End of an Era: Pokemon Bank Will Close Down on February 25th 2027
Some sad, however not totally unexpected news. Nintendo have announced the Pokemon Bank servers will close down next year on February 25th 2027.
This means it will be no longer possible to migrate Pokemon from the original Gen 1 to 7 games, to the current Gen 8 Switch Pokemon games and beyond.
Its always impressed me how you can officially transfer Pokemon from Ruby / Sapphire, released in Japan in 2002, right the way up to the current games on the Nintendo Switch.
Even more so if you have a homebrew enabled 3DS its possible to migrate Pokemon from the original Gen 1 GameBoy games, if you transfer your save from the cartridge on to the 3DS. Digiex has a guide on how to do just that here: Pokemon GameBoy / Rom Save Transfer To 3DS
Now might be a good time to finish shiny hunting Manaphy in Gen 4 if you'd like a shiny with you are the OT, or migrate any event Pokemon available in the Digiex Pokemon Archives that you might wish to use in future Pokemon Games.
That really does seem like the end of an era, the backwards compatibility has always been a featured Ive taken advantage of. It was really handy when working on my living dex and more recently on my shiny living dex too.
Digiex Updated to XenForo 2.3
If you are reading this then you are viewing the newly upgraded Digiex, so please excuse any bugs and website inconsistencies.
Nimrod and I have upgraded the software that powers Digiex (XenForo) to version 2.3, this is a big change, so we have some theme and template issues to sort out over the coming days.
Digiex now totally runs from Docker containers, rather than a single dedicated virtual machine. This will give us a lot more flexibility on how we host Digiex moving forward.
Thank you for your understanding!
Xbox One Hacked Over 12 Years After Launch
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 see a modchip release for the Xbox One, it's certainly a huge win for Xbox content preservation.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare II and III Free on Xbox & PC
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.
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Pokemon Gen 1 UK Mew Archived
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
Jazz Jackrabbit 1 & 2 on sale at GoG
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 Chronicles (known as Holiday Hare 98 in the US)
If you love classic 2D side scrolling games, both Jazz 1 and 2 are well worth the money and still hold up well today in 2025.
Some fun trivia, Digiex hosts the list.jazzjackrabbit.com server, which allows internet play to still function today on unpatched copies of the game.
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy - Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube and PS2 Code Execution Exploit
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. Granted currently not really useful to most people, however if a hypervisor exploit is ever discovered on a modern 360 update then theirs a software entry point ready to go, potentially making Xbox 360 homebrew more accessible to all one day in the future.
Watch the video below to see Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy demonstrated on each console:
Download: TonyHawksProStrcpy: Code execution exploit for Tony Hawk's video game series
Xbox Kernel Code Execution In SystemOS POC Exploit Released
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 following:
- Ensure your Xbox Live account Login-Type is configured as “No barriers” aka. auto-login with no password prompt
- Set your console as “Home Console” for this account
- Download the App Game Script
- Start the app (to ensure license is downloaded/cached)
- Optional: Download Notepad T' as you can copy + paste txt files from a USB drive with this app, meaning you don't need to type a lot of code manually in the future.
- Take your console offline! To make extra sure it cannot reach the internet, set a manual primary DNS address of 127.0.0.1
The Xbox OS version you should be on is 10.0.25398.4478, if you are currently higher than this your console could be enrolled in the inside preview. If you leave the preview program from the insider app you should currently end up on system update 10.0.25398.4478 as of the time of writing. This does factory reset the Xbox which is something to keep in mind.
It's certainly nice to see something happen with the Xbox One after been out in the wild for over a decade and even on the newer series Xbox consoles also. Hopefully this is the start of the Xbox Scene for more modern Xbox consoles.
Original Xbox Content Archival
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 Insignia, a replacement community run Xbox Live for the original Xbox.
Although a large chunk of original Xbox DLC has been preserved and released for all to enjoy, their is still content out there which has not been archived.
This is where the Original Xbox Content Archival Tool (XCAT) comes in.
XCAT is a utility that runs directly on an Xbox console to assist in finding unarchived DLC and other lost content.
When run, the application will scan the Xbox hard drive for any content that has yet to be archived and upload it directly to the servers of the XCAT Team for later analysis, sorting, and archival.
With that in mind if you have an original Xbox be sure to run XCAT and see if you have an DLC in need of preservation and contribute to the cause.
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