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Nearly 1,800 step-by-step tutorials written by the GBAtemp community, covering custom firmware, homebrew, game backups, emulation, ROM hacking and hardware repair for Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, handhelds and PC.
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Nintendo Switch 397 tutorials Nintendo 3DS 545 tutorials Nintendo Wii U 172 tutorials Nintendo DS 164 tutorials Nintendo Wii 174 tutorials PC/MAC 40 tutorials Sony PlayStation 5 2 tutorials Sony PlayStation 4 57 tutorials Sony PlayStation 3 79 tutorials Sony PS Vita 87 tutorials Sony PSP 65 tutorials Xbox Series X|S 1 tutorials Microsoft Xbox One 55 tutorials Xbox 360 13 tutorials

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4.82 Ferrox Cobra CFW and Webman for beginners

Updated · Posted by Ryccardo
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Switch Hacks Guide

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GameCube Action Replay v1.14b on a Wii [2014]

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How to Use Final Burn Alpha with HBL for Beginners.

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How to install Homebrew Launcher on your 3.0.0 Switch

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Recover lost parental control pin #

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How to pin GBATemp to your Taskbar with Google Chrome

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Extract Just Dance autodance video

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How to make 3DS Games with Unity

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How To Setup a Fully Automated Remote Media Server

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How to get your 3DS's IP Address and Port

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Build your own free ps2 classics pkg for PS4 4.05 Jailbreak

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Dump Your PS4 Game Discs for PS4 4.05 Jailbreak

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Zelda BOTW - Clear any shrine in less than 1mn

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Remove personal mii without formatting

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PKG Kitchen - PS4 Guides, Tools and Scripts for Fake PKG Creation - All credit to XVortex at PSXHAX

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Pinky's PS3 Tutorials 2 of 2

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3DS Screen Recording without a Capture Card (NTR CFW Method)

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Sync Joy-Cons to PC

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Some xbox 360 cpu information

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How to hide the CBHC icon from the home menu

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Pinky's PS3 Tutorials 1 of 2

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Patch PSN games to work even without ReActPSN

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a guide to checking your 3ds FW version

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Remove The Singstar Icon from PS3!

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PS2 .psu Saves => PS3 internal memory card (without needing a PS2 -> PS3 memory card)

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GUIDE: PS3 4.82 CFW Installation for Dummies

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Remove GamePad launch requirements

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Debuting 10 years of Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney Script Editor 0.2.1

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Restoring HDD PS3 | OFW/CFW | CEX/DEX

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Making an emuNAND and using it with a region changed NAND

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How to use SleepiiHax / StupiidHax

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GBATemp DSi modding help thread and guide

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installing the Godmode9 bootloader

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5.5.2 Browser with 5.5.1 vulnerability [CFW required]

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My particular workaround for error 0xf9617590 in the NFC process

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Converting special mii to qr code!

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Guide to HANS Rom Hacking (Maybe Noob-Friendly)

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Wii on Wii U Virtual Console: Injecting Games

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