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Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak”

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164 points sjuut | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 20:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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Razengan ◴[19 Jul 25 00:37 UTC] No.44611436[source]▶
Sort of a related tangent:

Some of the best gaming time in my life has been on handheld consoles, even when the games were available on PC or TV.

I wish there was a modern platform (not just a hobbyist Raspberry Pi kit or something) in the Switch or DS form factor, that boots straight into a coding environment like the legendary Commodore 64 and other "computer-consoles" of that era, with a central app store for indie devs to publish to for free. Add in dedicated support from a game engine like Godot, and I think something like that could spark a renaissance of solo devs/buddy teams experimenting with new game ideas and stuff.

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1. crims0n ◴[19 Jul 25 12:59 UTC] No.44615135[source]▶
I think the golden years for this were around the PSP/DS homebrew scene circa 2006. I have some really fond memories of following the latest developments in the community, experimenting with toolchains, and general learning about programming and hardware.I was kinda playing around with C before this, but the scene really sparked a lifelong interest.