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Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by prmoustache »

estiaan wrote: post #28
p1necone wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's been plenty of amazing and culturally relevant games recently, you just have rose tinted glasses for the time you grew up in (or you haven't been gaming much). I'll just list a handful of really well known ones. * Basically everything FromSoft has put out (With Dark Souls 1 and Elden Ring probably being the most important - Dark Souls effectively kicked off an entire genre because of it's popularity (technica…

To be fair many of the games on this list would be trivial to preserve as long as windows remains backwards compatible with older software, and not too hard even after that. Breath of the wild and Tarkov stands out as exceptions

I think I've seen Breath of the Wild running well on emulator, at higher resolution than on the switch.

Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by prmoustache »

softfalcon wrote: post #23
codetrotter wrote: post #19

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OTOH, has there really been any actually culturally significant video games released in recent years? I enjoyed for example the Uncharted games a lot. But I don’t think anything significant will have been lost if future generations of people don’t get to play the Uncharted games, no matter how much I enjoyed them myself. Whereas, things like Pong, and Pac-Man and the first Super Mario games and the Pokémon Red and Bl…

Based on the massively positive response both inside and out of the gaming community… I’m gonna say Baldur’s Gate 3 Seriously, it’s converting people I never in 100 years would have expected to become gamers.

Funny because it is the first time I hear there has been 3rd opus of the Baldur's Gate series

Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by jiehong »

jedrek wrote: post #63
auguzanellato wrote: post #18

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> In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we're at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public/private key crypto means that it's entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable Pirates will always find a way, the Nintendo Switch had all the countermeasures you mentioned, the latest revisions also have a patched bootloader but someone figu…

The Playstation 4 was launched in 2013 and there is no modern hack for it.

Playstation 5 has been jailbroken, though [0].

Well, even the PS4, actually [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cq3K9lBli0

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxRTGMe_RuE

Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by cthalupa »

xnorswap wrote: post #67
p1necone wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's been plenty of amazing and culturally relevant games recently, you just have rose tinted glasses for the time you grew up in (or you haven't been gaming much). I'll just list a handful of really well known ones. * Basically everything FromSoft has put out (With Dark Souls 1 and Elden Ring probably being the most important - Dark Souls effectively kicked off an entire genre because of it's popularity (technica…

How are we defining recent? ( you're right they're all recent compared to Pong and the OP's point. ) Except BG3, most of what you've listed are around 10 years old. BoTW: 7 Tarkov: 8 ( Technically, but was slow burning so hard to place exactly when it took off. ) Witcher3: 9 Skyrim: 13 Minecraft: 14? ( 13 if we're counting retail, but it was massively popular before then ) DF: 18? Path of Exile: 11.

The PoE of 11 years ago isn't the PoE that people rave about today, though. That's more of the past 6-7 years through today.

You skipped over mentioning Elden Ring, with it being from 2022.

Some others from the 2020s:

Hades, 2020

Animal Crossing, 2020

Among Us, 2020

Vampire Survivors, 2022

Half Life Alyx, 2020 (Still probably the only real example of a "true" AAA VR game)

I think it's tough to say what games will be long-term culturally significant when they've only been out a year or two, though. I think it's easier to look back in that 5-15 year range and see what stood up.

Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by nerdawson »

theodric wrote: post #20
rusk wrote: post #13

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it saddens me as a vintage games conservator that my present day PS4 will be a brick in a few years. When I have consoles and games going back 40 years. It just doesn’t seem right.

I mean this as earnestly as possible: remember that pain and don't buy a PS5, or a PS6, or [...] Don't build any more emotional relationships with products built by rentiers that refuse to respect your ability to enjoy the perpetuity of your license (and god forbid even considering actually owning anything). Take on an allotment and breed a new hybrid chili pepper, or brew some beer and share it with your neighbors.…

Should we stop playing video games altogether then?

If you stick to PC instead, you’re still at the mercy of platforms like Steam. They can, and will, remove games over time. GTA being a great example.

Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by rusk »

deergomoo wrote: post #62
rusk wrote: post #13

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it saddens me as a vintage games conservator that my present day PS4 will be a brick in a few years. When I have consoles and games going back 40 years. It just doesn’t seem right.

The thing that has me concerned is that even if you keep the consoles working, and even if you have an extensive library of physical media, these days what’s on the disc is probably an unpatched, incomplete, possibly unplayable mess. That’s not intended as a criticism of game development, just an expression of fear for the preservation implications. It’s no longer enough to preserve what’s in your hands—which is diff…

> someone must find some way to extract, archive, and reapply all the day one patches, bug fixes, DLC packs etc.

This is what has to happen. I believe that as these consequences become more and more widely felt you’ll have a pretty strong mandate for some kind of change in thinking.

I mean, if you’ve actually bought the game (as opposed to streamed it) I think there’s a strong case to be made that you should be entitled to its use beyond the wishes of the copyright holder.

Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by urbandw311er »

dadrian wrote: post #34

This is awesome. I remember back in 2006 I bought every copy of MechAssault that my local Game Stop had and hoped that one was the correct revision such that it was compatible with the Krayzie Ndure softmod exploit, and used it to install Xbox Media Center (XBMC). It's from that setup that I learned how computer networking works. I credit basically my entire career with reading about softmods at the back of a Popular…

Snap! And I went on to develop an XBMC add-on to control windows media center as a result of getting into the scene!

Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by tirant »

Cloudef wrote: post #43
azalemeth wrote: post #11

In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we're at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public/private key crypto means that it's entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable and unbackupable, barring some tiny bootloader exploit, cheap TEM and an understanding of "physically uncloneable functions", or cheap and plentiful qubits. Things l…

As long as consoles have web browser there is a way. Ps5 was broken recently

Why? A web browser does not need to run under any kind of privileged mode, nor its library dependencies…

Re: Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox

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Post by hananova »

nerdawson wrote: post #75
theodric wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean this as earnestly as possible: remember that pain and don't buy a PS5, or a PS6, or [...] Don't build any more emotional relationships with products built by rentiers that refuse to respect your ability to enjoy the perpetuity of your license (and god forbid even considering actually owning anything). Take on an allotment and breed a new hybrid chili pepper, or brew some beer and share it with your neighbors.…

Should we stop playing video games altogether then? If you stick to PC instead, you’re still at the mercy of platforms like Steam. They can, and will, remove games over time. GTA being a great example.

As far as I'm aware Steam has never removed a game. They have unlisted games for several reasons, but that has never affected previous purchases.
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