Twilight Princess software Hack revealed!

[Harrison]

I would just buy two PS3's if that were the case. One for legal online use, and the other for offline backup gameplay. The alternative could be like the 360 mod chips that allow you to switch them off before going online to prevent you from being banned.

If it did go like the PSP with custom firmwares then it wouldn't be much of an issue. Look how quickly the custom firmwares come out after the official release of a new one. The last one appeared the same day!

[Demon Cleaner]

I would just buy two PS3's if that were the case. One for legal online use, and the other for offline backup gameplay. The alternative could be like the 360 mod chips that allow you to switch them off before going online to prevent you from being banned.

Actually a lot of people are buying two 360s, one for online gaming and one for playing copies. But a lot of people get banned, I don't know if switching the modchip off really prevents from being banned.

[Harrison]

Yeah, I've actually been reading lately that M$ can detect the slight fluctuations in the power that the mod chips make compared to the standard console output and so use this to detect the presence of a mod chip and so ban the console. The community are all recommending using DVD drive firmware hacks instead now as they cannot be detected in the same way.

[Demon Cleaner]

Another problem is with the iso files from the net, if the checksum does not correspond 1:1 to the original, M$ can detect it and ban you. And you know that there are some faulty iso files out there.

[Harrison]

But only ever a problem if you are going to be playing the game online. For RPGs and many others I only ever play offline anyway. The same is true of PC games, where you can't play online without a valid serial number. If I like a game enough to want to play it online I will buy the original anyway.

[J T]

I'll be waiting quite a long time before modding the Wii or 360.

That being said, I'd be more inclined to do the Wii, as it's online service is currently not really appealing to me whereas I'm having quite a lot of fun with the 360 online.