Xbox One users tricked into destroying console with fake backwards compatibility hack

[harrybarracuda]

Naughty..... Except the graphic refers to the Xbox 360????


Some Xbox One users have been tricked into effectively destroying their brand new £450 console by a cruel prank that promised to unlock it to play older games.

A convincing looking but still surely too good to be true graphic was posted on a notorious 4chan message board featuring a series of complicated steps that would allow people to play Xbox 360 games on the Microsoft games system.

Warning: Do not follow the steps in this graphic



However, rather than making their console backwards compatible, anyone following the code sequence would have in fact rendered their Xbox One completely useless, and unfortunately the damage is irreversible.

The same 4chan forum previously tricked iPhone users into believing iOS7 made their phones waterproof.

"To be clear there is no way to make your Xbox One backwards compatible & performing steps to attempt this could make your console inoperable"—
Larry Hryb (@majornelson) December 06, 2013

[blue]

a series of complicated steps

is the journalist having a laugh ?

pressing 'quickly' would have made me think twice.

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what about this numpty



By Bryan Henesey
Fuming: Peter Clatworthy believed he had paid £450 for an XBox One console on eBay but actually received a picture of one in the post.


Comments (71) A TEENAGER has been left fuming after mistakenly buying a photo of an in-demand computer console online.
Peter Clatworthy thought he had paid £450 for an XBox One console on eBay, but actually received a picture of one in the post.
The 19-year-old student, of Bilborough, had saved up in order to buy a limited edition Day One version of the console as a surprise Christmas present for his four-year-old son, McKenzie.
He has now contested the purchase with eBay, which has investigated and stated he should get a full refund from the seller.



Mr Clatworthy said: "I've had to make a joke out of it because I was that angry. At least we've now got something to laugh about in the years to come.
"I always buy stuff on eBay and this had never happened before."
Mr Clatworthy made the purchase on November 28, paying £450 plus £8 packaging.
Despite the listing stating it was a photo of an XBox One Day One edition console, Mr Clatworthy said he'd expected to receive the console as it was listed in the video games and consoles category on eBay.
He said: "It said 'photo' and I was in two minds, but I looked at the description and the fact it was in the right category made me think it was genuine.

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Warnin...ail/story.html

[Necron99]

^ For his 4 year old son...yeah right. Fuckin Nigel...

OP that is freakin hilarious, I wonder how many did it.
Disgruntled MS engineer...hahah

[Butterfly]

this is what happens when you give computers and complex machines to computer illiterates and fools,

the iOS 7 trick was priceless, just prove that iPhone buyers are idiots and braindead sheep,

tell them to jump out of the window with their iOS7 and they will do it

the XBOX trick is the same thing mentality for the idiot gamers !!!

if this was Windows, harry would be promoting everyone to "upgrade" to Win7 or Win8 just because MS told him to

[harrybarracuda]

this is what happens when you give computers and complex machines to computer illiterates and fools,

the iOS 7 trick was priceless, just prove that iPhone buyers are idiots and braindead sheep,

tell them to jump out of the window with their iOS7 and they will do it

the XBOX trick is the same thing mentality for the idiot gamers !!!

if this was Windows, harry would be promoting everyone to "upgrade" to Win7 or Win8 just because MS told him to

But you own an iphone.

And you love the cock.

[Bettyboo]

this is what happens when you give computers and complex machines to computer illiterates and fools

...

[Butterfly]

But you own an iphone.

it's running iOS4, so I am safe

[hazz]

^^I was thinking just that very thing. the big fat hypocrite.

[Butterfly]

hazz, you can barely articulate a thought in your own language without making spelling mistakes and creating faux sense

how does making an honest mistake make me an hypocrite ? or maybe you meant another word you can't think of because you are too illiterate ?

[harrybarracuda]

this is what happens when you give computers and complex machines to computer illiterates and fools

...

[hazz]

hazz, you can barely articulate a thought in your own language without making spelling mistakes and creating faux sense

how does making an honest mistake make me an hypocrite ? or maybe you meant another word you can't think of because you are too illiterate ?

butters.... thers absolutely nothing wrong with making blithering stupid mistakes like you and wifi, like these people... we all do it including myself. The hyprocasy comes from being blitheringly stupid and then bitching at other people for doing thie same.... as if you incapable of that level of stupidity.

I use the word stupidity, on the baisis that anyone with half a brain cell our posts would not have shot over you head to the degree that they obviously have.

[The Fresh Prince]

The 19-year-old student

for his four-year-old son

So he was a dad at 15! Wonder how old the mum is?

[Bettyboo]

She's probably at least 17. Now.

[hazz]

And his first cousin

[BaitongBoy]

With an expensive cardboard picture...

[Mr Orange]

He's wearing a liverpool shirt and fifa 14 comes with the x box. Not a personal buy then

[Butterfly]

butters.... thers absolutely nothing wrong with making blithering stupid mistakes like you and wifi, like these people... we all do it including myself. The hyprocasy comes from being blitheringly stupid and then bitching at other people for doing thie same.... as if you incapable of that level of stupidity.

I use the word stupidity, on the baisis that anyone with half a brain cell our posts would not have shot over you head to the degree that they obviously have.

dribbling old fool, can you try to articulate a thought without sending like a complete uneducated retard ?

btw the word you were looking for was "irony", not "hyprocasy" you illiterate idiot

[harrybarracuda]

butters.... thers absolutely nothing wrong with making blithering stupid mistakes like you and wifi, like these people... we all do it including myself. The hyprocasy comes from being blitheringly stupid and then bitching at other people for doing thie same.... as if you incapable of that level of stupidity.

I use the word stupidity, on the baisis that anyone with half a brain cell our posts would not have shot over you head to the degree that they obviously have.

dribbling old fool, can you try to articulate a thought without sending like a complete uneducated retard ?

btw the word you were looking for was "irony", not "hyprocasy" you illiterate idiot

* Hypocracy you retard.

[hazz]

The difference between us butters is that whilst I am semi illiterate; I am perfectly comfoirtable with it and feel no need to pretend to be anything I am not.

whilst you for some reason seem to be desperate to prove to us all that you are some kind of genius whilst with every post, you simply remind us all of the meaning to the phrase "cod roe dressed as caviar".

[baldrick]

apparently kids are going into shops and bricking the demo xboxs with this

[Butterfly]

I am perfectly comfoirtable with it

we couldn't help notice,

no need to pretend to be anything I am not.

you couldn't even if you wanted to

whilst you for some reason seem to be desperate to prove to us all that you are some kind of genius whilst with every post,

prove on TD I am some kind of genius ?

no, you are simply proving on TD that you are a dribbling retard, and I am simply highlighting that fact

[harrybarracuda]

I am perfectly comfoirtable with it

we couldn't help notice,

no need to pretend to be anything I am not.

you couldn't even if you wanted to

whilst you for some reason seem to be desperate to prove to us all that you are some kind of genius whilst with every post,

prove on TD I am some kind of genius ?

no, you are simply proving on TD that you are a dribbling retard, and I am simply highlighting that fact

There is an old saying "It takes one to know one".