those of you who have modded xboxes,
say peace out, a zillion people are getting banned as we speak~
it is speculation that if you have a larger hard drive you will get banned,
or possibly if you have unsigned game saves on your hd
anyway, just watch out pimps.
If your hdd is locked at the 8 gigs, how are they going to find out? If they could do this, why didn’t they done it a year ago? Game saves mean dick as well. You have a source for this?
The current safety precautions for people who use modded Xboxes does not mean jack anymore. I got banned last night, just off out now to buy a new Xbox. IMO it is not worth buying new eeproms and such when you cannot even pinpoint how MS found out your system was modified.
Thank god I got a second xbox just to mod it.
Got my new Xbox. These crystal XBoxes are kinda neat.
So yeah, anybody with modified Xboxes be extra carefull :xeye:
Once again, is there a source out there? I’ve had mine modded for over a year and a half and never had to do anything else to it (like buy eeproms or whatever). Also, as I’ve never been banned from live before, do they tell you why you’re banned (so you know that your banning as to do with having a modded system, rather than something else)? Or if you were just suspended?
In my case it just would not sign on. When it prompted to take me to Network Settings to try to sort the programme, the IP, DNS and everything registered as fine. But it would not complete the last step for connecting to XBL. It then showed a message titled Modified Xbox Error. I know that www.Xbox-scene.com has some info on this in the Xbox Live forum there. There are a lot of people saying they have been banned. All of them saying that they never enabled the Modchip for anything to do with Live.
Oh man, got A TON of shit on my 120 gig hdd. No free space left duds… Well, just have to cross my fingers it runs smoothly at least until spring (birthday and shit).
i got banned last night as well
I got banned as well
yeah, apparently halo 2 is the “superbowl” for xboxlive
they beefed it up just for halo 2’s release
oh well, i don’t even go online yet~
but i am going to wait until they find out exactly what it is.
Funny, I haven’t been banned yet. But I’ll know for sure when I get home tonight after work. knocks on wood
Har har har not me :encore:
My box is modded with aladin stealth chip,120gb and some bootleg burnout 3 save download.I did not get banned yet because xbox live tracks whatever hardware you used to get on live.Like epprom and serial of the HD.I stared WITH the OEM HD and didn’t change a thing ever since.So in order to stay online,you will need a virgin epprom and a virgin HD and start everything over and never change a thing again.
To the guys that got banned, did you ever play the Halo 2 leak on your system?
I believe SNAAAAKE speaks the truth.
From what I’ve been reading up on all morning, if your XBox was previously used for XBL purposes and then you modded it (such as buying a refurb’d XBox and the original user used their own XBL account on it), you’ll get banned with the new update. They are starting to match HD serials with XBox serials, and if the new update sees that your hardware and serial numbers aren’t what they have on file, then to the ban list you go.
Even though this is speculation, this is what it’s been narrowed down to.
EDIT: what I did before I logged onto my legit copy of Halo 2, was delete anything having to do with the pre-released version. Saves, member profiles, everything. Just to be cautious. Hopefully, they won’t ban me because of my JPN version of SF Anniversary Collection.
that don’t mean anything. I installed live on the retail hd and upgraded later and still got banned. Wait wait. You just said you STARTED with the OEM HD, and didn’t change a thing? And you now have a 120gb? wtf?
“So in order to stay online,you will need a virgin epprom and a virgin HD and start everything over and never change a thing again.”
well…yeah, because new eeprom and retail hd pretty much means a new Xbox.
OEM HD = 120GB from OEM retailers from www.pricewatch.com.Same as any other store bought HDs.
I would have been banned by now if I started with the stock/default/8GB HD that came with my xbox then upgraded later with the new 120GB.Then again its all theory…no one knows fo sure what M$ is doing with this massive banning shit.
EDIT : Just remembered,I did get on live before.Bought my xbox on 12/21/03 and got on live after like a week(cant remember…could be 2 weeks) without any modchip and default HD.Then after my 2 month shit expired.I installed aladin modchip and 120gb and still not banned.Now according to xbox scene…they are saying that M$ has been tracking/scanning HD info/serial for atleast 8 months.And I upgarded my box with everything 8 months ago,that explains why my box isnt banned yet.
the first time you associate an account with the xbox, microsoft tracks that. if you change anything in the xbox after that, microsoft knows you have a modded xbox. its the same effect like windows product activation. so if you want to go online with a modded xbox, you have to flash the eeprom and get a new hard drive that is locked and you will be good to go.
Yeah but I “DID” go on live then upgraded with a new HD.But I upgraded after my first live account expired(2 month thingy).So I am guessing I got away with the HD and modchip upgrade cuz I used a new account. And I didn’t get any of those automatic live updates yet…
Okay. Let me get this straight as I plan on joining the lot of you for some hot SF action… I am getting an Xbox in a few weeks and plan on hopping on to Live ASAP. I will probably get my chip a few weeks after (I’m looking at the Xecuter3 if anyone cares.) Basically, I’m not looking to do anything with the HDD, dashboard, or any of the other hacks that I’ve seen - just the ability to play backups of my titles offline. Is it possible to get a chip installed after my initial visit to Live and not get hit up with a ban?
Also, any chip recommends would be hot. PM me with suggestions. 