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I know there are many motherboard revisions and different types of hardware on board but are people still working trying to find exploits I mean I have no soldering experience whatsoever and my Xbox 360 is the only console that I am not modded yet and I would like it to be as easy as it is to Martha Wii but I know it's not that simple I'm just curious to see if people are still working on it
 

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Too answer you directly, NO I don't think anything new exploits are being worked on for 360 but if you wanted to mod I'm sure you may already know but your options AFAIK are...

It's either :

Jtag
(no chip BUT needs lower dash kernel version)

RGH
(chip)

^^both require soldering.


there is None and never will be a soft mod exploit to take over the system without hardware modifications from my understandings. even when homebrew came out for 360 it died out fast from what I've read and soon found out myself. Homebrew just never really took of for the 360 most likely due to how hard they were to mod and RROD issues that is until newer rev. Like falcon and jasper released but even at that those system's still take risks as well its just not nearly as high of a %...

@ Dinoscene will be sure to chime in and answer more thoroughly if he is still around the temp.
 
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Original Xbox is still a thriving system when it comes to homebrew, emulators, etc. They are cheap, plentiful, and can easily be softmodded.I have an RGH Jasper 360, and whirl I like it for 360 games, indie games, and XBLA, it will never come close to the versatility of the OG Xbox.

Just a suggestion...
 
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Original Xbox is still a thriving system when it comes to homebrew, emulators, etc. They are cheap, plentiful, and can easily be softmodded.I have an RGH Jasper 360, and whirl I like it for 360 games, indie games, and XBLA, it will never come close to the versatility of the OG Xbox.

Just a suggestion...
Yea I agree with you 100%. I have a 256mb Jasper Jtag and it's great for exactly what you said playing 360,arcade,indie games. But when it comes to emulators there are very few worth while and I'll just mention that snes360 saves are like encrypted and not saved separately and it has bugs you can lose saved data if you don't exit the emu properly. Most are still in beta or never left the .elf stage and have to be loaded via the eject button (pcsx, n64,) even media players are like non existant. Xmplayer works but it's also a .elf file can't be loaded from the xbox dash. I agree that OG xbox''s are in every way better for emulating etc and would suggest it as well. (Surreal 64, xbmc, pcsxbox)

If OP wants to just play 360 games and doesn't care about the arcade etc. Then flashing the disc drive is all it will take. And you just have to burn games in stealth mode to not risk ban . Otherwise just sell your 360 and look for an already modded one. I bought mine years ago for 225$ w/500gb hdd swap
 

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360 homebrew scene was never as booming as the original Xbox.

I think it's mainly due to MS having the XBL platform tightly integrated with the 360.
That drove a lot of people away from modding it, hence a lot of small time devs.
Low interest in homebrew means low interest in hacking.

What you got now is a bunch of emu's and applications like Blark said but that's it.
JTAG/RGH boxes are mainly used for cheat boxes on COD and GTA, ruining online play.

A software hack happened on dash 4532 and 4548, the JTAG enabled the bootloader to boot in to the old bootloaders again and RGH did the same thing.
Since then, no public software exploit has been released.
The security is pretty tight and MS solved it rather quickly.
I highly doubt a software exploit will occur, mainly due to RGH being unpatchable.

99.5% of the people wanting to exploit their 360 do it either purely for piracy or cheating at COD, homebrew wise, it's wiser to just hack an old Wii, as there's a far better choice of emu's and applications.
 

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360 homebrew scene was never as booming as the original Xbox.


I highly doubt a software exploit will occur, mainly due to RGH being unpatchable.

well technically even RGH was patched, on the very last rev, winchester iirc, by patching cpuRST and disabling\removing post out, I guess Microsoft really wanted to patch the RGH, literally 1.5 years before it the console itself was discontinued. but I will say since at least from playing COD on xbox one, microsoft learned from modders, by giving regular customized Gameplay/gamemode updates adding different game types/modes (COD WWII, and even battlefield 1) they pretty much eliminated the need for modded lobbies since that was just effectively doing the same thing , just that you had to be able to run unsigned code to run your modified "gametypes" minus all the unlocking and xp boosting.... what killed modding on 360 were all the leechers and squeakers....imho.

for a 360 softmod you'd need to have microsoft's private 360 crypto key, if you ask them for it very very nicely they may slap you in the face and say nope, lmao they'd probably say it no longer exists lmao
 
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well technically even RGH was patched, on the very last rev, winchester iirc, by patching cpuRST and disabling\removing post out

Far to late in the 360's life.
Anyone that wants to hack it should get a slightly older model.
Then again, Winchesters aren't to common really.

Perhaps in a couple of years we might see something new but I highly doubt it.
 

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Far to late in the 360's life.
Anyone that wants to hack it should get a slightly older model.
Then again, Winchesters aren't to common really.

Perhaps in a couple of years we might see something new but I highly doubt it.
its like people today with the Xbox scene nobody is into it because everyone else is doing other things, i guess the ship has sailed for the 360 and for the 7th generation of consoles as a nutshell...
 

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its like people today with the Xbox scene nobody is into it because everyone else is doing other things, i guess the ship has sailed for the 360 and for the 7th generation of consoles as a nutshell...

Look at the DSi, people thought that was dead.
Look at the cube, we've seen more disc based exploits in recent years then we've seen hacks in its entire life.

Never say a console or what not is dead.
 

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interestingly the final revision of the xbox 360 was never hacked. I wonder if it will happen some day.
With all the cheap phats and slims that are RGH'able (I see them on OfferUp for as low as 30 for a complete system), I don't see what the point would be, other than to say it could be possible.

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With all the cheap phats and slims that are RGH'able (I see them on OfferUp for as low as 30 for a complete system), I don't see what the point would be, other than to say it could be possible.

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i recently bought a replacement rgh trinity console (had a jasper 16 mb jtag but it rrod years ago) from ebay atm you can literally buy one for what you pay stock at gamestop or a little less. imho stay away from the pre nxe xboxes on ebay, the seller literally jumped from 90 bucks for a xenon jtaggble 360 to $250 and they're refurbed, dumb seeing you can buy a rgh, wired controller,psu for around $120usd atm...and thats why he only sold 129 consoles (that has not changed for awhile i was going to buy that instead of the trinity buttt fuuck $250)
 
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i recently bought a replacement rgh trinity console (had a jasper 16 mb jtag but it rrod years ago) from ebay atm you can literally buy one for what you pay stock at gamestop or a little less. imho stay away from the pre nxe xboxes on ebay, the seller literally jumped from 90 bucks for a xenon jtaggble 360 to $250 and they're refurbed, dumb seeing you can buy a rgh, wired controller,psu for around $120usd atm...and thats why he only sold 129 consoles (that has not changed for awhile since i was going to buy that instead of the trinity buttt fuuck $250 for just a xenon m$ return with no cords or HDD, with the possibility of having a patched cb (no JTAG even if they on blades dash or lower than 7371),

Really the one thing to really blow the 360 open is to decap the CPU and put it under a micro scope look at how The logic is structured, or if there was an way to exploit 1BL or CB, either by the way of ps3 and getting m$ signing key, or somehow by looking/stepping through 1BL execution seeing realtime how its decrypting CB see if there's an exploit there but really the thing with modding its no longer the day of swapping games, software injection, since methods like rgh seems more than likely designed by a computer hardware engineer student for a way to get an A+ for his end of course exam/project since I do see that does happen
 
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RGH and JTAG are pretty much the only Route for HomeBrew and are considered a Treasure by some , Me included esspecially newer models you can get Optical Disc Drive Emulators but I doubt that they ever got working HomeBrew running off of them only Backups. You can also Flash CFW on the Disc Drives to play Backup Burned Discs.

You can play System Link LAN Games through these $pecial 360s No Ping Limit Patching. 30ms Ping Limit. But only with other $pecial 360 Owners I have mine mainly for exclusive Games and Exclusive XBLA.

The 360 also shares the same problem as Wii/U PS3. PPC Architecture. The XBOXONE as far as I know and dont care for is locked done , PS4 has some Exploits im yet to try so it has some potential being X86 and ofcourse the 3DS and Switch are big for HomeBrew because of ARM they everywhere and have everything from Phones to TV Boxes and TVs , Sat Navs.

I doubt there will ever be a SoftMod of anykind in future , there maybe HomeBrew just dont expect much.
 
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RGH and JTAG are pretty much the only Route for HomeBrew and are considered a Treasure by some , Me included esspecially newer models you can get Optical Disc Drive Emulators but I doubt that they ever got working HomeBrew running off of them only Backups. You can also Flash CFW on the Disc Drives to play Backup Burned Discs.

You can play System Link LAN Games through these $pecial 360s No Ping Limit Patching. 30ms Ping Limit. But only with other $pecial 360 Owners I have mine mainly for exclusive Games and Exclusive XBLA.

The 360 also shares the same problem as Wii/U PS3. PPC Architecture. The XBOXONE as far as I know and dont care for is locked done , PS4 has some Exploits im yet to try so it has some potential being X86 and ofcourse the 3DS and Switch are big for HomeBrew because of ARM they everywhere and have everything from Phones to TV Boxes and TVs , Sat Navs.

I doubt there will ever be a SoftMod of anykind in future , there maybe HomeBrew just dont expect much.

well it seems the Xbox 360 was in the end the more unhackable system, I remember jail breaking a ps3 with a graphing calculator, though ps3 has a better homebrew scene I will admit compared to 360, homebrew on 360 was closer to PC modding, ie modding games, really the big thing is that somebody will really have to invest time and money into something that will only really result in respect and notoriety, so the return on investment is getting low, lmao surprising they already have a 360 emulator though

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Yes I have high Hopes for the Emulator just need High PC Specs though I imagine. Although have not really tried that much I did at first expect more from 360 Homebrew in beginning. As others have mentioned you cant beat OGXBOX.
 

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