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Lik-Sang Back Online
Alexander Burke writes "Lik-Sang appears to be back online (until we slashdot them). However, their selection of PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Xbox "backup and import" (pronounced modchip) items seem somewhat lacking. Coincidence? Surely not..." This previous posting should provide some good background reading if you've not been following this episode.
If you want to run Linux on an Xbox, build a $200 PC and you get better.
Do I get NTSC TV output for that price? A 25" TV is cheap; a 25" computer display is way out of my price range.
And what if I want to write software to run on a $70 handheld device? No Palm device has the graphics power or battery life of a Game Boy Advance system.
Will I retire or break 10K?
now you can't run illegally copied games, boo hoo.
From one point of view yes. From another point of view I must now seek out a supplier to provide me with equipment to play games I have legitimately purchased overseas. In Australia this practice enjoys legal protection and is a way to curb corporations natural instinct to try and charge as much for a product as any particular market will bear.
Providing themselves with protection against piracy is a legitimate cause for a software company, I just dislike the way the cause can also be used to render useless certain 'inconvenient' liberties that get in the way of maximising profits...
It's not that I'm Anti-American - I'm Pro-Freedom
When you make unlicensed software (Ie. your own homebrew games - Without paying Nintendo $$ to license/release it) you are bypassing any profit that NINTENDO is supposed to be making off the game. Now, if they let everyone make their games for free, or run emulators etc.. Who would actually BUY the games in the stores? Well, a lot of people would, but a LOT of people would also just buy a GBA and play nothing but homebrew games and emulators and linux stuff that people developed for it, and this is where Nintendo loses money, they DEPEND of people who buy a GBA to BUY licensed and legit software because that is where they make their money. Right now MicroSoft is losing hundreds of millions because of people jhust buying the console and modding it to just use Linux and copy games. They need people to buy nearly a dozen games off the shelf to break even on the cost they spent to give you the XBOx that cheap - but the people who are fanatical are killing the consoles by modding and skipping the storebought software. It happened to the Dreamcast, it's happening to the XBox, and Nintendo doesnt want it to happen to their GBA.
If you're REALLY serious about devloping on a GBA, or any other console, you NEED to get licensed to do it, or join a company who already is. Otherwise you're literally hurting the company that you like so much.
I guess this was modded up for its use of $ in M$. Wow if I knew karma was that easy to come by...