Official Xbox 360 Hacking Thread

[Dookie]

So like a week or two ago my friend burned a hole on the back of his xbox 360 controller with my soldering iron by accident and we've been trying to find decent shells to replace his with. But then like 2 days ago i remember someone posted a chipless rapidfire mod tut a few weeks ago so we decided to try that out. It works and its pretty sweet

Im thinking of making one for me too now since he's gonna be using it against me. We put a momentary push button where the hole is; looks horrible, but it works and it's comfortable.

[HORiZUN]

I drilled a hole for the ring finger on the back of the controller, painted the controller red with Krylon to match the 360, used a red momentary pushbutton switch (to match the paint) and it works/looks great. Only two wires to solder, was done in like 30 seconds.


Don't waste your time trying to rapidfire a wired controller. It won't work, even though tutorials say it does. Didn't work for me, anyway.

[Dookie]

That's exactly what i did ^ Besides drilling the hole that is.

It's in the back where your middle finger would hit

[HORiZUN]

Not sure if this will help anybody, but I wanted to share my findings.

I have a Hitachi 78Fk drive flashed with iXtreme 1.4 firmware.

I only use Verbatim DL DVD+R discs (my burner wastes other brands, i know- weird)

I have been getting the Unplayable Disc error lately, but only with games I've burned in the past week. Older backups work fine, like GTA, COD4, SC4, Grid, Pure, etc.

I took the drive apart to see if it was the magnet issue. It wasn't.

Kept browsing forums, came across the "grease your bad drive motor shit."
I knew it wasn't that, because ALL of the games on the shelf work fine. Just not new burns.

Found a Potentiometer tweak guide: Here

Tweaked my dvd POT about a 1/4 turn clockwise, tried it with a new disc, bingo. Made sure old games still work. Viola. It was bugging the hell out of me, I was suspecting faulty discs or my burner going out. Nice to know its neither.

Hope this helps someone.

[Jsamp]

I need to do the pot tweaking to a Samsung drive that is in a friends 360. It will read music CDs fine but will not read DVD games at all. Maybe this guide will help.

[OGTiago]

Try burning at higher speeds. I have a Hitachi 78 too, and I used to get unreadable disc error until I started burning games at 8x speed.

[HORiZUN]

I love my 360, but I seriously doubt I'll ever buy another Microsoft console after the trouble I've had with the 360.

My console is just over a Year old, manufactured 8/23/2007. I didn't play it excessively, and it RRoD a few weeks ago. The Xclamp fixed has shown to be effective, but still... A pain in the ass to have to do it to save a console that cost me almost $400.

Then the wireless Halo 3 mic died. Won't transmit or receive audio. Syncs to the 360, but will not function. GAY.

Then the unplayable disc bullshit.

Seriously, where is Microsoft's quality control, these days? Its cool that I don't pay $60 for a game, but its gay that the console has SO many flaws. Its getting ridiculous.

[Jsamp]

It is a ridiculous I must admit. I hope my falcon mobo holds up like its supposed to but I guess time will tell. I do know since I got my 360 my PS3 is literally used only for media anymore. I want that damn thing hacked already. PS3 is better imo especially when it comes to hardware quality. The only thing the 360 has is a better online service but then again you have to pay.

@OG I would try that but my burner doesn't do dual layers at that speed. I also have a friend with a Samsung drive and he has no problems at all from the discs I burn him.

[Skv0ra]

Lets see if you guys can help- tryin to flash my Hitachi 79. Powering it with the 360, using a 6421 pci sata card. When I CD boot the Slax 2.1 linux, it doesn't seem to see my hitachi drive thus failing to put it into service mode. Furthermore, the 360 is getting a single red light after I turn it on, is this important at all? My PCI card should be working since I used it before and installed all proper drivers for it (unless there's a preferred VIA one?). Any idea?

[Joe88]

it might just but a incompatible with the SATA card

slax should say something about the "spinning up disk" in the boot up