How to Jailbreak Xbox 360: The Xbox360 is a home video game console for gamers by Microsoft Inc. What would be the motive behind the introduction of Xbox360? Significantly to compete with Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii. It has been the part of seventh generation video game consoles. The Xbox 360 has arrived with loads of built-in exciting games. But it also came with jailbreaking functionality.
What is jailbreaking? It means rooting your device so that you can install and modify your system software. Why one has to jailbreak the game console(Xbox 360)?. By jailbreaking the game console you can install more third-party games. Apart from the built-in games, you can also access your favorite games after jailbreaking.
Yes, what you have read was right. But how to jailbreak the Xbox 360? What are the pros and cons of jailbreaking the console? Well, let’s get an answer to your questions in the following content.
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REQUIREMENTS FOR JAILBREAKING XBOX 360
Let’s see what are all the requirements you need in order to jailbreak your Xbox 360.
- Xbox 360 console
- Jailbreaking software
All Xbox 360 game console Fat/Phat models are compatible with jailbreaking. Jailbreaking your Xbox 360 will provide you with complete administrator and developer rights over your console. Once you finish the process of jailbreaking, you can play new games that were previously unsupported.
You can backup games directly to your console. Also, you can install new game mods, run third party software which was not supported on Xbox 360. Simply, you can do everything which you can’t do in the previous Xbox 360. You may feel like handling a different game console, not the one which you have bought.
NOTE
Before getting into the jailbreaking process, chiefly update your Xbox360 to the latest firmware. Then install and be ready with a jailbreak software using a Windows-based computer. You will need a USB with at least 512MB storage or HDD( Hard drive disc).
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HOW TO JAILBREAK XBOX 360?
As mentioned above be prepared with the Xbox 360 console and a USB with 512MB storage. If you have fulfilled all the requirements then continue with the following steps.
STEP 1:
First of all you will need to identify the age of your Xbox 360 console. There will be a sticker near the AV port on the backside of the console.
STEP 2:
There you will find the manufacturing date as well as the console’s serial and product ID.
STEP3 :
I hope you might not have removed the sticker.
STEP 4:
Download tested and verified jailbreaking software from any of the websites.
STEP 5:
Double click on the .zip file in order to extract the folders contents.
STEP 6:
Insert a USB flash drive into the Windows computer or laptop and install the software. The flash drive must have at least 2 GB of memory space to install the jailbreaking software.
STEP 7:
Create a new folder on the drive in the name of ‘system update’.
STEP 8:
Copy the system update folder from your computer to the flash drive.
STEP 9:
Eject the drive and plug it in Xbox 360’s open port.
STEP 10:
Open Xbox 360’s system settings and select “update via external storage”.
STEP 11:
Proceed with the instructions displayed and install the system software update.
STEP 12:
It would take approximately 10-15 minutes for the update to install.
STEP 13:
Don’t forget to restart the console once the system update finishes.
STEP 14:
After rebooting, now you are ready to use the new custom firmware on your Xbox 360.
However, Your custom software has been successfully installed and ready to satisfy your quench for gaming.
CONCLUSION
That’s all guys. I hope that you have got satisfaction with the methods and content. By following the above-given steps properly you can successfully jailbreak your Xbox 360 console. The only Con in jailbreaking is that you won’t get any updates for your console. Apart from that, by jailbreaking you can satisfy your gaming quench. Stay on the track and update yourself with technology.