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I love hearing these stories too! Here's a video of someone finally cracking into the Sega Saturn well after the console was current commodity: https://www.you

I love hearing these stories too! Here's a video of someone finally cracking into the Sega Saturn well after the console was current commodity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyfZex7B3E&t=202s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyfZex7B3E&t=202s

JohnBooty 5y ago
He eventually released a commercial product, the Satiator, and I'm happy to say that it works great and is very well supported by the creator himself and the community! For those unfamiliar, the Satiator is an adapter of sorts that lets you load Saturn ISOs onto an SD card and play them via the Saturn's MPEG adapter slot. Unlike many solutions on various consoles that bypass the optical drive, no hardware modifications are required. Your Saturn stays intact; it's truly plug-and-play. This sort of thing is important. Consoles (specifically moving parts, like the optical drives) and physical media from the 90s are failing. Surviving consoles and games can be quite expensive; even thousands of dollars. Emulation is imperfect and introduces lag. Satiator and other flashcarts let us play these games on original hardware and bypass these issues.
- dylan604 5y ago
  Not game related, but this is what I like about the MagicLantern hack for Canon cameras. It's just some data on your card that gets loaded at boot. If you use a card without the data on it, the camera boots/peforms as a regular stock camera. No hacking of the software on the camera itself.
  - brokenmachine 5y ago
    I've always been curious how MagicLantern achieves this. Wouldn't the original firmware need code to boot from SD? Maybe it automatically checks for new firmware on the card and then gets exploited from there? Does anyone know?
    - dylan604 5y ago
      I always imagined it like a BIOS setting allowing you to choose boot device order. The camera looks to see if something is available on the card first, if not then it just boots to camera. It's been so long since I've set up my camera to use ML, but I know I had to upgrade the firmware to a compatible version. Then IIRC, you load the ML data on the card and tell the camera to upgrade firmware again. So it maybe something that it thinks it is a firmware upgrade but just hijacks that process to boot a full thing instead. ???

JohnBooty 5y ago

He eventually released a commercial product, the Satiator, and I'm happy to say that it works great and is very well supported by the creator himself and the community! For those unfamiliar, the Satiator is an adapter of sorts that lets you load Saturn ISOs onto an SD card and play them via the Saturn's MPEG adapter slot. Unlike many solutions on various consoles that bypass the optical drive, no hardware modifications are required. Your Saturn stays intact; it's truly plug-and-play. This sort of thing is important. Consoles (specifically moving parts, like the optical drives) and physical media from the 90s are failing. Surviving consoles and games can be quite expensive; even thousands of dollars. Emulation is imperfect and introduces lag. Satiator and other flashcarts let us play these games on original hardware and bypass these issues.

dylan604 5y ago
Not game related, but this is what I like about the MagicLantern hack for Canon cameras. It's just some data on your card that gets loaded at boot. If you use a card without the data on it, the camera boots/peforms as a regular stock camera. No hacking of the software on the camera itself.
- brokenmachine 5y ago
  I've always been curious how MagicLantern achieves this. Wouldn't the original firmware need code to boot from SD? Maybe it automatically checks for new firmware on the card and then gets exploited from there? Does anyone know?
  - dylan604 5y ago
    I always imagined it like a BIOS setting allowing you to choose boot device order. The camera looks to see if something is available on the card first, if not then it just boots to camera. It's been so long since I've set up my camera to use ML, but I know I had to upgrade the firmware to a compatible version. Then IIRC, you load the ML data on the card and tell the camera to upgrade firmware again. So it maybe something that it thinks it is a firmware upgrade but just hijacks that process to boot a full thing instead. ???