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Is there a moderate risk playing a retail game on xblive with a hacked firmware?
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 15:06 |
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topic sais it all...
i bought CoD3 some time ago, and love that game on line. the only thing i would miss if i lost xblive to a ban... and probably the only game i would even consider playing on xblive after a firmware flash...
Would i be risking it playing CoD3 off a retail disc if i have an altered firmware loaded?
Is there currently a known greater risk of ban playing a backed up game on xblive then a retail game?
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AfterDawn Addict
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17. September 2008 @ 15:09 |
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doesnt matter if you play retail or burned game, each run the same chance of getting you banned once you hack the FW. this is because your 360 logs each game you play, online, or offline, and then sends this list to MS once you get onto LIVE.
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 15:15 |
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makes sence...
i wish there was a safe modchip solution that existed in the last gen of consoles instead of this firmware solution. simply turning your mod chip off and KNOWING you are ok to jump on live was a comfort that i enjoyed...
I think it is interesting that people can take burned games and jump on live to multi-play just as easily as a retail copy. I would think that injection of a game trainer on a backed up game would ruin the game play experience for others on live this way... or is that not possible/detectable?
i personally hated cheaters on gamespy online... and would figure that that would be the #1 draw for microsoft to ensure that modders get snuffed out of live with a ban...
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17. September 2008 @ 15:19 |
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i dont think you can put trainers on the 360 games yet like you could with the old ones and PC games. and i know with halo, they banned a bunch of 'cheaters' for glitching and cheating to get a higher ranking by using the language cheat on lone wolves and such.
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 15:25 |
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i hope trainers are never developed... that is all microsoft needs to spark a greater interest in developing routines to detect/ban hacked firmware. If there is no threat to the community, there is no real reason to draw a great amount resources away from development to eliminate modders...
Fact remains that regardless of what microsoft does to keep a modder down, the will always rise up again and get around the changes... its a losing battle.
...just as long as we dont give them a real reason to fight back... by destroying the community we engage in with our modifications.
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Deny360
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17. September 2008 @ 16:08 |
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Personnly, I think it's more of the gamer being a moron then MS trying hard to find the modders.
Think about it. Why waste resources when you can just wait for a moron to play a game while connected to Live that's not out yet. The most recent one is Rock Band 2. Stores were not selling it early, Live didn't even have the achievements listed for it, and yet people were playing it while connected. Morons.
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AfterDawn Addict
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17. September 2008 @ 17:28 |
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Originally posted by Deny360:
Personnly, The most recent one is Rock Band 2. Stores were not selling it early, Live didn't even have the achievements listed for it, and yet people were playing it while connected. Morons.
stores were selling it earlier, i went to three wal-marts within an hour of my house and all of them had it on their shelves as of 9-9, a full 5 days before it was released. a local blockbuster had it on the shelves that same day also, but i hate that place so i didnt rent it from them.
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 17:30 |
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what is it... $8 a rental? and they call piracy wrong...
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17. September 2008 @ 17:38 |
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yea 8 bucks there, where at family video i can do an overnight (which is what i do for 2 bucks) or a week for 5 and at FV a week is a week, unlike BB which is 5 days.
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 17:49 |
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ever since they raised rental prices above $5 i stopped renting games... and havn't since.
I remember when it was .99 for 3 days back at the old local video store...
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17. September 2008 @ 17:51 |
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true that, but i only need an overnight rental to see if the game is any good or not. withing 15 minutes you can tell if it sucks, or is good.
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 17:53 |
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and if you determine the game is good... all you need is an hour to.... err... nevermind!!! *whistles*
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17. September 2008 @ 17:58 |
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nah, 20 minutes, lol.....
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 18:00 |
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i miss the unlimited rentals promo from blockbuster 3-4 years ago... $20 a month gave me unilmited game + movie rentals... i was returning games to blockbuster twice a day lol!
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17. September 2008 @ 18:03 |
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they still have that at the crawfordsville, indiana one. but you can only have like 1 or 2 games/movies out at a time. a room-mate of mine did that with movies.
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 18:09 |
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yeah they still do that at hollywood video i believe... i did that for several months. i would swap and grab 3 new movies a day. i determined at one point that one store wasn't fast enough, so i bought in to 2 stores... i was going through 6 movies a day until i eventually was scraping the bottom of the barrel at the video store... then cancelled everything.
I now have Netfliz which is continuing to treat me right!
oh... and gamefly is suiting my needs for wii and xbox 360... a tad pricey, but with 12-16 games a month you cant go very wrong for $21
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17. September 2008 @ 18:15 |
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i was going to try the gamefly thing, but they would never accept my credit card, so i was like well if you dont want my money then screw you. so i never got it, lol.
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 18:18 |
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its very worth it imo... its the only way i would ever consider renting a game.
I dont do the download thing... waste of time/bandwidth/risk of viruses/too much frustration.
i'd rather rent. no muss no fuss.
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17. September 2008 @ 18:19 |
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if you got a good net connection, its not that bad, i can get an entire game in like 2 hours from BC (the only place ill get games from, as i know its safe, fast, and guaranteed to work).
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 18:23 |
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BC? what is that, a torrent?
I do remember getting Le' Halo 2 (french version) a long time ago...
Man i still remember how friggin stoked i was... 2 months before release and i was salavating at the chance to play.... too good to be true... good times...
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17. September 2008 @ 18:25 |
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BC = black cats, its a private site for games, PC, 360 ps3 ps2 xbox, you name it they got it.
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meatful2
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17. September 2008 @ 18:29 |
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i see... thanks for the heads up. might just cancel gamefly and save myself the 21 a month if it pans out... =)
i hear backing up a wii game is somewhat of a pain in the arse...
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AfterDawn Addict
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17. September 2008 @ 18:41 |
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havent done any wii games yet. dont have a reason to buy one, however, i might be getting some games for a friend here in a little bit once he gets his chip put into the wii since i guess there isnt any FW flashing for it yet.
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18. September 2008 @ 15:05 |
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I only have 1 HDD. I have a modded 360 and a normal 360 for xbl. Just wondering, if i play on the modded 360, offline and such. Then put the HDD over to my stock 360 and play some halo3 online or whichever game, is it possible that my stock 360 could get banned?
The info on the HDD and such?
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18. September 2008 @ 16:24 |
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way to hijack another persons thread to get your own question answered. but to answer your question, no
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