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» Xbox 360 Hacking HOW TO Video Tutorials
By Hippo | On January 20, 2008 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
  XBOX 360 HOW TO HACK VIDEOS 

 Selected and uselful videos for xbox enthuists and gamers too. Xbox firmware, 360 drives, Repairs and Case Mods. Learn better by letting a pro show you how to. XBOX 360 ELITE | XBOX 360 ING

 
 
» Inside Source Reveal the Truth About Xbox 360
By Hippo | On January 20, 2008 | In Front Page News | Rated
 

    Inside Source Reveal the Truth About Xbox 360 "Red Ring of Death" Failures

Since it's launch in Fall of 2005 Xbox 360 systems all over the world have had major hardware failure problems resulting in millions of costumers having to mail their Xbox back to Microsoft. No one really knows what has been causing these problems since the official lines never divulged the specific problems or rates of failure. All a person has to do is to press the power button on their Xbox 360 and there is a chance that it will just up and fail to boot up and shine the "Red Rings of Death". Microsoft decided to extent the warrantee for the Xbox 360 but the cloud of fear and uncertainly still hang around the game system.

 
 
» The 360's First Mod
By Hippo | On June 29, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
The 360's First Mod    

Not much is known except the stock picture that's floating around.    
 
 
» F900 SS ripping firmware for Hitachi 47D
By Hippo | On June 26, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
F900 SS ripping firmware for Hitachi 47D   

f900 firmware for 3120L

this firmware let you extract Xbox360 Security Sectors from the 3120L version 47.

 
 
» DeakFreak's Samsung flashing and backup guide
By Hippo | On June 24, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
DeakFreak's Samsung flashing and backup guide
  

DeakFreaks picture rich tutorial is back! The most requested tutorial for Samsung and the most missed when it was 'dark' is back and all pictures are saved this time. Thank you DeakFreak
 
 
» Xtreme firmware for Hitachi 46D and 47D and 59 Xbox 360 V1.1 fix 2
By Hippo | On June 23, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 

    Xtreme firmware for Hitachi 46D and 47D and 59 Xbox 360 V1.1 fix 2 & 3


Here it is, the long awaited World first Xbox 360 backup firmware modification to boot game backups on all Hitachis!
59 version has not been tested on physical drive, neither has flashsec47 or memdump on this version of the drive!
I am working on an Xtreme0800 firmware for each Hitachi to enable you to dump ss/backup your game originals and will release when done.

    
 
 
» Slow news day, heres some vids
By Hippo | On June 21, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
    
 
 
» Xtreme Firmware & Game Ripping Tutorial (Methods Merged)
By Hippo | On June 19, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Xtreme Firmware & Game Ripping Tutorial (Methods Merged)  


Excuse the blank pages in the tutorials as we scramble for better tutorials.
 
 
» AR_156 finds small typo in restore.bat
By Hippo | On June 19, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
AR_156 finds small typo in restore.bat

AR_156 correctly reported that there is an error in the restore.bat  in the new Xtreme firmware release for  Hitachi 46D. The scene thanks AR_156 for this keen observation, keep up the good work.
 
 
» Xbox 360 Error Codes
By Hippo | On June 18, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Xbox 360 Error Codes         

 I've been asked to elaborate on the errors codes some of you guys may be getting
 
 
» Xtreme firmware for Hitachi 46D and 47D Xbox 360 V1.1
By Hippo | On June 18, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Xtreme firmware for Hitachi 46D and 47D Xbox 360 V1.1
   

Here it is, the long awaited World first Xbox 360 backup firmware modification to boot game backups on both Hitachis!
46 version has not been tested on physical drive, just use restore.bat if any issues arise and I will respond with any bug fixes if needed!
 
 
 
» 14 dead 360's in one hour
By Hippo | On June 17, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
 14 dead 360's in one hour

 It's no secret I do console repairs for a local game shop and I'm alarmed to find 14 dead 360's this morning when I went in. All these got cross wired trying to attain ModeB, which sucks, because I'm hosting the damn Slax cd that does this for you.  
 
 
» Hitachi 47 D Firmware release confirmed working
By Hippo | On June 15, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Hitachi 47 D Firmware release confirmed working  
   

Here it is, the long awaited World first Xbox 360 backup firmware modification to boot game backups on Hitachi 
 
 
» Clevermod Quad Bank Switchless Firmware Mod
By Hippo | On June 7, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Clevermod Quad Bank Switchless Firmware Mod
    

Desinged with 4 banks in one chip and no external switches. Choose banks from the Clevermod exclusive power on options.
 
 
» Smooth Sailing at Pirate Bay?
By Hippo | On June 3, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 

Smooth Sailing at Pirate Bay?

Check out the url

 
 
» The Pirate Bay Raided: Exclusive Interview
By Hippo | On May 31, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 

The Pirate Bay Raided: Exclusive Interview

It will come as little surprise to many that The Pirate Bay has been hit hard by the Swedish authorities, ending a long period of apparent immunity from IFPI attention.

 
 
» Why Most Scene Boards Suck
By Hippo | On May 27, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 

Why Most Scene Boards Suck


Why can't you trust most scene boards for decent product appraisals? For the same reason this message was deleted by mods eleswhere, they don't want you to know it.
 
 
» XBOX / XBOX 360 Image SS Extractor V 1.5
By Hippo | On May 27, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
XBOX / XBOX 360 Image SS Extractor - Patcher V 1.5     
This Graphical tool allows patching your XBOX and XBOX 360 Game Images with your own Security Sector file at the right addess, making the full process easier, fast and error free.  This app is for those who wants to create a game image to play with the Commodore4eva hacked firmware (for xbox 1 or for 360)
   
 
 
» SS Keys For NTSC
By Hippo | On May 27, 2006 | In Files for 360 | Rated
 
Keys for NTSC
 
 
» Patching Ripping and Extraction Utils
By Hippo | On May 27, 2006 | In Files for 360 | Rated
 
    Patching & Extraction Utils for the 360
 
 
» Misc. nzb's
By Hippo | On May 27, 2006 | In Files for 360 | Rated
 

Misc. nzb's

 
 
» How to open your Xbox 360 easily without marking it
By Hippo | On May 25, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
How to open your Xbox 360 easily without marking it

XBox 360's are expensive and I like to keep things unmarked/scuffed when I open them up, here's how!
    
 
 
» Pioneer Burner Bit Setting, Not Needed!
By Hippo | On May 24, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 

Pioneer Burner Bit Setting, Not Needed!


Many people in several forums are needlessly wasting time updating the firmware of their Pioneer burners model numbers 109, 110, 111.  If you own a Pioneer with factory firmware so can safely elimenate this as a source of problems.

 
 
» Editing MTKFLASH to work on your SATA Chipset
By Hippo | On May 23, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Editing MTKFLASH to work on your SATA Chipset
Mtkflash doesn't recognize all chip sets but with this handy guide you can hex edit the values needs to get your project going.    
 
 
» Connecting the 360 drive to a PC
By Hippo | On May 22, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
 Connecting the 360 drive to a PC 

There are two ways to power your drive when connecting it to a PC

1) From the 360
2) From your PC power supply or external 12V mains adapter

 
 
» Vanilla FAQ for Xbox Live
By Hippo | On May 21, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Vanilla FAQ for Xbox Live 

Here is the vanilla FAQ for Xbox Live   
 
 
» Using Dvd Decrypter To Burn Backups
By Hippo | On May 21, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Using Dvd Decrypter To Burn Backups  

Clone CD about to expire?  Wondering where to get a free alternative? Here's how to make your Xbox 360 Original Game Back Ups with DVD DECRYPTER.
 
 
» How-to Backup Your Original XBOX360 Games
By Hippo | On May 20, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
        
How-to Backup Your Original XBOX360 Games


This guide is written to help you take backups of your original xbox360 games, mainly due the fact that the microsoft xbox360 is causing alot of trouble on game discs like scratches due the malfunction of several dvd-drives and therefore you should be able to backup your own legit copy
 
 
» Samsung TS-H943 Flashrom Socket
By Hippo | On May 20, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
   
Samsung TS-H943 Flashrom Socket

No one is perfect but not everyone has $500 toys to fix their mistakes either. Some are saying the new Samsung drives have epoxy around the flashrom making socketing very difficult. Well the ones I'm selling HAVE NO EPOXY... 
 
 
» Xbox 360 Scene Games That Work or Don't Work
By Hippo | On May 20, 2006 | In Front Page News | Rated
 
Xbox 360 Scene Games That Work or Don't Work 

There's been much talk about what games released into the warez scene actually work with the xtreme firmware hack. As of today May 20th the list of working and non working follows. These are from a good source.  All scene releases prior to a couple days ago require the ss.bin to work. It's my understanding PI released games that most likely will never work but that is not true.