The H4X0R$ Finally Did It...

[fattony69]

Xbox 360 Hacked, modification to boot all game backups!

"14 May 2006

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Xtreme firmware for TS-H943 Xbox 360
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Here it is, the long awaited World first Xbox 360 backup firmware modification to boot all game backups!


Features
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Boots all Xtreme Xbox 360 backups
Boots all Xtreme Xbox 1 backups
Boots all Xbox 360 originals
Boots all Xbox 1 originals on Xbox 360
Xtreme0800 extraction firmware enables drive to function natively under Windows without any hardware conversion/adaptors
Use on Xbox Live at own risk

Technical details
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Reads Xbox 360 security sector from PSN 04FB1F (Layer 0)
Reads Xbox 1 security sector from PSN 605FF (Layer 0)
Security sector must be extrated using Xtreme0800 360 firmware for Xbox360 games and Xbox 1 games
Will not boot Xbox 1 backups made with Xbox1 605b 0800 firmware (maybe in future release)

Flashing your drive
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Advisable to make a backup of your dvd drive firmware first.("mtkflash r /m orig.bin")
Please make sure you hexedit the Xtreme.bin firmware (Not Xtrm0800.bin firmware) to include your dvd drive key from your original firmware (usually at $4000-4200).
Plug SATA cable from DVD drive to PC. Power cable drive still connected to Xbox 360
Power on Xbox 360
Power on PC
Boot with standard dos boot disk with included mtkflash utility
Run "mtkflash w /m firmwarename.bin" with relevant firmware file (Xtreme.bin for running backups or Xtrm0800.bin for security sector extraction)

Extracting Security Sector
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Ensure DVD drive has been flashed with Xtrm0800.bin firmware. Drive can now work under Windows.
Insert original game disk into drive and wait for windows to detect disk change
Run DVDinfoPro
Enter the following four custom cdb commands:

AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 01 C0
AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 03 C0
AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 05 C0
AD 00 FF 02 FD FF FE 00 08 00 07 C0

Then save hexadecimal display as bin file as SS.bin

Creating a game backup
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Ensure DVD drive has been flashed with Xtrm0800.bin firmware. Drive can now work under Windows.
Extract Isobuilder.rar
Insert original game disk into drive and wait for windows to detect disk change
Run DVDinfoPro
Enter the following custom cdb command to unlock drive: (game data visable)

FF 08 01 01

Run Isobuster
Right click on DVD and select Extract From-To
Click Length and enter number of LBAs as follows:

Xbox 1 Original Number of LBA to read 3431264 decimal
or
Xbox 360 Original Number of LBA to read 3567872 decimal
Select User Data (2048 bytes/block)
Click Start Extraction
Enter filename as game.iso and click Save
Upon read error dialogue box choose fill with blank zeros for sector and select use this selection for all errors
Copy game.iso and ss.bin to the relevent isobuilder directory (Depending on Xbox 360 or Xbox 1 game)
Run build360.bat (Xbox 360 game) or build.bat (xbox 1 game)
Ensure your burner will set the booktype of DVD+R DL to DVDRom
Burn with CloneCd and choose the image.dvd file


Thanks to everyone at Xboxhacker.net for all their discussions. Now you guys will have to get homebrew running.
Next on the list will be the PS3 and this one will be done much quicker (once it comes out!)"


Credits:

Commodore4Eva from 
http://www.xboxhacker.net

Firmware easy to find... all information - 
http://www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=33&topic=779.0

[FiveYearPlague]

So this means that people with 360s will be modding games now?

[Mathiasa]

Thats pretty old dude

[shake]

ahahahaha my friend has had a modchip in his 360 for so long... looks like he'll be mad that he spent money on dual-layered disks for the games lol. except he wont be lol.

now how about something a little bit more recent...

http://apcmag.com/node/4769

[Soldati]

i cant understand....

[fattony69]

Originally Posted by shake

ahahahaha my friend has had a modchip in his 360 for so long... looks like he'll be mad that he spent money on dual-layered disks for the games lol. except he wont be lol.

now how about something a little bit more recent...

http://apcmag.com/node/4769

Whoops...didn't see the date

Oh and in response to your vista link...here is some news:

In today's That-Was-Quick Department, pirates have already gotten their hands on Windows Vista and are circulating a "cracked" version of the operating system on the Internet.

Vista and Office 2007 have just finished development and are being made available to corporate customers in advance of their January 30 release. But if you know where to look online, you can find both products already.

In the case of Vista, the purported "crack" isn't really a crack to get around the activation process. According to the techie hobbyist site Ars Technica, the hackers replaced components in the final code with bits from from earlier betas of Vista.

This allows the would-be pirate to use a product key that worked with the betas and two release candidates and skip the entire activation process.

In the case of Office 2007, the Enterprise edition has leaked onto the Internet, and because it uses a volume license key, it does not require activation over the Internet.

The free ride won't last long. Microsoft said it was aware of the hacks, and how they were done. "The unauthorized download relies on the use of pre-RTM activation keys that will be blocked using Microsoft's Software Protection Platform. Consequently, these downloads will be of limited use," a Microsoft (Quote) spokesperson told internetnews.com.

Beyond the fact that the hacked software will be shut off, installing it is just crazy, claimed Greg DeMichillie, lead analyst with research firm Directions on Microsoft.

"A whole lot of the versions of Windows XP that show up on download sites aren't just modified to bypass activation. They carry spyware. So you install them and they immediately turn into zombies or botnets," he said.

He pointed out that it's possible even to install a rootkit despite Vista's vaunted PatchGuard kernel protection. The rootkit can be installed to the files on the installation, which are merely compressed and not installed yet.

"I would never install that [hacked Vista and Office], because they are honey pots used to get you to install them on the system because they are likely loaded up with malware already," he added.

All of these anti-piracy efforts are a cat and mouse game for Microsoft, which has eliminated some vulnerabilities, such as the volume license key for Windows XP. But once a key is leaked, Microsoft has no way to revoke it, and it then gets around the Internet in a nanosecond. In this case, users tempted by a pirated version have been warned of the hidden costs.

Microsoft responded Tuesday to reports that said some Web sites have been circulating pirated copies of Vista and Office 2007.

The pirated Vista comes with a product key that users can enter to activate a version of the products on their computers without paying for them, a report on the Web site of The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said. A product key is a unique serial number tied to each package of a software product.

A second download, called an "activation crack," can then be applied that bypasses the activation process intended to guarantee that the Vista OS being downloaded is legitimate, the Herald reported. Pirated copies of Office 2007 can be downloaded just with the product key with no second activation code required.

But Microsoft said in a prepared statement that those pirated copies of the OS won't work for long.

"The copies available for download are not final code and users should avoid unauthorized copies which could be incomplete or tampered. This unauthorized download relies on the use of pre-RTM [release-to-manufacture] activation keys that will be blocked using Microsoft’s Software Protection Platform. Consequently, these downloads will be of limited value," the statement said.

Microsoft is still looking into reports of pirated versions of Office 2007 and declined further comment.

"Microsoft is happy that customers are eager to begin using Windows Vista," the company said.

Microsoft has been criticized for multiple delays in bringing Vista to market, but has said it wants to take care that the product is designed correctly to avoid security flaws, piracy problems and other software glitches.

The company released Vista to computer manufacturers on Nov. 8 for them to build into new laptops and desktops available for retail sale in January 2007. Consumers can start buying individual copies of Vista on Jan. 30.

Microsoft also plans to have Vista in the hands of business customers by the end of November. It has scheduled a Vista launch event in New York City on Nov. 30 at which the new Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 will also be introduced.

[klafxela]

Originally Posted by Crusty Bagel

So this means that people with 360s will be modding games now?

there are already a ton of people that mod with the 360

[iReV]

meh...i'll wait till the mod chip is like the regular xbox modchip. hard mod, bootup games from hard drive, and able to get on live without getting banned. that's the way to go.

anyways the vista thing isn't a big deal. my friend has been using the final version of vista for about a week or two now (the real deal), cuz the school i go to has a microsoft developers license, so admins/CS students get to use it before everyone else.

and in any case i doubt there's a big difference between the final cut and the rc3 beta.