Below are the stats from a rip of gta, I know people are playing this and they say its safe and stealth patched. My question is how can a game be stealth patched without abgx? Like tekken 6 people are playing it online and say its safe also, but how can that be if it isnt in the abgx database? How is it safe if it fails?
Grand Theft Auto Episodes From Liberty City XBOX360-MARVEL
General Information
Abgx says wave4...
Checking for updates to GameNameLookup.csv and abgx360.dat...
Server file GameNameLookup.csv no newer than local file - not retrieving
Server file abgx360.dat no newer than local file - not retrieving
E:\Downloads\Grand.Theft.Auto.Episodes.From.Liberty.City.XBOX360-MARVEL\mvl-gtae
.dvd is valid
Checking Game
ISO: "E:\Downloads\Grand.Theft.Auto.Episodes.From.Liberty.City.XBOX360-MARV
EL\mvl-gtae.iso"
Size: 7838695424 bytes (SplitVid 3rd wave)
Files in ISO: 11, Folders in ISO: 0
Total bytes used: 90931200 (1.25%)
Game appears to have random padding
Checking default.xex
Original PE Filename: default_us.exe
Original PE Timestamp: 2009/09/29 14:18:41
Game Name: GTA IV Developer: Rockstar North
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genre: Action
Achievements: 65 Achievements totaling 1500 Gamerscore
XEX CRC = 49C39073
XEX Media ID: A6A9978FB6C608A82FC9F2DA-06759F9C
Region Code: 0xFFFFFFFF
Region Free!
Checking SS
Timestamp of Authoring: 2009/10/01 00:00:00
Timestamp of Mastering: 2009/10/11 22:27:18
SS CRC = C2087AFC (RawSS = 3A7A9DFA)
SS Media ID: A6A9978FB6C608A82FC9F2DA-06759F9C (matches game)
SS looks valid
Checking DMI
Timestamp of Authoring: 2009/10/01 00:00:00 (matches SS)
DMI CRC = 172D4283
DMI Media ID: A6A9978FB6C608A82FC9F2DA-06759F9C (matches game)
DMI looks valid
Checking PFI
PFI CRC = 05C6C409
PFI does not match known data (could be corrupt or a new wave not seen before)
Displaying suspicious PFI in hex and ascii:
OFFSET 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x0000 01 02 31 10 00 03 00 00 00 FC FF DF 00 03 AD 7F 1 . ...³ ▀. ¡
0x0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
Video partition found
Video CRC = 1914211B (V0 = 29D07E66, V1 = EAE76B94)
Video partition does not match known data but neither did PFI
Stealth status is uncertain
Starting Verification
Looking for C2087AFC49C39073.ini in the online verified database
There is no verified rip of this Xex/SS combination in the online database
Failed to find a verified ini file for this Xex/SS combination
Verification failed
Starting AutoFix
Looking for Xex_49C39073.ini in the online verified database
There are no verified rips of this Xex in the online database
Failed to find a verified ini file for this Xex
Attempting to fix PFI based on SS
Unwilling to automatically fix PFI because SS is newer than the last known 3rd w
ave date
AutoFix Failed, Stealth is still uncertain
Press any key to exit . . .
MARVEL TM (c) HiT THE 85th GAME
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty
USA XBOX360-MARVEL
27/10/2009
PLAYABLE @: USA & PAL
The simple answer is that most times, if a game is leaked before the street date, it is very difficult to truly verify it.
However, ABGX is 'smart' enough to know what the stealth files should look like, so it will pass those checks, even without truly verified info.
Once a verified retail copy of the game is uploaded into their database, it will actually compare the files that 'look right' to the files that are known to be good. If they don't match, depending on your ABGX360 settings, it will change them to known good ones for you.
That doesn't necessarily mean that the ones you had were bad, it just means that the ones the database has are known to be good.
That being said, a word of warning for you: the way people get banned a lot of times is by playing pre-release games early, and thinking they check out because most things in ABGX are green, when in fact the version that was leaked to the internet is not a legit retail version. Many times there are review copies, given to writers, or simply bad rips. It's impossible for ABGX to warn you of those, because they look good, but they aren't retail.
For that reason, I never play games before a verified retail release.
Originally posted by funksoulb: Episodes From Liberty City is in the verification database now, xero_81. Run it through abgx360 because it does need autofixing.
Oh gawd! I burned it already, and started playing, I found another release that everyone was saying it was safe cause a certain person made it and all their uploads are safe....... so is it only a matter of time before I get banned?
Originally posted by funksoulb: Episodes From Liberty City is in the verification database now, xero_81. Run it through abgx360 because it does need autofixing.
Oh gawd! I burned it already, and started playing, I found another release that everyone was saying it was safe cause a certain person made it and all their uploads are safe....... so is it only a matter of time before I get banned?
Nah, not necessarily mate! I wouldn't worry about it, cos there's nothing you can do now anyway apart from rip the disc you've burned, fix it with abgx360, then re-burn it to a new disc (or just fix the original ISO if you haven't deleted it). There are people who don't even use abgx360 at all that have gone through ban waves without being hit with the ban hammer, although I wouldn't advise that. abgx360 just helps to make you as safe as you can be, but without knowing exactly what MS look for when banning people, any of us could be banned at any time.
