The Xbox 360 Firmware 100% Hacked ?

Ok a while ago we brought to you news about how the Xbox 360 firmware routines were still intact.. Well The Specialist has followed this up and it looks like months of hard work have come to an end, with the Xbox 360 firmware being well and truly hacked, the security details posted a few days ago are said to be proof as well as a video, this hack will not be made available publicaly it seems.

Months of hard work have come to an end. The 360 FW security details were posted a few days ago already, so why not make it official It's been done.

Respect to all the people on this board who made it possible with their brilliant contributions:

Anita999, Geremia, Nayr, Bluecop, Interestedhacker, MacDennis, Phantasm, Marvin, Tiros, SpenzerX, Team Modfreakz, Fuzzylogic, Takires, loser, jasper, SMO, Groepaz, Zobyone, Jumba, Amadeus, Tser, DjHuevo, oz_paulb, DaveX, darkfly, evestu, Robinsod, Dark_Neo, Gael360, Seventhson, probutus.

Just for fun, here's a little video: rapidshare.de. And no, the team decided not to release a hacked FW. The security details are proof itself. The team advocates hacking, not piracy.

News Source: XboxHacker

We'll try to have a mirror up of the video up as soon as possible.

great news but its sad they wont release it, i was looking forward to finally playing wrestle kingdom that i purchased from lik-sang.

you'll be out of luck with that one for a LONG time. this hack does not in any way circumvent the region protection, only 1:1 copies of games of the same region as the system work with it.

Bla bla bla but afcourse it is hacked,team ice hacked the 360 ages ago!!!!

Why they call team ice **** about not releasing there chip and the specialist not about releasing its hacked firmware?? i dont know.

Originally Posted by crono

Bla bla bla but afcourse it is hacked,team ice hacked the 360 ages ago!!!!

Why they call team ice **** about not releasing there chip and the specialist not about releasing its hacked firmware?? i dont know.

The Ice team had a plan to promote some silly webstore, if you look at the people who the specialist quotes as contributors you will see some very knowledgable and respected people in there such as ozpaul and loser, Gael360and the rest. Do not turn this into a flame war, if you have something valid, technical to question this then feel free to do so.

hmmmm clever what theyve done, but its not very useful, the firmware has to be flashed for every game. They flashed the media check of pgr3 into the firmware. So it always reports the pgr3 media check. So if you wanted to play GRAW you would need to get that media check and put that in the firmware.

Who says they dont have another 360 hooked up that you dont see, and its hooked into the back of the tv, dont show playing or controlling the game, so i say the chances are its bogus!!!

If they don't release I won't believe it.

Even respected scene people can fake this. Everyone that say's thing but not proofs it (and that’s what your doing if you don’t release any info about it at all) get the same respect of my that team ice did get from my.

Enough talked about it from my side, if you’re only yapping about it and don’t show up then grow up and live on!!!

i only know what i see .....

Why xbox-scene don't speak about this hack ? maybe it's true .. maybe not

Originally Posted by OblivionX

hmmmm clever what theyve done, but its not very useful, the firmware has to be flashed for every game. They flashed the media check of pgr3 into the firmware. So it always reports the pgr3 media check. So if you wanted to play GRAW you would need to get that media check and put that in the firmware.

no sorry, you're wrong.

what do you mean? it won't work with every game? or does the firmware have to be adapted to every game?


-No the newer firmware is capable of booting any properly formatted disk containing matching CR data

(from xboxhacker forum)

All this spec is useless to everyone, even MS cant fix it because for one its too late and two its unfixable.

I don't see why everyones getting into a tizzy. Different region games will not work either, as it don't bypass the region check. You can't modify the games at all or they won't work. This hack needs quite a bit more work before it will be useful to the majority of people who want to use it for imports, cheats, game hacks - right now it serves no legal purpose at all.

I say give it 3 months and the team will go sour, or someone outside the team will use their resources from the website to do it themselves - then sell the guts of the idea to a chip producer for a good lump sum and you will see chips out for the console by end of year.

For those who think its fake, take apart your 360 and slap a backup in it. I bet after it red screens and tells you the disc is not authentic the disc stops spinning.

Do you think they make it public?? I hope it or i don't believe it!


StormRider

Originally Posted by StormRider

Do you think they make it public?? I hope it or i don't believe it!


StormRider

Their interest from the start was never to make it public, if you watch the video there is a small dig regarding a quote about the security on the Xbox 360 from an MS official, I think this was truly done for the challenge .

Got an answer from Robinsod : the LIVE works with this hack .......

this is a very interesting news

Without doing any real digging whatsoever I beleive these guys did it. The Xbox people/following (aside from that ICE thing) have never really been like the PSP people/following. I dont know what it is specifically about the PSP, but it seems to attract fakers. Even noob fakers and noob faker pointer-outers

I dont have an xbox360, and I am not all that inclined to go looking into the 360/xbox forums for more info on how they did it, but I do have to ask (since its not mentioned above and not absolute in the old news post referred there), what was the method? Is it a custom firmware hack similar to what is done with XBox? Is it based on the DVD drive firmware hack that was being discussed some time ago?