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Nintendo Pokemon Mini LCD Game Hacked

Posted by simoniker on from the home-mini-brew dept.

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."

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  1. 1MB Max Cartridge Size by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

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