If you have a Jtag / RGH hacked Xbox 360 this is well worth checking out, you’ll certainly get a bit of nostalgia playing PADDLE MEYHEM.
Its great to see homebrew activity taking place on the Xbox 360 12 years after we got the Jtag hack, allowing the average person to run unsigned code on the 360.
An un-named developer who worked on the original Xbox has revealed that he hid an Easter egg in the Dashboard of the system software
Today announced that it is beginning the rollout of Windows 11 to devices that are running supported hardware. Interestingly in addition to offering the Windows 11 Installation Assistant and Media Creation tool, Microsoft are allowing anyone to download ISO’s directly, without having tools to build an ISO, or third party services such as Tech Bench.
So if you want to upgrade to Windows 11 and your hardware is capable, head over to Download Windows 11 on Microsoft and you can skip the wait and upgrade today.
At the moment anyone who is interested can register to play the Halo Infinite Multiplayer Preview on 24th September, all you need to do is signup via the Halo Insider Program.
To do this simply go to the Halo Insider Program Website and click signup under the become a Halo insider section. You must however register your interest / complete your profile by September 13th to be eligible.
I’m sure if you have had an interest in Xbox hacking and modding for long enough you will have heard of Xbox-Scene, even if you have never actually browsed the site. Historically in the early 2000’s Xbox-Scene was the centre of the Xbox homebrew and hacking scene.
Iriez and romracer from the Xbins love ru team, along with CrunchBite, the X-Link Kai dev have managed to resurrect the forums over the last three years, recovering data from web scrapes by xboxexpert on Reddit, partial dumps and even from historical crawls from
I can only imagine how much work it was to get Xbox-Scene back up and running today as well as it is.
The developer stated: “I didn’t really expect it to be found, not unless the source code leaked or somebody reverse-engineered the Dashboard
Do head over to Xbox-Scene to read more about the work behind brining the site back and more importantly to browse an important part of Xbox history.
Not many people are probably aware that Bill Gates wanted to embrace the modding community after been show the additional functionality the scene had added to the original Xbox.
This can be seen on the Xbox 360 with the media playback functionality built in to the dashboard, the integration with Windows Media Center and later in the consoles life the Indie games that could be developed on retail 360’s and published on the marketplace.
Even today this influence remains true with the ease of accessing dev mode on retail Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S consoles.
It seems crazy to me that the Xbox-Scene site started almost 20 years ago. where does time go? anyway enjoy the trip down memory lane.
Its trigger was the same as the ‘main’ Easter egg so I knew it was possible. I figured somebody would have to leak it for it to be known.”
- Go into Music and insert an audio CD.
- From the Audio CD screen choose Copy, again Copy, then New Soundtrack.
- Delete the default soundtrack title and replace it with (no quotes) “Timmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!” (That’s the letter “y” 26 times. Or you can just fill the entire field and replace the last one with a “!”.)