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It has been a very long time since i did a post now. I’ve been so occupied by school that i have had no time to do anything that i really wanted to do.. but anyway.

some tiny words about the super magicom. Back in the 90s when the super nintendo / super famicom came to market. Our friends in China, Hong Kong were amongst the biggest software pirates on home consoles (and still are, more or less). There were made a HUGE amount of different units to do this, also known as backup units. I collect these, and have MANY in my collection. Just recently i got a Super Magicom. For those of you who download snes roms from the net, you’ll always see a .SMC extension, yes, this is because they were usually dumped with this unit (it could even dump the special games using FX/SFX chip and so on).

BUT, the effen seller that sold me this unit had not tried it, and guess what, the litium battery inside had leaked and damaged a lot of the PCB. So, i had to be inventive and do something about it. this is the result!

first, battery leak on one side:

most of the area from above

Happily the acid had only damaged the ground line, so without a new battery, i re-wired it like this:

and restultzzzzzzz

This is how it looks like all assembled back together:

YAY

The PS3 has been considered unbreakable for 3 years, during which it has not been affected by piracy. On January 23th 2010, and after 5 weeks of research, George Hotz claimed on his blog: “I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3.”

And as a result, gehot is describing the hack in detail at Nuit Du Hack!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3W8n_vq8hA&html5=True

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApEj_9AS-g&html5=True

Enjoy!!!!

BIG NEWS from wiikey.cn !!!

After an admittedly long delay, Wiikey Fusion will begin shipping this week, so our distributors will begin to receive stock as of early next week. Please be patient when dealing with your point of sale — Wiikey Fusion sales have been astronomically high, so each distributor will have a lot of backorders to deal with.

The Wiikey Fusion card will be supplied with a sleek case, which can be seen on the front page of wiikey.cn

The main reason for the delay in releasing Wiikey Fusion has been due to the perfecting of some great additional features, most notably WBFS and the “softcore” system. Having a softcore means that the only part of the chip that could ever possibly need a JTAG update is a very small portion of initial FPGA code. Everything else (the majority of the code) is in the softcore, which can be updated by SD card.

We’d like to thank everyone for their patience and support while Wiikey Fusion was perfected. We hope that you will enjoy it!

Hello everyone, this will be just a short summary of a RROD fix i just did, some pictures of the motherboard and the heat sinks, before and after cleaning, enjoy!

This first picture is the top side of the 360 moderboard, with uncleaned cpu and gpu, loads of dry cooling paste.

Here we have the cleaned board, i used white spirit to clean the GPU,  CPU and their heat sinks

here we got the unclean heat sinks

and at last, the clean heat sinks

a very fun project actually, worked quite well!

Okidoki, the modification is done!

Today i picked up a bunch of LT switches for the new LiteOn drives:

This is how my hardware is setup, Ck3Pro, Via 6412, and so on

Backside of the drive in the works

HEX data output from the drive before firmware patching

and here we are, video proof of completed modification (yes, i own the original disc i’m using, its just a backup…tam ti tam)

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Today is a good day to be a console “hacker”. The great geohot (aka George Hotz) have done the one thing noone else has managed todo the last 3 years, get full memory space access and therefore ring 0 access from OtherOS. He has released the source code for the exploit for all to see.

I hope in the following weeks we will see some development on the ps3 front and maybe someone finally can manage to do an entire dump of the hypervisor!!!!!! =)

Very quick beginning, i’ve just disassembled the xbox, this will be my first attempt on the new liteOn drives, gonna use the newly released iXtreme Lite Touch (LT) released by C4E

Have just ordered a batch of team xecuters liteon LT switches for easier firmware dump and flashing, CANT WAIT!!!!!

‘ello people! This is my first post for the ntsc.no domain,  I’ll start up with a easy modification of the z64, which i should have done years ago, but took me the 2 minutes of work tonight :)

The unit,

FACT: The z64 hardware revision 3.0 have one major fault; over heating! Thanks to the schweino at dextrose, this issue was resolved by a simple and nifty hack of the motherboard. Shorting leg B and E on the transistor Q3, and scratching off some of the surface on the trace, attaching that to the diode you can see in the picture.

The un-modded board,

And after the modification is complete,

You can “easily” see the tiny red wire, but due to my sucky sucky camera, i cant get a close up shot of the board (DAMN THOSE SMALL CAMS!!!!)

And everything boots up nicely!

Pretty small modification, but its my first blog post and please contact me for any information about it, if needed!

-pixl0r