I love this new roomba hack / Wii mashup!

Thanks again to videogame hackers we can finally watch DVDs on Nintendo Wii.

^_^

GlitchDS is a new homebrew Cellular  Automaton music sequencer for the DS that uses grid model of the evolution of cellular structures to create music. It’s perfect for creating IDM and Glitch style loops. To run GlitchDS you will a DS Flash card (like R4 or one from NEO FLASH).

glitchDS.zip		Contains the rom and a selection of sounds to get you started. Read the documentation for installation instructions.
soundpack1.zip		Just dump these samples into the samples directory and have fun. This is your free crack. Future crack might cost a few dollars.
breaks_pack1.zip		Two chopped up breakbeats for your experimentation. Originally from SampleSwap.

(via Brakken) "Well, it seems PS3News is up to no good once again. I'm sure you can all remember them as they leaked Dark_Alex's Custom Firmware source code after hacking into the very insecure database over on Maxconsole, retrieved user passwords and gained access to the source. The backlash from the PSP community was enough for Daniel Serafin, the owner of PS3News (aka PS2NFO aka PS2OWNZ) to change his entire site layout and promised he would change his ways.

Well, it didn't take long for him to get back into his dubious activities. Of course, we all know his past activities have included editing the credits of releases and replacing them with his sites URL, stealing applications, exclusive pictures, not linking to sources, etc ... As Team Xecuter called them "scene trash" one would think people would avoid his site at all costs, but even after the "change" he still gets visitors - sorta.

After the PSP fiasco he lost his PSP user-base (sadly to Maxconsole, who is now losing them too) and only had his PS3 users left. Well, a lot of them didn't like the PSP situation and moved to a site named ps3hax.net. Since then he's been outraged and of course blames it on everyone but himself.

Now, lets step back a year or so. I'm sure a lot of you remember PS3News reporting that Paradox had made a PS3 ISO Loader which to my knowledge never existed and was used to lure visitors to his site and help sell Team Xecuter's products. Sadly, Paradox which is one of the oldest "hacking" groups around support Mr. Serafin. I'm not sure why, but they do. Anyway, the ISO Loader was never released and probably never existed in the first place.

Well, a few days ago a REAL PS3 exploit was unveiled by a team named Team ICE (not to be confused with the ICE Team who was known for releasing fake XBOX material in the past.) ps3hax had an exclusive video on their site and this must of frustrated Mr. Serafin greatly as he hacked into ps3hax's database, stole some information and then started a fake campaign to discredit Team ICE.

The first action taken after the hack was a mass banning of IP addresses contained in ps3hax's database. Basically, Daniel wanted banned the administrators, moderators, coders and some members of ps3hax using information contained in the illegally obtained ps3hax database.

Contained in this database was an earlier exploit named RFOM (Resistance Fall of Man Exploit) which helped hack into the PS3 GameOS system. PS3News then modified this exploit so it didn't work and then released it in a slanderous news article. This was their first attempt at tarnishing Team ICE's name.

"This caused basically a huge flame war to erupt on our forums and if you can go through the topics on our forum you can feel the hate of many members towards PS3News, these guys basically try to shoot down a few talented hackers for their discovery" - ps3hax admin

Next, PS3News released the exploit supposedly used in the video (which was fake of course).  This caused further outrage in ps3hax's forum. Daniel must be really out on a limb to release two fake programs. Then came the third program. It was another application created called the "PS3 SDK v2.10.rar" which was a simple BAT file that resets your computer.

Luckily, it wasn't near as damaging as when Daniel Serafin released a modified version of Dark_Alex's Custom Firmware CFW M33 which bricked many Sony PSP's. Anyway, Daniel had his flunkies spam ps3hax's forum with the that "fake" PS3 SDK file resulting in further frustration from the PS3 Development Community.

At any rate, PS3News is now under a massive DDOS attack. I don't condone such activities, but they surely deserve some downtime due to their fucking ignorance. You'd think after the PS2, GC and PSP scene shit they pulled they would stop, but I guess Daniel Serafin is just a piece of shit."

UPDATE: It seems the DDOS is over and the rumors of the site being totally compromised are true as it now redirects to Google. I don't really condone hacking, but God knows Daniel Serafin had it coming. I wonder how "bad" the hack is.

(Astrange via TheEnquirer.it) Just when gamers were going to respect again (I'm talking from a Japanese point of view here) the Playstation brand turn out that ICO programmers  used without permission GPL code from the library libarc that handles compressed data. This isn't a big problem in terms of code — the two files from libarc used are under 1500 lines put together, and one is a heavily-edited copy of inflate.c from zlib, which is public domain. But, it's a GPL violation, and they need to fix it...

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...

Ecco il video in cui si vede il leggendario (incredibile ma vero i membri sono italiani) Team Infectus  presentare il downgrande della PS3. Per il momento è solo un esercizio di stile ma è evidente che le potenzialità del chip Infectus sono praticamente illimitate...

Alcuni appassionati del mitico Dreamcast hanno postato alcuni video in cui il controller del DC stile canna da pesca viene utilizzato in giochi come Virtua Tennis o Ready To Rumble in un modo simile al Wiimote.
In realtà si tratta di tecniche di gioco già presentate in giappone 4 o 5 anni fa durante alcune trasmissioni televisive dedicate ai videogiochi, ma questi video sono comunque una testimonianza di quanto il Dreamcast fosse innovativo rispetto alle altre console dell'epoca...

Un utente del forum Afterdawn basandosi sul vecchio hack giapponese che permetteva di far girare i giochi Playstation 2 su PS3 non modificata ha trovato il modo per
inserire uno switch e poter effettuare lo swap senza dove tenere aperta la propria Playstation3.

DC Emu ha appena annunciato un contest per programmatori Wii / Game Cube (attualmente i modchip, oltre alle Iso del Wii, permettono solo l'esecuzione di codice non firmato Game Cube). Speriamo che questo faccia aumentare ulteriormente il numero di homebrew disponibili per la nuova console Nintendo.
Un altro sito che organizza regolarmente contest per la programmazione di console è Neo Flash.
In questo caso le console di riferimento è principalmente il Nintendo DS.