New King Kong Shader exploit for XeLL and Gentoo Linux LiveCD for the 360

Tux - Image 1In the short time between the first usable exploit for Xbox 360 consoles and today, we’ve already seen a lot of great achievements by people like tmbinc, Cpasjuste, and others. A few hours ago, a new shader exploit using the King Kong game was announced which will allow people to load XeLL and subsequently, any Linux distro without needing a serial connection with a PC.

This patch will modify the King Kong ISO to include a modified shader which will trigger the exploit. Once triggered, the exploit code will automatically eject the King Kong DVD. Just insert Cpasjuste’s modified version of the Gentoo minimal LiveCD. Wait for a few seconds and it should boot right into a minimal Gentoo environment. While its only command line mode for now, you should expect a user-friendly distro like Ubuntu to be released after the necessary patches are applied.

In short, these are the things you will need:

  • An Xbox 360 with an older kernel (4532 or 4548). Anything above that will not be affected by the exploit.
  • A hacked DVDROM drive in the Xbox 360 so that burnt discs can be run.
  • An ISO of the game King Kong (dumped by yourself hopefully, we don’t encourage the use of warez)
  • An ISO of the Gentoo minimal LiveCD (gentoo-xenon-minimal-2006.1.iso)
  • The patcher to patch the King Kong ISO.

All in all, these things will make sure that you have a usable Linux environment on your Xbox 360. Finally, I’d personally like to thank everyone involved in this effort to make it what it is today (Felix “tmbinc” Domke, Cpasjuste, stonersmurf, xorloser and the whole free60.org team), we love you!

Anyways, here’s the links for the relevant stuff. If something is considered illegal, it won’t be hosted on our servers. Same goes with stuff which is in the grey area concerning its legality. As for the Gentoo ISO, we feel that we should link directly to sourceforge since the ISO will be updated quite frequently.

Download Link: King Kong Shader exploit for XeLL
Download Link: Gentoo Linux Xenon minimal LiveCD (Sourceforge Link. Click on gentoo-xenon-minimal-2006.1.iso on that page to download)
Link: King Kong Shader Exploit for the XELL Loader readme
Link: Gentoo Linux Xenon minimal-2006.1 readme

Tux - Image 1In the short time between the first usable exploit for Xbox 360 consoles and today, we’ve already seen a lot of great achievements by people like tmbinc, Cpasjuste, and others. A few hours ago, a new shader exploit using the King Kong game was announced which will allow people to load XeLL and subsequently, any Linux distro without needing a serial connection with a PC.

This patch will modify the King Kong ISO to include a modified shader which will trigger the exploit. Once triggered, the exploit code will automatically eject the King Kong DVD. Just insert Cpasjuste’s modified version of the Gentoo minimal LiveCD. Wait for a few seconds and it should boot right into a minimal Gentoo environment. While its only command line mode for now, you should expect a user-friendly distro like Ubuntu to be released after the necessary patches are applied.

In short, these are the things you will need:

  • An Xbox 360 with an older kernel (4532 or 4548). Anything above that will not be affected by the exploit.
  • A hacked DVDROM drive in the Xbox 360 so that burnt discs can be run.
  • An ISO of the game King Kong (dumped by yourself hopefully, we don’t encourage the use of warez)
  • An ISO of the Gentoo minimal LiveCD (gentoo-xenon-minimal-2006.1.iso)
  • The patcher to patch the King Kong ISO.

All in all, these things will make sure that you have a usable Linux environment on your Xbox 360. Finally, I’d personally like to thank everyone involved in this effort to make it what it is today (Felix “tmbinc” Domke, Cpasjuste, stonersmurf, xorloser and the whole free60.org team), we love you!

Anyways, here’s the links for the relevant stuff. If something is considered illegal, it won’t be hosted on our servers. Same goes with stuff which is in the grey area concerning its legality. As for the Gentoo ISO, we feel that we should link directly to sourceforge since the ISO will be updated quite frequently.

Download Link: King Kong Shader exploit for XeLL
Download Link: Gentoo Linux Xenon minimal LiveCD (Sourceforge Link. Click on gentoo-xenon-minimal-2006.1.iso on that page to download)
Link: King Kong Shader Exploit for the XELL Loader readme
Link: Gentoo Linux Xenon minimal-2006.1 readme

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