game and watch got hacked one day before release

[loler55]

https://twitter.com/ghidraninja

 

[eyeliner]

Well, you can probably use it to emulate any two button console, like gameboy/nes/sms/gg?

 

[luigirockz]

Well that was fast

 

[MikaDubbz]

How much storage does it have? I'd just wanna add all the missing NES Mario Bros games and mario spinoffs, so Super Mario Bros 2/USA, Super Mario Bros 3, Mario Bros., Dr. Mario, Wario's Woods, Yoshi, NES Open Tournament Golf, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, Wrecking Crew, and fuck it maybe even Mario is Missing and Mario's Time Machine too, just for the sake of being complete (and yes I'm aware Mario pops up in games like Punch Out, but I'm focusing only on games where Mario characters are playable).

 

[EPgrouch]

this doesn't surprise me. just shows how weak nintendos security is.

 

[MikaDubbz]

this doesn't surprise me. just shows how weak nintendos security is.

Did anyone really expect a little limited edition novelty to have high security to begin with?

 

[Lostbhoy]

I want Mario 64 on it

 

[EPgrouch]

Did anyone really expect a little limited edition novelty to have high security to begin with?

good point.

 

[Mnecraft368]

Epic, now I can finally justify the £45 I wasted spent on this!

 

[hippy dave]

Exciting. What he's done so far tho is through connecting to internal chips/contacts, I hope there turns out to be a nice USB-accessible hack at some point.
Anyway like I said elsewhere when this gadget was announced, the most important thing to get running on it isn't more NES games, but the simulations of all the original Game & Watch games.

 

[Seriel]

How much storage does it have? I'd just wanna add all the missing NES Mario Bros games and mario spinoffs, so Super Mario Bros 2/USA, Super Mario Bros 3, Mario Bros., Dr. Mario, Wario's Woods, Yoshi, NES Open Tournament Golf, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, Wrecking Crew, and fuck it maybe even Mario is Missing and Mario's Time Machine too, just for the sake of being complete (and yes I'm aware Mario pops up in games like Punch Out, but I'm focusing only on games where Mario characters are playable).

128kb:

Interesting, an STM32H7B0VBT6 is the main processor! Cortex-M7, 128 KBytes Flash, 1024 KBytes of RAM. Also some unpopulated headers close by that expose SWD (the Arm Cortex-M debug interface)! pic.twitter.com/f5cdSlmin6

— stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) November 12, 2020

 

[MikaDubbz]

128kb:

Well shit, Super Mario 2 alone, as well as Super Mario 3 alone are too big for device.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Need a usb hdd attachment!

 

[Mnecraft368]

Well shit, Super Mario 2 alone, as well as Super Mario 3 alone are too big for device.

It actually has 8MB.

Next to it is a Macronix 25U8035 8Mb flash - definitely a candidate to be dumped! pic.twitter.com/23gegjHMjn

— stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) November 12, 2020

 

[bobmcjr]

Well shit, Super Mario 2 alone, as well as Super Mario 3 alone are too big for device.

Most of the data is likely pulled in from the external flash memory next to it.

 

[MikaDubbz]

It actually has 8MB.
https:/twitter.com/ghidraninja/status/1326857188158136320

Then that changes things, I'll be generous and say everything there takes up 1MB (SMB1 is 41kb, Lost Levels is 73kb, can't imagine the clock and Ball take up another 900kb, but I'll assume that regardless and see how close to those 7 extra mbs I can get with the games I suggested:

Mario Bros: 41kb
Super Mario 2/USA: 257kb
Super Mario 3: 385kb
Dr. Mario: 257kb
Donkey Kong Original Edition (version with all 4 levels): 65kb
Donkey Kong Junior: 25kb
Donkey Kong 3: 41kb
NES Open Tournament Golf: 257kb
Wrecking Crew: 41kb
Wario's Woods: 513kb
Yoshi: 257kb
Yoshi's Cookie: 193kb
Mario is Missing: 257kb
Mario's Time Machine: 257kb

That adds up to 2846kb, leaving still over 4mb of space for other games (or what I'd do is add all the best NES Mario hacks from there like Super Mario 3Mix or Mario Adventure). So that's pretty cool, in theory this could be like a complete NES collection of all Mario-related offerings, or I bet you could load all the NES Classic games on it and have a portable NES classic.

 

[osirisjem]

Donkey Kong Junior: 25kb

Yes please !

 

[putamierda]

@Mnecraft368 Actually it says on the twitter post it has 8Mb of storage, that means 1 megabyte, so much less space to add games, unless the person posting messed up with the lower case "b"

 

[zfreeman]

@Mnecraft368 Actually it says on the twitter post it has 8Mb of storage, that means 1 megabyte, so much less space to add games, unless the person posting messed up with the lower case "b"

You're right.

https://datasheetspdf.com/mobile-pdf/706345/MacronixInternational/MX25U8035/1

 

[gamesquest1]

I'm liking that they are using a joy-con battery to power it, as for storage, I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to just swap out the SPI chip for a slightly bigger one (granted your still pretty limited with it being an spi chip) but as long as the system is capable accepting a larger chip (I wouldn't imagine they didn't bother putting any hardware checks or anything in place) I would imagine you could make up a little 20 in 1 game system for novelties sake, but I guess the limited storage makes the system less appealing to people looking for a little emulation system, hopefully people figure out how to interface with it via usb and can reprogram it whenever they want to swap out games, would make it at least a little bit more useful, but overall its going to be limited to a novelty item rather than a fairly useful little device like the snes/nes mini consoles ended up being useful as a emulator box