Running a custom Linux system, x360key is capable of immaculately emulating the optical disk drive in Xbox 360, allowing you to play all your Xbox 360 (and Xbox 1) games from any USB media. It is compatible with all Xbox 360 models, both Fat and Slim, and offers advanced features such as emulation of the AP25 protection.
After more than a year in development We are proud to announce one of the most sophisticated backup loaders the world has ever seen. Backed by a team of hardware experts and some of the most renowned and respected members of the Xbox hacking community We have no doubt this will be an instant success!
We are now taking preorders and the first shipments to distributors are expected to be sent out in mid-July.
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x360key consists of 2 parts, a motherboard and a remote.
The motherboard connects to the SATA bus inside the Xbox 360, and sits between the drive and the Xbox 360 motherboard. x360key is a full-fledged computer system running embedded Linux. It is capable of many things such as
- Emulating the Xbox 360 DVD drive
- Reading USB hard drives and other USB media with various file systems
- Updating itself and other hardware from USB media
- Communicating with the remote and other external USB devices
- And a lot more! (embedded Web server and Wifi connectivity for exampe)
The remote is a simple yet stylish piece of hardware that features an OLED display and 3 buttons. It connects to the x360key motherboard via a high speed USB2 connection. It also has USB for connecting USB hard drives and other devices. The OLED and buttons are used to control various aspects of x360key. It is also used for browsing attached USB media devices and launching games.
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Right here, right now
User friendly: intuitive interface, no soldering required
Compatible with all fat (and soon slim!) Xbox 360 models
Supports most Xbox 360 and Xbox 1 games
Supports most file systems, including NTFS, EXT2/3/4, and Mac OS X Extended
High speed USB2 interface
Stylish USB control pad for selecting games and controlling your x360key
Powerful embedded Linux system running from Micro SD card (included)
Linux firmware fully updatable from USB media
FPGA fully updatable from USB media via built-in, in-system JTAG programming
Recovery mode - it is always possible to recover from a bad flash
No drive flashing or JTAG hack required
AP25 protection emulation
In A Firmware Coming To You Soon:
Support for all slim Xbox 360 models
Web Control Panel *
Work in progress:
Loading games from NFS and Samba shares*
Xbox Live support
Backup original Xbox 360 games to USB hard drive
Pretty cool development for sure. Anyone else think the shipping date is a little funny considering a whole new protection layer on disc is imminent? Would be cool if they could prove my suspicions wrong, and confirm it works with the beta dash and halo reach test disc.
I really don't see the point of this if you already have a flashed drive since it doesn't run unsigned code. Even supposing it costs 50$, add another 50$ for a usb HDD of decent capacity and you have 100$. For that money you can easily buy 200 DVD-DL, probably more than you'll ever need this late in the console life cycle (unless you're an obsessive-compulsive burner that downloads and stores EVERYTHING )
For users who DON'T already have a flashed drive however, it sounds great.
Pretty cool development for sure. Anyone else think the shipping date is a little funny considering a whole new protection layer on disc is imminent? Would be cool if they could prove my suspicions wrong, and confirm it works with the beta dash and halo reach test disc.
it works trough emulation so I don't see any reason why these new discs wouldn't work.. its basicly a deamon tools for the xbox.
I really don't see the point of this if you already have a flashed drive since it doesn't run unsigned code. Even supposing it costs 50$, add another 50$ for a usb HDD of decent capacity and you have 100$. For that money you can easily buy 200 DVD-DL, probably more than you'll ever need this late in the console life cycle (unless you're an obsessive-compulsive burner that downloads and stores EVERYTHING )
For users who DON'T already have a flashed drive however, it sounds great.
I don't know much, but isn't AP25 a new form of protection that currently hasn't been beaten?
If so, this would be the only way to play new AP25 games?
Sounds great to me, but i suspect it'll be alot more than $50 lol
Naw, AP25 was beaten pretty damned quick. c4eva released LT+ which has AP25 capabilities, though it means you have to fix any AP25 games with the proper sectors. The upcoming XGD3 is the one to watch out for, apparently it's going to be a game changer. It this x360Key can support XGD3, then INSTABUY ^_^
Why wouldn`t it? Once the images can be correctly dumped I don`t see a reason why this thing wouldn`t work with xgd3.
Only problem is, when microsoft sues the guys behind this and they will have to stop shipments, will they continue to release new firmware updates for the people who bought it? Because obviously microsoft will do something about it through Dash updates.
Only problem is, when microsoft sues the guys behind this and they will have to stop shipments, will they continue to release new firmware updates for the people who bought it? Because obviously microsoft will do something about it through Dash updates.
Just like the PSJB dongles, once this is out, there will be Chinese copycats in no time.
I really don't see the point of this if you already have a flashed drive since it doesn't run unsigned code. Even supposing it costs 50$, add another 50$ for a usb HDD of decent capacity and you have 100$. For that money you can easily buy 200 DVD-DL, probably more than you'll ever need this late in the console life cycle (unless you're an obsessive-compulsive burner that downloads and stores EVERYTHING )
For users who DON'T already have a flashed drive however, it sounds great.
No need to bother with burning dual-layer discs anymore. Keep all your images on a hard drive. That's the reason (which you already stated)
I'd rather do that than deal with burning discs even with comparable prices. Download and play.
Hmh, if this really works as advertised and isn't instantly cockblocked by MS maybe I'll finally buy a console for mys-- NO, PURGE THE UNCLEAN THOUGHTS! PURITY AND VIGILANCE!
Only problem is, when microsoft sues the guys behind this and they will have to stop shipments, will they continue to release new firmware updates for the people who bought it? Because obviously microsoft will do something about it through Dash updates.
Just like the PSJB dongles, once this is out, there will be Chinese copycats in no time.
And right after that, an update that blocks the damn thing. Witch makes it worthless shortly after it's out.
Only problem is, when microsoft sues the guys behind this and they will have to stop shipments, will they continue to release new firmware updates for the people who bought it? Because obviously microsoft will do something about it through Dash updates.
Just like the PSJB dongles, once this is out, there will be Chinese copycats in no time.
And right after that, an update that blocks the damn thing. Witch makes it worthless shortly after it's out.
dude this is completely different this device does not make use of an exploit..
it just hijackes the dvd drive and emulates it. only thing ms can do is new software protection anti emulation.. but if you look at deamon tools it can emulate every protection.. so ms has bad luck.
Does this thing would run backup games without flashing the drives ? Since the newer firmware would flash the firmware to stock firmware and if this can take care of it that i'm jumping on this right now
dude this is completely different this device does not make use of an exploit..
it just hijackes the dvd drive and emulates it. only thing ms can do is new software protection anti emulation..
If the new update can rewrite you optical drives firmware back to original, I'm pretty sure they can find a way to detect this thing as well, and block it off.
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but if you look at deamon tools it can emulate every protection.. so ms has bad luck.
And yet if you don't have a crack, all that emulation is useless.
We are talking about a console, not a PC. Games stopped searching for emulated drives a long time ago. They stopped because users didn't liked it, and they ware right not to because that happened on a Personal Computer, where you do what you want with it and use whatever software you want and no one can say otherwise. But here, on consoles, you bend by what Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo want, and there's pretty much no way around it, other than hacking the system ofc.
And since this just emulates the optical drive, without a proper hack @ the system, I don't see it lasting that long.
Hope I'm proven wrong, because even without the ability to run unassigned code, the no need for burning DVDs sounds great.
it does not use an exploit i see that as an strong point not weak one..
if you use deamon tools you wouldn't need an crack deamon tools can emulate all protections except online activation protections and consoles never used that.
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