Jolt Country

Lik-sang is, of course, everyone's favorite site for buying mods for your X-box, Gamecube or PS2. Whoops! Heheh! I mean, Microsoft's X-box, Nintendo's Gamecube and Sony's Playstation II. They cost two fucking hundred dollars each, but it's still their hardware.

Anyway, Lik-sang is mad as hell and not going to take it any more: http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=2712

I wish them the best, and would much prefer to live in a world where a large corporation cannot shut a small business down because they have more money to tie up a court with. Unfortunately, I think Lik-sang'll get killed in this.


In other news: so, Microsoft is banning all modified X-boxes from their "X-box Live" service. This is fantastic news to every company who is in the business of selling used X-boxes, as instantly the value of the things went from about $179.00 to $0.00 in the matter of a single day. Who the FUCK would buy a used X-box now? Actually, some poor schmoe who didn't know any better, most likely. This guy, most likely somebody's dad, I feel bad for.

The recent discussions all over the web has fueled my hatred for my fellow gamers to a degree that I didn't previously think was possible. Here are the types of people that I cannot fucking stand through all this:

o The Cocksucking, Toe-The-Company-Line, Brainwashed Fuckers. "Hey, *my* X-box works fine! Nyah-ha! I didn't mod it! Course, it's more that I *can't* mod it because I lack the fucking wit to solder on a few wires, but through this I have a form of scoreboard over those that are much more competent than me from a hardware standpoint! EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY, DAWG!!"

o The fuckers whining about how they just mod their X-boxes to play imports. Shut the fuck up. Nobody believes you.

o The little worms out telling people to go get an X-box to mod and an X-box to use on Live. Now, keep in mind -- someone actually out doing this out of their own volition I don't have a problem with. But these little shits suggesting that people drop $400 on a damn video game system do not have a worthwhile opinion.

o The Guy Who Just Loses It Over The Possibility That Someone May Be Wallhacking Him. Again, another person who feels somewhat righteous over all this for no good reason. Where are the fucking modifications and hacks to X-box games? OH. RIGHT. THEY DO NOT EXIST. There's not a fucking program out there called "cheat_at_halo.exe" that people with open X-boxes are running. But because such a thing just might be possible in the future, they are attempting to desperately grab some moral high ground and shake their fingers at anyone with a screwdriver and coil of solder wire. Fuck them for being so fucking paranoid.


Once again I am filled with digust for the many different kinds of people who play regularly console games. Whenever they have to rise to the occasion and comport themselves with a little bit of solidarity against the ridiculous practices of the box manufacturers that they so lovingly cock-mouth, they utterly and completely fail. These aren't people I want to be lumped with or remotely associated with.

I modded my saturn awhile ago ... I might mod my PS2 but I really don't care about the game enough ... I just use it mainly to play Gradius.

I modded a Supercharger for the Atari 2600 to turn off the bank strobe, so it will play all 4K games as well as Supercharger games.

Adam

I modded my cat, now he's dead.

And why does Adam call himself "Bruce", is a question I've wondered about for a year or so.

Maybe his name is Adam Bruce.

Like Broodie from Mallrats name was Broodie Bruce and he was called both interchangably.

Ben wrote:I modded my cat, now he's dead.

And why does Adam call himself "Bruce", is a question I've wondered about for a year or so.

It's actually a fairly simple explanation.

When IF-Mud started, I went over there and created an account.

Only Adam Cadre had beaten me to the name "Adam".

About that time we were going through a Monty Python phase on rec.arts.int-fiction, and the Philosophers Sketch was getting a lot of attention. So I was hunting around for a nickname, and "One of the Bruces" came to mind.

That's, um, the whole story, really.

Bruce

You fucking suck, Bruce.

Ben wrote:And why does Adam call himself "Bruce"

BOY U ARE A LITTLE SLOW ON THE UPTAKE EH? THERE IS TWO PEOPLE, BRUEC AND ADAM. SINCE THEY ARE FAGOIT BUDDIES THEY SOMETIMES USE THE SAME COMPUTER, EVEN AT THE SAME TIME (WHEN ONE IS ON THE OTHERS LAP)...

IT IS LIKE THAT SCEAN IN WARGAMES WHERE MATHEW BRODERICK AND ALLEY SHEEDY ARE SITTING AT THE COMPUTER, EXCEPT ALLEY SHEEDY IS ACTUALLY A FAGOIT AND MATHEW IS ALSO A FAAAAAAGOIT AND INSTEAD OF SITTING NEXT TO EACH OTHER THEY ARE SITTING ON TOP OF EACH OTHER...

(AND INSTEAD OF STARTING NUCLAER WAR THEY ARE LOOKING AT FAGOIT PORN)

Awesome, best of luck Lik-Sang.

As far as the Xbox live debacle, yeah, it's a huge fuckup. Apparently there is NO WAY to remove your box from the shitlist, even if you remove the mod, even if you bought it used along with 3 controllers, 20 Live games and the Live headset half an hour ago.
By design they made the serial ID unable to be whitelisted again, and pretty soon there'll be a lawsuit, being that right now people are buying boxes that DO NOT FUNCTION AS ADVERTISED, ie, they cannot use Xbox live which is supposed to be one of the main selling points over the competition.

Ah, fuck em. XBConnect works like magic, and the people on it tend to have a higher skill level (being that they need to have a network set up and have at the very least basic computing/networking knowledge)

Jack Straw wrote:Ah, fuck em. XBConnect works like magic, and the people on it tend to have a higher skill level (being that they need to have a network set up and have at the very least basic computing/networking knowledge)

!!!

I can't believe I haven't heard about this yet. Time for me to do some research. If I were to get an X-box I would definitely want it to play MAME. I can accept not using X-box Live if that's the tradeoff, but I was unaware that an alternative on-line option existed.

Hey, have you seen Deathrow at all? That game seems to look completely tits. From its description, it's killer-app material for me, and making me seriously consider getting an X-box. You don't happen to have it, do you?

Yeah, I have that game. Only played it for about 10 minutes (like most of my games) but it looked solid enough. "uninspiring" graphics but I've never heard the work "motherfucker" in such a short time playing anything.

There are two competing matchmaker programs. Gamespy Tunnel used to be at www.gamespy.com/tunnel but I don't see it there now. The better is the afformentioned XBConnect which they are constantly improving and works with all system link games, whereas Gamespy has areas for different games (last time I checked it was Halo and MotoGP only). It's completely possible Gamespy scrapped the project when they saw these guys kicking their asses.

Basically what it does is fool the system link games into thinking that players over the internet are right there hooked up like a physical LAN. It requires a PC to run the program on and a router, both of which I believe you have.

On a related note - is there some kind of shortage for PS2 network adaptors or something? I can't find one fucking ANYWHERE.. supwiddat?

Deathrow is one of the supported games for XBConnect. Cool, I'll have to fire it up. Gamespot gave it a glowing review but I didn't really give it much of a chance.
I can get you a copy of it if you'll be here for Xmas... I think it'll fit on a CD.

He kind of needs an Xbox first, tho. But that'd rock; I'm totally not into sports games at all, but I seriously liked the demo I played of... shit! The names just gone! Ach, with the Tron frisbee and the bullet-time nads-kicking. And ludicrous number of beeps on the official demo.

But it's fucking rock solid. I don't know how I'd be online, as I tend to just kick the shit out of whoever is nearest the enemy goal(s, depending on level) until bullet-time is incurred. Then, eventually, the frisbee gets sent to me.

But I've never played a sports game where your strategy is seriously altered by what level you're playing on. On some, the goals are wall-mounted, on others there's a raised platform you can hockey-jump up on, in other you can run behind the goals and beat the shit out of someone where no-one's looking... It just totally rocks. Maybe not a "purchase" game, but certainly a "l33t + XBconnect" game.

Logically, X-boxes ought to be selling for $50 used right now. Only they won't be. But if they are, I am happy to go grab one for a price around that which obviously won't work on X-Box Live (and I don't want to subscribe to that anyway) I would definitely go and grab it. Aside from there being good things about Deathrow and the Buffy game (and I hate that fucking show, but the game sounds like fun) the bunch of us who got kicked out of Old Man Murray are starting a new site, and it would be handy if I could pitch in as the console screenshot guy.

No idea what goes into taking screenshots from your TV, but still.

So a smiley face sticker on the front side of the x box is a mod?

Just kidding. I could never see the reaoning behind buying a console system. Oh, I have an N64 ( with 4 whole carts)
it sits under the couch, gatering dust. maybe once a year, I pull it out and play Star Wars for 10 minutes. Boring.

I'd rather downl---(get my programs from other sources that are more accesable) my games for the PC. sure, I cant play Halo or Super Donkey Zelda Brothers 3D, but I guess that's my loss., right? I get more than enough pleasure playing this stuff on my multi function PC. sides I'm not the 12-hours-in- front-of-the-telly-gaming kind of guy. Still haven't beaten Dungeon Siege or Medal of Honor yet. that's what save features are for.

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Lex wrote:You fucking suck, Bruce.

Blow me.

Bruce

AArdvark wrote:I'd rather downl---(get my programs from other sources that are more accesable) my games for the PC.

I'd rather download my games for <insert console here>

That's cool, but its hard to download n64 games that fit in the console. Somehow the plastic case doesn't download well. I guess cd driven consoles are the future. unless you count the cell chips thing that'll be coming out in a couple years.


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did they really call the gamecube the dolphin system?

True, but you can download N64 games and play them on your Xbox!

Eh, in theory. The only emu out right now runs at about 300% speed and has no sound; they abandoned it due to being nicked for using the XDK. Now that a free alternative to the XDK has FINALLY been released, we may well see it again, however.

I really didn't like the N64, until I found out how little memmory each cartridge holds. When I found out PerfectDark was done in 64megabytes, I had unflagging respect for the coders.

Or was it Goldeneye that was 64megs? Or maybe that was 32. I dunno.