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No Love From Microsoft For Xbox Modders

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the war-of-1812 dept.

RandyOo writes: "Only 4 days after news of an XBox port of MAME was posted to Slashdot, Microsoft contacted the admin of mame.net and downloads have now been removed. Knew I should have downloaded it earlier this morning ... Thank goodness for P2P!" And scubacuda writes: "According to The Register, one group of Xbox hackers have decided to halt development on its Xbox mod chip. It will be interesting to see how other developers follow suit."

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  1. told you so by RealisticWeb.com · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I know this sucks and all but... is anyone actually surprized? I didn't think that MS would tolarate this for long.

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  2. Ok... by iONiUM · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What the hell. If we bought an xbox we should be able to do whatever we want with it. That includes modding it to do something else.
    If i buy a calculator that doesn't mean i cant rip it apart and use the LCD for something else... this whole "no i dont want you ripping games thing" is getting ridiculous. So you stop me from modding my xbox... for what, 5 minutes? P2P fixes that, or i just grab the PC versions of the game... either way, i don't pay anything.

  3. Re:How will MS possible stop this then?! by richjoyce · · Score: 0, Redundant

    my lord...i hope you're joking...

    he means the MAME software for Xbox, not the mod-chips...it would be hard to download the mod chips considering they're hardware!

  4. My predictions: by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here are my predictions for the most popular comments in this topic:

    * MS sucks! They're only doing it because they're evil monopolists. I'm going to totally ignore the fact that nearly every other console maker feels the same way (like Sony, for example...)

    * They have no right to do this because I don't like anything MS does.

    * Yet more proof that MS is evil. Now I'll never buy an XBOX.

    * This sucks, I want to run Linux on the XBOX, even though I'm not sure there's anythign practical I'd wanna do on it.

    * How dare they prevent the XBOX from doing stuff besides playing games that people have to pay for!

    * Here's a copy/paste of the article in case the site gets /.'d. Please mod me up.

    * It's gonna happen anyway, now I feel even more justified in doing it because M$ is evil.

    * Why are they picking on MAME? It's totally legal!

    And so on...

    Heh. :)

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