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JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023

JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023

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·January 16, 2025
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Dwedit

I remember watching the XBOX talk. The one thing that really stood out was how the Flash ROM happened to contain a previous version of the hidden ROM sitting right there. While it didn't exactly match the release version, it still provided a whole lot of information on how the boot sequence worked.

qingcharles

Phenomenal piece of engineering, especially the soldering and figuring out why it wouldn't boot with the debugger attached.

nelsoch

Projects like this has always inspired me to learn new things that just so happen to help me grow professionally.

ThrowawayTestr

Designing a custom interposer is crazy

wildzzz

CPU interposers in the OG Xbox community isn't uncommon. You can drop in a retail PII with double the clock speed but it requires an interposer.

janniehater

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