How far have things moved on?

[Phunky]

I've just bought myself another 360 after all the xmas adverts - yes they worked MS shove a product in our face enough and we will just buy it!

Anyway i flashed my first 360 back when all you had to worry about was no havinga hitachi drive and i was wonder how things have progressed now.

I've read that all the drives can be flashed and that MS still dont really have much of a way of actually detecting you on live (if using stealth)

Sorry if this is a random post but trying to catch up on the scene can be hard

[BL4K3Y]

You can play backups and not get banned on Live but always make sure that they are stealth patched. The new iXtreme 1.5 hasn't been released for the Hitachi drives yet but there should be a release pretty soon.

[Bandit1.3]

Hi well there are still a few people getting banned at the moment. Mines flashed and all games as far as i know are stealth and when ms were having banning people on was on line maybe they just missed me but ive not been on for two month to busy at work. Im not sure if anyone knows how ms detect you may be someone on here will tell us.

[HONCHO]

things to do to not gt banned

1. never update via net for anything
2. games have updates on em & u get system updates via m$ site
3. always use stealth games
4. dont talk about hacked on live
5. never show yer gamertag on hackin forums
6. alays hid yer games u is playin via console settings as well

do this and you should be ok ,

the way some of us think they are getting banning info is when u update via live they could be taking a snap shot of yer config/firmware

[ashbuster]

most games dont let you play online if you dont update it when a update appears
and i update it when the update pops up and im still online

[HONCHO]

nah bro u pull oot power from modem and restart game then it will update then u restart console then u go on line games have the updtes ion them in the disdc but its auto chooses the live option bro u not know that na

also can get updates from online as well via rs or ftp or nzb groupes ecte ct i never update via livfe and have most games oot there tbh

[Phunky]

Originally Posted by HONCHO

nah bro u pull oot power from modem and restart game then it will update then u restart console then u go on line games have the updtes ion them in the disdc but its auto chooses the live option bro u not know that na

also can get updates from online as well via rs or ftp or nzb groupes ecte ct i never update via livfe and have most games oot there tbh

Wow i see the Engrish language has come a long way! joke

Live bans where normally delayed anyway, don't remember ever reading anywhere that an update would automatically ban you. The only thing that was really kicking about before was checking the speed the disc was spinning at as a lot of firmware back then allowed you to increase the spin speed.

I don't plan on flashing my Elite just yet but i just wanted to see if anything had moved on other than plain piracy side ie: Homebrew or any media stuff but looks like its pretty much the same as it was when i left.

[HONCHO]

lol aye my English is bad as im Scottish so get it round yah lol joke

aye m8 i know but there is more to the 360 scene than is released so far i have seen games played of hard drives for about 11 mths now on diff o/s on 360 and well it aint been released and don't know when it will be either !

there is also chips u can put on yer 360 instead of flashing but i dont take much to do with em tbh i cant be arsed

i also have a elite untouched myself but i have 3 360s well 6 really but 3 working 3 to fix

[ashbuster]

ohh didnt know u cud do that
so i just unplug the router and update from the disc?

[HONCHO]

yup aboot the size oh it bro