Xbox 360 Hackers Admit Their Mod Is Useless

post #1

28 March 2006, 10:35 UTC#1

After previously boasting about a DVD firmware hack that made it possible to run a backup copy of Project Gotham Racing 3 on a modified Xbox 360, one of the hackers behind the mod has joined Microsoft in calling it "useless". Apparently the mod is useless to the general public due to its complexity (the mod "requires that the flash chip is removed from the drive circuit board and inserted into a special flash programming device") and the fact that it could easily destroy an Xbox 360 in the wrong hands.

However we must agree with one of the other members of the mod team when he said "given the complexity of the software it seems unlikely that there's no [other] way in." Did you know: Microsoft also make a popular operating system called Windows, an OS notorious for its backdoor vulnerabilities.

No Mercy Video

post #2

28 March 2006, 10:37 UTC#2

wait hold on.....whats a computer?

made

post #3

28 March 2006, 16:12 UTC#3

How much you reckon Microsoft paid him to say that?

EVIL-WEBBY

post #4

28 March 2006, 16:28 UTC#4

first mods out are never great

give it time

neKa

post #5

28 March 2006, 16:52 UTC#5

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Xbox 360 makes admit their console is useless.

Doyle

post #6

28 March 2006, 21:58 UTC#6

http://teamxecuter.com/

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We have made some progress when connecting the Xbox360 DVD ROM to a PC - reading the firmware and then writing back to it. Our goal is to make this plug and play - as simple as possible that anyone could do it with no fuss - and without any great expense.

We have a couple of products lined up to make life incredibly simple for the DVD drive modder - one of which will (in our opinion) be the "tool of choice" in the near future.

So it did help speed things up.