Xbox is a MS Product and they have tied most of their gaming industry into one set of rules.
If you have not read MS Game Content Rules I strongly encourage you to read it.
As far as reverse engineering is concerned read the whole statement.
If you read that as you can't reverse engineer any part of the game then we have a real problem because all of the products on the Freeware and Payware market already have parts that were reverse engineered to accomplish there creation.
And that item for one is the .air file. Why because there has never been a flight model section of the SDK until Lockheed Martins Prepar3D. Now for FS9 there was a tool to edit certain parts of the airfile but it was really limited on what it could do. You could not edit many of the tables in the airfile. The only way to developed to tools to edit the .air file has been by reverse engineering it.
If you read that as you can't reverse engineer any part of the game to... "access the assets or otherwise do things that the games don't normally permit..." in order to create your items.
It takes on a different meaning and provides us the ability to reverse engineer the .air file (which has already been done) to provide the ability to create accurate flight models. Accurate flight models are something the product Flight Simulator was designed to do. OK some flight models are not very accurate but the intent is there to be accurate.
As far as anyone without acceleration getting it working, the model should work FSX (non acceleration). What will not work is any Acceleration features built into the model. Those would need the acceleration package installed in FSX.
Our attitude would be the same as it has been all along. Payware providers have their rules and MS has their rules. We are only talking about MS rules about their game content.
MS rules about your game content you created are another story and also are covered in the rules.
Again I encourage you to read them.
