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360 Hackers Claim Full Read/Write Ability

Posted by Zonk on from the now-they're-in-trouble dept.

Technology Sweden writes "According to the site Xbox-Scene, a program is available to transfer saved-games and more from the memory card or hard drive. This opens up a whole new world for the 360. Soon we might be able to run our own home brewed games and show our favourite Xvid movies."

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  1. Good News for the Homebrews by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Informative
    So there are already sites out there for Dreamcast, Xbox, PS2 and a multitude of other consoles/handhelds. This will make it a lot easier for homebrew execution to get started on the Xbox 360 for those who welcome it. It technically isn't legal since these developers don't have developer licenses but since they don't sell their homebrew apps, they usually aren't targeted.

    What a lot of people are interested in will probably be the porting of older consoles through known emulators to the Xbox 360. I don't want an Xbox 360 but we'll see how well this development takes off. I long for an emulator that plays my old SNES games as it is kind of cumbersome to have many many systems to hook up. A fully functioning Link to the Past on Xbox 360 would make me buy it.

    For those of you looking for free game ISOs to dump from the internet to your Xbox 360, this is not something that will allow this yet as from the article:
    Note: Before people try to launch crazy ideas again: No this does not allow you to copy retail games (signed for XBOX360DVD media only) to the HD and play them. It's a tool that gives you access to the Xbox 360 HD and Memcard from a PC, it does not hack/bypass any security.
    So there's no free games yet. On top of that, you can't shell out the boot sequence from a disc to use it for launching your own homemade application. Hopefully we'll see that in a few more months. I myself am not really interested in "free" games, just want to be able to use my Xbox as a real toy instead of the confines of those who can afford the insane developer's license fee.

    Anyone else notice that this article reads like an advertisement for 360gamesaves? There's three links to it.
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  2. All too easy... by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of DRM, it will soon see the end of the rebellion.

  3. Argh, Matey! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Soon we might be able to run our own home brewed games and show our favourite Xvid movies.

    Which is to say that piracy of 360 downloadable games will soon flourish.

    Are there really any examples of "homebrew" games for modern systems? Being as complex as they are to program, I don't really see why anyone would bother homebrewing a game on the 360 when they can produce the exact same software for the PC. (Much quicker and easier, too.)

    I could see the possibility of turning the 360 into a PVR, but doesn't it seem like purchasing or building a dedicated PVR for less $$$ would make more sense? Do you really want to spend $400 just to hack it into a machine that you could have had for $150-$200?

    I'm all for the school of thought that says, "It's my hardware, I want to do with it what I want." But sometimes it's okay to say, "this is cool, even thought I don't really have a real use for it yet." :-)

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    1. Re:Argh, Matey! by christopherfinke · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Are there really any examples of "homebrew" games for modern systems?
      I don't know if this counts, but there is the newly available "Mario Adventure," which was produced by an individual who hacked the SMB3 game engine to produce an entirely new 2-D Mario adventure. I played it on my Dreamcast last night, and it is a great deal of fun.

    2. Re:Argh, Matey! by Valdrax · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I could see the possibility of turning the 360 into a PVR, but doesn't it seem like purchasing or building a dedicated PVR for less $$$ would make more sense? Do you really want to spend $400 just to hack it into a machine that you could have had for $150-$200?

      You're looking at this problem from the wrong angle. Would you rather spend $550-600 for an Xbox 360 and a PVR, or just $400 for an Xbox 360? What if it could also serve as an emulator, a wireless A/B/G router with firewall, and a three-processor, Linux, websurfing / media PC that runs on 160 Watts? Heck, the thing already plays DVDs and streams music without hacks.

      The moment that Linux becomes available for the XBox 360, I'm buying one even if it means that I can never boot a game on it without Microsoft patching and eliminating my Linux system. I don't care about Xbox 360 games and plan to never buy one; I just want a cheap, powerful, energy efficient Linux PC. Making MS subsidize my Linux box is only a cherry on top.

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  4. RTFA by MeanMF · · Score: 3, Informative

    People need to RTFA before submitting... The article specifically says this does NOT get around any kind of security measures present in the 360, and that this doesn't bring them any closer to running homebrew content or bypassing the 360's copy protection and DRM measures.