http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net Squidly1's attempts at hacking her game systems... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:14:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a year of disuse and banishment in a closet, my Wii has finally emerged.  The link below is a local link to my (low res) video tute on using the Indiana Pwns hack (and LEGO Indiana Jones) to mod a Wii.  Oh happy day now that I can listen ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=120 Found that videos from the 25th annual Chaos Computer Congress are making their way to people via Bittorrent feeds - w00t!  It's great news for those of us who could not afford to fly out there and experience the CCC this year.  (sigh) One day.... As soon as I get some ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=115 We all know that there's tons of fake "proof" vids posted on YouTube.  So, when you see a video showing something that looks plausable (or too incredible) you can't just blindly press that "I Believe" button - just because it's "recorded" via video. Alrighty... I'll admit it.  Sometimes I see stuff ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=111 With the recent update of my two modded Classic Xbox systems to the newest versions of XBMC, I've noticed a couple of old bugs creeping back into the T3CH distro. :( Last month I downloaded the "Atlantis" (XBMC-8.10-FINAL-T3CH-PROPER) installation and tried it out on one of my old modded Xboxen.  Everything ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=106 A couple of days ago a hardware hacker, known as Royginald (old alias "rOyg1nald"), "hacked" a PSP-3000.  The thing is, the hack is not something that you would just run out and try - he performed his modification by removing the CPU from a PSP-3000 and replacing it with the ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=95 I was curious as to why the Pandora battery does not work on the PSP-3000 and PSP-2000s with the TA-88v3 motherboard.  And once again, Dark_AleX was there to provide a piece of the puzzle.  His article, linked HERE, is the only document that actually breaks down the processes that the ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=86 I decided to update my trusty 3.40OE Phat PSP.  The part that I did not realize was that you can't directly upgrade from 3.40OE to 5.00 M33-3 (sadhat).  I had to whip out my homemade Pandora battery (updated last with 3.71 M33-2) and do it old-skewl. Then I installed 5.00 M33-3 ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=84 I have owned my "Phat" PlayStation 2 since the console came out, so I have no issues with modding it (no reasonable warranty to worry about here).  Yesterday, I was lucky enoughto find a copy of Action Replay MAX for the PS2 (whoohoooo!) at the same place I picked up ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=76 I finally got around to installing the free version of Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 on my PS3.  Looks pretty good.  Some of the issues I had with my display clipping the bottoms off of some of the install screens has been fixed.  And installation may now run without the use ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=73 Alright...  I went out and bought a PSP-3000 (aka: PSP Brite) - against my better judgment.  It's a nice enough system but it seems to have an issue with visible interlacing - which seems to be most noticeable when the system has to rapidly move graphics around (ie: games and ... http://haksys.schleppingsquid.net/?p=57