-

 

From what I understand, no. So far all you can run is 1:1 copies of existing 360 games. That's because the xbox executable is encrypted and nobody's figured out a way around it, or an alternative method of executing code.

 

Dualboot original/h4xx0r3d firmare. Heh.

 

This could however eventually extend to homebrew by letting you burn a modified disc with some sort of exploit triggered by holes in the code. Ofcourse then again, they already have the Kiosk disc that doesn't require a firmware hack to boot and other than the executable you can apparently change things which could lead to an exploit pehaps.