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Nokia N-Gage Cracked
According to Mr. Belvedere over at CD Freaks, the Nokia N-Gage has been cracked. From the article: "The games that were designed for the N-Gage will of course only work with the Nokia device but not anymore. Now that the security on the N-Gage has been cracked the games can be played on other mobile phones as well such as the Siemens SX1." The article notes that Sonic N is the only game seen in public yet, but others are sure to follow soon. It'll be interesting to see how Nokia handles this.
It's still under warrantly, so you can get the screen fixed. Just be more careful next time, and don't drop it.
Wow now I can play crappy games on other phones that are made by companies who wouldn't dare release a crappy product. I wonder when the Emulator for these games will be made, then again, why bother?
So nokia didn't do anything special with their hardware, it's just a standard J2ME system? That seems pretty stupid...
Now that I think about it, that's basicaly what MS did with the Xbox. I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to play those games on a standard PC?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Sweet! Cause I bet those games are worth playing on other phones!
so how long till a lawsuit is filed for violations of Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
30% Troll, 50% Underrated, 10% Interesting
Score:5, Troll
I'm not just side talkin', I'm also Side HACKING!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
they might sell THREE games now thanks to this.
As if the N-Gage wasnt having enough problems, now what reason do people have to actually pay money for this thing?
How long before we see downloadable cellphone roms for our PCs? Of course there will be illegal distros of the games online. I just find it funny that, aside from the people getting the games for their other phones (not nokia) you KNOW people will be running roms. And the big question is: WHY?
http://actionPlant.com
Is this really worth caring about? I mean anyone who takes the N-Gage seriously as a console has severe issues. Not to mention that only a handful of phones are going to be capable of running the games anyway. Also, it's not like Nokia can do anything about it; it'd cost more (considering the N-Gage is *already* failing financially) to fix than what they might actually lose to piracy.
Nokia's N-Gage mobile gaming device has been cracked
Posted by Dennis on 11 November 2003 - 14:50 - Source: SPOnG.com
Mr. Belvedere, our Club CD Freaks Moderator, used our news submit to tell us that Nokia's N-Gage device has been cracked according to this information. The Nokia N-Gage device is primarily a handheld gaming device but it can also be used as an MP3 player, wireless browser and last but not least as a telephone.
The games that were designed for the N-Gage will of course only work with the Nokia device but not anymore. Now that the security on the N-Gage has been cracked the games can be played on other mobile phones as well such as the Siemens SX1:
Nokia will today be licking its wounds and doing a fair amount of worrying, with the revelation that the N-Gage's security has been cracked like an egg, with other manufacturers' handsets able to play the machine's software.
Specifically, the Siemens SX1 is already capable of running N-Gage games, with Sonic N being the only game seen in public, though it's expected that the others won't be too far behind.
This is expected to be the start of a process that will see third-party hardware add-on sales of devices that will enable many phones to simply suck up the N-Gage content, then go on their merry way.
Nokia's reaction to this new, seemingly unforeseen problem, will be interesting to observe, to say the least.
Some screenshots and video's of the Siemens SX1 mobile phone running the Nokia N-Gage games can be found on Club-Siemens. More information on the hacked N-Gage can be read here and here.
the important question is: Are the games formerly soley available on the N-Gage that good that they're worth playing on other phones/devices/etc.?
"The article notes that Sonic N is the only game seen in public yet, but others are sure to follow soon. It'll be interesting to see how Nokia handles this."
Simple. Don't release any more games. Besides weren't people already complaining about the N-gage?
The standard Symbian package does not include OpenGL. Thus games for the NGage that make use if it will not run on anything else (for now). Even the Nokia 3650, wich is almost the same hardware will not run these apps.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Sorry guys, the volume was turned down on my speakers, I didn't know!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
It'll be interesting to see how Nokia handles this."
I assume it will be with lawyers?
I presume this only concerns the "simple" J2ME games. Certainly other mobile phones lack hardware to run "big" N-Gage games like Tomb Raider, Pandemonium or Tony Hawk...? (I don't know for sure, the article is already shlashdotted, but Headline like this seems to be misleading.)
--- Frantisek Fuka (Yes, that's my real name and you have no idea how it's pronounced)
So let's see, this will let you add a total of, what, like 4 whole games to your library for your non-N-Gage phone?
Don't get me wrong, it's still neat in a way, but "Crappy game system with no games gets cracked so you can play those nonexistant games elsewhere" seems somewhat underwhelming.
Mechanik
Quicker than I though, but who didn't see this one coming?
:)
I was actually surprised when I saw N-Gage games on some ftp's starting three days back. I don't have the N-Gage myself, but I saw like 5 games and an installer...
The cool thing with the N-Gage is the homebrew stuff. It'll be cool if someone can write an app so you can stream shoutcast to the phone... then I'll get one for sure
Satalites for your car is bad enough. Just thinking about the average soccer mom rolling around in her SUV while trying to whatch some chick flick bring me shivers. Oh, but wait!!! Now I have to worry about teen-agers and geeks playing donkey kong on thier cell phone! This will last until the first lawsuite by some moron who was playing a hacked game on thier phone and runs into someone...you know it will happen. :)
Nokia's N-Gage mobile gaming device has been cracked
Posted by Dennis on 11 November 2003 - 14:50 - Source: SPOnG.com
Mr. Belvedere, our Club CD Freaks Moderator, used our news submit to tell us that Nokia's N-Gage device has been cracked according to this information. The Nokia N-Gage device is primarily a handheld gaming device but it can also be used as an MP3 player, wireless browser and last but not least as a telephone.
The games that were designed for the N-Gage will of course only work with the Nokia device but not anymore. Now that the security on the N-Gage has been cracked the games can be played on other mobile phones as well such as the Siemens SX1:
Nokia will today be licking its wounds and doing a fair amount of worrying, with the revelation that the N-Gage's security has been cracked like an egg, with other manufacturers' handsets able to play the machine's software.
Specifically, the Siemens SX1 is already capable of running N-Gage games, with Sonic N being the only game seen in public, though it's expected that the others won't be too far behind.
This is expected to be the start of a process that will see third-party hardware add-on sales of devices that will enable many phones to simply suck up the N-Gage content, then go on their merry way.
Nokia's reaction to this new, seemingly unforeseen problem, will be interesting to observe, to say the least.
Some screenshots and video's of the Siemens SX1 mobile phone running the Nokia N-Gage games can be found on Club-Siemens. More information on the hacked N-Gage can be read here and here.
Bill Stewart
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...how's the work going on mophun games? Anyone cracked those yet?
Investing forum
Learn to take a joke. It's not off-topic even if you don't find it funny.
http://www.club-siemens.net/preview/ngage/
You bought an N-Gage, didn't you?
If Ross Hagen was attempting some profound message, he's completely lost me. Bad acting, bad ending. But beyond bad is the acting we get from three guys: Big Jake, Crap out, and Cooch/Gooch. I don't know where Ross Hagen found these guys and I don't WANT to know.
Is there any significance to J.C.'s name (Jesus Christ)? Perhaps I'm giving Mr. Hagen a bit too much credit. Extra demerits for an overly brutal rape scene.
"Number 9!" "
I dont know about you but I would much rather have a phone powerful enough to run a Gameboy emulator.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
[snicker]
-T
Schoolchildren in the U.S. are of course taught proper English grammar but not anymore.
Nokia will today be licking its wounds and doing a fair amount of worrying, with the revelation that the N-Gage's security has been cracked like an egg
"In other news, all of us here at CD Freaks have ten-inch penises and can eat shattered glass without feeling pain. Boo-ya!"
Not to be a troll or anything, but has anyone even purchased this thing?
Do people really think they're gonna get a decent gaming system that's even remotely close to a GBA or Sony's up-coming handheld PSX?
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
Just hit A - B - A - A - A - C - Select and it gives you a "send ROM as e-mail" prompt!
Sweet!
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
So am I the only person left that only uses his phone for talking to people?
What's next? NetHack for my toaster?
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doesnt surprise me, the latest roms are all over ;)
suprnova.org already
nick
Electronic Music Made Using Linux http://soundcloud.com/polyp
Game Ranking has ever removed the N-Gage from the frontpage listing of platforms, that they had a few week ago.
Help fight continental drift.
Now all SIX people who bought an N-Gage can put down their systems and get ready for some DMCA-style fun!
N-Gage games were cracked fe weeks back.
It started with Tomb Raider.
Last week a warez game group "Blizzard" released all 5 games plus a installer that installs directly to any blank mmc. The N-Gage does not have any special hardware all it uses is software to run these games. Kind of sucks I bought one for the fact it had a mp3, radio and a setup to be able to play java games and such easiar. Sad to say that it is cracked it was bound to happen anyways. Its a great phone has all the features anyone woudl want minus a camera.. and only bad thing i find about it is the ear speaker being on the side of the phone unlike the 3300
The N-Gage fails as a video game platform (take the battery out to switch games!?) and as a cell phone. If you wonder why it fails as a cell phone, well, you have to sidetalk.
In response to the recent hacking of their N-Gage, Nokia has issued the following press release on their website:
"Fuck you. That is all."
Get the games + installer here.
-- The Slashdot Warez CreW
n-guage does nto run java or j2me..from a j2me developer
Don't Tread on OpenSource
In an early morning press conference, Nokia announced that it would attempt to derail software crackers by changing it's N-Gage software to either O-Gage or the ever-popular HO-Gage. Model railroaders around the world were confused.
More coverage with screenshots and video of the games loading can be found here.
Jeez??? Interesting?? /. can always surprise me. Let's put it that way *dude*. Have you seen THPS on the N-Gage? No? Well, let me than tell you that it is FAR AHEAD of the current state of mobile gaming and nothing before the PSP will even get closer. As for this crack the small catch* is that the games programmed for Symbian 6 will be surely played on every phone runnning the OS, what they forget to tell you is that having the hardware to run the Os, doesn't mean you have the hardware to run the game(SonicN is a 3mb 2d-game, there're even better java games there(imagine how ugly is it). So mod the whole article as flamebait at least till the next generation of 600$ phones and then spending 600$ for a smartphone and using it is a game platform is not magnificient move, IMHO.
Oh, and to all the j2me trolls out there. The games for the N-Gage are done in C++ with the approriate SDK.
PS: As for the major flaws: Another crack that come out this week is that all the N-Gage games can now be run from a memory card(not ROM). Conclusion => the original "flow" of having to change the card each time you want to play another game is somehow fixed by the *crackers*. The biggest game I've seen for the moment is ~15 MB. 5-6 games fit pretty well on a 64Mb card don't you think????
Finally the N-Gage is a very good gaming system suffering from a restricted(if any?) game catalog and ridiculous price. I get mine for 90$ from a morron reading too many negetavie reviews, so kudos to you gyus.
1. No sig. 2. ???? 3. Profit!!!
With a healthy dose of DMCA, that's how.
why would anyone want to crack this piece of crap technology?
Yeah, mod me down, but someone had to do it.
"We're aware of it and we're taking it seriously," Damian Stathonikos, spokesman for Nokia Mobile Phones, which is responsible for the N-Gage device, told Dow Jones Newswires.
Stathonikos said after a cursory look at the Web sites it wasn't clear that the claims being made about hackers cracking the protection was true. "Sometimes it's not 100% clear what they've done and if they've done what they say they have. The bark can be louder than the bite," he said.
Complete article here.
3 out of 5 gamers agree,
It's a better cell phone than the Game Boy Advance
Technoli
Nokia should just get up and walk away from the N-Gage and cut their loses. This thing offers hardly any advantages over GameBoy at twice the cost. The game selection sucks, the screen is in portrait instead of landscape, and there are WAY too many buttons.
Nokia doesn't belong in the handheld game console business. They should just continue making phones that can play games. Not make a game machine that doubles as a phone.
Can it run linux?
Who is John Galt?
SasasasasasATAN!! Go get 'em, boio.
Nokia wasn't going to make money on the N-Gage anyway. Nobody is buying it. The best thing for Nokia to do, IMHO, is to keep on making games for the N-Gage anyway, and wait until people steal them for their Siemens, etc cellphones. At least Nokia will get some good publicity.
Its amazing how fast these freaking things get cracked open.
s'wut i sed.
Here are some shots of Sonic running on the Siemens SX1.
here
is the HUGE Business Software Alliance banner ad that greeted me when I opened their webpage.
I don't know what to say...
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
Siemens SX1 plays:
Sonic
Tomb Raider
Puyo Pop
Pandemonium
Tony Hawk
Nokia 6600 plays:
Pandemonium
Puyo Pop
Sonic
Tomb Raider
Tony Hawk
(Puzzle Bubble fails)
Nokia 3650 plays:
Sonic
Puyo Pop
(everything else fails due to insufficient RAM)
Dear Dogshit Santa Troll,
All I want for Christmas is A COLD BAG OF DOG SHIT BY MY FRONT DOOR!
Sincerely,
A Douchebag
* throws PS2 out of window *
Horray!
can someone make an SDK for it now?
3 out of THE 5 gamers agree,
So I guess we just discovered a new mental disorder. I wonder what we should call it when you actually like the N-Gage? I can't think of anything else besides "Fucked up in the head".
It actually pisses me off that I won't get to see them crash and burn on their own now. I wanted them to fail because their games sucked. Not because someone thought it would be cool to h4xx0r them.
Nokia 5510 (the 'ugly' one with the qwerty keyboard , "mp3" player and 64MB RAM) had a DRM scheme which required files to be encoded with their crappy app (Nokia audio manager) in order to play. Nokryptia is a tool that simply prepended zeroes to the file, where the key should be, in order for them to play, and thus made the device usable by linux users.
I'm not surprised with this outcome.
I read reports of this online.. checked some 3650 forums.. and within a few hours I was running sonic-N and puyo pop..
Limitations on the 3650 include the 4mb of internal memory, 1mb or so which is taken by the phone, but apps like Psiloc System Tools let you enable a 'flight mode' which requires you remove the SIM card, and lets you reboot with the telephone app disabled, providing more RAM available to the game.
While this is a bit sloppy, powering down, removing case, battery and SIM, there is another option, booting the phone in safe mode, by holding the 'pencil' key on restart.
This keeps your phone 'app' running, but disables extras that steal RAM on startup, like screensaver.
I have ROM's for 8 games, but I still am on my stock 16mb MMC card, so the larger games, over 3mb file size, wont fit.. need double the size at least, plus all my pics, contacts, and REGULAR GAMES, to unpack and install. new 128mb coming from eBay, so I can copy Tony Hawk over and see!
And as one sig file said.. 'My 3650 can play N-gage games, can your N-gage take pictures?'
I hate spyware and spies
What other nation is as technologically developed as the United States, the European Union nations, Canada, Japan, or South Korea? The United States has a DMCA, and the EU has its own DMCA-alike called the EUCD. I don't know what's happening with respect copy-control legislation in Canada or the East.
Will I retire or break 10K?
"You know, N-Gage is really a normal series 60 cellphone, so won't people be able to play these on other Series 60 cellphones?"
"Of course they can't! I encrypted the images with so called XOR42 cipher."
Prepare for bankruptcy in T-minus 90 days...ENGAGE!
I for one welcome our crappy game copying overlords.
Tapwave Zodiac.
You're welcome.
How long before DMCA stickers are afixed to all forms of electronics on the consumer packaging? Kinda like a surgeon generals warning on a box of cigarettes.
Life is not for the lazy.
Most botched launch of a product ever.
Prepare for bankruptcy in T-minus 90 days...
:o)
N-GAGE!
I am NaN
I don't know what its like in the states, but over here in the UK, you get the N-Gage free with a contract!!.
Jesus christ all the people who bought them through a gaming store are fucking morons!!, the idiot gaming press are just counting stores sales because they are such clueless fuckwits that they don't know that most phones are sold with contracts.
Nokia has sold over 500,000 of these to the mobile companies, who subside them to the customers.
Jesus people get a fucking clue!!
As if the N-Gage wasnt having enough problems, now what reason do people have to actually pay money for this thing?
Well, not to sound like an Nokia marketteer, but in my opinion, the N-Gage has recieved alot unfair critisism, maybe because of it trying so hard to be both fish and fowl.
First of all, the N-Gage is a standard Series60 phone, exept for a few small differences, as f.eks. stereo sound(enabling Stereo MP3's/ogg's), FM-radio(which no other series60 phone has) and lack of camera(which all other series60 phones has). So, if you simply want a cheap series60 phone(to f.eks. use as a small PDA/web browser on the go(Opera)/radio/MP3/Ogg-player), and don't need a camera, the N-Gage might be a better alternative than f.eks. any of the other series60 phones. If not used primarly as a gamedevice, alot of it's criticism will be more or less irrelevant. And as of the speaker/microphone placement, using a handfree will solve that...
Another thing that is worth pointing out, is that even though you can now download and run games on other Series60 devices(and that is, *ONLY on series60 devices*), most of them don't support more than one simultanous key-press, and the keys aren't exactly layed with gaming in mind. Anyone who has ever played emulated gameboy games on f.eks. a Nokia 3650 will probably nod their heads when I say that it sucks.
So, even though it seems to be vogue to hate it, It's still a great device(in a PDA-sense) in my opinion, even though it's not too successfull at what Nokia had in mind, namely gaming.
Everyone needs to show off the features of N-Gage. One of the best features (if your stuck on a plane/train/automobile) is the ability to play Real Media video files. There are a couple of websites out there that offer small downloads, but one of the most asked questions we've had is "how do I dump a full-length feature movie to my N-Gage?" http://www.ngagegaming.com/news/news.cgi/article/E pylVlZuZpsaZgzOFZ/tmpl/nxt_features/prof/feat
Nokia reacted to the news with concern and caution. "We're aware of it and we're taking it seriously," a spokesperson for the Finnish phone-maker told GameSpot. "Right now we are looking into the claims." He went on to add that Nokia would formally respond later today or tomorrow.
Thanks Gamespot
...so even that nGage sales might suffer, they still make money out of all S60 phones by licensing the system for other providers (such as Siemens and Samsung).
(Don't confuse S60 with Symbian, which is only ~20% owned by Nokia and powers the S60)
The horrible thing about this is that now (when the N-Gage fails) Nokia has a reason for it's failure. Everyone out there knows that the phone itself suffers from some of the worst design flaws created - but now that the games have been cracked watch for a 'What Went Wrong' article after the N-Gage's demise talking about how well the phone would have done had it not been for those damn haxors.
'"This is not something the average consumer can do. You need to have very specialized software tools and very specialized skills," Stathonikos said.'
"But I can't get an ocean that's deep enough for my day..." ~The Frames, "Fitzcarraldo"
The Siemens looks nicer, and now can play n-gage games, but can you sidetalk with it? Doubtful.
From a swedish newspaper:y /0,2789,3900 66,00.html
... ... ...
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/it/stor
Hackers have cracked the nokia n-gage
It can also be possible to play the cracked N-Gage games on other cellphones - even though they might not have enough memory or hardware to display 3d graphics to play all the games.
So, they are focusing on the fact that Nokia is trying to protect you from playing the games even though your phone doesn't meet the requirements. Thank you nokia!
i got one of these tacos.. on the very first day.. and also tested all avaiable software... but, now i gonna sell this gamedeck.. its useless! why? i've never used it for calling my buddies.. cause it's so bad to use it as a normal phone.. only with a headset or handfree your are able to understand a word.. so i never sold my 6100 and always used this for calling, now i can use it (or my next 6600) for ngage gaming and calling -great! hehe :)