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Dead Or Alive Hackers Get Creative
Thanks to the Gaming Age forum regulars for pointing out that skin mods to the in-game characters in Dead Or Alive 3 for Xbox are getting ever-more complex, thanks to sites like Ninjahacker.net, who are going far beyond basics such as the DoA Xtreme Volleyball nude patch and developing completely new character skins for its sister fighting-game title, such as Zack as Darth Maul and Christie as Storm from the X-Men movie. These very unofficial hacks only work with an Xbox that's been modified in software/hardware, however.
...I wonder if there's a nude patch for Darth Maul (yikes).
Unless your X-Box is modded with one of those "switchable" chips, modding your X-Box excluded you from X-Box Live, so yea, there are a lot of X-Box users out there with no mod chip.
As somebody who doesn't give a crap about X-Box Live, I simply have not gotten around to modding mine. I might do so eventually, if I tire of the games and want to use it as a Linux firewall box or something, but otherwise I have no real need to go through the hassle of modding mine at the moment.
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A mod is now available for Unreal Tournament 2003 which changes all the players into hoverbikes! And no extra hardware required! Woot!
I have an unmodded Xbox. You see, I already have machines that can run Linux, DivX movies and pirated software. They even have x86 cores, just like the Xbox!
Thanks for making the jobs of the phone support reps that much less pleasant. /. can continue to make VR boobie jokes.
I should explain, I worked in maxis tech support. Between callers asking where to get the nude patch (i'm sorry, that's unsupported 3rd party software), and irate parents asking what the hell was wrong with Maxis for releasing a game with nudity (no ma'am, it wasn't us, it was teh HaXX0r5), an already unfulfilling job was made that much worse.
I applaud the injenuity, but wonder if the time couldn't be better spent coding something worthwhile while downloading porn from KaZaa. At the very least, please invent a 3d display, so we at
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I know this is a bit out-of-topic but, about this X-box as a Linux firewall thing: does the X-Box have 2 ethernet cards?
Software should be free as in speech, but if we also get some free beer, all the better.
Nope. The XBox has only got one NIC built in but you can use an external USB ADSL modem or NIC though.
I think that this 'hacking' is a great thing. I don't really see a difference between this and making a mod for Q3A or UT2k3. Maybe the n00d patch was a little useless, but adding this kind of 'mod-ability' to a (supposedly) closed console system is good. For those who have chosen to mod their XBox, this extends the functionality of the games, making you pick them back up after you may be all done with them.
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Nude babes don't interest them, they want Darth Maul and Storm. Sad.
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Maybe I'm missing something but unless you *really* want to be "1337" it just doesn't make sense. Not that there is anything wrong with that...
Spell cheek you've failed me four the last thyme!
Perhaps I should amend my previous post to speculate that I might someday use my X-Box as a redundant web-server, or perhaps, with a little tweaking, a digital video media server.
Anyway, my point was, modding it is not terribly important to me right now, when I'm just playing DOA3 and HALO on it. (Okay, and DOAX too... I confess.) The only reason I would mod it is if I wanted to use it as a $200 Linux box.
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This guy's Solid Snake is awesome!
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