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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
The worldwide video game console market surpassed $10 billion in 2003. Current sales of new consoles is consolidated around 3 major companies and their proprietary platforms: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. In addition, there is an enormous installed "retro gaming" base of Ataria and Sega console enthusiasts. This book, written by a team led by Joe Grand, author of "Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty", provides hard-core gamers with they keys to the kingdom: specific instructions on how to crack into their console and make it do things it was never designed to do. By definition, video console game players like to have fun. Most of them are addicted to the adrenaline rush associated with "winning", and even more so when the "winning" involves beating the system by discovering the multitude of "cheats" built into most video games. Now, they can have the ultimate adrenaline rush---actually messing around with the soul of the machine and configuring it to behave exactly as the command. This book builds on the motto of "Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty" and will appeal to the community of hardware geeks who associate unscrewing the back of their video console with para-jumping into the perfect storm. * Providing a reliable, field-tested guide to hacking all of the most popular video gaming consoles. * Written by some of the most knowledgeable and recognizable names in the hardware hacking community. * Game Console Hacking is the first book on the market to show game enthusiasts (self described hardware geeks) how to disassemble, reconfigure, customize and re-purpose their Atari, Sega, Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox systems |
| Contents |
Tools of the warranty-voiding trade -- Case modifications : building an Atari 2600PC -- The Xbox -- PlayStation 2 -- Nintendo Game Boy advance -- Gamepark 32 (GP32) -- Nintendo NES -- Atari 2600 -- Atari 5200 -- Atari 7800. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Video games -- Equipment and supplies.
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Jeux vidéo -- Appareils et matériel.
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- General.
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- User Generated Content.
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COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia.
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- Site Design.
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Video games -- Equipment and supplies
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Thornton, Frank.
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Yarusso, Albert.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grand, Joe. Game console hacking. Rockland, Mass. : Syngress, 2004 1931836310 (OCoLC)56652991 |
| ISBN |
1597490016 (electronic bk.) |
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9781597490016 (electronic bk.) |
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9780080532318 (electronic bk.) |
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0080532314 (electronic bk.) |
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1281019917 |
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9781281019912 |
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9786611019914 |
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661101991X |
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9781931836319 |
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1931836310 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000051860158 |
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AU@ 000053240671 |
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AU@ 000054157305 |
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CHBIS 005829425 |
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CHNEW 001004738 |
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CHVBK 168403188 |
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DEBBG BV042307366 |
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DEBBG BV043118145 |
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DEBBG BV043968292 |
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DEBBG BV044078922 |
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DEBSZ 405314035 |
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DEBSZ 422364762 |
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DEBSZ 430271379 |
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DEBSZ 485787849 |
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GBVCP 801205093 |
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GBVCP 882748556 |
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NZ1 12008138 |
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NZ1 12433753 |
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NZ1 15190380 |
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