Xbox 360 Hacked; Mod Chips Available

Less than one year after the Xbox 360's release date, a fully functional mod chip is available.

GameTrailers can confirm that the mod chip works as advertised, allowing the player to copy authentic, retail Xbox 360 games to DVD and play them on their Xbox 360s.

What's more, the mod chip currently allows players to access Xbox Live gameplay using a burned, pirated game disc.

[HaHa]

Man. There are some people out there that can do anything. No security and no protection works against them. It's kinda scary

[Ravenator529]

I wonder if the fall update is going to address this issue?

At least for the "live" aspect of it.

[ORIELKILLER]

this happened to dreamcast too ... and it fail ... i wonder what will companies will do about hackers ... i mean can i play 360 games on my PS3 since it will have a blue ray drive or can i play them PS3 games on my 360... damn we will see when PS3 comes out they will hack it too since they are claiming that is a computer no a video game console ... stupid hackers lol

[Ravenator529]

Every system has been hacked.

Dreamcast, PS2, PSone, XBox, 360, even Gamecube! So yes, the PS3 will be hacked as well.

It will be very hard, but it will happen!

And BTW, your post makes no sense whatsoever! This is talking about playing pirated (copied) 360 games on a modded XBox360.

Where are you coming up with this notion of playing PS3 games on a 360 or vise-versa?

[ORIELKILLER]

i was just saying since i can play playstation games on my computer i was wondering maybe in the future they will make a mod so we can play any game on the ps3 or any game on 360 ... i was just saying ... dont shoot me lol

[unleash bass]

You can play NES, SNES, PS1 etc.. on XBOX basically anything less powerfull. I don't think that you'll be able to play PS3 games on a 360 or vice versa though because they are too similar power wise, I would have thought, that neither of them will have enough power to run an emulator + the game it's self without serious slow down, but you never know.

Regarding this mod chip, I'm sure MS will do something to stop pirate games from working on 'live'. Maybe not in the fall update but the next one.

[Dancryer]

news like this regarding any console past & present is a real let down, Hackers need to be shot and then get themselves a real job like the rest of us!

I for one hope anyone caught using these so called modchip's and the like get prosicuted to the the max!

[CompGeek]

You can get the same functionality for free with a firmware flash. Why would you pay for a mod-chip that does what can be done for free with no hardware modification?

[SPAWN]

This is what affects all of us gamers alike! This is what kills gaming! I can`t see how anyone would be happy with this news because we all know that sooner or later all of the systems are gonna be hacked! It`s just sad that we are paying our hard earned money and have to worry about this going on! It`s just sad.

[Krimson]

Piracy has been around forever, yet the gaming industry is bigger then ever. So how do you come to the conclusion that piracy "kills" gaming?

[CompGeek]

This is also old news, mod chips have been out that do this since July. They're just worthless due to the fact that this capability can be had without a modchip.

[BIadestarX]

Well, let people that want to mod their 360 do so. Like indicated above; every console has been hacked. And every future console will be hacked; as long as disk exists. For those against digital distribution; blame these hackers. Well, let me re-word that statement... blame the people that are willing to mod their consoles in order to use what they didn't pay for. Hackers will continue to do this as long as there is demand. I'm voting by not modding my 360. I did not modded my PS2; I will not do it for the 360. For those asking, why are games so expensive? here is your answer. For the same reason credit card interest rate are high. We all have to pay for those that don't pay for it. Developers shouldn't be blame for this; they most be profitable. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and every other developer know they can't stop this; all they can do is make it harder for the majority of people. So, I think M$ is doing a good job. I think Microsoft should do the same thing that Sony is doing; add anti-piracy updates right on the disk(new games), not only when you connect to xbox live. This will force hackers and modders to have to open their 360 every month.

[CompGeek]

The percentage of people that do this are so small that it does not affect game sales in general. It's not like PC where you just download and patch and you're good. Consoles require warranty voiding and hard modding or flashing. You're making a problem where there isn't one. On top of that many people only use this tech to backup their own games.

So, there might be a few thousand people that pirate games, at best.

The user base is 6mil already.

3000/6000000 = .00005 of the users of the console.

Think this affects game sales? Think again. Most people that do it are people that can't afford many games anyway, like college kids.

[BIadestarX]

"On top of that many people only use this tech to backup their own games." Really, now, come on, be serious. Did you actually said that with a straight face? So, people will pay hundreds of dollards to mod their console, void their warranty, and possible not be able to play over xbox live; just to be able to backup games they already own? yeah, I can see you do just that.

[specialguest]

if this hack for the 360 is legit and works well, i will buy a 360 soley for FREE hacked games. i don't mind ruining it for the honest paying 360 owners like most of you are. i bought a PSP soley for this same purpose too, hacks/mods.

[Boink]

I think anyone who takes it online, will get burnt, quite easily.

and I have no doubt MS can toast the firmware if they wanted to.

I'm sure MS already knows what they did, and new production consols will have been worked around till they get hacked.

[unleash bass]

I read somewhere on the net, that MS have already tried to combat thus by basically covering all the relivant circuits with a load of really hard to remove glue.

[unleash bass]

d.p.

[zonetrooper5]

MS will add different DVD drives for the new Xbox 360s which will make it harder for them to hack as they need to start over again.

[LegendaryMark]

Perhaps Microsoft could include in each new Xbox a stick of TNT. When you open it up.... BOOM!!

Seriously though, Microsoft have been pretty good with this sort of thing so far (better than they were with the Xbox 1, at any rate), so I'm sure that some combination of measures people have been discussing - such as the next Live auto-update or new types of DVD drive in the new consoles - will help to combat this type of thing.

The people who put this out there for commercial gain are the bad ones, they give the ones who do it for fun (and have no interest in allowing anyone to do anything wrong) a bad name.

[tatical]

Funny

[kingboy]

The`re also goodsides of hacking a console.You all pointing at the negative side of it.

[Marriot VP]

good for you cause your PS3's gonna be hacked the day it comes out cause it has Internet connection directly to the HDD.

Also the PS3 uses linux, basically a Modders paradise.

[shotty]

Microsoft already has the new drives out, that have the debugger removed and a thick layer of epoxy on the dvd rom firmware chip. Lets see people rip out that mother now.

Also the only use for the mod is to play burned games. As they said the disc are hard to burn and requires a pretty good knowledge in extracting the files and then burn them using 1 specific burner and hot swapping the disc. Conclusion: not pratical and no longer even possible with the new xbox 360 that are sold at stores.

[MoonDust]

And sue the living sh1t out of them.

[eques judicii]

this is nothing new.... they've been moding the drives for a while now so you can play pirated games... It's just that no one has been able to mod the HDD yet

[SPAWN]

The Dreamcast is all that I have to say!

[LuminousAphid]

Have fun not playing online, idiots.
And I'm pretty sure it took whoever figured this out a lot more time and money than it would've just to get a decent job and (gasp) BUY some games!!! But they probably don't care, because they're "l337" hackers now.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

I mod but only hardmod as you see on my avatar. Thats my 360 and that is how far I will mod it. I dreaded soft mods on the xbox 360 and apparently that day has arrived. I hate soft mods because it has been a gate way for people to utilize cheats on Xbox -live. It sucks but it was inevitable.

[tackleb0x]

This has yet to be confirmed. Many groups have claimed a working mod chip over the last year, none of them worked. Dont get all excited yet because chances are if you didnt see it on xbox-scene.com or a similiar site its a hoax sent to a media site.

[CompGeek]

There have been working modchips on XBS for months now, and softmods since May. Have you even visited XBS?

The "secret source" here is just someone from XBS.com or similar.

[GTProwler]

I just want something that can emulate the dreamcast thats all I care about.

[tackleb0x]

There are no working mod chips for the 360. I mod chip and hacking the DVD firmware are 2 different things. A mod chip completely opens the console via hacking the bios, the firmware mod bypassed the media check to allow you to play games off DVDR. A real modchip being released would be all over the internet, not just one site that's not even on the scene.

[calderra]

Thumbs up on #22. All this "hack" allows you to do play copied games. Whoopie. Not to mention, you've been able to do this for MONTHS. It's not new at all- the original 360 disc drive was hacked pretty much immediately.

But you still have to have the one specific drive this works on- Microsoft has recently ensured that all 360 drives being produced now are immune to this sort of hack.

Not to mention I'm sure patches are in the works to stop these pirated games- so that'll be gone too.

And you can ONLY play pirated discs- that's all you can possibly do with this mod. Nearly a year after release, 360 has NOT been hacked.

[Marriot VP]

360 HASN'T BEEN MODDED

It's had its DVD drive hacked that's all. Modded is when your able to hook up a HDD of your own to stream hacks onto games like Halo 2. A year out and people still can't mod the HDD.

[drewdrakes]

I concur with previous posts, people over in Asia have been doing this for months by flashing the bios. Playing pirated games isnt a big deal (to me). When its cracked open like the PSP, then let me know.

[TheMART]

COME ON

The DVD FW hacks have been here from March on, the modchips are already there for months and months. THat's the DVD mod, just to play illegal games it is.

SO FREAKING OLD NEWS THIS IS

[kmis87]

lol, you sound like yoda. But, yeah, this is old news.

[Marriot VP]

mmmmm!!

Brains matters not, ... Look at achira. Judge him by brains, do you

[The Milkman]

You dont want to wait until its cracked open like the PSP. This should be stopped before it gets to bad. The rules could possibly get even more strict though and could possibly change some things like maybe games being played on a odd platform maybe not even on disc later something only used for games and developers will only have access fit for only that to it to slow down pirateing alot. I dont dont know what extent they will go to stop it but I was just trying to imagine what they could do.

[Dancryer]

'Haha' we all know that you hate the 360 already ...but could you please stop posting this crap! go do something worthwhile and trash the ps3 or something :)