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Hi all,

I can't seem to get a straight answer to this question anywhere, though I think I already (unfortunately) know it:

I want to make my 360 legit, BUT due to the death of my desktop PC, I can't reflash it back to stock So my question is: If I update normally (via disc), am I in danger of being banned from Live? In other words, do I *have to* flash back to stock to go on Live at all w/o fear?

Thanks for any light

I noticed this while poking around the code.google.com page for GenPlusGX and thought some of the folks here might be interested:



Here's a direct link to the mod (by auntieNeo, based on ekeeke's work, from the above-linked thread, w/ updated SMB icon from reydarz) that allows SMB:



I've been using it for a a week or two now, and it seems to work great with no perceptible loss in speed.

Edit: updated .dol w/ latest version.

OK, so I went into ATD today to make some changes and, lo and behold, I'm now getting a -1 error and ATD telling me it can't pull any of the required channel info no matter which option I pick. Everything else still works fine: WAD Manager (installed/uninstalled some wads to make sure), USB Loader, FTPii, blahblahblah, and I can't figure out why, all of a sudden, I'm getting an error that would seem to imply (my guess) that the IOS it needed to perform this function suddenly has issues? And, if that is the case, that it isn't affecting anything else? I haven't made any changes in quite a while (only installed a wad here or there) so I'm stumped.

I did a few searches but nothing really came up that sounds like it's in the same ballpark as what I'm experiencing, so any insight would be much appreciated.

(And I also tried a few different flavors of ATD, but they all come back w/ the same error.)

So, basically here's what's going on:

I downgraded to 3.2U, installed Starfall (w/ region free and update block) and CIOScorp and, from tehre, everything was going swimmingly--all back-ups still worked, I could boot games from disc channel, etc. So far, so good.

Then I tried to install a Japanese WiiWare (set to NTSC-U with Free the Eads) wad via Wad Manager and, lo and behold, I get a 1017 error, OK, fine, maybe it's just a glitch. So I try another game, this time an American Wiiware wad and...same thing.

Next I reboot the Wii, go back to Wad Manager and try again...same deal--neither the Japanese Wiiware wad nor the American one following it will install and I get the 1017 error.

Then I reboot again, go to Wad Manager and try to install a very recent American wad and, voila!, it works! No problems! Runs, plays and un-installs like a champ! Then, figuring is was just a series of glitches, without rebooting, I go back to Channel Manager and try to install the Japanese (set to US region) wad and, bam, 1017 error! I even set the original wad to region free and then leave it as Japan, try again, and, still, 1017 error!

Finally, I took a quite old Japanese WiiWare title and blahblahblah wad manager blahblahblah and it works like a charm! Installs and un-installs no problem!

So, basically, after all of this I do numerous searches both here and on the Net and, basically, it appears I'm the only one having this particular flavor of 1017 issue.

So, my question for the experts out there, any ideas as to what's up? Is this some sort of problem with newer Japanese wads? I don't think it is since others seem to be able to get them to run under the same conditions as I am running under and, that being the case, what could it be?

(please note: there is no rush on coming up with an answer for this as it's a minor headache and little more, but it does seem a little strange so I'd like to know if anyone has any theories before I do something more in-depth in an attempt to fix it.)