Chipped X - Box's

[Ric]

Legal Jargon. It is illegall to copy, modify and or reproduce a product that is under copy right protection. Chipping your X-Box voids your manufacturers warranty.

On that note I was just wondering if anyone here has their X-Box chipped and what your views on this are.

For me the positives far outweighed the negatives and I got mine chipped. Reason being that I can now use my X-Box to run all my old favourites. It acts as a N.E.S, S.N.E.S, Master System, Mega Drive (Genesis) N64, Playstation... I could go on. All with a little thing called emulation and roms. I know that regular users of this website have mixed views on this so I wondered if you agree or disagree with it.

It's dishonest I know but I now never have to buy a game again. I can just rent one, rip it to my hard drive and it effectively becomes a built in game. All those people waiting for Halo 2, I played it, ok the voice acting is in french but you still get everything else in english. It's looking pretty damn good, fans of the game arent going to be disappointed.

My reason is this, for anyone who lives out of home and holds down a full time job will understand that they dont live out of their parents pocket anymore if I can rent a game and copy it rather than wasting £40 then bonus, I got cash for a game and my weekly shopping / bills. My other reason is that I wouldn't be able to afford the games otherwise meaning I would never play them.

Illegal breach of copy wright and and video game piracy. I love it. What's your view.

[Professor S]

My view is that you are a scumbag and a thief. I hope you get caught and rot in jail and have to pay off fines for the rest of your life.

Here's an idea... get a job and pay for the damn games so that the people that bust their ass to get them to us can make a living from what they love.

[Null]

actually putting a mod chip in a console isnt as cut and dry as illegal / legal. it depends on what your doing with it.


And emulators from past consoles i have no problem with. They dont make the games amymore, and they arent getting any money off thoes games either way. your always finding them re sold by people. So finding emulators for thoes such as old NES games, doesnt hurt anyone.

new games however, i'd suggest people get off thier lazy ass and buy the damn thing. people who made the game deserve the money for the work they put into em. downloading copies of thoes is the same as walking into a store and putting it in your pocket.

[Blackmane]

Same view as most here, I have no problem with old emulated games because they are so bloody hard to find anyways, and also I hate having to have all the different consoles to play the games.

However, new games are bad to be ripping like that, because that just encourages that sort of thing more.

[Crash]

yeah, but there is no one that does emulating that does not rip games to their XBOX harddrive.

this is why xboxnext is not putting a harddrive in. they are sick of pirates (they deserve it for not taking better measures)

piracy is retarded.... this is why games are freaking 50 bux at launch. i'd bet more games would be 39, or 29 if piracy comes down.

[thatmariolover]

No. Games are $50 because they can be $50.

And honestly, if I'm never going to buy a game - but it's fun to play from time to time - I've got no problem with people pirating games.

I don't have any of my systems modded. But I just don't care. Yeah, there are legitimate pirates out there that download everything they can. But if you're never going to buy the game - then the company isn't going to make any money off of you anyway and nobody really loses anything. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm extremely picky about buying games. I don't buy games unless they've either gotten rave reviews, or they're part of a series that has entertained me time and time again.

And I know I'm going to get flamed for that, but it makes no difference. It's like the South Park episode when it's showing all of the recording artists living lives of "semi-luxury" because of pirates.

Oh, and by the way, the Xbox can be softmodded so it doesn't even need a chip (using a Mech Assault bug).

[Null]

i agree on the price thing. i really doubt prices would come down at all without piracy, because people do and still would pay. they got no reason to drop price.

[Typhoid]

They would still make a profit on games at like, $30. Like everything else, games are grossly overpriced, because they can get away with it.

I dont like piracy, but theres nothing i can do to stop it. I look at piracy like smoking. I dont like either, but there is nothing I can do to convince anyone to stop.

Now, like, i download music, (technically its legal though, considering its Canada and all) But i NEVER burn CD's with the songs I have. I still buy it. Like, I DL'ed all 3 Hives CD's, i liked then, so i bought all 3 real CD's.

Same with games. A while ago i DL'ed Civilization 3, liked it, and bought it.

I know thats computer though, not like, Xbox or anything.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Same with games. A while ago i DL'ed Civilization 3, liked it, and bought it.

I know thats computer though, not like, Xbox or anything.

Why would because its computer make any difference? pirating on xbox is not a bigger deal the PC. games are games.

[GameMaster]

I don't think you should pirate when games are readily available at the stores and are still in production. But if they're no longer produced and the system for which they made is no longer produced then I think it's okay. I've downloaded Streets of Rage 1,2, and 3 and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. But I have these games for my Genesis so I'm innocent.

[Fox 6]

sounds like a dumb idea to me

[Acebot44]

If I get a new xbox, I'm chipping the old one. But I don't play any old games or many new ones anyway so it would be pointless.

[Ric]

For those of you telling me get up off my fat lazy ass and get a job read my post again. I work full time, 45+ hours a week so dont go giving me any s**t about being lazy. I got my x-box chipped primarily for the emulation. I had a razz on Halo 2 now and would consider buying the game.

If piracy were stopped outright then the prices of games would not come down, they charge what they do for them because they can. They have the monopoly.

As I said I would not be able to afford the games otherwise, not when I have to choose between that and eating. Try living on a budget and you will see, I dont live outta mummy and daddys pocket anymore. I work my ass off every day, sometimes 7 days a week to struggle to make my living so dont go getting on your high horse with me boy.

Anyway points noted. We all have our own ways and means.

[Professor S]

I don't give a rat's crap about your excuses. I live on a budget and work in a bar while putting myself through school. Thats called living on a budget. I haven't bought a new game since Fable (needed trade-ins to get it) and before that I didn't buy a new game since Farcry. I don't steal because its illegal, its wrong and in the end ITS NOT MINE TO TAKE. There s a thing called renting a game, so your poverty claims are completely rediculous.

This isn't about whether or not the price of the games come down. Market price is set by demand, not by whether or not YOU can afford them. Just because YOU can't afford them doesn't give you the right to just take it. Nothing gives you that right whether legally or ethically.

Pirating hurts the business that you profess to love and enjoy so much that you just can't go without playing games that you can't afford. In the end its selfish and needless and reprehensible. If you were just using your chipped box for emulation, then I wouldn't have a problem. But your not. Your stealing new material and costing people who studied for years to do what they love their right to claim the rewards from their hard work.

I repeat: You are scum. Enjoy wallowing in that fact and I hope that the numerous bull**** excuses that you manufacture set your conscious at ease so that you can live with the fact that you are scum.

Get caught. Get fined. You deserve it.

[Ace195]

I don't pirate I just don't buy games.. If a friend of mine gets a game and they finish with it I'll borrow it.. It's not pirating because they remove the game from their computer and as do I before I give the cd back ... It's called working the system read the piracy laws.. However if it's a good multiplayer game C&C generals and such I'll just go buy the game..