Xbox 360 hacked

So, finally opened the Xbox 360, and run a third-party code without a signature.


What does this give us?

Homebrew , games without a disk directly from the hard drive \ usb, freedom from Live, we score on the regions, and firmware drives! In general, all that and still a lot of tasty that made the first box.

In 2 words how it works. A card reader is soldered, and a switch is placed between the standard Nand (chip where the dashboard is stored) and the card reader, where we already put our version of freeBOOT, and the software we need.
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Here we change the flash drive region

And now about the sad:
The mod can be made only by those who have a 7xxx version of dashboard or have a CPU Key, all others suck a paw and wait for a jtag (Pull CPU Key) on an 8xxx firmware.
And the mod itself is very laborious, requiring very straight hands, and the ability to handle a soldering iron. So in the coming months, I think there will be quite a bit of movement in this direction.

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UPD1: Under the phrase "freedom from Live" no binding of the downloaded content to a specific console.
UPD2: Transferred to the Games Blog.
UPD3: Found and added another video.