Of TMDs and hardware

Bushing has written a lengthy article on the topic of TMD hacking.

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Most of you probably remember our infamous attempt to open a line of communication with Nintendo. We chose that bug because a previous attempt at communication had failed — we had thought that them fixing the strncmp bug in the System Menu’s IOS could cause the system menu to brick when it tried to load the banner for the Homebrew Channel. I emailed them about that in March, 2008 (right after IOS37 was released), and never got a response. Thinking maybe I’d failed to find the right email address, we tried again with another bug. We chose that bug because 1. We could position it as a piracy-related concern, and Nintendo has some channels for reporting piracy 2. We didn’t really care if they fixed the bug, since it wasn’t really that useful for legitimate homebrew 3. There was probably not much they could do to fix it, anyway, since it was more of a design flaw

To read the entire article, click HERE.