Datel working on 'remedy' for its unauthorized Xbox 360 memory units

by Richard Mitchell on Oct 28th 2009 5:02PM

There was something of an outcry in the Xbox community when Microsoft announced that the upcoming Xbox 360 Dashboard Update would disable "unauthorized" memory units. Datel, a manufacturer of such devices, recently expressed its disappointment following the announcement. Fortunately, it looks like it takes more than that to keep a good company down, as Maxconsole.net reports that Datel intends to release a solution to the problem.

In a letter to retailers, Datel stated it was "aware of the changes that are required to remedy this problem and will shortly release a solution in readiness for this potential update." Naturally, the company didn't elaborate on the necessary changes. Datel also didn't supply a precise release date for the updated memory units, saying only that they would be available "shortly." Still, it's good news for folks that want more memory for less-than-exorbitant prices.

[Via Engadget]

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Tags: dashboard-update, dashboard-update-fall-2009, datel, Datel-Max-Memory, memory-card, memory-unit, Microsoft, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (63)

And then the next update removes the new ones from working. God, cant believe these people run a company

Damn those people for wanting to run their business. Damn them to hell.

well why waste your money selling something people would be retarded to buy that's just gonna be made unusable? That's stupid, this isnt the only thing they sell , just focus on the other stuff.

@ The Dark Wayne

Or even better than forcing us to make "retarded" purchasing decisions between their excessively over priced proprietary hdds, their laughably tiny and also over priced 512MB cards or the unstable and hackable Datel cards, maybe Microsoft should think about developing alternative memory options. Your move salesman...

Fight the power Datel!

these devices were specifically aimed at because of their use to modify game data and cheat or hack up your gamerscores. These guys arent fighting anything they're promoting cheating and the people who use them have the potential to ruin the online community.

You're Capt. Planet! We have to laugh so that you stay motivated to protect the world from polution caused by burning up broken Tony Hawk peripherals.

So ban the cheaters. Don't punish the people that have legitimate uses for the cheaper storage devices, like storing stuff.

and before you think its a load of bull when i say ruin the online experience, what people will do is hack up overpowered weapons for games like borderlands then flood the game with them or worse simply make malformed characters to crash people's games. I'm sure we all remember how great PSO was until the hackers flooded the game.

No, FUCK YOU. (And this time I will not use protection. You will have my bastard internet baby.)

@incendious

thats idiotic, thats like chasing a million petty drug dealers when you can be smart and target the source. people arent using those devices as a cheap alternative anyways, most of their customers all have alliterative motives for purchasing them.

It's MS's fault for not encrypting save data like PSP/PS3 do.

@DeepFriedSushi

You lost me at alliterative.

So if we all follow Sushi's methods. How do we take care of drunk drivers? Disable all cars from working! It's crazy, but it just MIGHT work.

i meant "ulterior motives"

@Samuel Vimes

ya because that's the same right? cars are used for transportation, dont be moronic
and make poor analogies to make me seem less credible, datel's devices have always been about being used for other purposes. I would easily give datel the benefit of the doubt but look at their track record, every thing they release can and is being used by pirates or hackers.

"Fight the power Datel!"

No, it's more like pay your damn licensing fees and get with the program; help prevent the idiot hackrz, or get out of the game.

^thats the thing they have no intent on ever getting licensed because all their devices such as the hdd connectivity kit is all used for cheating and hacking. Cheating and having fun on your own thats perfectly fine i couldnt give a shit but its when you go into a online game and ruin the experience for everyone else. Remember the cod4/codwaw god mode online well thats was because of datel's hdd kit. Just means extra time IW and treyarch has to waste just to patch these old games up to prevent exploits instead of putting their time and effort into new games or new maps.

Datel knows and willing is promoting hacking.

@Extinction
I feel that the reason they didnt do that was because encryption and decryption impacts performance of loading and saving. Its a tradeoff.

Take for example the uncharted 2 beta, not only did that thing take an hour to download but you had to wait another hour just to let it install. MS simply wanted less of a barrier so for developers, and stuff like encrypting and decrypting can be handled by the developer if they feel its worth it to make the sacrifice. Instead of having it mandatory on the ps3.

I agree they should pay the licensing fees and attempt to still make it more affordable for users. But whatever analogies are used it is still the same. Do you know this company personally? Do you speak to the owner and he's like "Yeah we totally promote cheating and piracy"? No. So don't slander a company because people use their hardware for illegal means. Grow up.

what the hell? thats the exact point to their devices is to cheat, their most popular item used to be the pro action replay.

Xbox 360 Dshboard? Is that what they call it now? :)

Lol

I hope they find a way to make the memory units already out there work and not just new ones.

I'm assuming that the way to make them work is paying Microsoft a licensing fee. Anything else could be blocked through an additional firmware update.

I wouldn't be surprised. Datel's website has a video detailing their facilities, which includes a massive reverse-engineering lab. That lab's sole purpose is to tear apart the working of devices and firmware.

I'm surprised that none of the video game blogs have featured it

This reminds me of the Palm Pre iTunes-compatibility stories. You go Datel, fight the power.

it is a sad day, when a small company ,tells a larger one what to sell or how to go about selling it's product . fu datel.hope you fail.

it is a sad day, when a large company tells a smaller one what to sell or how to go about selling it's product . fu microsoft.hope you fail.

T,FTFY

What?!

@ Kevin

shhhh

Sitck it to the man!

Maybe they're going to pony up the cash and produce authorized products. :P

It's what they should have did in the first place.

MS WONT license this device, cause it's cheap and lets you use SD cards with far greater capacity than MS even sells

I don't get why people are hating on Datel. Back in the 80's if it wasn't for them creating action replay us commodore 64 users found to be a god send considering bad tapes could take you upward of 20 minutes to load saved game files. They also created the wii freeloader so you could play region locked games. Just because people can utilize their work for piracy doesn't mean that is their sole intent. It's like saying the ability to rip a cd or movie on a computer is for the sole intent of piracy. It all comes down to what someone does with it. If their true intent was specifically geared toward criminal means, they wouldn't have lasted since the 80's.

it is their intent to be marketed towards the pirates they have always marketed in shady business and they always will. That's like growing weed for sale to anyone then saying its medicinal.

So lets delve into your mind for a bit. Blades. Created to do all sorts of cutting and chopping of things. Someone uses one to commit murder. Ban all blades from the world? That is the mentality you are taking on here. Just because someone creates something for a specific application, and someone decides to abuse that application for criminal intent, doesn't mean the creators are to blame.

I truly don't believe you're a tard, or that naive. So I'm going on the hope that you are simply using hyperbole, albeit in a method that is unbelievably retarded & naive.

Think what you want but it doesn't change the fact that it comes down to the user themselves to create things like cheating and piracy. Yes the analogy may have been over exaggerated, but I am at work here so cut me a break on this one.

The small update today for the WPA2 support appears to have officially broke the Datel memory unit. This pisses me off because I purchased one to move all of my game saves and my tag (I know, I could just recover it) to my new MW2 360 in the next couple of weeks. I sold my previous model to a friend, so this was the only way I could store enough data without having to purchase 2 of those rip-off "official" 512 MB cards.

Personally, I'm happy Datel is working on a remedy. As long as I can put my game saves on to my new 360, I'll be happy.

I believe I caught a mistake in my post. Meant to put "disabled" instead of broke. Same difference.

If they do, I'll buy one just to support them.

Oh yeah and also so I can backup my saves and gamertag without getting screwed by MS.

I love how people can justify microsoft on this one, claiming that it 'stops cheaters'

Give me a break, I'm sure you're the same people that want helmet laws, seatbelt laws, and anything else that removes the responsibility of the individual and puts it on the entire community. If a cheater is using a product to cheat, it is the individual's fault, not the company, and especially not the others who use their products in a fair manner.

Bravo Datel, keep up the good work!

Damn right its a problem!

Its not piracy.

In a way I'm glad this controversy happened because it introduced me to the fact that these things existed in the first place - I had no idea previously. If they can get one to work post patch, I might get one.

How about they just pay the licensing fees to MS like every other accessory manufacturer?

Seriously, they charge a premium for those memory cards. I can get an 8GB Micro SD card from newegg for $18, why would you pay $50 for what boils down to a memory card reader with 4GB of memory for your xbox?

Because it's so much better to pay $40 for 512 MB of unupgradeable storage? Datel has one that comes with 2GB for $40. If you need more you can upgrade it.

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Datel working on 'remedy' for its unauthorized Xbox 360 memory units

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