XBOX 360 Firmware Hack Confirmed
By updating the hacked firmware, hackers have succeeded in being able to play official Xbox360 games copied onto recordable DVD+/-R media. A video of a the Xbox 360 firmware hack announced a few days ago to show their success. The hackers team insists they will not release the hacked firmware as not to advocate piracy.
Just for fun, here’s a little video: rapidshare.de. And no, the team decided not to release a hacked FW. The security details are proof itself. The team advocates hacking, not piracy.)TheSpecialist and his team was able modify the DVD player firmware. Once the firmware was modified the hackers removed or modified the software that detects the type of media used in the player from the disc’s XEX file. Normally, if the drive reads the type of media as a “dvd+r” or “dvd-r,” the media will not boot — only media with the “dvdxbox” or “dvdxbox360″ are supposed to boot. A user on the Maxconsole forums (Arakon) close to the source has stated that this hack does not circumvent region protection and only 1:1 copies of games of the same region will work.
The team insists they will not release the hacked firmware as not to advocate piracy. TheSpecialist has a bit of a professional reputation in the Xbox scene, which also gives him some credibility to the legitimacy of this hack.
Source: DailyTech
