Modified Xbox 360s banned from Live

Kinetic^

You're better off doing that Tank Top, I'd say you play offline and online 50/50 so there's no point in chucking your banned xbox live console.

weeder

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=603910&st=0

lol how to not get banned

Kinetic^

Cool, I only bought another one on thursday and had it flashed straight away, no problems so far......thank fcuk as most of my play is online!!!

Tank Top Fever!

Kenny 5 wrote:

You're better off doing that Tank Top, I'd say you play offline and online 50/50 so there's no point in chucking your banned xbox live console.

exactly man, you can never have enough xboxes!

The Freeman

axer wrote:

Except thats illegal.

I think you meant to say that it allows you to play backups of the games you currently own.

not at all mate!


a mate has his flashed downloads the games of the net, and burns them with his dual layered burner and he works them straight of the copied discs;)

axer

The Freeman wrote:

not at all mate!

I think you missed the point...

The Freeman wrote:

a mate has his flashed downloads the games of the net, and burns them with his dual layered burner and he works them straight of the copied discs;)

That is illegal.

~Marky~

Got banned this morning :mad: but at least now I have a reason to buy the elite 360 when it comes out..

The Freeman

axer wrote:

I think you missed the point...

That is illegal.

indeed i did miss the point, apologies all:o

Stokolan

~Marky~ wrote:

Got banned this morning :mad: but at least now I have a reason to buy the elite 360 when it comes out..

Yeah I'll probably do the same myself but will wait and see if my second 360 gets banned

Helix

reviews of the elite all make it sound very very pointless

Tank Top Fever!

Bought myself a new core and I'm back online, it's been a horrid few days ha

god's toy

Tank Top Fever! wrote:

Bought myself a new core and I'm back online, it's been a horrid few days ha

Can you still sing in to your 'old' profile, or is that locked out??

Tank Top Fever!

god's toy wrote:

Can you still sing in to your 'old' profile, or is that locked out??

Yep, all that's been banned is the console, not the gamertag, so all they've really done is banned people playing copied games online, you can still play them offline, just swap the hard drive into the other machine

god's toy

Cool! Thats good to know :)

skywalker

mickoneill30 wrote:

Did you ever see the Xbox 1 modded? Cool media centre, web browser, RSS feeds, emulators for piles of old consoles, homebrew, ability to run games from your HDD.

I think that's the eventual goal for the modders of 360s. Haven't gotten there yet though.

Is there an actual browser for the orig xbox? Havent come across that.

axer

skywalker wrote:

Is there an actual browser for the orig xbox? Havent come across that.

Linksbox - not sure if there is another though.

Kinetic^

Hmm, I got my new 360 on Thursday. Got it flashed before I even went on Xbox Live and it's still working........please work forever!!!!:)

Tank Top Fever!

Kenny 5 wrote:

Hmm, I got my new 360 on Thursday. Got it flashed before I even went on Xbox Live and it's still working........please work forever!!!!:)

there's a guy on Xbox-scene claiming people who modded the consoles before going live will be fine

He claims Microsoft still can't detect the flashed firmware, but each console when first signed up to live leaves a fingerprint of its various codes, flashing it changes one of the codes, which Microsoft are flagging as meaning you have a modded box

Kinetic^

Hmm, hopefully that guy is right!!!!

Stokolan

Tank Top Fever! wrote:

there's a guy on Xbox-scene claiming people who modded the consoles before going live will be fine

He claims Microsoft still can't detect the flashed firmware, but each console when first signed up to live leaves a fingerprint of its various codes, flashing it changes one of the codes, which Microsoft are flagging as meaning you have a modded box

I can see this being a possibility, but I used my 360 for a year on live then after what i thought was the warranty period I decided to get it done. And that console still hasn't been banned yet.

Wudyaquit

Excuse my ignorance but I've read through all these posts and can someone confirm if the following is the tradeoff between modding and not:
Not Modded - you can play online with no danger of being turfed out
Modded - you may be banned from playing online, but on the other hand you can save backup copies of your games.
Also, people illegally can play unauthorised versions of games with a modded 360.

Is this it? Also, can anyone recommend a modchip if I decide to go with one - what's the difference in them?

EricM

Well theres the new ixtreme firmware now so you can play online without getting detected.