The Xbox 360 May Now Be the Most Easily-Moddable Console Next to the Original Xbox

The seventh generation of consoles headlined by Microsoft’s Xbox 360 may not be so dead after all. Despite Microsoft’s determination to end its elder console’s long lifespan by killing off the Xbox 360 game store last year, prospective modders now have a new way to access a horde of homebrew content without having to crack open the near-20-year-old system’s shell. All you need is a little know-how, a USB drive, and a fair amount of patience. The software is called BadUpdate, and you can get for free on the creator’s GitHub page (first noted by The Verge), To get it working, you’ll need either a copy of Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland, or the demo for Rock Band Blitz. You’ll need to format the USB drive to FAT32 format, but after that the instructions are relatively simple. The exploit should work on any console updated to dashboard version 17559, the latest version of the Xbox 360 software. Running this hack will enable “unsigned code,” effectively meaning any software that isn’t hogt ... Read full article.