JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023 (blog.ret2.io)

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Using Intel CPU JTAG to dump the secret bootrom in Microsoft's original Xbox. Disclaimer: not my blog.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Amazing read, thanks for sharing. It’s fascinating to see that it is now hobbyist-accessible to design and order a PCB that intercepts BGA connections, something that at the time was Microsoft’s sure-fire trick to disable JTAG.

this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023

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