Xbox 360 Slim Models Now Hacked And J-Tagged

It looks like it has finally happened, the new Xbox 360 Models have now been finally hacked and J-Tagged.

[dark-hollow]

Thanks for the heads up!
You might As well give us a link or two about where we can buy those -_-

[xtremexx]

why would i?

[Nes_Daze]

^^ LOL.

[dark-hollow]

Piracy news should be banned from n4g.
I know it's not your intentions to promote piracy but it's just a heads up for pirates.

It's like saying "hey, there is that house next door that the owner forgot to lock. Just sayin"

[xtremexx]

@dark-hollow but its not like its easy and also anyone who is interested in hacking this would be on top of all the news, its not like if it isnt submit it, no-one would know

[NewMonday]

Unfortunately the hacking we see this generation is mainly for piracy

[BattleAxe]

Oh Oh.....

[-LUKE_SKYWALKER-]

Way to support piracy dude.

I hope you never get sponsorship for your site.

[dantesparda]

@ xtremexx

I dont know sh!t about whats going on in the hacking world except for when its posted here and it just gives me ideas.

[eddvdm]

I think the only news that should be banned are those which mess with the overall flow of information, like duplicates, obvious advertising, etc. The rest is news, what this site lives for.

Journalism is about providing information, not taking sides. If you want partial news go to official sites which pick stories so their products don't go bad.

The day N4G starts banning news because of general opinions I'll stop taking it as my main game news source.

[SilentNegotiator]

"Piracy news should be banned from n4g.
I know it's not your intentions to promote piracy but it's just a heads up for pirates"

Well said.

BTW, What the heck does "J-tagged" mean?

[playboi28]

JTAG: Joint Test Action Group. It's entirely too much to explain here but you can find an explanation here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[Solid_Snake-]

people who mod consoles are in the scene and know this kinda stuff before N4G does so it is hardly promoting piracy.

as for people investing in J-TAG 360 slims i would wait for this firmware/hack to be tested by the masses then maybe think of getting it done. new firmwares have been known to get you banned due to improper testing.

source....... ;-)

[xtremexx]

@-LUKE_SKYWALKER-

lol wut? like i said:

"its not like its easy and also anyone who is interested in hacking this would be on top of all the news, its not like if it isnt submit it, no-one would know"

[Imalwaysright]

Mr kun lin Say whathever the fuck you want. The day you get something stolen from you that you worked your ass of to get its the day im gonna laugh until i spit my lungs out because i bet that you will be crying like a little baby. Youre not entitled to nothing youre just a fucking thief period. Youre scum and youre proud of it. I feel sorry for your parents.

Edit. my reply was meant to the thief below.

[PR0X1]

If I can make the xbox 360 into a high end media machine than I will buy the xbox slim.

[WitWolfy]

The only reason alone to jtag it, but i wonder if XBMC Live would be able to recongize the CPU and GPU seeing that there isnt drivers for it imo, plus I read that when people loaded it through Linux it didnt have any sound... Which is a bummer :(

[ATi_Elite]

I was able to get some hands on experience with a Jtagged 360 a few weeks back and you know what they are awesome!!

Yeh it's a pirate machine but it offers so many features and utilities that the regular 360 does not like Having all your games running from a HDD is one great feature that i'm sure the xbox720 will have.

Not promoting the Piracy part of the j-tags but the convenience features of it are pretty cool.

[Mr_Lu_Kim]

It's in the same ball park as rooting your Andriod phones.

Makes the phone so much better, faster, more user friendly etc. but does enable piracy.

I am a pro modder/hacker for sure and am partial to piracy, but god love Steam and it's sales. Retail here is Australia almost forces us to go down the J-tag path if you own an Xbox.

[jeeves86]

@ Lu Kim

You're not forced to pirate, dude. It's called going without.

[playboi28]

says the person that doesn't have to go without...

[sackb0y]

@jeeves86 where lu kim lives its 120 bucks per game. So that why he wants to do it. just think how bad it would suck to buy brink thinking it would be good for 120 and go home and play it. I would cry.

[Kushan]

Rooting an android phone doesn't enable piracy, you don't need root for that. You can install an app externally without requiring root at all (unless you're on AT&T but that's different, you can't even use legit app stores in that instance).

[SephirothX21]

Hacking news should not be banned from N4G. What idiot thinks that it should? Just because somebody hacks their console, doesn't mean they're going to pirate and there is nothing illegal about hacking your own property.

Head over to xboxscene.com for news about hacking. This is a breakthrough in the hacking scene as the last consoles that could be jtagged were those that released before or not upgraded to the xbox live update in Summer 2009. The new slims are hard to hack in the conventional way as in flashing the dvd drive with new firmware. This method offers a hack that allows the console to run unsigned code, like the PS3 hacks but will probably mean no online like the previous jtag hacks. Though many people will find use in this. For example people who mostly play their 360 offline and have a pc or ps3 for online play.

[snipes101]

You can't filter news just because it is not favorable. Following that logic, we should not report school shootings because it might give some kid an idea to go shoot up home room.

Piracy is an unfortunate part of the gaming community and reporting on it is just a part of it. We can't ignore it just because we don't like it.

Though I have to say posting all of the specs about it that basically outlines how to do it is kind of suspect.

[farhad2k8]

"Muhuhuhahahahahahaha&quo t; -Every PS3 user on this planet.

[Kushan]

Every PS3 user on the planet is no better off. It's possible to (using similar methods, actually, i.e. soldering) mod a PS3 to run CFW even if it has been updated, by dumping its memory and modifying it (it's essentially a downgrade). The only thing that differs from the PS3 hacks and this is that this will likely not get patched by future dashboard versions, whereas at the moment Sony has managed to keep CFW on 3.55 and below only. However, given enough time, it's likely that the PS3 will be hacked again in future.

There is a good side to this, though. The "regular" 360 hacks of modifying the DVD drive to play burned copies lets people get away with online play, sometimes never getting banned and usually at least getting away with it for MONTHS. However, JTAG 360's get banned within 30minutes of going online. If more people use this hack, less people will pirate games to go online with.

[Criminal]

It's about time, I guess. I hope people won't misuse this, pirating ruins gaming for everyone.

[videoxgamexfanboy]

name one game piracy has ruined for you? then plz explain how. until piracy directly affects me i refuse to blame it for whatever the current trend is. i have emulators just like most of you on n4g do difference is is that im not afraid to admit it. with a name like criminal its funny your against piracy. speak for yourself when u say piracy has ruined gaming for everyone. the only thing thats destroying gaming is fanboys...

[Criminal]

I agree with the fanboys part, but pirating does hinder gaming. I'm not talking about emulator, side note I don't use one because I rarely go back to play old game, what I talking about is pirating new releases. Look at some of PSP, PC, DreamCast games that were ruined by that. I highlight some, not all.

P.S. Criminal has been my nickname for 15 years now, an Eminem song inspired me and I stuck with it.

[MidnytRain]

I really don't think fanboys are comparable to piracy. Fanboys are just cheerleaders that fuel competition, even if they're annoying. Piracy hurts the guys who make our games, thus we are in turn affected.

[Undeadwolfy]

A question, what are peoples views on emulators? Right/wrong? Because there are some games which I used to own which no longer work due to damaged disks and cant find anywhere else so I download the Rom and play it on my PC. Also I can convert the file to play on my homebrew PSP. Remember, this is simply because the games arent available on the PS Store.

[DragonKnight]

@Undeadwolfy: Technically, since you bought a copy of a game and it no longer works for whatever reason, you are legally allowed to download the ROM of said game since you paid for said game already. You are just using a working copy of a game you bought. If you didn't buy the game, then that's illegal. Emulators aren't illegal either.

[WitWolfy]

IMO i believe the game trade ins have harmed the video games industry the same if not more then what piracy has, even some of the game devs agree to this.

And thats why we have in game passes.. thanks a lot EA,Ubi and soon to be every developer in the market

[MarkusMcNugen]

"Piracy hurts the guys who make our games, thus we are in turn affected."

So does buying games used...

[FlintGREY]

Well said my friend....

People fail to realize that piracy and buying used are basically the same when it comes to supporting games and devs...

[The_Xtrakt]

Why do people keep saying this? A transfer of ownership to one person from another is NOT the same as producing new copies.

[MarkusMcNugen]

True, but developers dont get any money from the sale of used games. Making it basically the same when it comes to "supporting the devs"

[GameOn]

Yes, and also money from used game sales is usually fed back into the system.

[The_Xtrakt]

They've already been paid. After all, a used game is a new game that's been sold.

[tiffac008]

Not exactly, since the used games have already been purchased from retail once. So the developers has made a profit on the initial sale.

Piracy on the other hand doesn't give anything to the developers.

[JackBNimble]

Stealing a game and buying a used game are two different things indeed!

[DragonKnight]

"So does buying games used..."

Actually, that is incredibly false. Yes, developers do not make money from used game sales, however you forget that each used game sale was, at one point, a NEW game sale. So developers already have made money off the game, just not twice or thrice or whatever on the same copy.

If 6 million discs are made, they are all SOLD to retailers by the publishers who then take all of that money and distribute it accordingly. That's, say $360 million dollars (average) that is divided up between production/distribution costs, advertising costs, and publisher/developer share of profit. However, THEY STILL GET THE MONEY FROM THOSE SALES AND THUS ARE NOT HURT!

Wanting money from the re-sale of a game copy you already received profit from is called being greedy. Developers DO NOT get hurt from used game sales. That's just a spin on their greed.

[FlintGREY]

@ Everyone above

If it wasn't the same thing, there would be no Online Passes.

Buying used does NOT support games and devs is the point.....just like piracy.

Case Closed

[snipes101]

I use emulators primarily for old school games that are hard to find/expensive. I just got into emulators and I instantly downloaded Earthbound, which costs somewhere around 100 dollars for a copy.

On top of that the game is out of print, so no video game companies stand to profit from me buying a copy.

[3GenGames]

Good, the more hacked the better as people should have a right to modify what they have bought to a point. Games, no. Hardware, yes!

[fluffydelusions]

You have to much faith in humanity. 99.9% of these people modifying consoles are doing so to play pirated games not tinker with the innards.

[3GenGames]

Yeah, but considering I program the NES, if they figure it out now, it'll save time for people down the road how actually do program them. I love homebrew and it's an amazing thing. The only bad thing is that the pirates do abuse it badly, but I consider it good for those who do good with it. If the 360 had a API for programming that wasn't XNA and gave you actual access to the console as a whole, it'd be a perfect balance to stop piracy and give everyone what they want, the ability to change the system. At least most people I know want it, but I live on NESDev, so I'm a little weird. ;) :P

[bigevilworldwide]

which would mean that MS has the right to not let your hardware that you can do whatever you want with run with their software on on their service

[3GenGames]

Games, not software. The OS doesn't matter, you don't have to have it run that, only if you want to use their online service of course. That's understandable and perfectly within reason to me.

But the developers need to stop keeping these debug modes and such out of the game completely because the only think "hackers" do today is change a save file, they don't hack crap. It's not M$ or $ONY's fault the games get broken like that, it's the developers fault.

[MarkusMcNugen]

@fluffydelusions

You sound pretty confident about that number. Where did you get that statistic? Show me some proof, otherwise your just saying your personal opinion.

@bigevilworldwide

They do that. If they catch a J-tagged 360 on Live they ban it. Which they have the right to do. Nobody is saying they dont. The hardware is still yours and its your right to modify it anyway you want.

[Redempteur]

lol i had fun reading the explanations ... thank for the links ..it was fun .

[joeorc]

" The hardware is still yours and its your right to modify it anyway you want."

while i agree you can mod the Hardware, the software is a completely diff. animal all together, without the software the system would be a brick, an without the modding of the software your restrictions to mod the Hardware are quite limited, if you want to keep functionality.

the thought that you buy the hardware does not mean that everything on the system is 100% yours to do with as you please, that is the thing many hacker's today are not getting through their Head.

While im not saying your not entitled to hack the Hardware, you are not allowed to hack the software the software on board the system belongs to the companies that release the system at point of sale with the express permission of a licence.

if you do not like it there is quite an open platform already that allows complete hacking that's the personal computer with Linux.

Making an Embedded system for Gaming is for people to play games that these companies make for other's to enjoy, that's the purpose . If you want to hack the system that's your choice , but the on board software does not belong to you, so if you want to hack hack the physical hardware but leave the software out of it, you may say than what's then point without the software it's useless, that is the point!

can you hack the system without using or going through their software?, that includes patching their OS on board?

Remember their software is not Open source, you have to have permission to patch that software from the companies that make the software. Game console Software belongs to the companies, not the consumer unless it's open source, which asking these companies to make their system with an Opensource OS to come preinstalled?

Even Sony who did offer the Consumer the option to Install Linux, through Sony's "XMB" as an option worked out well, untill people abused it.

This is once again, the very core of the problem, you want it to be what you want , not what it is.

these platforms are not meant to do what you want to do, that's what the PC is for.

embedded systems are another animal all together, hacking a phone an hacking a game console is not the same thing, an if that ever happens , everything would in all likely hood move to the cloud, if your ok with that than keep hacking.

I know Im not, an im a hacker.

[videoxgamexfanboy]

how is this a heads up for pirates? trust me when i say that any 360 pirates are aware of this without n4g. most serious pirates stay on top of things like this. its only a heads up for ppl who dont keep up with piracy.

[deathbetold]

i wanna know how to turn my old fat xbox into a linux machine :D

[fluffydelusions]

Better solution. Dual boot your current PC or use something like VirtualBox (free) or VMWare and install to that. It will run way better and will be better supported.

[deathbetold]

i already dual boot . i just dont want to waste a perfectly working peice of hardware
it just sits in the corner since i bought the new slim

[fluffydelusions]

^^ So sell it and put it towards something else. That is your best bet IMO.

[Izowiuz]

Yay for the XBMC on 360 ^^

[girlwithturn]

This isn't slim model. Just redesigned. Stop discriminating potential gamers.

[Raven_Nomad]

Well let's all complain and hope that Microsoft sues whoever did it!

[theEx1Le]

Why are people disagreeing with you? When sony got hacked with the firmware and then psn, people wanted blood!

[Hicken]

There are only disagrees because it's Raven_Nomad. Even though I agree with him, I can't bring myself to click that little button.

Fortunately, I at least had the decency to NOT hit disagree.

[tiffac008]

Actually I think he's being sarcastic, Raven_Nomad has been known to be a troll against Sony.

So I won't let it pass him that his comments was a cheap shot against Sony on their lawsuit against Geo. lol!

I could be wrong ^^;

[GameOn]

Welcome to N4G. Land of Hypocrisy.

[Neko_Mega]

Not really news to me, it is just someone coming out and saying that they hacked the 360. I already know people that were bored and hacked the 360 when it first came out and had no problem with this new model.

Plus wasn't their reports of people learning how to hack the new update because of Microsoft letting people test it?

[beans]

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[Lite_ratchet]

Great, now i will have people to laugh at when they get banned.

[fooxy]

You think people who found this glitch/ hack actually go online with such a heavily modified consoles ? Then ur kinda wrong ! Mainly they do it for reverse engineering purposes. Then you have a set of another douche bags who use those peoples hacks and all work just to mess up online games and make some money by making some fat American kid 15 prestige for $15 a pop :)

oh by the way

"- Even in the glitch we found is pretty reliable (25% success rate per try on average)"

so its not like its working 100%

[SITH]

Yes, actually they do go online! Here are some of there gamertags. Go to xbox.com and check'em for yourself. 90% are active.

GliGli, Tiros
cOz
Razkar, tuxuser,cjak, Redline99, SeventhSon, tmbinc.

Check the names in article before you assume next time.

[bigevilworldwide]

then they will try to sell their consoles knowing their banned

[Pillville]

and I'm sure the people complaining here have paid for every single MP3 on their computer/ipod. No illegal downloads, no ripped CDs, no copies from friends, etc....

[Tzuno]

Amen.

[thespaz]

People still do that?

I buy all my music and movies. I guess I'm in the minority eh?

[andron]

So shall we all reproach MS for not making the 360 hack proof? It's their own fault...right??...

[_Aarix_]

Theres no such thing as hack proof.

[andron]

That was the one of the points of my comment, yes...

[StupidDude]

Don't worry, guys.

I'm sure this is for "homebrew" purposes only.

I'm sure of it.

[bigevilworldwide]

isnt that what console are for running a crappy program on a machine made to play video games...I know I would want to run java games on a 360 instead of playing those 360 games

[Kingx2]

why do people exploit this crap? it only encourages more of this.

[videoxgamexfanboy]

I dont think piracy hurts devs as much as used ggame sells. Pirates most likely have no intention on buying the games they pirate so devs cant count them as a sell. Used games on the other hand may very well effect devs because some ppl wait for a game to be used before they buy it which like piracy the devs do not see any profit. Im sure piracy may sting a little but its been around since software has and it will always be...

[Tru_Blu]

It's not really the same thing. That used copy of a game someone buys means that someone else bought the game new. Piracy on the other hand someone can upload the game on a torrent site and 100,000 other people download it. Piracy is a way way bigger problem then used game sales.

[videoxgamexfanboy]

Ask a dev if ite the same thing when it comes to profit. It may not be the same street but they both lead to a dead end for devs. I think in some cases used games are more harmful to some devs than piracy. Bottom line is both hurt the hobbie we all love but since one is legal and the other is not piracy is to blame for "ruining gaming" i dont support piracy and im not against it imo there are far more important things in MY life to be concerned about.

[beans]

So if someone buys a game and then gives it away for free to millions online would that be a problem? I understand the whole if it was already purchased and used scenario but think developers should get payed on used software as well.

[Tru_Blu]

@ beans they will soon. I don't like it but the online pass thing is going to become the norm very soon. I'm a budget gamer and get most of the games I play from gamefly so that is gonna be some bs for me. Hopefully they don't start pricing it at insane amounts. But unlike some in here I don't just go online and think it's my right to download whatever I want.

[Bzone24]

Piracy - One guy buys the game and uploads it, 10,000 people download. 1 game sale.

Used - 10,000 people buy the game new and then sell them. 10,000 people buy the game used. 10,000 game sales.

[Tru_Blu]

And of those 10,000 that buy the game used a few might get the dlc for the game. Not to long ago I got Mafia 2 from gamefly used. I really liked the game and bought both the dlc packs for it for $20.

[LOOK_AT_THIS_I]

+1....For one of the few easy to comprehend posts for the people here who need pictures to understand right from wrong.

[thespaz]

Good news! I hope everyone starts hacking the crap out of them. Microsoft could use some bad press with all of their chest beating about how their system is really secure.

[gcolley]

grow up

[thespaz]

Okay, I'll grow up. I was just waiting until some random person on the internet told me to. Thanks.

[lugia 4000]

"Xbox 360 Slim Models Now Hacked And J-Tagged"

If you know nothing, then don't write the stupid article.

dashboard versions above .7371 can't be jtagged. Any model besides xenon xboxes can be jtagged now, but you still need a rebooter.

Its not just the slims, its everything.

[3GenGames]

Lol, the Slim OS is different from the main 360 OS. Not by much, but apparently enough to have a flaw in it somewhere.

[SITH]

I love how the person who orchestrated the exploits and reverse engineering mentioned in this article, gave credit to the beta testers... by mentioning their gamertags! All the names but one have xbox-live gamertags. One is not active. How stupid can you be?

[GoldenPheasant]

Peculiar. If this was an article about PS3 hacking or a "reminder" article about the PSN outage, it would be A Okay. Lovin it.

[kingslayer1000]

but... but... the psn was hacked first

[Hozi89]

Umm...really? I can play PS2,PS1,Xbox1, Gamecube, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, NES, SNES, Gameboy, DS, PSP, etc...all with my laptop without having to take it apart...honestly any person stupid enough to go through all that trouble is not very smart.

[IHateYouFanboys]

well isnt this just a HUGE contrast in terms of comments to any of the "PS3 is now hacked" articles from a few months back?! lol

back then it was "ALL HACKERS ARE EVIL!!!! PIRATES MUST DIE!!!!", yet now that its the 360 instead of the PS3 its "hahaha suck that microsoft! Hackers are awesome! nothing wrong with hacking a console that you own!".

fecking hypocrites.

[ATi_Elite]

Ain't like Microsoft isn't giving Xbox 360 away for free you know!!

[gcolley]

who cares. everyone knows n4g is full of fanboys, get over it. ignore the idiotic comments and you will live longer.

[clockworkrazor]

I dont care about the hackers or modders ... until they go online and ruin good games like Call of Duty 4.

Any and all Modders that go online specifically to cheat with MODS should be banned for life by both Microsoft and Sony.

[hiredhelp]

Can i ask if theres anyone here that have had every console ever made apart from myself.
Reason why i ask is piracy was never a big deal and started with VHS ,then TAPE to TAPE
then commodore.
Since microsoft got into the console industry and brought out windows xp. Its become a issue and guess who supposed to loose money. The developers thats rubbish they get paid for what they do not paid by how many games get sold.

I understand why some people hate piraters and would wish to think of it as theft thays fine.
But the way to help reduce piracy would be to remove VAT. lower the cost of games and god damn it dont charge for DLC make it free a way to say thankyou for buying our game.
Do you remember games that had mp that had loads of mp maps. Not soo long ago.
I do. But now that gets locked in the game gets unlock when you fork out money to pay for it.

So on that note i can also understand why some would choose that route. Game industry is getting greedy we arnt doing enough to fight back.

[Agent_hitman]

In before sony ps3 were hacked, usb dongle were sold by the pirates to install games on the ps3 and play without disc..

Now xbox 360 were also hacked for homebrew or should I say piracy?.. they even published it on youtube.

The meaning of this is, NO hardware is safe these days, as long as there are group of computer experts.. Fact!

[BladedTech]

So now we are free to mod without getting banned by Microsoft? :D

[no_more_trolling]

no u dumbass

[BladedTech]

Well, I don't mess with my console unless it's to put emulators on it. Don't be a troll.

[jay2]

Lol. How long did the PS3 take.....

[rmedtx888]

Here we go again...

[iNFAMOUZ1]

i fu**en hate pirates, they ruin the game for everyone.

[SuperStrokey1123]

ok so what does this actually mean? Just another incredibly complicated way for people to steal games?

[fullmetal297]

I remember installing my first Modchip on my Xbox 1. Xbox with XBMC was the shit back inday. I could play any video file I could throw at, had widgets to watch youtube videos and more, and I could use Linux. That modded xbox was light years away from anything the previous-gen consoles could do and that why support homebrew not piracy.

[Izowiuz]

I still use my old xbox with XBMC for watching movies and shows.

Can't wait to try it on 360 ^_^

[turgore]

"The purpose of this hack is to run Xell and other free software"

[SAE]

so you people in n4g don't accept people take free copies and doesn't spent money after buying the console and you accept that these companies stealing us by making their products really really expensive , market = stealing now , even the ice cream now have less in it and it's more expensive...

old games are cheap , why is that ?..less then 5 USD!!!! why it didn't have the same price if the product worth these money 60 $ , same with the consoles , why the old versions are much cheaper ?.. it's stealing and people saying it's market , i told you and it's your lost if you didn't accept that , if you didn't then you are an idiot ...

almost everything in the market is stealing ...