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Hackers got to hack?

While my technical exploits are no where near this - I love reading about people doing odd and difficult things for fun.

(As a young teen who was obsessed with Road Rash on the Sega Game Gear, I wrote down every single save code, after every game I played, along with what I had (bike, level and cash) - after a week or so of doing this I worked out the save code and was able to give myself any level, bike or money by manually tweaking the code. I am sure that I am not the only person that discovered this, but at the time I felt like a god and enjoyed racing the later levels with the worst bikes etc. - sometimes it's just fun to do something because you can.)


See, that's what I actually mean :)

I expanded in a sub-comment: I am not challenging that it was done, I would like to hear about the motivation to do it.

There's no purpose for the result described on Github, and also no background why it was done.

I have no value to run Windows NT on a Gamecube, but I would surely enjoy the story on why it came to be :)


To port advanced new games like Minesweeper and Solitaire to their Gamecube. Freecell is indispensable of course.


How could you forget about Pinball?!?


Because they could


And I like that, I'm just literally missing a small intro on the motivation at the GitHub page.

Either way, always nice to read the chain of thought which drove someone to do something- :)


To run Office 4.2 and browse the web in Internet Explorer?


There were native builds of Word and Excel for Alpha that came with 4.2 and 97, but nothing else non-x86 except for the 'pocket' versions that came with Windows CE.


unless.. HTTPS everywhere x D


There are proxies for that.

The page doesn't seem to mention the Gamecube Ethernet card or the Wii's Wi-Fi support, so it might not have any working networking, so that might be a more important issue.




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