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A user going by the name feudalnate_ on Reddit figured this out, this doesn't mean we can play games online with a revived Xbox Live, but maybe this is of some use for somebody?
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From the original post.
2-3 months ago I saw a post here, someone asking how they could play Phantasy Star Online without a Xbox LIVE account. Someone else (I think it was /u/KaosEngineeer) responded with a link to accomplish getting an account with a hacky way of going about it. I've been a modder in the Xbox/Xbox 360 scene for sometime so the hacky method had my interest and I bookmarked the linked site. Then last week I was sifting through my bookmarks and saw that link again and again, it sparked my interest.. so I decided to figure out how Xbox LIVE account data was stored, signed, and verified by the Xbox. A few days of researching and reversing the XOnline/Kernel API's and I figured out what I needed. Another few days of programming and I had a working tool to create, edit, sign, verify, read, and write Xbox LIVE account data.
https://i.redd.it/qlx6obe8s6i31.png
With all that said, it really has no use with the exception of a few niche scenarios (such as PSO). It was more so "no one has figured it out yet, I might as well do it". So if anyone has an interest in getting an Xbox LIVE account on their Xbox or if you simply want to know how it was done you can view my GitHub project - I have a full write up on the account data, how it was stored, full source code, and a tool for reading/writing accounts to a Xbox memory card or harddrive
https://github.com/feudalnate/Original-Xbox-LIVE-Account
I've always loved the original Xbox, its modding scene is what drove my interest to learn programming.. nearly 16 years ago. Thanks for reading
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