Xbox 360 Backup Discs Bootable

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 18, 2006 @07:33AM from the new-milestone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The firmware of the Xbox 360 DVD drive has been hacked, allowing users to boot backups of games on the new Microsoft console. A group of hackers on the xboxhacker.net forum managed to trick the DVD firmware into reporting a recordable disc as an original Xbox 360 disc. This means that it will not allow booting of unsigned homebrew code (like Linux), as the signature check is not bypassed. This hack will just trick the Xbox 360 into thinking you inserted an original Xbox 360 disc, so it'll only boot unedited executables. A video has been released, the hack has not been released to the public (because it will be mainly used for piracy), but all the research of the last few months is publicly viewable."

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Re:"we don't want to support piracy" by NeMon'ess · 2006-03-18 11:02 · Score: 1, Redundant

Are you trying to make a point? If you understand it's bad to move the console while it's spinning the disc, then you don't get to use ring-scratched discs as an excuse to backup.

Fair Use is another reason, but not the topic I originally replied to.