hey i've been talking it up on mirc chatrooms and reading random xbox forums looking for answers to my question and I think i've found one
the only BIG way that is well known now to get on xbox live with backups is with the fw hack
this is a little complicated though and a little expensive as in buying the correct drives..etc..
i have already done this
HOWEVER------------------
I read somewhere that maybe a year or two ago a dude named Paulozb, Paul, or Paul from Australia found the patch of code that xbox live checks for in bioses when it scans the bios to see if its authentic when banning people. As of to date, no modified bios like evox, unleashx, x2, has that patch of code and therefore xbox live runs a red flag on it and bans the eeprom of that xbox.
However, as the story goes the dude named paul figured out what the patch of code was, what exactly xbox live was looking for in the bios, and added it to his x2 bios, and went on live with his modded bios running. He played a backup that day, the next and the next. But he never released his findings.
I've also heard of a person named angerwound doing somethign similar with an xbe exploit where you can somehow manage to go on xbox live without getting banned again with ur modified bios. He has a video of himself modding on pgr2 called "screw that man." that he taped while he was on xbox live
MY QUESTION IS anyone know anything about these mods, how they can be done, what happened to those named people, these hacks woudl be 20 times better than the fw hack.
thanks for reading