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[SHANE02]

My brother in-law back home has had his 360 for maybe 3 months, flashed with the latest FW. He never used a game that wasn't ripped post retail by himself with his own Kreon. He ran them all thru ABGX to verify stealth asn SS etc. All games passed and verified before burn. He has never used a wave 4 game.
He has been banned.


To me that says MS can see a flashed drive . Maybe something to do with the dash update. there are millions of theories. After He called me I checked and yeah, I'm banned. but to me it's expected, sometimes I never verified stealth at all.

C4EVA is working on a new "undetectable" FW, but until then, or even then, good luck with this latest ban wave 360 hackers. You're gonna need it.

[spanky1off]

thats why u need to own 2 machines. keep a mod one for offline gaming whether banned or not it dont matter. unmodded for live n get the origs of the title u really wanna play (after trying em out for next to free of course!).

[SHANE02]

It's a great idea if you like to play on Live. Boxes are cheap enough.

[Horangi Munshin]

Yep. I have a mate who does that. Don't mix up each box though!

Some stores sell used and trade games too, if you're looking to save money.

[Darkray16]

They probably banned people running bad wave 4 copies. Long story short, the newer games are a bit different and a new firmware hack wasn't released until recently so many of the people who were banned were probably playing it on the old 1.51 firmware which doesn't check to make sure your copy is correctly patched.

Everything is alright now as long as you use firmware 1.61

[kerbythepurplecow]

I got banned. Don't really know how they caught on. I only used live for dlc though, so that's fine with me. Now I save money by having no dlc impulse buys

The other good part is not having to make the trip up to Yongsan for the new firmware since I can just mod wave 4 to look like wave 3 with no more ban worries

[SHANE02]

[SHANE02]

[kerbythepurplecow]

[smogdonkey]

One theory is that Activision pushed for it for the release of Modern Warfare 2, because of the immense popularity of the online portion of the game.

I haven't touched single player yet...

[Darkray16]

BTW, there is a new firmware for wave 4 discs, Firmware 1.61, it's easy to flash it yourself if you got the tools to open up the console like I do.

My guess is that you guys had firmware 1.51 which has NO security checks and allows all discs to play and at one point stuck in a disc that wasn't correctly patched.

You said "latest" firmware, which shows me that you probably didn't know which firmware version you were running and just trusted the guy who did it for you that it really is the latest.

When you log on to live with an incorrectly patched disc it is recorded and the ban might not come immediately. I've also read that when you stick a disc into your drive, and the mainboard does a security check on the dvd drive, it will record if a badly patched disc is in there even if you are offline, waiting for when you are on live to send the "modder" signal to live.

BTW I do Xbox 360 mods in Seoul area if anyone's interested.

[smogdonkey]

dude over a million people were banned. make a quick buck if you can, but if you have less than two xbox 360s in your household... really?

if you play xbox for free games offline, then game on. if you can afford an xbox, but not $60 for a game, then welcome back to the real world.

[spanky1off]

i have a question about banned consoles and their hard drives...

basically can i use a hard drive on an unbanned console for downloadable content then switch that hard drive to a modded banned console?

also i bought this banned one 2nd hand...how can i ckeck what firmware is in it?

[SHANE02]

[SHANE02]