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Arcade Demo to Full Conversion for Homebrew 360s
« on: December 03, 2009, 07:51:00 PM »
Arcade Demo to Full Conversion for Homebrew 360s
Posted by XanTium | December 3 21:51 EST | News Category: Xbox360
 
With freeBOOT v0.02 and XBReboot v0.05 being released opening our retail 360s (with older 2nd bootloader/CB) to run unsigned code, people are starting to experiment stuff.
Surazal on our forums found out the difference between a demo and full Xbox Live Arcade game is only a few hex-edit away:
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Find a copy of Yaris (this game was chosen as it runs everywhere as full).
Open the pirs file in your favorite hex editor (filename was FB9310B8893A3FD01C443A29AC246493393E399558 )
Copy everything from 0x22C to 0x25F inclusive.
Shown as selected on this image (guess you don't need to find Yaris if you want to just copy the values highlighted).
Open your destination (in my case Castle Crashers filename: F9432A7FE407A3C196C95D0FFD4A540937FD4EEC58)
select 0x22C, and paste (overwrite, not insert). File size should NOT change.

Note that this is (probably) illegal if you didn't actually buy the actual Xbox Live Arcade game. But as running a "homebrew enabled" Xbox 360 is not (and probably will never be) safe to connect to LIVE this is way to make your Arcade games you bought play in full version on your homebrew Xbox 360.

2 tools to help you auto-patch arcade games have been released as well:
* Arcade Demo to Full Converter (adfc) v0.1 (by FreeXeX)
FreeXeX360 :: Arcade Demo to Full Converter v0.1
Usage: freexex360-adfc.exe <LIVE file>
* Yaris-Swap v0.02 (by zouzzz)
Yaris-Swap use your [Surazal's] tips (for LIVE and PIRS files). If someone can test it.

Download: n/a (might be illegal under DMCA/EUCD)



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jester

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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2009, 07:56:00 PM »
Great stuff.  happy.gif

If anyone has problems with adfc, let us know.
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GamerBR

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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2009, 07:58:00 PM »
Next step: DLC biggrin.gif
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« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2009, 08:05:00 PM »
QUOTE(GamerBR @ Dec 3 2009, 09:58 PM) View Post
Next step: DLC biggrin.gif

DLC already works with this method, well at least with Yaris-Swap it does.
http://forums.xbox-s...&...t&p=4582140
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« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2009, 08:11:00 PM »
QUOTE(GamerBR @ Dec 4 2009, 03:58 AM) *

Next step: DLC Getting XBRreboot to run on 8955 consoles  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


that would truly be elite.

This post has been edited by topnut: Dec 4 2009, 04:12 AM
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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2009, 08:15:00 PM »
QUOTE(topnut @ Dec 3 2009, 10:11 PM) View Post

that would truly be elite.

If you want the rebooter, go get a non-updated console. Problem solved.
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« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2009, 08:22:00 PM »
QUOTE(Xoxide @ Dec 4 2009, 04:15 AM) View Post

If you want the rebooter, go get a non-updated console. Problem solved.


i wasnt bashing on anybody. Wouldnt it be great if you didnt have to buy some used xbox from some guy you might not even know? Think if you could go to any retailer and get an xbox and know that you can code whatever you wanted. =)
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jester

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« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2009, 08:28:00 PM »
QUOTE(topnut @ Dec 3 2009, 10:22 PM) View Post

i wasnt bashing on anybody. Wouldnt it be great if you didnt have to buy some used xbox from some guy you might not even know? Think if you could go to any retailer and get an xbox and know that you can code whatever you wanted. =)

You're absolutely right, that sounds fantastic! Let us all know when you find an exploit for a newer kernel!

Thanks bud!  love.gif
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« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2009, 09:12:00 PM »
QUOTE(Xoxide @ Dec 3 2009, 09:28 PM) View Post

You're absolutely right, that sounds fantastic! Let us all know when you find an exploit for a newer kernel!

Thanks bud!  love.gif


It basically already been done twice. King Kong exploit and now the JTAG hack.... there just has to be another way.
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« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2009, 09:13:00 PM »
Yaris-Swap, worked like a charm thanks.
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« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2009, 09:19:00 PM »
QUOTE(hawkeye06 @ Dec 3 2009, 08:12 PM) View Post

It basically already been done twice. King Kong exploit and now the JTAG hack.... there just has to be another way.

You are very wrong. Both are infact one in the same.
There is just one exploit to date but it had a few different ways someone could make use of it.
All of those avenues are now blocked.
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« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2009, 09:22:00 PM »
QUOTE(Xoxide @ Dec 4 2009, 11:15 AM) *

If you want the rebooter, go get a non-updated console. Problem solved.


Do you have any idea which is the latest production date that have "old" dash that still can be exploitable with jtag? I am willing to buy a new Xbox-360 but I only can find consoles manufactured in October onwards (or maybe September), anyone know which dash is installed in these consoles? Tkx
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« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2009, 09:24:00 PM »
QUOTE(joliverio @ Dec 3 2009, 11:22 PM) View Post

Do you have any idea which is the latest production date that have "old" dash that still can be exploitable with jtag? I am willing to buy a new Xbox-360 but I only can find consoles manufactured in October onwards (or maybe September), anyone know which dash is installed in these consoles? Tkx

You need to get an xbox manufactured before June 2009, because that's when they started appearing with the new bootloader (kernel doesn't matter so much). Also, you probably don't want an arcade from 2009 since they have large block NANDs.
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« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2009, 10:00:00 PM »
I take it this wouldn't work on a banned xbox360 since they still need the stuff to be signed, right? I mean they can never go back online but we still need the stuff to have the right "lock" on the files. I think I made sense.
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« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2009, 10:07:00 PM »
hahaha it's an all out war now. Microsoft overstepped and now they will suffer the wrath. Guaranteed if games were priced right, bannings didn't happen for modding etc. these things wouldn't be taken so far. Now that Microsoft has completely taken a dump on everyone respect has fallen and it's pretty much a free for all. There would really be zero motivation to hack the system if everything was priced right and the features offered were what the community wanted.
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