Hunting for bugs in the Xbox 360 hypervisor and exploiting them to get hypervisor mode code execution. This post covers how I developed the Xbox 360 Bad Update exploit.
Diving into the heart of the Xbox 360 security system: the hypervisor. How does it work? Why is it so secure? Find out the answers to these questions and more as I cover the architecture of the Xbox 360 hypervisor and hardware security features that made it nearly impenetrable for 20 years.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Strcpy: A game save and network RCE exploit for the Tony Hawk game series that can be used to hack Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox 360 consoles.
Everything I went through to add support for HD resolutions to Halo 2 on the Original Xbox. From patching the game’s rendering engine and memory allocator, to hot patching the Xbox OS, to overclocking the GPU and running performance benchmarks. This post covers how I pushed the game and console to their absolute limits.
Using a Raspberry Pi I wrote a small tool to help read and write the EEPROM on an original xbox. This post goes over how it was done and how you can use your own RasPi to fix your xbox console.
