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Hacker Team Releases First 360 ISO

Posted by Zonk on from the microsoft-must-be-so-proud dept.

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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  1. Re:Such News!! by Sparr0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    which part of "a PC DVD-ROM can't read those[original discs]" was hard for you to comprehend?

  2. Un-DVDs? by Tom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  3. This is Step 1 to Modchipville by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:Unfortunately by Cheapy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shh, he's insulting Microsoft. All facts mean nothing as long as you are insulting Microsoft. It's in the agreement of Slashdot somewhere.

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  5. If I May Make An Observation by spudwiser · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The 360 has been hacked, cracked, and now ported and ready for emulation... and the 2nd round of shipping hasn't even arrived yet.

    "You know, if you put a little hat on it, a snowball can last a long time in hell." - Dogbert

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  6. Re:Difficulty? by Surye · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But that won't stop dd!