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Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 23, 2004, 02:13:00 PM

You would think that the easies way to mod an xbox would be well known to everyone. I only found out about software exploits like 2 months back. Before that I sooooo badly wanted to get my xbox modded, but i couldn't find anywhere in the U.K to buy a chip or anyone who could chip it for me. I didn't want to buy off the internet, or open my xbox and start soldering stuff to the motherbaord. I spent weeks and weeks searching the net trying to find ways to get software to run on my xbox, and i never found anything. Just people saying 'the only way to get copies working is to get your xbox chipped'. I had almost given up hope...... until i came across the linux page and read about something called the '007 exploit', i was intrigued by this and did a search on google for it. Then i came across a completely random forum with a tutorial on how to 'soft-mod' and xbox using 'Mordens 007 Audio exploit'. I thought, i may give this a try, so i got hold of all of the stuff, downloaded the hack and triggered it in 007. I just got a scrambled screen and thought to myself 'Oh crap, gonna have to dish out some cash on a modchip' and i asked on the forum i found it on. They gave me the best link i had ever received, the link to the xbox-scene forums, that link still sits in my favourites menu today. Anyway i asked on that and they told me that the audio exploit was out of date, that it was obsolete. They also told me that i should use something called the 'Ultimate-Dashboard-Exploit', i thought, this sounds rar cool and read up on it. I found the official thread for it, and it said that it was a font exploit, at this point i shit myself because i had heard of all the bad things about font exploits people had been saying, (the tutorial wasn't exactly very n00b friendly either). I had given up all hope and banked on never running backups or apps on my xbox. Then a few days later in the gamesave exploit forum, i think it was krayzie who gave me a link to the 'UDE memcard installer package' or something like that. This tutorial by ldots was much more friendly to beginners, and had an indepth guide on how to install it, uninstall it etc. I read about how the UDE isn't like the other font hacks and how it is the safest exploit to date. I didn't have much time before i had to give my memory card and 007 back to my friend who i borrowed it off (primarily for the audio exploit), and i thought 'what the hell' and within an hour or so, i downloaded it, installed it and had stuff running in no time. The installaton was very easy, and i was surprised the security measures it even took, such as automatically backing up the C drive, and the eeprom. This was the best thing that ever happened to my xbox. I put a backup my friend gave me in to test, and it worked!!!!!!!!! It was a great feeling knowing that i can do pretty much everything a modchip could do, wihout even opening it!!!! The next day i read up on emulators and XBMC and dashboards and such, and now i have a UDE soft-modded xbox running MXM tons of emulators and apps, mp3s and video files and even Linux for gods sake!!!!
Anyway the point of this story is, something i just came across after hours and hours of searching and saw in the blink of an eye led to something that changed my xbox forever, and i am soooo grateful for everything that all of you guys have done and i wish others were as lucky as i was. Someone would ask me at school, 'how did you get all that running on your xbox' and i would try to explain soft-modding as simpy and briefly as possible. And it's a real shame that not as many people as i would like know about the possiblities of software hacks. I aim to make a website in the near future explaining things as simply as possible for people who don't understand anything about exploits. And i hope that more and more people discover the exploit world.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 23, 2004, 02:16:00 PM

nice story, i agree.

regards

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: YoshiKool on July 23, 2004, 02:18:00 PM

total_ass: it's always good to show people your exploited xbox they think it's crazy to load N64 games on an xbox from loading a gamesave in something like 007... I love the feeling you get when someone thanks you after you put an exploit on their box for free... it's all good...

I think everyone here should be so grateful to people like rmenhal, ldots, PedrosPad and many many others that have helped to create the exploits as they are today... without people like this we would be nowhere.

Imagine what MS are thinking right now after each time they think they've fixed the dash and then bam, another exploit is found  

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: ipodder2003 on July 23, 2004, 02:23:00 PM

QUOTE (YoshiKool @ Jul 23 2004, 03:21 PM)

total_ass: it's always good to show people your exploited xbox they think it's crazy to load N64 games on an xbox from loading a gamesave in something like 007... I love the feeling you get when someone thanks you after you put an exploit on their box for free... it's all good... I think everyone here should be so grateful to people like rmenhal, ldots, PedrosPad and many many others that have helped to create the exploits as they are today... without people like this we would be nowhere. Imagine what MS are thinking right now after each time they think they've fixed the dash and then bam, another exploit is found

I agree with you completely, YoshiKool.  My friends are in awe every time I load up Goldeneye for another classic round

Here's my thanks to everyone involved here, rmenhal, PedrosPad, ldots, and even to Mad_Gouki (tried his mod MANY years ago, failed, but it was a learning experience) Morden (second mod, I messed that up too), and finally to mkjones (my mod RIGHT before UDE came out, worked great albiet the clock loops since I always forgot to switch exploits).  Huge thanks to you all.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 23, 2004, 02:26:00 PM

I am making this topic an official tribute to the exploiters.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: EthanHunt_IMF on July 23, 2004, 02:29:00 PM

QUOTE (YoshiKool @ Jul 23 2004, 05:21 PM)

Imagine what MS are thinking right now after each time they think they've fixed the dash and then bam, another exploit is found

"Why aren't these guys working for us?"

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 23, 2004, 02:31:00 PM

It says a lot about M$ if normal ordinary people can find holes in their software.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: YoshiKool on July 23, 2004, 02:34:00 PM

Normal ordinary hero people

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: ipodder2003 on July 23, 2004, 02:34:00 PM

QUOTE (total_ass @ Jul 23 2004, 03:34 PM)

It says a lot about M$ if normal ordinary people can find holes in their software.

And even more when people make tutorials and packages so the less-technically minded people can do it in just a few steps

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 23, 2004, 02:40:00 PM

that's true, its funny how MS spend millions making sure that their software is perfect and then you read a tutorial named 'how to hack your xbox in three easy steps' lol.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 24, 2004, 12:49:00 AM

and the best thing is, none of these hero guys have asked for donations like other n00b hero's.

just goes to show how kind hearted these peeps are!  

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: krayzie on July 24, 2004, 12:53:00 AM

I guess they do it for the same reason as many of us... The love for the scene.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: SargeZT on July 24, 2004, 12:56:00 AM

Indeed.  We should dedicate a date for all of these X-Vets.  I reccomend August 12th.  Just a nice ring to it.  I'll leave the specifics up to someone else, although I reccomend a pride parade of some sort to give it a good start.  

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 03:50:00 AM

What's so special about August 12th.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: YoshiKool on July 24, 2004, 03:51:00 AM

Why not have the day UDE was invented?

edit: May 22 is the first post in the UDE thread...
edit2: May 22 2004, 06:16 PM - the fonts were released in the EEE thread.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: krayzie on July 24, 2004, 03:58:00 AM

Yeah why not when pbl metoo was released or when ude2 was working? And what do you guys expect from this day? eating cakes with eachother and singing songs or something? or just keep a moment of silence?

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 03:59:00 AM

We could all sit around a logfire singing hymns.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: YoshiKool on July 24, 2004, 04:01:00 AM

LOL

Pray to our god rmenhal...

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 06:20:00 AM

rrrrrrrright. Anyway, in the next few days when i can be arsed i'm gonna make a website about exploits and such. Do you guys mind if i put links to any of your tutorials on it?

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: YoshiKool on July 24, 2004, 06:25:00 AM

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 06:27:00 AM

ok thanks, will do.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 10:53:00 AM

eeprom stands for 'electronically eraseable programmable read only memory' doesn't it?

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: YoshiKool on July 24, 2004, 10:55:00 AM

hmm
i think that is right... electronically erasable is anyway

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 02:50:00 PM

i can't think of anything else that prom could mean when talking about computing.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 24, 2004, 02:53:00 PM

QUOTE

An EEPROM, or Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, is a non-volatile storage chip used in computers and other devices. Unlike an EPROM, an EEPROM can be programmed and erased multiple times electrically. It may be erased and reprogrammed only a certain number of times, ranging from 100,000 to 1,000,000, but it can be read an unlimited number of times. Flash memory is a later form of EEPROM. In the industry, there is a convention to reserve the term EEPROM to byte-wise writable memories compared to block-wise writable flash memories. EEPROM takes more die area than flash memory for the same capacity because each cell usually needs both a read and a write transistor where flash memory needs only one.

courtesy of google, enjoy  

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 02:55:00 PM

oh yes what a guess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 24, 2004, 03:00:00 PM

QUOTE (total_ass @ Jul 24 2004, 10:58 PM)

oh yes what a guess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well done, even i couldnt have guessed that!

how old are you anyway?, guessing what eeprom stands for lol

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 03:04:00 PM

surprisingly enough 15.

rom - anyone could have figured this out.

p - programmable is the only thing that springs to mind.

ee - spose that was just luck.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 24, 2004, 03:47:00 PM

hah
i was at maxgames yesterday (SJ tech muesuem)
i asked the RvB guys if they have ever considered patching halo to remove the HUD
after a breif explaination, all i got was a blank stare. the answer was "we're too lazy"

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 03:50:00 PM

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 24, 2004, 03:53:00 PM

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 24, 2004, 03:54:00 PM

yeah i know what red vs blue is its that halo series made from the game engine. i was just confused to how that post randomly ended up in this topic lol. im not bothered though.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 24, 2004, 04:01:00 PM

it illustrates how not well known exploits are.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 24, 2004, 04:07:00 PM

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jul 24 2004, 11:50 PM)

hah i was at maxgames yesterday (SJ tech muesuem) i asked the RvB guys if they have ever considered patching halo to remove the HUD after a breif explaination, all i got was a blank stare. the answer was "we're too lazy"

lol,

damn u lucky to talk to them guys, they made sum funny shit  

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: ipodder2003 on July 24, 2004, 04:11:00 PM

Do you know how they record those videos?  Perfect quality, looks like they have perfect control over the action as well.  My media center PC lags any console due to the tivo functions, so it's not capable of recording that well.

Those movies are hysterical though, hope to pick up the dvd soon.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 24, 2004, 04:16:00 PM

video capture card.

they spend about 8 hours shooting each 5 min ep...

of course they are drunk as hell

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 24, 2004, 04:16:00 PM

QUOTE (ipodder2003 @ Jul 25 2004, 12:14 AM)

Do you know how they record those videos?  Perfect quality, looks like they have perfect control over the action as well.  My media center PC lags any console due to the tivo functions, so it's not capable of recording that well. Those movies are hysterical though, hope to pick up the dvd soon.

through the pc version im sure, fraps or summat can do it!

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 24, 2004, 04:24:00 PM

they use xbox

except really strenuous shots.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: ipodder2003 on July 24, 2004, 05:11:00 PM

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jul 24 2004, 05:19 PM)

video capture card. they spend about 8 hours shooting each 5 min ep... of course they are drunk as hell

Figured.  Is there any such thing as a signal splitter?  Like plugging a video cable into the cap card and the tv, so you can play on the tv and cap on the computer?

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 24, 2004, 05:14:00 PM

most tvs, vcrs, cable boxes, satiellite recievers, and surround sound recievers, have a second out put for VCRs

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: ipodder2003 on July 24, 2004, 05:52:00 PM

Awesome, thank you yet again CSB.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 24, 2004, 06:12:00 PM

no problem

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: SargeZT on July 24, 2004, 10:49:00 PM

Indeed.  The reason they get such great quality is because:

1.  They have a really nifty computer setup
2.  They use a real expensive video capture card.  Probably one of the Pinnacle ones.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 24, 2004, 11:15:00 PM

i didnt quite catch the name, but i think it was a canon...

prolly not though

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 25, 2004, 06:56:00 AM

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jul 25 2004, 07:18 AM)

i didnt quite catch the name, but i think it was a canon... prolly not though

canon capture card?

dont they make cameras  

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 25, 2004, 08:57:00 AM

does it really matter

it had a "C" in it ok?

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 25, 2004, 09:44:00 AM

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jul 25 2004, 05:00 PM)

does it really matter it had a "C" in it ok?

ok..

it wasnt canon.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: YoshiKool on July 25, 2004, 10:17:00 AM

canon make cameras, scanners, printers but not capture cards afaik..

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 25, 2004, 12:31:00 PM

QUOTE (YoshiKool @ Jul 25 2004, 06:20 PM)

canon make cameras, scanners, printers but not capture cards afaik..

ok, who cares anymore lol,

just a GOOD capture card lol

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: ipodder2003 on July 25, 2004, 01:30:00 PM

If anyone still cares, I think it would have been Canopus, they make some insanely good ones for Premiere.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 25, 2004, 01:49:00 PM

Ok continue

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 25, 2004, 04:12:00 PM

QUOTE (ipodder2003 @ Jul 25 2004, 12:33 PM)

If anyone still cares, I think it would have been Canopus, they make some insanely good ones for Premiere.

yes canopus i remember the can and the pus


anyway, hows about those exploits?

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 26, 2004, 04:00:00 AM

yeah i think we've heard enough of video capture cards lol.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 26, 2004, 04:58:00 AM

QUOTE (total_ass @ Jul 26 2004, 12:03 PM)

yeah i think we've heard enough of video capture cards lol.

lol,

ok back to exploits,

how can we advertise UDE if you wanna let loads of people know?

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 26, 2004, 05:09:00 AM

.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 26, 2004, 07:39:00 AM

QUOTE (adil786 @ Jul 26 2004, 04:01 AM)

how can we advertise UDE if you wanna let loads of people know?

we can have a show on PBS!

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 26, 2004, 08:52:00 AM

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jul 26 2004, 03:42 PM)

we can have a show on PBS!

whats PBS?

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 26, 2004, 09:41:00 AM

Public Broadcast System

commercial free, donation funded.

stateside, channel 9

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 26, 2004, 09:58:00 AM

QUOTE (Chicken Scratch Boy @ Jul 26 2004, 05:44 PM)

Public Broadcast System commercial free, donation funded. stateside, channel 9

ok..

i was thinking more on the web basis advertising.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 26, 2004, 10:01:00 AM

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on July 26, 2004, 10:05:00 AM

hire actors and route the funds though and off shore account.

'nuff said

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 26, 2004, 10:12:00 AM

ok im cool with that, as long as you pay the funds CSB

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: krayzie on July 26, 2004, 10:13:00 AM

yeah and get one of them payed helpdesk phonelines...

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 26, 2004, 10:28:00 AM

QUOTE (total_ass @ Jul 26 2004, 06:04 PM)

Yes, web advertising is much cheaper and easier. Also i don't think it would be wise to advertise xbox hacking on tv.

yeah but, we wouldnt dive in first and says "we are going to show you how to play pirate games"

We would teach the viewers some jargon then slowly lead them through exploits then onto modchips and some other general stuff.

WE could easily make it legal and have every1 happy inc. m$ as it would boost there sales of xboxes aswell!

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 26, 2004, 10:34:00 AM

it would also boost piracy and game copying

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 26, 2004, 12:17:00 PM

well it looks like the evox team beat me to it, their site is much better than mine ever could have been anyway.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 26, 2004, 01:29:00 PM

QUOTE (total_ass @ Jul 26 2004, 08:20 PM)

well it looks like the evox team beat me to it, their site is much better than mine ever could have been anyway.

is this the website you are talkking about?, just saw it in angerwounds sig look cool.

http://www.xboxinfocenter.com/

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 26, 2004, 02:13:00 PM

yeah the xboxinfocenter site.

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 26, 2004, 02:24:00 PM

QUOTE (total_ass @ Jul 26 2004, 10:16 PM)

yeah the xboxinfocenter site.

its a nice website,

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: total_ass on July 26, 2004, 02:30:00 PM

Title: It's A Pity Not Many People Know About Exploits
Post by: adil786 on July 26, 2004, 02:34:00 PM

QUOTE (total_ass @ Jul 26 2004, 10:33 PM)

it is yes, but sadly they haven't done the exploit section yet

they leave the best to the end.