Rumoured 360 Chip a Scam?

There has been much hype surrounding a possible 360 chip that was allegedly tested by just one mod retailer (who has absolutley no real influence in the scene - so thats suspicious to start with). We've kinda kept quiet on this one due to the fact that at least one other mod chip maker had been trying to do "business" with them so we wanted to see how it played out.

There has been no picture or video evidence and no technical information - again very strange and suspicious. In the past all major mod teams including ourselves and Xenium and SmartXX always gave something real to chew on before a release.

First this site shows a picture of a mod - which is blatantly bullshit. Looked like some pic emulator board (later found to be true)

Then they say sorry as its a fake picture !?!

Then they post a picture of a bios config screen similar to what you'd see with X3 Config Live and others) but they say they arent doing any unsigned code hacking ?!?

Now we hear this from Divineo...

Quote:

"The 360 chip is 99% a scam, we had booked tickets to go meet them, we were ready to make huge prepayment and more after we meet the guys at their office and see the working X-Box 360 with back-ups they 100% confirmed they had and it was no problem to show etc. Now at last second they cancelled, with some lame reason, those guys are scammers I really believe. They did the same to Xenium, backed off and changed completely what they said."


Our point of view is that this is not real, or possibly they had some success but discovered some new security structure in the 360 and are scratching their heads but of course posted the news too quickly.

If this was ever real they would first go to someone like Xbox-Scene with a demo and then of course Divineo, not some website shop that no one has ever heard of -especially for something that would be such a huge breakthrough.

All we say to the scene is don't go putting too much credence (or funds for that matter) into anything that isn't proven as real. We can assure you there will be more than one type of mod available from different groups in the coming weeks/months - just be patient.