Potential Fix for Banned Xbox 360s
This holiday season Microsoft has a special surprise in store for “naughty” Xbox 360 hackers — a particular sweeping ban that relies on spotting modified drive firmware. Rolled out starting last week, the ban, according to sources, blocks the installation of games on the Xbox hard drive, blocks the Windows Media Player media extender, corrupts saves/Gamertags used on the machine, and most significantly prevents the console from accessing Xbox Live.
According to early estimates 600,000 consoles were effected, but more recent estimates put the number at close to 1 million consoles.
Microsoft has suggested that users with banned consoles find another Xbox. However, users with a banned Xbox 360 may not want to throw away their consoles just yet. According to the site 360Mods, c4eva has abandoned work on his Lite-on and Hitachi drive mods to try to establish a workaround.
