Games, Life, and Stuff » xbox360 http://www.techknight.com/blog Game development and more Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:37:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ikaruga on Xbox Live Arcade http://www.techknight.com/blog/2008/04/09/ikaruga-on-xbox-live-arcade/ http://www.techknight.com/blog/2008/04/09/ikaruga-on-xbox-live-arcade/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:31:00 +0000 techknight http://www.techknight.com/blog/2008/04/09/ikaruga-on-xbox-live-arcade/ Ikaruga has its detractors, but I am extremely grateful to Microsoft and Treasure for supporting monitor rotation and the 16:10 aspect ratio. There’s nothing like playing a vertical shmup the way it was meant to be played:

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It turns out that Hexic HD for the Xbox 360 was created with Macromedia Flash… Which makes sense because Macromedia is in the credits.

As reported elsewhere, the Xbox 360 kiosk demo disc is floating around the net and is not as restricted as normal retail discs.

The upshot is that while the executables are still signed and encrypted, the data files are in the clear. Additionally, the demo disc itself has no media restrictions and can be played in an Xbox 360 from a DVD-R.

Now, some of these data files are the Hexic HD SWFs which can be used in Macromedia’s Flash Player or a web browser with the Flash plug-in. Instead of the Xbox 360 controller, the arrow keys and the A, B, and X keys are used.

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