How to hack into a xbox (hacking a xbox???)

this video shows you whats inside of a xbox and at the same time, you'll be able to upgrade the original harddrive to a larger size HD using a firmware hack. Plus you can hook up a extra dvd burner to burn, Philips. Also we can also run linux.
DVD Firmware Hack?
The hack is a modified firmware of the (original) Xbox Samsung SDG-605B/616T/616F DVD-ROM drive.
As you (should) know, all Xbox executables (XBE files) are signed by Microsoft (with a private key only MS has). This means that if you try to change anything to the XBE file, the signature will be wrong and the file will not boot.
To protect from booting raw copies of a game from a DVD-R or other recordable media, microsoft gave each XBE file a 'mediaflag'. This mediaflag tells the Xbox from which media (cd-r, dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw, hdd, dvdxbox, dvdxbox360, ...) the XBE is allowed to boot. Changing this mediaflag in the XBE header is not an option as it'll break the signature of the file (see above), so ... what's done in this firmware hack is 'break' the detection of the disc.
Retail games usually get a mediaflag where they only allow 'dvdxbox' (Xbox discs - different than a normal DVD because it has some specific bad sectors etc). The modified firmware will trick the DVD drive into reporting a DVD-R (or other) as a DVDXBOX to the Xbox.

So... how does this work?
First of all you need a Samsung SDG-605B/616T/616F drive, this firmware release will only work with these drives.
Flash the firmware on the drive is easy: you'd have to open your Xbox (void warranty), connect the DVD drive to your PC (via IDE) and use the windows flasher software (MTK Win flash) to flash your drive with this modified firmware.
You also need a 'RAW' dump of an original game of your gameregion... images with ripped/moved stuff or XBE files with modified media, debug or regionflags etc. will NOT work. You can do a real raw dump by hotswapping a full DVD (a burned DL with 8,5GB of data for example) with an Xbox game after your PC drive loaded the first disc, then use clonecd and/or isobuster (for example) to dump the full data of the Xbox disc.
Then you'll have to add the SS (security sector) to the image (with a hex tool like hexworkshop for example). The SS is different for each game ... a few examples were included with the firmware release (Commodore4Eva now also released a special 2nd firmware to get this SS data yourself from an original Xbox disc by sending a special command with the drive connected to your PC). The exact position inside the image where you have to add this SS can be calculated. This SS is required and is on the 2nd layer, that's why you need to burn it on a DVD-DL. The unreleased Hitachi-LG GDR-8050L firmware by TheSpecialist works with DVD5 discs, but this modified Samsung firmware will not work with DVD5, even if the game is small enough to fit on it, it needs this SS data on the 2nd layer to

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[Talhanator]

wow a gangsta geek.

lol

nice vid helped alot

[NinjaOnFireee]

music sucks!

[dubman75]

i really liked the step by step guide you gave NOT



[Windows7025]

buy this video... LOL! If you wanted to download it... DownloadHelper ;)

[slyonme]

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i cant fuken hear you........

[Irmmantas]

What name of the second song? its good song

[Toastofdoom5150]

MUTED!!!!!!



[justinharker]

you're a tard man. Anyone can figure that out on their own.

[1spiritualalchemy1]

@megooltjes I was thinking of cracking there.

[megooltjes]

@1spiritualalchemy1 thats not hacking lol hacking is changing software parts making it able to do things others cant like play trough you pc or with your pc looking what is inside other thair xbox that is hacking this is just a fool who cant handle the tools he have and trying to open his xbox and look whats in side lol

[MYDRAGGIN84]

explaine how are u going to burn a dvd with the xbox do u have a hacked xbe software and i know u posted this video awhile back i was hopping the hdd swap was succes oh do u have dvd2xbox thats the only way i know u cold do it if ur xbox was softmodded or hardchip

[1spiritualalchemy1]

This is not a hack. Its some wannabe fool portraying the freemasonic " G " archetypal program, taking apart an Xbox, and hooking random things into it that power on. Thats not hacking. Hacking would be something like, making it able to play burned games on.