Coffee Talk w/ Rockstar

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The latest controversy surrounding GTA titles has been the alleged porn mini-game hidden within San Andreas. Screenshots surfaces a while ago of the Playstation2 version but the real stink started just recently when a mod was released for the PC build so that anyone could get to it. A 'nationwide parental alert' was issued. Now Rockstar Games is making statements:

"So far we have learned that the "hot coffee" modification is the work of a determined group of hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the official version of the game," reads the statement. "In violation of the software user agreement, hackers created the 'hot coffee' modification by disassembling and then combining, recompiling and altering the game's source code. Since the 'hot coffee' scenes cannot be created without intentional and significant technical modifications and reverse engineering of the game's source code, we are currently investigating ways that we can increase the security protection of the source code and prevent the game from being altered by the 'hot coffee' modification."

The modder states that he added nothing to the game when releasing the mod and that all the content was there by Rockstar - "If Rockstar Games denies that, then they're lying, and I will be able to prove that," said Wildenborg, a mod author, in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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    July 13, 2005 10:01 AM

    I don't know what the big deal is. There was a nude patch and sex patch for the sims too and there wasn't any outrage about that.

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      July 13, 2005 10:05 AM

      DONT YOU GET IT!?!?!? ITS GRAND THEFT AUTO!!!

      WE'RE HAVING A CRISIS HERE

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        July 13, 2005 10:06 AM

        OMG, YOU ARE RIGHT! RAISE THE TERROR ALERT LEVEL TO CRITICAL!!!

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          July 13, 2005 10:07 AM

          /AMBER ALERT!/

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            July 13, 2005 10:08 AM

            I got owned by the shacktags yet again. And by my generally unimpressive sense of humor.

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              July 13, 2005 10:38 AM

              GTA KILLS KIDS AND CAUSES CANCER, ALERT LEVEL KIWI!!!!

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                July 13, 2005 11:19 AM

                Somewhere in the world someone just died! We clearly need more warning labels and government intervention in our lives to stop this!!

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                July 13, 2005 11:52 AM

                ^ you leave Peter Jackson outa this!!

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        July 13, 2005 2:14 PM

        I WAS A DEVOUT BAPTIST CHRISTIAN BEFORE PLAYING GTA. AFTER PLAYING IT I STARTED HAVING SEX WITH GIRLS AND STEALING CARS AND BASE JUMPING OFF OF BUILDINGS. IN ADDITION I UNLOCKED THE SECRET WORSHIP THE DEVIL MINIGAME AND NOW I AM A SATANIST. IM ONLY 2 YEARS OLD AND MY PARENTS JUST WATCH TV ALL DAY AND SAY I WAS AN ACCIDENT. THEY ARE TOO BUSY SMOKING CRACK TO RAISE ME SO PLEASE PROTECT ME WITH LAWS.

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      July 13, 2005 2:55 PM

      wasn't there also a nudie patch for Tomb Raider?

      And there are multiple nude patches for the SIMS, those things are everywhere.

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        July 13, 2005 3:19 PM

        What kids play this on their PC anyway? You can't do this on the console version so who cares? Oh wait...it's GTA and it alone will destroy our society. We're still having the DNF party in Vegas if that happens, right?

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        July 13, 2005 4:50 PM

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      July 13, 2005 5:53 PM

      dont tell them about the mod i made for doom1 that had naked chicks all over the walls (and animated gifs)

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      July 13, 2005 6:11 PM

      those werent made or left in by the dev.

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        July 13, 2005 7:16 PM

        If they make the minigame and then disable in the shipping version, what harm is there in that? At least in theory, that should be legitimate behavior from developers. (Of course some could create the game and then drop hints and make it so they *know* a modder will unlock it and then claim that they didn't actually do it, but we have no reason to believe that happened here.)

        If you have to mod the game to access something, then it isn't part of the game.

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