Hacking 360 to play burned games

[Blues]

Anyone familiar with it? Don't feel like googling 50 guides 49 of which brick your system.

[Dave]

my mate flashes his harddrive and hes pretty much on the same level as me on technical shit.

works perfect.

[HeK]

Basically you plug your Xbox 360 DVD-Rom to a PC and flash a new firmware that will by-pass disc authenticity checks.
There are only firmwares available for certain older models of drives. To make things more difficult, only certain SATA chipsets are supported for flashing.

Firmwares and guides are available from: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=513412

Easiest option is to purchase a 'modchip'. These plug into the back of your drive and work MiM. As I recall, they cost around $30. Plus side is that you do not modify any of the existing hardware.

In either case, any attempt to go online will result in a ban from XBL.

[Blues]

There's supposedly a way to hack it that you can "undo" if you want to get on XBL later on. Can I do this with the chip, or would I be required to flash/reflash when I want to get online?

[cbre88x]

I know a guy who hacks and mods them for free down here. And only 2 people out of...lets just say a lot of people have only seen the banner hammer from XBL.

[Dave]

There's supposedly a way to hack it that you can "undo" if you want to get on XBL later on. Can I do this with the chip, or would I be required to flash/reflash when I want to get online?

my friend has put two harddrives in, and he can switch between them, with some sort of switch idk

its do-able anyway.

[HeK]

Depending which drive you have, you can simply swap two DVDRoms.

At that point you should just buy a modchip, most have a switch.

[Blues]

OH GOD SO MANY MOD CHIPS!

[Sgoast]

In either case, any attempt to go online will result in a ban from XBL.

not with flashing the drive, you wont. that's only if you're an idiot who doesn't scan your iso with abgx360 or you play them before the game's in retail.

[Squishy3]

[quote author=HeK link=topic=2828.msg81198#msg81198 date=1241734247]
In either case, any attempt to go online will result in a ban from XBL.

not with flashing the drive, you wont. that's only if you're an idiot who doesn't scan your iso with abgx360 or you play them before the game's in retail.

[/quote]you can't be banned for playing a game before retail, multiple people played GTA IV, GoW2, Fallout 3 etc. before retail and didn't get banned. Along with SFIV and multiple others (and if you want to check my sources on this, all those were released before retail by a few chains namely 7 eleven). The only thing people got banned for before it came out was the Halo 3 Epsilon beta, which was only distributed on discs to a small amount of people in Microsoft and torrents, and you were only supposed to play it on XBL accounts that Microsoft themselves gave to those people that nobody else knew about.

[Sgoast]

not all games, but in some cases the leaked copy is a slightly different review copy that will bring up detectable errors and in turn get you banned. usually the wave of bans come around big AAA titles like gears and halo, but the actual reason you got banned could have been from a game you played months ago. (i.e. my friend got banned for his review copy of saints row 2 around the time GOW2 came out.)