Spring Dashboard update – Backups work fine
You’ve probably heard enough about the just-released Spring Dashboard update already (Previous coverage: here, here and here), so we won’t bore you guys with any more duplicate coverage. If you’ve been under a large rock all this while, our previous coverages will bring you up to speed with the latest happenings regarding the Dashboard update. The update brings a lot of great new features making your Xbox 360 experience that much more enjoyable.
Anyways, the main reason for this article is to douse the suspense surrounding the fate of people who’ve modified their DVD drives with a hacked firmware to play pirated games, err backups. This might sound surprising: the latest Dashboard update doesn’t mess with hacked DVD drives; meaning that if you’ve modified your DVD drive firmware, you’ll still be safe with the latest update. People having Hitachi drives haven’t been lucky enough to get regular updates to the hacked firmware, but even that doesn’t matter, they’re safe too!
While this doesn’t rule out the possibility that Microsoft might be collecting data regarding these hacked drives and waiting to do something a little later, it’s safe to say that’s close to being improbable. Hackers, like Commodore4Eva, have made claims that they have complete control over the DVD drive and that Microsoft can’t really do anything with it. Even though Microsoft might have something up their sleeve, it would be pretty risky to do something now.
In related news, Commodore4Eva has also announced that he is working on an Xtreme Firmware v2.4 for Hitachi users which would include the latest Disc Jitter update recently packed in Xtreme 5.3 for Samsung drives. We’ll keep you posted on C4E’s work, stay tuned.
Via #fw on EFNET
You’ve probably heard enough about the just-released Spring Dashboard update already (Previous coverage: here, here and here), so we won’t bore you guys with any more duplicate coverage. If you’ve been under a large rock all this while, our previous coverages will bring you up to speed with the latest happenings regarding the Dashboard update. The update brings a lot of great new features making your Xbox 360 experience that much more enjoyable.
Anyways, the main reason for this article is to douse the suspense surrounding the fate of people who’ve modified their DVD drives with a hacked firmware to play pirated games, err backups. This might sound surprising: the latest Dashboard update doesn’t mess with hacked DVD drives; meaning that if you’ve modified your DVD drive firmware, you’ll still be safe with the latest update. People having Hitachi drives haven’t been lucky enough to get regular updates to the hacked firmware, but even that doesn’t matter, they’re safe too!
While this doesn’t rule out the possibility that Microsoft might be collecting data regarding these hacked drives and waiting to do something a little later, it’s safe to say that’s close to being improbable. Hackers, like Commodore4Eva, have made claims that they have complete control over the DVD drive and that Microsoft can’t really do anything with it. Even though Microsoft might have something up their sleeve, it would be pretty risky to do something now.
In related news, Commodore4Eva has also announced that he is working on an Xtreme Firmware v2.4 for Hitachi users which would include the latest Disc Jitter update recently packed in Xtreme 5.3 for Samsung drives. We’ll keep you posted on C4E’s work, stay tuned.
Via #fw on EFNET