Xbox 360 File System Decoded

slurpster writes "The register reports that Pi group has decoded the file system used in the Xbox 360. They write "Once you get past the protections and down to the raw bits on the disc, its just the standard xboxdvdfs, however the offset and layer breakpoint are different.""

Look out

[kalla]

Cue the legal threats in 3..2..

Wrong bet...

[halleluja]

Darn. I voted for FAT12!

Re:Important to Note

[spicydragonz]

I can't wait for a beowulf cluster of XBox 360s to take over the world!

Tape does it again

[rharder]

It turns out the DRM was stimied by putting electrical tape on the disc.

Re:Look out

[Anonymous Coward]

It starts like 3.14...

Not again !

[4Dmonkey]

A reliable source from Pi 'research' group later told press repoters that minutes after removing the DRM encoding, 'researchers' were surprised to see that it resembled Dos 6.2 by almost 97.5%, except it occupied 548% more memory.

Re:Look out

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, definitly enough to establish a pattern. MS have only released one console you know? Well, two, but the 360 is still in the hacking stage of the pattern I'm pretending not to acknowledge.

The console just got out....

[Kildjean]

Jesus, the console is barely a month old and you people are already thinking in doing something else with it? Could we enjoy it til January 2006 before you start contemplating doing OS changes, putting hamsters to roll on a cage, adding fish, dressing it as barbie to play "tea party"... ;)

Re:Important to Note

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait for a beowulf cluster of XBox 360s to take over the world!

If by "take over" you mean "melt", then yeah, I can't wait either.

Re:Took that long?

[Ankou]

Its probably becuase they only had 30 minutes at a time to work on it before it overheated ;)

XBox "Live" Watchdog???

[UttBuggly]

I wonder if the 360 sends any "help me, I've been raped and pillaged" data to XBox Live?

At which point your $400-1000 console goes tits up.

MS certainly knows how people got inside the original XBox and it seems EVERY 360 game, multiplayer or not, "reports" scores and achievements to Live.

Seems like a cool feature and all, but it could very well be some crafty social engineering.

Given Sony's recent rootkit debacle, it isn't too much of stretch to believe Uncle Bill had the boys put in a "phone home and tattle" capability.

Re:huh?

[poind3xt3r]

i meant "hopefully". sory for the bad speling :-)

Re:The console just got out....

[randomaxe]

You've seen the list of launch titles, right?

This isn't finding something else to do with the console, it's finding something entertaining to do with it, period. There's only so much high-definition Shaq-sweat a man can watch before the novelty wears off.