How the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Security was Defeated | MVG 

I know this is random, but thanks for porting Doom on the PSP!

Getting those RGH boot timings down can be a fine art and a test of patience. I've had systems be in range of anywhere from instaboot to 5 minutes, which is why I always loved the JTAG. No fuss, no timings to mess with! Excellent video, my dude.

Some seriously skilled people out there in the hacking community. No matter how secure you think your code is, there will be someone out there that can beat it.

*Bank gets robbed without anyone noticing because of a security issue MVG: "mistakes were made"

The engineering behind the Xbox 360 security was quite ingenius. I must commend Microsoft engineers for very very creative security.

Imagine if companies put this much effort into securing our machines for us, instead of from us...

Do you guys remember the old days when by just one sd card and a file you could hack your wii and play unlimited games

Their protection lasted exactly as long as they needed it to, it really was a fantastic piece of security. Except for the dvd back, that was just dumb, what were they thinking?

Linux is like Skyrim, it’ll eventually run on anything

The era of JTAGs and MW2 was amazing, feel lucky to have been there lol.

6:09 "It controls all the power functions, controls the fans, handles system resets and various other commands." Straight bars

Love this series. Please do something on XBOX One too.

I wouldn't call the 360 a dead system. Phil Spencer himself even said that there are at least 10 million Xbox 360 players online to this day.

Hmm, the Xbox 360 Hypervisor security is quite protective! 😇🤘🏻💕

Soldered my first JTAG in late 2009 on my falcon board 360. It died pretty fast with a RROD. I just sold it off because I didn't want to spend any time or money to get it reballed. Then in early 2010 I bought a premade jtagged 360 with a jasper board and that is still working to this day. I even drilled a hole on top of the case to add a fan that draws in air into the case. I also replaced the back fan with 2 noiseblocker 60mm fans. Now it is almost completely silent and runs much cooler than with just the stock fan.

6:08 It controls all the power functions, controls the fans, Handels system reset and various other commands. Nice rhymes there

I love the fact that you're not just a random youtuber covering the known stuff, but you also have the skills to back you up, like coding etc.

A few years later we have RGH 3.0 chipless insta-boot. Kinda tricky, but man, life is good.

I absolutely love these videos about how the security measures of systems were bypassed. So thank you.

I quite enjoy your retrospectives, they're excellent and very chill. I'd also like to thank you for all the joy your emulator ports have brought me. Your work probably brings more comfort than anyone will ever know.

"Hypervisor" sounds like a cool ass word to tell your bosses at the meeting how unhackable your Xbox will be on launch.

These security retrospectives are some of your best content MVG. Especially with how hard it is becoming to find old forum threads and such. Keep up the excellent work!

Fun conspiracy theory: xbox red ring was a anti piracy measure to replace hackable xboxes. (I joke but I thought it was funny)

oh hahah- saw this in my home feed and thought it was an old video! i love that phrase, too, tho: Mistakes Were Made. streamer Vinesauce uses it a lot, so its cemented in my consciousness. anyway, thanks for all your hard work, friend!

4:01 People still play Ridge Racer 6 online, I’m not kidding. There’s a semi-active community that does weekly competitions on Saturdays :D But the main community races every day until 11pm EST!

"The King Kong Exploit" why is that phrase so funny to me 😂

Dude you are so amazing. I'm having flashbacks from when I was 15, and did my first jtag. I just found your channel and you have inspired me to dust off my console and redo the HDD and organize the files. I STILL have my launch console Xenon jtag. Obviously it RROD'd, but I had it reballed.

"we love our customers and want our consoles to be used forever" *spends millions to ensure the console is garbage in 10 years* "our consoles are dying extremely quickly and nobody can use them" *weak-ass extended warranty and plugging their ears*

4:38 Wow....the Blade Dashboard is timeless. I just took it for granted and didn't appreciate how good the UI design was. Way ahead of its time in 2005.

Great vid! Small correction though, I think you meant 16 Bits, not bytes when you were talking about the lockdown counter. 16 Bytes has way, way more possibilities than 4096.

I absolutely love that the Xbox Original & 360 are STILL worth talking about in 2019! I was initially uncertain if Microsoft could pull of a console. Overall, they have done a fantastic job of competing in the console market through the years. Woot!

this explains why I had a king Kong copy that randomly showed up in my house that my nephew brought

I never knew back then, But would just like to say Thank You for your port of Mame 360 back when I got my 1st Jtag 360 many years ago.

"MVG has uploaded" *Happiness noise*

Love your videos man always so informative and the production is always amazing too. P.s love the intro song its so good.

Wow. I don't I could have come close to cracking that. Just insane!

It's amazing that after nearly 2 decades since the Xbox 360 came out, it's security system still has not been breached when it comes to softmods like the PS3 and Wii. I would not be surprised if softmodding an Xbox 360 is actually impossible.

So... are you uploading every Monday now?

I am not much of a gamer, but I love these video's on defeating the security

So King Kong - who, if i remember correctly, is a villain - saved the day for XBox homebrewers. I quite like this mental image of sorts. :3

I just wanted to say that your intro music is so perplexing, I'm quite sure I've heard it somewhere outside of your other videos, yet it seems like you are the creator, or so your desc would suggest. It might be a newbie observation, but let me just say if that's so, you are massively talented all around! Keep up the good work. And if anyone's able to suggest where my deja vu comes from, I would be very appreciative :D

Forever the “MISTAKES WERE MADE” guy.

I always loved tech but watching your vids really motivated me to change my major and really get into it. Thanks and bunch!!

I was just playing my RGH 360 before watching this video. Awesome machine for emulation!

for those who are wondering the intro song is napoleon jelly by fritz faith-topic or pacific drive by mvg

I love these videos - your knowledge of the intricacies of these systems is incredible and always blows me away, keep it up man!

I think it's worth mentioning RGH 1.2. My Jasper arcade with RGH 1.2 boots extremely quickly - almost always a single digit number of seconds. Bridging the cap pins on a Coolrunner usually helps.

I think you meant that the lockdown counter is 16 *bits*, not bytes. Brute forcing 16 bytes is a LOT harder.

-Consistent Uploads -Stuff im interested in -Nice voice Yup, new favorite RU-vidr!

I'm early and can't think of a witty comment to make so I would just like to thank you for all these awesome videos and all the cool stuff you have done with homebrew over the years.

Man I really love these videos, they are the perfect balance of information and story without getting too technical.

It may be worth noting that the reason that unsigned code was executed under the KK exploit, rather than just sitting as a regular asset file, was actually due to unsigned shader code being compiled at runtime rather than being distributed as an already compiled. Maybe in a bonus video you could talk about the burnable kiosk disc that was found very early on, which was burnable and bootable on retail consoles. It had a demo of King Kong, which is what spurred interest in the game for being a hack entry point and was blacklisted in an early dashboard update. Had the vulnerable code in the hypervisor been introduced on launch (instead of 4xxx), the first couple of dashboards could be completely exploited without even opening the console. The disc also had the game Hexic HD on it, which was found to be an Adobe Flash emulator for Xbox 360 that just ran the Hexic game. You could actually swap out the game with your own flash game and play it on a retail console! I had these events documented in the /r/360hacks "scene history" page with more details.

Also, the RROD was a big problem for a lot of people so I imagine there were a bunch (though not the majority) who had early jtag xbox 360's that had to buy a new 360 that had upgraded security like you pointed out. Man I love this channel. You don't mess around!

Love your videos man! They're always so interesting to listen to👍

Can I just say, I drop in and out of RU-vidrs depending on what I'm into at the time but I watch every single one of your videos. I never cared for Xbox but now I have an OG one to mod because of this channel

"It requires only 4096 tries" ONLY four thousand and ninety-six tries.

I remember having a dual ladder DVD burner. Ahh good times.

Meanwhile the Nintendo switch has full Homebrew quicker than any modern console before

amazing work man, this is videogame History at its best. Very hard to find all this info summarized and explained in such a good way.

Kameo was actually first made for original xbox.. there is even prototype on hiddenpalace to download for it but then moved to 360.

11:43 A homebrew with achievements, now i really wanna buy another xbox just to have that sweet homebrew

Was really looking forward to this episode. This is what intrigues me. Keep up the great hacking/homebrew based videos!

Why is your content so interesting everytime you never seem to bored me.

Thanks for making these videos. I live learning about weird niche histories like these and this series in particular got me in to the homebrew scene. I've even made a homebrew app (very basic script) for the Switch. EDIT: Also, XBox One hacks soon, maybe.

RROD was the best security measure ever.

360 is one of my favorite all time consoles. The modding on 360 was always so much fun to do. Still got my Jtag jasper sat in my room

Always look forward to your videos Mondays. It makes my work day go by quicker!

4:05 I haven't played that game but judging by the footage it looks like an THIRD person game more than FIRST person.

Great video!! I have a suggestion. I wanna know if you could make a video about ps4 and it’s security flaws. I’ve seen a jail broken ps4 and it is really cool. Thanks and have a good day.

Gotta be one of the hardest intros I've ever seen.

Woke up early somehow. Saw this posted. Today is going to be a good day.

Wow, didn't know that the 360 was that resilient. I still have my Falcon 360 but I hardly ever use it nowadays.

Thank you for making these videos. Your like the only one who mades videos of this quailty about it.

It's amazing how the community figured out all that. Great video

i still use xbox360 in 2019

amazing technical descriptions. incredible how people figure this stuff out.

In my opinion, the Xbox 360 had the most interesting method of defeating the security measures out of all of the other consoles.

Efuses? How many available updates could even be possible with those?

I wish companies would just allow its customers to mod their devices as they see fit, we’ve paid for it after all.

9:13 *mvg intro plays* Microsoft : why do i hear boss music?

How does 16 byte translate to 4096 trys? Even if you confused bits and bytes in the script that won't match.

I still have a 2005 with the blades menu, so many memories of burning, jtag, spoofing custom fw to different drives etc...

So I had my Xbox 360 in 2011? It came with R-JTAG? It boots very slow and indeed sometimes does not boot at all, then someday around 2013 it never boots up again, and I take it to a "dealer" to get it fix, after the "fix" it boots very quickly everything works just fine, anyone idea what kind hack is my Xbox 360 using?

The JTAG / RGH days was lit, I was young but I remember the MW2 Mobbed lobbies so I had to buy one. 2011 - 2015 was the peak IMO. Wish they had a similar modding scene on XB1

Thumbnail: Shows original Xbox 360 “Mistakes were made” Me: That could mean one of two things, take a guess what they are.

Love the "Aesthetical" music seems pretty good for these type of videos.

Security *exists* Hackers "I'm about to end this man's whole career"

That 1st time booting into Xell on a jtag from a few resistors and diodes, wasc worth the time it took to dump the nand via the old com/printer lead lol

Another Great Video MvG, love the windjammers shirt as well!

I just bought something which was called “Wasabi 360”. Connected it between the DVD drive and the Mainboard and my XBOX 360 was hacked. At least for piracy. But that was all I cared about. I could play Games from a .ISO file stored on the internal or an external HDD. And I never got banned on Xbox Live. This Xbox still lives today and I even play on it from time to time.

Hmmm, what about Xbox One? 🤔 I mean.... the PS4 got jailbroken, so what about Xbox One?

I've got a Xenon Xbox 360 manufactured in early 2006 that is jtagged and fully working still to this day! I also have a Xbox 360 Slim with the original RGH hack, it can be a bit slow to boot but it works well.

I love this series so much, I went from seeing your vids around youtube to checking my sub box for your uploads within weeks! Thanks for the content

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All of that was remarkable from both sides. Thank you for putting this together.

The legendary RGH and JTAG, thank for this awesome video, Awesome content as always,but this is more than that :)

Back during the last US recession in the late 2000s, my dad was fired from his job and he kept income from his eBay store. He bought consoles and computers and fixed them and flipped for profit. A lot of his sales were buying RRD 360s and modding them.

I like the music in this video, it's sounds like an 80's hacker movie.

Excellent material and great content Lantus! I enjoyed this video. So much time and money was wasted because of RRODs. I've done so many first gen JTAGs and had a good percentage of them come back with RROD and back again for re-repair. It's around this time I began to regret turning my hobby into a business. OG Xbox scene was probably the most fun I ever had. Modded 360s were awesome but watching your decked out 2TB xenon just die from RROD was heartbreaking. After that I did do RGHs but didn't continue my modshop past 2011 so missed out on RJTAG. The only remnant left I have is a trusty COD edition that has an XK3Y in it with 2TB HDD. No Homebrew or modded games but I'm ok with that. I have an Xarcade with 360 adapter I use with it for fighting games. My Hori RAP4 also works great with my 360 via Brooks converter.

Ah this brings back memories. I think I went through like 3 jtags back in the day, and ultimately ended up with a slim rgh that I think still works.