Pi, the group known for its recent XBox 360 game rips, released with a freeware examination tool to the hacking community; has struck again.
The group's newest exploit may cause Microsoft some alarm as Pi has copied the demo kiosk disc Microsoft had provided to various retailers and created a self-booting ISO for X360. This has been hailed by many gamers as the first step to finding ways to bypass XBox 360 protection and running homebrew code on the console. The running of copied games is still unlikely as executable files still need to be signed.
Since the demo disc included some flash games, some members of prominent XBox community websites have managed to swap the flash content and launch their own swf files. This, it is claimed, is a great step in creating homebrew utilities and games for Microsoft's console but is unlikely to lead to a way to run game copies, for the time being at least.
Part of the Pi nfo states:
...Playable (hackable) games on this disc: Call of Duty 2, Hexic, Kameo, King Kong. Also includes lots of game and accessory demos in video format. Nothing ripped, just foreign videos were downsampled to fit onto a normal DVDR5!
YES you can run this! Burn the iso, put it into your xbox and be very amazed... Next, think of the posibilities of hacking this little demo disc that we might start running code on the retail xbox 360's ! :) So the second task is done. We hope this encourages all hackers, coders and crackers out there to take up the challenge...