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Xbox 360 Already In Modder's Hands
Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 13:32:55 EST
An Xbox modding group by the name of SmartXX has obtained three XDKs (Xbox 360 Development Kits) and has opened them up and taken a number pictures of its inter-workings. They even went as far as to remove heat sinks and other devices to show the entire motherboard.
Since this modding group was able to get their hands on the console… do you think they are just going to look at all the pretty parts? No, of course not. They have probably already started developing devices like they make for the Xbox to make it do whatever they want. With things like this happening already, it is possible that illegal third parties will already have mod-chips completely developed even before the console goes on sale.
With the current Xbox, anyone with $50 and some knowledge of electronics can install a mod-chip and do pretty much anything they want. This includes getting hacks for online games over Xbox Live. This is obviously a huge issue when people start cheating online. We are sure that their will be more protection against mod-chips in the Xbox 360, but with modders already poking around at it, it probably won't be long until mod-chips are being sold for the new console.
View the few images below, and over 40 images of the console can be downloaded here.
SOURCE: SMARTXX
Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 13:32:55 EST
An Xbox modding group by the name of SmartXX has obtained three XDKs (Xbox 360 Development Kits) and has opened them up and taken a number pictures of its inter-workings. They even went as far as to remove heat sinks and other devices to show the entire motherboard.
Since this modding group was able to get their hands on the console… do you think they are just going to look at all the pretty parts? No, of course not. They have probably already started developing devices like they make for the Xbox to make it do whatever they want. With things like this happening already, it is possible that illegal third parties will already have mod-chips completely developed even before the console goes on sale.
With the current Xbox, anyone with $50 and some knowledge of electronics can install a mod-chip and do pretty much anything they want. This includes getting hacks for online games over Xbox Live. This is obviously a huge issue when people start cheating online. We are sure that their will be more protection against mod-chips in the Xbox 360, but with modders already poking around at it, it probably won't be long until mod-chips are being sold for the new console.
View the few images below, and over 40 images of the console can be downloaded here.
SOURCE: SMARTXX
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very 21st century-ish.
