How Tony Hawk hacked 3 Generations of Video Game Consoles

Tony Hawk’s is a series of skateboarding video games published by Activision and endorsed by the American professional skateboarder Tony Hawk. From 1999 to 2007, the series was primarily developed for home consoles by Neversoft with generally annual releases. The series was a global phenomenon selling millions and was one of the best-selling video game franchises of the early 2000s. However, it turns out that some of the games were riddled with code that can be exploited for unauthorized code execution. Here is how the Tony Hawk series can hack 3 generations of home console starting from the Sony PlayStation to the Xbox 360 by using buffer overrun exploits.

Sources:

► https://github.com/socram8888/tonyhax
► https://orca.pet/tonyhax/
► https://github.com/grimdoomer/TonyHawksProStrcpy
► https://github.com/grimdoomer/Xbox360BadUpdate
► https://icode4.coffee/?p=954

Timestamps:

00:00 – Intro to Tony Hawk
02:26 – Buffer Overruns
05:14 – Tony Hawk Exploits for the PS1, OG Xbox, GameCube and PS2
08:32 – Tony Hawk hacks the Xbox 360 Hypervisor
11:19 – Conclusion

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