Nintendo Pokemon Mini LCD Game Hacked 179
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."
What the hell is the Pokemon-Mini? (Score:1)
Re:What the hell is the Pokemon-Mini? (Score:3, Informative)
Basically, it's a portable game console - er, a cheap toy for really small kids who aren't old enough to be trusted a real Game Boy. Has bright colored plastic, lo-rez display, d-pad and two buttons, and IR port. It uses cartridges.
But at the end of the day... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:2, Funny)
You mean like a GameBoy?
-Jason
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:2)
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, I doubt any of the mad PHP coderz around here could do anything these guys just did. I know I couldn't.
Really, give them some credit.
(Cue posts saying "man, it was a joke.")
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:1)
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:1)
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:2, Informative)
From what i read in the source code of Sokomini, it took less than 1 week to reverse-engineer all the CPU architecture, opcodes, hardware registers and make the 1st game, and the assembler that assembles it (all this by one guy)... I don't think it's such a major waste of time then, even if I agree with the gist of your post, it should be in the "fun and bizzare" section
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:2)
Congratulations.
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:2, Funny)
And yet you've posted a reply to an "irrelevant" article that you never read...
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:But at the end of the day... (Score:1)
Seriously, though, there used to be this great (so far as Tiger video game web sites go) with videos from game.com games, all sped up so the system wouldn't look so bad. I guess if you can hack a Pokemon mini-game, you can hack anything.
Hacked? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:request hardware specs (Score:2)
looks pretty cool.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Nice site, btw.
Shout-outs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shout-outs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shout-outs (Score:2)
Re:Shout-outs (Score:2, Informative)
The real questions is... (Score:5, Funny)
misspelled (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, I think you misspelled "Linux"...
Re:The real questions is... (Score:1, Redundant)
Awesome... (Score:5, Interesting)
But anyway, this looks _extremely_ nice, this might be useful as a screen to display quick stats on a server, or just as a game platform. Again, very nice job.
Re:Awesome... (Score:5, Funny)
Um...well, I guess I can respect your optimism.
Re:Awesome... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Awesome... (Score:3, Insightful)
Warms my heart.
Improvement! (Score:5, Funny)
Otherwise, I am impressed that a team of 8 year old girls had the know-how to hack their toys.
Re:Improvement! (Score:2)
Sorry, we're talking about the Pokemon Mini here, not the Ngage.
(Which one do you folks think has sold more?)
Logic Analyzer (Score:2, Funny)
Chatbox (Score:2, Informative)
@ p0p: mhhh, taking the videos offline until that slashdot flood is over..maybe we survive one more day then
I'm guessing they'll be taking the chatbox down too, to begin with. Maybe even the whole server
23 Comments and the video is pulled. (Score:1)
Re:23 Comments and the video is pulled. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:23 Comments and the video is pulled. (Score:5, Informative)
Video 1 [spymac.net]
Video 2 [spymac.net]
Video 3 [spymac.net]
Re:23 Comments and the video is pulled. (Score:1)
Re:23 Comments and the video is pulled. (Score:1)
Re:Video won't play.... (Score:2)
head to this page [apple.com] to grab it. it's free, and since it sounds like you're on Windows, you may as well get iTunes while you're there. i [apple.com]
Re:23 Comments and the video is pulled. (Score:2, Funny)
1MB Max Cartridge Size (Score:5, Insightful)
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 (Score:5, Informative)
Oops... (Score:1)
pokemon (Score:3, Funny)
oo (Score:4, Funny)
port bochs86 to it
run windown on it
play the windows version at an astonishingly bad fps/resolution
Re:oo (Score:4, Funny)
Re:oo (Score:1)
hmm (Score:3, Informative)
looks like the sort of project a less than legally-conscious prof might have handed to me in digital systems classes this year =P
Re:hmm (Score:5, Funny)
This is starting to shit me - I'm all for shameless self-promotion [uq.edu.au] 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?
Re:hmm (Score:2)
It was fun to spike my stats [uq.edu.au] (scroll down to hourly stats) with a comment originated mini-slashdotting :)
It's interesting, the hit rate exhibits a lovely exponential decay...not like the crunching, grinding burning shriek that will come when I get front page coverage for my project - admins beware!! muhahahahahaha!!
/index.php still works... they forgot to remove it (Score:2, Informative)
It appears that if you directly go to /index.php instead of just the main index.page, the site is still up.
PokeMe main page [shizzle.it]
Re:hmm (Score:2)
What makes you think there's anything "less than legal" about it?
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Call me crazy... (Score:4, Funny)
DAMN YOU, I'M A WANTED MAN! ::runs and hides under bed::
Re:Call me crazy... (Score:2)
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another site slashdotted (Score:4, Informative)
Nutty base for a HUD (Score:5, Funny)
Vik
IRC Channel (Score:4, Informative)
#pmdev on EFnet
What the heck (Score:4, Funny)
2) change your website to "bah come back later"
3) everyone who wants to see the page from slashdot doesn't get to due to said message, thus defeating the purpose of being posted on slashdot
4) ????????
5) profit!!!
Re:What the heck (Score:2)
Down for the count (Score:3, Funny)
I was wondering about that. (Score:2)
Now it says "bah come back later". heh.
Yes, but... (Score:2, Troll)
(this post is just a shill to call attention to my related, yet ancient sig)
Re:Yes, but... (Score:2)
There's a special adapter that lets you plugs the the cartridge port directly into a wall socket!
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Cards! (Score:1, Funny)
(first edition too, muhahah....let the kids tear theirs up...mine are sleeved and waiting for them to enter the prime earner years...ok I'm lame)
Guess I should have sold both Charizard cards when it was up to $900 on eBay...wonder who bought that? I bought mine at the comic store when they came out, since I was so into CCG cards at the time.
Next to put clustering GNU/Linux on there... (Score:3, Funny)
Why's everyone dissing on Pokemon...? (Score:5, Interesting)
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:Why's everyone dissing on Pokemon...? (Score:1)
Re:Why's everyone dissing on Pokemon...? (Score:1)
You'll ruin it for everyone!
We all spread this myth so that the other groups won't pick on us and won't realize we are competition for the women!
And of course some of us are into pity-dates.
Now stop spreading it around!
Re:Why's everyone dissing on Pokemon...? (Score:1)
Re:Why's everyone dissing on Pokemon...? (Score:2)
No, it was correct as written.
"I agree, its a fad, but for some of us, it was our segway [segway.com] into learning more about technology, programming, and how to pick up women..."
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Pokemon is Cartoon Cockfighting (Score:1)
Re:Pokemon is Cartoon Cockfighting (Score:2)
Well, umm, it's maybe different in that, umm, IT'S NOT REAL!!! Much better that the kiddies run around digitally fragging, maiming, blah blah blah than doing it for real, no?
Re:Pokemon is Cartoon Cockfighting (Score:1)
Re:Pokemon is Cartoon Cockfighting (Score:2, Insightful)
I know, it's not quite as dramatic as your post.
Re:Pokemon is Cartoon Cockfighting (Score:1)
Re:Pokemon is Cartoon Cockfighting (Score:2)
Well, for one, it's animated. Do you also suggest we pull all drama revolving around murder or drugs?
If your kids learn how to behave from afternoon television, I suggest you consider that parenting may be the real problem.
Hack the Leap Pad (Score:4, Insightful)
I would like to put my own lessons into it. Printing pages, recording, would all be fun. I don't see any other really durable hardware for kids that can be expanded. A 4 year old can do a lot of damage to things.
Re:Hack the Leap Pad (Score:1)
Re:Hack the Leap Pad (Score:2)
It seems like a simple enough device, only audio responses to certain trigger areas, with a little occasional logic in there for games and variety. I know we'll probably be getting the bigger one soon, I guess maybe I'll keep the old one to play with myself.
summer project? (Score:2, Insightful)
Do we ("we" as in just about everyone not mentioned in the article) get the benefit of a tutorial or perhaps a just few elaborate hints on how to do this ourselves?
If nothing explaining how to do this was/is ever written, there is absolutely no point in slashdotting this.
On the other hand, if a tutorial is available, I'd love to get started on it. It'd certainly make a great summer project and even a great g
If you actually want one..... (Score:3, Informative)
The "Blue mini' (I did a search for "mini") is priced at $9.95 for both the regular and the "deluxe" package, where the other colors still want about $30 for the deluxe.
For shits and grins I put in an order, we'll see if they honor the $10 price....
Quit your whinin', it's a good hack! (Score:2, Interesting)
Speaking of which, if I had these folks' technical savvy, I would have immediately bought Sony's Librie eBook, and hacked the hell out of it until I could put my own content in it! (Please, please, someone hack it!!) ;-)
So, when will we see 3rd-party carts? (Score:2)
Snorlax! (Score:2)
A big lump who likes sleeping. Not that that reminds me of anyone...
Site working now (Score:2, Informative)
24x16 tile graphics (each tile is 4 by 4 pixels, looks like 3 level greyscale) leads to a 96x64 resolution. It probably has 4x4 pixel sprites as well. All in all, probably a cut down Gameboy
4MHz CPU, most likely 8-bit but this type of information wasn't on the webpage and I'm not downloading the assember packages to find out. Not much else online either about this device.
I envision.... (Score:4, Funny)
At the end, you have to defeat CowboyNeal...
Re:I envision.... (Score:1)
Re:but wait! (Score:5, Funny)
*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.
Re:Not so fast... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not so fast... (Score:1, Insightful)
WHOIS results for 81.209.148.144
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Country: GERMANY
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inetnum: 81.209.148.0 - 81.209.148.255
Re:Ack (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ack (Score:2)
Re:Ack (Score:1)
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Well, at least it took out Hasbro... (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually, while the country survived pokemon...Wizards of the Coast retail stores didn't. http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?thold=-1&m ode=flat&order=0&sid=11286 Billions and Billions to suddenly long term leases and big stores with no one coming in. RUH ROW!
Re:Ack (Score:2)
You have it all backwards. Yes, it was to identify the stupid people, get them all in a few locations, then get rid of everyone else.
I've said it before. I'll say it again. It is not in the best interest of the sheperd to raise smarter sheep.
Re:/.ed (Score:2)
Busty server? (Score:1)
-ReK
Re:Looks like they've already... (Score:1)
yuo are teh funnay!!!1!
Ive nevar herd a joke liek that befor!!!!! suggesting that the server is running on product from artical is GENIUS!!!!!! It was so original!!! nobody has evar made a joke like that!!!!!!!1!!!!
you split my sides apart with gut busting laughter!!!!!!!!
Pleez tell another one mistar commedian!!!?!~1!
Re:Just a head's up (Score:1)
Right, I think you're joking, because they would have surely used OTP (One Time Programmable) microcontrollers or even a custom maskset with their ROM on it.