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

dupe..

[kennyv]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/15/155821 5

Re:dupe..

[packeteer]

The funniest thing about this being a dupe is that the poster listed antoher slashdot article on the topic. This makes me wonder how they searched slashdot's history and found the past story but not the dupe?

gamegizmo.com

[Anonymous Coward]

this site gamegizmo.com has a lot of stuff if you miss lik sang (or however it's spelled).

Unofficial GBA dev tools

[Jouni]

It's unfortunate that the unofficial Game Boy Advance tools are no longer sold through them either. There is a big community of budding game developers out there, but with the prices Nintendo asks for the official development kits, the unofficial tools are their only way of getting started.

Of course, tools like that will always find their way. Unfortunately also the site of the company that makes them is either hacked or taken down. Anyone know which?

Jouni

What the?

[HaggiZ]

Back online? isn't this the same story as posted on the 16th here? Seems they've been back for a few weeks, despite the attempts at slashdotting them previously

Eh

[NetJunkie]

For the XBox go buy a Matrix chip from EasyBuy2000. They are shipping them faster now and they don't require any soldering. Easy to install.

There are some good homebrew apps coming out too. The XBox Media Player is very nice. You can stream VCD/SVCD/DIVX/MPEG to your TV. It works VERY well.

Re:Eh

[theLOUDroom]

Actually if you look at www.xboxmediaplayer.de you'll note that they claim that their beta includes no GPL'ed code.
Care to prove otherwise?
Everyone should keep in mind that these accusations are being made by "the project from hell"

Lik Sang still has MBV2; Game Gizmo has GBA flash

[yerricde]

In the GBA Develop and Backup category, Lik Sang still has the MBV2 cable.

If you want flash memory cartridges and writers for GBA, CDworld and Game Gizmo still have them.

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.

Lik Sang is still viable

[chickenmonger]

Just because they stopped distributing mod chips doesn't make them a dead company. I look on their website and I see many things that I might like to buy...if only I had any money left from college tuition...

Xbox incompatibility

[yerricde]

What TV can you purchase now adays which is not "XBox Ready"?

How about a TV that pukes when it sees the 524-line (as opposed to 525-line) image that many consoles output?

How about a TV that reacts poorly to Macrovision encoded signal?

How about a TV with only RF input as opposed to composite video input (yeah, I still see those)?

How about a TV that cuts too much off the sides and corners of the image?

Any of those four might introduce a compatibility problem between a game console and a television set.

Sigh...

[Anonymous Coward]

You people do realize that it was primary Sony and Nintendo, NOT MICROSOFT, that causes the shut down of the site, right?

Microsoft send a letter of support, and was one of the official plantiffs, but did not originally bring the case.

Yet Slashdot still picks the MS-Borg icon for the story. How transparently bias.

Re:Wow

[Niahak]

Obviously, they only just recovered from the Oct. 15 slashdotting.

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...

Why under Microsoft

[i_luv_linux]

I remember this story very well, because first it is reported as if the company closed its site due to Microsoft's efforts. Then when they opened it again, the news changed the story and said that actually Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo forced the company to close its door.

I can understand Microsoft bashing, but this is pure lie. Next time, maybe it will turn out to be only Sony. The story changes every time.

Something I should have added

[alexburke]

I feel like a dipshit for not including this little gem in my submission.

Oh well, here it is...

TOO easy

[Felinoid]

X BOX READY...
If that's common enough any enterprising consol maker can FUD "Our games run on ALLTVs. Even the ones that are X Box ready"
Leave an image of "If you want to use X Box you gotta buy a brand new tv or use ours on your exsisting perficly good 50 inch wide screen"

Dupe - Not

[malfunct]

I have read prolly 30 posts stateing this story is a dupe. Granted Lik-Sang has been back for a while but it was only very recently that they had mod-chips posted on thier site. The post on /. did a poor job of explaining this so maybe it should be pointed out.