Recent content by zmanu

There are plenty of used Wiis on the market for those interested in backward compatibility, so I have no worries. And unlike the PS3 models, you don't have to pick between big+loud+compatible and small+silent+incompatible (and big+loud+incompatible). I mean, how much smaller can the new Wii even...

Password Changer Extreme Edition, obviously. Other than that, my PS3 is jailbroken (Hi Sony!), so I'm staying off PSN anyway. Guess I'll be playing crappy emulator games. When I'm tired of that, I'll return.

He is. Live by lawsuits, die by lawsuits. My LG TV and PS3 still talk to each other, though :) Good thing the PS3 is in a borg communication inhibition field, considering it sends the TV model to Sony normally.

It's not about directly making more sales, but having a better shot at top sales chart positions, and thus looking better to investors and gamers alike. "Hey look, Homefront sold well, maybe it's worth checking out?"

This new sandcastle of mine is the strongest sandcastle I have ever built. Those bullies are never going to stomp it down!

There are several solutions already, all reported to basically work. Not pointing towards them for proof since I don't approve and each has its risks anyway.

I hate to suspect victims, but... any chance the players affected by this were running 'backup' copies of the game?

Depends on what you want. Thanks to MS negotiations and willingness to spend money, you get a lot of timed exclusives for the XBox. And the downloadable title selection is a lot better than on the PS3, possibly due to similar strategies (we know Team Meat agreed with MS to never make SMB for the...

Queued up. Where's the 'Hell yeah!' option?

Yep. Of course, developers would still be able to use static libraries provided by Sony, basically copy/pasting the bulk of the code. Just like there are off-the-shelf DRM solutions for PCs available. There is the obvious tradeoff: the more copy/pasted code you use for your security, the easier...

No. How do you think the PC games handle this? There's no builtin serial firmware check there. Instead, the code on the disk first does some checksum algorithm on the serial to check it's in the right format (that's the part that can be circumvented by keygens), then uses OS functions to...

Not quite as simple. If they really do this, the code checks are likely going to be on the game disks. Which means that, just like on the PC, each game needs to be cracked separately. Someone has to do the work, and right now, the number of people willing to do that is much, much smaller than...

Interesting. I wonder whether coop play between the PS3 and the PC version unlocked that way will be possible. Network coop while only paying for one copy? That would be awesome. Otherwise, I don't really think linking up two online identities that closely would be a good idea.

That's because it's not so easy to distinguish quitting from legit connection losses, and it's not so easy to tell who the quitter was. And false positives are not well received by players either.

I'd like to see them try when neither the XBox nor the Kinect are getting any power. I got one. Works pretty much as advertised, but it's not going to replace Wii Fit anytime soon. I mean, Wii Fit has Free Jogging mode which lets you jog with the Wiimote in your pocket while you play a better...