Your Xbox 360 can run homebrew

Read or follow along at your risk. Improperly doing stuff like this is not a good thing. This is obviously not official.

With the advent of an exploit kind of thing called Bad Update, any Xbox 360 can run software that you want. Sadly this doesn’t work 100% of the time but it’s a nice/cool new thing to experiment with. Mainly I wanted to use it for something I always thought about in a way, that was playing emulators.

The first steps are complicated but it involves running a game and then a sort of file interjects itself into the game when you boot it up. However this file, even though it does work and gets through the security layer or whatever, is still based on a race condition so it could work first try or it could not until a couple attempts at least within the span of 20 minute sessions.

Yeah, it could take multiple sessions for it to finally click together. After running it you can do almost anything but installing stuff or changing major parts of the console. However in this case, what if you just want to play an old game. Well I found an old PS1 homebrew emulator for the 360. It may have been a little bit odd to use but it worked.

There it is. Metal gear solid running on the Xbox 360. Sadly I don’t have both of them in the same picture but since you could just try it yourself, and this would be weird to lie about, I would assume you believe me when I say that.

I hope you found this kind of thing cool. Just something I learned and tried, maybe it inspires you to do something with these old consoles which might just be sitting around collecting pieces of dust.