Posted on Gamespot

Coder group claims to have extracted source files from games, encourages others to find ways to play the copies.

Only weeks after the introduction of the Xbox 360, hackers appear to have cracked their way into the software that runs the Microsoft game console. A group called "Team PI Coder" claims to have found a way to extract the source files of Xbox 360 games as they get loaded onto the console. The glimpse at game code represents the first move toward hacking the Microsoft device, said Steve Manzuik, a security product manager at eEye Digital Security.

"All that has been done is that they have figured out the file system, which is not much different than the original Xbox file system," Manzuik said. "I would consider it a game hack, not really an Xbox 360 hack. But (it is) the beginning steps of one."

Well that didn't take long... though the crack is fairly useless at the moment, I'm sure something like the this is just going to blow the mod scene wide open on the 360 fairly soon... just in time for the Australian launch ;)

Piracy on consoles? What an unexpected development

Most of the xbox iso tools ( QWIX ) can read 360 games without any mods ...

gah. This news has been filtering through other gaming news sevices for about a week. I wonder how long it will take for everyone to get it

longer then a week?

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/1503/xboxswastikasml1bi.jpg

Whats that picture meant to be? I don't get it :(

looks like a swastika?

Swastika

The file name gives it away :P

last edited by evinco at 22:13:44 22/Dec/05

khel = retard

POP!

That is very cool ravn0s

I was thinking more of a propeller or somethen like that..

Swastikas are actually a good symbol... The nazi's just used a symbol thats been around since pre-bronze age.

Isn't Swastika a reversed buddhist symbol?

yeah you broke the thread for me too :( using firefox here

Yeah, thats what I was thinking too Toll. Its too curvy to be a swastika, they're meant to be all harsh and angular.

I think its your sig that was busting up the thread Slinky.

Yeah. Just figured that. Whats with the size limit of sigs? I can`t have those few words in there and the sig :( Not like it`s all that long. Last time I edited my sig, I didn`t realise it chopped the end of my sig tags off.


Anywho. Ask wiki if in doubt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika