Most shops sell both modded and unmodded PS2s, with the unmodded ones being around $50 or so cheaper. Stil, most people stick to the modded ones, since pirated games are no only cheaper but also a LOT easier to find.
Pirated games run from $5 to $10 nowadays, depending on the number of discs. Official copies can be found for around $70 for new releases, and $30-40 for older titles.
Thanks for your post. You saved me the trouble of buying the game just to find out it has the same copy-protection crap that drove me away from PC gaming in the last 6 months.
Actually, the author's website ends up linking to update.mozilla.org. It's pretty much unavoidable, recent versions of Mozilla carry a whitelist of sites allowed to install themes (and extensions).
I just thought it would be nice to link to the Author's site he deserves the publicity for his great work.:)
I wonder how much of the copy protection on software this is going to break. Gamers are probably going to be the loudest yelling demographic when this hits.
I really hope it breaks a ton of games. Maybe it'll force the game companies to tone down the amount of crap they're adding to their copy-protections.
It's really annoying when you're can't get your legal copy working because the protection doesn't like the you having a good CD-RW drive - while every pirate out there is playing the game without any headaches.
It's kind of funny that blizzard posted this as an april fools joke thinking it wasn't true, but it is in fact true.
Actually, Blizzard posted that article because of a large flood of "0.999...=1" posts that flooded their forums in late march. Kinda like what's going on this thread.;)
Wow... that's pretty f-ing cool. Does it maintain that mapping accross mounts? For example, if I map X:\ to C:\fscorp, unmount X:\, then reconnect X:\, will C:\fscorp still map to X:\?
I think so, since mappings to folders and drive letters are independent. Never tried this though, I usually just set my mappings once and don't change them.
Filtering content that is illegal no matter how you look at it is fine with me, but then they also have to accept that if they fail to filter a page, they should be liable for damages (and possibly criminal charges).
Disagree. But I think they should be liable for damages in case of false positives in their filtering method.
I went to Brazillia and watched the open source debate. I think folk in the US are completely missing the plot. First off the Brazillian govt is dependent on Microsoft in the way the US govt is dependent on Cobol, Windows is their legacy infrastructure.
Secondly the big issue for the country at the moment is the balance of payments. The government is calculating that they can get better prices out of Redmond if they apply pressure.
I'm a brazilian, and I think you're right. Our current government talks a lot about changes, but they don't seem to have the guts to make any.
And this is a pretty recent driver, dated from 09/04/03. I didn't have a opportunity to test it yet, but I've heard good things from some people who are already running it.
The 50 series drivers were incomplete during HL2 development. The driver samples that nVidia was providing to Valve were milestone drivers - incomplete featurewise, but each completed feature was "complete" (written to specs and considered stable). The fact that fog was not rendering is likely not a speed hack, but an as-yet incomplete (as in not even started in that driver release) feature.
Even if this is a driver bug and not a speed hack, if there are missing graphical elements in Half-Life 2 with the 50.xx drivers then Valve certainly did the right thing when they asked reviewers not to use them for benchmarking.
I'm a Warcraft III fanatic, have been playing is ever since it came out, without any issues at all... until patch 1.05.
Among other things, this patch contains an "upgrade" to the copy-protection software the game uses, and after installing it every single time I try to play the game it shows a message asking me to insert the CD. I have to hit retry 5-10 times before the game runs. If I don't install the patch everything runs fine, but then I'm not allowed to connect to Battle.net and play online.
Blizzard's support was pretty much useless on this issue, but I found a solution: I made an image of the CD in my HD and now am running the game using Alcohol 120%'s CD emulator.:)
AFAIK the DLL files should be placed in the program folder or somewhere in the path, they're self-contained and include the the metadata previously stored in the registry.
Sounds like a great idea. While there will be more DLLs in the registry, at least each and every program will have it's "own" DLL and can't be broken. Although I wonder if the software will default to the newest DLL and then go back if it doesn't function correctly.
Actually, AFAIK.Net Framework DLLs do not need to be put in the registry.
Why would you play on a small server instead of battle.net? The argument about lousy battle.net performance simply doesn't hold water these days.
I used BNetD quite often in the past, due to a limitation in Starcraft: It does not allow players in different subnets to join in a LAN game. Since we have this setup in our office (different floors have different subnets), BNetD was the only good way to do it.
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Want to see the city I live in? Go to Google Images and type "sao paulo". That's the largest city in Brazil, FYI.
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From someone who still lives in Brasil. :)
Most shops sell both modded and unmodded PS2s, with the unmodded ones being around $50 or so cheaper. Stil, most people stick to the modded ones, since pirated games are no only cheaper but also a LOT easier to find.
Pirated games run from $5 to $10 nowadays, depending on the number of discs. Official copies can be found for around $70 for new releases, and $30-40 for older titles.
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Amen brother!
I've pretty much given up on PC Gaming after getting burned several times with the crappy copy-protections used in recent games.
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Thanks for your post. You saved me the trouble of buying the game just to find out it has the same copy-protection crap that drove me away from PC gaming in the last 6 months.
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My opinion is different, that messages from "communities" and "friends of friends" shouldn't be enabled by default.
I never got a single useful message from those groups, only SPAM, even before Orkut became a craze in Brazil.
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Actually, the author's website ends up linking to update.mozilla.org. It's pretty much unavoidable, recent versions of Mozilla carry a whitelist of sites allowed to install themes (and extensions).
I just thought it would be nice to link to the Author's site he deserves the publicity for his great work. :)
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You can also get the theme by going to the author's website (see sig).
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I wonder how much of the copy protection on software this is going to break. Gamers are probably going to be the loudest yelling demographic when this hits.
I really hope it breaks a ton of games. Maybe it'll force the game companies to tone down the amount of crap they're adding to their copy-protections.
It's really annoying when you're can't get your legal copy working because the protection doesn't like the you having a good CD-RW drive - while every pirate out there is playing the game without any headaches.
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I still don't buy it. In the past week I sent about 5 invites for each domain, and everyone has confirmed recieving the invite properly.
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It's kind of funny that blizzard posted this as an april fools joke thinking it wasn't true, but it is in fact true.
Actually, Blizzard posted that article because of a large flood of "0.999...=1" posts that flooded their forums in late march. Kinda like what's going on this thread. ;)
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Wow ... that's pretty f-ing cool. Does it maintain that mapping accross mounts? For example, if I map X:\ to C:\fscorp, unmount X:\, then reconnect X:\, will C:\fscorp still map to X:\?
I think so, since mappings to folders and drive letters are independent. Never tried this though, I usually just set my mappings once and don't change them.
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... is a 0.9 compatible version of Qute out? I certainly won't be using that new dead-ugly skin. :p
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C:\ != /, no way man. Show me how to map a drive as a subdirectory of C:\.
1) Right-click "My Computer", choose "Manage", choose "Disk Management"
2) Right-click partition, choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths", click "Add", pick folder to map partition to.
3) Press OK, it's done.
Requires NTFS for this to work, but I don't think that's a big deal.
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Filtering content that is illegal no matter how you look at it is fine with me, but then they also have to accept that if they fail to filter a page, they should be liable for damages (and possibly criminal charges).
Disagree. But I think they should be liable for damages in case of false positives in their filtering method.
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Mod parent up. I just tested, and I can't reach port 80 or 443 on my Linksys as well.
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BT is also an excelent too for (legal) gaming-related material (demos, videos, patches).
Check GameTab.
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I went to Brazillia and watched the open source debate. I think folk in the US are completely missing the plot. First off the Brazillian govt is dependent on Microsoft in the way the US govt is dependent on Cobol, Windows is their legacy infrastructure.
Secondly the big issue for the country at the moment is the balance of payments. The government is calculating that they can get better prices out of Redmond if they apply pressure.
I'm a brazilian, and I think you're right. Our current government talks a lot about changes, but they don't seem to have the guts to make any.
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Even if you're infected, you should be able to use localized versions of google, such as:
http://www.google.com.br
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You should check again. :) From http://www2.ati.com/drivers/firegl/readme0325.txt
Graphics Accelerators:
ATI Radeon 8500, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, M9, M9+, M10
ATI FireGL 8700, 8800, E1, E2, X1, X2, Z1
And this is a pretty recent driver, dated from 09/04/03. I didn't have a opportunity to test it yet, but I've heard good things from some people who are already running it.
Here's the URL for the driver page: http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-li nux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=products LINUXdriver&submit.x=5&submit.y=8
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The 50 series drivers were incomplete during HL2 development. The driver samples that nVidia was providing to Valve were milestone drivers - incomplete featurewise, but each completed feature was "complete" (written to specs and considered stable). The fact that fog was not rendering is likely not a speed hack, but an as-yet incomplete (as in not even started in that driver release) feature.
Even if this is a driver bug and not a speed hack, if there are missing graphical elements in Half-Life 2 with the 50.xx drivers then Valve certainly did the right thing when they asked reviewers not to use them for benchmarking.
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I'm a Warcraft III fanatic, have been playing is ever since it came out, without any issues at all... until patch 1.05.
Among other things, this patch contains an "upgrade" to the copy-protection software the game uses, and after installing it every single time I try to play the game it shows a message asking me to insert the CD. I have to hit retry 5-10 times before the game runs. If I don't install the patch everything runs fine, but then I'm not allowed to connect to Battle.net and play online.
Blizzard's support was pretty much useless on this issue, but I found a solution: I made an image of the CD in my HD and now am running the game using Alcohol 120%'s CD emulator. :)
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AFAIK the DLL files should be placed in the program folder or somewhere in the path, they're self-contained and include the the metadata previously stored in the registry.
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Sounds like a great idea. While there will be more DLLs in the registry, at least each and every program will have it's "own" DLL and can't be broken. Although I wonder if the software will default to the newest DLL and then go back if it doesn't function correctly.
Actually, AFAIK .Net Framework DLLs do not need to be put in the registry.
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Why would you play on a small server instead of battle.net? The argument about lousy battle.net performance simply doesn't hold water these days.
I used BNetD quite often in the past, due to a limitation in Starcraft: It does not allow players in different subnets to join in a LAN game. Since we have this setup in our office (different floors have different subnets), BNetD was the only good way to do it.
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It's a bit slow but working here. Might be something on your side.
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