Comments on: The Player Caste http://wetheplayers.net/?p=33 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:55:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: DoomRater http://wetheplayers.net/?p=33&cpage=1#comment-45 DoomRater Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:52:07 +0000 http://wetheplayers.net/?p=33#comment-45 As a retro player myself, I actually find myself leaning towards the Wii for one important reason- modability. I feel that if a console is capable of doing more than what it was intended for, it should be made so it can do that. Already homebrew people have found ways to install backdoors to homebrew applications directly onto the Wii, and with that the ability to add functionality to the Wii becomes easy- just add a new homebrew application and you're good. While this may include illegal software, some interesting propositions pop up, including DVD capabilities. That said, I was never able to properly burn a CD that would run on my Sega Dreamcast. I really wanted to try out the emulators that worked on it, nor do I have an Xbox, much less a modded one. Perhaps I am more hacker than gamer in this case, but if I can tinker with it, I immediately go "What's this button do?" As a retro player myself, I actually find myself leaning towards the Wii for one important reason- modability. I feel that if a console is capable of doing more than what it was intended for, it should be made so it can do that. Already homebrew people have found ways to install backdoors to homebrew applications directly onto the Wii, and with that the ability to add functionality to the Wii becomes easy- just add a new homebrew application and you’re good. While this may include illegal software, some interesting propositions pop up, including DVD capabilities.

That said, I was never able to properly burn a CD that would run on my Sega Dreamcast. I really wanted to try out the emulators that worked on it, nor do I have an Xbox, much less a modded one. Perhaps I am more hacker than gamer in this case, but if I can tinker with it, I immediately go “What’s this button do?”

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