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.

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dupe..

[kennyv]

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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...