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Xbox 360 JTAG
The JTAG (aka SMC) hack was the first permanent modification that allows you to run unsigned code, mods, game backups, and homebrew on your phat console. …
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Xbox 360 Playing Game Backups
A notable function of modded Xbox 360s is that you can install game backups of legitimately installed games without needing a valid digital license from t…
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Original Xbox Upgrading your Hard Drive
Stock Xbox game consoles shipped with either 8GB Western Digital or 10GB Seagate hard drives, making approximately 5GB of space available as user storage …
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Original Xbox OpenXenium
The OpenXenium chip is a low cost open source chip created by Ryzee119. It is essentially a recreation of the Xenium chip that is simple to install. The f…
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PlayStation 4 Ripping PS4 Game Backups
Dumping is the process of decrypting and extracting files from a game disc or *digital installation in order to preserve the contents for archival or furt…
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PlayStation Vita / PSTV Adrenaline
Adrenline is an application that can be used on homebrew enabled PS Vitas and allows for booting a full PSP custom firmware with support for plugins, PSP …
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PlayStation 3 Creating Game Backups
A great feature of custom firmware is the ability to create backups of your physical and digital game copies. You can create an ISO, PKG, or extracted fol…
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Original Xbox Playing Game Backups
In order to play game backups on a modified Xbox, you will most likely need to convert them into a usable format first. This page will cover the various m…
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PlayStation 4 FAQ
Jailbreaking is, on a basic level, a term used when the console gets exploited to unlock various levels of the firmware that allows the access to many fea…
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PlayStation 3 Playing Game Backups
You can burn a PS1, PS2, or PS3 ISO to a CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc and play it on a CFW PS3 by inserting the disc and launching it from the XMB. If your CFW doe…
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PlayStation 2 Creating Game Backups
You may wish to take backups of your PlayStation 2 game discs, both as a protection against damage to the original, and in order to play the backup image …
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3DO Creating Game Backups
This section documents on how you can play your physical backups on your 3DO, provided that you own the physical games and that you have previously create…
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Xbox 360 Creating Game Backups
As Xbox 360s age, their lasers begin to degrade with use. Because of this, it is smart to keep a backup of your game library to be played digitally. Game …
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PlayStation 2 Open PS2 Loader (OPL)
Open PS2 Loader (OPL) is a homebrew application loader that loads PS2 games and applications from digital devices. You can download the OPNPS2LD.ELF from …
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FM Towns Marty Creating Game Backups
There are two different types of backups for FM Towns Computer. One area is backing up the CD. The other is backing up the floppy disk. Towns used both CD…
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PlayStation Creating Game Backups
Redump, which aims to be the ultimate collaborative reference of disc images, provides a comprehensive tool to do so; however, for the above reasons, few …
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FM Towns Creating Game Backups
There are 3 recommended methods to use for backing up FM Towns floppy disks. You will need a floppy drive, a floppy cable, a way to power the floppy drive…
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Original Xbox DVD2Xbox
DVD2Xbox is an application which allows an Xbox to dump any DVD / CD to its own hard drive. It supports UDF / ISO9660 / CDDA discs, including Xbox games. …
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Original Xbox Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Here you'll find most of the info you'll need to start using homebrew on your Xbox. A list of definitions can be found at the bottom of this post. If a qu…
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PlayStation 2 Getting started
Getting started with PlayStation 2 modding usually involves running homebrew software to greatly increase your console's capabilities, allowing you to use…
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PlayStation 2 PSX HDD Imaging
Notes All credit goes to NRoach44's guide. Check it out. This guide was written to be an easier, more newbie friendly guide to imaging the PSX hard drive.…
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Xbox 360 Xtafkit
xtafkit is a FATX/XTAF filesystem browser and Xbox 360 content tool for macOS. It plugs the gap left by Windows-only utilities like FATXplorer and Horizon…
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PlayStation Portable PlayStation (PS1) Games
The PlayStation Portable's main CPU inside the Tachyon SoC happens to have a MIPS architecture similar to the original PlayStation, which allows the conso…
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Dreamcast BIOS Replacement Mod
If you want region-free game loading, to load burned game backups on a model VA2 Dreamcast, to force all games to boot with VGA output, or your BIOS chip …
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