The safety system built into the 360′s motherboard has more layers than an onion, that’s why previous hacks have generally excited about the optical drive instead. But a few circuit breakers named Gligli and Tiros claim to have finally freed up the console’s CPU, allowing all 360 variants in addition homebrew software while also making them invulnerable to patches sent out by Microsoft. The video after the break purports to indicate the fruits in their labor, including an N64 emulator running on a version of Linux. It doesn’t really prove anything, except perhaps the lengths these guys have gone to: they use various hardware tools to decelerate the console’s CPU after which confuse it with so-called ‘glitch’ pulses with a view to make it forget its normal boot-up checks. In no way a trick for the common F-Zero X racer, particularly when speed-boosting around copy protection like this might possibly be shady within the eyes of the law. (Yet one more thing: do not be eliminate by the video’s soundtrack — starts out weird but gets better, baby.)
[Thanks, Rodolfo]
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