June 4th: The Xbox is discontinued in Japan.Īugust 9th: Microsoft announces a Halo feature film for release in summer 2008.Īugust 14th: XNA Game Studio Express is announced, giving anyone a chance to make games for the Xbox 360. June 14th: Reportedly, an Xbox Team member brought a modded Xbox loaded with Avalaunch and homebrew apps to a meeting with Bill Gates, in which Gates said "How can we engage this community?", showing a mild support and interest in the hacking scene. May 14th: Commodore4eva (c4eva) releases the first cracked DVD firmware for the Xbox 360's TS-H943 DVD drive. May 9th: A Halo 3 trailer is shown at the Microsoft E3 Press Conference. March 25th: DVD firmware flashing is achieved via USB.Īpril 7th: Datel announces a SATA to USB device for the Xbox 360 hard drive called XSATA. March 18th: TheSpecialist announces that the Xbox 360 DVD drive firmware has been hacked to boot burned copies of unmodified Xbox 360 games. March 4th: An adapter, called 360SATA, is created to connect your Xbox 360 hard drive to your PC via USB. January 30th: Dashboard 2255 update is pushed which, among other things, blocked the burnable kiosk disc from running.įebruary 9th: Anthony Park creates a web browser usable on the Xbox 360 using Windows Media Center.įebruary 13th: Roofus and AngerWound release Xplorer360, an application to read/write from Xbox 360 hard drives and USB storage devices.įebruary 15th: Microsoft partners up with Points International to create a rewards points system, which later becomes Microsoft Points.įebruary 22nd: Datel creates an Xbox 360 transfer kit to plug an Xbox 360 memory card into your PC via USB to access the files.įebruary 27th: Microsoft announces Project Oragami, a discontinued tablet computer with the ability to connect to the Xbox 360 to be used as a second screen. January 18th: A unique 16 byte key is found when comparing DVD firmware dumps. January 7th: Rymez2K successfully transfers a game save from the original Xbox to Xbox 360 by mounting a FATX storage device in Linux and injecting it. Users begin to use a modified Hexic that unlocks acheivements for the game. ![]() SWF flash file into the XBLA game Hexic and play it. January 2nd: The first case of homebrew software is possible on the Xbox 360. Warnings are put on the Xbox 360 packaging. This is the first instance of homebrew code running at a level outside of userland, as the GPU processes it.ĭecember 28th: XBLA game Hexic from the burnable kiosk demo disc is found to be an Adobe Flash emulator.ĭecember 3rd: It is discovered that some disc drives will scratch games if the system is moved. User "Tser" discovers that he can edit the script files that compile a shader at runtime in the Peter Jackson's King Kong demo on the kiosk demo disc. November 23rd: Many users report issues (E 64, E 74, E 79) with their brand new Xbox 360s.ĭecember 2nd: The Xbox 360 is released in Europe.ĭecember 10th: The Xbox 360 is launched in Japan.ĭecember 21st: The last Xbox game in Japan, NBA Live 07, is released.ĭecember 27th: A kiosk demo disc is found to be bootable from burned discs. ![]() November 22nd: The Xbox 360 is released in North America. November 6th: The first instance of Red Ring of Death (RROD/E 74) was found in a Walmart kiosk prior to launch. Because of this, it does not qualify as a "technological protection measure" (TPM) device as they claimed and thus modchips are declared legal in Australia again. ![]() October 6th: The Australian Stevens v Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment case is taken to High Court and it is ruled that Sony's PlayStation was designed to prevent illegal copies of games being played, and was not designed to prevent illegal copying. September 27th: Microsoft declares support for HD-DVD, in opposition to Blu-Ray, technology. Andrew "bunnie" Huang joins the Free60 Project.Īugust 17th: Official launch price of the Xbox 360 is announced to be $299.99 at GC2005. May 23rd: The Xbox-Linux team begins the Free60 Project, dedicated to port Linux to the Xbox 360. May 15th: Bill Gates announces that Halo 3 will launch on the launch day of the PlayStation 3. The official Xbox 360 website,, opens its doors. Original Xbox games are demonstrated on the system, confirming backwards compatibility. May 12th: The Xbox 360 is unveiled on MTV, confirming leaked data including the name, the logo, the wireless controllers, the system specs, and the console design. ![]() March 24th: Microsoft reveals a games development platform, XNA (which stands for "XNA's Not Acronymed") for the unannounced Xbox successor.
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