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by Published on August 30th, 2011 11:39- Categories:
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Bans modified consoles surfacing, this is what we read on various forums, including that of team members or Xecuter begin mass coming reporting ban consoles. For now we can see that many Xbox Slim with FW of LT +1.91 affected, readers of these have been released by the method of suicide bomber or the Russians "Sptunik" we do not know if a causal relationship with certainty but for now they are the most reported, although Phat are also concerned there is less ski on them. the exiles from China, Chile, Spain, England, the States .... Everywhere in fact. Between the ban started in profile and there is little a priori ban the console starts, Microsoft has decided to sweep the board before the release of the big hits year-end. Regarding any of the consoles marked ski xval indicate if the console was clean or not before the ban.
http://x360.gx-mod.com/modules/news/...p?storyid=3513 ...by Published on August 30th, 2011 11:37- Categories:
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The "Season Pass" became fashionable after the "Rockstar pass" LA Noire is the turn of Gears of War 3! Season Pass? Kesako? Subject Mspoints 2400 (€ 30) you can get the first four DLCs of the game at a discount of 33%. If you do not pass the first 4 Season DLC will cost approximately 3600MSpoint either (~ € 45).
In summary if you decide to buy all the DLC for the game that you do not know in advance, either in content or quality, Take Season Pass to benefit from the reduction of 33% and have the weapon "liquid metal "as a gift (see picture above)
the Pass will be available September 20, the content will be released in November. Pass Without the DLC you pay one by one, at full price. Thurs 45 € 70 € = DLC is € 115 for the standard edition of the game with the first 4 DLC. The DLC is an extension of: single-player campaign, multiplayer and Horde. Gx-Mod Epic Games.
http://x360.gx-mod.com/modules/news/...p?storyid=3512 ...by Published on August 29th, 2011 21:22- Categories:
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It turns out that Walmart's "rollback" of the Xbox 360 4GB Kinect bundle, dropping it to $249 ($50 off its current price), was an error. A notice posted by Walmart acknowledges "the price was mistakenly labeled as a rollback," a term the retailer uses for permanent price drops.
The silver lining here is that Walmart will honor the $249 price at retail until Monday, September 5, or while supplies last. There will be no rainchecks on the offer.
Microsoft informed us last week that it does not discuss pricing plans in advance, but that "Walmart made an independent decision to implement this temporary price cut."http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/29/walmart-rollback-of-xbox-360-4gb-kinect-bundle-to-249-an-erro/ ...by Published on August 29th, 2011 18:01- Categories:
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via http://www.emucr.com/
x360ce SVN r443 is released. Xbox 360 Controller Emulator (a wrapper library that translates the xinput calls to directinput calls) which allows your controller (GamePad, Joystick, Wheel, ...) to function like an Xbox 360 controller on a Windows PC. For example it allows you to play Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game with Logitech wheel.
x360ce SVN Changelog:
r442
Revert parts of r440 (minIni is broken for Unicode ...)
Fix value trimming.
r443
Upps, project file was not committed.
Download: x360ce SVN r443 x86
Download: x360ce SVN r443 x64 ...by Published on August 29th, 2011 11:28- Categories:
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Welcome to our release of FFPlay. From Cancerous and JQE
This is using FFmpeg libraries from http:\\ffmpeg.org as ported by Ced2911 This is using SDL as ported by Lantus
This should play allmost all 720p videos. 1080p IS UNSTABLE please don't report it we know about i.
INFO FOR USERS:
A brings up a menu, rewind, Fast Forward, Stop, Play, Pause.
NOTE: Fast Forward, and Rewind might be unstable. It is know and we are working on it.
NOW we have our people to thank.
cOz helped with some coding and solved a issue with running it on JTAGS
Thanks to testers: Blackwolf, JPizzle, Mattie, Razkar, and Trajik.
Thanks for direction and assistance: MaesterRo, Anthony, And node21
Thanks for the libraries Ced2911 and Lantus
Official Site: http://code.google.com/p/ffplay360/ ...by Published on August 29th, 2011 11:27- Categories:
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BestPig released a new utility for the new homebrew Xbox 360 reset glitch hack to easily generate an ECC file:
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/...FkgpGjakwf.php ...
This new 'reset glitch hack' hack requires the creation of a ECC file based on a dump of your NAND. The official script is written in python, so I wrote a little GUI to make life easier for you
No need to install python, ECC Glitch Generator is stand-alone and doesn't need any other software to operate.
by Published on August 29th, 2011 11:25- Categories:
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Cancerous, [cOz], Ced2911, GliGli, RedLine99 and Tuxuser are proud to release today the first official version of XeLL-Reloaded (Codename: 2Stages) following the release of the new homebrew Xbox 360 reset glitch hack:
Official Site/Download: libxenon.org
* Its divided in 2 stages:
- 1st Stage initalizes the Hardware, uncompresses and executes 2nd Stage
- 2nd Stage (based on LibXenon) loads all required drivers and does the usual "XeLL tasks"
* XeLL is based on LibXenon now
* XeLL is running with all CPU cores activated
* Optimized CPU Usage
* TinyEHCI is used, delivers full USB 2.0 speed when acccessing mass storage media
* lwip network stack upgraded to v1.4 rc2 - It's faster
* It can access the DVD-drive via DMA now: faster reading
* It's possible to reload into XeLL now when you are inside a LibXenon Application
* Refactored ELF Launching Code - shouldn't have issues when executed via XeLL-Launch
* New HTTP Webinterface
* Proper hardware init / shutdown (e.g. after XeLL Launch)
* Supports upgrading XeLL with a XeLL-2Stages binary from USB, named "updxell.bin"
* Infinite bootloop when looking for ELFs to execute
* Parses / decrypts keyvault (either with real or virtual CPUkey)
For now, there is still a little work to do on the nandflasher so this feature is disabled and a update will comes in the following weeks.
If you have a Jtag console, you can update XeLL with tuxuser's apps : XeLL Updater or LxNANDFlasher (Use at your own risks).
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/...llZLoqgfiJ.php ...by Published on August 29th, 2011 11:23- Categories:
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GliGli released a new hack to boot the Xbox360 into XeLL and thus run homebrew software on your console. It's is compatible with ALL dashboard version and ALL Slim and Fat (expect Xenon, Falcon support will follow later) models and is unpatchable via software updates by Microsoft.
From the readme/nfo:
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Introduction / some important facts
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tmbinc said it himself, software based approaches of running unsigned code on the 360 mostly don't work, it was designed to be secure from a software point of view.
The processor starts running code from ROM (1bl) , which then starts loading a RSA signed and RC4 crypted piece of code from NAND (CB).
CB then initialises the processor security engine, its task will be to do real time encryption and hash check of physical DRAM memory. From what we found, it's using AES128 for crypto and strong (Toeplitz ?) hashing. The crypto is different each boot because it is seeded at least from:
- A hash of the entire fuseset.
- The timebase counter value.
- A truly random value that comes from the hardware random number generator the processor embeds. on fats, that RNG could be electronically deactivated, but there's a check for "apparent randomness" (merely a count of 1 bits) in CB, it just waits for a seemingly proper random number.
CB can then run some kind of simple bytecode based software engine whose task will mainly be to initialise DRAM, CB can then load the next bootloader (CD) from NAND into it, and run it.
Basically, CD will load a base kernel from NAND, patch it and run it.
That kernel contains a small privileged piece of code (hypervisor), when the console runs, this is the only code that would have enough rights to run unsigned code.
In kernel versions 4532/4548, a critical flaw in it appeared, and all known 360 hacks needed to run one of those kernels and exploit that flaw to run unsigned code.
On current 360s, CD contains a hash of those 2 kernels and will stop the boot process if you try to load them.
The hypervisor is a relatively small piece of code to check for flaws and apparently no newer ones has any flaws that could allow running unsigned code.
On the other hand, tmbinc said the 360 wasn't designed to withstand certain hardware attacks such as the timing attack and "glitching".
Glitching here is basically the process of triggering processor bugs by electronical means.
This is the way we used to be able to run unsigned code.
The reset glitch in a few words
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We found that by sending a tiny reset pulse to the processor while it is slowed down does not reset it but instead changes the way the code runs, it seems it's very efficient at making bootloaders memcmp functions always return "no differences". memcmp is often used to check the next bootloader SHA hash against a stored one, allowing it to run if they are the same. So we can put a bootloader that would fail hash check in NAND, glitch the previous one and that bootloader will run, allowing almost any code to run.
Details for the fat hack
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On fats, the bootloader we glitch is CB, so we can run the CD we want.
cjak found that by asserting the CPU_PLL_BYPASS signal, the CPU clock is slowed down a lot, there's a test point on the motherboard that's a fraction of CPU speed, it's 200Mhz when the dash runs, 66.6Mhz when the console boots, and 520Khz when that signal is asserted.
So it goes like that:
- We assert CPU_PLL_BYPASS around POST code 36 (hex).
- We wait for POST 39 start (POST 39 is the memcmp between stored hash and image hash), and start a counter.
- When that counter has reached a precise value (it's often around 62% of entire POST 39 length), we send a 100ns pulse on CPU_RESET.
- We wait some time and then we deassert CPU_PLL_BYPASS.
- The cpu speed goes back to normal, and with a bit of luck, instead of getting POST error AD, the boot process continues and CB runs our custom CD.
The NAND contains a zero-paired CB, our payload in a custom CD, and a modified SMC image.
A glitch being unreliable by nature, we use a modified SMC image that reboots infinitely (ie stock images reboot 5 times and then go RROD) until the console has booted properly.
In most cases, the glitch succeeds in less than 30 seconds from power on that way.
Details for the slim hack
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The bootloader we glitch is CB_A, so we can run the CB_B we want.
On slims, we weren't able to find a motherboard track for CPU_PLL_BYPASS.
Our first idea was to remove the 27Mhz master 360 crystal and generate our own clock instead but it was a difficult modification and it didn't yield good results.
We then looked for other ways to slow the CPU clock down and found that the HANA chip had configurable PLL registers for the 100Mhz clock that feeds CPU and GPU differential pairs.
Apparently those registers are written by the SMC through an I2C bus.
I2C bus can be freely accessed, it's even available on a header (J2C3).
So the HANA chip will now become our weapon of choice to slow the CPU down (sorry tmbinc, you can't always be right, it isn't boring and it does sit on an interesting bus
So it goes like that:
- We send an i2c command to the HANA to slow down the CPU at POST code D8 .
- We wait for POST DA start (POST DA is the memcmp between stored hash and imageby Published on August 28th, 2011 23:53- Categories:
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Microsoft has been slower than Sony to jump on the 3D gaming bandwagon -- not surprising considering it isn't the one desperately pushing the televisions needed to experience them -- but today the company confirmed rumors that Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will be playable in 3D. Joystiq experienced a demo at Gamescom in Germany, and reports that it only works with the game's updated graphics mode, and that the game's producer claims the framerate will stay consistent even in 3D. While there are already a number of Xbox 360 games that support 3DTVs, this is the first one we've heard developed by Microsoft, although Epic revealed earlier this month that the Microsoft-produced Gears of War 3 will support 3D. that's good news for gamers that have made the extra dimensional jump already, while those of us playing in 2D can hopefully still see performance improvements, especially while playing co-op -- we always bring a wingman / shoulder to cry on for The Flood.http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/27/microsoft-confirms-3d-support-in-halo-ce-remake-for-xbox-360/ ...by Published on August 27th, 2011 14:17- Categories:
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Team Xecuter has just indicated that according to their follow-up, new Xbox S produced and sold in the United States have two types of readers, a liteon 1071 drive is a Hitachi 0500.! Nothing is more relevant in this ad but it appears that 'Fortunately for the stage, the new liteon 1071 almost all (90%) of the chip and not MXIC Winbond! Something confirmed by Ubergeek, and Podger Xecuter team of jungle. That's not all because, according to Podger new liteon 1071 have a new lens with new calibration data in the firmware 1071, when the PCB is the same to him. So good news if future readers all have MXIC chip. Indeed, it will avoid the troubles of the method "Unlock bomber" makes more and more havoc especially with the scarcity of replacement PCB. The results of this method are very random and unexpected (DVD read error, error opening drive after a few days of operation, drawer "paralyzed" as well readers dead ...) The Team Xecuter also said that the alliance had made progress with the Hitachi 0500 drive, without giving details.
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