That sounds like something I would do. Thank god the boxes say "Mature" or else I wouldve done this.
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Can't access ResetEra from Sega Dreamcast...
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My 7th grade Spanish teacher also ran a pc gaming store on the side and frequently had pc games in her class. So one day, for whatever reason, we had down time and were free to do whatever we wanted for a class period, so i installed alone in the dark on her mac in the class room. The mac was password protected, but the teacher hunt and pecked out her password with one finger, which turned out to be her first name, so i saw it and figured it out.
Cue the next day where the principal was calling me and my friends in to explain how we "hacked" the system and how it was a serious criminal law. The principal called my dad in for a parent teacher meeting to discuss my punishment, but my dad was tech savvy and a nerd and wound up taking my side on the argument, calling their security system trash and saying that in certain circles what i had done would have been applauded for pointing out their security risks.
In the end, i got no punishment at all, haha.
This actually makes me wonder if that's a geniune reason the ESRB uses the word 'mature'. It's clever if so. Although I'm guessing use of the rating pre-dates a lot of the online ludological filth that certain netizens have created.
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probably not because there was an actual adults only classification at one time.
Since we're talking about the first porn we saw. Mine was when I was trying to type in cheatplanet to look at some codes and I must have accidentally typed in chickplanet. I looked up from the keyboard and just about had a heart attack. I quickly turned off my parents using the power button.
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"Dreamcast Porno Party" rolls off the tongue. It sounds so natural. It sounds like the title for an avant garde indie album that belongs in a plaid-shirt-wearing tree-averse lumberjack's music collection
"Dreamcast Porno Party" rolls off the tongue. It sounds so natural. It sounds like the title for an avant garde indie album that belongs in a plaid-shirt-wearing tree-averse lumberjack's music collection
This reminds me of a time when I was developing a user-guide for employees and decided to track down logos for all the popular email providers. I told work colleagues at lunch that if they google image searched "Hotmail" it would bring up naked men, and I reasoned trolls must be uploading pictures and tagging them incorrectly on purpose. Someone immediately tried it and verified that wasn't true. Turns out I actually typed "Hotmale" and it was right there in my history. Of course, this caused instant scrutiny of everyone's google search histories. One of my colleagues had loads of mad things and random thoughts posed as questions to Google, but the ones the office focused on most were things like "Do black men really have bigger penises" and "Scrotum thesaurus".
https://myactivity.google.com for anyone who wants to venture in to the truth of their own soul
This reminds me of how during one of my birthday parties I was showing my friends this superhero text rpg on my Wii browser, and a friend joked only I'd spend a night on my console to read.
Without responding, I then looked up anime porn, and rapidly went through images and videos as some laughed, some sat shocked, and some were aroused. My friend who dissed me simply whispered "this is Why I love you" in response.
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It wasn't much different than setting up the internet in windows 98 at the time, tbh.
Except that the DC drive would have to spin up for every single UI graphic that loaded on the webbrowser, every single page lol.
I like the 3rd Strike element of this party, but a literal piracy party is perhaps one of the scummiest and grossest things I've ever imagined. "Hey everybody, come over and celebrate the fact that we're thieves by playing stolen games together!" I bet some real characters showed up to that....event.
You have a sordid past man. I can't judge though; I guess we all have pretty sordid pasts in retrospect.
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You misinterpreted. These were piracy groups. As in, we were cracking dreamcast games. One of the biggest members of Echelon showed up.
Krejlooc, just wanted to let you know that this thread is awesome.
Not surprised at the piracy party, piracy was really all the rage back then.
Remember a friend who's father was "homebrewing" ps1s at the time and made people pay for that so that he could get a new cd writer so that we could all get free games with it.
Never actually benefitted from it as I was a n64 guy myself.
Remember that Metal Gear was the game that stumped people for the copy protection (not for long though).
Ah, we were young and stupid back then.
Not surprised at the piracy party, piracy was really all the rage back then.
Remember a friend who's father was "homebrewing" ps1s at the time and made people pay for that so that he could get a new cd writer so that we could all get free games with it.
Never actually benefitted from it as I was a n64 guy myself.
Remember that Metal Gear was the game that stumped people for the copy protection (not for long though).
Ah, we were young and stupid back then.
Congratulations. You've gone from being know for being in a Woodsie video for like 10 seconds to this. I applaud you sir.
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I guess I should look into this again, it's been at least 15 years since the last time I did (holy shit) and I was not nearly as comfortable with that kind of thing back then.
Anyway, yeah. Posting in legendary thread.
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Krejlooc wasn't know for the whole old Sonic Xtreme scene or emulation scene something?
and what's a woodsie?
Thank god there is a delete all history option lol.
That's almost as bad as the default on significant locations recording on the iPhone lol
You guys will never know the feeling of getting a diskmag filled to the brim with porn pictures in glorious 16 colors where you couldn't see shit on your ST or Amiga
Those were the days
Oh, well I suppose that's different then. I have no idea who or what Echelon is.
I think Woodsie is a Viner. Or was a Viner I should say since the service is gone
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Echelon is the group that Sega chose to leak the Sega Genesis emulator for the Dreamcast to:
to clarify, Sega Dreamcast games use GD-Roms that are not able to be read on a normal computer. However, using a network adapter and a specially built program, you can use your Dreamcast as a GD-ROM drive for a networked PC, which will let you browse the contents of a disc. In February of 2001, Sega released the Sega Genesis Smash Pack on the Dreamcast, which was a pack of emulated Genesis games on a custom built Sega emulator for the Dreamcast. Well, if you browse the contents of the disc, you will find a file called Echelon.txt. Open the file and...
Echelon was a warez group that, later in life, focued mainly on the Dreamcast and Playstation 2. Like most piracy groups, their efforts are mainly known for cracking and releasing games online, but deeper in the scene they were an invaluable resource for figuring out how the Dreamcast worked, which is a big reason I am still able to do Dreamcast Programming today. Echelon, for example, was integral in cracking the binary scrambling routine that Dreamcast games go through which makes them bootable -- without the scrambling algorithm being reverse engineered, no homebrew for the DC would ever exist.
Anywho, Echelon released the Emulator a week later, stripped from the smash pack, with a loader that would let users load any Genesis rom on the DC. Echelon's release notes for the crack:
Huh, that's actually fascinating. Talented group of guys then, thanks for that little history lesson.
Small YouTuber who made a video about the steam controller and referenced something you said about it on the old site.
Well, that's what I first remember about Krejlooc. I didn't know anything about their emulation experience.
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Their crowning achievement was the Skies of Arcadia release. Yes yes, piracy is terrible, but the stuff they did with that release was honestly amazing. See, Skies of Arcadia uses 2 GD-ROMs to their capacity. A GD-ROM is actually 1 gigabyte big, and bigger than the largest CD-ROMs (800-900 Megabytes). This meant that, essentially, skies of Arcadia was uncrackable. But Echelon did it over the course of a year, by reverse engineering the way the game loads data from the GD-ROM drive, disassembly the binary for the game, and locating the exact routines that made this possible. They then patched these regions with a custom decompression routine, and figured out how to compress all the data on the disc in this custom compression scheme. The Routine they created was just fast enough to work with the game, which infamously loaded battles mid-field (you could hear the dreamcast drive spin up when this would happen). As such, they managed to release the game on 2 700 MB CD-Rs when the real game was 2 GB big.
Now, releasing the game is cool and shit, but what was way cooler was finding out how the game itself worked, which Echelon outlined in release notes. Not only did they reverse engineer this shit, they catelogged it, so that home brew authors could gain an understanding of how a commercial game's memory management systems worked. SoA used a free list of objects in a double-linked list to dynamically load objects in and out of memory as needed. It was really cool shit. Plus their project also resulted in a type of compression that was quick and could be used in homebrew DC games.
Echelon was a cool group, albeit very morally grey. In any case, after communicating with these dudes for a year online, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to meet these guys IRL. Like I said, we mainly played SF3 all night. But damn they were cool.
Echelon had some cool tunes in their cracktros too. Also, some demo scene effects type stuff in others.
SOA's was rather plain (possibly because they barely managed to get the game to fit) but catchy music.
There were versions of games like Shenmue that removed content (like no voice acting for random NPCs) but SOA was whole on CD!
SOA's was rather plain (possibly because they barely managed to get the game to fit) but catchy music.
There were versions of games like Shenmue that removed content (like no voice acting for random NPCs) but SOA was whole on CD!
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That's because Echelon is also an historic demoscene group.
It's all way more complicated than just theft, really. These guys have their hands in a lot of the history of electronic gaming in lots of different parts.
Had to set new date/time on boot, so I set the current time based on my phone. So it should have been OK.
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So that white page is gone when I go back with my dreamcast, getting the same old banned error from first post.
trust me I spend many hours trying and reading different guides, configuration looked correct, but for some reason it would always fail to connect (could even be a defective modem in the end...), well, my DC was imported and that's why it had the modem, the official DC over here (Brazil) came without a modem, and I had a very small local ISP, so something didn't work, oh well, probably 2018 me could figure it out, but 2000 me didn't lol
Great thread. Anyone interested in stories about finding porn in the woods should read the letter column to the comic Sex Criminals.
I remember this splash page very well. My dad used to use discjuggler to burn gdroms for me when I was in grade school.
He would download the games via usenet in like 50+ part RARs. I learned a lot about PCs during those times.
Edit: to keep up with the theme of the thread, using usenet helped me find lots of porn. Luckily we had broadband installed in 1999.
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Yeah how about this thing:
Anybody have this thing on their DS or Wii
Could it simply not be caching (properly)?
Wait...wait hold on a minute, you could access the internet with a Original DS?? How come no one told me about this?!
Really appreciate Echelon's work on Dreamcast. I went through some terrible moments in the mid 2000s - It got to a point where I could not afford much beyond for years, so their stuff kept me busy. I know it's frowned upon to admit piracy like this, but a lot of their work helped me get through a very suicidal period of my life. Not to mention it really helped me fall in love with Dreamcast all over again.
I had no idea they did so much to get Skies of Arcadia running. Seems like they would be the best people to port the game to modern platforms, hah.
I had no idea they did so much to get Skies of Arcadia running. Seems like they would be the best people to port the game to modern platforms, hah.
