QUOTE(insanity4all @ Mar 27 2010, 07:59 AM)

Personally I would keep mine set at Level 2, Level 3 will force ABGX to patch your SS files with the online database's. If you're not using a Kreon/0800 drive, for ripping; then this is recommended. Otherwise it's more or less a personal option.
FACTS- Level 3 will patch your image with the online database, especially in the past few months, it seems ABGX wants to auto patch EVERY game I do. So I dropped mine to LV2. ANYONE can upload files to ABGX to be used for patching. I'm sure they have some form of checks done, but some get nuked. AFTER they have already been ?approved? USED. Wouldn't surprise me if MS or just annoying kids have intentionally uploaded false(banning) files.
My two cents.
Being a member of the abgx360 team, I can assure you that not just anyone can upload files to the abgx360 database. Your rips are probably getting patched due to the fact that you have a pressing that's not in the database. All of our uploaders are using 0800 ONLY to rip. And kreon isn't recommended for ripping at all since it doesn't support ssv2.
QUOTE(sittingduck77 @ Mar 27 2010, 11:23 AM)

But aren't there also SSV1 rips in the database - when was the 0800 requirement introduced?
of course there are ssv1 rips in the database, ssv2 wasn't even 'required' til LT came out. As far as the 0800 requirement, it was added sometime around the release of ixtreme 1.5 I believe.