20080413
Linux to Blu-Ray: Get It Together!
Now that Blu-Ray has won the battle, it's time for the Blu-Ray Disc Association (BDA) to get with the program.While I admit Blu-Ray is the latest hardware that is on the market in terms of optical disc drives, and that the price is fair for what they are charging for the drives and discs right now, driver support is needed for Linux.
BDA has two options for resolving this issue the hard way or the right way.
While it will still be another years before the average Joe can afford Blu-Ray, there is still time for the BDA to pull its head out of the sand and see that DRM is bad and that there are other operating systems that can demonstrate the full potential of Blu-Ray technology.
BDA is not a corporation but a union between several hardware manufacturer, movie and video game studios, and video retailers. So why act like a monopoly? If they are sharing with other companies, why not with consumers? The only thing that we want is software support. BDA can still make money from hardware, movie sales, and retail revenue. But they can't make money if consumers can't afford to purchase it in the form of Blue-Ray players or video game systems because their members jack up the price for products.
If this is the purpose of the BDA, then the key code has reason to be found and distributed.
Labels: blu-ray, hack, hardware, linux, PS3
posted by Bushido Hacks 4/13/2008 07:36:00 PM (0) comments top
20080120
GT5 for PS3 driving in March - Click!
Despite the promises made by the local Gamestop dealer that Grand Turismo 4 Mobile for the PSP will be coming, it is now certain that it is in "development hell". (Noooo!!!)On the other hand, Gran Turismo 5 Prolog will be coming to the PS3 on March 18. From what I've seen I like what I am seeing.
GT5 will also be available as a High Definition video game. (Translation: Expect Sony to jack up the price for this game.) Fortunately, the GT series has lived up to the hype. Especially since endurance racing (i.e. American LeMans) is way better than boring NASCAR racing. (LeMans drivers can make RIGHT turns! Endurnace racers can drive on hills, not just a straight track.)
Enough with the video game rhetoric. Back on the programming front, C++, PHP, and Python are being practiced. It is planned in the near future for Flash development using the Ming library. Ming allows for Flash development on Linux platforms, but the flash has to be created by hand rather than with the conviences of the GUI. On the other hand, Flash has tried constantly to make it seem like you can't make Flash without their expensive product. This PHP manual page contradicts that assumption.
This site is finally getting its ducks in a row. I predict more changes here soon. That is very good news.
Labels: C++, Cars, Flash, GranTurismo, PHP, PS3, Python
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/20/2008 03:36:00 PM (0) comments top
20080111
Sony Finally Puts the PSP to good use! - Click!
Sony has seen the light finally and has allowed third-party development of the PSP--well sort of. While talking about hacking or modding the PSP is still strictly taboo (and is bannable on their message boards if discussed, a rule created by a SCEA executive), creating skins for the PSP Internet Radio Player (IRP) is a small step forward in the right direction.PSP owners who have wifi can download this application by upgrading to PSP v3.8.0 then downloading the IRP application after upgrading.
Currently, the number of internet radio stations is limited, even more so by the buearocracy that has decimated the number of online radio stations since the beginning of this decade. (Until our Patent, Trademark, and Copyright system is unFUBARed, supporting SaveNetRadio.org can help expand the selection to the PSP's IRP).
PSP's IRP currently supports Shoutcast. To expand upon this, networks like Live365, Pandora, LaunchCast, and other free Internet radio broadcasters should be added, though Live365 seems to be only other compatible broadcasting network that could be supported by the PSP's IRP.
I would like to see this service be expanded over the next few weeks, especially following the days of the Consumer Electronics Show.
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/11/2008 10:39:00 PM (0) comments top
20071214
Portal Madness! - Click!
Rarely am I ever excited about videogames but Portal is on my Christmas wish list. Portal is already out for the XBox360 (which you will be very sorry if you get one considering the recent reports of the defectiveness of the system which has caused Microsoft to disconinue its Warrenty for new 360 systems. That's Microsoft for you), but for the people who decided to trade in their rent money for an 80 GB PS3 (as stated earier, anything less than that has compatability issues. That's Sony for you.) the Orange Box game bundle was released this week. Since this is Five games in the same box, $60 seems like a fair price. This has sparked my interest in checking out the orignal Half-Life. (Keep in mind, I rarely play video games unless it is omething really good.)Portal is EVERYWHERE it is that popular. It is like what Pokemon was to little kids, of course most of those Pikachu fans have since moved on to bigger better things.
There is even a Flash game based on Portal which is so good, I'd like to play the real deal this time around.
Here is something to think about, even though Portal is fictional, would the physics be possible? By that I don't mean the quantum physics of making a portal but the part where you jump in the portal and fly out using momentum. I bet a few science teachers would really get kids involved into physics if they put that sort question on the exam.
posted by Bushido Hacks 12/14/2007 05:44:00 PM (0) comments top
20071208
Whoa! Don't get that PS3 yet! - Click!
Someone at Sony must think that everyone take the short bus to work as they once again tried to fool consumers into buying the REALLY expensive model! Where backwards compatibility was available for all PS2 models, the PS3 has NO backwards compatibity for there 20 and 40 GB models and limited backwards compatibility for the 60 and 80 GB models.This was SO much easier back when there was ONE model per each competing company. They may as well be selling computers instead of videogame systems, cause now you have to buy fans, memory, AN EXTRA CONTROLLER (Remember when gaming systems came with TWO controllers? I wouldn't be surprised if NO controller came with the next generation of gaming systems.)
It is no longer a gaming system, it is a COMPUTER. All of them are like that. PS3, XBOX 360, and the Wii.
Perhaps there should be something to change the way we develop electronics, especially with all the e-waste that shouldn't or can't be tossed out with the rest of the trash.
Even after the PS3 was released on the market over a year ago, many game publishers are still putting out PS2 games.
Games are suppost to be fun. And they are relatively inexpensive since outdoor activities are becoming financially impossible for many people due to outragous gas prices. But if the brown goods market is clueless and whines about why they didn't sell X number of videogame systems, they should talk to the guy who let a barrel of Light Sweet Crude bubble over $100 like it was some joke.
They'll figure it out when the holdays are over.
Labels: environment, games, PS3
posted by Bushido Hacks 12/08/2007 12:04:00 AM (0) comments top
20070128
The Pope Condems Video Game, Cartoon Violence - Click!
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI gave lapsed Catholics one more reason to skip Church on Sunday by condemning video game and cartoon violence on Wednesday, January 24, taking a few lines from Miami lawyer and anti-videogame activist Jack Thompson.This is ironic considering there is a VeggieTales videogame on the market that is not very good which has pleanty of Cartoon Violence and a Left Behind videogame which is really bad. (Yeah, so what if non-Catholics make that blasphemous crap. They still sell it at the Catholic supply store and at Christian bookstores.) I miss the old Pope.
I guess if saving the Princess by slaying a few demons is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
Labels: animation, dogma, fud, games, movies, music, news, PS3, thevirus, Wii, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/28/2007 10:25:00 AM (1) comments top
20061202
PS3 Hacks - Click!
Ken Kutaragi is now sidelined at Sony, but not fired. (Baka-Sony!). If paying $600 for a system burns you up, then so will the device when the Consumer Product Saftey Commission orders it to be recalled becase of defects. (It happened with the PS2 and the PSP. Why not go for a hattrick and fubar this power-sucking--correction, all out sucking--console. I mean, the PS3 uses up electrical power like an American SUV and Gasoline, or Rosie O'Donnell and a Hostess Bakery Thriftstore.So in order to fix these defects the right way, and make this console Japanese again, you should perform a few hacks on the console, of course with expert knowledge.
The PS3 is offered in two forms: Value-Suck ($499/20GB/No WiFi/No Flash Card Readers), and Azathoth ($599/60GB/WiFi/Flash Card Readers). For those who know something about computers, here's a video to replace those dinking hard drives with a 100 GB hard drive you can pick up on eBay.
So much for Ridge Racer.
Wii shall overcome.
posted by Bushido Hacks 12/02/2006 11:51:00 PM (0) comments top
20061120
PS3 Do Not Want
Man, this was PAINFUL TO WATCH!I was watched XPlay, read Maddox's Latest post, read Penny Arcade's review, and Slashdot even the business and technical aspects of the PS3. Then I saw it first hand myself.
The PS3 is not just a train wreck, it is a train wreck with a chemical chlorine spill at 3AM that kills everyone in the nearby town in their sleep.
The Business men say that the PS3 is a finanical loss. The game critics were floored by several of the games because they sucked so bad. Being an OpenGL programmer, the horrendous use of glOrtho (the function that controls camera angle and viewport) is enough to make me vomit!
You hear me! VOMIT!
I've never used such a word in my blog in the two years it has been online in such a literal context. The graphics in these games make me want to cry, and I'm a casual gamer who plays less than two hours of video games per week.
I mean, AWEFUL!
Vehimate (sp) words can only describe the PS3. It hurts so bad.
On the other hand, this proves that proprietary SHOVELWARE and overpriced five-minutes-ago technology suggested by the salarymen at Sony in order to "bring in a profit" ONLY TO HAVE IT BACKFIRE because more money went into advertising than supporting the programmers who make the games.
EVERYONE AT SONY SHOULD BE FIRED! NO EXCEPTIONS! And if they are not fired, the need to be struck down with the wrath of God.
The winner this fall: Wii and Xbox 360.
Labels: games, IBM, OpenGL, PS3, shovelware, tech, Wii, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 11/20/2006 04:56:00 PM (0) comments top
