Xbox 360 Homebrew Scene is pretty lackluster

Not really as far as i remember, it usually explodes around the middle of it's lifespan mainly, with the 360's case it's very tough and everyone in the scene are acting like the PS3 homebrew/hacking scene back in 2011 and 2012 and somewhat 2013

 

It's fairly easy to do the dvd firmware. Power your Xbox 360 with the DVD power connected, run a proper sata card. Google a supported chipset. dump firmware via mtkflash with floppy. "The old way" Or use jungle flasher to enable modes, read, patch, and write firmware back. You can also use this program if you want to replace a new drive with your original keys ABGX or something similar to create proper ISO images. Verbatim DVD DL media only.

Anything other method i recommends jtag/RGH pre mods.

Original Xbox is the way to go. Especially is you create a super slim with upgraded ram.

 

Alot of people just lost interest with the whole scene. And as a lot of people said, the piracy killed motivation to go any further with existing mods.

 

But what makes the PSP & Nintendo Wii scene any different if "piracy" killed the 360 scene? I'm guessing is how difficult to create a softmod for newer dashboards so homebrew developers can have an easier time making what he/she can make.

 

Piracy didn't kill the scene. It was the fact people wanted to be paid for their hax. Same with current gen.

 

Was this a thing prior to the 7th gen? I got into modding in the 6th gen but back then the only times anyone ever charged or expected money was for a hardware install of some kind or any type of send-in service. Many people even did software installs for free (Xbox softmods, Free MCBoot) you just had to pay for hardware and shipping both ways.

It really wasn't until the PS3 and 360 got hacked up that I saw people trying to monetize everything.

 

Personally I have the feeling that the lack of homebrew the last couple of years has to do with the fact that over the years it has become much cheaper and easier to connect a PC to your TV. And also the affordable Android solutions for TV make it really easy to play all sorts of apps and games. This makes it less interesting to put time and effort in A) hacking platform "x" and B) develop unlicensed for platform "x".

 

Maybe the iPhone jailbreak thing caused people to expect money. That jailbreak store thing is full of people wanting money for stupid hacks.