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This is a fascinating write-up. As somebody who's dabbled with homebrew a bunch over the years I've always wondered how one figures out exploits from scratch.

Nintendo is pretty litigious about this sort of stuff but I guess because this is such an old system they're able to get away with documenting exploit process like this.

Does anybody on HN know of other similar eng-focused guides for this sort of stuff out in the wild, or authors to follow?



The Chaos Computer Club archives have some amazing talks on console hacking: https://media.ccc.de/search/?q=console+hacking (most of them are also on YouTube)

One of the prominent figures out of that scene, marcan, is now leading the Asahi Linux (i.e. Linux on Apple Silicon) project.

(Another, bushing, sadly passed away in 2016: https://hackmii.com/ben. RIP.)


The International Journal of Proof of Concept or GTFO (https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/) is a fun compilation of reverse-engineering efforts with a bent towards older systems - issue 0x2 has an article on getting RCE on a Tamagotchi :D




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