You Shouldn't have to Pay for Videogames part 2

for years i've lived a double life....

The people here at Secret Hints aren't even going to pretend to have invented today's hacks. But we feel that they are so worthwhile, that it would be wrong of us not to spread the news about them. Some of these you may know about, others, you may not. Remember, the goal is to game for free ;). Let us live in a world where gamers can game if they please, not if their pocket book says so!



Roms and Emulators, bitch
Some may laugh that these are even being brought up...they're almost second nature to our kind. But hey, there may be a few of you who don't know about these god given gifts. A rom is essentially data ripped from a physical copy of a game. An emulator is a program that is used to mimic a system, and can load and read their specific rom files. So, you could play your favorite Snes games on your PC. Some people even get fancy and make new systems play older system's games--especially the Xbox, the DS, and the PSP.

Here's some links to bring some up to speed:

• Rom World
• Rom Nation
• NDS Roms (very nice community here)
• Emulator Zone
  

Softmodding your Xbox, mother fucker

Face it, the majority of us are too pussy to install a mod chip on our systems (or we lack technical skill--yeah, right, technically skill...sure......). The xbox has a nice exploit built in that lets us run a linux of sorts....which lets you put a custom dashboard in....which therefore lets you play burned games, emulators for other systems, homebrew, etc.

• deas tut
  
• tut with lots of pictures
  
• download these (xbox-scene is a pretty cool site actually)

Torrenting for Games, you turkey
Man, you are living in the past if you don't know about torrenting yet.

1. Get this.
   
2. Use the search to find your favorite games. Including, but not limited to, PC, Playstation, Xbox, Dreamcast, N64, etc.
   
3. Wait...sometimes it takes 30 minutes...sometimes it takes all month. Be patient, and give utorrent enough time to run.
4. What you'll want to do is get this guy so you can burn iso images properly. If its a PC game, it'll usually just be a .rar with the appropriate .exe and stuff.
5. Enjoy.

There's more shenanigans a-commin', just hold on to your britches.