A lot of banned people are saying all their games were validated stealth. xtreme 1.3+ won’t even let you boot a non-stealth disk. My guess, just as a programmer, is MS has been reverse engineering programs like Mulleter to find something it’s not looking for and using that to detect backups.
Who knows though, I’m no 360 security engineer. The lack of new checks makes me think they’ve found some way to detect these supposed “stealth” backups because they’re not looking at the firmware. As stated earlier I’m leaving my modded and unbanned as of 11am system offline until someone like c4eva explains how the bans are happening. If I start to twitch because of a lack of R6V2 I’ll go pickup a legit copy and hook up that liteon drive 360 I got as an RRoD replacement and blow the dust off it.
I really think its the same thing that happened last year with the wave of bans. Mullerter just checks MD5s and disc layouts in comparison with an “assumed good” copy in the database.
Last year, some new games had a different video sectors on the dvd which caused small sectors of the data partition to become corrupt due to a bug in the Kreon ripping firmware. Even tho these games were “Sealth Patched” and everything properly, they caused the wave of bans.
I am willing to bet it is a similar thing this time around. There is still no way to detect modded firmware in Samsung drives (the way the drive is built makes this impossible becuase it does not have the ability to execute code on boot) unless you mess with the dvd drive speed so you as long as you have that, playing legit games on live is guaranteed to be ok. It will just be a new check put into mulleter/xtreme firmware along with some Kreon updates and the scene will be back to having their mods back.
x2 sorry aaron but hes right, that post was both usless and cried attention whore. Its one thing to have knowledge about that stuff and be sort of heplful with it but its another to be arrogant about it.