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Hacker Team Releases First 360 ISO
surefooted1 writes "Xbox-scene.com has a brief story on the first Xbox 360 game dump here. A full dump of the game 'Condemed' has been released. From the article: 'The PI group released Xbox 360 game ISOs today. Note that downloading such releases is illegal and you can't do anything with them yet (they will not boot on your Xbox 360). You can find the NFO of one of their releases here.
They also released an open-source tool to extract these releases (basicly it's an 'x360-ISO extractor') so you can check out the files in the image. It will NOT work on original discs as a PC DVD-ROM can't read those.'"
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Where are those modchipmakers? the lazy #$^%-ers
If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
Sort of like those funny colored 'sculptures' they sell in the Electric Fetus and other fine retailers. They're "For Display Purposes Only."
Strange that. Usually when people "display" them there's some sort of smoke rising from them and a funky smell in the room... and everybody has that look on their faces like they're about to be hit by a train and they're not sure if they care.
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The 360 security revolves around preventing the use of unauthorized code. Pulling unauthorized code from a game is the easy part. Microsoft could really care less about an image file.
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go ahead and try to dd it and come back and tell us about how you only got.. what is it, I think 7 megs? Xbox DVD game disks cannot be read on a computer, they need a dvdrom with special firmware to read it because their TOC is damaged.
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which part of "a PC DVD-ROM can't read those[original discs]" was hard for you to comprehend?
Why would this be newsworthy? Does it take more than regular dvd copy software to do this? Aren't they using regular DVDs for the 360, or is this kind of like the Dreamcast's almost-normal CDs?
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Unfortunately the initial launch was enough of a dud that I'm suprised anyone would go through the trouble of caring about this. So which EA sports game or port did they ISO?
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Like he actually *read* the article before ninja-flaming... Not unlike whoever modded him up I guess. *shrug*
So, the xbox DVDs are broken in that "nahnah, you need special firmware to jump across this intentional break" way.
Do they carry the DVD logo? Are these things DVDs or not?
Yeah, it might look like nitpicking, but standards and interoperability are crucial to an info-age society.
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The fact is that being able to copy games is the first step in modding a system; this is why it took so long to hack the Gamecube (its discs, which were a CAV variation on a DVD, took forever to make copies of). Now that the mod-chippers have the XBox 360 they can 'observe' what occurs when a legal game is put into it, and what happens when a copied game is entered into it, and see if they can bypass the security.
Personally, I'm betting that the first mod-chips will be available before the PS3 or Revolution launch.
Am I the only one who thinks that the 360 is going to be easier to hack than its predecessor? After all, the 360 already gets a lot of data from network devices, such as streaming audio from media connect, or streaming video from a Media Center. Perfect opportunities for buffer overflows (if any exist). Also, the 360 has been reported to run actual streamed code such as the browser from Media Center.
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Its a DVD not an HD-DVD that the Xbox 360 uses
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Why the fuck would dd care about the TOC? It just dumps until the if= spits out EOF. I suppose if it has physical defects, sure, but that's an easy workaround.
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Go ahead and try it. It will fail. When you accept that you misunderstand what's going on, read "CD Cracking Uncovered" or similar.
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I'm not an expert, but I think the Xbox discs are kinda weird on a low level - the basically have a small, perfectly valid DVD-Video section, and the normal DVD data says that's all that's on the disc, and therefore a normal DVD drive won't let you read past it (ie: it would tell the OS it's reached the end of the disc), as the disc say's there's nothing there, so you need to hack the drive's firmware to let it read past the end of the data.
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which part of "a PC DVD-ROM can't read those[original discs]" was hard for you to comprehend?
The part where the PC HD-DVD ROM drive becomes available in eighteen months time was right about where I figured this ISO wasn't exactly big news.
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The 360 has been hacked, cracked, and now ported and ready for emulation... and the 2nd round of shipping hasn't even arrived yet.
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But that won't stop dd!
It will if the DVD's error correction data is encrypted, making PC DVD-ROM drives with standard firmware return constant disc read errors.
Are you talking about toy horses as in "toys" like the kind of plastic/cotton toy a child plays with? Or "toy horse" as in some special bread of small horse, similar to a "toy poodle?"
One thing that may (or may not) be important is the fact that I do believe that zebras may in fact be colorblind. If that is the case then does the cute coloring of the toy horses really matter?
Then again, the cute coloring will affect how other non-colorblind creatures interact with the toy horses. That might make the zebras jealous and retard their mental development. Or at least cause them to grow into angry, bitter, maladjusted adult zebras.
If these ISOs can't be used, how do they know that they can be used?