New Xbox 360 Hypervisor exploit (software based)

[emmanu888]

Dang it uses American Wasteland and it went up in price ever since the first exploit came out, its Cubic Ninja all over again.

 

[Afeohtan]

As of this post it has been starred by over 200 people on github. People are really excited for this.

It will be great to be able to run games without the disc, install and run Xbox original games from HDD and /or USB, and use Xbox 360 game mods.

Never say never.

 

[BigOnYa]

 

[Afeohtan]

I hope MVG will cover this.

 

[SuffahBish]

Honestly, I don't even care that it's non-persistent and has a low success rate. It's an Xbox 360 softmod. Please somebody give me the ability to launch a custom dashboard from this.

 

[Afeohtan]

Checking the commits on github shows there was a possibly a WIP exploit for CoD MW1 though he removed it for being unfinished.

 

[ChibiMofo]

I hope MVG will cover this.

Yeah. Once he has read everyone else's news articles on the subject and watched a few videos, he'll regurgitate it for his followers. A shame that they rely of him, of all people, for such news when he is actually pretty clueless about the subject.

 

[CoolMe]

I'm curious if after doing this exploit, can you run unsigned executable like Aurora.xbe and then play "backups". I'm sure eventually someone will create a workaround using this, still pretty cool.

Theoretically running backups should work. Aurora should definitely boot.

Yeah. Once he has read everyone else's news articles on the subject and watched a few videos, he'll regurgitate it for his followers. A shame that they rely of him, of all people, for such news when he is actually pretty clueless about the subject.

Meh, he's decent. He def wouldn't be the first choice when i want to check something. MrMario however is much more involved with the 360, and has been modding consoles & on the 360 scene for more than a decade, plus he's a genuinely cool dude. so yea, MVG gets more views mostly from casuals covering a variety of topics without going that much in depth of course..

Edit: Mach Nacho also makes very detailed videos.

 

[FR0ZN]

Good news everyone, there is a new exploit in development for a DRM free game, which everyone can run for free from a USB stick, to trigger the BadUpdate HV exploit.

https://bsky.app/profile/invoxiplaygames.uk/post/3ljnq4hxbpc2z

So no need to use Tony Hawk's American Wasteland anymore.

 

[SuffahBish]

Good news everyone, there is a new exploit in development for a DRM free game, which everyone can run for free from a USB stick, to trigger the BadUpdate HV exploit.

https://bsky.app/profile/invoxiplaygames.uk/post/3ljnq4hxbpc2z

So no need to use Tony Hawk's American Wasteland anymore.

Shit. Now I need to dig out my 360.

 

[CoolMe]

Good news everyone, there is a new exploit in development for a DRM free game, which everyone can run for free from a USB stick, to trigger the BadUpdate HV exploit.

https://bsky.app/profile/invoxiplaygames.uk/post/3ljnq4hxbpc2z

So no need to use Tony Hawk's American Wasteland anymore.

I don't remember RB Blitz being DRM-free, unless they're using the demo version?

 

[FR0ZN]

I don't remember RB Blitz being DRM-free, unless they're using the demo version?

Yep their post mentions that it's the trial version.

 

[Blythe93]

Good news everyone, there is a new exploit in development for a DRM free game, which everyone can run for free from a USB stick, to trigger the BadUpdate HV exploit.

https://bsky.app/profile/invoxiplaygames.uk/post/3ljnq4hxbpc2z

So no need to use Tony Hawk's American Wasteland anymore.

And to think that I've ordered a Tony Hawk's American Wasteland a few hours earlier. Thankfully, I bought it locally and it was very cheap. In any case, glad to hear the good news. ^^

 

[emmanu888]

Good news everyone, there is a new exploit in development for a DRM free game, which everyone can run for free from a USB stick, to trigger the BadUpdate HV exploit.

https://bsky.app/profile/invoxiplaygames.uk/post/3ljnq4hxbpc2z

So no need to use Tony Hawk's American Wasteland anymore.

Never in a million year i would have thought a Rock Band game would be used as an entry point for an exploit.

Seems like Rock Band games on 360 had holes in them, considering RB3 with Title Update 4 lets you load custom DLC on a unmodded console because of an oversight where it also treated save files as DLC.

 

[gbadl]

Good news everyone, there is a new exploit in development for a DRM free game, which everyone can run for free from a USB stick, to trigger the BadUpdate HV exploit.

https://bsky.app/profile/invoxiplaygames.uk/post/3ljnq4hxbpc2z

So no need to use Tony Hawk's American Wasteland anymore.

Is that boot time to whatever e69 is a real boot time to exploit, basically 8 second boot time beats 20 minutes.

If not I was thinking that to soft mode consoles with a flashable drive, first flash the drive to boot DVD9 and making a disc would be cheapest. Unless the drive that needs flashing needs some special mod. I was able to flash a Phat drive with just a long sata cable and power the drive using an xbox 360.

 

[Exnor]

Yeah. Once he has read everyone else's news articles on the subject and watched a few videos, he'll regurgitate it for his followers. A shame that they rely of him, of all people, for such news when he is actually pretty clueless about the subject.

Wasn't he part of the old Xbox scene? And isn't he a coder with emulation dev background ?

As far as I know he's the real deal.
(I do enjoy most of his content and the fact he's an advocate for videogame preservation)

 

[SuffahBish]

Wasn't he part of the old Xbox scene? And isn't he a coder with emulation dev background ?

As far as I know he's the real deal.
(I do enjoy most of his content and the fact he's an advocate for videogame preservation)

Yeah, he ported quite a few things to the original Xbox. He ported Outrun to the Switch as well. He also does work for Nightdive Studios.

 

[Exnor]

Yeah, he ported quite a few things to the original Xbox. He ported Outrun to the Switch as well. He also does work for Nightdive Studios.

And he worked on some Shantay titles as well right?

 

[FR0ZN]

Is that boot time to whatever e69 is a real boot time to exploit, basically 8 second boot time beats 20 minutes.

If not I was thinking that to soft mode consoles with a flashable drive, first flash the drive to boot DVD9 and making a disc would be cheapest. Unless the drive that needs flashing needs some special mod. I was able to flash a Phat drive with just a long sata cable and power the drive using an xbox 360.

It's the crash of the game that you see.
The HV exploit still takes ~20 minutes.

Post automatically merged: Mar 6, 2025

XEX to give the 360 CFW/HEN-like features through the BadUpdate exploit has been released:

https://bsky.app/profile/invoxiplaygames.uk/post/3ljopnftlsc2f

https://github.com/InvoxiPlayGames/FreeMyXe

 

[Afeohtan]

It would great if an avatar editor exploit could be found. I mean not to be triggered on the dashboard itself but, you get the point.

Something like maybe avatar awards or something like that when booting into it.