My new column on GAMELABO!
On april issue of the Japanese cult videogame magazine GameLabo you can find my new monthly column about underground videogaming in Europe. I write for several magazines (beside the ones I directly publish) but writing for GameLabo is something really special for me since I'm a big fan of this videogame hacking publication since the mid nineties (yes I know, back then it was more deep and hardware hacking oriented but that's another thread...).
PSP debug firmware running on retail PSP!
A team of videogame hackers managed to
run the PSP debug firmware on a retail PSP... seems that the underground is tronger than ever...
PSP 3000 HACKED! - DATEL LITE BLUE TOOL
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Wii: Clean your room with Balance board!
I love this new roomba hack / Wii mashup!
Supermario is the best PS3 game?!
PS3 Filer allows browsing image files by using the Blu-Ray Disc Java Hack (no modchip needed). This software is also a Famico mEmualtor (no sound) so it's possibile to play Supermario on a Playstation 3. Download the PS3 Filer here
Note for fanboys: the title is a Joke... I love MSG4 !!
WII: HOW TO UNCESOR MANHUNT 2
Trucha Signer is a soft that let's you to resign Wii disc images after you change the original files. Today videogame hackers from GBAtemp community has found several interesting ways to use Trucha Signer:
.Modify the character change moves in Super Smash Brothers Brawl
. Uncensore ( = enable of gore) in Manhunt 2
.Change the characters look in Super Mario Strikers
Final Fantasy 7 for Nintendo NES
Madrigal today sent me the link to this Final Fantasy 7 bootleg for NES/Famicom programmed by Shenzhen Nanjing Technology Co, Ltd
"From start to almost finish, the game follows the PlayStation port. Key dialogue sequences are completely identical, such as when the group finds what Sephiroth did to the Midgar Zolm to when Cloud freaks out and hands over the Black Materia. Aeris tells the drunk old dressmaker how Cloud has always wished that just once he could dress up like a girl. Dyne and Barrett have the same conversations as in the PlayStation original. Nothing is missing or out of place".
WII: HELLO WORLD
Few weeks ago videogame hackers discovered an exploit based on Zelda. Yesterday laZmike has released a video of the classic HELLO WORLD demo he created thanx to the Twilight Hack exploit (video tutorial here). In the next weeks he should release the source code...
TIFF EXPLOIT: PS3 HACKED?!
(via PS3HAX) Team ICE and SorroW have released a "overflow.tiff" exploit today which is confirmed working on PS3 firmwares up to 2.10 on BOTH PAL and NTSC consoles.
At the moment the TIFF file freezes the PS3 via "heap overflow" (not buffer overflow), but by knowing the "backend number and making the right calls" it is possible to inject a simple code."
This is mainly being released so other hacking teams can take a crack at it, and hopefully it can accomplish what all PS3 hackers have been patiently waiting for. (Team ICE could not get the full potential of this TiFF becuase they lacked the PS3 SDK)
ZELDA EXPLOIT: WII HACKED?
(via TehSkeen) Yes, that's right - an exploit for the Nintendo Wii has been discovered and it allows you to run custom code. The method is pretty simple: copy over a save file for Zelda, load it and the code runs. Don't get too excited yet. They have only been able to run 4 lines of code, but this is in a days work. Segher was the one to find the exploit and Bushing has been testing it out with the aid of the USB Gecko. The process is far from simple as once you modify a save game it requires it be to signed with 3 keys.
GAMEBOY COLOR MIDI SYNTH
(via CreateDigitalMusic) Although it was first announced September 2000, Noah Vawter & Brian Whitman have finally release Pushpin: a MIDI synthesizer kit for your Nintendo Game Boy Color.
This is a sample track made with Pushpin.
Pushpin includes:
* ROM file, to be flashed to a cartridge
* Instructions for a cable that connects GBC’s link port to MIDI
(standard DIN)
* Receives 90 MIDI Control Changes, note messages, pitch bend,
program changes
* Four channels, multi-timbral
Origins of this project - Official page with files and schematics -
MOD: Pandora Battery for PSP Slim
Yesterday, several videogame hacking forums users reported that (thanks to Hellcat's Pandora Maker kernel 3.xx) they succesfully converted the PSP Slim batteries into the Pandora Battery (the definitive PSP downgrade and unbrick solution created by the collective Noobz: a team of coders lead by the legendary Fanjita). Seems that the PSP Slim will be even more popular in the holiday season...
PS3 HACKING
Il programmatore hacked2123 ha appena svelato un metodo per far girare le copie backup su PS3 che va ad aggiungersi ai due già noti: il PS3 Linux Method e il PS3 SAK v1.00. La nostra sensazione è che per la prima volta ci sia veramente poco interesse per l'hacking di una console Sony (al contrario i chip per il Wii stanno riscuotendo un successo
incredibile).
Game Boy XP
Windows XP , lettore Compact Flash, porte USB, uscita VGA, LEDs segnalatori al posto dei pulsanti A e B: a questo GameBoy non manca proprio nulla (se non uno schermo LCD a colori)!!
Questo piccolo miracolo di modding è stato realizzato in Giappone grazie alla mini scheda madre Via Pico -ITX. Se volete vedere altre immagini potete visitare il sito Plastic Bamboo.
