March 2, 2007Xbox 360 Hypervisor/King Kong Exploit = Hello World!
Posted by greg
crawler360 has successfully executed unsigned code (”Hello World!”) on the Xbox 360 via King Kong the recently announced Hypervisor vulnerability. Released is the binary, source, and educational README detailing absolutely everything you need to know.
Thanks to Anonymous Hacker’s great work, I’ m now able to publish my own little implementation of the exploit.
I’ve used the full version of the King Kong game, as it has been shown to work by these anonymous people at 22C3, and it was the first one I found with editable shaders. Most games have these - KK was just the first one I’ve checked.
So you need a KK full (USA or PAL doesn’t matter, they are the same) DVD image (including video partition), and obviously a hacked drive firmware. You could also try hotswapping from your (hopefully existing!) KK original to the modified copy. Then you could go with a stock firmware.
Why not using the KK demo? It would work the same (though the shader file format is different), but requires a firmware hack too, as the possibility to run it from DVD-R was blacklisted in a very early kernel already, which doesn’t have the vulnerability.
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To clarify things again:
- If you have 4552, you are screwed. Sorry.
- If you have 4532 or 4548, it has to work. If it doesn’ t work, something else is wrong, but please don’t try to update.
- If you have pre-4532: Grab http://assets.xbox.com/en-us/hardware/HD_DVD_10-2006.zip (check MD5SUM first: microsoft could have changed this file! the correct md5 is cd4db8e2c94266ab73513c361dd5b8f6) Burn it to a CD, and start it. It will update your console to 4532.
Download: Xbox 360 Hello World Homebrew
- source: xbox-scene
Hello World - this is the start of xbox360 homebrew……
Hopefully…
so what does this mean? can some one explain this please
it means that in the near future you will be able to utilize unsigned custom code aka homebrew on your 360.leading to several possibilities{modchips,evolution,etc}
how would i know if i have have pre 4532 or a 4532 or 4548 or a 4552, i don’t know PLEASE HELP?
if you have you used it at all on xbox live all this year or go to console settings—->the the last choose at the should say system info and just look for 4552 if you dont see it you are in good luck
fuck you greg
Does anyone think they will be able to make a ps2 emulator for the 360? or maybe gamecube? or a version of linux
there was some talk of linux on the 360 at some german hacker confrenece
Is it possible to change the xbox 360’s 20gb hard drive into a different hard drive so it can have more GBs? Just wondering?
no their custom hard drives u gotta wait till soony come out with a bigger one
***microsoft
Any chance of this coming to 4552s?
It’s odd how there are only 12 comments. A similar post on psp-hacks would have garnished over 500 pointless, redundant, bullshit posts.
like yours
glad to see the homebrew scene starting to boil up for the 360, soon enough its gonna be boiling at of control, hopefully?
google me, its because nothing ever happens on this site. and lots more people know how to use homebrew on psp’s.
yes, bribg on he homebrew hackers