Types of hacks for the 360

so you want to hack your 360.
Have no idea where to start?

This thread should give you a general idea on what you can do with your 360.

DVD flashing.

This type of hack is most conventional for most people.
In short:
You flash your DVD drive with a custom firmware.
This will allow you to play back upped games from a DVD.

Currently all Phat 360's are hackable.
Slim 360's are hackable but require either a replacement PCB (expensive), a small hardware hack or a risky hack that involves drilling into the controller chip.
Liteon 1175, Hitachi 0500/0502 aren't hackable (Liteon 1175 will be hackable by PCB replacements)

ODDE*.

This is pretty much the same as DVD flashing but it has a few advantages.
Mainly:
You can use an external HDD to store your game ISO's on.
It also allows you to play mulleted xbox 1 games*.

However this requires you to purchase some hardware.
Currently all Phat 360's are hackable.
Pretty much every Slim 360 is hackable for it but some drives require extra steps.
Liteon 1175 and Hitachi 0500/0502 both need you to RGH your 360 to obtain your CPU key + FCRT.bin in order to emulate the drive.

jTAG.

This one is sweet for people with REALLY old 360's or people that just bought one.
You can basically play every game you want.
Xbox 360, Xbox 1, XBLArcade and XBLindie (as of Dashlaunch 3.0) as well as run Linux distro's and homebrew.
However you cannot connect to XBLive ever!
If you want to jTAG your 360 then you'll have to make sure it's on Dashboard 2.0.7173.0 OR LOWER.
Any dashboard above will not work and you'll need to refer to the RGH*.

Added to a jTAG you'll probably want to prevent it from dieing quickly so setting the fans to a minimum of 70% in FSD*
As of 12-09-12 the XeLive plugin is detectable by MS and will lead to a banned KV*.

RGH.

This is pretty much the same as the jTAG.
However it has some differences.

First of all this hack is achieved with a special modchip that glitches the 360's boot process.
Then once it's "glitched" you can do everything a jTAG can do.
You can optionally also install a couple of switches and set up a so called Dual NAND.
This will allow you to retain your Live enabled state of the 360.

If you want to RGH your 360 then you'll have to make sure your Xbox is on dash 2.0.14719.0 OR LOWER.
Xboxes that are great to glitch: Opus, Falcon, Jasper/Kronos, Trinity, Corona/Corona V2.
Xboxes that also work are Xenons and Zephyrs but their a pain to glitch and some don't glitch at all.

Currently the same rules apply to both jTAG and RGH machines regarding XBLive and the fans.

So in short:
You can hack both a Phat and Slim 360 with all of the above if it's on dashboard 14719 or lower.
If you're on 15574 then you can only chose the way of the ODDE and DVD flashing.



Explanation of some of the words.
Mulleted xbox 1 games - This is a special method to convert normal Xbox 1 games to 8.4 GB ISO images playable on flashed/ODDE consoles.
ODDE - Optical Disc Drive Emulator, This is a small piece of hardware that emulates the 360's DVD drive.
KV - This is your KeyVault, it holds all the data of the 360 such as your DVD Key, CPU Key and various other data regarding your consoles region and settings.
RGH - Reset Glitch hack
FSD - This is FreeStyle Dash, a neat little replacement dash that resembles the old NXE* from Microsoft.
It has a lot to offer.
NXE - This is the second dashboard from MS, (dashboards 8489 to 9199)
MS - Microsoft.
Phat - Original Xbox 360.
Slim - Second 360 version.








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