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."

Comments

looks pretty cool..

[dave1212]

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.

1MB Max Cartridge Size

[Dan East]

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

Re:But at the end of the day...

[John Starks]

I'm a little annoyed by the attitude here. This is a pretty impressive reverse engineering job, but most of Slashdot is just laughing it off because the device was originally created for Pokemon related games.

I mean, I doubt any of the mad PHP coderz around here could do anything these guys just did. I know I couldn't.

Really, give them some credit.

(Cue posts saying "man, it was a joke.")

Re:But at the end of the day...

[kmhebert]

This seems like a pretty pointless rant, you might as well say, "why do anything"? I think the story of the reverse engineering of the Pokemon Mini is worth the 100kb of disk space on some web server it takes up. As far as how relevant it may be as "tech news", I can say that I constantly read up on some new, cool technology that I don't plan on owning anytime soon. Does that make it irrelevant? The parent post seems to suffer from a lamentable anti-Pokemon bias, which is too bad because the games are great. I myself am only familiar with Pokemon Mini from the emulator used in the Pokemon Channel GC game. The games are not great but I applaud the reverse engineering of this clever device.