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PS3 to soon join Wii on rampaging piracy

franky1029 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:49:45 +0000

Word has come in from everywhere that the PS3 has now been hacked. It’s taken much longer than many would’ve hopped, considering Sony has been very generous with letting users do what they want with their system. The hacker credited is none other than the original jailbreaker of the iPhone, George Hotz.

Thankfully, he’s keeping details hush for now, despite saying it isn’t really patchable, but Sony is a clever company when it comes to hardware/software, so his hush hushness is welcome. What does this mean to you people? Homebrew, Linux with full hardware use, and of course, piracy. Honestly, I was amazing that it took so long for a guy like Waninkoko to open that part of the Wii and make piracy rampage almost as well as it did for the DS. I’m giving the PS3 about 6 to 9 months before we see the same. Granted he releases the exploits soon…

The 8-bit Show Episode #2

franky1029 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:48:00 +0000

Click the title to head over to our 8-bit show blog!

We decide to shoot for a weekly podcast, negating everything we said last week… oh well. Poot and I discuss Dragon Ball Origins, Old Commodore 64 games, and how much we hate Sony.

*In our haste to get the podcast up, I omitted a very special thanks to Waffle Slayer from Juggalo Gamers, thanks again ninja!*

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Show notes in the full post.
Study Says Wii Controls Don’t Contribute to Aggression
New Wii update targets modded save files, alters user agreement
Kingdom Hearts DSi at least kind of real
Nintendo confident core will be satisfied in 2009
Nintendo Plans to Build Online Community Says Reggie Fils-Aime
Mgestyk Fusion marries Wiimote and PC in interesting new way
Chrono Trigger piracy checks already beaten
Hardware Hackers Make Some DSi Flash Progress [Acekard]
Is Sony ripping off costume entries for LittleBigPlanet?
Sony-Owned Columbia Pictures Pulls Movies From Xbox Netflix
Guitar Hero Arcade: Some More Details, Some More Pics [Guitar Hero]
Frets On Fire For The Blind [Frets On Fire]
Rumor: EA/GameStop weighing Season Pass to cheaper games

Opening music: Brentalfloss’ Megaman 3 With Lyrics
Break music by Poot on the KORG DS-10
Closing music main theme from ATF for the Commodore 64

Artistic views shaft Wii owners

franky1029 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:35:00 +0000

We all know that the Wii gets the shaft in terms of content on a regular basis. But why? Well, when it comes to Guitar Hero, it seems that thatgamingsite.com has the answer. The short and skinny is that Artists want some of their songs to be kept in track packs, and apparently, the Wii can’t support that. Which is a whole bunch of bull, and I can explain why.

First off, it doesn’t seem its an improbability that you could create some sort of proprietary archiving method. Which then, the game could take and extract, separating the files, and allowing you to play each song separately, right? Apparently I’m wrong, or these guys just didn’t think about it. Obviously you’d need some way to “unzip” the archive, and if that isn’t included on the disk, why waste your time with having people download a whole program. Oh, wait, here’s a good reason; ’cause people want these songs, and you’ll make even more on your billions and billions of dollars. Idiots.

I mean, I believe you can already do “zipping”, or at least “unzipping” on the Wii via homebrew. Right? Anyone know for sure? If I’m wrong I stand corrected. And if so, I pray someone out there writes a program just to prove I’m right. But, lets say this sort of thing can’t be done. Just for the sake of argument. Guess since its a hardware limitation, we’re SOL, yeah? No, there’s another work around.

You sell them in packs, but you download each song individually. Duh. God, easiest work around ever. Everyone is still happy. But I guess when it comes to third party developers for the Wii, we’ll always get the ones that can’t think outside of the box. This is whats wrong with the Wii, the developers can’t pull their heads out of their asses.

Yeah, I know I’m being an asshole right now. So sue me. Does anyone disagree? Is this not what they should be doing? Seriously…

Weekly Headlines Oct. 20th – Oct. 26th

franky1029 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:20:00 +0000

This one comes a little late, I apologize for that, but what can you do? I haven’t even been really busy, just catching up on some gaming. It’s been extra distracting. And there’s been tons going on too!, I’ve also been trying to catch up on my podcasts, which I must say, they all seem pretty bland this week. Granted, I’ve only listened to Joystiq, 1up Yours and CagCast so far, but still… I think it’s just a slump week. I don’t feel so bad. Anyways, heres the latest in news:

Wii Fanboy shows their love for the PSone emulator, WiiSX. | Wii Fanboy |
This emulator looks pretty promising. I cannot wait for it to be done. I really missed out on the whole PSone era, so I may have some more catching up to do. Plus, it’ll give me a reason to turn my Wii on again.

Damn straight they want MKII back on PSN | 1UP |
Who doesn’t love this game, its arguably the best. Bad timing on the disappearance, anyone know if its back up yet?

Can’t find KORG DS-10? Look here! | 1UP |
1UP lists where you can find this awesome, and well worth it, synth program for the DS.

Wii Fakes | Wii Fanboy |
This should’ve been posted with Poot’s Bad News Sunday, but somehow got left out…

Next E3 may not have public days | 1UP |
Sad news for us all, but we’re hoping to actually get a press pass for next year, but if we don’t, bad news for us too. It really should be public. Seriously.

This is why we hate fanboys. | Kotaku |
Fanboys have flamed over the nets again, this time Metacritic is the battle field.

A great way to suck you back into GTA IV | UGO |
Wanna catch a virus, find out how on UGO.

Somebody should’ve done their research | Kotaku |
Political Blogger gets Little Big Planet confused with Spore. Sigh…

PS3’s back door (not like that, perv!) | Kotaku |
Home has been hacked, leaving the PS3 open for homebrew (oh good dog, I hope so!)

Kotaku gets punked… Again! Cry Baby alert.| Kotaku |
After last month’s CAG snafu, Joystick Division pulls a prank inspired by recent political BS. This is my favorite tidbit of the week. hehe.

American politicians should follow this guy’s suit. | Kotaku |
Don Foster didn’t know about games, but since it’s his job, he learned. To bad he’s in the UK…

Cosplay… but for animals…. | Kotaku |
Too cute to not post.

That wraps it up. I don’t mean to single out Kotaku in the above post (maybe I do), but their reaction to these two pranks is pretty rediculious. Everyone needs to lighten up, I think.

No modchip required

franky1029 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:30:00 +0000

The controversial Waninkoko has discovered a way to boot burned Wii games straight from the Homebrew Channel. While this means you can now back up your Wii games, it also means its far easier to obtain pirated Wii games. However it also opens up many new possibilities for the homebrew scene. I’m hoping for a live Linux distro with a full graphical UI (hopefully icewm). Mainly though, larger homebrew games could be made, and easily distributed.

Video of the Wii ISO loader in action after the jump

It should be noted that this has not been released to the public, so sites are reporting it as a rumor or unconfirmed, though the source (obviously) says its real.

Katamari on the Wii

franky1029 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:31:00 +0000

Anyone who loves Katamari wants to see it on the Wii. Unfortunately, Beautiful Katamari was canceled for the Wii, however with some ingenuity, these guys have rigged their Wiimote, to work with the Playsation controller. Visit their site here, or check out the video for the short and skinny:

Wii Hacked

franky1029 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:24:00 +0000

News is out everywhere that the Wii has finally been hacked. I personally am looking forward to the possibilities that this could open up. Homebrew has been, reportedly, launched on the system, free of any hardware mods. The team responsible for the exploit demoed their findings at the Chaos Communication Congress, where they showed their own “game”, using signed encryption keys, to run Homebrew on the wildly popular console.

This, and Johnny Chung Lee’s head-tracking with the Wiimote have stirred even more interest in the Wii, for myself. Imagine, if you will, using Johnny Lee’s method without having to use a laptop to play fully realistic 3D games with the little Wii machine. Granted, if you want the realism of what the other consoles provide, sticking with a computer to run the software may be a better idea, but small game devs must want to hop on this train. Even I have been thinking of what kind of game could I make, to have this experience flow seamlessly.

I cannot wait to load up Linux on my Wii, play some good ol’ nethack from across the room, or just pop in a DVD and watch a movie without having to go out and purchase a DVD player. (I have one on my lappy, but for the TV, with a remote, this would be much nicer.) The doors that this may have just opened up, are hopefully gonna be the best additions to a gaming console, ever.