Here's my newest bit of fun: ABadAvatar, a fully automatic from-boot dashboard exploit for the Xbox 360, using Grimdoomer's BadUpdate exploit! This isn't the final release, but I wanted to get an official source for it before things got *too* out of hand :p github.com/shutterbug20...

the Bad Update exploit, DaTArrest, FreeMyXe, XeUnshackle, are all free pieces of software that are freely available to download and easy to copy to any USB stick. if you have paid money for them, you have been scammed!

Bad Update for Xbox 360 Gets an AMAZING Speed Boost! - How to Update Bad Update Watch Here: youtu.be/uEcbUJNjAvM

a new update has been released to the Bad Update hypervisor exploit that massively improves reliability and exploit times, taking less than a minute and with an estimated 60-80% success rate thanks to kmx360 for researching and implementing the new strategy! github.com/grimdoomer/X...

Pandora is/was by far the easiest way to connect to Xbins, which legitimately hosts downloads for a lot of 360 homebrew too, like Dashlaunch, xeBuild, FreeStyleDash 3, NXE2GOD, Mupen64, Snes360, etc this kind of abuse of DMCAs is concerning for the health of not just OG Xbox, but 360 modding too

This agreement helps build trust, it allows anyone to check the code and make sure it's safe, even if the distributed binary is not the same. It also helps if a game update releases and mods are no longer compatible, it'd allow anyone to send patches so they can work again. Open-source your mods!

XeXMenu 1.1 vs. 1.2 - What's the Difference? Watch Here: youtu.be/5E29023aiE4

XeUnshackle: DashLaunch Plugin Support & More for Bad Update on Xbox 360! Watch Here: youtu.be/6JhnigHnXts

A new (BETA!!) payload XEX for BadUpdate was just released by a fellow 360 modder Byrom that applies a set of hypervisor/kernel patches, like FreeMyXe, but also includes Dashlaunch support github.com/Byrom90/XeUn...

FreeMyXe is NOT the hypervisor exploit. Updates will never improve success rate. Updates will never make it persistent. Updates will never turn it into a softmod. Please stop asking, please stop expecting things to happen.

In case you're looking for a slightly technical bit of information about some of the patches done by xeBuild (on RGH) and FreeMyXe (on BadUpdate), I made a thread that you might find interesting:

How to Apply Title Updates with Aurora on Bad Update for Xbox 360 Watch Here: youtu.be/E-qcb0yC5b8

There are a few AI generated "edits" to the BadUpdate exploit going around. These do not improve exploit stability- and one of them that I've seen actually makes the exploit *never run successfully*. Please don't use these. At best you'll just be wasting your time.

FreeMyXe beta5 has been released, with an addition that way more homebrew should work *without* needing to be "patched" beforehand. (Nerd info: XEX files made with the devkit key will now load, which most homebrew apps are. *Not* dev builds of games.) Download on GitHub: github.com/FreeMyXe/Fre...

Please don't ask me for help getting closed source homebrew working on FreeMyXe. Any bugs or improvements need to be done by them, not me.

The Xbox 360 is not a PlayStation 4.

New video is finally out! If you have an Xbox 360, you can mod it yourself for free, and all you need is a flash drive! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8k...

Shoutout to the Free60 project. Love those guys

putting it out there again - BadUpdate is not at all intended to be a replacement for an RGH. if you want something reliable, persistent and fully compatible, get an RGH console or mod your own yourself

Xbox 360 consoles can now be hacked with just a USB key. A new BadUpdate exploit bypasses Microsoft's Hypervisor protections on the Xbox 360 to run homebrew apps and games. Details below 👇 www.theverge.com/news/631102/...

Why's it called Win-chester if it's full of Lose

RGHing a phat Xbox 360 is a good soldering project and you should do it not a good *first* soldering project.. but with a bit of practice doing something else first, it's pretty easy to pull off

truth be told y'all I actually just really like the Rock Band and Guitar Hero games that's why I do all this. Literally all the cool stuff to come of all the 360 hacking, stuff like FreeMyXe, has been with Rock Band modding as the end goal. Rock Band Blitz was exploited because we love Rock Band

The Xbox360BadUpdate exploit reliability is completely random and unpredictable. It is very unlikely that doing anything will actually improve the speed of the exploit, since it is based entirely on random numbers your Xbox made when it was turned on.

since people have been trying this, I'm putting out a warning that you should **NOT** change or delete the boot animation after running BadUpdate. You will lose access to BadUpdate, since the exploit will always fail. (it relies on the boot animation during "stage2")

FreeMyXe has a new repo URL: github.com/FreeMyXe/Fre... the old one will keep working for the forseeable future- but please update all links to the new one if possible!

The 360 modding scene literally has barely any homebrew that isn't mod menus and is filled with people going "is my soldering good" and posting this

The Xbox360BadUpdate exploit reliability is completely random and unpredictable. It is very unlikely that doing anything will actually improve the speed of the exploit, since it is based entirely on random numbers your Xbox made when it was turned on.

New FreeMyXe update (beta4), more translations, ping limit patch, better XeLL support and a temporary fix for OG Xbox games. github.com/InvoxiPlayGa...

with improvements being made to FreeMyXe every few days, it's important that you get the official release from GitHub to always get the latest and greatest app support and patches.

i got a crash right as i opened bluesky

2 hours and 300 attempts no FreeMyXe prompt

the Xbox 360's OS is still to this day the only Microsoft operating system to natively support Apple's HFS+ filesystem

the latest Santroller update lets you import keys dumped from your Xbox 360 to authenticate even on stock - meaning you only need to run the BadUpdate exploit once, grab your NAND, then you can authenticate your guitar/controller with that console forever! ty sanjay as always

FreeMyXe beta3: - Fixed hypervisor patches to make more advanced homebrew work. - Added Spanish translation for on-screen messages. - Parches del hipervisor arreglados para habilitar homebrew más avanzado. - Traducción al español añadida para mensajes en pantalla. github.com/InvoxiPlayGa...

this. having to remake everything from scratch to have feature parity with features people have come to expect is.. painful. preventable. having to redo research that was done years ago but never published except as part of closed-source (or worse, paid!) tools where the author vanished sucks.

closed source modding projects stifles innovation and removes future proofing projects that are closed source can't be updated to work around limitations under the FreeMyXe environment FreeMyXe can't have certain features added because the features are from things that are closed source

Pile

Do not try to flash the NAND if you are using BadUpdate. Do not edit any file on the NAND. Do not run any tool that modifies the NAND (e.g. Dashlaunch's Installer).

in case anyone isn't aware, i've also got a repo acting as a sort of "wiki" for any part of the xbox 360 that i've reversed myself or understand from other places github.com/InvoxiPlayGa...

this reply was funny because the exploit wasn't strcpy it was straight numbers it's straight steady typing it's hacking the mainframe it's 1 2 3 4 5 6 on the milo engine

testing FreeMyXe patches is a royal pain in the ass. i probably ought to flash one of my RGHs to make it behave like a box that's just been popped with Xbox360BadUpdate

Everyone's 360 rn

This isn't supposed to replace or be an alternative to an RGH - a well-installed RGH will always be better if you have any non-Winchester 360, and it'll let you do way more stuff way faster. This is also not, and never will be, a full "CFW" or typical "softmod" or "jailbreak" Also trans rights.

Releasing DaTArrest, a savegame exploit for Rock Band Blitz (even the free trial version) by myself and @ihatecompvir.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy that can be used to run Grimdoomer's Xbox360BadUpdate hypervisor exploit and gain code execution on a retail Xbox 360! github.com/grimdoomer/X...