Banned Xbox 360’s – boon or bust?

We’re sure you’ve heard about Xbox 360s facing an other round of bans from Xbox Live last week. It seems that living in a hole, or even in Grenora, North Dakota couldn’t help you escape hearing this from every news source possible. Apparently, this has caused a slew of banned consoles to go up for sale in a buyer-beware quagmire. This is a joke in several ways; didn’t the hardware problems of the machine already make the used market risky enough? Now consumers will be even more wary, losing game sales because less people are buying used consoles.

If you have just the right kernel, and a copy of your CPU key, and a second unbanned Xbox 360, you may be able to reactivate your machine. But how many people have those things available to them? Undoubtedly an Xbox 360’s desirability is greatly diminished if Xbox Live is removed from the equation. This is something Nintendo could learn from when it comes to the Wii (no online multiplayer with New Super Mario Bros Wii?… Really?). So whether you are the one who was banned, or you decided/were tricked in to purchasing a banned console, what are you going to do with it now that online play is out of the picture?

We’ve seen the console emulating SNES games and even XBMC run with the help of Ubuntu. Leave us a comment and tell us if you are planning to just go without Xbox Live, use the machine as a desktop running Ubuntu, or spearhead the effort to repurpose this powerful (and flawed) hardware platform. Will you go out and capitalize on cheaper hardware, or have you been burnt by the grim reality of a crippled rig?

http://hackaday.com/2009/11/17/banne...-boon-or-bust/

Well i got banned on friday, so im taking mine apart and selling it as spare parts.

Hello:

You can also check if your favorite 360 game has system link capabilities and download Team Xlink's Kai program. I tested on an original xbox and works flawlessly. The program required the PC connected as well as the console to work. And it works. Give it a try. You can find the program on their site.

I don't know if I can put the link from here without violating any agreement of the forum usage. Google "team xlink"to find their page.

Emulation Cheif:
You are right you can use Xlink Kai on the original XBOX but on the Xbox 360 it is next to impossible..

The xbox 360 has put a 30 ping limitation on LAN games, so if any user goes over 30 ping then he will get kicked out. So using Xlink kai on the 360 is next to impossible until someone comes up with a crack to remove this limitation

Nomi