The Long Afterlife Of The Console Modchip

For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips on the game consoles of the day. Modchips were usually a small microcontroller …

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Fixing A Destroyed XBox 360 Development Kit

As common as the Xbox 360 was, the development kits (XDKs) for these consoles are significantly less so. This makes it even more tragic when someone performs a botched surgery on one of these rare …

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Whipping Up A Quick Adapter To Hack The Xbox 360

[Androxilogin] had a problem. An Xbox 360 Slim had shown up in the post, but failed to give much more than a beep when turned on. Disassembly revealed some missing components, but replacing them fa…

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US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment

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If You Give A Dev A Tricked Out Xbox, They’ll Patch Halo 2

[Ryan Miceli] had spent a few years pouring over and reverse-engineering Halo 2 when a friend asked for a favor. His friend created an improved Xbox with significant overclocks, RAM upgrades, BIOS …

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Kickflips And Buffer Slips: An Exploit In Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

[Ryan Miceli] wanted to build some reverse engineering skills by finding a new exploit for an original Xbox. Where he ended up was an exploit that worked across the network, across several games, a…

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Giving The Original Xbox 256 MB Of Memory

The original Xbox forever changed the console world, because it was basically just PC components laced together in a slightly different architecture. It featured a Pentium 733 MHz CPU with just 64M…

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