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JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023

https://blog.ret2.io/2023/08/09/jtag-hacking-the-original-xbox-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...

JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023

Using Intel CPU JTAG to dump the secret bootrom in Microsoft's original Xbox. Disclaimer: not my blog.

2 comments

clyne

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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.

kjo

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This blog post got reviewed by Hackaday. https://hackaday.com/2023/08/11/using-jtag-to-dump-the-xboxs-secret-boot-rom/