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Hacker's impressions of the 360

Posted Nov 27, 2005, 11:30 PM ET by Christopher Grant
Filed under: News

Eliot over at hack a day has posted very thorough first impressions of his brand new Xbox 360 and, as someone who's no stranger to Xbox hacking, he's a bit reluctant. It's great to unleash a hacker's curiosity on this box; he tests keyboards, mice, Wi-Fi dongles, iPods, cameras, and more. While he aims his most pointed critiques at the 360's "crippled" media streaming features, he also offers some great suggestions/hopes for improvements, including "groups" functionality for Live friends, and support for upnp av servers (for Mac and Linux users).

If the media and HDTV features haven't sold you already, he recommends waiting for a lower price, more games, less bugs, and maybe even Linux support.

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1. Being able to stream video like xvid would be awesome.

Posted at 9:37 AM ET on Nov 28, 2005 by GL 0 stars

2. While I agree that playing DIVX files or other codecs would be cool on 360, I am more concerned with Modders and hackers ruinning my gaming experience. I would gladly trade increased functionality for a guaranteed working set of features already included.

Modders / Hackers threaten the online gaming experience. Have any of you played Halo 2 lately? It's been completely over run by people who are modding maps and match rules. Halo 2 over live was once an amazing experience with no major cheats or flaws. After a few months that all changed, people with modded xboxes in turn modded their map files and somehow even found a way to mess with gaming options where different weapons and vehicles would show up on maps that were never intended. Also other strange mods totally screwed up the experience.

Think of all the time Bungie has spent fighting off this barrage of mods instead of creating new and interesting playlist and gaming options.

I for one am tired of it. I don't want the console online gaming experience to resemble that of the mockery that PC online gaming has become.
I hope that MS does everything they can to keep their Xbox Live experience free from any mods / cheats / exploits.

This is the true value in Xbox Live that no one ever speaks of. A secure, mod and cheating free environment to just play games and have fun. We may always have to deal with griefers (team kills, moronic gameplay, annoying voice rants) but developers and console makers don't have to put up with modders / hackers.

All who agree please let your voices be heard. There are allot of post these days about modding the 360...let your voices be heard so these people will know who their pissing off.

Posted at 10:56 AM ET on Nov 28, 2005 by Jon 0 stars

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