Liberation

(-_-) omfg.... I wish I would've seen that post a few days ago... I just ordered $500 worth of upgrades from tigerdirect... I could've gotten that instead with tomorrow's payday :'( ... that bundle is sick

Wow I just found out about this OnLive thing from CO-OP Episode 104, checked it out, thought it was pretty cool, then came here and I'm quite surprised at how you guys are reacting to this. @Razor512: console games are in the service too. The console part of it is what sells me. I don't have an Xbox 360/PS3/Wii and I don't plan on buying any of them. But it really sucks wanting to play a new game that's only on ONE console, I HATE that soooo much. I can't play a really awesome game just because I decided on a different $500 system or I simply can't afford it. HFC based ISP's could run this fine, I really don't see how latency could be that huge of an issue. The hardware just has to be conf'd to JUST video rendering and controller inputs. All the heavy lifting is being done by the cloud and the broadband. I know it can take a lot for all that but it's still possible to pull it off without asking your ISP to pretty please run fiber-optics to your basement. I have a 7.5Mbit connection and I think it could handle it. Would be a LOT better to have it as a Steam type purchasing system at least. Ex. $50 for the 'console/receiver' and BUY the games online rather than a service fee. Even an option for both if someone doesn't want to pay for the system, the way ISP's do it with modems. I don't get why this is getting slammed so much when DRM is only a software implication of the hard disc type restrictions to their systems out there now. It's the same thing as buying something for your console or PC or whatever and you can still only play it on that one thing, what's the difference? Well OK, if your internet goes down then your screwed, but in the last 10 years that's only happened to me once and it was fixed in 24 hours. Moreover I don't know anyone who I play games with who doesn't have at least 10-15mbps connections, so the idea of just carying this thing around to a buddy's place sounds awesome to me. What's so bad about a service fee to play any game I want on demand. I bet half of you have an Xbox Live or WoW accounts (or both/more) that your paying every month. Why not give this a fair try? I'm definitely going to give it a go when it comes out. /me waits for the flamethrowers to come out...

Has anyone here looked at Direct Memory Access on Firewire to do the same? I know it's possible and much faster than USB but because Firewire is mostly used for video not that many hacks have been published. It would be an amazing thing to have for any Mac admin's who have too many PEBCAC users who fubar all their stuff up regularly and there would be no need for PW's at all.

stickers are easy and lots of websites online will let you do case wrap stickers custom printed. Haven't looked for a long time but you can basically just do whatever design in gimp or pcs w/e and send them the png and they print it off and mail it to you pre-cut, then you just have to slap it on. If I were going to pimp out my lappy It'd have lights and LOADS more internals, like wifi range extension mods, apple-esk keyboard underglow etc etc, and a much bigger battery. But I also could give 2 shits about warranty, I just can't own something for more than a month without opening it xD.

I use Microsoft's Visual Studio Express (I know it's the whole IDE not just the compiler) I use it simply because I was taught Basic on Visual Studio and I needed a cheap(it's free actually) IDE to work with and I know my way around on it. Obviously Windows only. But if I was on a Mac I'd use xcode too.

I've done a lot of console modding in my high school days mostly with Sony's consoles and I've never heard of anyone fabricating their own parts. If you're looking for a cheaper solution probably the best thing you could do is find the individual replacement parts online and build it into your own case. Then really you would only need the mobo, dvd drive, and all the cables to hook it up. There's so many dam screws in an XBox so it wouldn't be hard to mount it to an ATX case from the looks of it and you could cool it way better in a case like that anyway. I actually want to do this soon and just build it into a custom case so I can play on XBL. Just one piece of info about the XB360 is that it uses a floating point ground on the DVD drive instead of a wired ground, they use a piece of thick gauge tinfoil glued to the DVD drive and the frame.

Yeah it's been a start for a long time lol I'll get teh h4xz0r lvl PC someday. I wanted a VB so bad when they came out, but then after playing a friends for a while my eyes hurt way too much.

My name is Tommy a.k.a. Liberation a.k.a. Green (my typical game handle) Favourite game: HL(1&2 & CS etc.) Favourite OS: don't have one. Favourite console: PSP (only if it's hacked, otherwise it's only 1/2 PSP) Nationality: Canadian (yet another) Accent: back country Nova Scotian, more of a slur but we all talk like that so I guess it's an accent xD lolz. Sex: Dood Age: old enough to buy booze anywhere Race: White Canadian Favourite band: In Flames / The Prodigy Favourite book: FireFox 3.0 :P Favourite author: the internets Favourite movie: Akira (wewt) Favourite TV Show: Heroes! Favourite Comedian: Rick Mercer / John Stewart / Stephen Colbert Other hobbies: Embedded Electronics, C++, any random shiz with my PC really. Car: 2001 Sunfire that somehow still only has 75,000km on it Occupation: Mooch :'(

YAYZ! 1st post! :P NES, SNES, N64 GBoy(all of 'em accept the DS's), PSP, PS1, PS2, Genesis & Dreamcast... probably some others I forgot hiding in a closet somewhere. My PC is nothing fancy, most of it is what I got from people who upgraded and just wanted to get rid of their old stuff. Hey it's better than spending my own money and I really don't game that much on it anymore. N2PAP-Lite mobo AMD Athlon XP 1.75GHz 768RAM (mish-mash) Radeon 8500se 40GB HDD (real old but has never died) CDR drive died a long time ago but it's still there in spirit. RIP Saving mah pennies for a new Eurocom i7 workstation laptop when it releases in May xD