What is your favorite moment from the console hacking scene?

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There were a lot of nice things in the past few years. My first thing I did was getting a DSTWO and it was awesome. Playing all ds games and even emulators on a ds with one single card? That was crazy for me back then. Or how I modded my wii and was scared that I brick it, which I did not obviously. Ctgp Revolution and newer super mario bros wii were and are crazy or the donkey kong country returns classic controller cheat. I loved it. But yeah also getting my gateway was awesome. Playing 3ds backups? That was crazy for me back then, I played sm4sh on Japanese for some time. I also love the switch scene. It's really difficult for me to say what was my favorite moment I think I would say DStwo, just because it started with it for me.
 

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WHen they jailbroke the PS3 and CFW was a thing, it was rather awesome to fuck around with cheats and stuff
 

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To me, it depends on how you define "moment".

That whole "you won't ever be able to play gamecube games from hard disk AND have streaming audio because <insert complicated speech" thing...and then having 2 different loaders being developed that could (DIOS MIOS was the more popular one because it was open source). That was my greatest time period, even though it took some months to get all the quirks out.

The actual "moment": letterbomb. Nintendo released a wii upgrade that blocked hacks...and it took at most two days for the community (team tweezers, iirc :unsure) to come up with a new hack that not only worked around this but contained improvements over their previous method as well.
 

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When I installed a CFW on my Sony PSP for the first time (about 14 years ago)! It was so cool, as there were plenty of games I really wanted to play and they were very expensive for a 15-year-old unemployed kid like me at the time. :yaypsp:

Of course hacking my 3DS was also a great achievement, even though I've only done it 9 years after I've bought it (not long ago). :yay3ds:
 
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That time Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump leaked a bunch of Wii-U hacks, after the scene was hoarding them.

I...uhhh....



As for my favorite moment, it would have to be the idea of taking a lot of games with me on the go that I could play at anytime with the Switch that could be hacked by MacGyver-esque use of pliers.

You have to understand that, while I had hacked the Wii before and had used some homebrew one of my older brothers bought for the DC back in the day, a lot of the software either was neck-and-neck with PC's that we had at the time, or in the DC's case, performance was left wanting with stuff like DreamSNES. Also, I never liked setting the Wii up and using it, mostly because of that damn IR sensor.

A part of me thinks that, if the Wii functioned more like the Steam Controller's gyro, I might have liked the Wii a whole lot more...
 
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Swap disk exploit and freemc boot, I remember loading imbnes on my ps2, when I first found out about emulators, also I remember when passme, gbamp, revolution 4 Ds, m3 Ds simply came out around 2005 - 2006, homebrew in the 90s and 2000's was way more interesting.....now people just want emulators and ROMs, back then before smartphones took off, a Nintendo DS with a r4 or m3 running svsip, moonshell, Dsorganize, was pretty capable in 2007, and some developed gpio cartridges that provide 2 uarts and some gpio pins, also pretty useful midi device
 

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That time I created a small team of two people to revive ReiNAND because I got a new3DS and was like “:0 reiNAND is cool!” So messaged everyone until someone replied and created a new project with them just to see ReiNAND updated again.
 

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