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DSi RAM tracing: camera

September 14th, 2009 · 22 Comments

As we probe deeper into the DSi, we come across some neat stuff. Scanlime got a new FPGA board from Sparkfun, which gives him more GPIOs and the ability to run them at the 1.8v necessary to properly talk to the RAM. Sorting through the data we get from this setup is still a considerable […]

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DSi: ram hax

September 6th, 2009 · 20 Comments

Some time has gone by, and we’ve made a little progress on the DSi — at least, enough for some people to notice — so maybe I should write a little bit about it. I personally haven’t had much luck with my DSi.  I tried to dump the flash on it, and managed to blow […]

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Timing is everything (the case of the “unsoftmoddable Wii”)

August 29th, 2009 · 24 Comments

note: If you haven’t already, you should probably go back and read these posts, because they were written in preparation for this one: Wii Hardware: a history IOS: history, build process A few months back, we started getting reports of “unsoftmoddable Wiis”, aka “LU64+” (among other things). Normally, I wouldn’t care, but we discovered that […]

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