Volgens de website logic-sunrise.com heeft de winkelketen Micromania van Microsoft een gebrande Halo 3 disc gehad om zo 2e hand consoles te kunnen testen of ze gebruik maken van DVD Rom Drives met geflashed firmware. Uiteraard stellen we grote vraagtekens bij dit bericht, maar soms is truth stranger then fiction.

News from French Xbox website logic-sunrise.com tells us the French retailer Micromania is now checking each Xbox360 with a Halo3 "DVD+R DL RW" (whatever that is lol) disc before buying it back from customers and putting it on the 2nd-hand market.

According to their source at Micromania this discs is coming from Microsoft itself (!?). This is a quick test to see if the DVD FW has been flashed with a custom firmware - and would avoid the 2nd-hand buyer to be banned at a later time not knowing his FW was flashed. Of course you can still flash your DVD FW back to stock FW before selling it ;) Wouldn't really detect already-banned consoles either, but I'll assume they do a different check for that.

If other shops out there received a similar disc or got instructions from MS about how to detect flashed DVD FWs and banned consoles for 2nd-hand 360s, feel free to let me know