http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZQ4k7Bi-8

they were saying how it wasnt possible

but this is what nerds were made for

3/19/2006 3:02:46 PM

modified dvd drive firmware. they even give you the offset where the important info is. it sounds pretty easy to do from what has been posted. the issue is that you can't run unsigned code as of yet.

3/19/2006 3:12:02 PM

whack

3/19/2006 3:27:47 PM

backups will be doable soon.

homebrew will not for a long time

3/19/2006 8:44:48 PM

^^^ Yea, if you have a fucking rom programmer. The only way to do it is to manually remove the bios chip, manually flash it, and reinsert the thing.

Might be easy for the .05% of the population with the tools to do it. Also it hasn't been released and won't be.

It's still going to be a few months before someone figures out a way for idiot users to do this anywhere near safely. And they can't just sell the modified chips, because each one has a unique key that has to be manually retrieved and put back in.

3/19/2006 8:58:20 PM

yea but they can sell premodded boxes and modding services in the meantime.

3/19/2006 10:21:09 PM

cost wont be worth it.

easier to just buy some games you'll actually play.

3/19/2006 10:22:17 PM

Is it not possible that another XBOX 360 is plugged into the back of the TV?

3/19/2006 10:27:02 PM

because of the rep of who posted it, not really

3/19/2006 10:30:19 PM

the cost might not be worth it, but since when has that stopped people? :-P

3/19/2006 10:31:21 PM

i didnt know there was burnable media large enough to hold all the data

at least that normal consumers can get

**i dont know shit about hacking btw

3/19/2006 10:56:08 PM

Quote :

"**i dont know shit about hacking btw"

clearly

3/19/2006 11:06:18 PM

^^uh they are still using regular ol dvd's dawg

3/19/2006 11:08:38 PM

so all this hack does is let you play burned games
it seems to me it would have been easier to modify the disks rather than the console

3/19/2006 11:46:29 PM

right

3/19/2006 11:47:42 PM

^^good thing you werent workin on it then i suppose

3/19/2006 11:57:11 PM

lemme get out my laser pen and h4x0r this disc

3/20/2006 9:50:53 AM

Quote :

"^^uh they are still using regular ol dvd's dawg"

i would just figure that games on the "next gen" would be bgiger than a 4.7 gig dvd

i stupid

3/20/2006 9:54:47 AM

I have a chip programmer actually.. but I was thinking. Since this drive is close enough to another pc drive already mentioned, and there are plenty of programs that backup and flash optical drive firmware within windows, why not do it that way? back it up, open the bin, edit what you need know, flash that new bin onto the drive. I'm sure it's possible to hack up some way to power the drive, maybe even with an idle xbox.



I think they're being deliberate in saying how difficult this mod is just to keep the heat off them and the potential piracy down, but there has to be a better way of doing it.

3/20/2006 9:59:18 AM

^^ they are

it's called dual layer

3/20/2006 10:21:23 AM