Rockstar comment on 'Hot Coffee'
Rockstar: 'It isn't our fault!'
Rockstar have finally dispensed with the default replies to discussion on the 'Hot Coffee' mod for GTA: San Andreas, and are now speaking in more detail about this controversy causing download. The mod, which introduces those acquiring it to a pornographic mini game based on San Andreas, was said by its creator to be based on an unfinished mini-game found on the existing game disc. The mod was not the game, merely the utility through which it could be discovered and played, argued its creator. Rockstar think differently, however, and have commented the following today: "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. 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."
So, the game has nothing to do with Rockstar after all, we're told - and if this is true it is certainly good news for the publisher who have faced all manner of criticism from those wanting the game censured further as a result of 'hot coffee'. "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," continues the official statement.
For his part, the unknown creator of 'hot coffee' argues that the mod is based almost exclusively on the prior-work of the games developers and that he can prove this, according to a newspaper report this week. Also, footage from a PS2 version of the game also running the mod seems to suggest, we're told, that most of the content for the mod does indeed come from the game - even if it is not accessible without this catalyst. Unfinished mini-game or wholesale community creation, the 'hot coffee' patch has certainly caused a stir and will no doubt lead to greater security measures from publishers in the future.
