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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. 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.