Were you one of the 1 million Xbox live users that got banned yesterday? Well, you might not want to go buy that new Xbox quite yet. Some of the modders (you know, the ones who got you banned in the first place) are working on a solution that returns the firmware to an almost stock configuration, which would allow you to actually use your console again.
Much like the jailbreakers, the Xbox modders are nothing if not persistent. Yesterday, Microsoft went after the estimated 1 million Xbox owners that had tampered with their systems. The ban locked out the installation of games on the hard drive, stopped Windows Media Player from working, wrecked the gamertags stored on the Xboxen in question, and blocked the consoles from logging in to Xbox Live.
There are two fixes currently being worked on, one from iXtreme LT, which isn’t ready yet, and one from Xbox-Scene which works, but is extremely complex. And you need to know your CPU key, which can be difficult to obtain, particularly if you’re already banned.
[via Daily Tech]
You gotta admit that the modders don’t waste much time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyeemtS1jII
Man, I hope they get it working. Just got banned yesterday. :(
Oh well, i knew the risk.
http://www.newdgamez.com/#xbox-360
The modders (creators) don’t get your console banned. Everyone knows the risk by flashing their system. In my opinion it was never truly save to play online. M$ was just biding their time, and now they’re banning everyone. It’s simple you hack your Xbox 360, stay offline. I guess what I’m trying to say is if your banned, then it’s your fault.
Re: “Much like the jailbreakers, the Xbox modders are nothing if not persistent.”
If all else fails, persistence prevails.
It’s just going to be a matter of time before the modders come out w/ a working solution…
Then I bet M$ is going to figure out another way to detect newly modded xboxes and ban them…
And the cycle will continue, until the next generation xbox comes out.
Well, hopefully the game industry will realize theres just as much piracy going on in console gaming and perhaps the good developers will go back to prioritizing for the PC market. I miss the days when games werent watered down so that everyone 9 and up could play them easily.
Ah, another blind PC elitist fanboy who thinks consoles are nothing but for children and wrecking gaming.
There is a reason that hard games are called NINTENDO Hard, not PC Hard :P
Face it, PC gaming is a shell of it’s former self, most people have spoken, they would much rather pay the price of a decent PC 3D card for an entire console that they do not have to worry about hardware requirements, outdated drivers, software incompatibility, draconian DRM, etc to actually get the game to work.
Wake me up when the PC’s RETAIL library (As in games you can actually find in a store, not $5 download only crap) isn’t 99% FPS, RTS, or MMORPG. There are only so many times you can shoot people in the head in first person until it starts to get boring.
lol, Cyber Akuma, get rid of the chip on your shoulder, find a life, and most importantly – try to be happy. :)
I play mostly on a console, but my PC will run most games so I play some stuff on there too. I haven’t had to worry about any of the things you mentioned. Outdated drivers might be an issue on a new game, so just download the new driver and install it, it’s pretty simple, just like a console update really, a couple of clicks and you’re done.
I work for an internet cafe that caters to young people, mostly teenagers. We have PC, PS3, x360. The most played game is Runescape, then a gambling game that the older kids play, then all sorts of little card games and other casual games or mini-games or whatever you want to call them that the young kids play, and the consoles come after that with FIFA, then CoD.
The picture is bigger than you’re painting it, just give up the anti-PC crusade, it’s as worthless as PC fans ranting about their PC being better than consoles. You’re all fanboys of one type or another, denying the truth for the sake of defending something that in all likelihood will bring you no more or less pleasure than the thing your opponent is arguing for. Ranting and arguing for no purpose at all.
I mean, it’s pretty obvious that in order to open up a game to more people, you have to make it more accessible, which often equates to making it easier. That’s just obvious, there’s no need to be offended by it. Dave’s comment is not entirely correct, games haven’t been changed to cater to young people – games have always catered to young people! They’ve changed to allow a larger audience, young and old. That change has definitely involved a lot of ‘dumbing-down’, because that’s the simple way to create a bigger audience.
Anyway, back to the matter at hand…it’s obvious that any PC modder/hacker/cracker can turn their hand to console, just like PC devs do. The industry has been claiming that PC is worse than console because they have to justify investment to their shareholders, and piracy is convincing as a stumbling block to profit. It’s all politics and profits, in reality piracy is fairly minor in the grand scheme of things. That’s why IW said their PC changes had little to do with piracy, while Activision were telling their shareholders the total opposite.
Well, this story is just flat out innacurate.
1) No one got anyone else banned. If you were banned, it’s your own fault. Flashing custom firmware is a bannable offense, and anyone doing it knows that.
2) iXtreme LT is not designed to get you unbanned, nor does it ‘return your console to an almost original configuration allowing you to play again”. Also, a banned console is not unusable as you suggest, live is simple unavailable, and a few mostly useless features are disabled without live. Finally, LT will not magically allow you to play on line from a banned console. A banned console is a banned console.
3) Xbox bans have no effect on gamertags.
4) The Unbanning ‘hack’ you linked to does not unban a console. It flashes NAND data from an UNBANNED console onto a BANNED console, tricking Live into thinking you are playing on a not-banned console. It requires a new, unbanned console.
Research is not hard to do, but it seems as if all that went right out the window with your post here. It’s a shame that the rise of news sites and blogs has not managed to bring journalist integrity at the same pace as growth.
Thanks for setting things clear ParticulateChaos, I was actually thinking the same facts of what you said before I read this article and then got confused.
Thanks for clearing it up and helping me note that this is just a poorly written shit assed article.