[dirGames-L] OT: Xbox 360 Using Flash

[Ian Wood]

Greetings all,

This has been a hot topic over the last few days among people trying to 
hack the new Xbox 360, but I thought it was interesting from a dev point 
of view as well:

It seems the Xbox 360 has had a version of the Flash Player ported to 
it! Some Xbox Live Arcade games (games you can download from the Live 
service directly) are actually Flash. Hexic being one example.

Some people have managed to get their own Flash SWF's running on the 360 
by replacing a demo version of Hexic with their own file on a 360 demo 
disc. The demo disc was originally released by Microsoft but did not 
contain a media flag to prevent it from running on anything other than 
their special media. Thus you can modify and burn the ISO to CDRW and it 
plays back just fine.


If you're interested there's some more info here:
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEFyElpyFEMlyuXcLW.php

And some information on getURL being used to let Flash communicate with 
Live:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=474658&st=30#
(See post #33 by "kanderson")


This could be interesting if MS do open up Xbox development to smaller 
game houses as they imply they might:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/dev/developingforxbox360.htm

It would be quite interesting if Flash projects could be distributed 
this way...


Ian