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Nintendo Pokemon Mini LCD Game Hacked
Team Pokeme writes "Nintendo's Pokemon Mini LCD mini-handheld has been hacked by us - you can check out the videos on our site for more information. The cartridge pinout has been reverse engineered by using logic analyzers (thanks to DarkFader), and also the instruction set by disassembling (thanks DaveX!) the Pokemon Mini emulator that is built into Pokemon Channel, a GameCube game.
DaveX wrote the first homebrew game, SokoMini, after finding out the tilemap stuff."
P-M Site's in Japanese. (Plus it would be helpful to let others know before the /. effect)
... you realize that you spent your time hacking *pokemon minis*.
Is there a site available that contains maps of Sokoban levels, is it updated with new additions, and if not why not? Or do the designers of the ports have to play through the entire game to get accurate levels?
Cool! I always wanted to play Pokemon vs Street Fighter.
I checked the videos, it seems like an interesting idea, but also somewhat confusing. How many games were on it at one time, and what all can you play on it now?
Nice site, btw.
Something about the 'shout-outs' in this article that keeps me from taking it a bit more seriously.
Buckethead
Can NetBSD run on it yet? :)
:. Ultimate Control Dedicated/VM Servers
Definitely going to try this stuff out. I'm a what people would call a Pokemon fanatic, have all the Pokemon Game Boy, GameCube and Nintendo 64 games (and occasionally duplicates of the same cartridge ;-) ), with all of them beat. (Okay, ladies and gentlemen, start your jokes).
But anyway, this looks _extremely_ nice, this might be useful as a screen to display quick stats on a server, or just as a game platform. Again, very nice job.
Maybe they are hacking it to make the game fun?
/sarcasm
Otherwise, I am impressed that a team of 8 year old girls had the know-how to hack their toys.
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Now that you are done with the LA, could I take it off your hands for $100? :-)
I want my rights back. I was actually using them when our government stole them after 9/11.
Check out the chatbox on the right:
:-(
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@ p0p: mhhh, taking the videos offline until that slashdot flood is over..maybe we survive one more day then
I'm guessing they'll be taking the chatbox down too, to begin with. Maybe even the whole server
BT link anyone?
I hate sigs.
Looking at the pinout to the cartridge, it appears up to 1 MB is addressable.
The address bus is 10 bits, selectable to represent the high or low byte of the address.
2 ^ 20 = 1048576 bytes
Not too shabby.
(Well, I tried to post the pinout since their website is responding very slowly, but Slashdot wouldn't accept it - "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.")
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
...Server dead. After, what, 24 comments?
WWD4D?
pretty hardcore...i'll be sure to tell my eight year old brother that he'll probably have pong on his pokemon mini
port linux to it
port bochs86 to it
run windown on it
play the windows version at an astonishingly bad fps/resolution
I am working with some of the team members on and off trying to hack the old Tamagotchi devices that once were a craze.
the site looks /.'ed. anyone got a mirror?
looks like the sort of project a less than legally-conscious prof might have handed to me in digital systems classes this year =P
DAMN YOU, I'M A WANTED MAN! ::runs and hides under bed::
--Leo
caches: index gallery links projects Please note these links are not very thorough, but the site is not either. Please also note the "@ Safrax: HI SLASHDOT" and "@ Poo Poo Head: Slashdot can suck my ******" on the right panel.
They admitt to being slashdotted, and shamelessy remark, "Bah come back later"
And who is going to be the first sad person to use this as a basis for a wearable head-mounted display then?
:v)
Vik
"Now tell the one that DOESN'T SUCK!"
For those that care.
#pmdev on EFnet
Hey, I think you misspelled "Linux"...
Please help metamoderate.
i shall pre-empt, and kama-whore:
#think of the children!
#isn't this illegal!
#in soviet russia....
#1) x 2) y 3) ??? 4) profit!
#windows XP is stable and reliable you zealot
#windows XP is unstable and unreliable you fool
#i still use cp/m you insensitive clod
#iraq is near brazil
pick the one that is most relevant for the discussion, and give me 5 relevant moddings-up for the appropriate comment for this discussion.
Don't you love the smell of lawsuits in the morning?
1) post your website on slashdot to boast it
2) change your website to "bah come back later"
3) everyone who wants to see the page from slashdot doesn't get to due to said message, thus defeating the purpose of being posted on slashdot
4) ????????
5) profit!!!
bah come back later
Not thats a fun server too busty message
I've discovered a remarkable proof, but this margin is too small to contain it...
I spent 5 years hating Pokemon. It ensured that kids and 32 year old virgins would be forever stupid. I was very worried about how this country could possible survive the shock and awe of Pokemon.
Now I've grown as a human being and realize that Pokemon was really created so that the Dept. of Homeland Security could find all of the stupid people in a few discrete locations and eliminate them. I say thank you Pokemon, thank you.
What a great idea! Plug your own site on slashdot, when you have no idea what you're in for.
How long til the NetBSD team gets around to porting to it?
(I won't indulge you in the old "Beowulf cluster" troll).
does it allow for pokemon slash?
(this post is just a shill to call attention to my related, yet ancient sig)
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a game involving all of the above, as well as Natalie Portman/grits. Use ASCII characters, and call it SlashHack. Make it massively multiplayer, and get this: at random intervals, everyone else who's playing begins thrashing your box with corrupted packets...
At the end, you have to defeat CowboyNeal...
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
IANAL, but I don't think that there is a DMCA issue here, considering that they didn't have to circumvent any protection measures (i.e. no encryption, locks, etc)
There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
Now it says "bah come back later". heh.
sulli
RTFJ.
I only have Pokemon cards, you insensitive clod!
(first edition too, muhahah....let the kids tear theirs up...mine are sleeved and waiting for them to enter the prime earner years...ok I'm lame)
Guess I should have sold both Charizard cards when it was up to $900 on eBay...wonder who bought that? I bought mine at the comic store when they came out, since I was so into CCG cards at the time.
So we can have a pokemon mini beowulf funfest...
Ouch, seriously, ouch.
So I was about 12 when Pokemon Red/Blue came out. It was the driving force behind me learning how to build better webpages. And for a lot, the communities online turned into mini-hacking projects. It introduced kids to how to break open coding in a game and search for things. I friggin scanned the stripped coding along with tons of others who wanted to know how it worked. From there, tons of kids began to learn some variable formulas and indepth logics from the second set of games that led to new projects.
I agree, its a fad, but for some of us, it was our segway into learning more about technology, programming, and how to pick up women...
Okay, maybe not the last one, but the other two stand.
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
...ported NetBSD and Apache to the thing and are running the server off of it, 'cause the site's hosed.
I always had a real issue with the whole Pokemon concept, especially in its animated incarnation. I mean, essentially what we have is kids training their "animals" to beat the crap outta each other with various attacks. How is this crap different than training pit bulls to rip each other apart, or roosters to kill each other?
It appears that if you directly go to /index.php instead of just the main index.page, the site is still up.
PokeMe main page
If it did matter, the site is hosted out of the US... which might mean that if they are foriegners, the DMCA doesn't mean do anything to them unless the EU did something radical that I am not aware of.
i ght.html
WHOIS results for 81.209.148.144
Generated by www.DNSstuff.com
Country: GERMANY
% This is the RIPE Whois server.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyr
inetnum: 81.209.148.0 - 81.209.148.255
If only someone would come up with a way to hack the Leap Pad or a similar device. I really like how durable the things are, they can take a beating, but the books for it just suck. Most books seem one step removed from the "Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour".
I would like to put my own lessons into it. Printing pages, recording, would all be fun. I don't see any other really durable hardware for kids that can be expanded. A 4 year old can do a lot of damage to things.
any idea if this approximates a game boy b&W or an old 8bit nintendo in processing power...???
hmmm...use this as a portable emulator for old nes games.
instruction set similaraties...???
...and others, try this
...now where'd that .my come from
or the google cache to spam their shoutbox.
do your mommys know you are up so late?
Yeah. I'm too impatient to wait for their servers to be back online, so I'm asking anyway...
...not to mention the final product's value in kicks and giggles.
Do we ("we" as in just about everyone not mentioned in the article) get the benefit of a tutorial or perhaps a just few elaborate hints on how to do this ourselves?
If nothing explaining how to do this was/is ever written, there is absolutely no point in slashdotting this.
On the other hand, if a tutorial is available, I'd love to get started on it. It'd certainly make a great summer project and even a great gift to a fellow geek...
I found the "Deluxe" package (with three games) for $9.95 at Pokemoncenter.com.
The "Blue mini' (I did a search for "mini") is priced at $9.95 for both the regular and the "deluxe" package, where the other colors still want about $30 for the deluxe.
For shits and grins I put in an order, we'll see if they honor the $10 price....
Please send all UCE to scally@devolution.com so I can f
Speaking of which, if I had these folks' technical savvy, I would have immediately bought Sony's Librie eBook, and hacked the hell out of it until I could put my own content in it! (Please, please, someone hack it!!) ;-)
Reverse engineering stuff like this is cool, but emulators are so common. When am I going to be able to buy these ROMs as a cart?
Ooh.... where can I get one????!?!??!
-ReK
md5sum -c reality.md5
reality: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match
Immona live FOREVER!!!!!!
I hate the idea too, but I saw only one story of it, I kind of liked how they depicted the scientist observing pokemons in the wild - he sounded quite like a real scientist or at least wildlife watching tv report. So maybe kids actually can learn something from the non-core parts of the comics.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
A big lump who likes sleeping. Not that that reminds me of anyone...
This is awesome! Now we can put Pikachu's arch rival Tamagochi onto the Pokemon Mini and laugh at Nintendo. Much the same as putting Linux on a Mac ;)
Have you metaroderated recently?
Help Stamp Out the glorification of cartoon animal abuse!
Looks like this device is a simple portable game console, which is pretty neat.
24x16 tile graphics (each tile is 4 by 4 pixels, looks like 3 level greyscale) leads to a 96x64 resolution. It probably has 4x4 pixel sprites as well. All in all, probably a cut down Gameboy
4MHz CPU, most likely 8-bit but this type of information wasn't on the webpage and I'm not downloading the assember packages to find out. Not much else online either about this device.
WMP 9 can't play these files or find the codec. Any hints
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
How many laywers can dance on the head of a Poke-mon mini hacker?
Of course you're trolling, but do you know how the whole Pokemon thing actually got started?
Go back a bit further, to the Tamagotchi virtual pets. Companies noticed that girls were buying them in droves, but they weren't selling much at all to boys.
Solution? "Make 'em fight each other." The rest is history.