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360 firmware hackers speak


The curious minds behind that DVD firmware hack are giving interviews. Xboxic had a  chit chat with hacker Robinsod and posted a helpful summary of what they learned:

  • The hack is completely unfit to be applied to a modchip.
  • Anyone selling a modchip based on this is a scammer.
  • Trying to replicate the hack without having multiple years of experience at this kind of things will most certainly brick your 360.
  • Microsoft will quite probably be able to detect fake firmwares very soon as the cat/mouse game commences so you will get your ass kicked out of Xbox Live for the rest of your life.
  • Watch out for brickware. Some moron will release one probably.
Robinsod also answers the skeptics who think their "video proof" is a fake. Meanwhile, TheSpecialist talked to a Dutch Xbox site (translated here) and said pretty much the same thing. Both of these guys say that "hacker ethics" and fear of legal action prevent them from making the full details of their work public.

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1. Or....how about you just buy your video games...legally.

Posted at 8:08AM on Mar 21st 2006 by chris 0 stars

2. Hey if it will let me load a program onto my 360 that will let me play video off my non MCE computer, then I'm all for it. I don't want to play copyed games, just use functions on my 360 that it should be able to do!!!!

Posted at 10:31AM on Mar 21st 2006 by djphatjive 1 star

3. So xbox could just brick your 360 if you do the firmware hack.

if HackedFirmWare=True then
Format Bios
Format HD
end if

Posted at 11:29AM on Mar 21st 2006 by WillGonz 0 stars

4. Or:
Dim Idiot As New Ass("Person Using ModChip")
If Idiot = Idiot Then
Idiot.XboxLive = Nothing
Idiot.Console = Nothing
Idiot.Guanranteed = false
End

Posted at 1:03PM on Mar 21st 2006 by bladestar 0 stars

5. There're legitimate uses for these things, although I guess not as many as for illegal uses.

One of those things would be the ability to run region coded content on that thing.

Posted at 3:20PM on Mar 21st 2006 by Pixelantes Anonymous 3 stars

6. "Or....how about you just buy your video games...legally."

If you read the interview you'll see it simply doesn't matter to them. They didn't do it for the games, they did it to prove it can be done. And they're not releasing it so the warez kiddies need to buy their video games... legally.

Posted at 6:10PM on Mar 21st 2006 by Curry 1 star

7. "If you read the interview you'll see it simply doesn't matter to them. They didn't do it for the games, they did it to prove it can be done. And they're not releasing it so the warez kiddies need to buy their video games... legally."

ummm...no.

The real reason is they dont want to here from waves of Microsoft lawyers.

I wish they would release it though, but I shouldn't be more then a month before it hits the masses. I want a 360 that can be a run linux...making it a PVR which I need, and then to install progs on it. Its not just for the free games.**rolls eyes**

Posted at 7:36PM on Mar 21st 2006 by murc 0 stars

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