Is there a way to softmod a 360 using a USB drive? I have a 32gb usb and wondering if i just put the games on the usb or something.
There's no softmod for the 360 like that and likely never will be.
You'll need to install an Xkey or have it RGH'd.
Nope.
With that said, there is a ton of stuff from XBL that isn't signed - demos, XBL trial games, a bunch of DLC from discs and some full arcade games that will load on retail. You can also go ahead and flash the DVD drive easily enough if you have a phat and really any desktop PC.
Typing this as my retail and RGH are running... I wanted to play TGM quick.
Due to how the hardware is designed on the 360 and the security structure, NO not possible, the only SOFTMOD was the King Kong or really the 4532 syscall exploit which required you to still have a flashed dvd drive, that was patched in dashboard 4552, they patched king Kong, but not the actual syscall exploit itself, they just patched you from accessing it through king Kong method, jtag was the the replacement to that issue (which is kinda both a soft and hard mod again due to how the hardware works) since the syscall exploit essentially is in the second stage bootloader (2bl) this was not updated from dashboard 2.4532.xx to 2.7371.xx, your dashboard version (CF lockdown) is signed using your console cpu key which is why you could downgrade between these dashes if you have the cpu key, once 8955 came out they updated the 2bl (8458) also has its own lock down counter, but this value is not signed using your cpu key, it uses Microsofts private key, and if we knew this key then jtag and rgh would be going around your ass to get to your elbow, so once they update the bootloader you cannot downgrade it, as this is the lowest version you would be able to downgrade to. This is how rgh works, rgh is the exploit that does exactly what we want, it allows you to bypass your lock down values, rgh still runs a modified 8955 dashboard that boots using the 4532 kernel iirc to use the syscall exploit. The 360 is specifically designed against softmodding from the cpu die up.
Tldr all 360 exploits rely on booting in some form of 4532 based kernel to run usigned code, the only reason homebrew existed is because of a extremely subtle flaw in programming that was introduced in this kernel and never again since appeared, rgh is the exploit that is the "downgrade" everyone hoped for, it still uses the 4532 syscall exploit by allowing you to bypass your lockdown values.
Really the softmod for the 360 would be the leaking of the private signing key like ps3
I'm going to quote my reply from a recent thread to the same question, note the 360 is not a (3)Ds(i) Wii(u), or a Nintendo console, look at the price difference, there is a reason you pay more for one.... better hardware = better security ( more space and ability to implement things),
no USB jtag, softmod will exist, if there was such an exploit it would have been found already, again the Homebrew scene on the 360 was due to a very subtle programming fuck up in the 360 bootloader from update 4532-7371...you could call it a "manufacturer error" since in the end it was truly Microsofts own fault their console was exploited as they coded the exploit vector without realizing it.
So people on this old dashboard with a flashed dvd drive can "softmod" their xbox 360? Can they update the dashboard once the softmod is installed?
As like 3 people have already said there is no softmod. What lisreal was talking about was Xbox Live stuff that isn't signed. You don't need any mod for those particular items and a few games.
So people on this old dashboard with a flashed dvd drive can "softmod" their xbox 360? Can they update the dashboard once the softmod is installed?