Banned:
Lite-on DG-16D2S 7485.
iXtreme 1.6
Using Verbatim DL Discs Burned at 2.4x (Unsure of country of origin)
Library of 30 games ripped by me from original game discs only.
About 8 of my rips required a level 3 fix to patch the SS.
All isos pass abgx 1.0 with all greens, were burned using XBC 2.9b306, using imgburn as burning engine, verification enabled (From the .dvd)
Booktype was NOT set, although I am almost 100% positive iXtreme takes care of that now. (My drive does not have booktype firmware available)
Played ZERO wave 4 games, also no early releases that I know of.
What PROBABLY was my mistake: I played a bittorrent release of Dirt 2 (which turned out to be effing corrupted thanks to a lazy ripper or something) and ODST in my first few days with this box without thinking. ETHERNET CABLE UNPLUGGED, but signed into my live account in offline mode. Anyone know if this allows disc checks to be cached, and then submitted later? It was a impatient mistake probably, I didn't have any games at that point and was anxious, having been without an xbox for a year or so. (Had never heard of abgx)
Banned while on live, Unreal Tournament 3 in drive. Interestingly corrupted a local profile too that was logged in a moment before, but not currently. Didn't know the banhammer did that. (was switching to guest mode for a buddy to play UT3 multiplayer.) I didn't see any UT3 save fiels when I recovered the drive, I will have to experiment as to whether these were deleted, or whether I had not progressed far enough to create them yet. Any advice as to whether any rumors I've heard about the HDD being tagged is true? I replaced the drive, but have imported my live account, and savegames. Bad idea? This would theoretically give M$ my new HWIDs, but do they use this? I wouldn't think so, since a user could "go clean", and the live account is one way M$ actually IS getting paid. (That is why I suspect that they allow you to keep your account and gamerscore. To keep you with the xbox line of consoles.)
NOT Banned:
2x Lite-on DG-16D2S 83850C @ iXtreme 1.6 (My two friends I take care of)
Played no wave4 games.
Played same games on same medium as banned box. (Burned by me) But not bittorrent isos. Have a slightly smaller selection of burned games.
I've been cracking xboxes for about two years now, and would really love some expert feedback on those questions. Thanks! PS my xbox is already replaced and singing along on a new 83850C, bite me M$. And thanks, my drive was probably getting a little worn from all those pirated games, the new one should last me a while longer.