Strong Hints On Flashing Your Xbox

customsex writes: "bunnie has written a nice one with pictures documenting his adventure flashing his bios on his xbox. check it." His page also points you to the Sony vs. Connectix case regarding reverse engineering of hardware.

Comments

Phone message:

[mESSDan]

That phone message was pretty funny, the x-box guy sounds pretty nervous/antsy. "We'd uh, like you to remove that rom image, and uh, call us when you do. Or call me and uh, we can talk about it."

One cool thing to note is that this wasn't a lawyer calling him, it was one of the x-box dev guys.

Re:Phone message:

[dattaway]

From the tone of his voice, I could imagine there were a few people standing behind him and coaching what he was going to say next.

Reverse torture

[imrdkl]

I'll sacrifice a GC for the sake of curiosity and dissolve the package with hot sulfuric

I have no idea what a GC is, but I imagine it's in alot of pain. Isn't there a more humane way of doing this?

Re:Reverse torture

[dbCooper0]

Given the sporadic appearance of some links seen in /. comments, I think the "G" stands for "Goat". Still trying to "crack" the "C"...

Doesn't MS lose money on every Xbox?

[Anonymous Coward]

And make money on every game to make up for it?

So, let's all buy an Xbox, convert it to running Linux, and come up with a cool open source development environment to build our own games.

We can destroy MS and get a good gaming console out of it at the same time. :)

I would also love to make a C64 emulator CDROM with about 500 old games and a nice menuing system to select which games to play, and make the save and load work from all the games as well.

A system like the X-box would be great for that.

"Flashing" an XBOX?

[bnitsua]

Do we really need to post a story everytime some guy plays Halo naked in front of his television?

Sure, you can hack an X-box

[multiplexo]

But I'm waiting for someone to hack the new Maytag Neptune washer and dryers, the ones with the 4" plasma touch screen. I want one that will run Linux and play DVDs while I'm doing my laundry. Or actually if I had the washer and dryer I could have one running Linux and the other serving as a game/DVD console, and I could wash my clothes.

Man!

[DelyApple]

Man, can't you people make it so it just brings up the porn when I poke the buttons?
Wha?
Oh! I'm sorry, I thought this was a thread on the XXX-Box. I saw flashing... :(

The real ubergeeks work at M$ !!!

[Tha_Zanthrax]

How does MicroSoft find out about these sites before /. does?
I think they are paying some guys to just surf the web looking for stuff that can stuff people from using M$ products.
Man, surf the web all day AND get paid... I'd take that job !

xbox.bin

[L3WKW4RM]

Download the xbox.bin linked at the very top of his page...

lukewarm@mr-causey:~ > cat xbox.bin
gamecube rulez... ;-)

This encryption is going to take a long time to crack!

... um

[fldvm]

I hope this guy did not buy his xbox from CompUSA because I think he may have voided his
$30 two-year warranty

Re:Hardware hackers only

[Jeff Probst]

can someone please explain to me the insighful nature of this comment?

thanks in advance

Re:The Russian bloke broke no laws

[ignavus]

Traditionally there's only 2 charges that can be enforced extra-territorily, but only on ones own citizens - Piracy on the high seas & treason.

I thought polygamy overseas was illegal as well. You can't just go overseas, marry 4 wives and claim it is legal in the country you went to.

Of course IANAL - why would lawyers be reading Slashdot?