That's right kids, you may now backup your games.

Anybody want this done? It only works on Samsung drives (not the hitachi/lg drive). I'm going to flash mine out in the next couple of days if I have the right drive.

5/15/2006 10:55:32 AM

wow that took longer than i expected

5/15/2006 11:06:13 AM

how many versions of the 360 have been produced?

5/15/2006 11:29:01 AM

technically, this thread should be locked.

5/15/2006 11:43:34 AM

I can also make random threads claiming outrageous things if I don't link anything

5/15/2006 11:46:13 AM

outrageous huh? took me less than 10 seconds to verify it with google

5/15/2006 11:54:33 AM

wow.. only like 2-3 months [old]

5/15/2006 1:04:57 PM

^um...no, plz kill yourself. It's new on xbox-scene.com today. n00b

http://www.xbox-scene.com/

i hate you

5/15/2006 1:05:44 PM

lock

5/15/2006 1:17:51 PM

Quote :

"wow.. only like 2-3 months [old]"

there was a video of some dudes that did a firmware hack a few, but IIRC they never released the code to do it.

This new hack is something you can actually get.

5/15/2006 1:22:27 PM

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/03/26/xbox-360-h4xx0rz-admit-their-hackjob-is-useless/

shut the fuck up desh. the firmware mod has been around for months and the hex offsets in the bin for the drive firmware were made public when this was first announced, on a spanish forum.

http://devo-e.com/dvdhax/

http://www.maxconsole.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=140

[Edited on May 15, 2006 at 2:19 PM. Reason : d]

5/15/2006 2:16:46 PM

^ throwing a lot of needless URLs won't support your case. The news that Noen posted was NEW. It has been "released". I am well aware of the guy that hacked it and didn't want to give it out for obvious reasons. Everyone knows this. But thank you for wasting our time.

5/15/2006 2:48:42 PM

the firmware was released, you just need to look in the right places

5/15/2006 3:01:52 PM

Quote :

"I am well aware of the guy that hacked"

Do you feel empowered? Knowing the guy that hacked the 360?

5/15/2006 3:09:34 PM

Quote :

"Do you feel empowered? Knowing the guy that hacked the 360?"

being aware of someone has nothing to do with knowing someone

5/15/2006 3:12:27 PM

Quote :

"the firmware was released, you just need to look in the right places"

Yep. The fact that it's now actually easy to find though IS still news.

[Edited on May 15, 2006 at 3:15 PM. Reason : ]

5/15/2006 3:15:00 PM

Eh, he stated it like he had personal communications with the guy or something.

5/15/2006 3:16:51 PM

everyone is right. everyone is wrong.

5/15/2006 3:19:37 PM

unfortunately.. I don't speak spanish

5/15/2006 3:20:13 PM

Definition for release:

Quote :

"To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution. "

The fact that something EXISTS, does not make it public knowledge. Sure there was the xbox firmware hack months ago, and there's been the 360 firmware hack confirmed previously, but if no one released the details of it, it's all vaporware and conjecture.

Good job to all the 3r33t kiddies in here coming out of the woodwork to show how reet you are for knowing 2 seconds before the other guy who knows a guy whos girlfriend had sex with the hacker.

5/15/2006 3:26:21 PM

This might make owning one of these remotely attractive.

as soon as they release some worthwhile games, that is...

5/15/2006 3:56:39 PM

i got the ps3 firmware hack the other day

5/15/2006 5:08:47 PM

^ I've been well aware of the guy who hacked the PS3.

[Edited on May 15, 2006 at 5:21 PM. Reason : Your news is ]

5/15/2006 5:19:33 PM

i got the xbox 720 hacked already. that's right, 2 full circles... think about it.

5/15/2006 5:35:15 PM

titties?

5/16/2006 8:53:37 AM

What does this hack allow you to do? (Speaking of titties, can I change the Xbox logo on system boot to something ... different?)

[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 12:26 PM. Reason : .]

5/16/2006 12:26:17 PM

^ and I dont think you can...the firmware hack just makes the DVD rom relay the wrong code to teh 360.

State409c....


[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 12:51 PM. Reason : asdf]

5/16/2006 12:48:03 PM

these gay ass internet phrases are getting gay ass

5/16/2006 12:56:09 PM

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=7239

Quote :

"The Foros 360 team have released a modified version of the Xtreme Hack firmware for TS-H943 Xbox 360. The team says that this release now makes the hack easier to perform, with the ability to edit the firmware key easier with KDX v1.1 - so you don't have to edit the hex code anymore"

Shit just got easier.

5/16/2006 3:11:31 PM

don't tell that to smoothcrim.....cause he knew about that in 2004!

5/16/2006 4:55:52 PM

soo what exactly does this do for a non-computer guy? i no one of my friends had a modded original xbox that he stored games on...is that what this is??

5/17/2006 1:45:53 PM

You can't yet store the games on the HDD like you can with a modded original Xbox. All this allows you to do is play "backups" (i.e. illegal copies downloaded from the internet or copied from Blockbuster) burned to a DVD-R.

5/17/2006 1:53:46 PM

nicee...ill pay someone to do it to mine if they get it down pat

5/17/2006 2:12:01 PM

I would hold off until they come up with a more permanent solution. There's a very good chance that MS will release a new dashboard update in the next few days that will

a) fix this hole
b) permanently ban your 360 from ever getting on Xbox live servers again
c) be required to run any new game that gets released from this point forward
d) any combination of the above

So basically if you do this you'll very likely be stuck with a $400 machine that can only play the games that are currently available and can't connect to Xbox Live at all.

It's just not worth it at this point in time, IMO. Unless you get something like this which supposedly allows for switching back and forth from the hacked firmware to the legit one. But again, IMO, that's still too much trouble than it's worth at this point in time.

5/17/2006 4:42:22 PM

Yea, give it another week or two for a plug'n'play solution to come out to switch between firmwares.

The REAL bitch about this is the retarded process you have to go through to backup your discs. Though I'm sure we'll see new ISO's on the newsgroups soon enough

5/17/2006 5:04:08 PM

Excuse me what Noen, why are you actively participating in this thread and know so much about this stuff?

I figure someone who is so vehemently anti piracy wouldn't apparently be actively involved in this. Don't tell me this is for backing up your own stuff.

5/17/2006 5:12:30 PM

^ God Damn you are a toolbag

^^Soon Enough?

5/17/2006 5:17:33 PM

my favorite thing about my xbox is my ability to backup games to the HDD. This is a good step towards that and being able to put emulators on.

5/18/2006 12:15:33 PM

^^^

Because, like the original xbox, the only reason I bought the thing was to use as a media center. It's the exact same reason I got this one early, in the hopes that they would crack open the early models first (if at all).

I don't really play video games. For the 360 I bought PGR2, Geometry Wars, Smash TV, Tiger Woods 2006, and rented Burnout 3. In the last month I might have played on it for 3 hours.

I used my old xbox to watch movies, stream video from the PC (mostly Atomfilms/youtube type ish), and queue up my music from my pc.

So eat my baby

^^If you actually checked any of those (or kept up with newgroups at all), you'd know they are all completely worthless raw dumps.

5/18/2006 12:48:52 PM

Id look into this... if only I actually had a 360

5/18/2006 3:08:46 PM

if there were more than a couple good games it'd be worth it i guess

5/19/2006 1:23:31 AM