Linux Running on Xbox Without Modchip!

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!

Comments

first post haha

[ducker]

Nah sounds good but not chance of flashing tsop without soldering, getting full linux to work. Backup games wont work either... yet

Sounds like a DMCA violation

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait until they hear from EA & MS's lawyers.

Okay and now on to some important things..

[1stflight]

Sorry all, although this is a great showing of skill, Linux's battlefield isn't the XBox, it's the Desktop. IMHO we would be better served to pour those energies into making a Desktop/Gaming/Application worthy OS.

Work on Transgaming, work on a driver interface that doesn't require a kernel rebuild each time you need to update your NIC, work on user experience, maybe you've noticed but we've got a lot of dumb users out there, and a Windows -> Migration path would be excellent. Hell, and NT server -> Linux migration path would be excellent too.

Sorry if this is too much of a rant, and my hat really is off the enginuity of the XBox-Linux developers, but I wholly feel it's a bit misplaced. *clink, clink*

Why is this so interesting?

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, we've always been able to run linux on a game console. It's called the PS2 Linux Kit. Is it not cool enough for you that it's not some backwards hack? I find it very interesting that the XBox community is so huge and diverse yet the PS2 community is composed of a very small group of serious individuals (mostly people who really want to make games bad).

Think if we had half of those people reinventing the wheel on Xbox hammering away at the PS2 instead.

I guess I should take comfort in knowing I don't have to deal with 1337 h4>0rs and their demands for inane software. The Xbox "hacker" community is all about piracy afterall.