X-Box Private Key Challenge Ended

powerlord writes "The Neo Project (mentioned in a recent slashdot article) recently stopped its bid to recover the X-Box private key citing legal reasons: "Due to legal reasons, we will no longer be hosting or participating in the xbox challenge." DCers.com, a site devoted to distributed computing sheds some light on Neo's sudden flip-flop with a blurb claiming that: "... many legitiment DC'ers that have been working this project since it started that have decided to quit because of the new Neo client that also tries to crack the X-Box encryption." and that they believed this might ultimately kill The Neo Project."

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On XBOX Emulation

[Vidmaster_Steve]

This is somewhat on-topic.

Awhile back, it was stated that XBox game discs spun backwards, thus making emulation and even making legitimate backups as close to impossible as anyone could ever imagine.

As for this current discussion, this makes me totally upset, because I've been wanting, for months for someone to start releasing hacks of our favorite next-gen console games.

TONY HAWK PRO SEGWAY 2 WILL BE THE BEST ROM HACK EVER. Well, almost as good as Mega Crap...