New Xbox 360 Hypervisor exploit (software based)

[lisreal2401]

To clarify - this is just another entrypoint for BadUpdate that doesn't require any game. The entire development was public knowledge if you were hanging around Discord etc. Excellent work from shutterbug as always.

 

[_iggyman_]

 

[Exnor]

awesome

I love the homebrew / hacking scene . So many talented people helping in the preservation of videogames, and for free .


Time to dust off my 360 .

 

[Blythe93]

I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, I used BadBuilder in order to get all the necessary files for the USB. After that, I removed the Rock Band Blitz stuff and added ABadAvatar stuff. That should be it, right? Well, I plug the USB drive into the console and boot the console and it does appear that it's doing something. ABadAvatar profile shows up, the screen is not frozen but I'm not seeing the "ABadAvatar is FREE software!" message and the power button is fully lit except for the bottom right corner and it's stuck on there (the screen isn't frozen). I've made several attempts and none was successful thus far. I have a XBOX 360 S Trinity PAL console if that matters at all. BadUpdate works perfectly fine and I'm using the same USB drive for it so even the USB drive should be fine. Any suggestions?

EDIT: Compared to the Modded Warfare's video, I manage to get up to 8:52 and no matter how many times I try, XeUnshacke animation doesn't appear. I also tried both 1.03 and 1.02 XeUnshackle, same result.

EDIT #2: The notification not appearing was my fault as I've disabled notifications.

 

[NoNamida]

I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, I used BadBuilder in order to get all the necessary files for the USB. After that, I removed the Rock Band Blitz stuff and added ABadAvatar stuff. That should be it, right? Well, I plug the USB drive into the console and boot the console and it does appear that it's doing something. ABadAvatar profile shows up, the screen is not frozen but I'm not seeing the "ABadAvatar is FREE software!" message and the power button is fully lit except for the bottom right corner and it's stuck on there (the screen isn't frozen). I've made several attempts and none was successful thus far. I have a XBOX 360 S Trinity PAL console if that matters at all. BadUpdate works perfectly fine and I'm using the same USB drive for it so even the USB drive should be fine. Any suggestions?

EDIT: Compared to the Modded Warfare's video, I manage to get up to 8:52 and no matter how many times I try, XeUnshacke animation doesn't appear. I also tried both 1.03 and 1.02 XeUnshackle, same result.

EDIT #2: The notification not appearing was my fault as I've disabled notifications.

had the same problem till i copied over the BadUpdatePayload from ABadAVATAR . now everything works 100%

 

[borissaid]

ABadAvatar 1.1 seems to work very well. The only slight issue I have is if I have 2 Flash drives plugged into the front, one with the exploit and one with some games, the console will not run the exploit. As soon as I remove the second drive and reboot, it works fine. Minor issue obviously.

 

[Blythe93]

had the same problem till i copied over the BadUpdatePayload from ABadAVATAR . now everything works 100%

I believe that I've done the same thing and still had no luck with it. I've extracted this archive to the root of the USB drive which should be the same thing you and probably everyone else did. I've also reverted back to BadUpdate to see if that works properly and, sure enough, it worked like a charm. Still no luck with ABadAvatar. Will try few more times sometime later. Thanks for the reply!

The only slight issue I have is if I have 2 Flash drives plugged into the front, one with the exploit and one with some games, the console will not run the exploit. As soon as I remove the second drive and reboot, it works fine. Minor issue obviously.

In most of the tries I've tried, I had my wired controller plugged into one of the USB ports and I've used the back USB ports only. I've tried with only the USB with the exploit plugged in and still nothing. Will try with the front USB ports only to see if there's any difference.

 

[Imatra]

The only slight issue I have is if I have 2 Flash drives plugged into the front, one with the exploit and one with some games, the console will not run the exploit.

The Xbox has no standarised way of accessing USB devices after the first one and this may be the cause for this. Simply unplug one of them for the exploit

 

[borissaid]

The Xbox has no standarised way of accessing USB devices after the first one and this may be the cause for this. Simply unplug one of them for the exploit

What I ended up doing is just having the exploit and the games on the same drive which of course works fine.

 

[NoNamida]

I believe that I've done the same thing and still had no luck with it. I've extracted this archive to the root of the USB drive which should be the same thing you and probably everyone else did. I've also reverted back to BadUpdate to see if that works properly and, sure enough, it worked like a charm. Still no luck with ABadAvatar. Will try few more times sometime later. Thanks for the reply!

In most of the tries I've tried, I had my wired controller plugged into one of the USB ports and I've used the back USB ports only. I've tried with only the USB with the exploit plugged in and still nothing. Will try with the front USB ports only to see if there's any difference.

i used the one from this video pinned comments ABadAvatar 1.0 am sure they the same maybe ? try putting that on the usb drive and see

 

[rainierbaas]

I believe that I've done the same thing and still had no luck with it. I've extracted this[/URL] archive to the root of the USB drive which should be the same thing you and probably everyone else did. I've also reverted back to BadUpdate to see if that works properly and, sure enough, it worked like a charm. Still no luck with ABadAvatar. Will try few more times sometime later. Thanks for the reply!

In most of the tries I've tried, I had my wired controller plugged into one of the USB ports and I've used the back USB ports only. I've tried with only the USB with the exploit plugged in and still nothing. Will try with the front USB ports only to see if there's any difference.

Are you sure that you have the avatar system update ? without it, it will not work. , If you don't have an sata harddisk drive connected while updating to 17559 dash then it will not install the avatar update.
solution is to run the 17559 system update again but this time with sata harddisk connected.

if you do have avatar update then its a different problem
make sure you have default.xex in the badupdatepayload folder its not in the archive you linked to.

ABadAvatar works very well here its amazingly fast.
but it only works with internal sata harddisk connected.
(phat Falcon xbox)

 

[Blythe93]

Are you sure that you have the avatar system update ? without it, it will not work. , If you don't have an sata harddisk drive connected while updating to 17559 dash then it will not install the avatar update.
solution is to run the 17559 system update again but this time with sata harddisk connected.

Ah, that might be the culprit. Back when I updated to 17559, I didn't have an internal HDD. Will give that a try and see if it works before moving onto anything else. ^^ Thanks for the tip (and possibly a solution as well)!

 

[duffman2k]

Is there anyway of running this exploit from a memory card?
Why would I want that? I don't know

 

[Afeohtan]

Looks like something even bigger than Bad Uodate is coming.
Grimdoomer has been modifying HDD FWs in the past few weeks and this is the result.

This is truly outstanding. RGH will obsolete with this and be needed no more. The only plausible thing to me for how this works is if he somehow found the key(s).

Also, has there been any more dashboard updates or can I still use the recently released version? I held off on updating my Falcon Xbox 360, but I recently bought a Winchester and I would not mind using the newer cleaner dashboard design that also allow for a calendar setting that goes past 2025.

 

[Console-Center]

This is truly outstanding. RGH will obsolete with this and be needed no more. The only plausible thing to me for how this works is if he somehow found the key(s).

Also, has there been any more dashboard updates or can I still use the recently released version? I held off on updating my Falcon Xbox 360, but I recently bought a Winchester and I would not mind using the newer cleaner dashboard design that also allow for a calendar setting that goes past 2025.

You cant go passed 500gb with this so rgh at 16tb+ is still the best possible - There's also other things you can only do with rgh. You need 17559 dash for this to work on all 360s so you get the same stock dash - You can use FSD or aurora once exploit is triggered though.

 

[Afeohtan]

You cant go passed 500gb with this so rgh at 16tb+ is still the best possible - There's also other things you can only do with rgh. You need 17559 dash for this to work on all 360s so you get the same stock dash - You can use FSD or aurora once exploit is triggered though.

I know how to use the exploit.

I was mostly wanting to know if they have released a second dashboard update this year to block the exploit.

 

[lightwo]

This is truly outstanding. RGH will obsolete with this and be needed no more. The only plausible thing to me for how this works is if he somehow found the key(s).

Also, has there been any more dashboard updates or can I still use the recently released version? I held off on updating my Falcon Xbox 360, but I recently bought a Winchester and I would not mind using the newer cleaner dashboard design that also allow for a calendar setting that goes past 2025.

The advice on ABadAvatar is to cut the connection, copy said $SystemUpdate to a USB, and install it offline before using the exploit. Online system update may be quicker on paper, but doing this saves you from having to check

 

[Blythe93]

solution is to run the 17559 system update again but this time with sata harddisk connected.

I've extracted the contents of the update archive to the root of the USB drive and I didn't get any prompt to update (or re-update in my case) as I'm already on 17559. I feel like I'm missing out on something again.

make sure you have default.xex in the badupdatepayload folder its not in the archive you linked to.

Yep, I did have default.xex in the BadUpdatePayload folder.

EDIT: I've tried renaming $SystemUpdate to $$ystemUpdate and that didn't work either. Tried with another USB, both formatted on PC and on a console, nothing. Tried with only one USB device inserted and nothing. I even downloaded the update files from the XBOX website. I feel like I'm running out of options to try. I have the official 250GB HDD installed into my console, it's the XBOX 360 S PAL if that matters. It's already on the 17559 but at the time of update I didn't have an HDD inserted into it.

Any idea what else I could try?

 

[rainierbaas]

Make sure the update is in the $SystemUpdate folder.
put system settings to english language, the first time i tried on a old phat xbox the exploit wasn't working here either then i change system settings from Dutch to English and I signed in and out of a profile after that it was working.
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yesterday i tried AbadAvatar on my dusted dismanteld slim (wanted to rgh it someday but no need for rgh anymore).
I was surprised the exploit works without sata hd, its because it has an 4 gb internal memory unit where the avatar update is installed.

 

[Blythe93]

Make sure the update is in the $SystemUpdate folder.

This should be it, right? The files are 152MB big and there are 152 files in it. The USB drive that I'm using is the 8GB one FAT32 formatted (default allocation size).

put system settings to english language, the first time i tried on a old phat xbox the exploit wasn't working here either then i change system settings from Dutch to English and I signed in and out of a profile after that it was working.

It's been in English all along so I'm not sure if that's the issue.

I wonder if it's possible to remove Avatar data if it's even on my system and maybe then the update will be triggered?

I was surprised the exploit works without sata hd, its because it has an 4 gb internal memory unit where the avatar update is installed.

I think that mine has 4GB internal memory as well, it's the XBOX 360 S with Trinity motherboard.