I’ve been interested in retro consoles lately, doing a lot of emulating and I have an old Xbox original here that I was curious to see if I could play games I own but only via ISO or img to preserve the discs 😉
To mod it, I need to have a copy of a game called 007: Agent Under Fire (or a few select others) and an original save on the Xbox of that game, plus a flash drive with mod software to copy on it. The real save is replaced by the mod ‘save’ file and it does its thing and a new OS is installed (well, that’s the quick version).
Either in the console case or in general, how would a similar vulnerability work on any hardware, how does the mod get access to write to the protected code that controls the copy protection in this or any similar scenario?
Did this particular game just simply have a security flaw which allowed someone to find and change the encryption key (that’s as far as I could understand)?
Or perhaps did they do it another way like by deleting encryption or bypassing it altogether to install a new OS if thats possible?
Please Note: I am not planning on infringing any copyrights, I am just curious and like learning about electronics and software.
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I must have soft modded over 100 Xbox consoles. I used the 007 game save mod. Had to cut the end of a controller connector cable and wire a USB plug on it, so I could copy the save game over to the memory card from my PC. I don’t remember the exact procedure but it was something like –
Load game
Load save game, this made the console run the software on the card which basically was a FTP server
FTP in from my PC, erase HD and copy modded software over
Reboot console and it loaded the modded interface
Mostly did it for people to unlock the R2 dvd lock, as we where all into DVD movies and the Xbox was region locked.
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