If you release software for the X-Box without Microsoft's approval, they will come after you with the DMCA, whether or not it will legitimately hold up in court, and they will appeal any rulings against them endlessly until they either win or deplete your assets with court fees until you are bankrupt.
I guess you've never heard of homebrew gaming communities. The Jaguar, Playstation (1 & 2), and especially the Dreamcast have a sizeable amount of software written for them that didn't come from licensed developers. Are there lawyers running after the person who ported MAME to Dreamcast? Or the NetBSD team? Don't be a moron.
Maybe this is a different case because the guy is using an X Box developer kit and he must have signed licensing agreements with Microsoft. But for everyone else, homebrew developing is on the right side of the law.
As long as they aren't pirating games, I doubt very much if Microsoft cares if people are running MAME on the X Box. They don't care about profits at this stage; they just want you to buy it.
AOL gave us blithering idiots who use teeny-bopper acronyms like LOL and ROFL.
Actually, these acronyms, along with BRB, GTG, "smileys" and most of the rest, originated on TDDs. And saying "Microsoft made computing cool and accessible" makes you sound like one of those blithering idiots.
I'll be buying an XBox with real games and real creativity. I'm not blowing my money on another worthless, technologically inferior Nintendo product.
I'm biting the flaimbate here, but your point is well taken. After all, the X-Box has such creative offerings as:
Tekken Breast Tournament (Dead or Alive 3)
Super Mario Ugly (Oddworld)
Generic Racer (Project Gotham)
Unreal 2k2 (Halo)
Sports Port (available on PS2 and Gamecube)
Seriously, besides Shenmue II (which is a pretty bad game if anything like the original), can you think of any title coming to Xbox in 2002 that you're actually looking forward to?
Even if Gamecube was all Mario and Zelda games (which it's not), it would still be a better buy than the Xbox...
No... Darwin has already put Apple in the position of alienated all those of the "closed source is the best" croud..
Huh? I seriously doubt there's anyone who isn't a programmer waving a "closed source is the best" banner. People use closed-source products because they don't know any better, or closed-source is the best way to do what they want to do.
Using a closed-source product is not some big-deal moral decision for ANYBODY. Open source, on the other hand...
On the topic of the financial death sentence of the NC-17 rating - it boils down to what the customer wants.
Wrong. It boils down to a few people making heavy-handed decisions about distribution. Sorry, but if something gets an NC-17, that means Blockbuster and Hollywood won't carry it, as well as most major theater chains. That cuts out at least 80% of a potential audience for a movie, especially in rural areas.
Interestingly, the American public is apparently less interested in movies with "R" content than those with "G" content. This [dove.org] report shows that "G" rated movies make a 78% better ROI than "R" movies.
First of all, 65% of all movies released in the US get the "R". More movies equals more chances for failure. I won't debate that most of them are crap though.
"G" movies make up about 10% (or less) of movies released every year. Since they are all kiddie movies (besides the Straight Story, good movie BTW), they usually have tons of merchandise to help the make the big bucks.
However, financial success doesn't mean they are better movies. Pokemon? Those same movies that make billions here are direct-to-video in Japan. Disney? Sorry, they haven't made anything new since Aladdin. (Not to mention their excreble record as a corporate citizen).
You have stated that you use a website to find what movies are appropriate for you. Many religious groups have the same thing. I use Filthy myself (see link on my sig). Ratings are not necessary anymore.
Hollywood is more interested in doing a poor job of telling a story and livening up the movie with explosions, guns, and of course, bare breasts in sexual settings, than it is in making money.
I would say I agree with you, but it's the American obsession with these details that makes them a commodity. I think certain religious people hyping this stuff over the content of the movie are to blame, what do you think?
There are very few people happy with 100% of any society's unvoted moral code.
Moral code? I thought we were talking about movie ratings here. I suggest you read the parent post again, especially the part about the NC-17.
Despite the fact that NC-17 was created to separate porn movies (X) from movies with narrative, it is most commonly used to punish movies that have subject matter that the MPAA finds distasteful, especially low-budget and independent movies. Case in point: Orgazmo, a low-budget movie made by South Park creators Parker and Stone, received an NC-17 despite having no nudity (besides a few backsides that would have made the PG-13 cut). It dealt with a Mormon Pornstar Superhero, so it got the NC-17. MPAA would not return their phonecalls about how to cut it to get an "R".
Meanwhile, Saving Private Ryan, an "important" movie with Hollywood names and money, gets an R, despite being the most grotesque and violent movie I've ever seen. Since it's about war and sacrifice (Go America!), they play this movie uncut on network TV, FOR YOUR KIDS TO SEE. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather my kid saw Orgazmo than Saving Private Ryan.
Ratings are a tool for pretentious assholes to make sweeping cultural judgements. They are a convenient way for America to say, "Oh! I can let my child see this movie, because it doesn't say 'fuck'!"
If any ratings are necessary, they should be contextual-language, content, drug use. Normally movies shown on movie channels have these listed anyway? Why do we need the MPAA telling us what's good and what's bad? I have an idea, some people don't want to take responsibility for what heir children are exposed to...
I can think of a huge reason, pirating...This is the main reason the DC failed.
The "Utopia Bootloader" that allowed people to play ripped Dreamcast games first appeared on USENET in May or June, 2000. Almost two years after the Dreamcast's launch in Japan, and one year after the launch in the US.
SEGA started separating its programming teams into funny names in August 2000 (i.e. units AM1-15 became Amusement Vision, Smilebit, Hitmaker etc). This was in preparation for the jump to SEGA's software-only incarnation.
So, three months after the bootloader is released, Sega gives up on the console.
Isn't 3 months a little quick for piracy to ruin a console?
I actually enjoy a good story, good characters, good scenery, etc. I'm just really curoius as to how many grown men really enjoy Nintendo.
I'm an adult, and I have yet to find a game with a "good story." This is not a troll; please try to understand my position. I dislike games like Final Fantasy or Resident Evil, because I think they exemplify what's wrong with games today. Fancy graphics with no gameplay.
To me, the Final Fantasy movie completed Square's degeneration from an exciting game maker with fresh ideas (NES-SNES days) to a mediocre CG B-movie designer.
I play games mostly for the "twitch" gameplay factor (Crazy Taxi, Street Fighter, Power Stone). I am amused by the video game storylines some adults take seriously. I'm charmed by the quaintness of "Are you a Bad Enough Dude to Rescue the President?" That's what it's all about, man!
I'm still waiting for a game that takes a sophisticated jab at the games over yesteryear (sort of a video game version of Space Ghost.) Anyone interested in helping me make such a project?
Sim racing revolves around providing and
experiencing an as true racing environment as possible, with a reasonably accurate physics-engine and life-like controllers (like steering wheels) are almost mandatory.
Ferrari F355 Challenge on your Dreamcast (you have a Dreamcast, don'tcha?)
the most realistic racer I have ever played (only one car) and by GAWD! it's difficult!
Nope, I wasn't flaming. This is what happened to me today. Actually, I meant MicroXpress, which is a local place. And the clerk there was VERY confrontational. They ain't gettin all up in my business, dat for sure.
Although, after having a few hours to cool down, I confess that I was probably asking too much from most video game store clerks. However, I did treat them politely, even when they shook their heads and ignored what I was telling them.
As for abuse, don't talk to me about it. A year ago at this time, I was delivering pizzas:P
Please people - remember be kind to your local software/electronics store employees. This is likely to be a long week for quite a few of
them with unaware management.
Does that give them the right to be arrogant assholes? I've just been to 10 places looking for a 'Cube, and I was treated politely in 2 of 'em. A big 20%.
I asked if they heard that Nintendo was allowing retailers to see the 'Cube early, and none of them had. The guy at Toys R Us was polite and geniunely interested. Ditto for the woman at Gamestop. The rest of the places acted like I was trying to con them, or that I was a complete idiot.
A local Mom 'n' Pop (Microplay) assured me that they had no Nintendo sales representative. Circuit City lady gave me the icy-bitch voice and said "WE'RE SURE WE CAN'T SELL THEM SIR! THANK YOU!"
I wish I lived in Austin again. If anyone is lucky enough to live close to a Gamefellas (Austin or San Antonio), don't hesitate.
Meanwhile, does anyone know of any Houston, Texas place that is willing to sell?
Face it - SCEA and Nintendo America could really care less if there are really cool titles in the US.
This is one of the best arguments in favor of buying an X-Box I've heard. The Dreamcast is the only platform where publishers had the balls to release some of the way-out Japanese games in the US (Samba de Amigo, Bangaioh, Rival Schools etc).
The DC was doing very well in the US and Europe (sold more units on launch than the Saturn did in its entire run) but sales were sluggish in Japan.
Although the US and Europe were bringing in all the money, SEGA of Japan was very tight with SEGA of America's purse strings (they were only allowed to do big ad campaigns for 'major games' like Shenmue and Sonic Adventure 2.)
They also wasted a ton of money on licensing Ferarri F355 Challenge for the US market because it was a Yu Suzuki game, although it was such a rigid simulation it was doomed to failure in the US, and everyone knew it. Games like Jet Set Radio, Samba De Amigo, and Phantasy Star Online didn't get the ad space they needed to reach a respectable audience. AFAIK, the only reason SEGA's so chummy with Microso~1 is for free advertising.
So...I hate Microso~1, and I won't be buying an X-box, but it would be nice to have a competitor to Sony and Nintendo that would put pressure on Japanese companies to bring more games over.
Also, no-one has -ever- pointed out that MS -might- just have thought for more than a minute about making a Linux port less than straightforward precisely to keep the razorblade sales up? Now if someone has a -realistic- idea on how to port Linux, that would be interesting.
Where there's a will, there's a way. Or should I say: where there's commodity hardware, there's a way. And it will be nice to have a cheap Mp3 server that can play games on the TV;)
Sometimes I wonder if the Xbox is a sneak attack on the open PC platform: it's pretty much the same, with no BIOS. If all those draconian laws get passed in the US, will all PCs be like the Xbox?
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I guess I've never liked first person shooters on consoles. My brother had doom for Play Station and I didn't really like the control
I was really impressed what Secret Level was able to do for Unreal Tournament on the Dreamcast. 8 player online, with most of the popular PC maps. Broadband support, keyboard and mouse support as well.
Of course it wasn't as good as the PC version, but it was enough to make me believe that FPS's do have a future on consoles. At least two of the new console have "easy LAN party/networking" potential that I've been waiting to see on consoles for years.
The Xbox (with ethernet) and the PS2 (with Firewire) would be a lot easier to haul around than a big computer, and without the hassles that Windows inevitably brings to network gaming. (DirectX hassles, random crashes, etc.)I really can't wait for the Gamecube Broadband adapter, does anyone know if that will be released at launch? I hope the 'Cube version of Perfect Dark supports LAN play.
The problem with Napster is you only find exactly what you are looking for. Unlike, say, radio, you never get what you didn't expect (but may like).
Try live365. Type in a genre you like "surf" or "lounge" for example, or even a band name you like, and I guarantee you'll find something cool.
They also have a hosting feature, which allows you to stream your own MP3s (even from a modem connection). Very cool.
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Uhm, yeah. This is why hackers hack, for money right?
Okay, I take that back. Most hackers aren't out to MAKE money per se, but I don't doubt that they don't want to cough up $50 for each new game.
The Utopia Bootloader (the original Dreamcast backup solution) was created by a group of hackers that ripped commercial games and posted them on USENET. While I doubt they actually made money, money was definitely a motivating factor. (I don't deny that traditional hackers' desire to control the machine and help the community was in there too.)
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They are not hardware compatible with standard DVD's, first of all none of the DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW or DVD-RAM drives are able to write two layer discs, then you have the added problem with the protection strips
The old Sega Saturn had a security track similar to these "protection strips" as well. It needed this, as Saturn games were all simple Mode1 CD-ROMs. As the game booted up, the Saturn would check the security track (burned on the very edge of the CD, and impossible to replicate on normal burners).
The hacker's solution to this was to muck with the Saturn BIOS so that it "forgot" to check the security track.
My point is, if the Gamecube's DVD-drive mechanism is a standard component (and doubtless it is, probably the same Matushita mechanism in Panasonic DVD players), HACKERS WILL FIND A WAY, whether it's to sell 1337 Gamecube games for $10 on their website or to backup that import game they paid $75 for.
It doesn't matter if the discs themselves use proprietary format, how they spin, or anything lik e that. Sega's Dreamcast used proprietary GD-ROMs that were uncopyable by normal CD-R drives, but since the drive mechanisms were standard Yamaha 12x CD-ROMs, CD-ROM booting was made possible.
The same thing will happen with the "closed" Gamecube, although undoubtedly the Xbox will be easier to hack.
Did you have a problem getting an IP from RR's DHCP server last night? Man, that pissed me off. I thought it was my router's eth0 (an old Asante card that gives me trouble sometimes) but it was just RR.
Still, they are miles better than the SDSL line we have at work. One second on, two seconds off...
Ha. ha. ha. Dude, you quoted the troll in your original reply. You can't do that and still cover your ass.
I suggest that you learn to laugh at yourself...because we all are. It's like that time those jokers at work cut up a piece of chalk, put it in an Altoids tin, and asked me if I wanted a mint.
I fell for it too! I ate it! But I laughed too. Because chalk is a good source of calcium, and while their teeth were rotting, mine were growing stronger...harder...tranforming me into...
CAPTAIN ZOMBO-TEETH
For instance, you need to use DOS [dsstester.com] to get digital satellite service for free.
What about pitou? Runs in linux, doesn't tie up your whole machine. Plus, you can share it over the internet. It's buggy now, but that just means it needs more help..
When I'm in your neighborhood you better dig a moat, cause I'm coming to slit, you're muthafuckin throat!
Did you know if you click on a puffy fishtank you can unlock the secrets to deodorant? Neither did I, until Fred McMurray from My Three Sons showed my about Buckets.
I robbed a black Christian Rapper for his yellow Sony Sports Walkman. He was an international wussbag.
I think that speach recognition as a computer interface would be very powerful for the following reason:
I don't know if an "Auditory OS" would ever take off for one simple reason...we all make mistakes. can you imagine how hard it would be to dictate a paper to your computer, even if its speech recognition was perfect?
"Computer networks have assisted...uh no. Computer networks assist...no...fuck, delete all that."
All of a sudden, you've got a page full of junk and mutterings that you have to go over with the keyboard anyway. What's the point?
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I guess you've never heard of homebrew gaming communities. The Jaguar, Playstation (1 & 2), and especially the Dreamcast have a sizeable amount of software written for them that didn't come from licensed developers. Are there lawyers running after the person who ported MAME to Dreamcast? Or the NetBSD team? Don't be a moron.
Maybe this is a different case because the guy is using an X Box developer kit and he must have signed licensing agreements with Microsoft. But for everyone else, homebrew developing is on the right side of the law.
As long as they aren't pirating games, I doubt very much if Microsoft cares if people are running MAME on the X Box. They don't care about profits at this stage; they just want you to buy it.
Actually, these acronyms, along with BRB, GTG, "smileys" and most of the rest, originated on TDDs. And saying "Microsoft made computing cool and accessible" makes you sound like one of those blithering idiots.
I'm biting the flaimbate here, but your point is well taken. After all, the X-Box has such creative offerings as:
Seriously, besides Shenmue II (which is a pretty bad game if anything like the original), can you think of any title coming to Xbox in 2002 that you're actually looking forward to?
Even if Gamecube was all Mario and Zelda games (which it's not), it would still be a better buy than the Xbox...
No... Darwin has already put Apple in the position of alienated all those of the "closed source is the best" croud..
Huh? I seriously doubt there's anyone who isn't a programmer waving a "closed source is the best" banner. People use closed-source products because they don't know any better, or closed-source is the best way to do what they want to do.
Using a closed-source product is not some big-deal moral decision for ANYBODY. Open source, on the other hand...
Wrong. It boils down to a few people making heavy-handed decisions about distribution. Sorry, but if something gets an NC-17, that means Blockbuster and Hollywood won't carry it, as well as most major theater chains. That cuts out at least 80% of a potential audience for a movie, especially in rural areas.
Interestingly, the American public is apparently less interested in movies with "R" content than those with "G" content. This [dove.org] report shows that "G" rated movies make a 78% better ROI than "R" movies.
First of all, 65% of all movies released in the US get the "R". More movies equals more chances for failure. I won't debate that most of them are crap though.
"G" movies make up about 10% (or less) of movies released every year. Since they are all kiddie movies (besides the Straight Story, good movie BTW), they usually have tons of merchandise to help the make the big bucks.
However, financial success doesn't mean they are better movies. Pokemon? Those same movies that make billions here are direct-to-video in Japan. Disney? Sorry, they haven't made anything new since Aladdin. (Not to mention their excreble record as a corporate citizen).
You have stated that you use a website to find what movies are appropriate for you. Many religious groups have the same thing. I use Filthy myself (see link on my sig). Ratings are not necessary anymore.
Hollywood is more interested in doing a poor job of telling a story and livening up the movie with explosions, guns, and of course, bare breasts in sexual settings, than it is in making money.
I would say I agree with you, but it's the American obsession with these details that makes them a commodity. I think certain religious people hyping this stuff over the content of the movie are to blame, what do you think?
Moral code? I thought we were talking about movie ratings here. I suggest you read the parent post again, especially the part about the NC-17.
Despite the fact that NC-17 was created to separate porn movies (X) from movies with narrative, it is most commonly used to punish movies that have subject matter that the MPAA finds distasteful, especially low-budget and independent movies. Case in point: Orgazmo, a low-budget movie made by South Park creators Parker and Stone, received an NC-17 despite having no nudity (besides a few backsides that would have made the PG-13 cut). It dealt with a Mormon Pornstar Superhero, so it got the NC-17. MPAA would not return their phonecalls about how to cut it to get an "R".
Meanwhile, Saving Private Ryan, an "important" movie with Hollywood names and money, gets an R, despite being the most grotesque and violent movie I've ever seen. Since it's about war and sacrifice (Go America!), they play this movie uncut on network TV, FOR YOUR KIDS TO SEE. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather my kid saw Orgazmo than Saving Private Ryan.
Ratings are a tool for pretentious assholes to make sweeping cultural judgements. They are a convenient way for America to say, "Oh! I can let my child see this movie, because it doesn't say 'fuck'!"
If any ratings are necessary, they should be contextual-language, content, drug use. Normally movies shown on movie channels have these listed anyway? Why do we need the MPAA telling us what's good and what's bad? I have an idea, some people don't want to take responsibility for what heir children are exposed to...
The "Utopia Bootloader" that allowed people to play ripped Dreamcast games first appeared on USENET in May or June, 2000. Almost two years after the Dreamcast's launch in Japan, and one year after the launch in the US.
SEGA started separating its programming teams into funny names in August 2000 (i.e. units AM1-15 became Amusement Vision, Smilebit, Hitmaker etc). This was in preparation for the jump to SEGA's software-only incarnation.
So, three months after the bootloader is released, Sega gives up on the console.
Isn't 3 months a little quick for piracy to ruin a console?
I'm an adult, and I have yet to find a game with a "good story." This is not a troll; please try to understand my position. I dislike games like Final Fantasy or Resident Evil, because I think they exemplify what's wrong with games today. Fancy graphics with no gameplay.
To me, the Final Fantasy movie completed Square's degeneration from an exciting game maker with fresh ideas (NES-SNES days) to a mediocre CG B-movie designer.
I play games mostly for the "twitch" gameplay factor (Crazy Taxi, Street Fighter, Power Stone). I am amused by the video game storylines some adults take seriously. I'm charmed by the quaintness of "Are you a Bad Enough Dude to Rescue the President?" That's what it's all about, man!
I'm still waiting for a game that takes a sophisticated jab at the games over yesteryear (sort of a video game version of Space Ghost.) Anyone interested in helping me make such a project?
experiencing an as true racing environment as possible, with a reasonably accurate physics-engine and life-like controllers (like steering wheels) are almost mandatory.
Ferrari F355 Challenge on your Dreamcast (you have a Dreamcast, don'tcha?)
the most realistic racer I have ever played (only one car) and by GAWD! it's difficult!
Although, after having a few hours to cool down, I confess that I was probably asking too much from most video game store clerks. However, I did treat them politely, even when they shook their heads and ignored what I was telling them.
As for abuse, don't talk to me about it. A year ago at this time, I was delivering pizzas :P
them with unaware management.
Does that give them the right to be arrogant assholes? I've just been to 10 places looking for a 'Cube, and I was treated politely in 2 of 'em. A big 20%.
I asked if they heard that Nintendo was allowing retailers to see the 'Cube early, and none of them had. The guy at Toys R Us was polite and geniunely interested. Ditto for the woman at Gamestop. The rest of the places acted like I was trying to con them, or that I was a complete idiot.
A local Mom 'n' Pop (Microplay) assured me that they had no Nintendo sales representative. Circuit City lady gave me the icy-bitch voice and said "WE'RE SURE WE CAN'T SELL THEM SIR! THANK YOU!"
I wish I lived in Austin again. If anyone is lucky enough to live close to a Gamefellas (Austin or San Antonio), don't hesitate.
Meanwhile, does anyone know of any Houston, Texas place that is willing to sell?
This is one of the best arguments in favor of buying an X-Box I've heard. The Dreamcast is the only platform where publishers had the balls to release some of the way-out Japanese games in the US (Samba de Amigo, Bangaioh, Rival Schools etc).
The DC was doing very well in the US and Europe (sold more units on launch than the Saturn did in its entire run) but sales were sluggish in Japan.
Although the US and Europe were bringing in all the money, SEGA of Japan was very tight with SEGA of America's purse strings (they were only allowed to do big ad campaigns for 'major games' like Shenmue and Sonic Adventure 2.)
They also wasted a ton of money on licensing Ferarri F355 Challenge for the US market because it was a Yu Suzuki game, although it was such a rigid simulation it was doomed to failure in the US, and everyone knew it. Games like Jet Set Radio, Samba De Amigo, and Phantasy Star Online didn't get the ad space they needed to reach a respectable audience. AFAIK, the only reason SEGA's so chummy with Microso~1 is for free advertising.
So...I hate Microso~1, and I won't be buying an X-box, but it would be nice to have a competitor to Sony and Nintendo that would put pressure on Japanese companies to bring more games over.
What about Crazy Taxi?
Time Crisis 2?
Samba de Amigo?
Where there's a will, there's a way. Or should I say: where there's commodity hardware, there's a way. And it will be nice to have a cheap Mp3 server that can play games on the TV ;)
Sometimes I wonder if the Xbox is a sneak attack on the open PC platform: it's pretty much the same, with no BIOS. If all those draconian laws get passed in the US, will all PCs be like the Xbox?
I was really impressed what Secret Level was able to do for Unreal Tournament on the Dreamcast. 8 player online, with most of the popular PC maps. Broadband support, keyboard and mouse support as well.
Of course it wasn't as good as the PC version, but it was enough to make me believe that FPS's do have a future on consoles. At least two of the new console have "easy LAN party/networking" potential that I've been waiting to see on consoles for years.
The Xbox (with ethernet) and the PS2 (with Firewire) would be a lot easier to haul around than a big computer, and without the hassles that Windows inevitably brings to network gaming. (DirectX hassles, random crashes, etc.)I really can't wait for the Gamecube Broadband adapter, does anyone know if that will be released at launch? I hope the 'Cube version of Perfect Dark supports LAN play.
Try live365. Type in a genre you like "surf" or "lounge" for example, or even a band name you like, and I guarantee you'll find something cool.
They also have a hosting feature, which allows you to stream your own MP3s (even from a modem connection). Very cool.
Okay, I take that back. Most hackers aren't out to MAKE money per se, but I don't doubt that they don't want to cough up $50 for each new game.
The Utopia Bootloader (the original Dreamcast backup solution) was created by a group of hackers that ripped commercial games and posted them on USENET. While I doubt they actually made money, money was definitely a motivating factor. (I don't deny that traditional hackers' desire to control the machine and help the community was in there too.)
The old Sega Saturn had a security track similar to these "protection strips" as well. It needed this, as Saturn games were all simple Mode1 CD-ROMs. As the game booted up, the Saturn would check the security track (burned on the very edge of the CD, and impossible to replicate on normal burners).
The hacker's solution to this was to muck with the Saturn BIOS so that it "forgot" to check the security track.
My point is, if the Gamecube's DVD-drive mechanism is a standard component (and doubtless it is, probably the same Matushita mechanism in Panasonic DVD players), HACKERS WILL FIND A WAY, whether it's to sell 1337 Gamecube games for $10 on their website or to backup that import game they paid $75 for.
It doesn't matter if the discs themselves use proprietary format, how they spin, or anything lik e that. Sega's Dreamcast used proprietary GD-ROMs that were uncopyable by normal CD-R drives, but since the drive mechanisms were standard Yamaha 12x CD-ROMs, CD-ROM booting was made possible.
The same thing will happen with the "closed" Gamecube, although undoubtedly the Xbox will be easier to hack.
Did you have a problem getting an IP from RR's DHCP server last night? Man, that pissed me off. I thought it was my router's eth0 (an old Asante card that gives me trouble sometimes) but it was just RR.
Still, they are miles better than the SDSL line we have at work. One second on, two seconds off...
Ha. ha. ha. Dude, you quoted the troll in your original reply. You can't do that and still cover your ass.
I suggest that you learn to laugh at yourself...because we all are. It's like that time those jokers at work cut up a piece of chalk, put it in an Altoids tin, and asked me if I wanted a mint.
I fell for it too! I ate it! But I laughed too. Because chalk is a good source of calcium, and while their teeth were rotting, mine were growing stronger...harder...tranforming me into...
CAPTAIN ZOMBO-TEETH
What about pitou? Runs in linux, doesn't tie up your whole machine. Plus, you can share it over the internet. It's buggy now, but that just means it needs more help..
Did you know if you click on a puffy fishtank you can unlock the secrets to deodorant? Neither did I, until Fred McMurray from My Three Sons showed my about Buckets.
I robbed a black Christian Rapper for his yellow Sony Sports Walkman. He was an international wussbag.
DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!
On the newer models, the first two sessions have to be data, and the third contains Linux/BSD, game "backups", or whatever you want.
as you can probably tell by my explanation, i can't explain it very well, but poke around DC homebrew sites, and you may find some answers.
slashcode sucks
I was gonna read all the nested posts...but then I got high...
slashcode sucks
I don't know if an "Auditory OS" would ever take off for one simple reason...we all make mistakes. can you imagine how hard it would be to dictate a paper to your computer, even if its speech recognition was perfect?
"Computer networks have assisted...uh no. Computer networks assist...no...fuck, delete all that."
All of a sudden, you've got a page full of junk and mutterings that you have to go over with the keyboard anyway. What's the point?