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May the logo have been included so that the security sector could not be distributed under copyright law?
I will never understand why people buy that locked down, proprietary, DRM infested shit (gaming consoles, "smart" appliances, smartphones, apple stuff etc.) in the first place. .. I would rather have nothing.
It can be nice. It takes mental effort to manage an open system and make sure you don't run anything malicious - a limited, sandboxed environment you can always rely on to work is much easier by comparison. I do miss the PS3 linux option though. It would be great to have console hardware that boots in two modes - a console mode for playing games, and an open x86 mode for doing general compute. This is especially rele…
Still possible with a CFW.
May the logo have been included so that the security sector could not be distributed under copyright law?
Clever way to prevent un-licensed third-party cartridges.
May the logo have been included so that the security sector could not be distributed under copyright law?
I thought I remember there being adapters which allowed you to use regular 2.5inch hard drives on the xbox 360. Maybe my mind is just tricking me again though.
May the logo have been included so that the security sector could not be distributed under copyright law?
That was my thought upon reading that as well. I think Nintendo pioneered this strategy with the Gameboy - if the cartridge didn't start by showing the Nintendo logo, the Gameboy would not boot. And if you used the Nintendo logo without licensing it, it was trademark infringement. Clever way to prevent un-licensed third-party cartridges.
The statute of limitations is over, it's time to revel in nostalgia :D
Eaton's gonna be spoiling us, dude has always been an overachiever.
By the way, you DID save my original 20gb security partition - I never told you, I don't think, but I had the original MS backup cable and your software right as that was figured out.
Can't wait for the ultimate "KV.bin" write-up...
>>:"Why would MS add over 4 magnitudes of cryptographic checks to a damn virtual serial number....?"
May the logo have been included so that the security sector could not be distributed under copyright law?
The modders could have just as easily decided to go the "you must find the logo on your own" route and written a "select the logo" file prompt into the tools. I find the "they intended to let others sell HDDs" then changed their minds later route more plausible, especially since they never went after the "hacked" drives with bans or anything.
Eaton, if you are planning to write more interesting posts like this, please consider adding RSS/Atom (or making it more obvious if it is already there).
stuff like this is outrageous. i got a steam deck a few weeks ago and decided to grab the base model and an $80 512GB NVMe drive on newegg. the install was easy and i saved a ton of money. that's how hardware should work, especially stuff as easy as drives/RAM.