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Rockbox; anybody heard of it?
Topic Started: Aug 9 2007, 01:56 AM (1,023 Views)
Mars
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stormbreaker
Jan 3 2008, 06:01 AM
El
Jan 2 2008, 10:09 AM
Because Halo 3 sucks.  Seriously.

You want recommendations for your iPod now, do ya?  If you haven't already installed doom, I suggest you do that.  Doom and the gameboy mods were the only reasons I got rockbox.  You can find help with that here.  You'll need a wad, unless you want to play the shit freeware version, so google a doom 2 wad download, 2 is better than 1 imo.

The themes you can get are also pretty awesome.  I'd link you to some good ones, but I don't know what iPod model you have.  When you get to the themes page, look for Black Glass nonAA, I was using that, and it basically looks like the new sexy Windows Media Player.  Make sure the nonAA is there, the other one requires a shitload of extra downloading and installing.

Last, find some gameboy color roms to play on.  I'd link you to a good place to download some, but we don't support that here, do we.  A place called shadyroms is pretty good about that.

Let me know if you have any trouble with any of this.

IF YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN ZERO PUNCTUATION GO DIE UNDER A ROCK SOMEWHERE.

That aside,

Rockbox comes with pretty much everything. You'll want to get themes like El said and .gbc roms. That's pretty much it. Theres a lot of stuff on there to explore. (But I'd recommend staying out of the place that says Keep Out unless you want to permanently brick your iPod.

Fuck that yahtzee guy. He never bags the BAD games. Why is that? Can anyone tell me that? Yeah I thought not.

Seriously though, I have rockboxed myself silly. All I like is the chopper game and the ability to play FLACS. In Rainbows, higher fi than ever before. Fi.
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That yahtzee guy is my new hero. It turns out he makes indie games, too.
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That's a pretty stupid thing to say.
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Jan 3 2008, 04:06 AM
Fuck that yahtzee guy. He never bags the BAD games. Why is that? Can anyone tell me that? Yeah I thought not.

Because the Escapist Magazine (or whatever) pays for the game he reviews. And they make money from him reviewing games. And people don't want to watch reviews for lame games. People want entertainment, and he owns at it. He's hilarious in his own unique way just like you and every other Australian.
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Jan 4 2008, 02:21 PM
Mars
Jan 3 2008, 04:06 AM
Fuck that yahtzee guy. He never bags the BAD games. Why is that? Can anyone tell me that? Yeah I thought not.

Because the Escapist Magazine (or whatever) pays for the game he reviews. And they make money from him reviewing games. And people don't want to watch reviews for lame games. People want entertainment, and he owns at it. He's hilarious in his own unique way just like you and every other Australian.

We're also fuckloads better at understanding sarcasm.
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So give us an update Mars, have you done anything we said you should?
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That's a pretty stupid thing to say.
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Mars
Jan 3 2008, 11:04 PM
stormbreaker
Jan 4 2008, 02:21 PM
Mars
Jan 3 2008, 04:06 AM
Fuck that yahtzee guy. He never bags the BAD games. Why is that? Can anyone tell me that? Yeah I thought not.

Because the Escapist Magazine (or whatever) pays for the game he reviews. And they make money from him reviewing games. And people don't want to watch reviews for lame games. People want entertainment, and he owns at it. He's hilarious in his own unique way just like you and every other Australian.

We're also fuckloads better at understanding sarcasm.

My point exactly?






OWNED.
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asda653
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First gen 2gig Nano. iPL or Rockbox?
I didn't expect a kind of spanish inquisition!

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asda653
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Eh, I'm leaning towards rockbox but does it support iStories? or in Notes format?
I didn't expect a kind of spanish inquisition!

iStory in progress: CoD4: Stories of a War

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Feb 5 2008, 06:02 PM
Eh, I'm leaning towards rockbox but does it support iStories? or in Notes format?

Linux sucks. Rockbox is supported a lot more. It's completely open source and awesomeness. You can read .txt files, but there's no support for hyperlinks.
However, you can dual boot with your normal firmware, so you can still read iStories the normal way.
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Yeah, with Rockbox you get dual boot (as mentioned above), and normally turning it on will start Rockbox, and doing something special with the hold button while turning it on will start your old fashioned ipod on.

I simplified what storm said.

I'm now tempted to buy a cheap iPod so I can show it off. My iPhone is awesome, but no doom for it until February.
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That's a pretty stupid thing to say.
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Feb 5 2008, 10:27 PM
Yeah, with Rockbox you get dual boot (as mentioned above), and normally turning it on will start Rockbox, and doing something special with the hold button while turning it on will start your old fashioned ipod on.

I simplified what storm said.

I'm now tempted to buy a cheap iPod so I can show it off. My iPhone is awesome, but no doom for it until February.

Yeah. Now I wish rockbox or some other firmware would get cover flow. (The plugin doesnt work for me... :(

I also might acquire another iPod. My friend just got an iTouch, so I might cheaply expand my debt to Apple to include an 8GB iPhone, 80GB 5.5G, 2GB 1st Gen Nano, and my old 4GB 2nd Generation Mini. That plus my sister's mini, new nano, and my two brother's shuffles. Damn. Apple owns.
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Yeah, they pretty much have an iron hold over your life.
Guess what! I'm writing a book called Nuclear Winter!
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That's a pretty stupid thing to say.
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asda653
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Mmm rockbox is phenomenally awesome, I just went through Transporter on the Nano screen and it was pretty cools. I can compress shit down to 200-250 MB, not bad.
I didn't expect a kind of spanish inquisition!

iStory in progress: CoD4: Stories of a War

http://www.ihud.com/file.php?file=files/21...fice+Terror.xsp
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Feb 9 2008, 01:47 AM
Mmm rockbox is phenomenally awesome, I just went through Transporter on the Nano screen and it was pretty cools. I can compress shit down to 200-250 MB, not bad.

transporter? what are you talking about? rockbox itself is less than 7 megs...
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the transporter, the movie.

I can get a 1 hour 50 minute movie down to 200 mb.
I didn't expect a kind of spanish inquisition!

iStory in progress: CoD4: Stories of a War

http://www.ihud.com/file.php?file=files/21...fice+Terror.xsp
^-- Office Terror FIXED!!!--^
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