Xbox360-Hacks

From computerandvideogames.com: Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has claimed that Xbox 360 has “nearly twice” PS3’s installed base – partly because its lack of a Blu-ray drive allows it to be sold at a more attractive price point. The Xbox product director claimed that “being $100 cheaper [than PS3] is part of the reason we’re [...]

A hacked version of the Xbox1 Backwards Compatibility v5829 (November 2007) has been leaked yesterday. It wasn’t supposed to be out (yet), but as it’s all over the internet now I guess we could just mention it too. Was originally made for devkits, but should work just fine on jtagged homebrew [...]

+++ Xecuter CK3-CP Update The Xecuter CK3-CP is the crown jewel in the range of CK3 products. We have combined all the functionality of the CK3 Pro plus into a fully featured PC driven LCD Display & Control Panel, not to mention a slew of new automated features. Please note that the following image is [...]

A final version of the opensource FreeStyle Dash v1.10 for homebrew 360s has been released. What’s new/fixed (since v1.10 RC1): * Final Bug Fixes Current Features List: - List Xbox 360 games, XBLA games, GOD Packages, applications, emulators, and launch them. - Can move items between menus. - Browse games by genre. - Favourite games support. - [...]

From farmboynick: I have just launched XBMC [for Xbox1] on my Xbox360, it was so simple … I patched Avalaunch to boot from disk [with a halo title id] and put a XBMC folder on the disk. After Avalaunch booted I went to file manager and copied the XBMC folder to the [...]

Finally. Rab released GOD2XB1, so Xbox 1 GOD support is now possible: This trivial tool will make these modifications to the god package until the new iso2god. All it does is change that one byte and then rehash the file for you (simplifying these 2 steps): - Open the CON stub and change the byte at offset 0×346 [...]

Zouzzz released Yaris-Swap v0.8. What’s new/fixed: * support CON files (with FTP: creating folders hosts) * save / load XUID and FTP functions replaced by save / load profile (5) * preview (fast) of content in a PictureBox * load the profile A at boot Get it: hb-released.com

An RC1 build of the open-source FreeStyle Dash v1.10 for homebrew 360s has been released. What’s new/fixed: * Added Display Options: Gamer-tag, Gamer-score, Temperature, Free Disk Space, System Info * Added launching of God Games * FTP Active mode and speed increases * Can move Titles to different menus * Fixed Status code crashes * Semi Transparant Menus * Fan Speed Controls * LED [...]

A Microsoft job listing reveals that the company is looking for staff to design a new Xbox 360 motherboard. From the looks of it, the new “Motherboard Design Engineer” will be helping to design further revisions of the existing Xbox 360 architecture, rather than the hardware for a next-next-generation system.   Really?  Some of the “Qualifications” [...]

A new SVN build of the opensource FreeStyle Dash for homebrew 360s has been released. From JQE: Change Log: * FTP fixes for stability and Active mode * GamerTag displays on main screen * Can move items between menus (move snes 360 god package to emulators) * Fixed Status code * Semi-Transparant Screens so you can see your background images. There is much [...]

C4E’s LT DVD firmware for BENQ drives has been released: C4E’s iXtreme Lite Touch (LT) in association with Team Jungle & Team Xecuter After a long development and testing process we give you the first official release of the iXtreme LT - Supports all BenQ Drives (62430C, 64930C) - Supports all Liteon Drives (74850, 83850V1, 83850V2, 93450) - Totally re-written [...]

God2Iso v1.0.3 – Rab released a new version of GOD2ISO. What’s new/fixed: * Should support NXE images, let me know if there are any problems. JungleFlasher v0.1.72 (101) – What’s new/fixed: * Benq LT support http://jungleflasher.net

Juvenal1228 released J-xbr-gui v1.0, a Graphical XBR Flasher using NandPro: Hey, just finished most of a tool ive been working on for a while here. hopefully people will find it useful. in v1.1 i will have the “Full Auto XBR feature finished. as of now most of it is implemented but i still have to work the kinks [...]

Since FreeStyle Dash went opensource there has been some development on its new google code page.  JQE released a new compiled version: Notable new features: * GoD launches from Game menu (not arcade) with full cover and screenshot support * Parental Controls. * Configurable Temp, Disk Space, and IP Address on the main screen. The files are downloadble from the [...]

Team XeDev released a new version of Dash Launch, which will allow you to boot your Xbox360 directly into homebrew software: what it does: Waits for bootanim to finish, then launches a xex or con as defined in ini file (you don’t see NXE dash) v0.02 changes - added a small delay so XBR users who want to launch [...]

Team XeDev released a new version of Dash Launch, which will allow you to boot your Xbox360 directly into homebrew software: What it does: waits for bootanim to finish, then launches a xex or con as defined in ini file (you don’t see NXE dash) v0.02 changes - added a small delay so XBR users who want to launch [...]

From team-xecuter.com: As you may (or may not) know, the new 64bit compatible Jungle Flasher requires you to disable the Windows 7 driver signing policy by hitting F8 every time you boot up as the 64 bit PortIO driver isn’t digitally signed. After a bit of digging we found a nice workaround that completely patches the Windows [...]

A new version of Iso2God and God2Iso have been released. KrK / Team 360h released a new app called ISO2GOD, a PC app for converting Xbox 360 ISO images straight into Games on Demand containers. What’s new/fixed: + New settings for padding removal mode and FTP port. ~ Low disk space confirmation replaced with status bar notification. ~ Fix for [...]

From team-xecuter.com: It is so much fun to be able to play with homebrew again and as a thank you to the Xbox 360 Scene we have decided to launch a competition where, thanks to our very popular vendor www.modtraders.co.uk, you can win a $1000 cash prize by coming up with the name for our new [...]

Schmurtz released ExIso gui v1.0.0.6, a little Windows interface for extract iso for xbox 360. What’s new/fixed: * Multiple corrections of bad path for destination folders. (no more “.iso” in FTP folders names, no more incorrects folders for local extractions) * less CPU consumption during extraction. * ISOs Autoloading : loads all iso files contained in a folders and [...]