XBox

Part two of my retrospective on the Xbox 360 security. In this episode we look at the Xbox 360 Hypervisor and the different methods used to defeat it.

In 2005 mere weeks after the launch of the Xbox 360 in North America, hackers found a method to exploit the DVD drive firmware and defeat security by allowing for backup DVD’s to load and run.
This is a look back and how this was achieved and how Microsoft responded.

Getting good quality HD video out of the Original Xbox is getting more difficult with the ever increasing prices of the Official Microsoft HD AV Pack. But a new open source product known as the XOSVP (Xbox Open Source Video Pack) aims to be a low cost alternative. We pit it against 3 other HD component and HDMI cables and see if its worth the money.

Spanning 17 years you can play multiplayer games with any combination of Original Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One S or X, but utilizing System-Link – a form of multiplayer gaming that was introduced in 2001 with the Original Xbox and still supported in 2019 with the Xbox One.

In this episode MVG takes a look at the history of System-Link, How Three Generations of Xbox Consoles support it, and what makes it so awesome .

Years before Kreon drives could rip original Xbox and Xbox 360 discs, Cracking and release groups were using another PC DVD Drive to rip game discs. This drive is mostly unknown from the public. Find out more in this episode.

The story about how MVG became involved with the original Xbox modding scene, who he was back then and how he wrote some of the most popular homebrew and emulators for the Original Xbox that you’ve probably played before!