Recent content by Urbanshadow

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    Hacking Misc AI+MCP Server for Romhacking and Reverse Engineering

    I use claude for my GB romhack projects. Fiddling around the agent I've done a couple of things that really boosted claude capabilities. The first one was to find all pandocs and hardware documentation I trust and condense them into a claude skill, so it integrates with the agent without...
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    Hacking New Switch 2 Userland Exploit found

    General rule of thumb: if it's youtube, it's stale news. It takes time for the content creator to document about what happened and it takes time to edit a video, but most important: the info must be public (i.e. it was already made public in another place). This source can be rather obscure...
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    Let me save you the suspense; the Switch 2 won't get hacked

    That is a lot of information I didn't know. Thank you. Then the only vector of attack is a hardware defect. Either a rowhammer-esque setup where we could flip something in runtime to produce issues where they weren't, or a modchip. Looks grim, honestly.
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    Let me save you the suspense; the Switch 2 won't get hacked

    It means a userland exploit allows unsigned code execution with user permissions, as in we're still inside the walled garden. A dev should be able to explore the user allowed API functions at his leisure now. If by these means security issues are found between the seams of the different security...
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    Picodrive twl need sounds

    I am looking into this too. I was able to use the teak DSP in DSi mode in a local build and it was okay-ish. I broke DS mode and a bunch of other stuff, so I'll rebuild my strategy and try again. I'll let you guys know if I get something. First of all I would like to upgrade the homebrew to...
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    Let me save you the suspense; the Switch 2 won't get hacked

    Well, not with that attitude! :rofl2:
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    Hacking Hardware Picofly - a HWFLY switch modchip

    I was able to install a couple of picofly, one in my mariko and another one in a lite I bought for training. The solder points for the emmc in the lite was a challenge for me but I got it installed successfully. Because pics or it didn't happen: Mariko (LCD): Lite: I bridged lite SP2 with...
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    Xbox to increase in price again in August, Series S set to hit $500

    Steering the price is quick and easy, bringing down or offline entire AI scaffolding and products not so much. If I were you I would keep my eyes peeled.
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    TheFlow has hacked the PlayStation Portal, manages to run PPSSPP natively on the device

    It's not. Who am I to judge. I am assuming if you are willing to do mod this is because you already own it. A Raspberry Pi 5 might be twice as powerful at half the budget otherwise.
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    OpenLara - a stunning GBA port of the 1996 classic Tomb Raider

    GB carts solved this by writing to arbitrary ROM addresses to inform the mapper to switch to specific banks. The trick is understanding the ROM mapper is physically inside the cart. Of course it would need to be a custom mapper. Emulators will need changes to be able to access the data, but its...
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    TheFlow has hacked the PlayStation Portal, manages to run PPSSPP natively on the device

    From a technical standpoint should run, at least, all portable platforms predating the PSP. Special mention to the DS as the screen has touch controls. I would expect PS1 and below but let me hold for N64 or Sega Saturn. DOS games, such as DOOM should be able to run. It has a Snapdragon 662...
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    When the Switch2 comes out, do you expect it to have full Switch1 compatibility?

    If we take into account: Nintendo has partnered with ARM for the CPUs on their portable systems since the GBA Switch is already an ARM64 device Switch's graphic stack is fairly standard (no 3D or fancy stuff besides dynamic res governed by acpi) Technically speaking the only thing blocking it...
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    'The Tetris Effect' book author sues Apple over its 'Tetris' movie

    A pile of money and recognition is always a nice to have out of a legal process but you don't need to desperately look for public approval while you're at it, right? It's not the public approval you need but actually some grounds on the claim your making. Also you arose a nice point which is...
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    'The Tetris Effect' book author sues Apple over its 'Tetris' movie

    I only see it as a free publicity stunt by this book author. Why the stress to assure legal claims were tried to be fired before the movie released? Why the need to look good to the public if only looking for his "legal" fair share of copyright claims? Nah, this John Doe wanted to reach the...
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    Microsoft is now suspending users who use Retail Mode emulators on their Xbox consoles

    The message from the xbox sales team is clear: they see emulation as a threat to game sells. I wonder why they are not using the old MS motto of embrace, extend, extinguish. They will never win at emulation by banning emulators on their platforms. Nintendo is learning slowly but learning...
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