Cheating in the Past
The glitch was an accident. It would not have been patched if they wanted it to be there. LH didn’t know about the glitch, so they couldn’t have been tracking it.
Your gold count is stored on your 360, not on XBL’s or LH’s servers. This is proven because I’ve been playing Pub Games without the patched version. The 360 does not let you play a game on XBL unless it’s got the latest patch for that game. If you select not to patch it, you are forced to play it without being logged in. So while you are playing and earning gold on your unpatched, untracked, and disconnected version of Pub Games, no data is being sent back to MS or LH.
A lot of people have been suggesting that there will be a patch on release day for Fable II or later that will know that you cheated. Again, I don’t believe there’s anything in your save file that says your cheated. So Fable II couldn’t know.
Cheating in the Future
I thought for sure that the release disc would include something so that you could only transfer gold and items from the patched version of Pub Games, and if you had the original, unpatched version it would make you update it first. But they didn’t. They could still release a patch that does this, but you can remove your patches whenever you wanted to cheat.
The only way they could stop you from cheating now is:
- The Pub Games you download from XBLA could already be patched, if you didn’t have the original unpatched one already.
- MS could remove the ability to remove patches/updates from your harddrive (which could happen with the NXE, I suppose).
- Later Fable II discs come pre-patched to not allow gold from the unpatched Pub Games.
If anyone has any other ideas of how things could go wrong, let me know (post a comment). I might be overlooking something, but the more and more people ask about it, the more thought I’ve put in to it, and I am certain that MS and LH won’t know you cheated.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:29 am
I read somewhere(I forgot) that LH would only punish you, for having too much money. So i think that they MIGHT have a certain budget on how much money you sould be earning in the pub games. I myself have half a mil from the exploit and im still waiting for tomorrow to see what happens.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:15 am
That could be possible. I suppose gambling could be considered an act of corruption, but so far it hasn’t done anything to me. I spent some time playing Sunday morning to build up 1 mil, but still nothing happened.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Hey there, I saw your videos about fable on youtube and I was wondering. How do you record those movies from your TV? What do you use for that?
Thanks for helping me out
Stijn Jasper
October 20th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I used this video capture card:
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE Kit Tuner Card
The cable that comes with the 360 Elite has both Component and Composite video output and will out through both at the same time, so the component goes to the TV and the composite goes to the capture card.
Some HDTVs also have a video out port on them that you can connect to a capture card if you need high def recording. I only have an SDTV though.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:44 am
Hmmm, I am going to buy a new television soon. It will be this one: http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=television&type=television&subtype=plasmatv&model_cd=PS42A410C1DXXY&fullspec=F
(sorry for the big link, I hope it doesn’t get filtered by askimet xD)
Do you think I can record my xbox with that?
Thanks
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:11 am
It doesn’t say if it has any kind of video out port.
Still, you don’t have to have it to record. You can use adapters/splitters to send video to both the TV and the capture card like I do.