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Wii-Sporting, Foot-Pedaless Foot Pedal Hits The Boston Globe
2:40AM Brian Crecente | The Boston Globe has a short but sweet piece in their paper today about the man behind the Nintendo Wii hack that turns a remote into a wireless foot pedal of sorts. More »
.hack Is Coming Back On PSP
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmation on the next video game episode long-running, but niche appealing .hack series from CyberConnect. .hack//LINK is making the jump from manga to the PSP in 2009. More »
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RC Remote Hack Uses Balance Board, Wii Remote, iPhone As Controllers
4:30AM Brian Crecente | As my son said when he caught a gander at these hacks, “This is really cool!” More »
DSi Hacked?
2:00AM Brian Crecente | Reader WiZZLa sent us a link to this YouTube video that purports to show a proof of concept for hacking the DSi. In the video you can see a little white box floating around on the top screen that reads “Yasu Software Hello World”. Not that sexy, but when you realise it’s just a toe in the door, it becomes a lot sexier. More »
The Chrono Trigger Marriage Proposal Hacks
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Ah yes, to be a nerd and in love. Instead of a pedestrian proposal, an individual known as TheRealPfhreak hacked Chrono Trigger to ask for his girlfriend’s hand. There’s a clip of the hack, and it’s on the long side, so if your attention span is as short as ours, skip ahead to around the 6:20 mark for the money shot. Here’s TheRealPfhreak: On October 17th, 2008, I proposed to my (now) Fiance. Originally I wanted to return to the site of our first date, Mount Baker, near Bellingham Washington. Sadly, there was no discrete way to get her out there. So I turned to the next best thing, digitally recreating the mountain! More »
