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JQ1
post Dec 13 2007, 01:08 PM
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I am currently backing up some games before I give the console to my kids for christmas. They can go to town and I don't have to worry about them screwing them up. Anyway....I just made a backup of "Avatar burning Earth". I pop it into my box and it tells me that my console needs to update to play this game. Normally I wouldn't care, but my benq drive is flashed(Xtreme). I'm afraid that if I go online I will get tagged with something that will require my box to be sent in. I really don't need that.
Do we have a file disk( download) somewhere with the updates or do I have to bite the bullet and go on line?
Basically......"is it safe?" :dentalpikgoingoff:
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post Dec 13 2007, 01:47 PM
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OK guys. Sorry about the silly post. I just found out that you can go to MS and download the update to a disk and burn it.
Still have the question though? Do these updates check to see if your Drive is flashed and do they lock up the machine if they find it?

P.S. It would be nice if the edit option was still available when coming back to the site. Wouldn't have to post again. Just edit my original. DOH!!

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post Dec 13 2007, 08:30 PM
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You might still get the update request next time you play the game. You've updated the dashboard but there might be a game-specific update required before you can play. Put in your original game disc and apply the update if required.

As far as MS detecting your modified firmware, it is generally thought that they don't/can't check the firmware but instead ban consoles based on other factors such as using improperly made backups on LIVE. If you make your own backups using a Kreon drive or Samsung MS25/MS28 and Schtrom or XBC you should have no problems there.

The general consensus on modified firmware and LIVE is: playing originals while connected to LIVE is safe, playing backups while NOT connected to LIVE is safe (network cable unplugged), playing backups while connected to LIVE is risking a ban.

The level of risk and exactly HOW modified consoles are detected is the subject of endless debate, but if you always use the latest firmware and backups you make yourself, you've really done about all you can to minimize the risk of a ban.

If you are banned, however, it just means your Xbox cannot connect to LIVE, MS don't "lock up" your console. You will still be able to play all your originals and backups, just not on LIVE i.e. no online multiplayer. You will also still be able to apply game updates from game discs and dash updates by downloading from MS and burning onto disc as you have already done.

Hope that helps.

p.s. I think there is a 10 or 15 minute window for editing, doesn't matter that you left the site

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post Dec 14 2007, 06:57 AM
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Just some small corrections to milambers advice...

1. The dashboard update is contained on the GAME disc you do not have to connect to live. Anything needed to play the game is include with the game. Just accept the update and you will be fine.

2. If you get banned from live you lose all access to online play, demos and GAME updates. No game updates are ever distributed on discs.
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post Dec 14 2007, 01:10 PM
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Thank you for your responses Gents. I truely appreciate you guys taking a couple of minutes to guide me. I'm not into online gaming or anything like that. I don't even have the box connected to my home network. I just use it for the kids. I just found it weird that for that game it asked me to update. The only reason I think is because that game only recently came out and maybe my machine was in the warehouse before any needed upgrades were flashed on from factory.
I'll take your advise and with my original game connect to the internet.
Cheers.... beerchug.gif
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post Dec 15 2007, 07:58 PM
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As stated you do not need to connect to the internet at all.

When you put the disk in it will automatically upgrade.
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