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Wii homebrew development has been increasing ever so slightly since the original twilight hack was discovered. The original hack was discovered by inputting a huge name as the name for your Zelda character; this then sent the memory into buffer over flow mode, which then enabled some clever people to run a script on it. Now once this twilight has been run you can choose to install the wii homebrew channel which will allow you to run homebrew without having to run the hack every time, the big feature I personally like about the homebrew channel is that it allows you to update it via the console, this cuts out the tediousness of having to go through the whole process every time there’s an update. There is a wide range of applications already available, which include things like emulators, games and media programs. To install these applications it’s a simple process of copying the downloaded file on to the SD card. One controversial application that was leaked by beta testers, is been developed by Waninkoko, (he now says that he has stopped any further development due to the application being leaked), the program is a wii iso loader; by the name I’m pretty sure you know what it does. The application has received a lot of criticism by the gaming community, due to the iso loader only having one real purpose, to load pirate games, the wii community is worried that the same would happen to the wii what has happened to the psp, where the quality of games has dropped to nothing due to a near 90% piracy rate. It’s advised that you do not try the application due to it been in beta, and running a high risk of bricking your console.
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We all know that adverts on WebPages help pay for the running costs etc, but do we really want this in a game? Ad Sense is basically an advertisement service run by the guys and gals at Google, People who own websites can sign up to this service, which will then allow Google to show text, image and video advertisements in designated areas, website owners then receive money from Google when people click on these advertisements. The same process is being beta tested for games, which will probably take off due to having the Google behind it, which has a surplus amount of money at their disposal. If I’m not mistaken there are advertisement already appearing in console games, which is not terrible, however I would like to see the consumer reap some of the benefit from the revenue the games manufacturers are seeing, by way of some reduction in the price of the game. My fear is that the games will start to suffer as a result of all the advertisements, developers might start to get greedy and then start to implement features into a games that’s sole purpose is to advertise.
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This is the question I asked myself prior to acquiring the knowledge; at first I always thought that all disk media quality was the same and that the only difference between the more expensive ones and the cheaper ones were brand name. I soon found this to be untrue after an hour or two of googling, basically the cheaper DL media will work on your xbox360 however the quality of dye used on these disks is far lower than on more expensive disks, the consequence of putting a DL disk in your 360 is that it puts more strain on your DVD drive laser resulting in your DVD drive packing in far earlier than it should.
Top 3 are as follows;
*Verbatim (Must have the right dye)
*Datasafe
*Ridisc
For xbox360’s the problem of which DL media brand to use should not be of importance at the end of November, once Microsoft release the new dash board update which enables you to run you games from your hard drive so long as you have the game in the drive, which will cut down the demand on your DVD laser. One last thing to note when making a backup is to only burn at 2x, you will find you get the best results, and end up will less coasters, also there are some dvd burners that work better than others, Pioneers have the best success rate.
