MS Ban Hammer - 10.30.09

just got banned. doesnt bother me, i knew the risk involved, but what really grinds my gears is i just renewed my year subscription like last month, what a waste. guess i gotta go get a new one

 

i just got banned as well, and just like the above poster, i knew the risks involved. sucks tho! gotta buy another one or a ps3 now

 

Just got banned guys...ixtreme v1.6, and only played pirated halo 3 (ran thru abgx lvl 3), original rockband 2...M$ must be on to something...To those not banned or that have just flashed their xbox, STAY AWAY FROM LIVE!

 

Ever since the ban wave started I've been looking at this thread everyday.Not to mention i havent been on here since july 2006 haha. I have a:

Lite on
IXtreme 1.6
Played CODMW2 once last weekend w/o HDD, Madden 10, and Borderlands

Ive signed in every night to check to see if i get the dredded ban massage. I've even left it on for a few hours while doing some work. Like people have said we know the risks involved.

 

I don't understand this logging into live every night, leaving it for a few hours to see if they'll ban you. Are you trying to get banned?
Wait it out till we have some idea what is causing so many people too be caught.

 

I just got banned now, it's been a year and half and I've checked every game with abgx (properly I must add) and never played before a release date.

Knew the day would come, no big deal I took the risk.

Anyway I just put IX 1.6 on it last night.

 

ah, i've unfortuantly met the ban hammer today as well, and i'd like to share what i've done to hopefully help people figure out what's going on(i read the first 8 pages before saying screw it and jumped to the last page)

anywho what i've done:
-several months ago i brought an 120gb DIY hdd drive off ebay to install into my 360, so this may be the reason as to why i was banned

-secondly in the process of modding my 360, i had to purchase a new cd drive(same model as my original drive though, a benq)

-i brought a korean drive and only backup games i have ripped myself, and always verify through abgx(level 3 check)

-i only began doing this not 3 weeks ago when i installed 1.6ixtreme fw

-their are three games i have actually backed up: Cod4, Cod: WaW, and Halo 3 multiplayer disk, all were fully verified by abgx

-i have played all 3 in my 360, mostly WaW with my friends over live

-the last time i was on live was November 6th, at a lan party, where i used my backup of cod4(so one of my friends could use my official copy)

any other information i'd be happy to give, their appears to be a common WaW factor for bans in the first 8 pages that i read, and i guarantee 100000% percent that i have not played a backup i did not rip myself with a korean drive, so if on the off chance i was banned for the harddrive, than that really really sucks

 

well im sad to report that after a week and 3 days i have been banned I did not play any games early the only games i pretty much played were borderlands and codwaw both pasted verification tests from abgx360 both games were played on live

i also flashed a friends hitachi74 3 days later he's still playing on live.

benq 1.51
flashed 10/28/2009
banned 11/8/2009

 

Somebody posted in another thread that he never logged onto live with a disk in the tray and hes still not banned. Does anybody else thats still not banned do it this way?

 

You shouldn't use level 3 with your own backups. Even if the stealth check passes, it will still use the files in the database if verification fails, so in all cases, your backups are no better than the backups of a person who downloaded all of their games.

You should use level 2 with your own rips. Then it will only autofix them if the stealth check is uncertain or fails and verification fails. If the stealth check passes and verification fails, that's OK. It's only if you're downloading games that you need to use level 3, because you can't rely on the stealth check alone as you don't know the source of the rip. Obviously if you're ripping your own game, you do know the source of the rip.

 

doesnt matter if there is a disc in the tray or not.

 

the original tutorial i followed said to use level 3 regardless, so i didn't see much reason to not use it, also the database should have verified stealth files anyway otherwise it'd be pointless to have a verified database imo

 

Ok I have a xbox 360 system that was on xbox live one time (and that was before it was modded)It has a benq drive flashed with 1.51. I just finished checking the borderlands disc in ABGX and everything checked out fine. (oh yeah...forgot to mention The owner doesnt have internet)First im a try the youtube test and see if it works.....then i'll try the borderlands and see if im banned.

 

Yeah i've not been banned and I do this just cause I am extra paranoid at the moment. Haven't logged in for about two days though gonna wait till there's some answers why this ban is so effective.

 

So far Youtube test was a success i am not banned
I didnt get the:
W: 0000-0008
X: 0000-F001
Y: 00A8-6820
Z: 8015-190D (see this = banned)
ID: 0008-0000

My ID: was strange it was all leters...the same letter
Anyways

Update: I Turned the xbox 360 off and put my hard drive on and successfully signed on to xbox live.....Now im going to try Borderlands

 

same here guy, i just checked that youtube video above...so i guess i passed the "test" of not being banned yet, so i disconnected my xbox from online and now imma die waiting for answers because i wanna play cod mw2

 

The original tutorial you read is wrong. The default settings of abgx360 are designed for those that rip their own games. If everyone had to change autofix to level 3, then level 3 would be the default setting. You only need to change it if you're downloading games.

By using level 3 you are saying that you trust the stealth info uploaded to the database by someone you've never met over the stealth info you have just ripped from your own originals. You have absolutely no reason to do that as long as you know how to rip games properly. If you take two copies of the same original and rip them, they might contain different stealth info. The DMIs might be different - that's a common one. Personal rips only need to pass the stealth check, not verification. If a personal rip fails the stealth check it's because you didn't rip it properly and then abgx360 will autofix it, but even then, it would still be safer to re-rip the game properly than use the stealth files from the abgx360 database.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was uploaded to the database before the game was even out, so a lot of people verified it and played it. A few days later, it disappeared from the database only to be replaced with a different version. People that autofixed the game the first time then found that their game no longer verified as abgx360 was saying it needed to be autofixed again. UP, Red Faction: Guerilla and UFC Undisputed all had corrupt info in the database for a few days, so games were being autofixed with bad data. That was discovered and fixed and they posted on their site about it. This shows you that you should never trust someone else's rips over your own personal rips.

 

- My friend and I were banned on 11/4/09 and 11/5/09
- hitachi 79fl and his was one of the v47's both using iX v1.51
- Used 2.4x verbatim and burned @ 2x (no exceptions there)
- throughly checked every game with agbx360
- I had used borderlands he hadn't so don't think that game mattered...
-- opinion -- I really think microsoft really does bans similiar to that of some other companies, ex. directv bans illegal cards. It's 1 or 2 times a year, and for only a given amount of time when each heppens, because one would have to think taking these actions, although making them money on new consoles, have to incur high costs to do these bans.

- Result - for me just bought the xbox arcade at walmart at reg price, but came with $100 in store gift card, sweet. So chalk up that as a $100 oops, but worth it in my view got a new jasper chipset that hopfully won't red light like my system did twice. Okay sorry for writing a novel, back to xbox I go.

 

hey guys, as I posted yesterday that my box was banned. Today I got my nephews box which has the same Beng ixtreme 1.6 firmware and was not ban yeah. The box only has two silver accounts in it, I test it for few hours now and still alive and kicking. called up a friend whose also has only silver account and he's not banned either. Does this mean that M$ only banned console with gold membership? So if this is true, we are basically paying M$ to ban our box.
Oh yes, both boxes was connected to live through Ethernet.

 

ah, i see, thank you for that answer, perhaps i was banned due to an incorrect stealth patch, i'll go back through my games and re-check them to make sure they still pass stealth verification, and set abgx back to level 2