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Come to think of it, isn't this how Xbox (360?) piracy protections were breached for a long while? People were flashing hacked DVD-ROM firmwares to make burned discs appear like legit ones.

You had to duplicate some key material, IIRC. Also, not as trivial as you might think.

This lets you play "backups" of games, enabling piracy. It doesn't let you run unsigned code (those required other cracks) or sign anything (such as save files).

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