Originally Posted by chrispy

Aside from some minor details, you'r pretty much n the money. If this uses the modchip, it seems pointless, if it doesn't it is near-impossible. to make the FW respond before it has booted (eg respond to a keypress), you must alter the FW files in flash 0. Aside from the legality of reverse engineering software, you would then need to put the modified 2.71 back into flash 0, which is the problem in the first place!!!