So we are facing the problem that we cannot craft our own discs to be just like legit ones, we have two options at this point if we want to achieve disc-based hacks: either we hack the drive so that it ignores the disc protection and always tells the system that it’s booting a licensed game, or we hack the system itself so it ignores the disc drive telling it that the disc is not legit, in either way, we should end up with the system being fooled one way or the other.

Hardware makers can use special and closed machinery to craft game discs in a way that allows the system to differentiate them from standard discs and drives, and since this information is usually closed and the hardware/process involved in creating the discs is strictly locked behind doors, it is almost impossible for outsiders to replicate the structure a legit game disc has to be able to bypass the protection. It’s simple: the game disc has something special that no other disc has and the laser drive is customized to be able to tell this difference, essentially letting the underlying BIOS or OS know if the disc is legit or not. The 360 is no strange from at least a few of these options, and I’m gonna do a quick sum up of some of interesting hacks before I get to my main one.įor consoles with optical discs, the disc reader is an essential and important sector in preventing piracy and unlicensed games. If we have learned something from previous consoles is that there are a few different ways of hacking that can be applied to almost all of them: tricking the BIOS or OS into either ignoring the security or thinking it has passed, tricking the reader into telling the BIOS/OS that the security measures have been met, tricking a legit game into loading our own code, and many other. Before I get to that, let me show you some important 360 hacks that, while I do not care for them, they are actually pretty cool. Along with the PS3, the Xbox 360 was a really tough machine to hack, but it still fell victim to hackers, specially due to a big time mistake made by Microsoft.

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