JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
blog.ret2.io JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
Released in November 2001, the original Xbox was Microsoft’s first venture into the game console industry. With its hardware closely resembling a cheap but v...
Using Intel CPU JTAG to dump the secret bootrom in Microsoft's original Xbox. Disclaimer: not my blog.
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Amazing read, thanks for sharing. It’s fascinating to see that it is now hobbyist-accessible to design and order a PCB that intercepts BGA connections, something that at the time was Microsoft’s sure-fire trick to disable JTAG.
This blog post got reviewed by Hackaday. https://hackaday.com/2023/08/11/using-jtag-to-dump-the-xboxs-secret-boot-rom/