Originally posted by mrgreaper:

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Originally posted by dsdavis6:

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i played the COD4 USA release when it came out... to my memory i wasnt on live at the time... however i have been since... plenty... not banned here running ixtreme 1.3 on a ms28

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i played it till the day of the ban so far im ok (same firmware as you and drive) but loads of the posts on xbox scene mentioned cod4 and when i scaned it it said sorry not found in database

open dvd mullet
scan the disc
click crc checking
not auto fix the other button (name escapes me)
tick both boxs on the resaulting popup and scan
if it finds it in the database at the end all is fine

what its doing (to my understanding) is checking it against crc of proper backed up games (those done with the right drive etc) if it finds it then you have an exact 1:1 copy of the original if it doesnt the data is out and ms could detect it and ban you (this is what i have learnt from reading everything i can not just random theorys but from up high)

its depressed me as that means a lot of my games are suddenly time bomb coasters :(

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Originally posted by mrgreaper:

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Originally posted by dsdavis6:

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i played the COD4 USA release when it came out... to my memory i wasnt on live at the time... however i have been since... plenty... not banned here running ixtreme 1.3 on a ms28

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click crc checking
not auto fix the other button (name escapes me)
tick both boxs on the resaulting popup and scan
if it finds it in the database at the end all is fine



i did exactly like what you said on assassins creed download from a torrent called all stars and it didnt match the data base and ir gave me a warning that i am at a risk, but its ixtreme compitabel,huh and it worked fine , i used it on my 360 but i take my ethernet cable out when i play it ,,does that matter

Originally posted by xbubbax:

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video is not working the ridges

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Originally posted by atomick:

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Do the bans happen only if you are playing a game online or has anyone been banned just by logging into their dashboard/ marketplace? (Downloading a trailer or demo)?

Thanks

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So are we starting to think that it is because of bad backups? Because all of my games are checked with DVDMulleter and CRC Checker, and it all goes through! I'm still not playing online though... Want to see what's going to happen in the next few days! Does anyone know if the ms28's with iXtreme 1.3 have been banned? Because that is what I'm on right now!

Also, does anyone know if C4EVA is working on a firmware or anything?

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One of the most stupidest things you can do wright now, 1st turn your 360 on if your on a hacked f/w and 2nd test your connection, because, if you think about it, you could be sending some shit to m$ about your information on the drive, i'm not saying its wright but just think. And all of all, it can't be from ppl getting banned because they have made bad backups and inserted then into the 360 drive to test them to see if they worked, I have made over 15-20 bad backups and I have not been banned, the last time I was on was about 1 1/2 ago to see if I was banned stupid me.

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Originally posted by theridges:

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look this is the thing,
we dont write the hacked firmware most of us are using and all in all we dont know what M$ is looking for except for what they have told us,
so all in all your opinions on how you will get banned or what is getting people banned really don't matter for much because we know almost nothing compared to those writing the actual firmwares..

and if they say its from bad back-ups then its from bad back-ups,and thats all we can go by right now...
im not banned so i guess i didn't have bad back-ups, if they could detect the actual firmware hack then we would all be banned....so i think its a back-up issue..

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Originally posted by shinnster:

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I scanned the crc of all my back ups (most ripped by myself with a kreon drive) and a lot of them come up as not in database, so is the databsae check correct?
i still play on live and am not too fussed if i get banned, if i was i wouldnt mod my console :-)

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Originally posted by mrgreaper:

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Originally posted by shinnster:

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I scanned the crc of all my back ups (most ripped by myself with a kreon drive) and a lot of them come up as not in database, so is the databsae check correct?
i still play on live and am not too fussed if i get banned, if i was i wouldnt mod my console :-)

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From what i understand from the high ups if it says not in database then its a bad back up however they also say the kreon firmware in the relevent drives make perfect back ups .... so thats confused me

for my part losing live would be annoying hell i know the risk i know at some point i will lose live and have to buy yet another console so to avoid that if it says not found in database it gets a cross on the disc and do not use written on it (that way when i get banned the baned console will play the crossed discs thats how sure i am that at some point i will be banned, im planning for it lol) but im doing all i can to prolong it :) (bet if i turn it on right now ill found im banned that would be true irony !!! lol

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Originally posted by steimy:

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Well, i guess i have to go back and do the CRC check on all my stuff now then. But i can tell you i know people still running Version 5.2 firmware and they are not banned yet. So i would rule firmware out.

It could be bad back up, it could be 100 other things too. Think about it. The two bannings came at the convenient time of two of the biggest 360 game releases (Halo 3 and COD4). Since i only play one game online i guess i am not real worried.

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Originally posted by guessswho:

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dude, you can't go saying this, which is clearly your opinion, and trying to represent it as fact of the matter as to what is happening. No one really knows yet. We all have a good idea it is the bad copy of games, but we aren't 100% sure. No need to go saying this is what it is when you don't know

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Originally posted by fgamer:

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Originally posted by steimy:

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Well, i guess i have to go back and do the CRC check on all my stuff now then. But i can tell you i know people still running Version 5.2 firmware and they are not banned yet. So i would rule firmware out.

It could be bad back up, it could be 100 other things too. Think about it. The two bannings came at the convenient time of two of the biggest 360 game releases (Halo 3 and COD4). Since i only play one game online i guess i am not real worried.

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For those whos brains cannot reach beyond the norm should realize that Microsoft is detecting the hacked firmware/and or disk a bunch of different ways than we all think. Some people keep saying well "why are some people who are running firm 5.2 or whatever aren't banned?" That's because Microsoft bans a certain amount of people at 1 given time. Lets say they choose to ban 200,000 people, that doesn't mean that they don't know of all the other modders..because they do know EVERY last one who has iXtreme or whatever firmware you have. I find it funny when people say Microsoft can't detect that you have a hacked firmware on your DVD ROM drive, that's just not true. Microsoft pretty much knows of everyone that's running a hacked firmware, its just the fact that they "choose" not to ban every last one. So they pick an amount of consoles that's been hacked and ban by that number they generate. So to sum things up, if you haven't been banned like me this time around it's because you didn't fall in Microsoft's 100,000 or so users ban list bracket. So just know that each time a ban roles around which will happen periodically to basically clean house, don't be surprised when you get got..because Microsoft knows everything that you're doing with your 360. They've learned from Xbox 1..im out!!

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