Hacking Homebrew What is an exploit? How does an exploit work?

[FSlolhehe]

Tried to look up information about exploits but I found nothing so I'm asking these 2 questions

 

[Robert Newbie]

I'm not the best person to ask, but you may get some value looking into the James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire exploit for the PS2, GameCube, and Xbox.

From MI6-HQ.com:

The trick involves the "save/load game" function in the James Bond game "007: Agent Under Fire," which normally allows players to save a file recording their progress in the game to the Xbox`s hard drive and later reload it. Habibi found that by using one of several USB storage devices recognized by the Xbox, the "load game" screen can also be used to load other software, including compact versions of the Linux operating system.

 

[DinohScene]

Simple answer:
An exploit is a way to gain arbitrary code execution.