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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.
How long until those ROM images start floating around the various P2P networks where they can't be simply "removed"?
Even if you can't read the bios flash part it is important in understanding how the device starts up. Chances are that if you can get your own executable onto the box you should be able to do whatever you choose and install some sort of interface that will allow for continued hacking/exploring. Knowing whats in the bios might also allow for changing the harddrive out, or having the ability to use the other 64MB ram footprint on the pcb.
c'mon, you know EVERYTHING Microsoft does is a secret. If they don't protect their secrets, people might partake in such willy-nilly activities as Free-speech! And Freedom leads to Open Source! We all know, as Microsft does, that Open Source is un-american (Uh-oh...un-american? Does that make Linux users terrorists?). MP3 is communism! Arggh! ::sarcasm::
"Software pirates are nothing compared to the anal pirates @ Microsoft" -Anon
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Not that it is entirely legal, but since the XBox is pentium based, emulation should be a lot easier than for the PS2 and GameCube. And, of course, the BIOS would be somewhat essential for a project like that.