A post in the Xboxhacker.net forums reports that a hacked firmware for Xbox 360’s with the Toshiba drive TS-H943 has been released. According to the release notes, the following are supported:

• Boots all Xtreme Xbox 360 backups
• Boots all Xtreme Xbox 1 backups
• Boots all Xbox 360 originals
• Boots all Xbox 1 originals on Xbox 360
• Xtreme0800 extraction firmware enables drive to function natively under Windows without any hardware conversion/adaptors
• Use on Xbox Live at own risk

The release was credited to Commodore4Eva, and there have been a few reports of success from a few users booting backups of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfare. While this hack was known to be possible before, this is the first public release of a hacked firmware for the Xbox 360, and it will be interesting to see how Microsoft responds to this hack. The firmware hack is definitely not a thing for a rookie user to attempt, but as more information hits the Internet and more users attempt the hack, the methods for rewriting the firmware will certainly become more streamlined. Reports also indicate that hacks for the other DVD drives used in the Xbox 360 will be coming soon.

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