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Nokia N-Gage Cracked 232

Posted by CowboyNeal from the adding-insult-to-bad-press dept.
According to Mr. Belvedere over at CD Freaks, the Nokia N-Gage has been cracked. From the article: "The games that were designed for the N-Gage will of course only work with the Nokia device but not anymore. Now that the security on the N-Gage has been cracked the games can be played on other mobile phones as well such as the Siemens SX1." The article notes that Sonic N is the only game seen in public yet, but others are sure to follow soon. It'll be interesting to see how Nokia handles this.
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  • Fortunately (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:02PM (#7445942)
    It's still under warrantly, so you can get the screen fixed. Just be more careful next time, and don't drop it.

  • Strange (Score:3, Insightful)

    by autopr0n ( 534291 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:03PM (#7445958) Homepage Journal
    So nokia didn't do anything special with their hardware, it's just a standard J2ME system? That seems pretty stupid...

    Now that I think about it, that's basicaly what MS did with the Xbox. I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to play those games on a standard PC?
    • From what I recall the X-box reads a disc differently. I can't remember any details though.

      • Re:Strange (Score:1, Informative)

        by dthable ( 163749 )
        I believe that it uses a PIII with special BIOS. If the BIOS can't ensure that the disc is a valid XBox game, then it doesn't move past the POST.

        I'm sure you can play an XBox game on a PC with the right loaded and drivers. How else would you develop for it.

        • Re:Strange (Score:4, Informative)

          by Hast ( 24833 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @03:12PM (#7446650)
          No, you can't play XBox games on a standard PC. (At least not yet, probably never.)

          When you develop on one you use Visual Studio with an XBox SDK coupled with a special developer edition of the XBox. (Which has special BIOS and 128MB RAM among other things.)

          You can then execute code and debug code on the developer Xbox from you PC over the network. (And if you mod your XBox you can develop like this too.)
    • So nokia didn't do anything special with their hardware, it's just a standard J2ME system?

      No, it's a standard Series 60 platform - AFAIK the programs are coded with C/C++ but not Java.

      Sure, the OS also supports J2ME, but the commercial games are hardly coded with it.

      • Re:Strange (Score:5, Informative)

        by PierceLabs ( 549351 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:19PM (#7446155)
        Not true, most of the commercial games for mobile phones ARE coded with J2ME if we look at the ecosystem that the nGage lives in. There are games written in C/C++ as well and all of the games you buy at retail on carts are written in C, but the vast majority of content available is in J2ME.

        • Re:Strange (Score:3, Informative)

          by kmarius ( 704857 )

          Too bad you have to be an "authorized N-Gage developer" to program in C/C++. With all the competition in the market, they need all the help they can get.

          From the source [n-gage.com]:

          N-Gage(tm) supports two different game styles: downloadable titles and rich games distributed on MMC cards.

          Downloadable titles for N-Gage are developed in Java(tm) MIDP in the same way and with the same tools used to develop downloadable games for any other Series 60 Platform device. You do not require authorization to develop dow

          • Re:Strange (Score:2, Informative)

            by ecki ( 115356 )
            Too bad you have to be an "authorized N-Gage developer" to program in C/C++

            As I understand it, that's only necessary to develop games which are supposed to use the copy protection feature. Otherwise, you can just grab the Series60 SDK and start programming. I'm not sure however if there is any additional benefit in the N-Gage SDK such as 2D/3D or input APIs. But reading that the N-Gage games seem to also run on other Series60 devices, I'm sceptical about that.

    • n-guage does nto run java or j2me..from a j2me developer

    • Re:Strange (Score:5, Insightful)

      by gl4ss ( 559668 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:36PM (#7446311) Homepage Journal
      not standard j2me system(heck, the resolutions differ from in different j2me devices enough to not make them unworkable in most phones, in most phones apart from s60 phones the j2me is very freakking limited when it comes to .jar size and heap size anyways).

      it's a standard s60 system(as pointed out), and s60 has been available for a while and most software available for it can be found cracked on the net(yahoo groups, irc, the usual places where you would find warez). this shouldn't really surprise anyone.

      as for playing on pc, i'm not so sure about that(but it shouldn't be overhelmingly difficult to find enough docs that would make it possible to do such an emulator that would run binaries compiled for them).

      also theres slight differences in thos s60 phones, for example while the pad in ngage doesn't block itself(so that you can press both up and left at the same time) the pad in 3650 blocks itself(so that you can't press up and left at the same time). i'd just except them to come with up some better execution environment checks with the next range of games(after which the crackers find a way around them too).

      anyways, this should give some indication how much nokia had to shell out for actually developing the ngage hardware(not much, as they had done it for other phones already). kind of how their first mp3 playing phone was basicly a quick hack too(though, now it seems they're unifying the hardware to be pretty same in most of their phones, the cheaper smaller phones have already mostly exactly same innards).

      next week on slashdot: crackers crack securerom cd protection on pc! gp32 has copied games!

    • Re:Strange (Score:3, Interesting)

      by pebs ( 654334 )
      Now that I think about it, that's basicaly what MS did with the Xbox. I wonder how easy/difficult it would be to play those games on a standard PC?

      The XBox is a different architecture than a standard PC. For example, the video RAM and system RAM are shared. From what I've heard, it wouldn't be that easy, you'd need to emulate the hardware. Doing a little Googling, there are some XBox emulators and even a project that attempts to convert XBox executables to PC executables. I don't know whether these ar

  • Uber-nerds (Score:5, Funny)

    by pudding7 ( 584715 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:03PM (#7445962)
    Sweet! Cause I bet those games are worth playing on other phones!

  • DMCA (Score:5, Insightful)

    by pvt_medic ( 715692 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:04PM (#7445972)
    so how long till a lawsuit is filed for violations of Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

  • lookit me! (Score:5, Funny)

    by mekkab ( 133181 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:04PM (#7445974) Homepage Journal
    I'm not just side talkin' [sidetalkin.com], I'm also Side HACKING! [imdb.com]

  • Hey good news for Nokia (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:05PM (#7445981)
    they might sell THREE games now thanks to this.
  • As if the N-Gage wasnt having enough problems, now what reason do people have to actually pay money for this thing?

    • IMHO, alot. (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Ch_Omega ( 532549 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @07:59PM (#7449344) Journal
      As if the N-Gage wasnt having enough problems, now what reason do people have to actually pay money for this thing?

      Well, not to sound like an Nokia marketteer, but in my opinion, the N-Gage has recieved alot unfair critisism, maybe because of it trying so hard to be both fish and fowl.

      First of all, the N-Gage is a standard Series60 phone, exept for a few small differences, as f.eks. stereo sound(enabling Stereo MP3's/ogg's), FM-radio(which no other series60 phone has) and lack of camera(which all other series60 phones has). So, if you simply want a cheap series60 phone(to f.eks. use as a small PDA/web browser on the go(Opera)/radio/MP3/Ogg-player), and don't need a camera, the N-Gage might be a better alternative than f.eks. any of the other series60 phones. If not used primarly as a gamedevice, alot of it's criticism will be more or less irrelevant. And as of the speaker/microphone placement, using a handfree will solve that...

      Another thing that is worth pointing out, is that even though you can now download and run games on other Series60 devices(and that is, *ONLY on series60 devices*), most of them don't support more than one simultanous key-press, and the keys aren't exactly layed with gaming in mind. Anyone who has ever played emulated gameboy games on f.eks. a Nokia 3650 will probably nod their heads when I say that it sucks.

      So, even though it seems to be vogue to hate it, It's still a great device(in a PDA-sense) in my opinion, even though it's not too successfull at what Nokia had in mind, namely gaming.
      • and the keys aren't exactly layed with gaming in mind.

        Actually, according to most reviews I've seen of it [and supported by the little sample one they have at EB games] the buttons ON the n-gag e weren't really layed out with gaming in mind either. I'm not really sure WHAT was in mind when they were layed out, but it wasn't gaming. (If I had to hazard a guess what WAS on mind though, I think I'd have to say it was "pain".)
  • How long before we see downloadable cellphone roms for our PCs? Of course there will be illegal distros of the games online. I just find it funny that, aside from the people getting the games for their other phones (not nokia) you KNOW people will be running roms. And the big question is: WHY?

  • More Importantly (Score:5, Interesting)

    by SupeRobot Ninja ( 719240 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:07PM (#7446010)
    Is this really worth caring about? I mean anyone who takes the N-Gage seriously as a console has severe issues. Not to mention that only a handful of phones are going to be capable of running the games anyway. Also, it's not like Nokia can do anything about it; it'd cost more (considering the N-Gage is *already* failing financially) to fix than what they might actually lose to piracy.

    • Re:More Importantly (Score:3, Interesting)

      by mekkab ( 133181 )
      actually, this is GREAT for Nokia! A hacker-friendly phone platform! Why, they might actually SELL a few!

      (Who do you think leaked the info in the first place?!) [/conspiracy]

      • Re:More Importantly (Score:5, Interesting)

        by gl4ss ( 559668 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:45PM (#7446391) Homepage Journal
        leaked? the symbian in it isn't exactly locked down very hard(and the crackers already had experience from cracking s60 programs).

        heck, you want to develop for series60 with c++? forum.nokia.com has all the tools you need. there's c64 emulator, zx spectrum emulator and a gameboy emulator along with gazillion homebrewed titles out there already.

        it is the most 'hacker friendly'(that is affordable) phone platform out there. which is the reason why i got myself a 3650 last summer, sure helped a lot of those crappy train rides. while the concept of having computer programs on your phone might be confusing to some, to nerds it's very convinient. ngages best selling point is that it is the cheapest s60 phone out there(and at the same time, the cheapest phone that has loadable programs more powerful than j2me, and while at that it has the most powerful j2me too).

    • Re:Whatever.... (Score:2, Insightful)

      by botzi ( 673768 )
      Jeez??? Interesting?? /. can always surprise me. Let's put it that way *dude*. Have you seen THPS on the N-Gage? No? Well, let me than tell you that it is FAR AHEAD of the current state of mobile gaming and nothing before the PSP will even get closer. As for this crack the small catch* is that the games programmed for Symbian 6 will be surely played on every phone runnning the OS, what they forget to tell you is that having the hardware to run the Os, doesn't mean you have the hardware to run the game(Sonic

  • article text aleady /.'ed (Score:5, Informative)

    by ed333 ( 684843 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:07PM (#7446012)
    Nokia's N-Gage mobile gaming device has been cracked
    Posted by Dennis on 11 November 2003 - 14:50 - Source: SPOnG.com

    Mr. Belvedere, our Club CD Freaks Moderator, used our news submit to tell us that Nokia's N-Gage device has been cracked according to this information. The Nokia N-Gage device is primarily a handheld gaming device but it can also be used as an MP3 player, wireless browser and last but not least as a telephone.

    The games that were designed for the N-Gage will of course only work with the Nokia device but not anymore. Now that the security on the N-Gage has been cracked the games can be played on other mobile phones as well such as the Siemens SX1:

    Nokia will today be licking its wounds and doing a fair amount of worrying, with the revelation that the N-Gage's security has been cracked like an egg, with other manufacturers' handsets able to play the machine's software.

    Specifically, the Siemens SX1 is already capable of running N-Gage games, with Sonic N being the only game seen in public, though it's expected that the others won't be too far behind.

    This is expected to be the start of a process that will see third-party hardware add-on sales of devices that will enable many phones to simply suck up the N-Gage content, then go on their merry way.

    Nokia's reaction to this new, seemingly unforeseen problem, will be interesting to observe, to say the least.

    Some screenshots and video's of the Siemens SX1 mobile phone running the Nokia N-Gage games can be found on Club-Siemens. More information on the hacked N-Gage can be read here and here.

    • Talk about ego (Score:2, Funny)

      by mblase ( 200735 )
      Nokia will today be licking its wounds and doing a fair amount of worrying, with the revelation that the N-Gage's security has been cracked like an egg

      "In other news, all of us here at CD Freaks have ten-inch penises and can eat shattered glass without feeling pain. Boo-ya!"

    • But even funnier (Score:4, Funny)

      by The Tyro ( 247333 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @03:23PM (#7446752)
      is the HUGE Business Software Alliance banner ad that greeted me when I opened their webpage.

      I don't know what to say...

  • While I respect the effort, ... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by burgburgburg ( 574866 ) <splisken06NO@SPAMemail.com> on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:07PM (#7446014)
    the important question is: Are the games formerly soley available on the N-Gage that good that they're worth playing on other phones/devices/etc.?

  • Not quite. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Kenja ( 541830 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:08PM (#7446029)
    The standard Symbian package does not include OpenGL. Thus games for the NGage that make use if it will not run on anything else (for now). Even the Nokia 3650, wich is almost the same hardware will not run these apps.
    • isn't it all done in software? that's how it looks and the guesswork on the street is..

      though i haven't tested these for myself yet..
    • Umm... so are you suggesting that the screenshots of the SX1 playing the cracked game is a fake? That certainly looks like "anything else" to me.

      • WHAT PLAYS (Score:5, Informative)

        by exhilaration ( 587191 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @03:28PM (#7446803)
        Here's the list, from an unofficial source:

        Siemens SX1 plays:
        Sonic
        Tomb Raider
        Puyo Pop
        Pandemonium
        Tony Hawk

        Nokia 6600 plays:
        Pandemonium
        Puyo Pop
        Sonic
        Tomb Raider
        Tony Hawk
        (Puzzle Bubble fails)

        Nokia 3650 plays:
        Sonic
        Puyo Pop
        (everything else fails due to insufficient RAM)

    • "The standard Symbian package does not include OpenGL."

      And neither does the N-Gage. The 3D-games on the N-Gage are all using software-renderers like f.eks. Fathammer's X-Forge engine [fathammer.com].

      The N-Gage is simply a standard Series60-phone,(exept that it lacks a camera, and have stereo sound and FM-Radio instead) with a different key layout.

  • I'll give you one guess (Score:5, Funny)

    by _UnderTow_ ( 86073 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:10PM (#7446052)
    It'll be interesting to see how Nokia handles this."

    I assume it will be with lawyers?

    • Re:I'll give you one guess (Score:4, Interesting)

      by cgenman ( 325138 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:45PM (#7446398) Homepage
      I assume it will be sighs of relief.

      If Nokia is like every other console company, they take a cut of sales of the cartridges. Sure, most make a little bit on hardware too, but Nokia has really lost that battle. Getting a cut of games released that will play on someone else's platform would be ideal. Think about how much money IBM would have made if they had some way to require licenses to release games on any hardware compatible with their system.

      As they don't control the hardware it isn't a viable long-term solution, but if Nokia was smart (tacophone aside) they would release their own attachments to other phones to facilitate N-Gage playing. That way, at least, they could bow out gracefully and make a little money along the way.

  • Shouldn't this be true only for J2ME games? (Score:5, Informative)

    by fuxoft ( 161836 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:10PM (#7446053) Homepage
    I presume this only concerns the "simple" J2ME games. Certainly other mobile phones lack hardware to run "big" N-Gage games like Tomb Raider, Pandemonium or Tony Hawk...? (I don't know for sure, the article is already shlashdotted, but Headline like this seems to be misleading.)
    • The software should be runnable on any similarly equipped Series 60 phone such as the 3650 - but more likely these games will simply live on in PC based emulators.

      A failure of DRM is likely the last nail in the coffin for the nGage. Now that the content can be readily pirated - I'm not sure the remaining 'gung-ho' companies will stick with the platform.
      • The software should be runnable on any similarly equipped Series 60 phone such as the 3650 - but more likely these games will simply live on in PC based emulators.

        But from a practical standpoint, who cares? All of these games are cut-down versions of games available on PC or on systems already well-emulated on PCs...

        • Well the next time I'm carrying my PC with me while I'm at the bank I'll remember that :) The whole appeal of both camera phones and cell phone games is that they take advatage of a device that you are already carrying around with you. While people may leave their iPod, PDA, laptop, etc. somewhere else - they most often always have their cell phone with them.

          • I think you missed your parent's point. The parent was asking what exactly has been achieved by cracking Nokia's DRM, since your grandparent suggested that the best point about this was that now a PC emulator could play the games.

            Most of the similarly-equipped phones to the N-Gage are more expensive, so this crack doesn't seem to have any real benefit to anyone except perhaps those who wish to distribute the games illegally.

  • Big impact (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Mechanik ( 104328 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:10PM (#7446054) Homepage
    So let's see, this will let you add a total of, what, like 4 whole games to your library for your non-N-Gage phone?

    Don't get me wrong, it's still neat in a way, but "Crappy game system with no games gets cracked so you can play those nonexistant games elsewhere" seems somewhat underwhelming.


    Mechanik

    • Re:Big impact (Score:5, Funny)

      by Nogami_Saeko ( 466595 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:45PM (#7446390)
      It may very well be that installing cracked n-gage games on other phones will be easier than performing the complex battery/compartment door/tinylittle memorycard operation involved in installing the real n-gage game modules inside the phone...
    • I think the fact that the games were moved is far less important than the fact that people were able to "crack" this device in a very short time since it's release. The reason it's seen as geek news is because something was released to the public that was (apparently) relatively simply to crack, in an age when security is of upmost importance. Granted, it's just some simple cell phone games, but if a company can't secure some silly little games on their phone, can they really secure the important stuff?
  • Quicker than I though, but who didn't see this one coming?

    I was actually surprised when I saw N-Gage games on some ftp's starting three days back. I don't have the N-Gage myself, but I saw like 5 games and an installer...

    The cool thing with the N-Gage is the homebrew stuff. It'll be cool if someone can write an app so you can stream shoutcast to the phone... then I'll get one for sure :)
    • No you wouldn't :) Since you'd be paying for data transfer to the phone you would likely find it far cheaper to just buy an MP3 player and the songs you want.

      Even still, the bandwidth and unreliability of UDP over the cellular networks (including GSM) would most certainly make you want to beat yourself to death with the nGage rather than use it :)
    • You can do all that stuff on other phones already, and it's been that way for a while. I've got homebrew SNES/NES/GBC emulators and many games on my smartphone, which I got almost a year ago.

      Technologically, Nokia are usually behind the curve, with the obvious exception of the cool Communicator they brought out years ago. On the other hand, they have a very good marketing department.

  • Satalites for your car is bad enough. Just thinking about the average soccer mom rolling around in her SUV while trying to whatch some chick flick bring me shivers. Oh, but wait!!! Now I have to worry about teen-agers and geeks playing donkey kong on thier cell phone! This will last until the first lawsuite by some moron who was playing a hacked game on thier phone and runs into someone...you know it will happen. :)
    • Right on. Although really we didn't have too much of a problem with this sort of thing happening when the gameboy first came out, I can see it developing. At the very least I'll be really annoyed when the light turns green and my lane isn't moving because some kid up in front hasn't looked up to notice.

      Damon,

    • Re:Distracted Drivers (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I couldn't agree more. As I'm driving to work, reading your post on my conveniently web-enabled phone, I can't help but think how ridiculous it is to fiddle around with some gadget while trying to oper--
    • In the UK it's illegal to use a cellphone whilst driving (or it will be on December 1st) so this won't become a problem. Anyway I'm sure the standard 'driving without due care and attention' will cover this kind of thing anyway.
  • ...how's the work going on mophun [mophun.com] games? Anyone cracked those yet?

  • another site, pics (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    http://www.club-siemens.net/preview/ngage/

  • Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)

    by Dwedit ( 232252 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:17PM (#7446123) Homepage
    You bought an N-Gage, didn't you?

  • Gameboy emulator. (Score:4, Interesting)

    by aardwolf204 ( 630780 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:18PM (#7446138)
    I dont know about you but I would much rather have a phone powerful enough to run a Gameboy emulator.

    • Re:Gameboy emulator. (Score:4, Interesting)

      by secondsun ( 195377 ) <secondsun@gmail.com> on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:42PM (#7446366) Journal
      A GBA is cheaper than most cell phones already, and it is much less ones that are powerful enough to emulate a GameBoy.

      Would someone please explain to me why I would want a game system, phone, answering machine, mp3 player, pda, web brwoser, toaster, ftp server, IceCast streaming server, microwave, linux ssh client, alarmclock radio, dvd player, and cell phone portable, buggy monstrosity that seem to be the norm these days? When my car breaks down I want to call a wrecker, not have to close apps and load a phone dialer program and worry about a system freeze/crash.
      • Would someone please explain to me why I would want a game system, phone, answering machine, mp3 player, pda, web brwoser, toaster, ftp server, IceCast streaming server, microwave, linux ssh client, alarmclock radio, dvd player, and cell phone portable, buggy monstrosity that seem to be the norm these days?

        Eh? Because you only need to carry one device with you? I love being able to kill time by just doing daft things on my mobile, such as games, writing, eBooks, internet/e-mail.

        I can think of worse way

    • Here's Nokia's reply:

      "We're aware of it and we're taking it seriously," Damian Stathonikos, spokesman for Nokia Mobile Phones, which is responsible for the N-Gage device, told Dow Jones Newswires.

      Stathonikos said after a cursory look at the Web sites it wasn't clear that the claims being made about hackers cracking the protection was true. "Sometimes it's not 100% clear what they've done and if they've done what they say they have. The bark can be louder than the bite," he said.

      Complete article here [yahoo.com].

    • I would much rather have a phone powerful enough to run a Gameboy emulator.

      Indeed. That's one of the favourite things about my phone. Playing the GBC version of tetris is where it's at!!

  • this? [yahoo.com]

    [snicker]

    -T

    • I really don't see why this thing has sprouted so many hecklers. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

      The Slashdot readership has often been a bunch of intellectual parrots but it has gone to a new low.
    • it bounced back today, the day they went public with it.

      I think that the increased media coverage is actually helping the interest in their crummy product.

      I wouldn't be surprised if nokia was actually assisting the hacking effort. actually, considering the dev-friendly attitude on nokia's forums, I'd say that they DID encourage it to happen, for precisely this reason.
  • Not to be a troll or anything, but has anyone even purchased this thing?

    Do people really think they're gonna get a decent gaming system that's even remotely close to a GBA or Sony's up-coming handheld PSX?

  • The crack is really easy too (Score:3, Funny)

    by doublem ( 118724 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:20PM (#7446169) Homepage Journal
    Just hit A - B - A - A - A - C - Select and it gives you a "send ROM as e-mail" prompt!

    Sweet!

  • So am I the only person left that only uses his phone for talking to people?

    What's next? NetHack for my toaster?

  • doesnt surprise me, the latest roms are all over
    suprnova.org already ;)

    nick

  • Lousy Games (Score:4, Insightful)

    by bstadil ( 7110 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:25PM (#7446209) Homepage
    Look at Game Ranking [gamerankings.com] to get a sense of the poor quality of the N-Gage games.

    Game Ranking has ever removed the N-Gage from the frontpage listing of platforms, that they had a few week ago.

    • Re:Lousy Games (Score:2, Informative)

      by Gumshoe ( 191490 )
      Game Ranking has ever removed the N-Gage from the frontpage listing of platforms, that they had a few week ago.


      They must have put it back then. Either that or I'm seeing things.
      • Sorry, I should have been more specific.

        Look at the Latest review listing there is no N-Cage games. Maybe it's because there has not been any reviews for a N-Cage game within the relevant period. If so My Bad

  • This is Old News (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:28PM (#7446230)
    N-Gage games were cracked fe weeks back.
    It started with Tomb Raider.
    Last week a warez game group "Blizzard" released all 5 games plus a installer that installs directly to any blank mmc. The N-Gage does not have any special hardware all it uses is software to run these games. Kind of sucks I bought one for the fact it had a mp3, radio and a setup to be able to play java games and such easiar. Sad to say that it is cracked it was bound to happen anyways. Its a great phone has all the features anyone woudl want minus a camera.. and only bad thing i find about it is the ear speaker being on the side of the phone unlike the 3300

  • sidetalkin' (Score:4, Funny)

    by joenobody ( 72202 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:30PM (#7446257)
    The N-Gage fails as a video game platform (take the battery out to switch games!?) and as a cell phone. If you wonder why it fails as a cell phone, well, you have to sidetalk [sidetalkin.com].
  • In response to the recent hacking of their N-Gage, Nokia has issued the following press release on their website:

    "Fuck you. That is all."

  • Take the train (Score:5, Funny)

    by Migraineman ( 632203 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:48PM (#7446421)
    In an early morning press conference, Nokia announced that it would attempt to derail software crackers by changing it's N-Gage software to either O-Gage or the ever-popular HO-Gage. Model railroaders around the world were confused.

  • N-Gage (Score:5, Funny)

    by Conspiracy_Of_Doves ( 236787 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @02:56PM (#7446499)
    3 out of 5 gamers agree,
    It's a better cell phone than the Game Boy Advance
    • Sure, it's a better cell phone than the GBA.

      However, even my '87 Honda Accord is a better automobile than both the Nokia nGage and the GBA. Then again, none of those things have the flavor, texture, or nutritional value of Pringles potato crisps.

      Cross comparisons just plain don't make sense. Why not talk about how the nGage stacks up against other gaming-enabled cell phones, especially considering the asking price for the unit and games?

  • Pictures (Score:2, Informative)

    by billscarwasher ( 73764 )
    Here are some shots of Sonic running on the Siemens SX1.

    here [club-siemens.net]

  • HORRAY! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Eric_Cartman_South_P ( 594330 ) on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @03:42PM (#7446933)
    Oh happy day, this is great news! NGage games for me!

    * throws PS2 out of window *

    Horray!

  • In a short press statement the Blizzard hacking group said they thought the N-Gage was a great games system, but having to swap out your MP3 ringtones with your data MMC just to play a single game was stupid, so they fixed it. Multiple games can now be loaded onto the same card that the rest of your data lives on. Gamers that were balking at the restrictions are now conidering the puchase of one or more games and manufacturers of the larger MMC cards greated the news warmly.

    Now that I can have the comme

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