Thread: hacking?

Originally Posted by slash112

ok ill do the cheat engine thing, but i have no idea what emulators means

Emulators like n64k that let you download roms and play console games on your computer like Nintendo 64 and Playstation.

Also some of those emulators can connect you to a multiplayer server, like when I play tony hawk pro skater 2 with n64k, it's hard to find a match, takes awhile, but games like smash bros 64, you can go online and play against other people if you've got the emulator and the rom for that game, basically what it does is read the other players inputs and matches them to your 2nd player controller, and vice versa.

Roms, have questionable legal matters, just like downloading music, but if you own the game, it is totaly 100% legal to own the rom, which takes only a few minutes to download. (and having a usb controller makes emulators so much more fun, because it feels like you own 1000's of games :p)

And yeah I'm a big fan of the tony hawk games, so if you download 3 I'll play with you.

right i know what your talking about now, i just know it as "chipped" console. but its onl for my PC. i dont know about anything else, but i know that if you try putting it in an xbox, it is very risky, it can fuck up the whole console, i cant remember what its called, theres a name for what happens.

my friend has done it to his xbox, but he got a proffesional to do it, he downloads illegal games all the time, and he just plays them easy because of it. do you need emulators for pc?

I think your talking about modding systems, and I've heard of the technique your friend used, I had an erge to try it myself but my mom would probably push me against it, and its risky. This would be like that but you can download a free program here http://pj64k.emulation64.com/ , and get the roms here romhustler.net, and you can play it right on your pc free.

oh so you do need emultion things to play them on pc

Do you actually read what people write?

Originally Posted by Marvo

Do you actually read what people write?

huh? now im confused, i thought i read it right, so, you dont need emulators then?

We've had someone report this thread for mentioning console emulation
claiming it to be illegal

So I'll just say,
Hardware emulation is perfectly legal

Contracts go both ways, you pay money for a piece of equipment, in return you can do what you want with that equipment
This includes pulling it apart, identifying individual components, poking them with a multi-meter and writing software counterparts that emulate their functionality

(in fact, in this day and age hardware emulation actively encouraged by manufacturers to prolong the usefulness of compiled software)

Roms, however are a grey area
It's technically copyright infringement to download roms
but as many of the roms available for console emulators are long (long) out of active circulation (and in a lot of cases, the authors are long out of business too), most people just ignore it

did someone actually report it? who were they?... infact, dont answer that, i take it you arent allowed. but whoever it was needs to get a life.

also, thats strange that they reported that, but not the far worse thing which i mentioned. (i hope i dont get into some sort of trouble for it)