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New GameCube Network Loader Runs Homebrew Games
An anonymous reader submits: "Cube Hacker is reporting that a new network loader has been released which allows you to execute retail code by exploiting a known bug in Sega's online game, Phantasy Star Online. Obviously piracy is not condoned but this certainly opens the door for future home-brew development! Linux on GameCube anyone?" Update: 10/13 23:33 GMT by S : Previous update removed, due to it only referencing retail titles.
I don't get it. Does this mean that you can now execute non-official code on a Gamecube? The Slashdot post doesn't really explain it properly, and the linked site is intended for people who knew what this all means in the first place. I'm sacrificing myself here so that other people don't have to look stupid too.
www.maxconsole.com has lots more information about this subject matter.
'Cause it's not Microsoft.
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Granted, I know it's a n00b question. I looked at the Gamecube site and couldn't quite understand the gist of this. Anyone want to step up to the plate?
How would you do Linux on the Gamecube? It uses a smaller disc, so you can't just stick it on a CD-R (I don't know if the mini ones work). The only way I can see is through the broadband adapter or something. Does the Gamecube have any USB ports or the like? It'd be awesome to have a cluster of $100 computers, though... I'd love to see some benchmarks comparing them to other computers...
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ACLoader 1.1 now plays more GCISOs
Unregistered User writes "WIth the first to produce a tool that plays a real gamecube game (if you call a N64 port real). Eurasia released Animal Crossing loader 1.0. WHile this was cool, seemed a bit limiting.
Well, now Eurasia presents Animal Crossing Loader 1.1 which allows you to play the following confirmed games:
Animal Crossing
Luigi's Mansion
F-Zero GX
Wave Race: Blue Storm
Rogue Leader
Madden NFL 2002
Starfox Adcentures
Disney's Magical Mirror
Raman 3
SKies of Arcadia
TimeSplitters 2
It is suggested that you remove the memory card during play as it is known to freeze the game. Also, sound issues and load times will be appearent.
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mod this down. this is not true. the disks merely don't have an iso filesystem....don't fall for the rumors.
... you might already have a Gamecube.
Among old-time gamers and game developers, Nintendo doesn't have much better of a reputation...
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Linux on GameCube anyone?
For the love of god, no. Can't we have a (modern) console that just stays as a gaming machine?
If you want an everything-box that can run Linux, go buy a PS2, Xbox, or just a cheap computer, but leave the Cube. It's designed to be for gaming and gaming only.
I guess that sounds incredibly jealous, narrow-minded, or fanboyish of me, but that's my gut reaction upon seeing this story.
Maxconsole shows a tutorial on how to actually use this and explains it in more depth! maxconsole has lots more information on this , I don't know why cubehacker was mentioned at all.
It might be fairly trivial to write a simple program that reverses the order of bits in an iso image. Perhaps someone will hack up xcdroast or the like.
Article is /. but one thing worthy of note is that the copy protection on Gamecube also involves spinning the CD the wrong way round. To make a Linux distro you are going to need a very special CD burner
I thought it spun normally, but instead the laser reads from outside to inside and not inside to outside?
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Linux on GameCube? I THINK NOT!
How's this for a reason:
Gamecube: $99
X-Box: $149
See my point?
From what I have read, the hack consists in exploiting a weakness in the sega video game PHANTASY STAR ONLINE using the same method than with the xbox memory card exploit: a modified saved game that will cause a buffer overflow. Exploiting the overflow allows the user to gain control of the ethernet adaptor, enabling him to transfer the 'loader' bootstrap, causing the reboot of the Nintendo Gamecube, and from there, the loader will open a connection to the user's computer, and using the server software included in this pirate release, will allow the user to upload game files in the gamecube 'generous' 48mb of ram. Nintendo will send their death squads at these guys.
Article is /. but one thing worthy of note is that the copy protection on Gamecube also involves spinning the CD the wrong way round. To make a Linux distro you are going to need a very special CD burner.
I own a gamecube. I just popped open the lid and checked. The disc spins clockwise. I don't know if that is what you define to be "the wrong way around"...
Article is /. but one thing worthy of note is that the copy protection on Gamecube also involves spinning the CD the wrong way round. To make a Linux distro you are going to need a very special CD burner.
...I own a gamecube. I just popped open the lid and checked. The disc spins clockwise. I don't know if that is what you define to be "the wrong way around"...
Maybe it spins in different directions depending on what hemisphere you live in, kinda like water down the drain.
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The copy protection is worthless here since the data files are being uploaded to the Gamecube on the fly using the gamecube broadband adaptator
Pretty crazy heh?
This is not the issue. The CD has a spiral track, which would have an opposite orientation to the normal one (IF the CD spins "wrong way round"); the laser would continuously be crossing the spiral track. Unless, of course, you start at the outside and go inward, as is mentioned in another post.
Note that I don't know anything about the Gamecube or its format; just noting that reversing the bits isn't going to help, assuming it has an ISO fs in the first place.
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powweb.com, the host of the afore mentioned site, seems to have nicely disabled the site within the past few minutes. I wonder why...
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How's this for a reason:
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Gamecube: 458MHz
X-Box: 700MHz
See MY point?
Gamecube: $99 X-Box: $149
See my point?
Not really, no. I have both an XBOX and GameCube and they are both great gaming machines, but the XBOX is for obvious reasons the XBOX is a much better PC-replacement for running alternate OSes like Linux. The GameCube may be cheaper, but because of its design (the memory system, CPU, etc) it would make a crappy general purpose Linux box.
Quick, call someone in Australia and have them check their GameCube, and their neighbor's, too. Call collect.
that the webserver was running on the Gamecube as well.
Yes; the point appears to be to load Linux/other OS over the network. There is some discussion on Planet Gamecube about Linux on Gamecube.
You don't need a full CD's worth anyway, nor could you do much with it anyway, except run it straight off the CD, or buy a really big SD card (they use SD cards? I really didn't double check this), which would make the point of doing it at all rather obscure.
Oh wait this is Linux. I want Linux in my ceiling fan and vaccum cleaner...because!!! Gentoo, while you're at it.
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They're probably using a gamecube for a server
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The entire point of the system being discussed here is that it bypasses any need for using the special GameCube formatted discs. The system in question uses an exploit someone found in Phantasy Star Online (a networkable GameCube game) to download executable code over a network. Someone exploited this to make a loader which will stream in game data over a network from some other system, such as a PC. The only disc that will be in your GameCube is an original copy of Phantasy Star Online, everything else will be streamed in from the other networked system, whether it be a Linux distro or warezed GameCube games.
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I wonder if Nintendo submitted this link to
So that you can use your Xbox running linux to serve a copy of linux to the gamecube when it loads it over the LAN. That way it can play nice with your PS2 running the linux kit on your all-linux all-console network.
This is cool and all, but it's going to be a pain in the butt for the average 1337 h4x0r to have to network the GameCube and invest in $70 worth of stuff to pirate some games. Granted, it is a step in the right direction.
For running bigger home-brewed stuff and emulators, not pirated GameCube games, I mean. Yeah. I'm definitely not talking about pirated games.
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These people chose hacking the Gamecube. Not my thing, exactly, but I'm sure it's entertaining as hell to them.
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It is suggested that you remove the memory card during play as it is known to freeze the game. Also, sound issues and load times will be appearent.
Sounds a lot like headache medacine that gives you cramps.
I'll just buy the game, thanks.
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Thinking further on this: This is a security hole that allows remote execution of code on the affected machine. Sure sounds like what's needed to write a worm!
Any bets on how long it'll be until the first ones show up?
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
From what others are saying, the disc spins the proper direction but reads from the outside-in. So, a reversal of bits + proper padding algorithm may just work.
However, reading the articles it also seems like what the hack involves is a buffer overload which allows you to load games via ethernet, so the whole mess of CD issues appears to be avoided entirely by this hack.
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
as pc replacement they're both crap(no, really, they are).
currently as 'stream content and run some stuff from pc world' modded xbox takes the crown though.
now, xbox's value as a general pc replacement has been dropping steadily since it got introduced. as for games.. well, i guess everyone to their own(yes, i'd like to play kotor but thats just about it). but gc is starting to look like a healthy addition to my dreamcast now, though it'll probably take another few years before i can afford it the way i want(but eventually i want to play sunshine, and at the moment thats just about the only game i think might be worth the money on gc, apart from party games like smb)..
well, i'd still like a ps2 also, if only for gt3.
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It's neither.
It spins normally, is read normally. It's even has full sized sled for the laser, the only thing seemingly preventing a full sized disc from being read is the plastic tray. I'd say one day, if we see a modchip, we'll see a replacement plastic top as well.
People said the same things (backwards spin, inside-out read) about Dreamcast, PS2 and Xbox.
Think of it - Nintendo would have to rebuild the entire infrastructure for pressing discs just to make a backwards spinning or inside out disc.
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Yes; the point appears to be to load Linux/other OS over the network. There is some discussion on Planet Gamecube [planetgamecube.com] about Linux on Gamecube.
The discussion on PlanetGamecube aside, the point of the announcement linked to on maxconsole seems to be the use of illegal game images. Not everyone that hacks something does it to run Linux.
The first person to develop a mod chip and learn to press silvers will make cash hand over fist in Hong Kong - the land of piracy.
The various mobs have their hands in street level piracy (silvers, bootlegs) up to their elbows. The top warez groups get huge "donations" in exchange for 0-day access to new cracks and releases.
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You're right, naturally. My puny brain is unfortunately incapable of adding two and two. I was thinking of only one issue at a time.
however --
I have an unfounded inkling that it would be almost as hard to get a CD laser to track backwards as it would be to get the CD to spin backwards (provided, again, that this is true). At least from what piddling things I know about CDs.
that's even less than two cents woth
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what makes you think that?
Its a PowerPC processor with RDRAM, it's short a hard drive but drive space can be mounted over the lan via nfs. Consider that a PowerPC processor is 60% faster per clock, its ~500Mhz p3 equivelent, and the xbox uses a 733 "celeron" equivelent processor. The Cube would be a pretty descent little linux box.
Know what makes a better general purpose Linux box than the xbox? A PC! I can understand getting Linux on the xbox because you like tinkering or you have too much free time. For the same reason I can equally understand doing it on the gamecube. But I can't understand someone using any console as if it's a PC. What's the point?
Maybe it spins in different directions depending on what hemisphere you live in, kinda like water down the drain
lol... well I live in the northern hemisphere, now if someone from the southern checks in...
Sorry, I didn't RTFA. My mind triggers on the "Linux on " and starts spewing out silly nonsense.
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Just in case... water spins differently based on the container it's in, NOT the hemisphere! The force from the coriolas (sic) effect on small amounts of water is almost nothing.
Article is /. but one thing worthy of note is that the copy protection on Gamecube also involves spinning the CD the wrong way round. To make a Linux distro you are going to need a very special CD burner
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Or you could take your Gamecube to Australia! :)
Do you compare P4's and Athlons based on clock rate as well?
How 'bout this:
Gamecube: 256k l2 cache
XBox: <=128k l2 cache (I forget how much exactly)
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5, 4, 3, 2, 1...You filthy pirate! How dare you!!
Not noteable, IMO a rubbish article.
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YOU might not be interested in knowing when your toast is done remotely, but I sure am.
They don't use SD cards yet, I don't think... but I think that Panasonic will be coming out with an adapter that will allow you to use them.
GTK games? I can only think of things developers might be interested in playing with. Nethack! (wouldn't tie up my computer at least)
It is NOT a mini cd-r, or dvd-r. It is a mini dvd burned backwards, inside instead of the outside, a regular DVVD burner will not work.
The copy protection scheme works in several ways. You DO need to have a special DVD burner, since the LENS is what's different on the Gamecube. It can't read regular DVDs. Also, the retail discs use a special barcode imprinted on the disc to prevent the cube to be tricked into reading fake discs.
There's a special debugging Gamecube which can read burned games, it's called the NReader, and you can only get it from Nintendo if you are a) a developer b) an important gaming news house.
The catch is, this NReader can't read retail discs, it can only play those burned specially for beta testing or magazine reviews.
Also, the PSO loader works by tricking PSO into loading special code by resolving the DNS of the Sega PSO server to your own PC. Then you have access to the GCN. Animal Crossing is a port of the same N64 game, so it fits on the GCN's memory without having to read the disc more than once, that's why it's completely playable.
The situation is far from the "retail games pirated!" outcry.
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That's the whole thing with piracy. You are never going to eliminate it because there is a small group of people who will break copy protection just for the intellectual challenge.
What you can do is minimize it. It seems like they did a good job with the GameCube. You can play pirated games on it, but it is such a hassle to do so that the average gamer won't. Only the hardcore hacker.
Incidentally, you to play GameCube ISO's, you need a broadband adapter and a copy of Phantasy Star Online, neither of which were made in large quantities. They will be making more broadband adapters for Mario Kart:Double Dash, but if you want to pirate games, you better be checking ebay or GameStop for a used copy of PSO.
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The maxconsole tutorial is intended to work for homebrew games hence the image being required (homebrew title) , why the hell would you need to boot retail games over a lan lol ?
well, i'd still like a ps2 also, if only for gt3.
Our long wait is nearly over... On November 4th Rockstar Games is releasing both GTA3 and GTA:Vice City for Xbox. I think they are bundled together for something like $40.
Anyway, I'm excited to get a copy and play GTA:Vice City on a decent platform... PS2 graphics suck compared to Xbox.
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But as long as the laser is tracking the same distance at the same speed, it wouldn't matter. Reverse your bits and then pad enough to the beginning (of a regular CD, "end" of a GC CD) of the disc so that the last bit you write (again, on a regular CD) is in the same position as the first bit of a GC CD. In theory at least.
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
Go out and buy homebrew games for the Gamecube? Do you have a link where I can purchase those?
Or maybe you missed the point.
"The disc spins clockwise. I don't know if that is what you define to be "the wrong way around"..."
Damn you sinister lefties! Everybody knows that the right-hand coordinate system is the One True Coordinate System! Stop trying to confuse us with your clockwise rotations!
Of course, I suppose the laser sees a counterclockwise rotation from its POV... my head hurts!
One problem... PSO comes with a printed key code in the game. This can only be used only once to sign up for network play. Sega did this intentionally to screw with the used market. And I wouldn't be surprised if you have to sign up for network play to use this exploit. (Not that they can't make it work with an unregistered PSO if they emulate enough of the server, including pretending to be Sega's servers. But that's a lot more work. And right now the site is slashdotted.)
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Sorry, I had to draw a picture to help me think. :-D You are right of course. I forgot again that spinning the disc backward AND reading it inside out is "the same" as going "forward" both ways and inverting data order.
See ya. I'm going out to buy a brain.
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Making warez LAN GCN games is going to be difficult to say the least, since they require a hack that enables all DVD drive calls to be fed through the LAN. This will break many games that rely on fast and constant access of the drive.
It's not impossible to hack all games like this, but it's surely difficult. Games like Animal Crossing and applications like the Action Replay are easy to do because they fit nicely into the GCN's memory and don't ever need additional loading from the disc, but there are drive-intensive games like Eternal Darkness which load models, textures, sound samples and everything to memory while streaming sound from the drive, all at the same time.
The best thing about this is that we can have homebrew development without having piracy easy enough to be widespread. I hate when us console hackers get mistaken as regular warez kiddies.
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I'll bite. They are travelling at approximately c, the speed of light. They're not faster, but they are skinnier; maybe you could harness their power for a new weight loss system.
In all seriousness, this is just a silly semantic argument; the unit hertz is about frequency. The more Hz, the more time something happens in a second; that can be periods of an electromagnetic wave, or cycles of a cpu.
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Man, for the life of me, I could not understand why it was such a big deal that the "New GameCube Network Loader Runs Hebrew Games." I mean, don't they sell Nintendos in Israel? I found myself quite literally scratching my head over the matter, and even headed over to nintendo.co.il.
Oh. Homebrew. D'oh.
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Anyway, I'm excited to get a copy and play GTA:Vice City on a decent platform... PS2 graphics suck compared to Xbox.
You do realize that it's a direct port, right? Don't start expecting improved graphics.
I just don't understand how incredibly boring your life has to be to TROLL WITH SHIT LIKE THIS.
I own a GameCube, and I've never opened the cover to see a disc spinning counterclockwise. GameCube discs seem to store the boot sector on a data layer that goes outside-in (like the second layer of a DVD) rather than inside-out (like a CD or the first layer of a DVD), and this may be how the myth started.
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Doesn't? I've read that many GameCube games use the sound chip's slower RAM as a disc cache.
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Short version:
Using a GC and a GC ethernet network adapter, along with a copy of Phantasy Star Online, one can upload code to the Cube which the cube then runs.
Longer version:
Combined with the ability to read in a GC disc over the broadband adapter, and write it back similarly, this makes GC Game piracy possible, although it also makes possible other things like writing a version of Linux for the Cube. There exists a GCC cross compiler for the Cube, and people have been using this write their own homebrew demos and such already. This trick makes it possible to run those more easily, if you happen to have a copy of PSO and a GC ethernet adapter.
Even longer:
A mod chip is rumored to be coming out for the GC soon. The trick to the GC is that it uses non-standard discs. They are basically just mini-DVD's which hold 1.5 gig, but they swapped the direction of the tracks. Instead of reading from the inside edge to the outside edge, as all CD's and DVD's do, the GC discs go from the outside edge to the inside edge. They spin the same direction, but the track is reversed. So no existing DVD writer or reader can read them. With the PSO bug exploit and the broadband adapter, one can read the disk via ethernet instead, and now write the disk contents back into RAM on the cube to run the contents and such.
I know what you're thinking, the disk is too large to hold all in the GC's RAM. And you're right. I think the way this works is that it exploits the PSO bug to load a small program into the GC's memory which then remaps the calls to read from the disk into calls to read from the ethernet. So the disc image is sitting on the PC and being read by the GC if and when the GC needs to load data. Then it simply loads the boot block from the image file over and starts 'er up. Voila, it's now playing, and you only have a delay in load times as the network transaction occurs. There's a program running on the PC which handles the disk image to be sent back to the GC as well. It probably must be running all the time the game is playing, or at least whenever the game needs to load something into memory from the disc. Not all games do. Notably, Animal Crossing does all its disc access right at load time, then the disc is idle until you shut the thing down. This program is known to work with Animal Crossing and Luigi's Mansion (which does do loads from the disc on new levels and such).
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One of the reasons Wisdom Tree published NES games without becoming a Nintendo licensee is that Wisdom Tree wanted to publish religious edutainment, but Nintendo had a policy of not allowing overt religious content in the games. I once owned an NES cart from Wisdom Tree called Exodus, a total conversion of the earlier Crystal Mines (a boulder dash clone). The game's bonus stages referenced Exodus, the second book of the Tanach. (The Tanach is the Jewish Bible originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, and it together with the New Testament forms the Christian Bible.)
If you put "om" (a syllable associated with Hinduism) into "Hebrew" (the English name of a language associated with Judaism), you get "Homebrew". How's that for religious content?
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1. This exploit uses a bug in Phantasy Star Online and a GC ethernet adapter to load the games both to and from the GC. Thus using Nintendo's non-standard drive to read the game itself, and loading the game back in via ethernet instead of from a burned disc (basically by remapping the calls to read from the disc to read from another PC on the network instead).
2. A mod chip is coming out soon, according to fairly good rumors. It will have some means to connect it to an external DVD drive which will then be able to read normal DVD formats instead of N's reversed track format. People have already been able to grab images using the PSO exploit, with this modchip you should be able to burn an image onto a normal DVD or mini-DVD and then play them from the external DVD drive. Or if you have the capability to read them already using the exploit, now you have the capability to write them to the GC's memory and play them without a modchip.
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i know im offtopic, but the parent is totally wrong -- do not believe the fanboys. XBOX version is **confirmed** to have: - Specular lighting system (light sources now cast real light) - Higher detailed models of people, cars, etc. (this is especially evident when you look at the screenshots for xbox with cars in them -- *hubcaps* are now fully modelled) - Models all skinned fully, independent fingers now modelled - Reflection mapping on vehicles, buildings, windows, etc. (Gives real time reflections.) - Rain now adheres to the camera in GTA3, aka little rain drops on the screen. (Vice City had this for PC and PS2, but GTA3 did not -- now it does.) - Radiosity lighting now makes flames look a lot more realistic. - Overhauled particle system. (Sparks, splashes, etc. all look nicer) - High Def HDTV, 720 P, 16:9 Widescreen support - Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound added. - Custom Soundtracks, use the XBox to make your own radio stations. - Totally reassignable controls. so its NOT a straight port. just go check the screenshots at grandtheftauto.com and compare them to old ones -- you'll see it right away. ign's recent article: http://xbox.ign.com/articles/454/454117p1.html
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You do realize that it's a direct port, right? Don't start expecting improved graphics.
AFAIK, it's a direct port from the PC version, which should definitely improve the graphics. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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So what do you think of the Panasonic Gamecube? It's more than a game console and a major manufacturer is producing it.
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i know im offtopic, but the parent is totally wrong -- do not believe the fanboys.
XBOX version is **confirmed** to have:
- Specular lighting system (light sources now cast real light)
- Higher detailed models of people, cars, etc. (this is especially evident when you look at the screenshots for xbox with cars in them -- *hubcaps* are now fully modelled)
- Models all skinned fully, independent fingers now modelled
- Reflection mapping on vehicles, buildings, windows, etc. (Gives real time reflections.)
- Rain now adheres to the camera in GTA3, aka little rain drops on the screen. (Vice City had this for PC and PS2, but GTA3 did not -- now it does.)
- Radiosity lighting now makes flames look a lot more realistic.
- Overhauled particle system. (Sparks, splashes, etc. all look nicer)
- High Def HDTV, 720 P, 16:9 Widescreen support - Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound added.
- Custom Soundtracks, use the XBox to make your own radio stations.
- Totally reassignable controls.
so its NOT a straight port.
just go check the screenshots at grandtheftauto.com and compare them to old ones -- you'll see it right away. ign's recent article: http://xbox.ign.com/articles/454/454117p1.html
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you are right, to an extent -- the code they ported was supposedly from PC, its easier to go PC>XBOX than PS2>XBOX, and the graphical updates are already there, but it ISNT a straight port. as i said before, there are more than a few "enchancements" added to the XBOX version, because the guys at rockstar are so nice. :)
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the gamecube loader based on PSO is several months old...
wheres the news?
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It is suggested that you remove the memory card during play as it is known to freeze the game.
What's the point of playing a hacked game if you can't save your progress?
Sorry, I misread that. But they could be missing out on the lucrative Hebrew games market.
Factor 5's "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader" uses the ARAM as a "swap file", paging code and data to and from main memory. We did something similar at Pandemic for "Star Wars: The Clone Wars", and it worked fairly well. That 16MB came in handy. :)
The GameCubeQ is way too expensive. Good idea, good execution, bad pricing strategy.
The interesting thing is there are already mods for GameCubeQ to run 'any code' on DVDs and even CDs.
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Boy, I was beginning to think that "haxors" had it in *just* for MS's Xbox. At least now I know they're not discriminatory.
Unofficial GBA devkits have been around for years. The GBA doesn't have any crypto protection - it's trivial to make a bootable cart.
What does Linux being _capable_ of running of every box have to do with business practices that lock out competition?
Not quite. Rather than writing data to the discs normally from the inside to the outside of the disc, Nintendo does it vice-versa and write the data to the disks from the outside in. Therefore the data is written to (and read from) the disk backwards. But the disk itself spins the normal way around.
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but eventually i want to play sunshine, and at the moment thats just about the only game i think might be worth the money on gc
... now those are tough to top.
There are much better games than Mario Sunshine on the 'Cube. That's not to say that Sunshine is bad by any means... But it's certainly not the best reason to get a 'Cube. Eternal Darkness, Viewtiful Joe, F-Zero
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
Nobody is forcing your unadventurous self to boot Linux in your machine.
Leave that to people with natural curiosity and a passion for experimentation.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
GT, NOT GTA.
gran turismo 3 that is.
i've played gta3 and gta: vice city through on the pc already, thank you very much.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
What's the difference between people hacking up GameCubes and hacking up Chevy's? It's all just for hobby.
No, you missed the point. Or, maybe you didn't, and you're just trying to confuse the issue.
No, it doesn't. Can we please put this false piece of info to rest. Open up a GC the next time a disk is in there and you'll see it is spinning in the exact same direction as all the other disk based media, clockwise.
Wow. Apparently you people have no sense of humor whatsoever.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Captain Picario, versus the Borg queen (named Bowser). Realizing the truth of his hopelessness he eats mushrooms allowing him to see the monsterous cyborged turtles as helpless slowpokes in a wonderful blue brown world where he can fly on bricks and cough up flames.
Only on UPeNdo!
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
...to point at all those people who argued with me relentlessly that the Gamecube could never be hacked despite endless prior evidence to the contrary (see past consoles which were also claimed to be unhackable), and say: Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah. That is all.
Creator of the popular web game Proximity
One of the reasons Wisdom Tree published NES games without becoming a Nintendo licensee is that Wisdom Tree wanted to publish religious edutainment, but Nintendo had a policy of not allowing overt religious content in the games.
:)
That's really very interesting. Thanks for turning my off-topic post into something useful.
-Waldo Jaquith
I didn't, so don't worry. *pats your head*
People can moderate my comments however the hell they want- if I didn't want to risk criticism, I wouldn't post in a public forum in the first place.
Nice way to leave out context. If anyone with mod points is reading this, you may want to read this first.
Geez... I can't believe that. I swear I was told this in some science class and saw it repeated time and time again on television.
This explains why I felt so dumb when I first enrolled into college, when I previously thought I was a genius.
Deltron 3030 - Virus (music video)
LOLROF.
Thats the old copy protecion that Wizardry (1,2,3 and maybe 4) games on the PC used to use.
The "scenario discs" you made were formatted with tracks in reverse order, and the "loader disc" set up the system to read and write to them properly.
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.