179w ago - Recently old XBox 360 XDK's have been hitting the China market, in case any 360 Devs were interested in grabbing one.

After Microsoft released the new XNA, all XBox developers are entitled to get a free upgrade from their old one.

Where do the old ones go? Microsoft will pass them along to labs to destroy them before being thrown away.

The labs, however, often just breaks all the ports and front panel and then sends them on to China to be melted down. Instead of just melting them down, people there actually rework them and are beginning to resell them now.

If you know people who live in China or via the Internet, it's a good chance to get an XDK considerably cheaper!

185w ago - Following up the earlier FreeBoot v0.2 release comes another from ikari, this time it's XBReboot v0.05 for Xenon motherboards which is an onboard NAND XDK XBox 360 homebrew solution!

Download: XBReboot v0.05 / XBReboot v0.05 [Mirror]

From the ReadMe File: More early xmas presents with XBReboot v0.05! Like freeBOOT v0.02 it will reboot into a patched 8955 kernel.

However, this one can be flashed directly in your onboard NAND flash, no need for a 2-nand solution. Before flashing it on your system, you will have to dump your console specific KeyVault (kv.bin) from your dumped Xbox 360 NAND image and put it inside the hacked image with nandpro:

nandpro 7371.bin: -r16 kv.bin 1 1
nandpro xbr.bin: -w16 kv.bin 1 1

Afaik, this initial version of XBReboot will only work on Xenon (v1) motherboards, but it's probably only a matter of time before it's made for other motherboard revisions.

Again, this hack relies on the JTAG hack to boot into XeLL from where it will do the reboot to the patched 8955 with virtual fuses,...