Yeah, I was going to put something on here at 11pm last night, but figured there were only a few who'd care.

If anyone wants to see how it's done I can show you when summer school starts.

time to wait for a price drop and buy a core

till then Ill just see how this goes down

Need background downloading! wget on a 286 can do it...why can't a machine with at least three orders of magnitude more horsepower!?

it will be out soon, at E3 some higher up was talking about a big Dash update in May (so soon) that will add that and much much more

Huh, might be time for me try it out when the system drops in price (or I have money burning a hole in my pocket).

You guys may also be able to afford the Core if you buy a PS2/PSP online deal and use it as a return at Wal-Mart. It's pretty Iffy, but it'll probably drop the 360 down to $200 and your troubles.

**EDIT**
I found out that Walmart traces the serials of Sony products, so you won't be able to return a PSP or PS2 from another store.

It's already been confirmed that the dashboard is getting an update at the end of May with new features. One being online marketplace queing. 6 items can be placed in the que, and they'll download whenever the 360 is not playing an online game or using the majority of the bandwidth. You'll also see the interface for the new Camera (video chat, shapshots). There's also talk that this update may include the DirectTV Blade for TV shows and movies.

**Side Note**
Sony's online service (which is free) doesn't include online gaming. The free service is turning out to be Xbox Live Silver, meaning that Sony fans will have to pay a fee to play online, unless Sony comes out and conforms that the reports are incorrect.

And so the plot thickens.

FYI: the new dash update doesn't seem to effect the firmware at all but it's still possible to be banned in the future.

I haven't read up on it too much, but wouldn't the firmware piggy back mod be the best solution at the moment?

Microsoft would have to install some extra software that checked the DVD firmware everytime it was used to check for a modified firmware, and then report that to Xbox Live the next time the user connected, right?

Obviously that would be quite simple, I'm just saying I doubt they'd run it any other way...that just seems like the best way to catch the most firmware modders.

im going to wait on this buy another core when homebrew is going

just backing up games is grand and all but not tottally worth it

anyone think http://www.devil360.com is legit?

Maybe devils legit... I think they found a exploit and figured 3 months would be enough time to have it ready. Obviously it's not or they'd post some more details.

As far as detecting the Firmware, it'd be pretty easy for MS to have the Xbox do a checksum on the DVD drive every time it boots up. If the firmware doesn't add up correctly then it can send a red flag which MS could then use to warrent a firmware rewrite or firmware dump with a detector software determining if it's the Eva firmware. Then either ban the console or have the dashboard deactiveate the DVD drive until the checksum passes.

Either way we'll be seeing dual boot firmware mods, I'd actually rather have a chip that can boot to 3 different firmwares (original, windows, eva4) That way it's alot simpliler. Since there aren't any great 360 games coming out in the next few months I don't really see a need for this, but I've got it done anyway:)

Really the only REALLY big problem is that DL dvd disc are extremely unreliable as far as writing is conserned. Only 1 brand has a success rate over 50% and that's Verbatim which is hell'a expensive but has nearly a 99% successful burn rate. Add in the fact that they're over $2 a disc and it starts to look more like a lemon for a mod exploit.

You can't really beat the overall cost benifit though, even with the expensive media. For my setup it's pretty nice to be able to go on Live at the same time on different 360's. It makes games like GRAW seem cheap when you don't really have to look at that small crosscom screen.