Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU • Hacker News Board

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by dmm » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:10 PM UTC

tiku wrote: post #4

guiomie wrote: post #3

That is one classy lab.

the lab has broken down.. #mirror?

blogspot.co.uk, aka Google, is down?

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by chrisBob » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:18 PM UTC

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #7

It's impressive how Nintendo can continue selling heavily underpowered processors to gamers and nobody complains.

It is like the Mac/PC or Android/iPhone hardware question. If someone cares how many cores their computer has then they will probably shop for an Android phone with a fancy processor. Most Mac buyers pick "the cheap one", "the middle one", or "the fast one" and couldn't tell you how much ram, or which processor is inside their laptop.

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by maaaats » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:19 PM UTC

Wow, this is a world I've never seen before.

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by nfoz » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:38 PM UTC

That page has web buttons that overlap my scrollbar.... how is that even a thing? please make it stop.

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by jmpe » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:49 PM UTC

maaaats wrote: post #13

Wow, this is a world I've never seen before.

In you want more:

http://zeptobars.ru/en/

The nice thing is they decap old/common devices.

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by mattp123 » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:52 PM UTC

Wait, so are they actually trying to take a picture of the boot ROM used by the 3DS?

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by robin_reala » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 1:58 PM UTC

nfoz wrote: post #14

That page has web buttons that overlap my scrollbar .... how is that even a thing? please make it stop.

Not sure you actually want to know, but it’s not the page that has the scrollbar here but an inner div with overflow-y:scroll;

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by rquirk » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 2:00 PM UTC

nfoz wrote: post #14

That page has web buttons that overlap my scrollbar .... how is that even a thing? please make it stop.

In Firefox at least, you can open the post from the RSS feed and read it without Javascript:

http://gaasedelen.blogspot.co.uk/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss...

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by ansible » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 2:03 PM UTC

guiomie wrote: post #3

That is one classy lab.

That's the guy's apartment. I guess he lives and breaths electronics (but not the fumes, he has an exhaust for soldering).

Nice setup. I was almost expecting an RF anechoic chamber for the bedroom. The bonus would be you can shut the door, and it would be a very quiet sleeping space.

Re: Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPU

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Post by captainmuon » Thu, Mar 27, 2014, 2:20 PM UTC

This is incredibly awesome work, and I envy students who can actually take a course in this stuff!

However it makes me realize in what kind of weirdly antagonistic society we live. In an ideal universe, you could just ask the Nintendo engineers for the chip layouts, or for the boot ROM. It reminds me of a documentary I saw the other day where they tested the chicken content of chicken salad. Again, in an ideal universe, you could just ask the manufacturer. Of course that would be naive in the real world, since manufacturers and consumers have different interests. Most of the time we don't notice anything weird about this. A bit of competition is usually considered a good thing. But every now and then I have a WTF moment... Why are we working against each other? How much productivity do we loose through duplication of effort? Are the losses from this smaller or bigger than the gains from healthy competition? I have no great answer for that...

Oh and sorry for hijacking the comment area for a rant about the world and so on ;-).