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Technological News
Dash Launch v0.01
Mar 2nd
News via
http://www.xbox-scene.com/
Team XeDev released this first version of Dash Launch, which will allow you to boot your Xbox360 directly into homebrew software:
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what it does:
waits for bootanim to finish, then launches a con (you don’t see NXE dash)
currently launch.xex is built to launch xexmenu con at
Hdd:\Content\0000000000000000\C0DE9999\0008000 0\C0DE99990F586558
install:
-put launch.xex in the root of your hard drive’s content partition
-add the included patches to freeboot/xbr patchset (there is a bonus in there for those who don’t have Read more ...
China Brings Down 180,000-Member Hacker Training Site [China]
Feb 9th
Black Hawk Safety Net, an online hacker training resource with 12,000 paying members and another 170,000 free members, was brought down recently by Chinese authorities.
Only three operators of the site were arrested, while the official site itself, 3800hk.com, was put out of commission when the company’s 9 servers were seized. The site provided resources on hacking techniques and trojan software.
Black Hawk Safety net had been Read more ...
X360 1.0.0.12 and Le Fluffie 69.0.0.2
Jan 12th
News via
http://www.xbox-scene.com/
DJ ShepHERD released a new version of X360 (an open-source app and library, extremely relevant for the way it handles all FatX drives and all SFTS packages) and Le Fluffie:
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What’s new in X360?
* STFS Package updates (fixes old block count error, new way to access files, sexier)
* CRC32 class in .Security.Cryptography
* MOAR and BETTER FATX Support
* Fixed Account block issues
* SVOD support (HDD games creation and moar)
* Fixed HDD header signing issue (1.0.0.12)
What’s new in Le Fluffie?
* Sexy new FATX browser
Read more ...
XEX Resource Extracting
Jan 12th
News via
http://www.xbox-scene.com/
So my goal was to get an application going for extracting assets from the XEX’s for the 360. After a couple hours in front of the beloved Hex Editor and a while in my trusted C++ Compiler I got an application going to do just that. Remember that in order to use this you NEED to decrypt and decompress the XEX first (xorloser’s XEX tool FTW).
Usage:
Info on the app: xexextractor -i
Extract: xexextractor -e “In XEX” “Out Path”
Official Site: Read more ...
QuickBoot v1.1
Jan 11th
News via
http://www.xbox-scene.com/
FreeXeX released a new version of QuickBoot.
What’s new/fixed:
* Added Support for making Games on Demand containers
* Added Support for all 3 USB slots. When you specify “usb:” as the path it will now scan up to 3 usb drives looking for the file.
* Added Debug logging, this will create a debug.log on the root of ubs0 if an error is encountered
* Reduced file size of generated container from 804KB to 284KB
About QuickBoot:
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QuickBoot allows you to build “short cut” LIVE containers that will allow you to launch Read more ...
