Guys,
I had been musing over the possibility of forced dash updates on comercial released software, with the possiblity of games not running without an updated dash. M$ could probably do this especially with their own internaly developed games (halo2). I agree with previous posts that it will be hard to force other software developers to adhere to it.
Here is an even better scenerio. M$ makes a new bios that will only use the new dash2. This way there would be no way to install an older dash on new xboxes without flashing the tsop (which they could also prevent if they wanted by using a once write prom). Therefore rendering the the exploits useless.
I am willing to bet that if games start to do checks for dash versions or other modifications that it will be pretty easy to patch or hack games to return postitive flags for these checks. So you may not be able to play something new for 3 days until a patch comes down the pipe but it won't be the end of the world.
Also come on people this is M$, as we all know for every hole they close in their products 3 more are discovered. The awesomely compitent groups out there will probably have dash2 hacked before its ever shipping on retail CDs.
Here is an idea. Why doesn't someone make a utility to hide a partition on the xbox hard drive. I use this type of thing on the PC all the time. This way you could have 2 C/E/X/Y/Z partitions and just hide one set and boot the other. One set could have your retail stuff and the other your exploited stuff. If you have the retail partitions booting then you would have to use 007/mech to get back in to run the app (which would have to be signed) and switch to the exploited partitions but it would allow you to totally shield your exploits from M$ and allow you to update your dash and all without fear of it messing with your exploits. This is just a software solution to having 2 hard drives which is what I am currently doing. Any thoughts on this?
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