Hacking The DS's Wireless

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Posted by timothy on Sunday November 28, 2004 @06:53PM from the limited-but-so-what dept.

xNoLaNx writes "Darkain, maker of the remote control program for Winamp, RM-X, has been working day and night hacking the Nintendo DS and its wireless, and making a custom USB power connection for it. He has been able to monitor packets over 802.11b coming from PictoChat and more."

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Re:Clue for the clueless? (Score:3, Funny)

by mrseigen ( 518390 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @07:02PM (#10939269) Homepage Journal

Well, once we get the Pictochat protocol down we can sniff people's vapid IM conversations. Plus, the DS supports multi-boot so eventually we might be able to force game code onto it.

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Re:Clue for the clueless? (Score:5, Funny)

by unixbob ( 523657 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @07:20PM (#10939344)

That would make it an N-Gage then?

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Re:Clue for the clueless? (Score:3, Funny)

by Mechanik ( 104328 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @07:23PM (#10939357) Homepage

Cool! It would be just like a cellphone! Except it would be really expensive, not have a good form factor for this type of use. And now you can't even play games on it. ;-)

You mean like the N-Gage?

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Re:Jeez... (Score:2, Funny)

by NeoGeo64 ( 672698 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @07:25PM (#10939367) Homepage Journal

You can play Frozen Bubble wirelessly! duh :P

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Re:DS as general-purpose internet client (Score:5, Funny)

by Snowmit ( 704081 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @07:34PM (#10939399) Homepage

Please, yes! And while you're at it, make some scheduling software for so that I can claim that it's my PDA and I need it at meetings.

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Oh My Gosh. (Score:1, Funny)

by i paxed the fridge ( 835285 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @08:04PM (#10939518)

Yes! Now I can finally monitor packets with my Nintendo DS!

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Devkit for the rest of us please! (Score:5, Funny)

by shumacher ( 199043 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @08:18PM (#10939573)

Nintendo, I know you won't listen to me, but please, do what Sony did with the Aibo and release a consumer-grade development kit!

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Re:Devkit for the rest of us please! (Score:5, Funny)

by Knetzar ( 698216 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @08:49PM (#10939724)

Nintendo, I know you won't listen to me, but please, do what Sony did with the PS2 and release Linux for it!

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Re:Devkit for the rest of us please! (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @09:23PM (#10939870)

Nintendo, I know you won't listen to me, but please, do what Sony did with Michael Jackson and pretend you don't know these freaks.

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Re:travel risks... (Score:4, Funny)

by Stevyn ( 691306 ) writes: on Sunday November 28, 2004 @11:49PM (#10940432)

Now I got to worry about packet sniffing dogs when I cross the border into Mexico? Great!

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all we need... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @05:20AM (#10941263)

is a program to scan for DSes and when pictochat packets are seen, join that local network and paste nasty pictures on their screens. that'll teach those kids the importance of secure networking!

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TIAJ,S (Score:2, Funny)

by anthony_dipierro ( 543308 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @08:26AM (#10941714) Journal

making a custom USB power connection for it

Hook it up to a wireless USB adaptor and you'll have wireless power!

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Re:Clue for the clueless? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Clue for the clueless? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Clue for the clueless? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Jeez... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:DS as general-purpose internet client (Score:5, Funny)

Oh My Gosh. (Score:1, Funny)

Devkit for the rest of us please! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Devkit for the rest of us please! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Devkit for the rest of us please! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:travel risks... (Score:4, Funny)

all we need... (Score:1, Funny)

TIAJ,S (Score:2, Funny)

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