Robin Hoods Playground

i'm just curious guys...i'm going to have ssbrandon or whatever flash my console. i'm just really hoping i won't have to buy another 360 to play online because my understanding is that they ban your mac address not your gamertag...but i'll still have the flashed 360 for one player games

If you want to play online dont flash the box. There is always a risk to gettig banned.
You can however keep updateing the firmware as soon as it comes out, but I dont belive that you are still 100% safe when you do this. The risk is yours.

Never a 100% guarantee that you won't get banned. There are a lot of us that play online with the latest fw that are not getting banned. The most important thing is to never play downloaded games online. Bad downloads as far as we can tell are the #1 cause of bans. Dump your own games and you shouldn't have a problem.

So even if the downloaded game was STEALTH PATCHED an you have the latest fw, u can still get banned, but i guess the chances are slim? Am i right?

No. The chances are high if you download games that you will be banned. Even stealth patched games run the risk, because you never know what was added to the files. I would not play downloaded game even with the latest fw release!!!!!!!!!!!

What I would do if you want to make your own games is sign up at gamefly and rent as much games as you want and then rip them.

making a backup of a rental copy is illegal and you will get proscecuted if found guilty. this is because its a rental copy not a copy owned by you and by backing it up you are breaking the law. best bet like everyone here is saying that backup your own original game

parminder wrote:making a backup of a rental copy is illegal and you will get proscecuted if found guilty. this is because its a rental copy not a copy owned by you and by backing it up you are breaking the law. best bet like everyone here is saying that backup your own original game

That being said, It's not a totally bad idea.

A buddy of mine works for M$, he said that there are several reasons a person can get banned from xbox live, One and the most common is a ban resulting from a logfile that is created whenever you put a disk in the drive that has xbox media on it, if it lacks the neccessary files or has extra files, this creates errors in the logfile and causes the log to be flagged when you login to Xbox live and there is an available "Console Update" (apparently they take this time to get your errored logfiles) These errors are most commonly found when a game is downloaded rather than dumped from an original because of data cross-contamination and folks compressing isos then decompressing them, I guess when you compress a 360 game iso it is altered slightly. This is the #1 reason for bans. The second reason is that the firmware installed has been altered purposefully by M$ agents posing as Modders lmao just kidding he did say that so I thought Id pass along his corny joke Seriously the games you play are what get you banned, or incomplete firmware that is obviously tampered with causing your console to send bad commands back to the xbox live server. My buddy is a technician and a good guy, he wouldn't lie. I can't personally confirm any of this, and I don't know anything about software and most of this stuff, I follow tutorials right here to get my mods done But I love Robin Hoods Playground and you've all been a great help to me so I wanted to pass this info along, take it as you will, trust it or not, it is only words...

It all sounds right on to me. Including the part about the ms people posing as modders or putting out bad info in game files. I would if I was them. Good post on why not to use downloads!

I had heard the part about the MS agents thing, but with a slightly different twist. They up some of the downloads that one can get. If thats the case, then that opens the door for an easy ban for MS by planting slightly altered game code. just something else to think about before taking the bait of a downloaded game.

Maybe on public trackers, but I highly doubt MS has infiltrated elite private trackers like FTN or Torrent Leech.

Sesshomaru wrote:Maybe on public trackers, but I highly doubt MS has infiltrated elite private trackers like FTN or Torrent Leech.

man dont kid your self.if they want to be there you can bet they are there.

but
i think you could be right.
the big open torrents would be the place to get a bad game iso.

Iono, FTN only has 5,000+ members, it would be pretty hard to infiltrate. Even if they could, it's not worth the effort, public trackers are widely used, easily tracked and infiltrated, so they could simply screw people that way.

Whats to infiltrate? If someone who has no credentials like me can wonder around the net and join a site, why couldn't anyone else from MS, Ninty or Sony? For that matter, people write viruses everyday so you know there are people with malicious intent out there. So the existence of a rogue is entirely plausible. And not just a rogue, but even someone who just plain don't know what they are doing. Any of those things can spell trouble for someone downloading a game.

I personally don't trust a downloaded game for the 360. Never have, never will.