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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."
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
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
Thers's actually only 19 Address bits therefore it has only half as much (512K) - still perfectly reasonable...
" To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. "
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.
For those that care.
#pmdev on EFnet
BT takes too long to set up. nah, let's see how spymac's storage holds up.
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I was with you on that for a few minutes, and then I realized that a person who used "professional" (for lack of a better word) language wouldn't probably spend their time on a project like this.
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.
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
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
Basically, it's a portable game console - er, a cheap toy for really small kids who aren't old enough to be trusted a real Game Boy. Has bright colored plastic, lo-rez display, d-pad and two buttons, and IR port. It uses cartridges.
"such a major waste of time" :-)
From what i read in the source code of Sokomini, it took less than 1 week to reverse-engineer all the CPU architecture, opcodes, hardware registers and make the 1st game, and the assembler that assembles it (all this by one guy)... I don't think it's such a major waste of time then, even if I agree with the gist of your post, it should be in the "fun and bizzare" section
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.