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Nokia N-Gage Cracked

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the adding-insult-to-bad-press dept.

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.

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  1. More Importantly by SupeRobot+Ninja · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:More Importantly by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Interesting

      leaked? the symbian in it isn't exactly locked down very hard(and the crackers already had experience from cracking s60 programs).

      heck, you want to develop for series60 with c++? forum.nokia.com has all the tools you need. there's c64 emulator, zx spectrum emulator and a gameboy emulator along with gazillion homebrewed titles out there already.

      it is the most 'hacker friendly'(that is affordable) phone platform out there. which is the reason why i got myself a 3650 last summer, sure helped a lot of those crappy train rides. while the concept of having computer programs on your phone might be confusing to some, to nerds it's very convinient. ngages best selling point is that it is the cheapest s60 phone out there(and at the same time, the cheapest phone that has loadable programs more powerful than j2me, and while at that it has the most powerful j2me too).

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  2. Not quite. by Kenja · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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