Hacker News with Generative AI: Gaming Consoles

JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023 (ret2.io)
Released in November 2001, the original Xbox was Microsoft’s first venture into the game console industry. With its hardware closely resembling a cheap but versatile PC of the early 2000s, the device came under the immediate scrutiny of technical hobbyists looking to run ‘homebrew’ code and alternative operating systems on it.

Gaming Consoles, Hardware Hacking, Microsoft Xbox

3 points by transpute 1 day ago | 0 comments

Nintendo Switch 2 (nintendo.com)

Gaming Consoles, Nintendo, Hardware

179 points by bpierre 2 days ago | 1 comments

Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360 (github.com/kooscode)
I'm fairly well versed with original XBOX and writing home-brew code for it 20 years ago, but I have since not spent much time on the XBOX 360 or XBOX One platforms beyond tons of gaming and I have always been interrested in how exactly the XBOX 360 security was defeated.

Hardware Security, Reverse Engineering, Xbox 360, Gaming Consoles, Security Research

216 points by nazgulsenpai 29 days ago | 98 comments

Scientific Computing on the Sony Playstation 2 (2003) (archive.org)
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois are exploring the use of the Sony PlayStation® 2 game console for scientific computing and high-resolution visualization.

Scientific Computing, Gaming Consoles, PlayStation, University Research, History

8 points by sandwichsphinx 39 days ago | 0 comments

Why Nintendo Chose DMP's PICA200 GPU for the 3DS (digit.in)
So, we have got ourselves a winner… the Nintendo 3DS will be the first handheld gaming platform to provide a full stereoscopic 3D gaming experience without any need of those pesky 3D glasses.

Gaming Consoles, Hardware, Nintendo, 3D

7 points by davikr 94 days ago | 0 comments

30th-anniversary limited-run PS5 and PS5 Pro bring back mid-'90s gray plastic (arstechnica.com)
Sony launched the original PlayStation console in Japan on December 3, 1994, and Sony isn't letting the 30th anniversary pass by quietly. Today the company has announced limited-edition versions of both the PS5 and PS5 Pro with gray plastic shells and multicolored PlayStation logos, inspired by the gray plastic shells of the original.