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.

Comments

Handheld?

[yerricde]

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.

Re:Oh no

[WeaponOfChoice]

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...