Xbox 360 backups

[fumanchu]

there are a lot of games that are region free,most games by ubisoft,atari and some ea games are region free.

the games that are region free were produced like that,a good place to about pecific regions of games is play asia.

when you say have these been made region-free or produced like that,how do you mean?

publishers have the choice if they want to region-lock their games or not.thing is some games will only work on a japanese nstc 360 but yet the asiannstc version could run region free.

play asia is your best bet.im sure their is probably a list out there.

[gavin19]

there are a lot of games that are region free,most games by ubisoft,atari and some ea games are region free.

the games that are region free were produced like that,a good place to about pecific regions of games is play asia.

when you say have these been made region-free or produced like that,how do you mean?

publishers have the choice if they want to region-lock their games or not.thing is some games will only work on a japanese nstc 360 but yet the asiannstc version could run region free.

play asia is your best bet.im sure their is probably a list out there.

 

Yeah, I have found a few lists, but they mostly talk about working on US or Asian 360s. As always there isn't much info for PAL people. I have found all but 1 of the games I wanted for PAL anyway. There really isn't that much I want to play anyway, maybe 6 games tops.

 

When I said made region free, I meant did the release group make them region free. I read that this can't be done (yet) anyway. Cheers.

[fumanchu]

play asia does tell you whether a game runs on pal or not.

[Inky]

most games seem to leak PAL first lately anyways. and really most of what I see is region free.

[gavin19]

I have tried my Live profile on my flashed system and played a actual game online and nothing happened. I'm not brave enough to try a burned one online though. Would be nice to know since it seems to be random on who gets caught.

 

I have been reading up on this and it seems that there are a small number of people who got banned just from being on Live with a flashed drive, never having played a burned game.

 

Anyway, I finally got my via sata card this morning, went through the tutorial, worked like a charm. Remembering the pains I had when I softmodded my Xbox1(s), it was a piece of cake. One small issue though. I originally had a Silicon Image sata card which I used for my Asus sata DVD burner, and my main hdd, a 160GB Hitachi. I had everything switched off and disconnected, to go through the flash process, and had to remove my sata card to put in the VIA card for flashing. Once I had flashed I decided to just connect my DVD drive and hdd into the VIA sata card, instead of putting the old one back in. When I started Windows it said that the hdd was corrupted. I tried a few recovery apps I have and not one of them could do a thing. Coincidentally, this was the drive where I had my 360 'backups' stored and ready to burn. Not good. So I had the high of properly flashing the 360 crushed just minutes later when I realised I had just lost 80GB worth of games in one go. It's ok though, I did a test burn last night cause I couldn't wait, and it works. At least my burner/media are good to go.

 

tl;dr - 360 waffle

[Bambi]

I have tried my Live profile on my flashed system and played a actual game online and nothing happened. I'm not brave enough to try a burned one online though. Would be nice to know since it seems to be random on who gets caught.

 

I have been reading up on this and it seems that there are a small number of people who got banned just from being on Live with a flashed drive, never having played a burned game.

 

I was worried about that but it doesn't seem like they can tell.

I've tried it twice now on 2 different flashed 360's and no ban.