049 - Reversing Your Childhood One Game At a Time

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast

This episode Jen is hosting alone so she opted to focus on getting answers to all her Animal Crossing hacking questions by bringing in security researcher and reverse engineer, James Chambers. James discusses various projects including ones that aren’t video game based.

James did a kick ass job of sharing pretty much every single link below to get you going on hacking keyboards and Nintendo so you don’t have to waste time web searching. Plus some of them include past guests so check them out.

Logitech keyboards:

• https://youtu.be/00A36VABIA4
• https://github.com/mame82/misc/blob/master/logitech_vuln_summary.md
• https://github.com/mame82/UnifyingVulnsDisclosureRepo

Amiibo hacking stuff:

• https://github.com/socram8888/amiitool
• https://jamchamb.net/projects/amiimikyu
• Proxmark: https://proxmark.com/

Animal crossing letter system thread that changed how Jen wrote letters in ACNH.

Console tools:

• Dolphin emulator https://dolphin-emu.org/
• devkitPro: https://github.com/devkitPro
• Smash Bros mod loaded through memory card
• Loading custom ROMs & exploiting NES emulator in Animal Crossing

Console hacking stuff:

• Wii "twiizers" attack
• PS3 hacking
• Breaking the 3DS:
• Switch BootROM vulnerability
• Reversing the N64 CIC
• Hacking the GameBoy Cartridge Protection
• https://fail0verflow.com/blog/

Jen is currently crushing on PCBite probes.