Help with softmodding xbox360

Hey everyone. U just got my first 360 and I would really like to softmodding my system. I hear that you can hack the xbox 360 disc drive. Is that true??Thanks

Why yes it is so very true. :)Unfortunately, the only 360 expert I know of is on another forum.I have never done a 360 before or else I could help you...I have only done DS/Wii/PSP..If you want, I can give you some links. Send me a PM if you're interested.I know that you need the iXtreme firmware, and something called Jungle Flasher I think...There's WAY more to it than that. :P

Not to hijack this thread or anything, but m$ can track you down right? I mean it's very easy for them to catch modded 360?

Replying to #3

Kinda.

Originally Posted by BenJerry
CRAP! You've figured it out!! All they had to do was read the drive firmware!Seriously, though, I've already discussed this point. Microsoft forced it's vendors to put in something called "Firmguard" - a feature that was supposed to make it IMPOSSIBLE to read the contents of the drive (in the console).It is only because those same vendors couldn't stand to part with some form of access to the firmware, that hackers were able to coax the drives to give up their contents using a VIA chipset and some manual intervention (cycling power, tray positions, etc...). Getting the drive in this special debug state is only possible on a PC, Microsoft has NO WAY of reading the firmware directly.Indirectly, however, there are things they can do. With current iXtreme firmwares, there shouldn't be any tells, except for games that have incorrect (but valid) special sectors. They also probably have one or more ways to tell if we've opened our consoles while in the process of modding the systems - the one big example I can think of is powering up with the optical drive disconnected, then reconnecting the drive and powering back up. An official repair facility would scrub this sort of information from the onboard memory, but the average user wouldn't be able to do this.All that said, it most certainly isn't a single method being employed against modders; it's a combination of poison pills (last year), bad rips, and some other techniques we haven't determined yet.The detection does not occur just before the ban. My own ban happened when there was no game disc inserted... I attempted to play an Xbox Live Arcade game. There is nothing preventing Microsoft from determining your system is modded (by whatever means), noting it in memory, and passing the info along to their servers to be flagged for a ban at some point in the future. It is even possible this latest ban wave is even hitting people who played poison pills from last year (so called "pre-release" Saints Row 2 and Fallout 3), but were purposely left off the ban wave to add more FUD and confuse the scene.At any rate, we can rule out directly querying the firmware. Firmguard makes that an impractical effort.

And the source...

I think I'll just skip modding my 360 for now... I remember they update very frequently.
I might as well use google for now, but if there is a 360 modder in this forum. like, how ace101 is to the wii, I hope he or she decides to make a quide for the romulation forums.

That would be nice. :)You'll have to join EP if you want to know more about 360 Modding.
Unless there's someone on here with the 360 like me with the Wii like dragneon said.There's a treasure trove of information there for beginners.

EP? sorry I don'y mean to try to get off topic with the posters request, but whats EP? I'm sure this information can help even the poster of this thread.

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It's emuparadise.org. It is what introduced me to the Rom Scene. :)
I still treasure it to this day.
The forums is where that modding thing is for 360s that I posted above.
They're an affiliate to RomU.

ace1o1 · #2Why yes it is so very true. :)Unfortunately, the only 360 expert I know of is on another forum.I have never done a 360 before or else I could help you...I have only done DS/Wii/PSP..If you want, I can give you some links. Send me a PM if you're interested.I know that you need the iXtreme firmware, and something called Jungle Flasher I think...There's WAY more to it than that. :P

Ive pretty much mastered the arts of hacking wii-psp-ds-ps2 and GC. But I have always heard of a way that people softmod 360s and have never actually seen or found out how to do this.I guess I could try ep but I dont really think there as noob friendly as romulation so I guess that leaves me one choice...GOOGLE :)

Replying to #9

It's not really "hacking". It's really modding. You actually aren't finding exploits are you?
If you are, then you're a hacker. But other than that, you're just modding your system from the work of a hacker.EP is a very friendly site.Maybe not as much, but whenever I have a question, they are very polite. Most anyways.

Well, I went through lots of trouble with this, let me tell you my story xDI got my xbox Christmas of '07, I got the Halo 3 edition, and thought it was great, I learned about modding from a youtube video, so I decided to try it.
I got my xbox apart (Pain in the butt) I got the drive hooked up to my pc (Another pain in the butt) and I started into the linux program needed to flash it, only to realize I had the wrong drive number, and it seems like it would be a very wise thing to do, but xbox isn't xbox without multiplayer games and the other features offered by xbox live, most of the xbox exclusives / xbox games in general are better with xbox live gold : p but do your proper research, and make sure you have the right kind of disc drive before you do anything... if you want me to help you figure out your drive version, then PM me, but until then, Happy modding!

Actually from what I know, ALL drives are compatible if you use the right flasher and firmware.

Replying to #12

It all kinda depends on the drive, some drives need a chip, some don't, and some are easy to flash, and others aren't

ill look more into this when i make it home. at the hospital æ