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Xbox 360 Reset Glitch Hack - Unsigned Code on current Kernels incl. X360 SLIM

by ttol on 8/28/11, 10:18 PM with 18 comments

• by genbattle on 8/29/11, 2:11 AM

  This seems to be a fairly complex hardware hack to pull off, and it only works 25% of the time. This will possibly satisfy the hardcore homebrew community, but I have doubts about whether they'll be able to refine the process into a single low-cost mod-chip.

  This is definitely a good step forward though. At this rate by the time the 360 is retired from the marketplace we'll have a reliable boot method that allows everyone to turn their old 360s into media servers/toasters/whatever.

• by mortenjorck on 8/29/11, 1:04 AM

  While I have only the most elementary understanding of the concepts these exploits use (even more elementary in such a low-level hack as this), there's always an undeniable bit of adventure to reading them. It's espionage and subterfuge on a microscopic and high-frequency scale.

• by jarin on 8/29/11, 12:20 AM

  This might be a bit of a leap, but I really hope this ends up in Xbox Media Center / Boxee for the 360. I'm not sure how difficult porting x86 code to PowerPC is (aside from endianness), but a guy can dream.

• by Jarred on 8/29/11, 12:58 AM

  What would be very interesting is getting MinGW for Xbox 360 working, and then getting an OpenSSH server working as well.

• by dfc on 8/29/11, 12:31 AM

  Here come the aimbots...

  :(