I have an old 360 laying around.
Who here has experience hacking 360s?
Explain the process?
Also any links to UP TO DATE and GOOD/Complete tutorials would be nice.
I have an old 360 laying around.
Who here has experience hacking 360s?
Explain the process?
Also any links to UP TO DATE and GOOD/Complete tutorials would be nice.
Considering it is an old xbox I doubt he has any warranty left at all. The only risk is breaking something inside :P
But yeah this is an answer I found, haven't tested it myself
When Microsoft initial released the Xbox 360, the DVD drive utilized in it was a Hitachi drive. Back then, if you wanted to Mod your Xbox 360, it would as simple as inserting a CD into the drive and viola! If you wanted to know How To Mod Your Xbox 360 back in the days, you would know in under a minute.
Prior to the next generation of How To Mod Xbox 360 methods, someone developed a process to modify those Hitachi drives with firmware permitting it to play backed up games, permitting customers to help keep their originals safe so to speak, or to let people share their games all over the internet. At this time if you searched How To Mod Xbox 360 on Google, it would be extremely easy.
Then Microsoft began utilizing a newer version of the Hitachi drive. A few hardware modifications was all it took and these drives were a little different and accessing their firmware to do an update was a different procedure. It had a multi-functional original firmware too so new modified firmware had to be produced. Finding out how to mod xbox 360 at this point became a little troublesome because there were so many different firmwares.
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This has been the back and forth procedure ever since. Even with the release of the Xbox 360 Slim, tutorials for how to mod Xbox 360 Slim Mods popped up a day later. Microsoft has over the years used various brands, and dozens of various versions across those brands. With every new brand and every new model of that brand, someone has had to create a brand new way of updating the firmware, and write the new modified firmware for it. There are always tutorials for how to mod xbox 360 all over the internet and sites like YouTube.
But new hardware hasn’t been the only reason for Microsoft to get rid of Modders. Microsoft decided, fair or not, to do their best to detect when individuals are playing backed up copies of games, and if detected, flag their console to be banned from Xbox Live. This has been one of the determining factors that scare people away from Modding their Xbox 360′s and Xbox 360 Slim Mods. As soon as once or twice a year Microsoft have dropped, what we call within the community, the Ban Hammer. Why do not they just continuously ban people? Simply because by doing it twice a year, they are able to increase sales by forcing those that wish to stay connect to Xbox Live, to go out and purchase new consoles. If you want to know how to mod xbox 360 without running into these kind of things, the guides on the site will tell you how.
So those who create the firmware, continually attempt to write it in a way that Microsoft won’t have the ability to detect. It seems like even though there have been how to mod xbox 360 guides out there, there are too many for Microsoft to keep up.
There has been a third reason for updated firmware too. Game discs hold information in a certain structure. In the past the developers felt the best way to write the modified firmware, to keep users hidden from Microsoft, was to put checks in place to create sure the games individuals had not been modified in any way. An issue arose when Microsoft started embedding console updates into the game data in various ways, generating the checks in the modified firmware fail. However, there’s been another update that circumvents this feature, also provided within the guides provided on how to mod xbox 360.
Because the last large banning wave late last year, and the continual shift in how game information is stored on the discs, new firmware known as iXtreme LT has been developed. You can read more about it in the how to mod xbox 360 guide avaliable on the website. It’s designed to mimic the original firmware in each and every feasible way. As such it has no checks in place – it’s now as much as the user to make certain the backups they play are correctly created. This creates no guarantees, but goes a long way to ensuring continued access to Xbox Live. The good news is it also means that modifications to game data in the future, will not result in new versions of iXtreme needing to be created. The different types of iXtreme LT can be broken down into three types. To get a more detailed overview, check the how to mod xbox 360 guides.
Currently you will find three different versions of iXtreme being used in almost all Xbox Modding Forums.
For the older Hitachi drives, iXtreme 1.51 is in use. It, like the newer firmware, bypasses any checks meaning it can play all backed up games, however it is not very secure against being banned from Xbox Live. There’s no check that disables automatic updates or checking from Xbox live. In order to disable this, how to mod xbox 360 describes a way get around this.
BenQ & Lite-On drives are using the newest iXtreme LT v1.1. This firmware has no checks, mimics the original firmware as closely as feasible, will play all game backups, and is the best hope of staying hidden from Microsoft’s banning hammer. However, nothing out in the public will keep your Xbox
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Some details would be nice, please start with kernal/dashboard version we will determine if you can jtag it and if not its your choice to flash the dvd drive or run the Reset glitch hack.
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