[TSOP identify]

11 hours ago, OGXbox Admin said:

 

I'm not sure if we're splitting hairs here but I've never softmodded either. I tsop flashed hundreds of xboxs back in 2002/3 - 2006 just by running the exploit and having it run raincoat. Then I'd go to my pc and give it the commands to erase the tsop and then write the bios to it. 
IMO running the exploit is not softmodding. It allows us to run the 1 app, but does not in and of itself make the console run unsigned code at next boot. THAT would be a softmod. Forcing the exploit to run at every boot and then having that automatically load a bfm bios is a softmod. 
So yeah this has always been possible. 

Exactly how I look at things on what the words softmod and hardmod mean.  

[TSOP identify]

I never got into the softmod scene as it seemed to have issues from time to time. TSOP flashing was easier. I would just solder the two points. Copy the files from the memory card to the Xbox. Run the exploit and flash the TSOP. Done. Then of course swapped in to a massive 120 GB drive back then. 

[TSOP identify]

15 hours ago, MadMartigan said:

Just to clarify this a little for anyone reading in the future. 

Up until a year or so ago, it was required to softmod your xbox in order to perform a TSOP flash. It is now very much possible to flash the TSOP at the same point in which you were to trigger the softmod game save exploit. You just need the TSOP flash game save files instead of the softmod. Same process, different results.  My how far we have come. 

Huh? A year ago?  I've never softmodded even back in the day when TSOP flashing hit the scene.  007 and Mechassault Evox flashers with 1024k bios bins worked great.