Acknowledgments This project was an interesting undertaking. What I mean by this is that there is little understood about the artifacts of the console, how it stores information, what format the information is stored in, and how to extract that data and make sense of it. This lack of knowledge is, of course, in comparison with the more mainstream digital storage media, such as a Windows-based PC hard drive or an Apple Mac hard drive. In any event, there was concern on my part about either overlooking an important step or inadvertently generating artifacts from a process that was run or a game that was executed. With all these factors to be concerned about, I decided that there were several initial steps that needed to be taken. The first, of course, was that I needed to ensure I had the right forensic software to work with. For this, I reached out to several compa- nies that decided to assist in this research. The first company was Guidance Software, the makers of EnCase. Guidance provided me with a licensed copy of EnCase to use for the research. The second company was X-Ways Forensics, which is another respected company within the forensics community. Two more companies provided their assistance to this project: Paraben Corporation provided their P2 Commander, and Wiebetech provided several write blockers so that a wide variety of the neces- sary forensic hardware and software was present. I want to express my gratitude to these companies for their assistance, without which this project would never have