Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine
by alexklarjr on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:53PM
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Xbone is not hacked because nobody care about essentially a boring pc without any memorable games. It will remain in history as another Microsoft marketing disaster. One day it will eventually and silently destroyed to be emulated like all ancient arcades and microcomputer games protections. Every protection can and will be broken.
Regarding unsuccessful money grab, Idea that Microsoft minds forsaw that people will want to upgrade their boxes with cheap generic parts and that must be punished is indeed new, no car manufacturers never did anything like that since 90s.
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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine
by b1ue64 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:54PM
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> Xbone is not hacked because nobody care about essentially a boring pc without any memorable games.
No, it's because MS gave them the keys right out of the gate with Dev Mode.
Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine
by fomine3 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:19PM
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Anyway mission successful
Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine
by vgb2k18 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:55AM
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The keys couldn't unlock the GPU door though (I mean, dev mode apps couldn't use the graphics api). And iirc ram was limited.
To me that allows for some incentive to root/jailbreak the device.