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    Gaming Petition for open sourcing Revo k101 firmware and open source GB/GBC/GBA hardware

    I have the RE and development skills... I'm not nearly as strong in hardware dev. Decapping? I'm happy enough if someone gets me a unit and I attempt to remove the epoxy potting to reveal the IC that is probably driving the core (the LCD display driver is there without masking). That would be a...
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    Gaming Petition for open sourcing Revo k101 firmware and open source GB/GBC/GBA hardware

    Is there any information on the encoding or compression used for the firmware BIN file? Just to save myself that hassle and hop on IDA as soon as I can...
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    Gaming Petition for open sourcing Revo k101 firmware and open source GB/GBC/GBA hardware

    Honestly, that's one possibility. But I would include NES and GBC specific options in the system menu. Also could support game covers for them, beyond the cheats. It might be possible to optimize them for the Revo's architecture. The chip is potted in epoxy but it could be removed, or Max can...
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    Review K101 Revo, Official GBAtemp Review

    I wrote this thread looking for support to ask Max to open source the firmware, and other ideas like an open source GB/GBC clone. http://gbatemp.net/threads/petition-for-open-sourcing-revo-k101-firmware-and-open-source-gb-gbc-gba-hardware.365527/
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    Gaming Petition for open sourcing Revo k101 firmware and open source GB/GBC/GBA hardware

    Hello, I've got in touch with Max, the individual responsible for the Revo k101. I would like to request community support to convince him that it would be a good idea to release the source code for the Revo k101 firmware. I am not familiar yet with its internals, but I'm well versed with...
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    Homebrew Fonts compatible with devkitarm (or how to make them!) (libnds)

    Hi, I've been compiling resources for homebrew fonts suitable for the DS: http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/ But thus far I've been unable to grok how the fonts, especially TTF ones, can be converted to a BMP bitmap font suitable to be...
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    Hacking DSTwo (and other flashcards) accessing the additional RAM of the 3DS

    Damn it, now I have to reply to you both in depth. OK, so I'm going to write a quick test for the RAM and see what's the real situation there. Regarding the DSTWO, I wouldn't be surprised if they had cloned parts of a different flashcart. There's a reason Chinese developers are infamous for...
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    Hacking DSTwo (and other flashcards) accessing the additional RAM of the 3DS

    FAST6191, rock on. Thanks for the lengthy message. I'll reply ASAP. I got my 3DS by the way, it seems it doesn't use emulation by any means, games run native I think, so the connection between 3DS-DS has no airgap, but it isn't "privileged" either. I think the firmware is what decides what can...
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    Hacking Crown3ds flashcard - Hacking your 3DS and playing 3DS games

    I have a Xbox 360 and the only reason I haven't done any reverse engineering on it is that I don't want to get banned from online services. They can block your credit card forever probably and it's a hassle to use gift cards for XL. For me the ability to load pirated ROMs is only a bridge...
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    Hacking Crown3ds flashcard - Hacking your 3DS and playing 3DS games

    I would pay for them. The costs and retail price involve a whole process of quality assurance behind the scenes. There's a lot of wisdom in the old saying "You get what you pay (or bargain) for". The problem here is that you expect others to give you something without charging for it. If you...
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    Hacking Upscaling/screen scaling woes and ideas

    The DS never implemented support for custom borders I think. The Pokemon GBC titles for instance had sprites built-in for that purpose. On the other hand, this would take a toll on battery life. As an optional feature I would take it. I don't have most GBC titles available in my region :( BTW...
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    Hacking Upscaling/screen scaling woes and ideas

    Thanks for the informative response, when I started the thread I wasn't interested on subjective opinions. When people say they think it's fine it's a matter of personal preference, but we are talking about screen resolution, pixel density etc here. Or in other words, there are factual problems...
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    Hacking Crown3ds flashcard - Hacking your 3DS and playing 3DS games

    The most interesting thing here would be homebrew development/exploiting the new capabilities of the 3DS. I could care less about piracy... most people wind up downloading ROMs they would never play, if you can't play for free, you are more picky about which titles you plan on buying, which...
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    Hacking Upscaling/screen scaling woes and ideas

    We have to give Nintendo credit where credit is due, and a bad rep when they screw up. They screwed up with the DS mode of the 3DS. I fizzled around the internal configuration screens (wifi for instance)... and the bastards did the same there. The resolution is horrible. I honestly bought the...
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    Hacking Upscaling/screen scaling woes and ideas

    Exactly, thank you for pointing out what I mean in first place. For what's worth, they could have used jitter instead of bi-linear. But Nintendo gets some things amazingly wrong. Update: How does the DSi XL handle this? Does it do upscaling? For DS titles I mean. I'm just wondering about which...
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