Topic: XBox 360 = Hacked!!?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Apparently some hackers have craked the firmware of the 360 and if you know what your doing and how to do it, it looks like you can now play "back-up copies" of your XBox 360 games

XBoxhacker.net  

An now for an explation...

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What is this? A bit more info...
The hack is a modified firmware of the Xbox 360 DVD-ROM drive.
As you (should) know, all Xbox 360 executables (XEX files) are signed by Microsoft (with a private key only MS has). This means that if you try to change anything to the XEX file, the signature will be wrong and the file will not boot.
Now ... to protect from booting an exact 1:1 copy of a game from a DVD-R or other recordable media, microsoft gave each XEX file a 'mediaflag'. This mediaflag tells the Xbox 360 from which media (cd-r, dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw, hdd, dvdxbox, dvdxbox360, ...) the XEX is allowed to boot. Changing this mediaflag in the XEX header is not an option as it'll break the signature of the file (see above), so ... what's done in this firmware hack is 'break' the detection of the disc.
Retail games usually get a mediaflag where they only allow 'dvdxbox360' (Xbox 360 discs). The modified firmware will trick the DVD drive into reporting a DVD-R (or other) as a DVDXBOX360 to the Xbox 360.

Video Proof  

[capamerica]

now if someone would just release the way to do it on the web

[BlackNMild2k1]

They said that it is buried in their HW section where only the Haxxors could find it.

Needless to say..... I didn't find it.

But you can find more info here

[ThePerm]

lol whats the news on gamecubes hacked status lol? still f'n impossible to backup??

[BlackNMild2k1]

Last I heard you could image the game to a hard drive, but the only way to play it was through the broadband adapter, but that was sooo slow that it wasn't worth the effort.

After that I don't think anyone bothered to take the time to hack much further, if they have, then they either haven't made much progresss or they have kept it to themselves.

[capamerica]

They have hacked the GameCube to play backups burned to normal DVDs.
Just no one talks about it cause people don't like to steal from Nintendo cause we all love Nintendo.

[MaryJane]

What about the freeloader disc?
Something tells me that it wasn't sanctioned by nintendo.  

[wandering]

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They have hacked the GameCube to play backups burned to normal DVDs.

How do the dvds fit?

[capamerica]

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Originally posted by: wandering
How do the dvds fit?

There are case mods out there.

I could post a link to one, But the sites also normally cary mod chips, and I don't know what PGC policy is on linking to sites like that.

Just go to Google and type in "GameCube case mod  Full DVD" and you should find them.

[Renny]

You can't burn to mini-DVD? Or do people just prefer to have the option of the plentiful and cheap, full-sized discs? All in theory, of course....

[capamerica]

You can burn to the mini-DVDs but when it comes down to paying $20 for a pack of 3 Mini DVDs vs a spool of 50 normal DVDs for $20 its better to go with the full size ones.