Xbox Exploit

[Maral Mende]

Nowwith that out of the way, I would like to share with some of you who may not be familiar with this particular exploit. Rhobart is the gentlemen who's house is in the middle of the swamp just up the hill from the bandit camp. Mr. Rhobart makes beer from weed and will pay you in gold and experience for all that you find. The good thing is for every ten weeds you give him, you get 70 gold and 50 exp. Nice!

A: Simple! All you have to do is give Rhobart all your weed (in multiples of 10), exit the dialog screen, and then beat the living hell out him! When he is knocked out on the ground, collect your weed off his body, wait for him to get back up and ..... well you guessed it! Rinse and repeat as many times as you like.

A few tips - obviously the more weed you have, the faster you will get exp and gold. For example if you have 50 weeds you will earn 350 gold and 250 experience per K.O. So the more the better. Rolled weed reefer does not count, so please, only certified unmolested hydroponic need apply. PLEASE be sure to save your game plenty just in case you get over zealous and decide to run your blade through the poor bastard while he is down for the 10 count.

You can access Rhobart from the start of the game, but you will need 10 weed at the least to be able to do this exploit. Once you enter the Don's camp if you go to the right hand side and follow the cliff side you will eventually find a hill going up to the right. Once at the top of the hill turn right again and you will see another swamp with a wooden mill hut, Rhobart should be walking around on the wooden decking out the front.

Is Rhobart difficult to "knock down" below a certain level? When's a good time to start grinding on him? It seems best to follow what God is doing, but is level 7-8 too low? or acceptable? (I am an oldschool grinder, killing him for 10hours striaght to get lvl 50 won't be annoying to me)

You can knock him down at any level with ease, I was level 4 on my most recent playthrough when I started knocking him down, and he only took about 6-10 hits maybe less cant quite remember, but he definately isn't hard. I would still hold out on doing it though unless you're desperate, cos i waited until i had at least 50 weed so I was actually getting something from him because any less and you'll take an eternity. However it is very helpful at the start of the game to make some money.

I know a guy here in Saint Louis... er um I mean by camp you mean the Bandit camp? If not, look there...also when I was doing the Vassal ring quest from CH1 I found numerous weeds due to the fact that alot of the skeleton keeps are by bodies of water. That's the key of course, they tend to grow near water.

You can find weed anywhere were there is water. Some locations off the top of my head are; The Don's camp swamp, Rhobarts swamp, Rhobarts helper he sells some (Restocks every chapter), Eastern Temple Swamp, Little swamp under the Monastery, Swamp underneath the little farm with the mage Henson, Next to all of the ocean fronts. That is about all of them I think, but theres probably loads more locations, but that should definately net you a good 50-70

With the pick pocket it only works once so it is a waste of 10 lp ( pickpocket lv2 ). Best way to do is corner him by his bed and then start grinding as he cant dodge when in corner also I have found leaving his weapons on the ground will prevent him arming himself with a new weapon so beating him down will be that much easier. This is not really worth doing if you have anything less than 50 brugleweed as 10 weed = 70 gold + 50 exp.

ENDGAME was developed by Markus Gaasedelen (gaasedelen) with credit to shutterbug2000 for the initial discovery of the exploit vector and first proof of concept and to xbox7887 for minor contributions. The Xbox Softmodding Tool by Rocky5 utilizes this exploit to run the softmod installer. A video of this process can be found on MrMario2011's channel.

One of Microsoft's techniques for tamper-proofing each Xbox console involved the placement of an ATA security lock on the internal HDD. The password used for each lock is partially based upon a special HDD key, uniquely encoded into the Xbox:EEPROM chip on each system's motherboard. The use of unique keys prevents Xbox HDDs from being swapped between game consoles, and also makes it difficult to access the contents through other devices (eg PCs).

After softmodding your Xbox you may easily "uno" its HDD key, setting it to a non-unique string of thirty-two 1's. Secured Xbox HDDs can be readily switched between consoles which are set to use the same key, and if your actual EEPROM backup is ever lost, then accessing or replacing your HDD will be much easier with a key so readily remembered. The convention may also benefit a potential new owner if the console later passes from your hands, as it's well known throughout the Xbox modding scene.

Be aware that if an Xbox has already been registered for use with Insignia, then changing its HDD key afterwards will break that registration (there's no problem registering after your key has been changed). Any pre-installed DLCs / EEPROM-locked saves will also need to be resigned with FeudalNate's Content Recovery Tool before they can be loaded again (there's no problem creating new saves or installing DLCs after your key has been changed). If the console is later hardmodded (for example, by Xbox:TSOP Flashing it), then the HDD can subsequently have its ATA security lock disabled entirely, making a HDD key change quite pointless: secured HDDs are only required when using stock Xbox firmware.

Xbox has had a lot of issues recently with its banning system. We reported not too long ago that Baldur's Gate 3 DVR recordings could cause your account to get banned if you recorded and uploaded any of the intimate scenes in the game. Now there seems to be another black mark on Xbox's automated content enforcement system that has allowed a content creator to get banned through what appears to be no fault of their own, though we have yet to hear a response from Microsoft about whether or not the YouTuber did violate a polity warranting the ban.

First off, we should give credit where it is due. We first saw this come to light from a text in response to the President of Xbox Sarah Bond on Twitter(X) by Rockstar content creator @videotechuk_. You can see the tweet below.

In the Tweet, there is a video embedded from YouTube by Gtamen that explains the situation in more detail though with a healthy dose f humor/sarcasm added on top. If you want to watch the video yourself please feel free to do so, but the important takeaway is that in Minecraft you can do an exploit that allows you to "fill in somebody's GamerTag, then just spam a bunch of slurs, and then report said slurs to Microsoft."

Due to Microsoft's automated banning system, this will lead to a ban on the targeted Xbox account. I don't wish to add a screenshot of the Account Spoof exploit tool that is shown in the video as it has some inappropriate language in it but it is in the video.

Obviously, this is allowing people who like to be trolls online and grief content creators to successfully impersonate anybody they want who has an Xbox GamerTag create policy-violating speech or content, and then report that content with actual attribution to the target individual. This is a huge issue, and we add our voices to others who have asked for Sarah Bond and others at Xbox to resolve this issue as our bringing it to a larger audience could exacerbate the problem.

Large juggernauts like the now Microsoft-owned Call of Duty recently announced they are performing content moderation for live voice chat in Modern Warfare 3. With other initiatives from Xbox to try to automate moderation of content on its platform and in its games, there is also a need to be extra care given to proper attribution and validation of the policy violation before bans are issued.

There has been a lot of talk in 2024 about how bad it would be for Xbox to exit the console market and one of the biggest arguments for why that would be a horrible thing is due to Xbox gamers' huge digital libraries. I, for one, have around 800 digital games in my Xbox library and I can't even imagine the outrage and sense of loss I would feel if an automated action were to ban my Xbox account due to false reports made through an exploit like the one discussed today.

Microsoft is now one of the leading companies in AI in nearly every metric, and I hope as they continue down this path to make the Xbox platform safe for its players it can put a bit more intelligence into the artificial automation Xbox is using to so casually ban players. If a human had reviewed these reports, it is likely that the content creator GhillieMaster wasn't even playing Minecraft at the time the malicious chats were crafted and reported and a human could have easily checked that and not issued a ban.

Xbox has a long way to go, but this should be an easy fix, assuming that it's all true of course. There should be an immediate halt to any bans issued due to Minecraft-reported chat violations until they are reviewed by a human who can verify that this exploit was not used to generate fake inappropriate chats. As Xbox enters into this new realm of being one of the largest publishers in the world with its recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard and King Xbox can do better and it should do better.

On 23th December 2006 at a the 23C3 Hacker Congress in Germany, an anonymous hacker presented a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 using the King Kong game and Macbook Pro connected via a serial-to-USB cable.

The exploit utilizes a bug in the Hypervisor to allow unsigned code execution. A shader in the King Kong game was used to perform the exploit and load arbitrary code with full privileges and full hardware access, to e.g run Linux.

To be able to patch the game, you have to dump the disc to an image file. The easiest way to do this is to get a regular Samsung SH-D162C DVD-ROM reader and flash it with a custom Kreon firmware. This enables the drive to see and read the content of Xbox 1 and Xbox 360 game discs.

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