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October 13th, 2007, 16:01 Posted By: wraggster
via xboxscene
i made this PGR2 editor about 3 years ago.
It sits on the PC, has full FTP functionality, so you can go from PC to XBOX via ethernet, and does all the slider-type stuff that people ask for with 2 key extras:
1: A full torque/horsepower graph that can be edited in realtime
2: A peak horsepower/peak torque gear ratio converter, so when you hit peak revs, the next gear will drop you straight into peak torque, so you're always on power.
Oh yeah, lots of sliders!
http://www.martinking.net/content/view/28/38/
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October 13th, 2007, 15:59 Posted By: wraggster
via xboxscene
Kernel Master informed us he released a new version of EkszBox-ABX - an audio extraction/conversion/injection tool which supports multiple xbox/xbox360 audio/container formats.
What's new/fixed:
* 40 formats supported.
* Adf support (GTA: Vice City - PC ver).
* Big support [Beta stage] (EA).
* Cab support (Forza Motorsport).
* Sh4 support (Silent Hill 4).
* Wpx support (Capcom Vs SNK 2 EO).
* X360 Xwc support (Darkness).
* Improved X360 Xwb compatibility.
* Fixed/Improved Fsb support- Full BioShock support (PC).
* Folders contained in container formats are created (rfa, rcf, pod, piz, map, lug, cab).
* Many different spec'd Wma's are now supported in Xwb FileSwap (mono/48/22.5khz etc.)
* Hybrid mode SCX now always uses medium buffer size.
* SCX now calculates Ogg filesizes based on frame info.
* Built in media player which supports audio playback from most Xbox container game formats Plus support for: Mp3, Ogg^, Pcm, Wma, XbAdpcm, Asf, Avi, M2v^, Mpg, Mpeg, Wmv, M3u.
* Media player playlist looping & loop region support.
* Xbox Adpcm codec included: Installer can auto-install/auto-uninstall it.
* List has been made virtual (Very fast).
* Functional list item renaming.
* New gui.
* Easy window moving.
* Fixed minimized extract dialog close glitch.
* Files are now numbered according to the max number of files contained.
* Exe file drop support.
* Better drag & drop implementation (Inc. folder support).
* New options inc. AutoSCX, AutoGui-Clear, AutoXpand, Show Hints.
* Exe is no longer compressed (Slightly better general performance).
* Renaming files has been improved, works properly with Scx now also. Put %n in rename files textbox for number, %a for archive name, %f for filename: e.g Music [%n] - (%a).
* Certain Xwb info shown in gui (Looping/remove loop tail etc.) was not being read in release version- fixed.
* Disabled fileswap (Menu) for X360 Xwb's, as they were never supported.
* SpeedHack now sets nearly all status message pause times to zero.
* Illegal filename characters are disabled from being entered.
* 99 character text edit limit imposed.
* Max path check upon file extraction.
* Existing folder check & folder creation error checking.
* Various more idiot protection mechanisms.
* Removed a number of redundant options.
* Fixed: FileSwap drag & drop bug.
* Fixed: Main popup menu appearing when right clicking buttons/textboxes.
* Fixed: Various error checking bugs.
* Fixed: Minor memory leak contained in the extraction code.
* Added BioShock (PC), Capcom Vs SNK 2 EO, GTA: Vice City (PC) to the Xct database.
* Note: Don't use old settings files with newer versions as it may cause problems.
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October 13th, 2007, 15:58 Posted By: wraggster
Even though your "Bros b4 hos" Gamer Motto may be both poignant and accurate, you may want to rethink it if you plan on playing on Xbox Live this weekend. Savings sultan CheapyD warns that his account was suspended for around 24 hours for his seemingly innocuous motto of "Konichiwa, bitches!" Another user on the site got a similar punishment for "called the šhit þoop," which is probably a bit more fair.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/12/mi...-gamer-mottos/
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October 12th, 2007, 19:50 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
SEGA has whisked a demo for Virtua Fighter 5 onto Xbox Live.
It hops on the scales at 674MB, and lets you test out the latest instalment in the renowned fighting series.
While VF5 has been out on PS3 for some time, Microsoft hopes to win some die-hard fans by being the only version to offer online battles for the time being.
The 360 offering will also feature the latest arcade changes, optional analogue control, rumble support and improved AI. Quest mode has been brushed up, too, and now involves more people to punch-kick with meaning as well as more items to collect and emblems to plaster all over your character.
In addition there are now leaderboards, training move settings and various other improvements to the DOJO mode - hopefully allowing you to get to grips with the notoriously impervious gameplay more quickly.
Virtua Fighter 5 earned itself 9/10 back in March. It was unwelcoming and distinctly hardcore, but we felt complaining about what some interpret as its strengths was foolish.
Virtua Fighter 5 is due out for 360 on 26th October. Look out for our thoughts on this new and improved version soon.
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October 12th, 2007, 17:39 Posted By: wraggster
New from Play Asia
Defeat Spider-Man™’s most famous enemies, like Venom™, Green Goblin™, and Doc Ock™to add them to your epic array of playable sidekicks in this movie trilogy inspired adventure. Experience ground-breaking Co-operative Multiplayer, as Spider-Man or a sidekick, in exotic spots around the globe, including Tokyo, Egypt and Nepal.
Inspired by the Spider-Man movies, this Action Adventure game reinterprets big-screen moments and battles with a humorous twist. Replay chapters with different sidekicks and eventually with Black-Suited Spider-Man.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-29hz.html
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October 12th, 2007, 16:55 Posted By: wraggster
Daniel Schiappa, general manager of strategy for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division, the unit responsible for Xbox and Zune, told attendees at a virtual worlds conference in Austin that "by next year, you'll probably know more about why I'm up here."
Austin360.com reports that later Schiappa hinted in an interview that Microsoft is considering launching some sort of virtual world offering that would span across its gaming, PC and mobile device offerings.
Schiappa said that most likely, any foray by Microsoft into the world of avatars or social networking would begin with PCs, then move across Xbox and finally into its mobile phone business.
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/14786/...eLike-Service/
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October 11th, 2007, 22:59 Posted By: wraggster
Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian has forecast a 30 percent year-over-year rise in North American September software sales, largely driven by the release of Halo 3.
Microsoft recently announced that Halo 3 had grossed $300m at retail by early October. Sebastian believes the majority of that figure came from North America and suggests that Halo 3 will be the primary factor in ballooning September software sales.
The release of the Bungie-developed shooter, along with prior price cuts to the Xbox 360 range, leads Sebastian to believe that Microsoft's hardware sales will be up for September
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=7495&Itemid=2
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October 11th, 2007, 22:56 Posted By: wraggster
Now comes further evidence that the Core's days are indeed numbered. Photos obtained by GameSpot show that retailers are already erecting displays touting the Core's long-rumored replacement, the Xbox 360 Arcade SKU. As previously speculated, the display shows the console will come bundled with a wireless controller, a 256MB memory card, and five arcade games. Microsoft declined to offer comment on the photo of the console.
http://au.gamespot.com/news/6180705....s&subj=6180705
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October 11th, 2007, 21:06 Posted By: Shrygue
via Computer and Video Games
Portsmouth FC boss Harry Redknapp fears that "Xbox culture" is turning English youth off of football, forcing managers to search for players abroad.
Redknapp has insisted that England's gaming culture is the reason for the lack of domestic talent, and managers shouldn't be the target of criticism.
"I'm fed up with managers being made scapegoats for the state of our domestic game," he wrote in his national newspaper column. "The English working class is turning its back on football - and that is not my fault.
"It may sound old and corny but when I was growing up, working class lads like me in the East End lived and breathed football.
"Now I rarely see a kickabout in the park. All I see are the dazzling lights of bedroom windows from the glare of TVs and computers. It seems football cannot compete with an Xbox."
Redknapp adds: "I do have a lot of foreign players at Portsmouth but believe me I'd love nothing more than to field a team of 11 so-called 'home-grown' lads born within the city limits. But it has become harder and harder to find enough kids of the kind of quality required to make the grade without buying an air ticket."
The former West Ham United manager is now looking to Africa as a source of real-life footy passion. He said: "Maybe they have the hunger and drive that working class boys of England had 30 years ago but now is replaced by video game passion."
Is Redknapps argument justified? Some kids might prefer a virtual stadium to a tiny park kick about, but real football and a game of PES are not the same activity at all.
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October 11th, 2007, 21:02 Posted By: Shrygue
via Computer and Video Games
Valve's Orange Box compilation burst its way onto Steam yesterday, the reviews have begun to go live, and early indications show its average review score of 98 (so far) is going to beat both Bioshock and Halo 3.
Retail versions have to be released over here but if you're a subscriber to Steam, then you've probably already finished Valve's opus of games.
You can read our review of Half-Life: Episode 2 here, Team Fortress 2 here and Portal on 360 here.
It's early days yet though as there are a few paper magazines that are still sitting on a boat somewhere, slowly making their way to the newsstand. We'll keep an eye on it though.
Could this be the highest scoring game of the year?
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October 11th, 2007, 20:56 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Sierra Entertainment has poked us to say the F.E.A.R. Files demo is now available to download from Xbox Live.
It was expected on the service yesterday, but got lost in a spooky cupboard where it was waiting to jump out on someone to give them a jolly good fright.
The 585MB demo lets you test out the Extraction Point part of the game (the other being the new expansion Perseus Mandate); getting to grips with new weapons like the mini-gun and seeing what spooky little lady Alma has in store for you.
Yesterday Sierra announced that F.E.A.R. Files (360) and F.E.A.R Perseus Mandate (PC) would launch simultaneously in Europe on 16th November.
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October 11th, 2007, 05:18 Posted By: JKKDARK
via IGN
Today PopCap Games announced it will bring two Greatest Hits compilations to retail: one for the PlayStation 2 and one for the Xbox 360. PopCap began offering online casual games for free and paid download, and the company's games now appear on other services like Xbox Live Arcade and mobile phones.
PopCap Arcade Volume 1 for the 360 will include Bejeweled 2, AstroPop, Feeding Frenzy, and Zuma for $29.95. Each of these games goes for 800 Microsoft Points ($10) on the Arcade, so Volume 1 will save you a bit of cash.
PopCap Hits Volume 1 for PlayStation 2 includes just Bejeweled 2 and AstroPop for $19.95. This will be the first time any PopCap games are available on the PS2.
"We've had tremendous success at retail with the PC versions of many of our games, and these new collections for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 are priced even more aggressively, so they should be a hit with holiday shoppers," said Glenn Drover, Director of Retail Sales at PopCap.
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October 11th, 2007, 00:35 Posted By: wraggster
New from Divineo USA
The HDMI SWITCHER is a HDMI HUB that allows you to connect your console or dvd player to a tv and easily switch from a device to another with a simple remote control press.
Specifications & extra information
- Approved by HDMI ATC lab
- Fully supports 1080P HDTV
- HDCP Compliant
- Supports DTS, Dolby 7.1 Channel Audio
- GOLD PLATED CONNECTORS
- IR Remote control
- Expand 4HDMI sources on your HDTV device
- Amplifier & Equalizer function enables longer HDMI cables
- Plug & Play, installs in seconds
- RoHS compliant
- 110v-240v auto switching power supply
- HDMI CABLE INCLUDED
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October 11th, 2007, 00:33 Posted By: wraggster
New from Divineo USA
Complete your console customization to the extreme with this hard drive shell for Xbox 360 available in several colors matching our full custom console shells.
This replacement hard drive case will take place of the original HD shell and give your console a fresh custom look. It comes with all you need to install it and is quick to install.
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October 11th, 2007, 00:29 Posted By: wraggster
New from Divineo USA
Go for the Gold and enter the online multiplayer gaming arena. 2 Million gamers are online to meet, chat, play , strategize and compete together. With your subscription you'll get your own Gamer Card, Gamer Picture, motto, and more. Then through the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace download new game content, trailer, demos, gamer pictures, and more!
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October 10th, 2007, 22:41 Posted By: wraggster
via xboxscene
Kreon has released a new version of the alternate hacked firmware for the Samsung PC SH-D162C and SH-D163A DVD-drives.
From Readme/NFO:
A year has past, and the time has come for a small maintenance release. While the V0.80 release has performed rather well, there's always room for improvements, even though most of them are well hidden and probably won't be noticed by most people.
Changes/fixes in this release..
* Major cleanup of code - the SH-D162C and SH-D163A now share the same code. This has been a painful job to do, but will make future updates so much easier to handle.
* The firmware is now based on the official SB01 firmware as opposed to SB00 for earlier releases.
* Fixed a potential problem with the way that the RPC patching was done.
* The laser head is now parked in a known and safe position following SS extraction. This should fix the clicking noise, that some people experienced from time to time.
* RPC settings stored in flash mem of the drive is now reset. This is not important for the patched firmware, but will leave the RPC settings as they came from the factory, if someone, for some strange reason, should decide to go back to a non patched firmware.
* The feature list has been expanded to hold seperate feature entries for XBOX and XBOX360
* Fixed a bug that caused flashing of the drive to fail under some conditions (read "updating from V0.80.." below)
This is what you get..
* Full challenge/response functionality.
* Two types of unlock for XBOX 360 game discs. One for making xtreme style images and one for making wxripper style images. Both types of iso can be made using isobuster. Ripping using wxripper isn't supported for the time being
* A 'lock' function that will cancel any enabled unlock state. This can be very useful for custom applications.
* 'Error skipping' which basically speeds up the error handling of the drive. A complete wxripper style image (including video) can be obtained in 15-16 minutes, when error skipping is enabled. Getting through the critical area of LBA 19408-20479 will take you more than 20 minutes alone, if error skipping is disabled 
* A much more streamlined command interface which is good news if you intend to write an application that makes use of the drives extra features.
* The drive will default to unlock state 2 and error skip enabled when a 360 media is inserted. You can in other words use isobuster to obtain a wxripper style image without issuing any commands to the drive 
* RPC1 support (RPC-2 actually but with automatic change of drive region and RCE support)
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October 10th, 2007, 22:40 Posted By: wraggster
Back in July, Microsoft dropped the price of the Xbox 360 HD DVD player add-on to $179 in the US and threw in five free HD DVD movies as part of the Perfect Offer promotion. Well, that promotion was scheduled to end on September 30th, but now it has been re-instated until next year with a new set of movies to choose from.
The new five free HD DVD offer started October 1st and runs through February 28th, 2008 where with any new HD DVD player purchase, customers will get to choose five free movies.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/10...ew-movies-too/
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October 10th, 2007, 22:39 Posted By: wraggster
Jasper is the code name for the next motherboard for the Xbox 360. It will becoming next August, in time for next year's holiday season. Jasper is going to have a 65-nanometer graphics chip from ATI Technologies, as well as smaller memory chips. That isn't much information, but it's enough to tell us about their cost-reduction plan. If you ask me, it's a bit of a slow pace.
I don't know why it will take Microsoft essentially three years to cost reduce the size of the graphics chip through a manufacturing shrink. It doesn't seem like they're in a hurry to launch a redesigned Xbox 360 graphics chip, considering that Intel introduced its first 65-nm chips a long time ago. ATI uses TSMC to make its chips out of Taiwan, and TSMC hasn't been the fastest at moving to 65-nm manufacturing. I understand these tasks are difficult and they take a lot of engineering resources. Microsoft has had to divert a lot of engineers to debugging problems with Xbox 360 reliability. Even so, you would think that they would have moved faster, since the move to 65-nm graphics chip will likely be one of the best things they can do to improve the reliability.
Here's something that Xbox 360 buyers will want to know. Both Falcon and its predecessor Zephyr (used in the Xbox 360 Elite) have different thermal solutions than the original Xbox 360. You've seen the heat sinks in the cut-out photos posted elsewhere. The Microsoft engineers believe those heat sinks will be sufficient as a solution for keeping Xbox 360s from overheating. From their point of view, you don't have to wait until Jasper to get a reliable machine.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/200...es_jasper.html
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October 10th, 2007, 22:38 Posted By: wraggster
Yaris, an Arcade racing shooter that is free to download via Xbox Live in the US and Canada, is the first advergame to be distributed over Microsoft's online games service, reports the New York Times.
"People can time shift, they can do all sorts of different things to avoid advertising," said Kim McCullough, corporate manager for marketing communications at Toyota. "That's why we have to move beyond traditional advertising to do things that are really engaging for people."
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=7452&Itemid=2
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