Hahahah go play Everquest Online for Free once you have BOUGHT THE GAME? I made a $50 investment into Xbox Live and now every game that comes out that has Xbox Live support is FREE TO PLAY... Not only that but Online + Harddrive = Updates and New Maps.. like in Mech Assault where we're getting more mechs and maps and even different game types. Good luck trying to do that with a PS2.
Hahahaha.... "so much pressure on their children in school that some of them just flip." hahaha... yeah much better than parents and teachers totally not giving a fuck and the "jocks/popular" kids ridiculing everyone that's different and making them just "flip". Except kids in Japan don't have easy access to guns as kids here do, so they just take their own lives instead of taking their lives and the lives of 10+ others.
I doubt it because most "nerds", not geeky or smart people, but nerds, lack of social skills needed to actually run a company. Most nerds will end up working for the geek. The geek is smart, but eventually realises that speaking to people and interacting in REAL LIFE, is just as imporant as how 1337 you can program.
And who are they buying them from? OTHER GAME COMPANIES... its a strategy all game companies do in order to secure exclusive titles. Think about Sony and how they bought half of SquareSoft in order to make sure that there were no FF's for Xbox.
Stop all this MS bullshit... get the facts... then post. Just makes all of you fanboys look retarded.
Thank you for a most insightful comment. I totally agree with you. The comment about the Sopranos was probably the most insightful comment I've heard today.
Actually I was able to fake almost anything using the.NET libraries. I made an application that was able to log onto websites (using cookies, and post vars) and then extract whatever data I needed.
Just goes to show you, nothing is secure, only data that can be trusted, is server side. Heh, as an example of how things used to be, I remember when you could trick shoping carts by sending over GET variables with the price that you wanted.
Or you can do what I did... cut up the pad in the middle with 2 perpendicular cuts (so you can see what traces go to what arrows) then unscrew the piece where the cable goes into the pad. Then figure out what are all the traces are going... then reconnect the arrows to the places where the buttons were connected, and connect the buttons to the axes.
Then go in your program whether it be DDR for PC, DWI or whatever... reconfigure your buttons.
Thats it! It worked for me... hopefully it works for someone else.
Ummm if its the only one available, whats with all the reviews of the ATI 9700?? If they don't have the available cards to do this report correctly why do it at all? It's just plain stupid. The Xabre is not a very good card, can't even compete with a Geforce from last year. They should've waited a month or so and done a decent review instead of spitting out some garbage and having Taco post it on/.
-- D3X
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This review / test is bullshit. The only reason that they see an improvement in lower resolutions is that its the only resolution where the game / app is not limited by the video card.
I'd definitely take this with a grain of salt until someone can do a 4x/8x review with a NV30 or a ATI 9700.
What kind of hardware guy looks at this and doesnt say "WTF Xabre 4000?? What kind of video card is that to benchmark anything?"
Hopefully the/. editors will stop "jumping the gun" and wait until some real reviews come out. This is like testing a new high performance tires that can go upto 400/mph with a Yugo. Is anyone going to be surprised when the $25 tire performs just as good as a $400 tire? Sorry for the lame analogy, haven't had my morning Coke.:-p
Cracking has many different faces and tools. There are crackers that simply disassemble the files with software like W32Dasm or IDA Pro, use a runtime debugger like SoftIce, and then find the "jumps" that say "This is shareware" or "This is licensed" and patch them. Usually it takes as few a 2 bytes.
There are also crackers who do keygenerators. They use the disassembled code and softice to trace through the serial number making routines and figure out how the sn# is made. They then code an app in either ASM or C that generates a correct serial number.
Lastly there are crackers that only crack protection schemes and code, like the ones on game CD's. They crack Dongle's, game protections, all sorts of encryption.. blah blah.. They code tools to disassemble, to unpack, to remove difficult protections. These are the most l33t of all crackers.
So I guess what I was trying to say is that... yeah.. cracking is VERY difficult. You learn a lot by disassembling and figuring out how programs work. I know I got most of my computer expertise from cracking shareware protections. Becoming a decent cracker involves a lot of time and a lot of knowledge of ASM and Mathematics.
Heh I'm actually quite involved in the Xbox hacking scene.. I have already modded my Xbox controllers with that extra power line in order to install 2 pretty LED's.
I think you should probably stop making assumptions, but that would mean you could actually post under an account, and not posting anonymous because you're afraid of flames.
Err not trolling, just upset with such unwarranted FUD. I say fight MS on the PC, but they've done nothing wrong on the Console side so let them be. People are staying away from the Xbox because a friend sends them a link that points to a/. story full of FUD.
Since I bought one of these machines when they came out, I want it to last as long as possible, but you guys aren't giving me a chance to cash in on my investment because you reserve the right to act like idiots.
Hmm as far as I know, PSO is only comming out for GC.
If you subsribe to IGN Insider... you should read the Roundtable #55 they just posted. All pointing to MS the clear winner by far in the console world. Sony has an advantage that it has a large installed user base, but to lets say to play FFXI on the PS2 you have to buy the game, the broadband adapter, and the hard drive. Thats $200 right there!!!! You can buy an Xbox for that much, you can buy another PS2! or a Gamecube and a game.
This is why MS is the clear winner here because how many parents are gunna want to spend the equivalent of their console on 1 game?
Ofcourse MS is losing money, they're thinking long term, and Sony isn't. Sony is just expecting everyone to shell out the extra $100-150 just to play a game online.
Hey I didn't discredit them completely I say they were decent games, but not GOOD games! I prefer Amped over SSX and I always though Tekken was lame (I'm much more a DOA or Soul Calibur person).. Gun Valkyrie is a great game, its difficult and a lot of fun.
Why must it always come down to personal attacks? No seriously... its one thing to post a reply saying I missed a game or saying this or that... but personal attacks are just plain stupid. Whatever..
But by helping those that serve, they in turn give us more (different) feeds and more (different) content. Well I hope:-D Ohh and maybe they won't declare bankruptcy because they use 100x more bandwidth than they can afford.
My apologies, the PS2 had GT3 and MGS2. The other games don't count as "good" they are just games.
My good friend bought a PS2 just because of GT3. He loves that game. I think its a good game, but I never had the chance to sit down and learn it. MGS2 was also a good game but it didn't get stellar reviews because its unoriginality.
So if we count the ammount of good games that came out for the Xbox to the PS2 for 1 year, I think we'll see the Xbox has a much better game selection. Halo, PGR, JSRF, Gunvalkyrie (why won't the reviewers give this game a chance... just play the damn game for more than 5 mins), Morrowind, Hunter, not to mention all of the great new games commming out in the late summer, fall.
I think the PS2 is a decent platform, but I like the competition the Xbox is creating, who knows if developers would've ever created such good games for this year or if Sony would've fixed their DVD playback (heard it sucked when it first came out).
Ummm you really need to check your facts, read about what the plans are for the PS2 Online, some games are free now, but they will change that to something like $10/month.
You don't think Sony is gunna let you play Everquest for free do you? Sega went the same route, with PSO they first had a free version of the game, then they realised that the costs of maintaining the server was too high so they released another version that cost $10/month.
I guarantee you all games that come out that are worth playing and have a large user base will be pay per month. MS is the only one that has a flat fee. The cost of their service remains the same even if you have 10 games (and trust me I know plenty of people with atleast 5 Xbox games).
Here's my idea, how about you go read, then talk. I've read many articles on this particular issue, go check out IGN or even an earlier Slashdot posting where the majority of informed people agreed with me. MS has a better online plan. In the long run its cheaper and I trust MS to secure their servers more than Joe Schmoe @ WhoKnowsWhat games. MS has experience atleast, they had a huge online community website that I'm sure they will tie into the XBox Live network.
When are you ignorant/. posters (I apologize to those/.ers that aren't ignorant and make good posts) going to realize that they ARE JUST REMOVING THE BINARIES CREATED WITH A MS XBOX SDK! They almost certainly don't have an actual XBox SDK (they probably have the pirated version thats been around for a couple of months on newsgroups and irc) and even if they do actually own a legit copy of the XBox SDK, then they have violated the EULA by relasing binaries without paying royalties to MS.
Thats the way things work in the console world, you want to make games for my console? You gotta pay a royalty to the manufacturer of the console.
Ugh.. just shut up, read the damn story and then post.
Mmmm.. no use for Xbox HD, no Inter-Web games?? I believe Morrowind shows what the HD on the Xbox can do. They pre-load the huge levels they have on the Xbox and poof, no more long load times. Add to that unlimited storage for save games and information about the game and poof you've got one of the best reasons to have a HD in your console. As far as internet games, people have been playing multiplayer Halo and other games for months (like a month after the xbox came out). There is quite a large community of players and hackers. Also, MS's plans on internet play are by far the best of the 3 consoles (Nintendo doesn't have a plan really... PS2 is like you'll have to buy these $50 games and then pay $10 to each of the Publishers for the right to play on their network! No thanks to that, 3 games = $150, $10/month * 3 * 12 months = $360/yr, $150 + $360 = $510/yr just to play 3 games on the PS2.)
I agree that there have been some lackluster games on the Xbox, but it has enough hits that justify for those. The PS2 had NOTHING for 1 year!! They had no good games, and at the end of the year when the Xbox came out, they got GTA3 and FFX etc...
I'm tired of people bashing the Xbox based on its parent company. Fight MS on the PC side, but let them try to create some competition in the console market. We (the consumers) are the only ones to benefit from this competition. I'm tired of only have Sony or Nintendo as an option, because they don't compete against each other... those that buy Nintendo's products will continue to buy Nintendo products, and those who buy Sony products will continue to buy Sony products. The XBox bring a nice refreshing burst of competition, developers for the PS2 are now having to make their games look much nicer and concentrate on the visual aspects as well as the gameplay elements and Nintendo developers are now creating more mature games.
So in closing... just stop being ignorant... I'm tired of ignorance on Slashdot, are we a community of well educated tech people or are we a community of ignorant bafoons that have nothing better to do at work then spread FUD.
Well if Motorola didn't mess up, we'd all be using Satelite phones. This product would be very helpful in that case. I'm sure in a couple of years we will be using satelite phones so this technology is maybe just a bit ahead of its time.
Its actually going to be between $200 and $400 with the game. Hey, its not a main stream game, it doesn't have a main stream price. Its meant for hardcore Mech Sim fans. There aren't many of us who remember Btech 3056/3059 but there should be enough that this game will sell enough copies to make their money back.
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Hahahah go play Everquest Online for Free once you have BOUGHT THE GAME? I made a $50 investment into Xbox Live and now every game that comes out that has Xbox Live support is FREE TO PLAY... Not only that but Online + Harddrive = Updates and New Maps.. like in Mech Assault where we're getting more mechs and maps and even different game types. Good luck trying to do that with a PS2.
Hahahaha.... "so much pressure on their children in school that some of them just flip." hahaha... yeah much better than parents and teachers totally not giving a fuck and the "jocks/popular" kids ridiculing everyone that's different and making them just "flip". Except kids in Japan don't have easy access to guns as kids here do, so they just take their own lives instead of taking their lives and the lives of 10+ others.
That was such a stupid ignorant comment.
I doubt it because most "nerds", not geeky or smart people, but nerds, lack of social skills needed to actually run a company. Most nerds will end up working for the geek. The geek is smart, but eventually realises that speaking to people and interacting in REAL LIFE, is just as imporant as how 1337 you can program.
And who are they buying them from? OTHER GAME COMPANIES... its a strategy all game companies do in order to secure exclusive titles. Think about Sony and how they bought half of SquareSoft in order to make sure that there were no FF's for Xbox.
Stop all this MS bullshit... get the facts... then post. Just makes all of you fanboys look retarded.
-- DeionXxX
Thank you for a most insightful comment. I totally agree with you. The comment about the Sopranos was probably the most insightful comment I've heard today.
Anyway, thanks for the comment.
--DeionXxX
Actually I was able to fake almost anything using the .NET libraries. I made an application that was able to log onto websites (using cookies, and post vars) and then extract whatever data I needed.
Just goes to show you, nothing is secure, only data that can be trusted, is server side. Heh, as an example of how things used to be, I remember when you could trick shoping carts by sending over GET variables with the price that you wanted.
--DeionXxX
Or you can do what I did... cut up the pad in the middle with 2 perpendicular cuts (so you can see what traces go to what arrows) then unscrew the piece where the cable goes into the pad. Then figure out what are all the traces are going... then reconnect the arrows to the places where the buttons were connected, and connect the buttons to the axes.
Then go in your program whether it be DDR for PC, DWI or whatever... reconfigure your buttons.
Thats it! It worked for me... hopefully it works for someone else.
-- DeionXxX
Ummm if its the only one available, whats with all the reviews of the ATI 9700?? If they don't have the available cards to do this report correctly why do it at all? It's just plain stupid. The Xabre is not a very good card, can't even compete with a Geforce from last year. They should've waited a month or so and done a decent review instead of spitting out some garbage and having Taco post it on /.
-- D3X
This review / test is bullshit. The only reason that they see an improvement in lower resolutions is that its the only resolution where the game / app is not limited by the video card.
/. editors will stop "jumping the gun" and wait until some real reviews come out. This is like testing a new high performance tires that can go upto 400/mph with a Yugo. Is anyone going to be surprised when the $25 tire performs just as good as a $400 tire? Sorry for the lame analogy, haven't had my morning Coke. :-p
I'd definitely take this with a grain of salt until someone can do a 4x/8x review with a NV30 or a ATI 9700.
What kind of hardware guy looks at this and doesnt say "WTF Xabre 4000?? What kind of video card is that to benchmark anything?"
Hopefully the
-- D3X
Cracking has many different faces and tools. There are crackers that simply disassemble the files with software like W32Dasm or IDA Pro, use a runtime debugger like SoftIce, and then find the "jumps" that say "This is shareware" or "This is licensed" and patch them. Usually it takes as few a 2 bytes.
... yeah.. cracking is VERY difficult. You learn a lot by disassembling and figuring out how programs work. I know I got most of my computer expertise from cracking shareware protections. Becoming a decent cracker involves a lot of time and a lot of knowledge of ASM and Mathematics.
There are also crackers who do keygenerators. They use the disassembled code and softice to trace through the serial number making routines and figure out how the sn# is made. They then code an app in either ASM or C that generates a correct serial number.
Lastly there are crackers that only crack protection schemes and code, like the ones on game CD's. They crack Dongle's, game protections, all sorts of encryption.. blah blah.. They code tools to disassemble, to unpack, to remove difficult protections. These are the most l33t of all crackers.
So I guess what I was trying to say is that
-- DeionXxX
What?? Maybe I'm missing something but you're completely wrong. Lets just go through some of the iterations of possible values for X and Y...
... x' / y' = 1/4 (check)
... x' / y' = 16 / 24 = 2 / 3 (wrong)
... x' / y' = 16 / 34 = 8 / 17 (wrong)
x = 0, y = 0
x = 1, y = 0
x = 1, y = 1
And how did you get (10x+6)/(10x+4) == 1?
I understand if you made a mental error.. but everything in that post makes no sense.
-- D3X
Heh I'm actually quite involved in the Xbox hacking scene.. I have already modded my Xbox controllers with that extra power line in order to install 2 pretty LED's.
I think you should probably stop making assumptions, but that would mean you could actually post under an account, and not posting anonymous because you're afraid of flames.
-- DeionXxX
Err not trolling, just upset with such unwarranted FUD. I say fight MS on the PC, but they've done nothing wrong on the Console side so let them be. People are staying away from the Xbox because a friend sends them a link that points to a /. story full of FUD.
Since I bought one of these machines when they came out, I want it to last as long as possible, but you guys aren't giving me a chance to cash in on my investment because you reserve the right to act like idiots.
-- DeionXxX
Hmm as far as I know, PSO is only comming out for GC.
If you subsribe to IGN Insider... you should read the Roundtable #55 they just posted. All pointing to MS the clear winner by far in the console world. Sony has an advantage that it has a large installed user base, but to lets say to play FFXI on the PS2 you have to buy the game, the broadband adapter, and the hard drive. Thats $200 right there!!!! You can buy an Xbox for that much, you can buy another PS2! or a Gamecube and a game.
This is why MS is the clear winner here because how many parents are gunna want to spend the equivalent of their console on 1 game?
Ofcourse MS is losing money, they're thinking long term, and Sony isn't. Sony is just expecting everyone to shell out the extra $100-150 just to play a game online.
-- DeionXxX
Hey I didn't discredit them completely I say they were decent games, but not GOOD games! I prefer Amped over SSX and I always though Tekken was lame (I'm much more a DOA or Soul Calibur person).. Gun Valkyrie is a great game, its difficult and a lot of fun.
Why must it always come down to personal attacks? No seriously... its one thing to post a reply saying I missed a game or saying this or that... but personal attacks are just plain stupid. Whatever..
--DeionXxX
But by helping those that serve, they in turn give us more (different) feeds and more (different) content. Well I hope :-D Ohh and maybe they won't declare bankruptcy because they use 100x more bandwidth than they can afford.
-- DeionXxX
My apologies, the PS2 had GT3 and MGS2. The other games don't count as "good" they are just games.
My good friend bought a PS2 just because of GT3. He loves that game. I think its a good game, but I never had the chance to sit down and learn it. MGS2 was also a good game but it didn't get stellar reviews because its unoriginality.
So if we count the ammount of good games that came out for the Xbox to the PS2 for 1 year, I think we'll see the Xbox has a much better game selection. Halo, PGR, JSRF, Gunvalkyrie (why won't the reviewers give this game a chance... just play the damn game for more than 5 mins), Morrowind, Hunter, not to mention all of the great new games commming out in the late summer, fall.
I think the PS2 is a decent platform, but I like the competition the Xbox is creating, who knows if developers would've ever created such good games for this year or if Sony would've fixed their DVD playback (heard it sucked when it first came out).
--DeionXxX
Ummm you really need to check your facts, read about what the plans are for the PS2 Online, some games are free now, but they will change that to something like $10/month.
You don't think Sony is gunna let you play Everquest for free do you? Sega went the same route, with PSO they first had a free version of the game, then they realised that the costs of maintaining the server was too high so they released another version that cost $10/month.
I guarantee you all games that come out that are worth playing and have a large user base will be pay per month. MS is the only one that has a flat fee. The cost of their service remains the same even if you have 10 games (and trust me I know plenty of people with atleast 5 Xbox games).
Here's my idea, how about you go read, then talk. I've read many articles on this particular issue, go check out IGN or even an earlier Slashdot posting where the majority of informed people agreed with me. MS has a better online plan. In the long run its cheaper and I trust MS to secure their servers more than Joe Schmoe @ WhoKnowsWhat games. MS has experience atleast, they had a huge online community website that I'm sure they will tie into the XBox Live network.
-- DeionXxX
When are you ignorant /. posters (I apologize to those /.ers that aren't ignorant and make good posts) going to realize that they ARE JUST REMOVING THE BINARIES CREATED WITH A MS XBOX SDK! They almost certainly don't have an actual XBox SDK (they probably have the pirated version thats been around for a couple of months on newsgroups and irc) and even if they do actually own a legit copy of the XBox SDK, then they have violated the EULA by relasing binaries without paying royalties to MS.
Thats the way things work in the console world, you want to make games for my console? You gotta pay a royalty to the manufacturer of the console.
Ugh.. just shut up, read the damn story and then post.
-- DeionXxX
Mmmm.. no use for Xbox HD, no Inter-Web games?? I believe Morrowind shows what the HD on the Xbox can do. They pre-load the huge levels they have on the Xbox and poof, no more long load times. Add to that unlimited storage for save games and information about the game and poof you've got one of the best reasons to have a HD in your console. As far as internet games, people have been playing multiplayer Halo and other games for months (like a month after the xbox came out). There is quite a large community of players and hackers. Also, MS's plans on internet play are by far the best of the 3 consoles (Nintendo doesn't have a plan really... PS2 is like you'll have to buy these $50 games and then pay $10 to each of the Publishers for the right to play on their network! No thanks to that, 3 games = $150, $10/month * 3 * 12 months = $360/yr, $150 + $360 = $510/yr just to play 3 games on the PS2.)
I agree that there have been some lackluster games on the Xbox, but it has enough hits that justify for those. The PS2 had NOTHING for 1 year!! They had no good games, and at the end of the year when the Xbox came out, they got GTA3 and FFX etc...
I'm tired of people bashing the Xbox based on its parent company. Fight MS on the PC side, but let them try to create some competition in the console market. We (the consumers) are the only ones to benefit from this competition. I'm tired of only have Sony or Nintendo as an option, because they don't compete against each other... those that buy Nintendo's products will continue to buy Nintendo products, and those who buy Sony products will continue to buy Sony products. The XBox bring a nice refreshing burst of competition, developers for the PS2 are now having to make their games look much nicer and concentrate on the visual aspects as well as the gameplay elements and Nintendo developers are now creating more mature games.
So in closing... just stop being ignorant... I'm tired of ignorance on Slashdot, are we a community of well educated tech people or are we a community of ignorant bafoons that have nothing better to do at work then spread FUD.
-- DeionXxX
Mice are actually very similar to humans. This is why they are primarily used for research. So this is a very big deal.
-- D3X
Hope you aren't a troll.. but... changed in one part of the world affects EVERY SINGLE OTHER PART OF THE WORLD, in one way or another.
Example: El Nino... It affects a relatively small part of the ocean but causes havoc almost everywhere in the world.
Another example: Volcanoes... eruptions in one part of the world usually affect the climate on the opposite side of the planet.
-- D3X
Well if Motorola didn't mess up, we'd all be using Satelite phones. This product would be very helpful in that case. I'm sure in a couple of years we will be using satelite phones so this technology is maybe just a bit ahead of its time.
-- D3X
Wanna try to read the post atleast... I know its asking for too much to read the actual article but please... please.. read the post.
-- D3X
Its actually going to be between $200 and $400 with the game. Hey, its not a main stream game, it doesn't have a main stream price. Its meant for hardcore Mech Sim fans. There aren't many of us who remember Btech 3056/3059 but there should be enough that this game will sell enough copies to make their money back.
-D3X