Comments on: Super Game Boy boot ROM dumped

By: Wizard

Wizard — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:27:12 +0000

Great Modification. GameBoy ROM Dumping Devices are already being sold, but great use of time!
You have inspired me to make my own… :)

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:43:03 +0000

He’s one of my heroes. I already wondered what he was up to lately.

By: Greycode

Greycode — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:20:48 +0000

WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE HACKADAY CREW!? My god, leave them where ever you have them, and keep doing these kinds of things!

Besides being a rat nest of wires, this is what hacking is. Well even the rat nest of wires is too. Props my friend, keep it up and ignore the bad writes. You are indeed a hacker.

By: MooglyGuy

MooglyGuy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:46:16 +0000

The people asking “why aren’t current Game Boy emulators good enough” and calling this hack useless are broadcasting their ignorance for all to see.

Current Game Boy emulators support SGB games through kludgy hacks that trick the games into thinking they’re running on a real SGB. You can’t use any of the features that were available on the original SGB. Having an actual boot ROM opens the door for properly emulating a Super Game Boy *and* the SNES to which it’s connected.

By: Don Cross

Don Cross — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:43:50 +0000

This is the true essence of classical hacking: wondering if you can do something difficult, then satisfying your curiosity with hard work and cleverness! If all human activity was based around solving an immediate practical problem, humankind would never have developed beyond perfecting the bow and arrow. After you do the “useless” interesting thing, some other guy who has a related problem adapts it and advances us all forward.

By: ngth

ngth — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:14:03 +0000

First off: Nice, we finally have something worth reading again.

Second: I’m surprised this works. All of the wires that are in that bunch are bound to cause signal integrity issues. Regardless, kudos.

By: devin

devin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:04:22 +0000

Useless hacks are the best hacks; practicality is boring, leave that for the engineers.

By: Bah

Bah — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:22:13 +0000

Fuck yeah! That is what hacking is all about! Mad propz to that guy!

Also, to anyone who ever does die-staining to reverse engineer anything. You have my utmost respect!

Hack the planet!

By: Alan Parekh

Alan Parekh — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:38:43 +0000

Very impressive hack! Do that to some satellite dishes and you will be rolling in the dough. :)

By: O Mattos

O Mattos — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:14:52 +0000

I’m amazed this works. I mean, when you overclock it, one of any number of things could go wrong, and he was very lucky that the processor state was kept/recovered to a working state, and that the PC was successfully incremented while the flags register wasn’t.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:44:02 +0000

@tjhooker: hack a day isn’t really about the scene

By: tjhooker

tjhooker — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:15:41 +0000

using a microscope to read bits under a microscope = obsessed

Finding a JTAG, DMA injection, and RAM bus tapping are pretty common now days with embedded reversing.

If you reverse, and you can’t do that and manually analyze machine code, AND unpack mutating and virtualized protectors/packers you’re pretty much out of the scene unless you’re cracking PE with poor protectors in batches.

By: TheFish

TheFish — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:16:36 +0000

!, thats allot of wires! but still awesome.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:49:51 +0000

There must be many ways to get in without such a silly thing as using a microscope, and this is just one of them, clever though this one.

By: LukeS

LukeS — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:24:06 +0000

This guy knows his stuff but man I wish he used something better then like a iphone camera to document the project.