Yes, as of 4:00am December 14th EST, the Title Update 3 has started its distribution to all Xbox 360 consoles which desire to play COD : Black Ops online.

All the details of this recent fix can be read here in this news article :
News/article/sid=1226.html

As per regarding any form of GPD modifications, all of them have once again been patched and are unuseable at this current period of time. If you were using any modified GPD prior to this update, chances are youre already banned and if not you will soon be.

Regarding anyone with ridiculous prestige and COD points without mathematically legitimate standings :
You WILL be banned eventually. Treyarch is not stupid, theyre serious about their franchise and im sure they desire to keep it as clean as possible. So unfortunatley for any of you GPD modifiers, this equivilates to your time and account wasted. I wish I could empathize with you, but I made it very clear from the begging that this would happen. Ive already had several reported cases of bannings and resets. GPDs are 100% patched as of the TU3. You can only play offline zombies mods if you delete the title update and play without one.

Regarding account sales/giveaways in this section :
Last I checked, no account sales were allowed. Infact it was an announcement at one point, so for your own saftey I advise you not to make threads about it here. Im sure you all have friends on your aim list or something of that nature, why dont you try that?

A note about the golden guns and private match glitches :
These are 100% patched as of December 14th at approximatley 3pm EST. Do not waste your time attempting them as you will be nothing but dissapointed. Also refrain from making any posts about it because obviously avoiding forum clutter is the whole point of this correct?

Conclusion :
My advice to all of you is to look past the limit youve placed on yourselves when thinking about modifying this game. GPD mods were finite, as was their success. So I implore you to "Think Outside The Box" and perhaps you can all develop a more consistant reliable method as I have ( Which I will *NOT* be releasing under any circumstance. Yes my method still works for TU3 ).

I wish you all luck and I hope this clears up any further confusion which may occur.

My regards, your friendly techgame contributer.

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New Update & Information Ive Added December 17th :

Regarding ANYTHING To Do With System Linking On Black Ops :
Theres a reason this wont work and everyone should read this carefully so youre never fooled into it.

Obviously the most apperent reason is that online ranks have ABSOLUTELY NO CORRELATION with system link. People honestly need to give it a rest with this system link nonsense. EVERYTHING is done server side so its NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, you MUST be online for ANY ranks to be recorded. If I need to explain this notion any further you should just quit existance itself at that point.

Heres a list of some familiar variables which im sure youve all seen by now :



While these are all good and dandy, they will have no impact on you being able to system link your online rank. It simply wont happen as ive stated before, everything MUST be done server side for it to work.

Also regarding anything to do with variables that have sv_ infront of them ( Example : sv_cheats ). These are DEVELOPER cheats and are mostly read only protected. Do not think you can make them up, all of them are located within the xex and you can feel free to find them on your own if you please. These will not work unless certain conditions are met.

If you DO wish to be able to system link things, I suggest you all learn abit about MIPS assembly and its following precedent PPC. These in combination with some simple hex editing will enable you to remove these four essential protections :

- Cheat Protection
- Write Protection
- Read Only Protection
- Anticheat Protection

Only with these removed will anything be possible for you outside of scr_ variables and those variables ive listed above ^ ( There are some other variables which arent cheat protected as they do not affect actual gameplay itself, but theres only a very small handfull ). Once you have removed those protections, everything will be accessible for you to do as you please. Until then youre going to get nowhere.

So please, stop with this nonsense about "Mod Menu" this and "System Link" that, youre doing no one any good and causing a tremendous ammount of forum spam. Do your part for the community and read this so you can all move forward.

I also ask that you stop spamming me asking me how to do all of this. Theres this nifty thing called google, a skill you have called reading, and this AMAZING thing called a brain. Use them.

My regards, your friendly techgame contributer.

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New Update & Information Ive Added December 17th :

Regarding anything to do with Black Ops lobbies :
Seeing as ive recieved many questions about this over private messages, I figured that I would explain the situation pertaining to them.

Actual online black ops lobbies, run off a reversed engineered console ( Jtag ), are the only things capable of being a sustainable, consistant method for statistic modification. Although im sure youve noticed that jtags have been crippled as per the recent 12611 dashboard updated. So im sure youre all wondering, How do we make it happen?

Microsoft has been very carefull in dealing with the jtag situation. Most of the time you will notice that even with a fresh keyvault, you will not be able to connect to live and if you DO manage to connect, the keyvault will last roughly 30 minutes in an absolute best case scenario. The reason for this is that everything is done on microsofts server side unlike before, so it is much easier for them to keep track of you and ban anyone running unsigned code. Its not the issue that you need a new rebooter or anything of the sort, its the issue of getting around the server checks which I assure you is no easy task.

Per say you did get past the microsoft checks though, and did manage to get online and onto black ops, then you must deal with treyarch's server side data transfers. Treyarch monitors everything that goes on, and all information is of course, once again sent server side to them. A tedious protective measure, but one that can be easily overcome with all of our current knowledge.

Essentially, if you can get your jtag online, and have some certain properly edited files ( Prefferably the code_post_gfx_mp.ff as well as the patch_mp.ff ). It is a meager task to run a lobby. A 12 year old could do it. Of course im also sure youre all aware of the protective measure treyarch has taken with their fast files as well. That is another task you must accomplish.

Although even if you DO manage to decrypt the fastfiles and alter them, there is ANOTHER protective measure which you must deal with. Treyarch has enabled a check which essentially makes it so if the client's patch data doesn't match your patch data, then the two consoles cannot enter a lobby together. As you can see this is another prominent problem for you all to solve, but im confident some of you out there are capable of this task.

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Some FAQ I get in my mail about this ( Corrected all of your spelling errors of course ) :



If you have anymore questions, feel free to pm them to me and ill answer them in here under the spoiler.

My regards, your friendly techgame contributer.