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Hacking The DS's Wireless

Posted by timothy on from the limited-but-so-what dept.

xNoLaNx writes "Darkain, maker of the remote control program for Winamp, RM-X, has been working day and night hacking the Nintendo DS and its wireless, and making a custom USB power connection for it. He has been able to monitor packets over 802.11b coming from PictoChat and more."

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  1. Re:Clue for the clueless? by mrseigen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, once we get the Pictochat protocol down we can sniff people's vapid IM conversations. Plus, the DS supports multi-boot so eventually we might be able to force game code onto it.

  2. Re:Clue for the clueless? by unixbob · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would make it an N-Gage then?

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  3. Re:Clue for the clueless? by Mechanik · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cool! It would be just like a cellphone! Except it would be really expensive, not have a good form factor for this type of use. And now you can't even play games on it. ;-)

    You mean like the N-Gage?

  4. Re:Jeez... by NeoGeo64 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can play Frozen Bubble wirelessly! duh :P

  5. Re:DS as general-purpose internet client by Snowmit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please, yes! And while you're at it, make some scheduling software for so that I can claim that it's my PDA and I need it at meetings.

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  6. Devkit for the rest of us please! by shumacher · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nintendo, I know you won't listen to me, but please, do what Sony did with the Aibo and release a consumer-grade development kit!

    1. Re:Devkit for the rest of us please! by Knetzar · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nintendo, I know you won't listen to me, but please, do what Sony did with the PS2 and release Linux for it!

    2. Re:Devkit for the rest of us please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nintendo, I know you won't listen to me, but please, do what Sony did with Michael Jackson and pretend you don't know these freaks.

  7. Re:travel risks... by Stevyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I got to worry about packet sniffing dogs when I cross the border into Mexico? Great!

  8. TIAJ,S by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 2, Funny

    making a custom USB power connection for it

    Hook it up to a wireless USB adaptor and you'll have wireless power!