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archive: Console hacking at the 23C3 in Berlin.
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I attended the 23C3 here in Berlin over the last few days and had a super time. While themed around "Who can you trust?", the 23C3 was more a hackers mecca than an ethically pointed security conference; a festival celebrating media and technology reclamation where the right to repurpose and dissect technology is considered inseparable from the right to learn from it. The 23C3 conference leaves no proverbial stone unturned, positing phones, routers, RFID tags.. even languages, bodies and minds as welcome fodder.
4500 people converged upon the Berliner Conference Center, which doesn't shut over the course of 4 days at all. Walking around the brimming hacker lounges you barely come across a single laptop without a UNIX terminal in focus. Talks and workshops run into the night and parties follow on for the duration of the festival.
On day two I attended the one hour Console hacking lecture by legendary console hacker Felix Domke. He gave an entertaining presentation to about a 1000 hackers on the current state of getting homebrew code - your own games - running on the XBox 360, the Wii and the PS3. Read on for the low down.
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tech: PS2 modchips now legal in Australia
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A couple of years ago Sony tried to pull a "Games are just like digital music, because they're digital" citing the DMCA in an Australian Lower Court case against PS2 modchips salesman, 'Stevens' . These modchips allowed folk to use the hardware they'd bought to play games legally aquired in another region (like the US or Japan).
Eventually the matter was escalated to the High Court that promptly ruled in his favour on the grounds that technology native to PS2's used to stop people playing games , are not "technological prevention measures" in the same way that copy-protection can be considered so. In short, because copyright is not at stake here, the case against modifying this hardware had no merit on grounds of copyright breach. In the end, Stevens is spared from a lynching and the sale of mod-chips is apparently no longer considered an evil.
Sony is a contradictory and multiheaded creature,at one point they are trying to stopping you run games bought in other countries on DMCA like grounds, at another turn they are helping you circumvent their own digital music protection..
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The commodore 64 holds a special place in most gamers hearts. The combination of cool looking, and cooler sounding games, was a winner.
The heart of that distinctive synth sound was the SID chip, and now with a bit(?) of work you can transform your aging C64 into a midi trigged monster.
MidiBox SID
Awesome!
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archive: Three Virtual Artists Books for Gameboy Advance
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