274w ago -
xorloser let us know some
VERY BIG NEWS today for the entire X-Box 360 hacking front- after
3 YEARS of work with the X-Box 360 executable/dll containers known as Xex files he has finally publically released both his XexTool and Xex Loader for
IDA!
Downloads:
XexTool v5.2 /
Xex IDA Support v5.2 PPC Altivec Support v5.2 (for IDA)
Be sure to drop by his Web site at
www.xorloser.com for a LOT of other handy tools as well, and below are the release details:
With XexTool you can do pretty much anything you want to an xex file except sign it for a retail X-Box 360. Some examples of what it can do are:
* Print out all info about an xex
* Patch an xex file with an xexp patch file
* Extract the basefile from an xex file
* Extract the resources from an xex file
* Export information required to disassemble to an IDC file
* Remove all limits from an xex (such as media, region, library versions)
* Convert a retail xex into a devkit xex
* Change the compressed state of a xex
* Change the encrypted state of a xex
This tool is a command line tool. Those who require a GUI are not the kind of people this tool is aimed at.
Regarding the Xex IDA Support: This is an xex loader for IDA, it lets you open xex files in IDA without any messing around! If this doesn't excite you tremendously then obviously this tool isn't for you hehe.
This works so well it makes me happy just to use it!
This tool uses the same codebase as XexTool and so has the same support (ie works with everything!)
Regarding PPC Altivec Support: This adds support to IDA for the "extra" PPC instructions used by processors such as the one in the Xbox360. This is very useful in combination with the above loader to ensure maximum reversal of xex files.
This was originally developed by Dean Ashton but was added to by some of the xbox-hacker ppl. I just precompiled this for IDA v5.2.
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I have been meaning to update this site for a while, and also to release updates for XexTool and the Xex Loader for IDA. So over the weekend I finally got around to doing so.
This adds some enhancements to the IDC file creation in XexTool to bring it as close to the level of the Xex Loader plugin as is possible with a script. It also adds checks to ensure the file was loaded as a Binary PPC file. It is a common mistake to use IDAs default option of "Load as a PE file" so this will now catch this error and warn the user.
This update also fixes a bug in the Xex Loader for IDA that stopped it being usable in some versions of IDA such as v5.5. It is recommended to use this update even if the last version gave you no noticable issues.
Lastly I've also included the latest revision of the "PPC Altivec" plugin for IDA. This was a plugin originally created by Dean Ashton to add Altivec and VMX support to IDAs PPC processor module. It is now up to v1.8 and has been added to and tweaked by many people including myself. This plugin now also adds support to IDA for the processor specific instructions available on PS3 (CellBE), Xbox360 (Xenon) and Gamecube/Wii (Gekko).
The Gekko processor support was originally created as a separate plugin by HyperIris. Unfortunately the Gekko plugin conflicted with this plugin meaning you could not have both installed at once. To fix the conflict I merged the Gekko plugin into this plugin. If you have the Gekko plugin installed it should be removed before using this otherwise you will experience these conflicts.
Also incorporated was the support for SPRG names for PS3 as added by Tridentsx. The full sourcecode for this plugin is included in the download package.