MS Ban Hammer - 10.30.09

Ye its funny hindsight is a wonderful thing, but im sure no one here would like being pulled up on things they said when they dint have the full picture available to them, The whole point of this thread is about ppl gettin banned, so has anyone been banned in the last week?

 

left 4 dead 2 is that a wave 5 game or something
download it 4 my benq with ixtreme 1.6
agbx stealth pass everything good 4 burning
after burning i used my activation disc
and i only see the title screen and i can not play it
can somebody tell me wtf i did wrong please
or is it to soon to download it

 

L4D2 has been out for a while now..what do u mean by too early to download it?.... try burning it again u probably had a bad burn...

 

has the ban wave stopped yet? anyone still getting banned as of today?

 

My team is working on rolling out an application that will be the one place to go to for all your title updates.

Patience, we are nearing the final areas of testing, and we are working on populating the database.

It will be worth the wait

 

Someone wrote in here that you can check to see if your banned using the test network setting with your hdd unplugged and no memory card without it flashing your nand and losing your hdd install or corrupting ur profile. Is this true or is the only way to ring up microsoft??????

 

i don't think there's any 100% way to tell for sure until you actually try to sign onto live.

 

Yeah, but by doing that way you arent actually signing into live, becuase you dont use an account. I have a 360 with a benq that might be banned, but i dont want to sign in and have hdd feature crippled aswell as it corrupting my profile for offline achievements.

 

Just to let people know, retailers who buy and sell second hand consoles seem to be prone to buying and selling on flashed XBOX's. I've just flashed a mates XBOX 360 which he bought from gamestation a month ago and last week got banned (he thought there'd be no harm now in getting it flashed). Turns out after reading the firmware on the drive who ever had owned the xbox before had flashed it with ixtreme 1.51. He had also replaced the warranty sticker with a new one, probably off ebay, and had made it look as good as new.

Gamestation are refusing to accept the banned xbox due to lack of evidence my mate didn't flash it himself, and as usual microsoft are being their usual monosyllabic selves. =)

So for those of you with zero ethics and want to get rid of a "hot XBOX" thats not yet been banned go sell it to gamestation or CEX!

 

Flashed a friends console who never been on xbox live,(He had the first dashboard). Hooked it up to live and no ban. Been playing on his console for a week. I only been playing games off the hard drive, Read somewhere that it makes a difference. Either that or ban wave is over.

 

My team is working on rolling out an application that will be the one place to go to for all your title updates.

Patience, we are nearing the final areas of testing, and we are working on populating the database.

It will be worth the wait[/quote]

Can someone tell me what I need to buy to use this new application when it's up and running.
A Datel transfer kit or something?

 

hey so im new to this and all but im not a complete idiot and have been following this accross a couple of boards and found a guide published in 2008 by www.360mods.net and in there it says this:

"Using this firmware hack and running your backups on Xbox Live violates the Xbox Live Terms of Service agreement that you agreed to when you signed up for the online gaming service. Microsoft withholds the right to terminate the Xbox Live service from you for any reason, at any point, with no warning, and no refunds. If you do get banned from Xbox Live, it is the system that is banned permanently. Simply put, if you are worried about Xbox Live, do not install this firmware modification."

so everyone who is mad at M$ they clearly told everyone of you that they would do this, in most cases it was you who did not read what they told you so you only have yourselves to blame. So let these post get back to tracking the ban waves as it was intended.

 

so anyone on live with 1.6, 1.61 or 1.51 or is everyone waiting for LT?

 

been on live daily for a month using 1.61 on a sammy. mf date 2006. seem to have dodged this wave?

got another unmodded box backup just incase i get had anytime soon. will be waiting till current box gets banned before modding the other, also waiting for LT if that's the case...

 

1.61 i was online during the banwave but even though i modded my box ive only played the legit games i have. A week into the wave I decided i would stay offline till a solution(which turns out to be LT) comes. My only fear is that i switch to LT and as soon as i go online i am banned cause my console has already been flagged.

 

So... you've just answered your own question. Here's a suggestion, keep your modded console offline permanently. Go out, buy a new unmodded arcade, use that to play any retail games you really want to buy and play online, use your modded console to play everything else, and swap your hard drive back/forth between both to upload any offline achievements. Best of both worlds!

 

I thought achievements on banned consoles would not be able to carry over to legit console.

 

If you keep your unbanned console off of Live then it will never get banned, which will allow you to continue to transfer achievements back and forth. It is possible that a new list of banned consoles will be included in a future game update that then triggers the ban on this console which will corrupt the profile which can then not be transferred to the non-banned console.

 

@ simian340
I hope that never happens because im doin the same thing. Even if it does you can still uncrippole them by flashing the nand with an older stored dump