Xkey for 360 - Solderless USB Loader

Product Features

Xkey360 for Xbox 360 - play all your XBOX 360 games from any USB drive with XBOX360KEY. A xkey for Xbox 360! A one of a kind product which will allow you to play your backups off a USB drive for your Xbox 360!

X360key (another name for Xbox360key) is an awesome product that will allow you to play games from a USB hard drive!

• User friendly: intuitive interface, no soldering required
• Xbox360key is compatible with all fat Xbox 360 models, and 9504 and 0225 Slim models
• Xbox360key supports most Xbox 360 and Xbox 1 games
• Xbox360key supports most file systems, including NTFS, EXT2/3/4, and Mac OS X Extended
• High speed USB2 interface
• Stylish USB control pad for selecting games and controlling your xbox 360 xkey 
• Powerful embedded Linux system running from Micro SD card (included)
• Linux firmware fully updatable from USB media
• FPGA fully updatable from USB media via built-in, in-system JTAG programming
• Recovery mode - it is always possible to recover from a bad flash
• No drive flashing or JTAG hack required
• AP25 protection emulation
• XGD3 supported
• Pass-through mode. (Use your Xbox 360 in "normal mode")
• Multi Disc Games supported

Product Description

Xbox360Key is a new product from the famous Wiikey Team. Famous for the most popular line of Wii modchips, they dominated the market right up until a device called the WODE came out. The WODE has been an extremly successful product becuase its bassically a hardware hack that allows you to run games from a harddrive, insteaed of your original disc. Instead of the Wiikey team bringing out the same product, they have been concentrating for over a year on doing the exact same thing for the xbox 360, and here it is!

How does xbox360key work?

Xbox360key is an Xbox 360 drive emulator. What this means, is that when you load a game via the xkey the xbox 360 actually thinks the game is loading via disc. The 360 thinks the drive is ejecting, a disc is being inserted, the tray closes, the disc spins up, and then loads. Of course non of this is actually happening, its all via emulation, and the data is coming directly from your harddrive!

360 xkey is based of Linux, just like the WODE was. This means that it is compatible with multiple filesystems, but more importantly, is that the feature list can grow and grow and grow. Initially the device will only be made to work with the "PHAT" xboxs and the 9504 and 0225 slim xboxs. There are more Slim xbox types to come in the future, so please look at the compatiblity table below to check if it will work on your box.

Xbox360key consists of 2 parts, a motherboard and a remote.

The motherboard connects to the SATA bus inside the Xbox 360, and sits between the drive and the Xbox 360 motherboard. Xbox360key is a full-fledged computer system running embedded Linux. It is capable of many things such as

• Emulating the Xbox 360 DVD drive 
• Reading USB hard drives and other USB media with various file systems 
• Updating itself and other hardware from USB media;
• Communicating with the remote and other external USB devices 
• And a lot more! (embedded Web server and Wifi connectivity for example)

The remote is a simple yet stylish piece of hardware that features an OLED display and 3 buttons. It connects to the Xbox360key motherboard via a high speed USB2 connection. It also has USB for connecting USB hard drives and other devices. The OLED and buttons are used to control various aspects of Xbox360key. It is also used for browsing attached USB media devices and launching games.

In A Firmware Coming To You Soon:

Support for all slim Xbox 360 models (Aug-Sep 2011)
Web Control Panel*

Work in progress:

• Loading games from NFS and Samba shares*
• Xbox Live support
• Backup original Xbox 360 games to USB hard drive
* Requires WiFi dongle (sold separately)