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from the ps2-is-still-the-best-console-ever dept.
Microsoft's mid-cycle refresh for the Xbox One, the Xbox One X, has been announced. Graphics performance is quadrupled (and then some) to allow for 2160p gaming:
As far as the hardware itself goes, thanks to Microsoft's ongoing campaign, we already know the bulk of the details of the console. The 16nm SoC at the heart of the new Xbox One design is meant to be significantly more powerful than the original and S versions of the Xbox One, vaulting MS from having the least powerful console to the most powerful console. All told, the Xbox One X will offer almost 4.3x the GPU compute throughput of the Xbox One S, while the CPU cores have received a healthy 31% clockspeed boost (Interesting aside: Microsoft is still not calling it Jaguar, unlike the XB1/XB1S). The memory feeding the beast has also gotten a great deal faster as well, with Microsoft switching out their 8GB of DDR3 for a large and very fast 12GB of GDDR5, which has a combined memory bandwidth of 326GB/sec.
AKA the X-OX. Can it run NetHack in 4K?
Previously: PlayStation Neo and Xbox "Project Scorpio" to Bring 4K Resolution and VR to Console Gaming
The Race for 4K: How Project Scorpio Targets Ultra HD Gaming
More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @02:26PM (5 children)
... as long as you don't mind running some black-box binary blob from a shady hacker "community" website in order to exploit a security flaw that gives you (or someone else?) access to low-level aspects of the boot process.
Got an oscilloscope and soldering skills? If so, then anything is possible, amirite?
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Monday June 12 2017, @03:49PM (2 children)
I installed one of those modchips on the original xbox. They ran pretty powerful stuff after doing whatever they do to bypass the read only mode. Could even bootstrap you into a linux distro. Given what a BIOS can potentially be doing if you get a crap one I'm surprised I never gave it much more thought...
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(Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday June 12 2017, @04:08PM (1 child)
My friend had one of those, he had MAME installed on it... all kinda of kewl shit. Original XBOX with all the arcade games like Dungeons and Dragons and shit. Was cool.
I put a mod chip in my friends PS2. It was pretty cool, got a chinese version of Tekken2 off the net for like 15 bucks. Then he found a website to download all the games. That guy burned basically every PS2 game in existence.
Me, I paid for Quake and Left 4 Dead/2. Those are the only games I play an only once in awhile.
I have a nintendo wii i used smashstack on and got a USB stick with a buncha games on it, but I dont play it hardly ever. I have snes9x on my wii. I play that more than the wii games. (I like aero fighters, and tetris). Xenoblade on Wii was awesome. Best RPG I have ever played on a system at the time. I haven't played any of the new Final Fantasy but I hear they are good (the new PS4 one).
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Lagg on Monday June 12 2017, @04:58PM
The Wii? If it's anything like those Gameboy Color screws that must have been fun. I ran that cromwell stuff for a while until I figured out how to make zdoom and zsnes to run. Also knew a guy that did pretty much what you did - except sold them to people in stocks of like 10 at a time. People made a killing on that.
Also I don't know about those new FFs. They seem like more movie games than MGS does. But I heard 11 was pretty good. 13 was bizarre. Never played it but watched many videos. If only they had a better story and characters that could have been some gloriously surreal stuff. Apparently as many people hate it as love it. But I guess that's Square :/
Oh by the way if you want some worthy successor to L4D2. There's a game called Dying Light which is also first person but open world. The single player is immensely fun, played some multiplayer a while ago. Also fun. One of those rare zombie games where both modes are solid.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 12 2017, @09:00PM
The point is to have a efficient hack that permits unmolested hardware to boot whatever you want. Usually by taking advantage of code that is signed but not secure in the boot process. I'll assume here the process is quite similar to the ones for computerized phones.
The problem with soldering etc, is that it don't really scale well.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 12 2017, @09:04PM
Another issue is that currently a lot of chips have internal crypto engines to make sure that even if you can fiddle with all I/O in any way you like. You won't have the keys to make use of it..