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Xbox Mod Chip Released
News A company based in Melbourne claims to have released a mod-chip for Microsoft's Xbox games console that allows users to play homebrew games, original imports, run debug executables and is Linux-compatible.
[January 24, 2003, 8:30]
Xbox Mod Chip Discontinued
News The information site for Enigmah-X, the second Xbox mod chip to go into commercial circulation, was replaced late on Tuesday with a brief message: "After speaking to lawyers we feel that we must not do this project anymore.
[June 27, 2002, 8:36]
Xbox Mod Chip Delivers 'homebrew Software'
News The Xtender, a "mod chip" intended to be added to the main circuit board of the Xbox, went on sale last weekend through retailers such as Hong Kong-based Lik Sang. For starters, using the mod chips requires disassembling the Xbox case and affixing...
[May 29, 2002, 14:34]
Xbox Mod Chip Released
Talkback we looking for the wholesaler of the PS2 and XBOX mod chips.
[October 30, 2003, 5:16]
Mod-chipped Xbox 'can't Play Xbox Live' - Microsoft
Talkback People will always chip there xbox or ps2 because its much cheaper, lets face it games these days are a rip off, 5-10 years ago you could fool people but now we know how cheap it is to produce a game.as long as a person is paying to go on line and...
[July 11, 2005, 15:32]
Mod-chipped Xbox 'can't Play Xbox Live' - Microsoft
News The company has changed the Xbox configuration, sued a leading mod chip distributor, and used its Xbox live online gaming service to thwart mod chips. Microsoft has finally launched its Xbox Live online gaming service in Asia, but it faces a...
[November 13, 2003, 9:20]
Australians Make Xbox Hack Freely Available
News An Australian company that manufactures and sells a "mod chip" for Microsoft's Xbox video-game console has released the design for the hacking tool under an open-source license. Hibana chief executive Grant Sparks, known to the Xbox mod community...
[June 25, 2003, 14:27]
Black-market Tool For Xbox Mod Squad
News Another "mod chip" that allows Microsoft's Xbox video game console to play copied games has entered the market, despite renewed legal efforts to thwart such chips. The new X-ecuter chip for the Xbox includes several new design components, including...
[August 8, 2002, 13:55]
'Mod' Squad Hacks Away At Xbox
News The first Xbox mod chip, the Xtender, went on sale late last month through specialty retailers such as Hong Kong-based Lik Sang. The Xbox mod chips also allow hackers to run PC-flavoured software on the console, including a media player already in...
[June 19, 2002, 8:38]
Xbox Hackers Attempt To Blackmail Microsoft
News A group of Xbox-security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox games console without a mod chip and will go public with the technique if Microsoft won't talk to them about releasing an official Linux boot loader.
[June 27, 2003, 15:27]
Xbox Crackdown Frustrates Customers
News David, a British pub owner who also declined to give his full name, said he sent Lik-Sang £250 for an Xbox with a mod chip pre-installed by Lik-Sang. The company reconfigured the Xbox's innards partly to deter hackers and has sought to hire a mod...
[October 10, 2002, 7:37]
New Xbox Security Cracked By Linux Fans
News The Xbox Linux group that Green works with, along with a group working for the mod chip company Xecuter, both managed to exploit this weakness to gain control of the machine. The newer units, which began to arrive on store shelves about three weeks...
[October 14, 2002, 16:26]
Microsoft Takes Out Xbox Hacker
News The company reconfigured the Xbox's innards partly to deter hackers and has sought to hire a mod chip expert. Microsoft appears to have shut down one of the world's largest distributors of "mod chips" -- grey-market add-ons that allow Microsoft's...
[October 3, 2002, 14:05]
Hackers Build Movie Player For Xbox
News But it can be run on an Xbox outfitted with a mod chip, a gray-market add-on that allows the consoles to run homemade software and bypass security measures built into the game console. The first homemade software to take advantage of new hacker add...
[June 12, 2002, 9:13]
Linux For Xbox Released
News To run, the homebrew software requires an Xbox outfitted with a "mod chip," a gray-market add-on that typically has to be soldered to the Xbox's main circuit board. Besides a mod chip, the Xbox version of Linux also requires a USB keyboard and...
[October 9, 2002, 10:45]
Xbox Linux Team Issues Antitrust Plea
News The Xbox Linux project was able to allow a PC version of Mandrake Linux to run on the Xbox by building software that bypassed the console's normal boot-up mechanism, but did not have to alter the system's hardware -- other than using a mod chip.
[March 7, 2003, 13:50]
Microsoft To Target Xbox Hackers
News Microsoft may backtrack on an earlier pledge not to use its Xbox Live online gaming service to crack down on "mod chips" -- chips that modify the Xbox console so it can run copied game discs and unlicensed software.
[September 6, 2002, 13:26]
Xbox Goes Online... With Linux
News With a modification chip and a little technical ingenuity, the Xbox can now act as a simple Web server running on the Linux operating system. Owners of an Xbox don't necessarily need to wait until the November launch of Microsoft's Xbox Live to get...
[August 21, 2002, 13:01]
Lindows Chief Funds Xbox Hack
News To date, hackers wanting to run unauthorized software on the Xbox have needed a console outfitted with a "mod chip," gray-market add-ons that defeat security measures built into the machine. Running software without a mod chip could require hackers...
[January 3, 2003, 7:49]
Xbox Linux Group Seeks Microsoft Seal Of Approval
News Currently, an Xbox must be outfitted with a "mod chip" -- a gray-market add-on that overrides security features in the console -- to run Linux or any other unapproved software. The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video...
[February 20, 2003, 11:30]
