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Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements

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Perfectly timed post… I picked up a Corona 360 with 250GB HD yesterday for $50. Installed BadUpdate 1.3 last night and it all worked perfectly. The boy has been having a blast with it

Now I want to use one to run MacOS X.

We are in a retro gaming golden age right now with all the hacks and mods you can run. The Nintendo 3DS is another great space to watch, people are porting games to native 3DS titles currently.

> Nintendo 3DS is another great space to watch

Back in 2020 while the Covid-19 pandemic was on-going and we were all told to stay home as much as possible, I bought a New Nintendo 3DS XL (terrible name making “New” part of the product name btw) second hand for about $100 with some games included. I also picked up some additional games for it second hand as well. I even got a bunch of games that one person was giving away for free.

After enjoying the 3DS XL for a couple of months I eventually sold it to someone else.

I was thinking recently that it would be nice to have a 3DS XL again (I’ve also tried DS Lite during the same time that I bought the 3DS XL, but only the 3DS XL is comfortable to use for the size of my hands).

In my country the amount of money people want for a 3DS XL is much higher now than what it was in 2020. People want $300 and up now for their 3DS XL, even without games included and even if the condition of the console is very worn. The few times that something even moderately decently priced shows up it will most likely get picked up very quickly by someone else that wants to just buy it and then sell it for more.

I have a non “new” 3DS XL which ive had since 2013 but I never really played it much back in the day. I’d been increasingly bothered by how large the steamdeck is making it difficult to travel with so I pulled the 3DS out.

Now many years later with how easy it is to hack them I’m having a lot more fun with my 3DS than I did back in the day.

The “new” model is a lot more desirable though since with homebrew you can unlock the extra performance in some games and fix fps drops.

> terrible name making “New” part of the product name btw

It's a sign that Nintendo retains it's Japan first philosophy in many areas. But also the flexibility multiple alphabets give.

In Japan it is called "New ニンテンドー 3DS". Not 新しい (which means new) ニンテンドー 3DS.

Writing the New in English makes it clear to Japanese people it's part of the name, incidentally they write the Nintendo on katakana marks it apart from how it might be written in Japanese if it were the name which would be in kanji 任天堂 (usually termed leave luck to the heavens). If they wanted not to use kanji and keep the link to the name Nintendo then they'd use the hiragana にんてんどう. But katakana feels more techy and is clearly apart from the Japanese word and name Nintendo.

Japan, in general, does the English word borrowed back into English often.

Pack became パック (pakku) and then was returned to English as pak for game/memory pak etc. they did this to avoid using the word cartridge and cassette which is what they'd borrowed for the name of game carts.

I really love the 3DS, I have the old XL and I am trying to buy the new model for quite some years, but it is soo expensive these days. I think, I was one of the few people that played with the 3D on hahahha, that is why I wanted the new. I wish we had portables of the size of the 3DS again

What's a Corona 360?

>The boy has been having a blast with it

What can you do with it now?

Xbox 360 was sold over a decade. Each version had specific hardware revisions so hackers creating these tools tend to refer to the hardware code names to as a way to identify which revision their hacks apply to.

The below list is from AI, but from a quick view is correct.

Xbox 360 Motherboard Revisions:

• Xenon (2005)

• Zephyr (2007)

• Falcon (2007)

• Opus (2008)

• Elpis (2008)

• Jasper (2008)

• Tonasket (2009)

• Trinity (2010)

• Corona (2011)

• Waitsburg (2012)

• Stingray (2013)

• Winchester (2014)

I expect the commenter has backed up their owned games to the hard drive so their kid doesn’t need to fiddle with discs damaging them, or has installed homebrew retro games. I expect all online functionality has been shut down anyway so it turns the console into an ad free offline gaming machine.

They are still outputting 720p, but the consoles are good value for kids.

It pleases me to no end that the knowledge of others and myself into the Rock Band engine helped stop the scalping of THAW with a freely accessible alternative. I helped obfuscate DaTArrest ;)

I would edit to say this but: {O69} forever. iykyk. God bless DTA

{Na 42 'O32'} iykyk

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