Console-Resistance

My friends at www.dcemu.co.uk have posted an update on how homebrew is going now on the established current generation consoles.

Well, I remember seeing something called the "State of Homebrew as of August 2007" on DCEmu before I joined.

Since a lot has changed in the homebrew world, why not post another update?

MICROSOFT XBOX 360:

So far, there is not really any easy way to boot unsigned code on the Xbox 360, however, Team Xecuter of Xbox 1 fame, has been working at hacking the Xbox 360 for awhile now, and at one time promised us that they would hopefully succeed in finding a good exploit by 2008.
As of right now, there are two methods of booting homebrew on the Xbox 360.

Method #1 - Join the XNA club and develop or try out free homebrew games.

Method #2 - Use the shader-exploit in Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Video Game discovered by the Wii60 team. This method, however, is nowadays out of the reach of many, as it only worked between updates 4532 and 4548 (which is Halloween 2006 - November 2006). This also required a serial cable and your Xbox 360 to be modded to boot a special version of the King Kong game. But if you did everything properly, you could boot Linux (I’ve seen uBuntu working on youtube)!

NINTENDO WII:

As of right now, the Nintendo Wii is the only seventh generation console that has been hacked and is able to boot unsigned code. The Wii scene is right now beating the PSP scene and has a lot of good homebrew here and on the way, like a homebrew Nintendo 64 emulator (and apparently Sega CD emulation).

As of right now there are a few methods of running homebrew/unsigned code on the Nintendo Wii.

Method #1 (recommended) - Use the Twilight Hack exploit in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
All you do is put it on an SD card, copy it to your Wii, boot Twilight Princess, load the game, move around, and it crashes the game due to some sort of buffer overflow, which results in the ability to boot unsigned code, from where you can install the Homebrew Channel.

Method #2 - Use the more modernized version of SD Media Launcher and boot Gamecube Homebrew.
This used to be the popular method of playing Homebrew on the Wii, but has since become obsolete thanks to the Twilight Hack.

SONY PLAYSTATION 3:

As of now, PS3 comes in 4th Place, behind the PSP, Wii, and DS and ahead of the Xbox 360. As of right now, there are 2 methods of booting homebrew on the Playstation 3.

Method #1 - The PS3 is able to run homebrew on Linux, with fullspeed NES, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulation. Sadly, there’s a limit, as Sony made it so you cant really use all the power PS3 offers in Linux mode (I believe it has something to do with the GPU and not being able to use all cell cores).

Method #2 - With the 20GB (American/Japanese), US 60GB, EU 60GB, and 80GB PS3s, you are able to boot PS2 homebrew. Even though the PS2 wasnt very popular in the homebrew world, it still has NES (FCEUltra PS2), Sega Genesis/Megadrive (PGEN), and a decent SNES Emulator (SNES-Station).

In March of 2008, Dragula96, a respected PSP coder, posted a video on YouTube showing a Hello World Exploit. This means that we might actually see some good things in terms of homebrew down the road for the PS3.

To read more on the rest of them go here

xboxfanboy has posted pics showing the rumoured Dukenukem 3d on xbla.

Duke Nukem 3D. Long rumored to be heading to the Xbox Live Arcade when, back in January, rumor-word told us that Duke would be gracing the XBLA in a "few months". A few months passed, then a few more and even a few more and still we have no Duke Nukem 3D (cough, vaporware, cough). But wait, what’s this? Two new screenshots sent to Joystiq by a tipster showcasing the Duke gracing the Arcade. With co-op mentioned in an achievement description too? Yummy yum! It’s rumor for now, but we have a hunch that the XBLA Duke will steer clear of the vaporware bin. Though, the same cannot be said for the other Duke.

Did Ken Lobb, creative director at Microsoft Game Studios, just confirm motion control will be a factor in the newest Banjo Kazooie game? We’re saying it’s a “definite maybe.” Others are saying yes, based on Lobb’s comments in a Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts walk-through with developer commentary. What comments?

Specifically, Ken says “The primary function that Kazooie has in the game is she carries this wrench and the wrench is used for many different things. One of the things that the wrench is used for is to turn these devices. So you basically grab with the wrench and then you twist the controller around and it’ll move different things in the game.”

Joystiq have posted up a bingo card for predictions of each of the big press conferences, filled with some likely (and some not-so-likely) predictions for what each of the big three console makers intends to announce at arguably the biggest trade shows of the year.

First up to bat is Sony (special thanks to PS3 and PSP Fanboy), whose Tuesday conference we hope sheds some new light on Home, the next Heavenly Sword and perhaps some new PSP functionality. Click on each of the slides above for more information about our predictions. Sony’s E3 press conference is scheduled for next Tuesday at 10:00 am PT (that’s 1:00 pm Joystiq Time / ET). As always, we’ll be liveblogging the event, so you can play along in real-time with us.

Stay tuned for more press conference bingo cards in the days leading up to the conference.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz has posted that Sony has confirmed that PS3 firmware update 2.41 is now available for download.

Last week Sony was forced to withdraw update 2.4 following technical issues on the day of release.

In a post on the US PlayStation blog, PSN boss Eric Lempel has stated the update was recalled "because, for a limited number of users, the XMB wouldn’t display after the update was installed".
The problem has been fixed, according to Lempel. "We want to extend our apologies to the PlayStation community for any inconvenience," he wrote.

The update brings XMB and Trophy features to the PlayStation 3.

gamesindustry has posted news about XNA’s general manager Chris Satchell, revealing that microsoft is experimenting with 3D or stereoscopic games.
Speaking to gamesindustry.biz satchell said the technology was “extremely interesting” and that microsoft has experimented with it but said the requirement to wear headgear will hamper its widespread acceptance.

Read more at gamesindustry.biz

This technology although not completely new hasn’t really caught on due to wearing the shutter glasses, however the games that have used them or modified to use them on the pc have looked truely amazing, and have given depth to the games, plus with better controllers then ever, this is the next step to be even more part of the game.

Nyko technologies the premier gaming peripherals manufacture, has revealed details for its upcoming media hub for the PS3.

The hub adds three USB sockets and a media card reader that supports SD cards and memory sticks.
The extra USB ports will allow three extra devices such as flash drives, psp, mp3 players and additional controllers.
The hub draws its power from the PS3 so doesnt require any additional modifications.

“we found that many of our customers who purchased the popular 40 GB version of the PS3, which has less USB ports and no media reader, were looking for an affordable solution to expand these features”, said chris arbogast, director of marketing at nyko.

Source nyko

The first in-game footage XMB has been demostrated on a firmware 2.40 PS3.
As you can see the clock and date displayed in the upper right, and a quick tap of the Playstation button you can get the google search bar and the ability to play and control your own music stored on the harddrive in-game.

You can get more info and the video here
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