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[wickedd]

you just dont know anything about your dad

[jarret08]

QUOTE(wickedd @ Nov 25 2008, 11:59 AM)

you just dont know anything about your dad

Not anything. Yep. But I know that his 360 isnt flashed or modded in anyway.
MS repaired his 360 in April 08 without any problems. You really think they done this if his 360 were flashed?
He bought his 360 in 2006. So why who should wait with the flash until June 2008? If he want to the 360 were allready flashed in 2006. Didnt you think.

[randellroff]

QUOTE(nortnil @ Nov 24 2008, 02:18 AM)

That's my question also.  Microsoft has no way of detecting if the firmware on the drive is the original or not?

Thirded.  Can I just play original games thru Xbox Live regardless of having a modded system?

[Reaper527]

QUOTE(Haygar @ Nov 22 2008, 12:52 AM)

Does this still apply to playing said backups totally offline or is that an unknown ?

QUOTE(Havok @ Nov 22 2008, 08:35 PM)

Ban waves don't start and end.. MS flags the console for banning continuously of time...  As long as you never have the network cable plugged in while a backup is in the system you should be OK.

there is speculation that the system keeps an offline log, stored on a flashchip in a file called secdata.bin. personally i wouldn't  recommend playing bad backups at all on a system that will ever connect to live.

[headonism]

just been kicked off xbox live when i check to see if banned it says that its maybe my router or my isp....

my internet is working fine!!!!!!!

i will find out tomorow when i phone them...

the time was 23:30hrs

[Analyzer52]

Xbox.com is down too.

[nortnil]

I was wanting to mod my DVD drive to play back ups.  Is there anyway to do this and stay safe on live?  I can use the original disks for live but it would be nice to have back ups of the single player games I play the most for offline play.  

Any sure fire way to do this or is it still kind of up in the air with the new ban wave?

[redsoxrule]

Been still running 1.4 Ixtreme, running every day on live with a backup of gow2, my original is set aside due to kid scratching, buy anyway..updated to nxe, using netflix, gold member...not banned as of today.

[ghaladream]

Same. I flashed my BenQ Elite with 1.41 back in August 2008, then spoofed to a Sammy MS28 iXtreme 1.4 a couple of months later because the BenQ was giving me issues. Been going strong ever since, not banned. Whatever MS is/Was looking for during the November ban wave, obviousely didn't affect me. It HAS to be something VERY specific, otherwise I'd have been caught.

[nortnil]

So most likely it was people playing pre-released games and bad rips?

[Roupus]

Do you think that Microsoft just comes on sites such as these and looks at say a thread like this one with xboxlive issues and ppl come and post that their console is modded and these ppl that are boasting about their modded consoles have also linked their gamertag to their xboxscene profile. so microsoft decides to take a closer look at these particular profiles and find out that their console is in fact modded.

[Chancer]

QUOTE(Roupus @ Dec 7 2008, 04:43 AM)

Do you think that Microsoft just comes on sites such as these and looks at say a thread like this one with xboxlive issues and ppl come and post that their console is modded and these ppl that are boasting about their modded consoles have also linked their gamertag to their xboxscene profile. so microsoft decides to take a closer look at these particular profiles and find out that their console is in fact modded.

No.
You can't ban someone just because they claim something on the internet.

[nortnil]

Has anyone been able to come up with any educated guesses as to what is getting people banned from live yet?

[playerman]

QUOTE(Millerboy3 @ Dec 10 2008, 06:08 AM)

this is my guess so far.

First thing.Sorry for my english  
Second thing i have my own  solution for banning.I dont know is it good or not but still im using it and i wasnt banned so far (Xbox Elite with samsung ms28 spoofed as liteon) and im playing bad rips and pre-realesed games(but not on xbox live).
Solution: I have two profiles: 1 on on my hard drive and second one on my 512mb memory unit.
If i want to play on the live with my original game i just connect my memory unit with live gamertag disconect my hard drive and im playing.If I want to play  on bad rips, pre-realesed games or any other backups i just disconnect lan cable and memory unit ,connect hard drive and playing.
In that way Microsoft cannot check the date when i was playing on my backup games because they only can see my online profile from memory unit where im playing only original games
Mayby it gonna be helpful.See Ya

[Reaper527]

QUOTE(playerman @ Dec 10 2008, 01:14 PM)

First thing.Sorry for my english  
Second thing i have my own  solution for banning.I dont know is it good or not but still im using it and i wasnt banned so far (Xbox Elite with samsung ms28 spoofed as liteon) and im playing bad rips and pre-realesed games(but not on xbox live).
Solution: I have two profiles: 1 on on my hard drive and second one on my 512mb memory unit.
If i want to play on the live with my original game i just connect my memory unit with live gamertag disconect my hard drive and im playing.If I want to play  on bad rips, pre-realesed games or any other backups i just disconnect lan cable and memory unit ,connect hard drive and playing.
In that way Microsoft cannot check the date when i was playing on my backup games because they only can see my online profile from memory unit where im playing only original games
Mayby it gonna be helpful.See Ya

that might protect you right now, but it won't necessarily protect you in the future. your method doesn't take secdata.bin into account. (a file stored in a flash chip on the motherboard, which keeps information about the games your playing).

ms could easily use this data in the future to ban people if they wanted to.

if you really want to be safe, rip your own discs