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It always blows me away when people work out this stuff so long after the product comes out. This hardware sold hundreds of millions of units and yet no one not
by SilverRed 6y ago
It always blows me away when people work out this stuff so long after the product comes out. This hardware sold hundreds of millions of units and yet no one noticed it had a video output inside it? Just goes to show how complex this stuff is I guess.
- accrual 6y agoI'm sure the internals were photographed and dissected a long time ago but maybe someone is just now getting into the guts of the SoC. It's fun to imagine all the interesting things we might have laying around that are hidden by a $DEBUG=0 flag...
- SilverRed 6y agoThere was a blog post where someone reverse engineered the IR protocol of the pokewalker and found that it had a bunch of commands which were never used but are still active in the firmware (some likely were planned for events)
- MarioMan 6y agoIt’s a good read. Here’s a link to the write up: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=28.%20pokewalker https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=28.%20pokewalker