Can’t wait for the guide that turns my Xbox into a Steam Machine!
Because the exploit targets the boot ROM burned into silicon, Microslop can’t patch it. Every Xbox One ever manufactured is vulnerable, and always will be. The hack gives complete access to everything — the Hypervisor, the operating system, the ability to run unsigned code at every privilege level. Games and firmware can be decrypted, which could open the door to emulation projects and eventual mod chips.
Xbox exclusives coming soon to SteamDeck.
Amazing! Let’s take a look at all the exclusives for xbox!
Tumbleweed
Are there any XBOX One games that aren’t also on PC? Steam Deck can already run most of those.
I guess there’s Rare Replay, but all of those game are already playable on the Steam Deck individually.
Dude OG Xbox was GOAT for emulation and entertainment. Kodi got its start there, as xbmc.
I’d be so excited to have that again.
Does this apply to X|S or just Xbone?
The dcemulation scene walked so Xbox emulation could run emulated software in new an innovative ways ;3
Ah mate, that was a great community back in the day.
My duuuuude <3
It was MINDBLOWING to me hahaha. I’m thinking “BUT IT’S NOT EVEN A GD-ROM AND IT WORKS AND I CAN PLAY SECRET OF MANA?!”
Amazing stuff, the devs were a decent bunch too, I distinctly remember pestering a dev to create a save game loader that would write saves from a disk to a vmu on the irc channel for wraggster’s dcemu forum. Might have to dig out my old Dreamcast if it still lives.
Plex too fwiw.
I still have an OG Xbox with an emulator and the SNES romset and Conker’s Bad Fur Day on another partition (I did the mod to install a larger HDD). All it took was a hacked save and a Mechwarrior game.
Nice. I used Splinter Cell to mod mine.
It only applies to the 2013 model of the original Xbox One. Later Xbox Ones have more stringent checks.
this would be funnier, were it not so sad
Oh wait, it’s sad for Microslop so it’s even funnier!!!
I thought it was only the release version of the console that was vulnerable. Was there a breakthrough in the last two days?
“unhackable” is a bit sensationalized here. the Xbox One is actually a security success story not because it is impossible to hack, but because it’s a rare example of a console that wasn’t hacked in its service lifetime. at the risk of giving praise to Microsoft, the architecture is actually really neat and informed the security features of subsequent Windows releases, ie a hypervisor with sandboxed sub containers (this is why they required TPMs).
(also i’m not agreeing with requiring a TPM for general purpose machines; they make sense on a bespoke hardware platform like a game console)
i bet this hack is nuts, but the blue team deserves some level of kudos
Dev mode should be considered as part of that success. It devalued hacking the system in the first place. It’s not going to be hacked if people aren’t trying.
I feel like allowing users to access dev mode played a large part in this as well. Without the option surely it would have been cracked sooner.
Which is a great lesson in and of itself for tech companies willing to listen.This whole post, including your point, is basically just mirroring what MVG said in this video: https://youtu.be/Evi6IDgjPD0
And that is why they NDA anyone who touches a dev kit.
Reasonable and nuanced take, you love to see it!
The fuck it is! What am I gonna do with this pitchfork now?
Move hay?
Maybe even manure?
Everything is hackable if you’re determined. Even an air gapped computer in a locked room.
Good old C-x M-c M-🦋
So depending on the specs it might be fun to get a used Xbox One and turn it into a steam machine. Better it’ll be done within 2 years.
Weird, I was looking at my dusty xbox one on the shelf yesterday and I looked up if it was hackable yet. It would make such a good TV PC.
You should look at more things and wonder if they’re hackable.
They can start with my bank account, I could use a sudden unexplained surge of funds…
Aaand your crypto wallet is hacked.
“wait why is there only 1 dogecoin in here?”
Looks at OG Alienware Steam Machine sitting in an enclosed shelf
“Aah a ghost!”
Microsoft probably doesn’t care at this point.
