Archive for the ‘Homebrew’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The wheel are turning in the Wii scene. The gc-linux team has come out of a two year hibernation and has released a proof of concept Linux build for unmodified Wii's with the Twilight hack. Don't expect a fancy gui, but the concept has indeed been proven. Check out the ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Just last week I posted about the Wii ELF loader and early homebrew. Those early demos had no input, so weren't of much use. Programmer extraordinaire Auby now brings us the first fully playable wii homebrew, Tetris!
If you've got a copy of Zelda: TP, an SD to gamecube adapter, and ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
You may have heard the GDC buzz about some XNA Community Games trials available RIGHT NOW for all Xbox Live users. But where are they!?! You need to download the "XNA Creators Club Game Launcher" to get access. This will only be available until February 24th! After that, the launcher ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Remember all the hoopla about XNA and the Creators Club, which would let you build and deploy games directly to your 360 console? It sounded wonderful, but the $100 annual subscription was a gotcha for most who just wanted to tinker around. Not anymore. College students can now get a ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
It's stories like this that reaffirms my belief that Tetris is still the most bad ass video game ever. And nothing is more bad ass than playing Tetris on an oscilloscope. Refreshing at 100 Hz, it's got a frame rate that trumps most games you're used to. Tetris purists may ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
There have been a lot of Wii hacking developments this week. The Twilight Hack was released, which is the first exploit of it's kind. It's a classic gamesave exploit triggering a stack buffer overflow. This essentially allows us to hijack the system and run our own code. In it's current ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
I'm sure you are as overwhelmed as me with all the news, coverage, trailers, etc coming out of this years E3. It's a lot to wrap your mind around, and there is a lot of crap to wade through. In all honesty though, I'm pretty overwhelmed with the quantity of ...
Posted in E3 2007, Homebrew, News, PC, PS3, Video, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
The hacker Cpasjuste has managed to get Ubuntu Linux booting on his 360 thanks to: dvd firmware hack, Hypervisor Vulnerability, King Kong shader exploit, XeLL bootloader and linux xenon patches. The latest dashboard update has already blocked out the hypervisor vulnerability, so this will only be possibly with older dashboard ...
Posted in Hacks, Homebrew, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »