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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."
... you realize that you spent your time hacking *pokemon minis*.
Cool! I always wanted to play Pokemon vs Street Fighter.
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.
Something about the 'shout-outs' in this article that keeps me from taking it a bit more seriously.
Buckethead
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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.
Maybe they are hacking it to make the game fun?
/sarcasm
Otherwise, I am impressed that a team of 8 year old girls had the know-how to hack their toys.
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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
Better known as 318230.
pretty hardcore...i'll be sure to tell my eight year old brother that he'll probably have pong on his pokemon mini
port linux to it
port bochs86 to it
run windown on it
play the windows version at an astonishingly bad fps/resolution
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
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And who is going to be the first sad person to use this as a basis for a wearable head-mounted display then?
:v)
Vik
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BT takes too long to set up. nah, let's see how spymac's storage holds up.
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1) post your website on slashdot to boast it
2) change your website to "bah come back later"
3) everyone who wants to see the page from slashdot doesn't get to due to said message, thus defeating the purpose of being posted on slashdot
4) ????????
5) profit!!!
What a great idea! Plug your own site on slashdot, when you have no idea what you're in for.
a game involving all of the above, as well as Natalie Portman/grits. Use ASCII characters, and call it SlashHack. Make it massively multiplayer, and get this: at random intervals, everyone else who's playing begins thrashing your box with corrupted packets...
At the end, you have to defeat CowboyNeal...
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
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.
I can combine that into one healthy line.
*big breath of air*
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If only someone would come up with a way to hack the Leap Pad or a similar device. I really like how durable the things are, they can take a beating, but the books for it just suck. Most books seem one step removed from the "Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour".
I would like to put my own lessons into it. Printing pages, recording, would all be fun. I don't see any other really durable hardware for kids that can be expanded. A 4 year old can do a lot of damage to things.
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.