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I'm hosting a fundraiser to obtain 10 builds of a Shantae game + a design document for an unreleased Shantae game
A donation link and more info can be found here:
raregamingdump.ca/shantae/
Any amount helps, so please feel free to spread this around!
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Metroid Prime Game Dev Story - The One Where We Fridged a GameCube. Shortly after Prime shipped, Nintendo told us that a "bad batch" of GameCube CPU's shipped, and apparently Prime was the only game that misbehaved on them. We saw videos and it was clear what was going on. 1/7
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As promised, the new article about the Wii U has been released. Enjoy! copetti.org/writings/console…
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When you see Samus’s visor affected by electrical “noise” in game, you’re actually seeing the bits and bytes of the Metroid Prime software code itself being rendered on the screen. Turns out machine code is sufficiently random to work great as a static noise texture!
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Sysupdate detected for New3DS: yls8.mtheall.com/ninupdates/…
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Gary is on fire again. This time with a primary USB exploit for the Wii U which can be done with a Raspberry Pi Pico (~5€). It happens quite early in the boot process and should bring many bricked consoles back to life!
Apparently parsing USB descriptors without any security flaws is hard:
garyodernichts.blogspot.com/…