It looks like the makers and sellers of mod chips aren't wasting any time. A number of companies are popping up claiming to be developing chips or boards that take advance of the newly discovered Reset Glitch Hack on the Xbox 360. That hack allows unsigned code to be dumped onto the system, bypassing the software security. For modders that means Linux and emulators running on the system.
The Reset Glitch Hack was recently released by the two hackers GliGli and Tyros, who explained what was actually happening as well as publishing a nice YouTube video that demonstrated the processes. The hack requires some know how and access to the actual system board of the 360. The process involves sending signals to the CPU to change the clock speed at particular times. That isn't exactly something simple to do and a board to help along with the process seems almost necessary.
A slew of companies have announced products and thrown up quicky webpages. Edge-360 has a product that it claims can be connected with 7 wires on the new, slim 360s and 6 wires on the older Xenon, fat models. The board will apparently keep trying the Reset Glitch process until it is successful, which is a nice feature to have. The hack is said to work approximately 1 in 4 tries, so having a board repeat until there's a win seems necessary. Edge-360 doesn't offer a price or any retailers yet and the website is haphazardly thrown together.
Another option is the X360 Glitchip offering the same suite of features as the Edge-360 option, but also claiming that no other board is needed to make this thing dump unsigned code onto the 360. The Edge-360 offering seems to indicate a NAND programmer is also needed, but doesn't do a great job of detailing that extra part. The Glitchip is already available for preorder for 26 euro which is only about $36.50 US.
Another product called the 360-clip isn't exactly taking advantage of the Reset Glitch Hack but instead just offers a cheap, easy to connect NAND flashing solution. I imagine that the combination of this and the Edge-360 would give you a complete, hacking suite to get Linux running on your 360 relatively quickly. That website is particularly horrendous and doesn't have any information beyond detailing what the board looks like and what it's supposed to do. No price information there to speak of.
It took little to no time for mod chip makers to jump on this new hack. It's really just a matter of time before getting emulators or Linux on your 360 is as easy as plugging in an external board and hitting go. Do you want to use your 360 for this kind of stuff or do you feel like you're better off just putting together a cheap PC for the task? If you are interested would you give one of these boards a shot or wait for another solution to come down the pipe?
