Haha - you can write as much as you want, but are you actually reading the news post. It doesnt state anything concrete, it’s just possibilities.

No one can read! He has said what methods and what modders are currently doing now. The news post is all about what may happen, not what will.

There can’t be no proof unless the usb support is live and we can see it happening.

I’m sorry but this article isn’t “quite correct”. What it’s missing is proof. I wrote how stuff works, not how I think stuff works.

I’m not a modder and I don’t have to prove anything. I couldn’t mod my XBox anyway since it has current dashboard version that can’t be hacked. I’m simply stating how stuff works.

I’ll repeat myself, there is no way you’re going to run modified executable on XBox. Disk swap? How is that going to work? OK, you install the game on USB stick, put it in your PC, edit, mod, patch, whatever to it’s executable and put it back in. Now what? You put disc in the drive and start the game. Beeep! No go. XBox checked for game disc in the drive, that passed, then it checked for executable digital signature, that failed. Game won’t launch… If you even get that far. It would probably said it’s corrupted data before and you wouldn’t even be able to get to DVD check.

Same with hotswap. You have modded DVD and original one. You boot the original one, it passes original DVD check, you swap it with light speed with modified one, XBox checks for exe digital signature, loading fails… If you let it load exe from original disc it won’t fail. But that wouldn’t do aynthing since then it would use original and not hacked one so again, no cheating…

Only thing this article is, is a witch hunt. Author points his finger at something and shouts “Wiiiitch!!!!” when he doesn’t know if his theory could even work.

Only cheats possible are the ones poor game design allows at the moment, like all the crap that’s happening in Modern Warfare 2. And that has nothing to do with modding or USB. It’s just bad game design. On PC version of that game even extremely high frame per second rate gives you advantage over others, like faster walk, no sound while you walk, higher jumping or faster shooting so people are turning detail off and using ridiculously small resolutions to get these high FPS’s just so they could glitch. Luckily I learned my lesson with CoD4 so I haven’t wasted money on MW2. But all that has nothing to do with modding, it’s just bad game design and exploiting it.

Reading further down, he didn’t state that unlocking arcade games had anything to with ISO’s, and I can actually read that he says Modders can mod now by using devices that attach to the memory card & HDD’s.

I thought it was a good read and it does make me wonder if allowing usb memory devices would encourage people to hack more and make it more easy for people to do since they dont need to buy transfer cables, datel sata add-ons etc.?

The bit I think could have been explained better was the running of modified ISO Data. The gist is there where it implies that basically install a game to USB Memory, swap the data for modded data, and then run it on the console using the original game disc to run the code because the original would boot the console to load the file on USB Memory. This tricky method is called HotSwap with discs at the moment.

Unfortunately the modding scene is improving all the time, and we would only have to wait and see what USB Support could bring us. I get your point on the ease of freely distributed files and since the files would be more than just gamesaves we just have to wait & see what happens when it happens, even if it happens lol

But as the guy above pointed out, things can be done with an MS Transfer cable, so they can’t even release that without a modder ruining it!

1) You can connect current XBox HDD to PC with no problems what so ever. It’s against the TOS? Device to do it comes from microsoft itself. It’s called HDD Transfer Kit. I used it to transfer data from my old 20 GB HDD to new 120 GB one. It could be done via XBox itself, it’s even not guaranteed that it will transfer everything, like particular saves. Using it on PC to first make backup with these “hacker” tools and then restoring it to new one will in fact transfer all saves. Only thing it didn’t do right was transfer games that were installed to HDD which was fine by me. So are you saying that it’s against the TOS for me to be able to have all of my saves transferred to new storage and it’s OK to loose them?

2) Unlocking trial marketplace games into full ones and using modified ISO’s for games has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with ISO. It’s an exploit for earlier version of XBox360 kernel. If you have console that’s up to date you can’t do it on any console you want to. So far I haven’t seen one, I’ve only heard it’s possible to do it in these rare units, mostly ones that have been in stores for some time to be old enough and vulnerable for this exploit. And even then, you can’t go online with this console, it’s not just put DVD in drive, wait for it to spin and you have modded console. This mod requires hardware modding on XBox motherboard. XBox live detects this in a heartbeat so you don’t have to worry that someone will add aimbot, wallhack or whatever to their game and cheat that way. Sure, they could do it, but they COULDN’T play online with it anyway.

3) DVD drive mod is the only one you can have the chance to play online with if you have burned game disc. But that’s all it is. Burned version of original one. If the game is in any way modified it simply won’t boot. Why? Because every executable is digitally signed, if you modify it XBox won’t boot it because this digital signature will be corrupted. You can go around it with that hardware mod, but if you do that you’ll get banned on XBLA the instant you connect that modded console to it. You can’t even use hardware modded console to install it to HDD and then connect that HDD to normal console because installed content is locked to the console that installed it, if you try to run it it will simply say that it wasn’t installed with this console and you need to reinstall it if you want to play. Unless it would simply give out corrupted data message in case game executable was modified and digital signature corrupted. Because of this digital signature there aren’t any patches for ISO’s that are locked to some region to make them region free. If you modify anything in executable you can kiss that digital signature goodbye. XBox simply won’t run executable that doesn’t have valid digital signature. If it’s modified in any way that digital signature is corrupted. It’s the same for marketplace games. They can be unlocked by cracking their executable which also have that digital signature. That’s why it works on those hardware modded XBox, they don’t check this signature, normal units do and to them this game will simply be corrupted data. This all has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with USB and will not automagically mod motherboards of your units.

This potential USB feature has absolutely nothing with your “concerns”. Only thing it will make easier is save backup. And disappointing few kids when they figure out they can’t swap saves because they’re coded to specific XBLA profile. There is way around this, but it will not grant you any achievements if that’s the next thing you’re going to witch hunt against because you earn them and they’re added to your profile, not to save file…

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Final Fantasy? Japanese games? Sony and Nintendo overrated? You bet.

People have been able to mod and hack for decades, it has never ruined anything because there are still plenty of legitimate players out there.

You know how easy it is to steal cable? VERY VERY simple, but it hasn’t ruined television.

It’s far more easier to hack PC games, but PC gaming is very far from ruined and about the only gaming taken seriously and professionally aside from arcade fighters.

The simplicity of hacking now is reason why this article is complete bunk, it’s only making the job slightly less difficult for the same people who hac already.

The hacks you talk about require you to have an older version of firmware. If you’ve got the latest version of the dashboard on your console, you’re too late. MS have already patched Xbox Live to detect and ban these JTAG hacked consoles. So it only works offline. So cheating online isn’t really possible.

I think the USB update is the right move. If people want to risk there console being banned, so be it. It’s even possible that we will see a new form of file system encryption to protect against current & future gamertag and save hacking.

Thank you for you article and opinion. Personally I think this update wont have any effect on the service. Let’s all hope. Peace.