Good news / Bad news .. 360 :)

[Arkaign]

Well, I didn't quite intend this to become a discourse on the piracy situation in general, but I am interested to see what everyone has to say.

Hope the 360 experience is entertaining and satisfying for those who have one. And I hope we do see mods for it, depending on the outcome, I may even change my mind about never getting one.

[s1lence]

I'm going to go back to the original post in that its going to be hard to hack. I've heard that with every system since the dreamcast. It will happen its all a matter of time.

[PapaStu]

Give them time. There will be some exploit somewhere (my very uneducated guess is by using one of the game emulators created to play the XBox games could be used as a backdoor to at least run stuff in some emulated XBox OS) that will eventually bust open wide the whole thing, just like before. They did it on the cube (with its difficult media format) and the PS2 fell both CD and DVD wise (though that one held out a bit longer). The PSP and all the Nintendo Handhelds are feeling its wrath (except for the DS, but again, give them time).

I think just looking at how the hackers have just gone after the PSP and been able to do as much as they have so fast is if nothing else a sign at how they will go after the XBox 360 once they get a little more common in the marketplace.

[njiska]

I'm going to go back to the original post in that its going to be hard to hack. I've heard that with every system since the dreamcast. It will happen its all a matter of time.

It is gonna be tricky though because the bootrom is embedded in the CPU. It'll take more then a simply patch-in through an LPC port with this baby.

Here hoping whoever does keeps good documentation. I'd love to have another book like Bunnie's.

[s1lence]

I'm going to go back to the original post in that its going to be hard to hack. I've heard that with every system since the dreamcast. It will happen its all a matter of time.

It is gonna be tricky though because the bootrom is embedded in the CPU. It'll take more then a simply patch-in through an LPC port with this baby.

Here hoping whoever does keeps good documentation. I'd love to have another book like Bunnie's.

Well considering that MS is making boot discs for original xbox games thats kind of a open door already.