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Activism See other Activism Articles Title: Xbox 360 hacked: Play backups on the Xbox360 without a mod-chip It's probably something a lot of Xbox360 owners are waiting for: a hack that allows you to play backups. Today the user commodore4eva released a firmware and instructions for the Samsung TS-H943 drive that's inside some Xbox360's on http://Xboxhacker.net. The modified firmware allows you to play backups on DVD recordables. The hack is the first really successful and public proof that the Xbox360 has security holes. Unfortunately applying the hack will not be really an option for the average joe. The hack requires many steps and also opening your Xbox360 to attach the drive to the PC which flashes the firmware to the DVD-ROM drive. Tools that are required are -amongst others- MtkFlash, ISObuster and CloneCD. Of course this will mean that there will be a handfull of people who are able to copy games and play the backups on their Xbox360. However besides the difficulty of the hack, it's also expected that Microsoft is able to make this unpopulair by disconnecting people from Xbox Live who are not willing to accept an upgrade to their dashboard that has the potential of blocking people using this hack. Read the original thread that describes the procedure (firmware downloads are removed) and discuss this in our Console Forum. Send to friend!Print Fujifilm Blu-ray DVD media available for U.S. market in June Taiwan: Optical disc maker Vanguard Disc to close Reactions on this item Freedom of speech is basically what Internet is all about. However, CD Freaks maintains a policy regarding reactions. Please read our reaction policy and privacy policy. The reactions below are posted by the CD Freaks visitors and do not reflect the views of CD Freaks. Reaction Posted by crustyteacup on 15 May 2006 - 20:13 | Moderated @ 1 | i can't see this being that successful, yeah its been done (for quite a while now actually) but microsoft is just going to patch the hole anyways so only a very very small percentage of 360 owners are going to attempt this. its kind of expensive anyways as it requires dual-layer media, won't work with single layer media. might as well just rent the games for that price. Reaction Posted by psychoace on 15 May 2006 - 21:20 | Moderated @ 2 | a. dual layer media is at 2-3 bucks a pop so it's cheaper then renting b.If you don't go online to live then you wont be able to get such an update if it actually exist. Not everybody goes online with there xbox also a good percentage of people who modify there xbox have more then 1 so they can go onto xbox live with one and then run everything else they need to on another. Also they already talked about the fact they can hack the hash so Microsoft wont be able to overwrite the firmware or make it believe that the firmware installed is correct. Either way they are already coming out with new hardware to speed up this processes so even if it's hard now don't expect it to be in the near future. Reaction Posted by LastStand on 15 May 2006 - 23:55 | Moderated @ 1 | I would not have thought that flashing the firmware of the DVD-ROM drive would have been all that is needed to play backups (you would have thought their memory would have been protected and updates only possible from the xBox 360) but how about import games? Or do you have to hack the image to get them to work as well? Reaction Posted by u_n_s97 on 16 May 2006 - 00:08 | Moderated @ 1 | Import games cannot be played as the region setting is inside the xax file. When you modify the xax file the checksum will change and so the game will not start. This is the answer to your second question, so no, with this mod you cannot hack any image, otherwise the game does not start. All you can do with import games is to get another Xbox360 from a different region... Reaction Posted by VioletHue on 16 May 2006 - 00:58 | Moderated @ 1 | The hack is the DVD drive telling the 360 the disk is authentic and original. There may or may not be a way for M$ to discover the hack on Live. More likely they will work on a patch that will reflash the drive, however this could screw up a lot of unhacked drives so there may be nothing they can do. And you can always reflash back to the hacked firmware. The easy way around this is to have 2 360's. 1 for hacked single player games, the other for live games. Reaction Posted by shimman on 16 May 2006 - 03:05 | Moderated @ 1 | it seems like current hackable version of xbox360 will be a hot item...maybe, this is just what ms needs to boost the sales of the machine to 10mil before the launch of the ps3 if the hacking continues to let us install linux, i might even buy one
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