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

But at the end of the day...

[Tezkah]

... you realize that you spent your time hacking *pokemon minis*.

Shout-outs

[iswm]

Something about the 'shout-outs' in this article that keeps me from taking it a bit more seriously.

Re:Shout-outs

[Exiler]

The fact that it's the shout outs and not the child marketed cartoon-based franchise from Japan that prevents you from taking this article seriously keeps me from taking you a bit more seriously.

The real questions is...

[iserlohn]

Can NetBSD run on it yet? :)

Improvement!

[xsupergr0verx]

Maybe they are hacking it to make the game fun?
Otherwise, I am impressed that a team of 8 year old girls had the know-how to hack their toys.
/sarcasm

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:1MB Max Cartridge Size

[AmunRa]

Thers's actually only 19 Address bits therefore it has only half as much (512K) - still perfectly reasonable...

Re:hmm

[fpga_guy]

the site looks /.'ed. anyone got a mirror?

This is starting to shit me - I'm all for shameless self-promotion but goddammit make sure you've got a server that will last more than 10 seconds!

Can I also please make the Ob/. joke that the page is clearly being hosted on the pokemon-mini they've hacked?

misspelled

[SuperBanana]

Can NetBSD run on it yet?

Hey, I think you misspelled "Linux"...

Why's everyone dissing on Pokemon...?

[Bryan Gividen]

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.

Re:but wait!

[Luigi30]

I can combine that into one healthy line.

*big breath of air*

In Soviet Russia, CP/M thinks of the children illegally while Windows XP is stable and unreliable and profits from insensitive clods who live near Iraq and Brazil.