You Can Now Unban Your Xbox 360 Thanks To Modders

TwistedMetal - 54 days 8 hours ago

just everyone go out and get a ps3. then everyone will be happy becuase every online feature the x360 has can be put on the ps3 but not every feature on the ps3 can be put on the x360. moree people getting a ps3 means the quicker ps3 will get the 1 or 2 features x360 has that dont really matter in the first place compared to the many more feature ps3 has over the x360 and most of them are pure gameing related like dedicated servers.

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sonymania - 54 days 8 hours ago

I know this is the microsoft and its insidious,sneaky PLAN! They banned for Sale new consoles ! they look sales not increase ! SO suddenly MOD FOUND UNBANNED SOLUTION ! WOW HACKERS !!! YEAH ROCK U HACKERS !!! WTF !=?

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR ALL !?

WHY BRILLIANT HACKERS CANT HACK PS3 !!!! ????

All of this is a Microsoft's low class Plan !!!

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halo2_redvsblue - 54 days 8 hours ago

Microsoft Has the power to fry your Motherboard as well so if they get caught again that will happen.

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condorstrike - 54 days 8 hours ago

cause the PS3 is harder to hack, thanks to Blueray, they're not in the @ssjole level of Microsoft, and because it would cost you more to burn a game than to buy a used one.

most of these people mod so they don't have to buy, but I bet if the PS3 was hacked then half of you will try and mod it.

don't spit up cause it'll just fall back down on your face.

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bjornbear - 54 days 7 hours ago

THEY'RE BACK!

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N4PS3G - 54 days 5 hours ago

Thank god for this!! My box got banned this week...sucks

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Immortal321 - 54 days 5 hours ago

power over pirates.

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FanboysSuk - 54 days 4 hours ago

Well that didnt take too long. Probably wont last but well played fellows. You cant keep a good pirate sunk for long. YARRRRRR! LOOP HOLE AHOY ME MATEYS. Im not banned and to me it matters not either way as I dont use Live.

I love all these "pirates are the scum of the earth" types, when MOST (not all, but most) have downloaded music or movies or programs for free but counter with some weak self justified excuse like "its not the same as games because..." I hear it over and over again. As far as Im concerned a pirate is a pirate no mater what you download because more often than not somewhere it costs money to listen or to play or watch etc whatever it is you've downloaded. So if you're one of the "sparkly good guys" then good for you and keep your self righteous "Im better than you" bullsh1t blabbering to yourself. Nobody cares that you are the polished knight of righteousness prancing in on your grand steed of justice. We filthy terrible pirates couldn't care less about what a perfect shining example to mankind you are amidst the crooked filth of todays decrepid society. Go make a pilgramage to your mountain of salvation and pray for all the scum who have lost their way wont you? We're not listening.

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Hurrikane88 - 54 days 4 hours ago

They ripped plenty of people off with there shoddy hardware in the 360 and taxing people to play on live and over charging for accessories , who's rippin off who here ?

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Solotov - 54 days 4 hours ago

To un-ban you have to buy another 360 that is not banned yet. And when you finally get your old console to be able to play on LIVE, it will most likely get banned again.

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cl63AMG - 54 days 4 hours ago

wait... to unban your console you need a separate unbanned console??? Why not just use the new one?

EDIT: nvm the person right above me pointed it out already

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oldsnayke - 54 days 4 hours ago

If you're banned for pirating games, then it's a well-deserved ban.

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sephcor9 - 54 days 4 hours ago

We've heard it all before about how the hackers are going to beat these software companies into the ground but does anyone seriously believe the fight won't continue? If someone broke into your car or house, would you throw your hands up in the air and say enjoy? Hell no (unless you're a pirate and see no problem with giving and taking like that). It's stealing plain and simple. These people are thieves; they know it and brag about it on forums like this. I hope they'll see the irony when someone else steals their car, their cash, their xbox or whatever. The pirates don't want to hear from people who pay for their stuff and the buyers don't want to hear the pirates whine about how the man is sticking it to them. What really irks me is when people post stories telling other people about how they can hack the systems and then they say they don't condone doing it. What a crock.

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Gwizz91 - 54 days 4 hours ago

I think Microsoft should ban the xbox console and the live accounts that way the damn pirates can lose everything they Accomplished =)

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lizard81288 - 54 days 3 hours ago

they would just need to make a new account. i figured it would only be a matter of time. now people who modded their 360's because of RRoD, can now play it once again. i have no idea if M$ ever fixed that, but people like to trick out there consoles. i don't mind modding, its not as bad a people say it is, if it was so bad, why are there several tv shows about modding cars and other technology? you don't see ford suing pimp my ride do you? or getting in a tizzy about it.

modders=/=pirates
so please people, stop saying that.

the video game industry is doing fine, hell, it makes more money than Hollywood.

plus the ps3 can play roms on it, so its hacked as well, so stop saying its not hacked, because it is. all current gen is hacked.

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lizard81288 - 54 days 2 hours ago

what about the people who modded their 360 to fix the RROD, or add a bigger harddrive, or put a fan in it?..

granted you still need to buy a new 360 though.

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Enigma_2099 - 54 days 2 hours ago

... THIS will end well, I'm sure.

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moja - 54 days ago

Nice copy and paste job from the forums, jack@sses. Don't even possess the understanding to translate the post into your own content.

Anyway, possible doesn't equate practical in this case. It's just a proof-of-concept speculation. It would be interesting to see if this could evolve, though.

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Raoh - 53 days 23 hours ago

mine got banned, had in store warranty though, took it in got a new one no questions asked.. but i dont think i want it anymore. going to sell it and the accessories so i can get a second ps3. and the games i cant play cause i dont have a 360 i'll just start getting for the pc instead..

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justlikeme - 53 days 23 hours ago

Something tells me the people who are banning people at MS are the same people who are able to hack the 360 in order to keep their job.

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FxckOSX - 53 days 22 hours ago

someone got a business.

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cpuchess - 53 days 18 hours ago

Must be something automated that bans them in the first place. I would guess Microsoft would just rerun it on a scheduled basis to overcome this.

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Young Capwn - 53 days 17 hours ago

maby if all the games weren't 5 hours long with garbage graphics....

people would buy them

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Silber - 53 days 17 hours ago

Ban them all:)

But these Modders are really clever today... I respect their work, but this is not for good.. They shoud do better things with their skills.

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avengers1978 - 53 days 15 hours ago

If this is true and not a lie how long do you think it will take Microsoft to figure it out and ban them again. It won't take long, and eventually will force microsoft to abandon the 360 in favor of a format that is harder to pirate, causing most people to be pissed, it will happen, when game developers begin to exsclude your console from there line up because the actually want to sell the game instead of have people steal it. Boardlands, is one of those games, no copies pirated on the ps3 because its never been hacked. What's the chances that the next boarderlands is a PS3 Exclusive, pretty damn good. Modding the xbox is simple and easy and I know that is why most bought it to begin with, but you will only cause microsoft to bail out on the 360 faster then they were planning to.

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Domer25 - 53 days 14 hours ago

i didn't even think that sh!t was possible. The talent of some individuals is insane.

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hiredhelp - 53 days 14 hours ago

sony's on thr rise i would expected this to be last thing for microsoft to do.so if they ban a console at say in uk that costs between £150 and £200 and you send your console off to get it remodded costing around 30-50 to have done surely people stop think well lets get a ps3 from £230 go online for free sure games be full price but saved buying 360 everytime microsft does a update.

or do like i used to b4 ps3 buy few orignals for online rest copys offline. yes microsft are greedy too competitive

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Lipscomba - 53 days 13 hours ago

We'll post how to do this, but don't this is illegal!! That's rich, I'll say!!!

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davidadrake - 53 days 11 hours ago

Won't work for anyone that has updated their system within the last 3 months, which everyone who was recently banned has done.

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darkequitus - 53 days 10 hours ago

Quoted directly from xboxscene
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Unbanning Xbox 360 From Live - The Facts
>> I see lots of sites posting today about a way to unban Xbox 360 from LIVE often linking to a thread made on our forums here.

This method has been known for a long time (since the King Kong Exploit days) and does indeed 'work'. Basically you swap the Keyvault (or 'KV' in short, it stores stuff like console certificates, per-box private keys, DVD key, etc) inside the NAND with the KV from an unbanned console. While technically very different you could somewhat compare it to swapping eeprom data during the Xbox1 days.

However there's a (really) big 'IF' (besides the required tech knowledge) ... you need the (unique) CPU key of your banned console - without it you can't correctly write (or encrypt if you want) the new KV data in the NAND bin of your banned console.
Now you wonder how to get the CPU-key ... well by running XeLL of course!
To run XeLL u need to perform the JTAG hack (or the King Kong exploit, but that's even more outdated) ... and if you got banned the last few weeks it means you updated to the latest dashboard/kernel (else you can't get on LIVE).
And that's the problem... Microsoft patched the JTAG hack since kernel 849x (July 2009) ... so no way to boot up XeLL (= no realistic way for you to get the CPU-key atm) and thus no way to swap the KV data in your NAND image.
And then there's also added KV protection (hashing) on newer motherboards (Falcon+ ? and kernel 1888 won't boot on those), but if you can't even get your CPU-key it doesn't matter much to do deeper into this problem.
The only way it would work is if you retrieved the CPU-key of your old banned 360 before you updated to anything over 849x. If you did that you probably know about all of this and I'm not telling you anything new ;)
Downgrading kernel is not an option either, older kernels won't boot as both kernel and CB fuses were burned during the various updates MS performed, and you can't bypass that without ... your CPU-key.

Hope that explains the situation a bit (tried to make it not 'too' technical)
On a side-note, it would probably be pretty easy for MS to detect KV-swaps (like HW-mismatches etc).
Side-note2: in case it wasn't obvious yet those "unban isos" are fake and iXtreme LT won't unban you (it will instead try to avoid new bans)."

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xboxlover - 52 days 16 hours ago

the link is down

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CallMeMilenko601 - 48 days 2 hours ago

why do i have a feeling that half the people who have commented on this have already been banned for modding, but decided to buy another xbox and actually buy games again. -__-

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