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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Samba was created by only "sniffing packets."

  2. Re:Clue for the clueless? by Traa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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. ;-)