The Innocent X said:
MS have achieved their current goal. The banned consoles won`t be coming back. At the very least the hackers will have to buy another console and mod it, and then live in fear of losing another.
or buy another console for the games they'll buy/rent and play online, and use their banned console for warez...
or buy another console, swap the insides, mod the new one, and the other one is ****ed whoever gets it...
or trade in their banned console, buy another and mod it, and whoever gets the other console is ****ed...
actually, that could be a good thing, it could kill the used console market and weaken gamestop!
Munin said:
I doubt MS have only one possible method of looking for modded consoles - even if they manage to defeat the method currently used, MS will do something new.
and maybe this time it won't take over a year!
The Innocent X said:
I should think its a bit more devious than that. Probably a unique hardware key based on the motherboard.
Once you are banned a drive firmware can`t bring you back, unless they cracked the motherboard firmware, which I don't believe they have.
from what i read, the hardware id in the hypervisor is used to identify the console.
so yeah, a banned console is done for good, no eeprom swapping this time around.
Agent Icebeezy said:
C4eva trying to keep the masses hope up. :lol
hey over a year ago, people said MS would stomp this out quickly.
they're still stomping, plus, alot of people still aren't banned.
Pimpwerx said:
I'm amazed that people are mad about this. This is the risk you undertook when you willingly modded your 360. If/when Sony finds a way to brick unlocked PSPs, I'll be scared shitless, but I wouldn't get mad at them. We are losing money for these companies. Man up for your actions. Good job by MS IMO. PEACE.
that's the most disturbing thing... yeah, people had their free games, the free ride is over, try buying a game or three... dont cry like someone stole your lollipop!
DarkAngelYuna said:
MS actually missed tons of modded 360s. Mines using old firmware and has been on almost all day since they started the banning and I'm still fine..
wanna play the halo 3 beta?
Xavien said:
modders are not always pirates, hell if they could bring out a completely stealthed mod-chip for the wii, i would buy it and install it.
Why? because of Super Paper Mario and Trauma Center, games that we won't get over here till July or later (brought legally from the states/canada ofcourse).
Xbox 360 dvdrom firmware mods only enable bootleg games. not imports. not homebrew. only bootleg games.