A noob's questions about hacked firmware/backups

[Rageheuuu]

High everyone, I was hoping you could answer a few quick questions I had. Does anyone know, if there are any games to date that you cannot backup? I would hope the answer to be no, but if not, which ones are they, and why? Reguarding the future: do you see any way for M$ to stop people backing up their games? I know this will be a tough question to answer, just give it your best guess, based on the knowledge you have of the 360 firmware hack, and the way we back up games. I plan to purchase my first 360 sometime this year, right after they start implementing the new 65nm processors. I don't want to be concerned about overheating, which seems to be the main cause of the 360's growing fatality rate. Again, based on your own knowledge, do you think the newer 'versions' of the console will add difficulty for those who want to back their games up? I've heard that some of the newer consoles have some sort of an 'epoxy' covering the drive, can anyone explain what this is? And if it is hard to take off/get around? Also, does anyone know of a place to print the dvd covers for 360 games? Although this isn't a huge deal, it would be nice to have the actual dvd cover(image on the top of the dvd) on my backups. And one more, what do you guys keep your backups in?

Sorry about the sloppy presentation of this post, I'm on my lunch break, but wanted to get this up for you guys to take a look at, and hopefully check it out when I get home.. thanks!

Skull_Buster

 

[landeilo]

Unfortunatly I can only help with one of your questions, you can download the Xbox360 DVD covers and Disc covers here

 

[hmelo]

1)Does anyone know, if there are any games to date that you cannot backup?

2)Reguarding the future: do you see any way for M$ to stop people backing up their games?

3)I've heard that some of the newer consoles have some sort of an 'epoxy' covering the drive, can anyone explain what this is? And if it is hard to take off/get around?

1) No, you can currently backup all games. There were a few games that failed to properly unlock the game partition but that was fixed with the newer version of XBC.

2) Who knows - time will tell. To date, m$ has taken approaches on the drive side, attempting to stop people from being able to alter their firmware. There are two drives that are currently not flashable via software, the Hitachi v79 and the BenQ.

3) Yes, the new samsung and hitachi drives (not sure about BenQ) have epoxy covering the tsop and controller. This is to make it more difficult to solder to the leads or remove the smd all together. It can be taken off by heating with a heat gun and pealing it up. You dont need to do this for any drives currently flashable by software, so you dont need to worry about it.

Caster.

 

[Textbook]

Never ever use the stick-on CD labels. You will regret it when you get dirty disc errors and kill your laser.