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Title: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Blaze on November 19, 2005, 07:42:30 pm
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3364

It won't even play PS2 games, WTF I want my money back.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: trust on November 19, 2005, 08:42:02 pm
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The consoles are being assembled in China, which is notorious for being asian.

lmfao.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Joe on November 19, 2005, 08:54:29 pm
Off topic: This is where x86 got its secret handshake from (which I still remember =p).

Q: Are there stairs in your house?
A: I am protected.

PS: Thats the SA handshake, not the x86.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Blaze on November 19, 2005, 09:56:26 pm
Off topic: This is where x86 got its secret handshake from (which I still remember =p).

Q: Are there stairs in your house?
A: I am protected.

PS: Thats the SA handshake, not the x86.
Ugh... thats not secret, nor is it new.

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The consoles are being assembled in China, which is notorious for being asian.

lmfao.
I know, its terrible!
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Towelie on November 20, 2005, 12:21:31 am
thats hilarious
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Sidoh on November 20, 2005, 12:24:56 am
Haha, did you see "Horrible Link of the DAy" or whatever it was at the bottom?

The religious comics?  I mean I'm a pretty religious person, but those kinds of people are the ones that need to be bludgeoned with a tetherball pole for being idiots.

Edit --

(http://i.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/ctstalker~2005-11-19-alod5.gif)

Holy shit...
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Joe on November 20, 2005, 01:20:30 pm
[...]  I'm a pretty religious person [...] Holy shit...

mmk.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Sidoh on November 20, 2005, 01:38:40 pm
mmk.

Joe, I'm thoroughly convinced that you're an idiot.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Screenor on November 20, 2005, 06:47:42 pm
mmk.

Joe, I'm thoroughly convinced that you're an idiot.
Rofl, first thing I understood in this thread, thank you!
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: DarKDeviL on November 24, 2005, 02:14:40 am
actually I'm pretty sure you can play PS2 games on a Xbox360 ... at least I know you can on normal Xbox... I just put in a modchip than dled some rom files and if I put in an extra hard drive POOF I can play any PS2 game out there.... end of story, GG   :P(same goes for N64 and SNES and w/e the fuck else there is including gameboy color" :o :-*
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: TheSickEmpire on November 26, 2005, 06:07:18 am
actually I'm pretty sure you can play PS2 games on a Xbox360 ... at least I know you can on normal Xbox... I just put in a modchip than dled some rom files and if I put in an extra hard drive POOF I can play any PS2 game out there.... end of story, GG   :P(same goes for N64 and SNES and w/e the fuck else there is including gameboy color" :o :-*

This is not plausible because the Xbox uses the x86 instruction set, and PS2 uses the MIPS instruction set. This is why you'll see the implementation of the 360's compatibilty with regular Xbox games to be spotty at best, because the 360 uses PPC cores which don't run x86.

So, in essence, you're full of shit.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: rabbit on November 26, 2005, 12:16:33 pm
Actually, I think the modchip will allow for this.  IIRC it translates the instructions (same for PS2 modchip, it can translate instructions from GCN and XBox1).
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: ZeroX on November 26, 2005, 05:46:27 pm
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Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: rabbit on November 26, 2005, 09:12:14 pm
Websense blows.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Sidoh on November 26, 2005, 09:16:25 pm
Websense blows.

Yes, yes it does (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=websense).
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: TheSickEmpire on November 27, 2005, 04:59:24 am
Actually, I think the modchip will allow for this.  IIRC it translates the instructions (same for PS2 modchip, it can translate instructions from GCN and XBox1).

Exactly why I said it's not plausible. Besides, writing the instruction set to change x86 to MIPS wouldn't be cost effective.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: rabbit on November 27, 2005, 09:28:06 am
Whatever.  I've heard it translates instructions.  I'll have to take your word for it.  I really have no clue what's going on inside them.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: DarKDeviL on March 08, 2006, 02:23:18 pm
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Quote from: DarKDeviL on November 24, 2005, 01:14:40 AM
actually I'm pretty sure you can play PS2 games on a Xbox360 ... at least I know you can on normal Xbox... I just put in a modchip than dled some rom files and if I put in an extra hard drive POOF I can play any PS2 game out there.... end of story, GG   Tongue(same goes for N64 and SNES and w/e the fuck else there is including gameboy color" Shocked Kiss

This is not plausible because the Xbox uses the x86 instruction set, and PS2 uses the MIPS instruction set. This is why you'll see the implementation of the 360's compatibilty with regular Xbox games to be spotty at best, because the 360 uses PPC cores which don't run x86.

So, in essence, you're full of shit.

uh actually you can come visit Minnesota sometime dude...  tell me a game u want to play from ps2 and ill put it on my xbox for you.
Title: Re: Don't buy a XBOX 360!
Post by: Warrior on March 08, 2006, 09:13:29 pm
Maybe he would of cared back in NOVEMBER