Quake 2 Wip News

[alepus]

this is great news! i think all homebrew should have this protection.
supergood work on the port mczonk! it looks really great. and the sprites are sooooooo nice.

[AtariFreek]

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LOL Great Job And I agreee With Alepus. ALL Homebrew Should Have ISO Protection, Its ******* Like Them Who Make Sony Keep Releaseing Firmware Upgrades.

[ajsblingbling]

hey my first post, i just had to get in on this one.

i tend to agree with the people that say hes stupid for
puting anti iso @#$ on his program....
1. because he is trying to push his political opinion on
someone else, and that is no better then riaa

2. if anyone that is using homebrew but is anti iso had
common since they would relize that the psp wasint
made for homebrew in the first the place...and homebrew
isint something sony wants on there system....
think about it for a second...if everyone is spending all there
time playing quake or doom or other psp homebrew games
or watching movie's on psp homebrew movie players,
thats time that isint spent playing games made for the psp
or watching umd movies that they paid for...or hypeing sony
products to there friends.....
if you think that homebrew isint harming game or movie sales
as much as iso stealing is your an idiot...both are harming
sales...and both are doing things with the system that
sony doesint want in the first place...and in sony's eyes
both the homebrew and the iso people are evil....

so what bugs me about this is that somehow he thinks
puting out a free game is better for the system them
stealing an iso....THEY ARE THE SAME FREAKING THING..
THEY BOTH HARM SALES...GET OFF YOUR HOMEBREW
HIGH HORSE'S

[ajsblingbling]

you people are just tradeing off one evil for a nother so you can
sleep better at night

[NeoXCS]

Ok, here's my take. Anyone dissing the protection is just a n00b. Yes, I find that it may be an inconvenience not to be able to play full speed isos (I hope Sony makes an option to up clock speed), but it's not the end of the world. I myself run a perfectly healthy 2.0 so I dont plan to run isos. People need to just calm down.

so what bugs me about this is that somehow he thinks
puting out a free game is better for the system them
stealing an iso....THEY ARE THE SAME FREAKING THING..
THEY BOTH HARM SALES...GET OFF YOUR HOMEBREW
HIGH HORSE'S

That right there is not productive at all to the scene. If you think homebrew is so bad, please go somewhere else. We don't want you here. Homebrew is not as bad because people who really want games will still buy them but if you use isos, then they aren't buying them.

This was just my take. Please stop flamming McZonk he has done a wonderful job. Enjoy Quake II everyone.

[MadMonkee]

you people are just tradeing off one evil for a nother so you can
sleep better at night

Well you are a ****ing dumbass, I am sorry I had to state that out, you don't seem to realize it on your own. Those programmers wrote ALL their code, they didn't take credit for someone else's $#@!, neither did they steal any effort. And most of all, they did it for free. Meaning NOTHING gained, all given. So shut the **** up and enjoy.


However, I am VERY mad at McZonk for that dumb $#@! ISO folder detection thing. I would be %70 more pissed the **** off if it wasn't for ISOs.

I spend 290 bucks on Untold Legends, Wipeout Pure, Twisted Metal, Dynasty Warriors, Pirates of the Carribean Movie, Rengoku, An Extra Battery, Headphones and USB Charging + Mini cable which I carried in a glasses case with me, everywhere with the psp. I left it in a bookstore one day, and someone took it....

ALL MY ****ING GAMES! O_O... Gone... Even 2 more movies I had gotten for my birthday, poof... stolen.

And you are saying playing ISOs are bad? If I hadn't ripped the ISOs of those UMDs, I would NEVER be able to play the games I loved again. I had to rip the movies from my DVDs... but still it costs me a ton of Memory Stick space. I think the main purpose of ISO playing is to back your $#@! up and to get to sample the game of course. If I were to play rengoku a little before I bought it, $#@! I would never buy that crappy ass game. But once you buy it you can't return it either, at least in the mall or in walmart that's the policy. I got to play Twisted Metal's ISO, I loved it so I bought it. I think ISOs are quite well done and thought of gives you the security of never losing your games, which I had done to me. Also the ability to RATE well or RATE bad. This way only companies who make good games keep making them, better for the public, good business for the better man.

I went to Books-A-Million a thousand times, talked to their manager, they said nothing like that case was ever found...

If I was Sony, I would allow back-ups, however forcefully with SOME kind of encryption tie them to a specific PSP. That way, even if you do get someone else's ISO it won't play on your PSP. And Demo/Shareware versions of upcoming games for Memory Stick. All 128 bit encoded of course.

[Produkt]

They would have to come up with a 256 bit encryption at the rate hackers are figuring out things.

As for the sales thing, you know who is losing more money than sony? Retailers... In the RIAA thing, you heard artists speak out saying sales were being downed when the artists saw limited return on CD's which didn't matter because most got their money from concerts. RIAA Claims they are costing the industree alot, but the groups truely effected said nothing... The retailers..

the developers and retailers have said nothing against software pirates for years... because it happens... most retailers know this because when tapes came out people coppied them aswell... even with books when the photo coppier came out... those were being duplicated...

Piracy is a part of the cycle... you can bottle neck it but sooner or later some one finds a way around it.

McZonk did a great job with his port. Wile it was a simple alpha it still felt empty to me. the level's were short. I could burn past it in 30 seconds without much effort (but I played quake 2 alot back in the day)...

technologie wise, great accomplishment. but he never said how altered his maps were so no chance of custom content yet...

PSMonkie did a great job plenty of maps, but his lacked in gameplay the weapon was cramped, controles needed tweeking and the AI was dead... but then again he did a whole lot more than most of them did... and he had 9 days :P

[NeoXCS]

However, I am VERY mad at McZonk for that dumb $#@! ISO folder detection thing. I would be %70 more pissed the **** off if it wasn't for ISOs.

The iso backup is a good point, but if it bothers you so much then don't play Quake II. Flaming the protection won't help at all. If you must play both (in your case it seems so) then just use the trick to remove protection and play. But please dont flame any psp coders.

[grayjaket]

if he wants to put frikkin iso protection on HIS homebrew that HE is making than let him. if YOU don't like it, MAKE YOUR OWN. oh but thats right...you're all too busy wanting him to conform to your every whim because he's a programmer and it's not like he's being nice enough to make this game to begin with.

you dont like it...dont download it. morons.

[Chalkbot]

I make ISOs of all my games. It's so much better than playing off the UMD, even at the default clock speed of 222 Mhz, your game will load roughly twice as fast. If you don't believe it, go ahead and start a multiplayer game of Star Wars Battlefront II with a friend running the iso. He'll be in there selecting his team about 35 seconds before you. Also the extra battery life is a nice bonus, as well as the ability to fit about 3 UMDs on a memory stick (1 Gb) so you don't need to carry around all those cases. I realized the other day playing lumines with a friend at work that the UMD drive is also very noisey. I had forgotten the irritating sound it makes while playing as I'd ISOed everything long ago. I'm never going back. The argument of protecting your UMDs carries very little weight with me, the little things are pretty durable, but I despise them nonetheless. It's like playing all of your PC games off the CD when you have a perfectly good hard drive in there. If you have the option to install it, it's far superior.