Linux Running on Xbox Without Modchip!

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 30, 2003 @01:46AM from the kinda-anyway dept.

NiteStar writes "It looks like people on xbox-scene.com and xboxhacker.net managed to run Xbox-Linux on a non-modded Xbox console. It requires no soldering at all - you don't even have to open up the Xbox. They are using an exploit in the saved game handling of the EA xbox game '007 Agent Under Fire'. It requires the original version of the 007 game and a memorycard you can connect to PC like the mega-X-key or datel's action replay. Apparently you can even build this memorycard yourself using a standard USB memstick." Frankly it seems like just soldering in the modchip would be easy, but big points for being clever!

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Theres no fricking way by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-30 01:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Im buying an EA game, even if it does cure cancer.
Knowing Microsoft's history by niom · 2003-03-30 01:57 · Score: 5, Funny

you'd think they had already created every type of bug. Well, in colaboration with EA they've just developed a new type of bug: THE USEFUL BUG. Now where are all those bashers that say that Microsoft never invented anything new?

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1. Re:Knowing Microsoft's history by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-30 01:59 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Free... by elcairo · 2003-03-30 01:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Free as in '007 Agent Under Fire'!