What was the first console/device you modded/hacked?

[Deleted User]

Title. I want to know what was the first device you modified/hacked, wether it be building a pc, hacking a phone, modding an xbox, etc.

Mine was a psp 1000 that i installed a CFW to when i was 9, i remember how annoying it was to get the proper files for the "magic" memory stick, and to remember which pin on the battery i had to cut in order to make it a pandora battery...

 

[Sakitoshi]

My own PC. But I don't know if PC counts as it's like hacked from the start, you can do whatever you want without any modification.

Then came my gamecube, but I don't know if that count because I bough it already chipped. as for handhelds my GBA SP, but then again I don't know if flashcards really count as hacking/modding.
My Wii probably was then the first console I modded myself and my PSP go was the first handheld, fiddling with hacks and ports on my DSi was fun but then again a flashcard did the dirty work.

Now that I think more, the first device I had heavily modded was my good'ol Nokia 3600.

EDIT: btw I'm referring to this Nokia 3600, not the shit feature phone released years later Nokia 3600 slide. Symbian4Life

 

[JamiePashley]

For me it would be my PS2 about 6-7 years ago, could be longer. I still have it to this day, and got it to run backups from disk. I may one day make it run from HDD if i ever find the effort

 

[Hoppy]

I installed The Homebrew Channel to my Wii because I wanted to play Brawl hacks.

 

[FAST6191]

It was not really a thing like it is today but I imagine everybody had copied amiga games and things for prior consoles when it was simple as having dual tape decks.

Device wise I often had little kit electronic cars (not remote control, that was far too expensive and even the good ones only turned in reverse at the time) which I lightly modified to go faster (more voltage and tweaked gears).

Not sure what I did between pre NES and PS1 (which were all mod chipped as a matter of course), though amiga, PC and such all figured heavily around then so my lack of flash carts then probably did not make a lot of odds.

I think I said before but I got a tool kit for Christmas when I was 5, I used it to pull apart things and have done so ever since.

 

[DinohScene]

Started hacking on the Old xbox in... '03 iirc.

 

[Froster]

Wii
Just wanted to play some backup and some hacks.

 

[spinal_cord]

Commodore 64, added a reset button.

 

[CuriousTommy]

My first console was the Wii. I remember the time when there weren't hacks out yet for Wii 4.0 firmware. I was so excited when the bannerblock exploit came out. I remember playing some homebrew and trying the homebrew installer even though it failed (it was before the hacks were updated and the Wii became the most hackable device ever). I had a lot of fun with the Wii hacking.

 

[teegeeack]

sega genesis. early 1990s, got some mega drive cartridges from japan. they looked like they should fit into the genesis cartridge slot, but of course they did not.

there was no internet. well. there was an internet, sort of. but there was no worldwide web that was easily accessible to the public. so i couldn't just pop onto a forum and ask people "do japanese mega drive cartridges work in a genesis? how do i make it work?"

information about a great many obscure topics could be very scarce to the average person back then.

no. i didn't have information. i only had intuition. i used an iron file to shave away the corners of the cartridge slot so that the mega drive cartridges would fit into the genesis, uncertain about whether or not the cartridges would actually work with the console. probably the safer solution would have been to remove the top of the genesis' shell and try the cartridges in the partially dismantled console before making any permanent alterations. but i was a little bit intrepid, i guess. fortunately, the cartridges did end up working.

strangely enough, it seems that this method is widely discussed on the internet nowadays, and it's generally considered a sufficiently "correct" solution to the MD-carts-with-genesis-console dilemma. complete coincidence, since i never told anyone about it, nor did i ever bother to look it up (see if anybody else filed their genesis cartridge slots down) until recently.

 

[Deleted User]

Our Wii. I still haven't done exactly what I want to do with it yet, though. Currently just have the Homebrew Channel installed.

 

[migles]

Not sure what I did between pre NES and PS1 (which were all mod chipped as a matter of course)

how did you mod the nes? how did you pirated games?

 

[FAST6191]

Flash carts and copier devices have long existed for the NES, however I have not really gone back and looked at what goes and what went at the time. Most would have been awkward, expensive and very low in storage. Equally depending upon what you want to count the game genie as then that could be modification of some form. Emulation was also sort of a thing at various points, though that was a bit later.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

• The first hacked console I owned: PS2 Slim (bought it already chipped)
• The first console I hacked: PSP Slim (well, it's a handheld system actually)

I wish I had kept that PS2 Slim chipped because it'd be great to have around 'cause I could just load up any game now.

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

I believe mine was my PSP 2000, several years ago. After that I was always looking to push the envelope on my gadgets, with the Wii being the next one to get hacked. If I take a trip, the Wii and PSP go with me. I port over all my current savedata from Dolphin to the Wii and make sure the PSP has a nice charged battery.

 

[raulpica]

Soldered a WiiKey in my Wii back in 07. Whew, that was nerve-wracking, but it went well Since then I've become quite skilled with a soldering iron, so pretty much nothing scares me anymore

 

[Wolfvak]

PS2 Master Race here, best homebrew platform between 2003-2008, until the Wii scene obliterated everything else.

I still occasionally fire up my PS2 linux rig to perform some speed tests (32mb of RAM can tell you how well your program performs under lowmem conditions), or OPL with my USB hard drive, but life gets in the way ):

 

[Deleted User]

PS2 Master Race here, best homebrew platform between 2003-2008, until the Wii scene obliterated everything else.

I still occasionally fire up my PS2 linux rig to perform some speed tests (32mb of RAM can tell you how well your program performs under lowmem conditions), or OPL with my USB hard drive, but life gets in the way ):

What kind of homebrew does the PS2 have? I've been interested in purchasing one for a long time now.

 

[Drona]

My first hacked devices ?
Pro CFW on my PSP 3000 and M3i0 for my DSI XL.
I still have them.

 

[Wolfvak]

What kind of homebrew does the PS2 have? I've been interested in purchasing one for a long time now.

Well, you have PS2 Linux with kernels varying between 2.2 and 3.8, you have """backup""" loaders like Open PS2 Loader (OPL) which supports loading games from USB, internal HDD (only phats) and network SAMBA.

You can use uLaunchELF for file managing and launching homebrew (like a very primitive version of hbc with file management and memory card access), Simple Media System (SMS) to play Xvid videos (up to 720p) and music, and a lot of emulators, NES, GB/C, SNES, SMS/Genesis, you got games like Doom, Quake, official ports of Half Life and Unreal Tournament that can be played with OPL, and a lot of other stuff.

It was both beautiful and amazing to see such a scene back then, too bad it's about to die. At least when the PS2 becomes 'vintage' in the 2040's we may see it resurrect

I'm sure I forgot about a lot of stuff, but the point is, it's either the same as the 3DS' or even better to give you an idea.

EDIT: Oh and I forgot to include POPSLoader, which runs a modded POPS-00001 for PS2 that launches PS1 backups. Yes, they run from USB as well, I've tested a few games and they work pretty much like a native PS1 except for the in game reset