(For more details on these “early days” Xbox 360 hacks, please read Acid_Snake’s excellent article.) It was then only a matter of flashing back a custom firmware on the DVD Drive, to let it accept unofficial discs. Microsoft regularly introduced new hardware revisions of their DVD drives, but hackers were usually able to provide key-acquisition methods quickly after each new revision. The Firmwares on the DVD Drives were encrypted with unique-per-device keys, but those were “fairly easy” to acquire, via a mix of software and hardware means. So we are facing the problem that we cannot craft our own discs to be just like legit ones, we have two options at this point if we want to achieve disc-based hacks: either we hack the drive so that it ignores the disc protection and always tells the system that it’s booting a licensed game, or we hack the system itself so it ignores the disc drive telling it that the disc is not legit Hardware makers can use special and closed machinery to craft game discs in a way that allows the system to differentiate them from standard discs and drives, and since this information is usually closed and the hardware/process involved in creating the discs is strictly locked behind doors, it is almost impossible for outsiders to replicate the structure a legit game disc has to be able to bypass the protection. It’s simple: the game disc has something special that no other disc has and the laser drive is customized to be able to tell this difference, essentially letting the underlying BIOS or OS know if the disc is legit or not. Our very own Acid_Snake had this to say about the original XBox 360 hacks:įor consoles with optical discs, the disc reader is an essential and important sector in preventing piracy and unlicensed games. ![]() ![]() Most of the early days of XBox 360 hacking consisted in hacking the DVD Firmware on the consoles.
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