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The security on the Xbox One has finally fallen, over 12 years after the consoles was released! Markus Gaasedelen, known as Doom in the Xbox Scene has presented a bootrom hack at RE//verse 2026.

This hack gives total control over the Xbox One at the highest level, from when the Xbox boots, in addition this is totally unpatchable by Microsoft. This hack is similar to the RGH hack on the Xbox 360, where the console is been glitched as it boots, enabling unsigned code to be run.

The hour long presentation from RE//verse 2026 has now been uploaded to YouTube:


A demonstration of the hack can be seen around 46:48 in the above presentation, its certainly worth watching the whole presentation however to appreciate the insane levels of security Microsoft implemented on the Xbox One. The Xbox One is the only console I can think of that was never hacked while it was the current generation console.

Hopefully we will eventually...

You have probably heard of Kodi, the popular open source home theatre software. What you might not know is that Kodi started out life as a homebrew application for the original Xbox. Back then Kodi was known as XBMC (Xbox Media Center) and was only available for the Xbox. At the time it was an incredible useful way to play Divx / Xvid video on the TV, as we didn't have other devices in our living rooms that could play such a variety of media.

Eventually XBMC was ported to Windows, OSX and Linux, with support for the Xbox been dropped. However XBMC4Xbox continued supporting the Xbox, so today we have modern Kodi running on 64MB of RAM and Pentium 3 CPU. quite incredible when you think about it!

GitHub repo: https://github.com/antonic901/xbmc4xbox-redux
Team XBMC: https://github.com/xbmc4xbox

Currently you can purchase Modern Warfare II (2022) and III (2023) at no cost on the Xbox store, as the games are a play anywhere games, you can also play them both on the PC.

Given even the Xbox 360 Call of Duty games are still sold for £25 / $30 we are not sure if this is a mistake or not. Either way if you are interested I'd claim them sooner rather than later.

Update: Most of the game actually remains locked with only the "DMZ beta" content available to play, so keep that in mind before downloading.

Links:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)

Its not an every day an event Pokemon distributed over 25 years ago can be backed up and archived, however today is a rare day when that happens!

Reddit user Neocaridina discovered he still had a UK Gen 1 event Mew distributed at the Bluewater Shopping Center in Kent, England back in the year 2000.

Gen 1 and 2 event Pokemon are living on borrowed time, as the Pokemon game cartridges have an internal battery which keep's the save, once this battery runs out the save is unfortunately lost. So its a great win for Pokemon Event preservation that another Gen 1 event Pokemon could be backed up and not lost forever.

Read more on the event download thread: Pokemon GEN1 Legit UK Mew Event Download

It's no secret that Digiex exists today thanks to Jazz Jackrabbit 2. @Nimrod and I were in the same clan for the game back then, the Carrot Clan. Having similar interests we would talk on MSN daily, which eventually lead to the founding of Digiex, see The History of Digiex for more info.

Anyway currently both Jazz Jackrabbit 1 & 2 on sale at GoG.

The Jazz Jackrabbit collection is currently on sale for 84% off, making the game only £1.29 here in the UK.
This includes the Jazz Jackrabbit CD-ROM version and Holiday Hare 95.

The Jazz Jackrabbit 2 collection is also on sale for 81% off, making the game only £1.49 here in the UK.
This includes The Secret Files expansion and The Christmas...

Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy is a game save / network remote code exploit released by Grimdoomer on Github that can be used to hack several different game consoles including the Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and GameCube.

Its certainly fascinating the same game can be used to hack four different games consoles, in addition to exploiting the PS2 and Xbox versions of the game over the network. Essentially allowing you to softmod these consoles by playing a system link game with an emulator running on a PC, removing the need of having some way to get an exploitable save game on to these consoles to exploit them.

Another rather interesting thing is this is the is the first exploit ever that will allow you to run unsigned code on the Xbox 360 without even having to open the console... if you are on a update 4548 anyway...

As posted in the Xbox One Research Wiki Kernel level code execution is possible on Xbox Consoles via the Game Script UWP App.

At the moment things are in their infancy, however given the Xbox One is over a decade old it this point its exciting to have a kernel exploit for the modern Xbox family of consoles that could lead to some good things in the near future.

This exploit is compatible with the Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X, all Xbox consoles after the Xbox 360 share the same OS.

This will likely be patched in the next system update for Xbox consoles, so if you are interested in messing about with the Xbox you should prepare your console ASAP.

As posted by Xbox One Research to prepare, do the...

Content archival and preservation is ever so important in the digital world we live in today.

Digiex member @Harcroft realised this a long time ago, back before it was really a topic many gave much thought to.

Thanks to Harcroft, AmyGrrl, 500amps and others who have contributed DLC for the original Xbox, Harcroft has been able to create and maintain a vast library of Offline Xbox Live Downloadable Content Installers, in addition to Offline Xbox Live Arcade Game Installers for the original Xbox. This project has been hosted on Digiex since 2008, however has been active far longer than that to give you some idea how long Harcroft and Co have been working on archiving content for.

These DLC installer have now come in to their own with the release of...

It's always great to have something new relating to Pokemon events to post about.

Digiex member @piplupness has spent a lot of time creating custom event distributions for all Pokemon Generation 4 events which were released yesterday.

These custom event distributions will allow past events to be distributed over WiFi from another Nintendo DS to their respective games, meaning you can distribute any past events to Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold and SoulSilver, without having to dump your save game and use PKHeX. Very convenient for people who do not wish to save edit or use the custom DNS services.

View the release thread: Distribution ROMs for every Generation IV Event to learn more.

Digiex member @PurpleOrange also spent over 8 months creating custom event distributions for all Pokemon...

As you may know, Nintendo has announced that online services for the Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and Wii U family of systems are shutting down on April 8th, 2024, at 4pm PDT

This means that SpotPass data distribution will be halted. Games that make use of SpotPass features to enable content such as Mario Kart 7 and some Pokémon games will no longer be able to do so.

The SpotPass Archival Project allows owners of 3DS / 2DS and Wii U consoles to contribute their SpotPass data for archival purposes to assist network revival services such as the Pretendo Network in preserving SpotPass content.

3DS/2DS and Wii U systems store a local database of titles for which you have recently received SpotPass data. This database can be used to check for the URLs it uses to download the SpotPass content. With that in mind it is It important that this database is contributed before April 8th, 2024, at 4pm PDT...

Nintendo have announced that in early April 2024, online play and other functionality that uses online communication will end for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software. This also includes online co-operative play, internet rankings, and data distribution.

Nintendo state that a specific end date and time will be announced at a later date, however also note that if an event occurs which would make it difficult to continue online services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U they may have to discontinue services earlier than planned.

Nintendo do however state that it will still be possible to use Pokemon Bank but that online services for that may also end at some point in the future.

So really to sum up the writing is on the wall for 20+ years of backwards compatibility for Pokemon Games.

I'm sure many people have migrated their collections, however I certainly plan to migrate one of each Gen 3 event Pokemon we have managed to obtain over the years. Many past Pokemon Event...

Its the end of an era, Microsoft have announced that the Xbox 360 Marketplace will close on July 29th, 2024. This means that it will no longer be possible to purchase games or DLC on the Xbox 360.

It is estimated that around 220 digital only games will disappear when the Xbox 360 Marketplace closes, presuming any games that are backwards compatible on the Xbox One / Series are still available to purchase on newer consoles.

Digiex has hosted a lot of Xbox 360 demos and arcade games for well over 15 years now, including some popular early releases before wide availability on Xbox Live, including the Resident Evil 5 Demo, Left 4 Dead Demo, and the Duke Nukem Forever Demo.

Of course we have have a vast collection of...

It's only March, however it might as well be Christmas again for fans of Pokemon Gen 3 events as Goppier & @UndeadxReality have recreated and released all Gen 3 Pokemon GBA event distributions!

Just let that sink in for a second... ALL Gen 3 Pokemon GBA event distributions, including the PCNY distributions, which is a lot of Pokemon as i'm sure you all know!

UndeadxReality said:

All of these distributions are based off of the Aura Mew distribution rom... so yes these are rom hacks! However these ROMs are modified to distribute the Pokémon as close to the original as possible (There are some exceptions to this, some of these events weren't preserved in large enough quantities, some weren't preserved in gen 3 format, and some weren't preserved at all so we had to take our best guesses to emulate the event). As with our holiday release, the distribution falls in to 2 categories; (ENG), and (JPN).

(ENG) This...

It might only be December 18th, however Christmas wishes have come true early this year!

After Christmas 2021 was absent of any new Pokemon Distributions, Goppier & UndeadxReality have released some fantastic user created distributions for the Gen 3 GBA Pokemon games, just in time for Christmas 2022.

These have been created by reverse engineering the official Gen 3 Pokemon GBA Distributions we preserved and released over a number of years here at Digiex.

The custom user made distributions released today cover the following events:

10 ANIV Celebi (NON-JP)
The 10 ANIV Celebi was distributed as part of the Journey Across America event in 2006, celebrating 10 years of Pokemon.

WISHMKR Jirachi (NON-JP)
The Wishmaker Jirachi was distributed on the American Pokemon Colosseum Bonus Disc, however you can now also distribute it from a GBA. If you are lucky you might also get a shiny Jirachi!

Misturin Celebi (JP Only):
The Misturin Celebi...

Sadly Epic have announced they are turning off online services and servers for some older games, this includes UT 99, UT 2003 and UT 2004. For the Unreal Tournament (UT) games this is essentially the master server that lists all the available servers you can join from within the games menu.

As PC gaming was pretty open back then you can still join local network games or internet games via a direct IP connection, regardless of if Epic's servers are online or not.

Digiex has kept the Digiex UT 2004 Server online for pretty much the last 15 years now (how time flies!) which you can join via a direct IP connection.

However, if you wish to easily find other servers to play in then all is not lost, their is a community run Master Server for Unreal Tournament 2004 by...

We have had the current Digiex server a long time and have recently started plans to migrate to a new server, which we hope to serve us well over the coming years.

At the moment we are currently in the process of moving the various Virtual Machines (VM's) that Digiex runs on to the new server.

At present the download VM, along with all the Digiex downloads which are not forum attachments are currently been moved. Therefore, any large downloads which are served from download.digiex.net will be offline for the next day or so, anything small attached to a forum post can still be downloaded as normal.

Most people will probably not notice any different, however please bear with us and everything will be moved over shortly.

The main website will be moved at a later date, which will result in a little downtime.

Update Dec 3rd 8:50am GMT: download.digiex.net is back online on the new server, any connection issues will now be...

Game in the UK are allowing people to register online via email to receive a code for the Shiny Eternatus Distribution on Pokémon Sword / Shield, no need to visit an actual Game store to receive one.

Based on past experiences this should also mean people outside the UK are able to receive a code, hopefully opening up the availability of this rare shiny legendary to Pokemon trainers around the world.

Based on past Game distributions this shouldn't be locked to just people in the UK, however if you have a generic email such as an @gmail.com or @outlook.com it wouldn't hurt to use these.

Shiny Eternatus will arrive in your game at Lv. 100 with a Timid Nature and the Pressure Ability. It’ll know the moves Dynamax Cannon, Eternabeam, Sludge Bomb, and Flamethrower.

To obtain a code for the Shiny Eternatus Distribution simply...

Jazz Jackrabbit 2, the game responsible for myself and @Nimrod meeting and eventually founding Digiex is currently free on Good Old Games (GoG) for the approx. the next 52 hours from the time of this post.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a 1998 platform game produced by Epic, who are better known for the Unreal Engine and Fortnite games these days. The game is a 2D side-scroller that incorporates elements of shooting and platforming. The player must venture through a series of levels populated with enemies and environmental hazards that may hinder the player's progress.

Where Jazz Jackrabbit 2 really comes in to its own is the multiplayer. Multiplayer features five game modes, Cooperative (where players work together in the game's single player campaign), Battle (which is basically Deathmatch), Race (in which the first to complete all laps wins), Treasure Hunt (in which the first to...

Goppier and @UndeadxReality have released a set of custom mystery gift event distributions for the Gen 3 Pokemon games on the GBA. The attention to detail of these distributions is really impressive.

The following mystery gift events are capable of been distributed:

Emerald:
Aurora Ticket
Mystic Ticket
Altering Cave
Old Sea Map
Eon Ticket

FireRed and LeafGreen:
Aurora Ticket
Mystic Ticket
Altering Cave
All 6 Wish Egg Pokémon (Chansey, Drowzee, Exeggcute, Farfetch'd, Kangaskhan, and Lickitung)

Head over to the release thread: Custom Mystery Gift Events GBA to learn more and try these distributions out for yourself.