Also sites like CH charging exorbitant prices for trainers. That's right, you have to pay money to download a worthwhile trainer.
What the devil happened to cheat devices?
- Thread starter Froggy Slayer
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It's funny how basically almost everyone in this thread got this wrong and thinks this is because of achievements.
Guess what: WRONG. It's not about achievements (PC Games still have Trainers that allows you to hack achievement-enabled games). It's about console-based DRM.
The three big consoles of this generation (Wii, PS3, 360) all have DRM-systems in place that are based on - amongst other things - public key crypto. This means that all games you buy for these on a disc are basically encrypted on the disc, and only the console hardware is capable of encrypting AND decrypting it (until the PS3 got hacked). This makes it complicated beyond simply attaching a cheat-device. You have to break the DRM of the console to use cheats, and this is exactly what happened with the PS3. The PS3 saw it's share of cheats after its secrets went out.
The DRM on handheld consoles are much weaker (in some cases, close to non-existant) and therefore, creating cheat devices is a lot easier.
Guess what: WRONG. It's not about achievements (PC Games still have Trainers that allows you to hack achievement-enabled games). It's about console-based DRM.
The three big consoles of this generation (Wii, PS3, 360) all have DRM-systems in place that are based on - amongst other things - public key crypto. This means that all games you buy for these on a disc are basically encrypted on the disc, and only the console hardware is capable of encrypting AND decrypting it (until the PS3 got hacked). This makes it complicated beyond simply attaching a cheat-device. You have to break the DRM of the console to use cheats, and this is exactly what happened with the PS3. The PS3 saw it's share of cheats after its secrets went out.
The DRM on handheld consoles are much weaker (in some cases, close to non-existant) and therefore, creating cheat devices is a lot easier.
It's actually the opposite. Those cheat devices (cheats in general) were there to help in the debugging. For a time, we got sophisticated enough to have elegant coding to obsolete their usage. Then mass-broadband came. Now we're back to square one, but cheat devices are still obsolete because you can just release a patch.Fr said:
