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Hacking Xbox One possible RGH hardware modification coming soon

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We'll have to wait out for all the rest to happen, a modchip and a toolchain to patch the limitations of the OS, also we'll probably need to have a bootloader to load other OSes, once that happens, all of this will have paid off...

Also I hope if a modchip releases, the team that works on it takes the time to bring support for all Xbox One fat models...

Congrats to markus for releasing this into the wild, this is pretty cool B-)
 
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It will enable full power homebrew for sure but I don’t think it will allow modifications in retail environment anytime soon. The retail environment is full of boobytraps and any one can result in a ban.
 
I've got to admit I haven't wachted the video yet, but I think we shouldn't get our hopes up with this.
As far as I've understood this voltage glitch has a success rate of one in a million attempts. So yeah, you could make this into a modchip, but that would mean having to turn on your Xbox on Thursday morning if you want to play on it on the weekend :)

I'm hoping this can be used by people in the scene to archive all of the games and *maybe* this can lead to more people being able to reverse engineer the system to find a more end-user friendly exploit. For now, I'm not getting too excited.
 
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I've got to admit I haven't wachted the video yet, but I think we shouldn't get our hopes up with this.
As far as I've understood this voltage glitch has a success rate of one in a million attempts. So yeah, you could make this into a modchip, but that would mean having to turn on your Xbox on Thursday morning if you want to play on it on the weekend :)

I'm hoping this can be used by people in the scene to archive all of the games and *maybe* this can lead to more people being able to reverse engineer the system to find a more end-user friendly exploit. For now, I'm not getting too excited.
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You know, chips tend to be a little faster than humans.
Id bet good money they could glitch somewhat faster than we could by hand.
Id be very suprised if it took days, id wager, its a bit faster than that even.
 
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As far as I've understood this voltage glitch has a success rate of one in a million attempts. So yeah, you could make this into a modchip, but that would mean having to turn on your Xbox on Thursday morning if you want to play on it on the weekend :)
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Markus mentions in the presentation he can currently glitch an Xbox One anywhere between 1-30 minutes. He's also speculated things could be better optimised and a modchip with a little as 3 wires should be possible.

It won't be him that develops this further, as mentioned in the presentation. So for this to go anywhere someone else is going to have to replicate his work and go from there.

With how the RGH on the 360 improved over time, I suspect this eventually will too. Presuming someone takes his work and builds upon it.
 
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Markus mentions in the presentation he can currently glitch an Xbox One anywhere between 1-30 minutes. He's also speculated things could be better optimised and a modchip with a little as 3 wires should be possible.

It won't be him that develops this further, as mentioned in the presentation. So for this to go anywhere someone else is going to have to replicate his work and go from there.

With how the RGH on the 360 improved over time, I suspect this eventually will too. Presuming someone takes his work and builds upon it.
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Oh damn, that's nice then! Yeah sorry, I haven't watched the video yet, just heard the number "one in a million" being tossed around
 
[Yawn] If you discount the WonderSwan™ this is by far the least important system to be hacked for "preservation" given the lack of exclusives.🏴‍☠️ The best part is that it gives false hope to those fools who think it is just a matter of time before their Switch 2s on launch firmware are soft-moddable.🤣
 
I watched the full thing this morning. Couple of caveats to this :

- He said that currently it only works on the Phat launch models (2013 for sure, possibly 2014)
- Someone will have to replicate his work, he's currently the only person to ever do it and it seems he hasn't released any of the tools/code that he used
- He said his initial odds of success were 1 in a million, but that he thinks in could be done in seconds with some further research/testing.
- Hardware based glitching which is not going to be patched

I'm with you, I think someone is going to take this and run with it for sure. It's really just a matter of how long it takes for someone to replicate this successfully and document it in detail. He's done all the hard work but there's still much more to be done. Luckily for us, the exploit is very early in the chain so basically everything is unlocked once glitched. I think for anyone willing to replicate this, there's a good opportunity for selling the chips used to glitch if they can get there first, and financial incentives almost always will motivate someone to figure this out.

If you plan on doing this once it's been documented, I'd probably recommend finding a 2013 console today. I just picked one up on eBay for $40 with a loose HDMI port.

Either way, his talk and work on this was incredible. If someone gave me all of the tools, resources, and time in the world I don't think I could've figured this out. Looks to be a bright future for the Xbox One. I'm hoping this leads to a decryption of the controller pairing methods of the Xbone too, but we'll have to wait and see.
 
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TomChaai said:
It will enable full power homebrew for sure but I don’t think it will allow modifications in retail environment anytime soon. The retail environment is full of boobytraps and any one can result in a ban.
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The Boram has been fully exploited so once that has been exploited, everything else is basically unlocked and I don’t think that anyone actually cares about being banned on Xbox one
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I've got to admit I haven't wachted the video yet, but I think we shouldn't get our hopes up with this.
As far as I've understood this voltage glitch has a success rate of one in a million attempts. So yeah, you could make this into a modchip, but that would mean having to turn on your Xbox on Thursday morning if you want to play on it on the weekend :)

I'm hoping this can be used by people in the scene to archive all of the games and *maybe* this can lead to more people being able to reverse engineer the system to find a more end-user friendly exploit. For now, I'm not getting too excited.
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MopSec said:
I've got to admit I haven't wachted the video yet, but I think we shouldn't get our hopes up with this.
As far as I've understood this voltage glitch has a success rate of one in a million attempts. So yeah, you could make this into a modchip, but that would mean having to turn on your Xbox on Thursday morning if you want to play on it on the weekend :)

I'm hoping this can be used by people in the scene to archive all of the games and *maybe* this can lead to more people being able to reverse engineer the system to find a more end-user friendly exploit. For now, I'm not getting too excited.
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No, that’s not the case. The dev said that it can be glitch in one second if it was optimize the only reason why it took that long was because it was in a dev environment.
 
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We'll have to wait out for all the rest to happen, a modchip and a toolchain to patch the limitations of the OS, also we'll probably need to have a bootloader to load other OSes, once that happens, all of this will have paid off...

Also I hope if a modchip releases, the team that works on it takes the time to bring support for all Xbox One fat models...

Congrats to markus for releasing this into the wild, this is pretty cool B-)
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I mean I got this
 
NoNamida said:
any one even looking in to this ? was big news then nothing . like last time with the Game Script
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The guy who did this work, did it for fun

He released only the general sketch of how to replicate it

Anyone wishing to replicate this and share it with a broader audience will have to repeat all of his work

And for what? The console never had a scene as is dead now. All the bragging rights were already taken. Will many people even bother with this if it gets a wider release?

Many questions without clear or obvious answers.
 
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And for what?
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I dunno maybe because it's fun, that's why the first guy did it as a challenge, known to be possible as of now so should be repeatable. There are many reasons it can a will probably be replicated. Would make a pretty neat emulation box or media center ect giving old hardware a new use? Exploring the inner working of Microsoft's code and how the system ticks many many interesting reasons.. Don't understand the mind set of things not being worth doing. Everything is worth doing even if you aren't the first to do so.

Also people are working on it there is a discord group of multiple people working on it. The start of a possible scene if you will....
 
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wolffangalchemist said:
I dunno maybe because it's fun, that's why the first guy did it as a challenge, known to be possible as of now so should be repeatable. There are many reasons it can a will probably be replicated. Would make a pretty neat emulation box or media center ect giving old hardware a new use? Exploring the inner working of Microsoft's code and how the system ticks many many interesting reasons.. Don't understand the mind set of things not being worth doing. Everything is worth doing even if you aren't the first to do so.

Also people are working on it there is a discord group of multiple people working on it. The start of a possible scene if you will....
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I await the release
 
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wolffangalchemist said:
I dunno maybe because it's fun, that's why the first guy did it as a challenge, known to be possible as of now so should be repeatable. There are many reasons it can a will probably be replicated. Would make a pretty neat emulation box or media center ect giving old hardware a new use? Exploring the inner working of Microsoft's code and how the system ticks many many interesting reasons.. Don't understand the mind set of things not being worth doing. Everything is worth doing even if you aren't the first to do so.

Also people are working on it there is a discord group of multiple people working on it. The start of a possible scene if you will....
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which discord group? thx
 

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