![]() ![]() ![]() With some quick solder work I was able to remove the EEPROM from the console and solder a few jumpers to a pin header that I could connect to my Pi. However, the EEPROM has it’s own I2C interface. Only one problem… I have removed most of the chips from the broken motherboard, so getting it to boot so I could read the EEPROM was a no go. Now I just had to run the same program on the broken xbox and I would soon be able to rejoice in retrieving years of game save from my childhood. After doing some digging around to find where the I2C points are exposed on the xbox motherboard, and some programming to read the contents of the EEPROM, I was able to successfully dump the contents of the EEPROM on a working xbox! I knew from an older project that the EEPROM on the xbox console sits on the I2C bus, and that the Pi has an I2C interface. I didn’t really have any means to boot alternate BIOS from a modchip to try and recover the key, but I had a few Raspberry Pi’s laying around. While doing so I came across an old xbox that I had lost the HDD locking key to. ![]() I’ve recently been playing around with CPLDs and the original xbox console. ![]()
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