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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. Awesome... by herrvinny · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:23 Comments and the video is pulled. by tokachu(k) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did people just visit this site and Slashdot it because there was a link on the front page? I mean, I know kids who friggin' collect the cards and everything, have all the Game Boy games, but don't own or even care about the Pokemon-Mini. I'm guessing that this is something huge in Japan, but not in the U.S. suburbs. (Also, I think they'll be pulling the "Shout Box" soon.)

  3. Why's everyone dissing on Pokemon...? by Bryan+Gividen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  4. Quit your whinin', it's a good hack! by omarin · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I don't know why some ./ers are whining about this hack. We are here because we're geeks and hackers, right? The fact that someone has used their brainpower to create a cool hack should be commended, not derided!

    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!!) ;-)