Forum: Rants
Topic: this is insane
started by: Rhydant

Posted by Rhydant on Mar. 31 2001,05:02
ok, i got this playstation2 gameshark thing today. if you dont know what that is, just stop reading.
so i take it out of the box and it comes with 2 discs and this memory card-like thing. its all cool and what not, but it only comes with SOME cheats for SOME games.
so you want more cheats for other games? well you have to buy this port dex-drive thing that hooks up to a USB slot on yer computer. then you have to download cheats and send them through this dex-drive like thing onto the gameshark card. which is lame.
but this is waht really pisses me off:
you have to buy the damn port thing seperatly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD DAMNIT!
im just glad it was free....
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This message has been edited by Rhydant on March 31, 2001 at 11:04 PM


Posted by jim on Mar. 31 2001,05:27
That's what you get for trying to cheat.

You damn cheater!

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Posted by mqa on Mar. 31 2001,05:30
this is obviously just another example corporate greed, return their shit and wrie a letter telling them you wont stand for their crap. then start a publicity campaign in your area.

i never did much mucking around on the playstation but one hardware cheating device i always liked was the pro action replay. it allowed you to develop your own codes which was great cause you could make all sorts of wierd ass codes that those damn fools at game shark HQ would never think of. unfortunately i do not know if it is still produced (the one i had was for game boy).


Posted by askheaves on Mar. 31 2001,07:05
2 things:

The Gameshark has always scared me. I don't know how it works, and I don't want to know. Somehow, putting a code into Gameshark makes Mario jump past the top of the screen? That's not supposed to happen!!!!!

You don't need to cheat with PS2. Most games come with enough cheat stuff built in for development purposes at least. They can be found at all sorts of sites. A google search will unroot them. Besides... do you really need to cheat? It cheapens the experience and lowers the lifetime of that 50 bucks you've spent on a game.


Posted by Sithiee on Mar. 31 2001,14:42
jim is right, dont cheat. and i believe the gameshark is a hex editor, and that it basically edits the RAM to make certain values higher/lower, so it could change mario's jump factor from like 4 to 40. i borrowed my friends once for tenshu, and it was interesting, but it definitly detracted from the gameplay.
Posted by Nene on Mar. 31 2001,16:29
I almost made a new topic out of this, but since its in the same vein:

UNLV had a deal with Gateway (moo) computers. I just got my new one, win2k with a scanner. Turns out the scanner software they sent me does not have drivers for W2k! Even better, you cannot download them from the site, you have to PAY บ.00 to have some lousy CD sent to you.

Keep in mind this was one of TWO scanners available with this computer selection. I checked the other one out too, its not compatible. I'm trying to decide if its corporate greed or plain idiocy on the parts of both companies.

!!!!!!! GRRRR.

Nene

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Posted by Spydir Web on Mar. 31 2001,17:34
I used to have a Gameshark when I had a PlayStation (sold it a long time ago so I could get a Voodoo3 when they were new), and you could just type in the codes. Mags like Tips & Tricks had a bunch of 'em in the back. The DexDrive was so you could trade saved games with friends, so like if you got the red bandana in MGS and he had the stealth suit, you could trade 'em.

They must of *REALLY* changed up the way they worked things, because that's totally different from what I remember them as.

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Posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d on Apr. 01 2001,01:43
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Originally posted by Nene:
UNLV had a deal with Gateway (moo) computers. I just got my new one, win2k with a scanner.

HA HA HA HA HA HA YOU HAVE A GATEWAY. Serously, you shouldnt fuck around like that. People might take you seriously.

And what the fuck is wrong with cheating. Fuck being normal. I want to be invulnerable. Superman isnt popular because hes normal. I cant have infinite ammution or health in real life so what the fuck is wrong with doing it in games?

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Posted by Sithiee on Apr. 01 2001,02:09
quote:
Originally posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d:
And what the fuck is wrong with cheating. Fuck being normal. I want to be invulnerable. Superman isnt popular because hes normal. I cant have infinite ammution or health in real life so what the fuck is wrong with doing it in games?

because theres no point in playing when you know your gonna win, and theres no challenge along the way. would you find it interesting to watch a football game between a professional team and 20 toddlers? no. why not? because theres no challenge, and you know whos going to win. hell, one professional football player could beat 20 toddlers, with minimal challenge. its a waste of time.


Posted by Rhydant on Apr. 01 2001,04:00
i didnt buy this monstrosity. it was a later birthday gift from a friend.
theres nothing wrong with cheating. so fuck off.

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Posted by j0eSmith on Apr. 01 2001,04:57
quote:
Originally posted by Sithiee:
because theres no point in playing when you know your gonna win, and theres no challenge along the way. would you find it interesting to watch a football game between a professional team and 20 toddlers?

Actully.. I think that'd be fucking hilarious. Hell, I would pay to see that!

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Posted by Rhydant on Apr. 01 2001,14:27
i'm with j0e on this one.

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Posted by solid on Apr. 01 2001,22:16
Hehehe.. cheating is fun when used to make fun of the enemies in the games.. try a quake 2 "Rocket-Grenade-GrenadeLauncher-BFG" jump instead of a rocket jump.

Allright so I only managed a rocket grenade jump. Pretty much the equivalent of a bfg jump. I usually get the cheats, beat the game on easy, then stop with the cheats and beat the game on hard. It seems more difficult than just starting on hard.


Posted by melk0r on Apr. 03 2001,19:22
quote:
Originally posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d:
HA HA HA HA HA HA YOU HAVE A GATEWAY. Serously, you shouldnt fuck around like that. People might take you seriously.


ok, while i've been on these threads, i've seen people flame dell, gateway, and compaq. i was just wondering (since i am not involved in the h4x0ring community) what computers DO you all approve of?


Posted by Rhydant on Apr. 03 2001,20:48
the ones that you build yourself.
i think everyone here thinks that store bought computers, such as gateway, dell, and compaq, are pieces of crap because they have big brand names with tv commercials. but in reality, some are ok. i much rather havea dell than this piece of crap on im right now.

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Posted by askheaves on Apr. 03 2001,21:11
Those companies have to find ways of paying for the labor of system design, building those recovery disks, building a boot image, choosing configurations, building configurations, warehousing, ordering, support, and a zillion other things. For this, they either raise price or cut costs. That's why you see so many ATI Rage Pro cards in Gateways, and cheap RAM, and cheap power supplies, and clusterfucks of wires. They don't want you opening them.

I've been inside my family's K6-2 Compaq computer. It had major problems with crashing for a long time, and I opened it over christmas to put a burner in. I had to break the "Warrenty Seal". I figured out that the IDE cable was sitting on top of the CPU fan, stopping it, and causing the system to crash. It's shit like that that bugs me most. Shoddy workmanship, to cut costs, and the consumer isn't allowed inside to see how bad it is.

The only good computer is one that you put together yourself... as long as you can support it yourself. I'm on the brink of convincing my dad to put together his own, but he's almost willing to pay an extra 600 bucks to pick up a Gateway because he's scared of doing it himself and supporting himself.

The irony is that the extra he wants to spend becomes a deal breaker, because the computer becomes too expensive for him to buy.


Posted by Rhydant on Apr. 04 2001,01:48
quote:
Originally posted by askheaves:
That's why you see so many ATI Rage Pro cards

hey.... i like my rage pro

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Posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d on Apr. 04 2001,02:50
quote:
Originally posted by Sithiee:
[Bwould you find it interesting to watch a football game between a professional team and 20 toddlers? [/B]

Your halfway on course here but we need 1000 toddlers ......and the football players get spikes and clubs and spears ....and flame throwers .....and rocket launchers.....OH AND FLAK CANNONS.

I usually play the game through once or twice then I use the cheats. God mode and all weapons if fucking beautiful if you just want to make shit bleed.(btw serious sam is fucking insane. Its a FPS in the tradition of smash tv and total carnage. At the end of the first level the stats page showed I blew away 16,000 enemies.) The exception is GTA2. Which i just enable all the weapons and try to kill as much ass possible and havent even tried completing the quests(running over cops with thier own police car is so pleasure enducing, dont even get me started on kill frenzies.).

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Posted by Nene on Apr. 04 2001,21:13
quote:
Originally posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d:
HA HA HA HA HA HA YOU HAVE A GATEWAY. Serously, you shouldnt fuck around like that. People might take you seriously.

This a flame? I'm asea in an ocean of 18 year old flamers. In both senses. Its just the few cool ppl around here that keep me coming back.
Gateway = not my idea. I would have preferred to order the parts myself and set it up, but a government grant is a goverment grant and you take what you can get.

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