Gaming Hacks

Gaming Hacks

by Simon Carless
Released October 2004
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9780596007140

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Book description

It doesn't take long for an avid--or just wickedly clever--gamer to be chafed by the limitations of videogame software or hardware. If you want to go far beyond the obvious--whether you want to modify your console controller to work on other consoles, create your own text adventure, or modify your Game Boy--there's an awful lot of fun you can have for cheap or free, using the creative exploits of the gaming gurus. Gaming Hacks is the indispensable guide to cool things gamers can do to create, modify, and hack videogame hardware and software. Everything from social exploits and tips to be used in MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) to soldering-iron heavy hardware hacks is covered in this extreme-cool hack guide written by gamers for gamers. Gaming Hacks offers a stunning variety of hacks, exploits, and other creative acts on both modern and archaic console hardware and today's PC hardware--one hundred detailed, ingenious hacks are included. Gaming Hacks also includes detailed software-based looks at MMO (massively multiplayer) titles, FPS (first-person shooter) games, machinima (real-time movies created using game engines), emulation, save-game hacking, and many other miscellaneous subgenres and topics. Gaming Hacks shows hardcore gamers how to configure the best FPS peripherals, hack the Nuon DVD Player/Gaming System, modify their Game Boy, watch movies and listen to music and their Sega Dreamcast, and much, much more. Gaming Hacks shows you how to do things you didn't know could be done. If you want more than your average gamer--you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, make your games do what you want them to do Gaming Hacks will show you how. You don't need to be gaming guru to pick up Gaming Hacks; you'll be one when you put it down.

Table of contents

  1. Gaming Hacks
    1. Credits
      1. About the Author
      2. Contributors
      3. Acknowledgments
    2. Foreword
    3. Preface
      1. Why Gaming Hacks?
      2. How to Use This Book
      3. How This Book Is Organized
      4. Conventions Used in This Book
      5. Using Code Examples
      6. Comments and Questions
      7. Got a Hack?
    4. 1. Playing Classic Games
      1. Hacks 1-18
      2. Legal Emulation
        1. Homebrew and Freely Distributable Games
        2. Officially Permitted Abandonware Titles
        3. Officially Distributed Emulators
        4. Balancing Copyright with Fair Use
      3. Play Commodore 64 Games Without the C-64
        1. Installing VICE
        2. Loading Disk Images
        3. Configuring Joystick Emulation
        4. Finding Games
      4. Play Atari ROMs Without the Atari
        1. Installing Stella
        2. Launching ROMs
        3. See Also
      5. Use Atari Paddles with Your PC
        1. Finding a 2600 Paddle Controller
        2. Atari 2600 Paddle to Joystick Port Adapter
        3. Atari 2600 to USB Stelladaptor with z26 Emulator
        4. JAKKS Atari Paddle Controller TV Game
      6. Run Homebrew Games on the Atari 2600
        1. Oldest of the Old
          1. Starpath Atari 2600 Supercharger
          2. Schell’s Electronics Cuttle Cart
          3. Schell’s Electronics Cuttle Cart 2 for Atari 7800/2600.
          4. Atari 2600 custom homebrew carts
          5. Homemade Atari 2600 multicartridge
        2. Multicarts
      7. Create Your Own Atari 2600 Homebrew Games
        1. Creating Homebrew 2600 Games
          1. Using 2600 custom level creation tools
          2. Changing graphics in existing games
          3. Coding 2600 titles from scratch
        2. The Best 2600 Homebrew Games
          1. SCSIcide by Joe Grand
          2. Marble Craze by Paul Slocum
          3. Oystron by Piero Cavina
          4. Warring Worms by Billy Eno
          5. Skeleton+ by Eric Ball
      8. Play Classic PC Graphic Adventures
        1. Running ScummVM
        2. Alternative Operating Systems and a Scumm LiveCD
        3. Rescumming Mac OS Originals
        4. Recommended ScummVM-Compatible Games
          1. Sam & Max Hit The Road
          2. The Secret Of Monkey Island
          3. Loom
          4. Flight of The Amazon Queen
        5. ScummVM as a Platform
      9. Play Old Games Through DOSBox
        1. Getting Started
        2. Installing Games
        3. This Thing Runs Too Slow!
        4. Editing dosbox.conf
        5. It’s Easier than It Sounds
      10. Play Reissued All-in-One Joystick Games
        1. Atari 10-in-1 TV Game
        2. Namco 5-in-1 TV Games
        3. Intellivision 10/25-in-1 TV Games
        4. Even Better Than the Real Thing?
      11. Play Arcade Games Without the Arcade
        1. MAME Basics
        2. Alternative Tips for MAME Goodness
          1. Hardware specs sometimes matter
          2. Some games have dependencies
          3. You can sometimes stop the world
        3. Fixing Framerate Woes
          1. Increase frameskip
          2. Disable sound
          3. Choose a lower resolution
        4. Arcade Monitor-Like Output
        5. Contributing Back to the MAME Community
        6. MAGE for MAME burnouts
      12. Add and Manipulate a MAME Frontend
        1. AdvanceMenu
          1. Flyers
          2. Video previews
          3. Flyers as screensavers
          4. Add a completely different emulator altogether
        2. Alternatives to AdvanceMenu
          1. MAME32, a Windows-based all-in-one solution
          2. 3DArcade, the high-end virtual reality approach
          3. MacMAME
          4. Ultrastyle
          5. ArcadeOS
          6. QMame
      13. Keep Your ROMs Tidy and Organized
        1. ROM Management Tools
        2. Analyzing DAT File Details
        3. Emulator DAT Conversion with DatUtil
        4. Analyzing the Best Master ROM Databases
      14. Learn Game-Specific MAME Controls
        1. A Work in Progress
        2. An Example Controls.dat Entry
        3. Frontends That Integrate Controls.dat Correctly
      15. Filter Inappropriate MAME ROMs
        1. MARRT, Your Friendly Neighborhood MAME Adult Filter
        2. ROM Filtering Alternatives
      16. Autoboot into MAME Heaven
        1. The Abundance of Self-Boot MAME Choices
          1. AdvanceCD
          2. KnoppiXMAME
          3. XMAME on CD
        2. AdvanceCD Tips and Tricks
          1. Bundling and burning the image
          2. Running the CD
      17. Play Emulated Arcade Games Online
        1. Introducing the Kaillera Middleware
        2. Troubleshooting Kaillera Play
        3. Selected Kaillera-Compatible Emulators
          1. Kawaks
          2. NESten
          3. WinUAE Kaillera
          4. Bliss
        4. Stats, Damned Stats, and Kaillera Stats
      18. Play Classic Pinball Without the Table
        1. The Magic of VPinMAME
        2. VPinMAME Installation
        3. VPinMAME Games of Choice
          1. The Addams Family
          2. White Water
          3. The Twilight Zone
          4. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
        4. Loading and Playing VPinMAME Games
        5. A Short Legal Note
      19. Emulate the SNES on the Dreamcast
        1. DreamSNES
        2. The Best of the Rest Dreamcast Emulators
          1. Dream-O-Rama
          2. DCFrotz
          3. MDCNG
          4. DreamZZT
    5. 2. Playing Portably
      1. Hacks 19-27
      2. Play Games on Your iPod
        1. The iPod Gaming Concept
        2. Playing Existing iPod Games
        3. Making Your Own iPod Games
          1. The iPod Notes format
          2. Tricks and limitations
          3. A short example
        4. Limitations Breed Creativity
      3. Mod Your Game Boy
        1. Game Boy Advance AfterBurner
        2. Bass Sound Modding the Game Boy Color
      4. Take and Print Photos with Your Game Boy
        1. Introducing the Game Boy Camera and Printer
        2. Taking the Best Pictures Possible
        3. Transferring Pictures to Your PC
          1. The Game Boy Xchanger
          2. Commercially built printer emulator cables
          3. Homebrew printer emulator cables
          4. Take pictures of your Game Boy’s screen
        4. Maximize Snaps with a GB Mega-Memory Card
        5. Adding Color to Your Black-and-White Images
      5. Compose Music on Your Game Boy
        1. Introducing Little Sound Dj
        2. Running Your Music Editor
        3. Getting Started with Little Sound Dj
          1. Creating some noise
        4. See Also
      6. Explore the GP32 Handheld Gaming System
        1. GP32 Hardware Details
        2. Software and Hardware Overclocking
        3. Installing the Alternate Wind-ups Operating System
        4. The Best Original Homebrew GP32 Software
        5. The Brightest Emulators and Conversions on the GP32
      7. Take Your Console with You
        1. Finding Obscure Official Portables and Add-ons
          1. Sega Nomad
          2. NEC Turbo Express
        2. Finding Arcane Unofficial Portables and Add-ons
          1. Game Axe: Famicom/NES
          2. Game Theory Admiral: Famicom
          3. Other odd options
        3. Rolling Your Own Portable Console
      8. Explore the Bandai WonderSwan
        1. Many Hardware Models, Much Confusion
          1. WonderSwan (a.k.a. WonderSwan B&W)
          2. WonderSwan Color
          3. SwanCrystal
        2. The WonderWitch Homebrew Development System
        3. WonderWitch Alternatives
        4. Bored of Hacking? Try Playing!
      9. Play Real Games on Your PDA
        1. PocketPC Versus Palm
        2. PocketPC Emulation Options
        3. Palm and Tapwave Zodiac Emulation Options
      10. Install a PlayStation 2 in Your Car
        1. Cars and Console-Connection Power Issues
        2. Choosing a Monitor
    6. 3. Playing Well with Others
      1. Hacks 28-34
      2. Practice Proper MMORPG Etiquette
        1. Social Interaction
        2. The Darker Side of Social Interaction
        3. Being a Courteous Player
        4. Loot
      3. Understand MMORPG Lingo
      4. Grind Without Going Crazy
        1. Preparing for the Grind
          1. Buffs and debuffs
          2. Tools
        2. Location, Location, Location
          1. EverQuest
          2. Final Fantasy XI
          3. Star Wars Galaxies
          4. Grinding guidelines
      5. Make a Profit in Vana’diel
        1. Questing for Profits
        2. Dealing with Vendors
        3. Auction Houses
          1. Farming items
          2. Timing the system
          3. Muling
      6. Write MMORPG Macros
        1. Star Wars Galaxies Macros
          1. Bleed pull
          2. AFK combat
          3. Healing
          4. Crafting
          5. AFK entertainer
        2. Final Fantasy XI Macros
          1. Stat ping
          2. Aggro warning
          3. Pull announcement
          4. Spell macros
          5. Group spell announcement
      7. Build an Effective Group
        1. Finding a Group
        2. Setting Out
        3. Combat Techniques
        4. On the Hunt
        5. Distributing Loot Equitably
        6. Working with Other Groups
        7. Taking Your Leave
      8. Catch Half-Life FPS Cheaters Redhanded
        1. Identifying Cheats
        2. Stopping Cheaters with Anticheat Software
          1. Cheating-Death
          2. HLGuard
          3. Valve Anticheating System (VAC)
        3. Identifying Cheaters by Behavior Alone
          1. Spotting a wallhack cheater
          2. Spotting an aimbot cheater
        4. Identifying Other Cheats
    7. 4. Playing with Hardware
      1. Hacks 35-46
      2. Build a Quiet, Killer Gaming Rig
        1. Understanding Noise
          1. Using an SPL meter
        2. Choosing Soundproof and Quiet Components
        3. Reducing Component Noise
          1. Power supply unit
          2. CPU fan
          3. GPU fan
          4. Case fans
          5. Hard drives
        4. See Also
      3. Find and Configure the Best FPS Peripherals
        1. Mousin’ Around
          1. Mouse configuration
        2. Keyboardin’ Around
        3. Monitorin’ Around
      4. Adapt Old Video Game Controllers to the PC
        1. The Easy Way: Buying Adapters
        2. The Hard Way: Building an Xbox-to-PC Adapter
        3. The Hardest Way: Building a PlayStation-to-PC Adapter
      5. Choose the Right Audio/Video Receiver
        1. Understanding Audio Processing
        2. Choosing a Home A/V Receiver
          1. Signs of quality components
          2. Audio power consideration
          3. Audio/video switching
      6. Place Your Speakers Properly
        1. Check Your Wiring
        2. Speaker Placement
          1. Surround sound speaker placement
          2. Rearrange your room
        3. Reducing Noise
        4. Hardware Settings
          1. Subwoofer settings
      7. Connect Your Console to Your Home Theater
        1. Sony PlayStation 2
        2. Microsoft Xbox
        3. Nintendo GameCube
        4. Conclusion
      8. Tune Console Video Output
        1. Video Connection Types
        2. High Definition Games Database
        3. Hooking Up Your Consoles
          1. Sony Playstation 2
          2. Microsoft Xbox
          3. Nintendo GameCube
      9. Tune Your TV for Console Video
        1. Setting Up Your Television the Right Way
        2. ISF Calibration
        3. Make Your Monitor Remember
      10. PC Audio Hacking
        1. Connecting to an Existing Home Theater
      11. Optimize PC Video Performance
        1. Buying the Right Video Card
        2. LCD Monitors
        3. Calibrating Your Display
        4. Setting Up the Optimum Playing Environment
      12. Build a Dedicated Multimedia PC
        1. Sound Equipment
        2. Connecting Your Consoles
        3. Audio Alternatives
      13. Use a Multimedia Projector for Gaming
        1. Projector-Purchasing Criteria
        2. Hacking a Business Projector for Home Use
        3. Setting Up a Budget Projection Screen
    8. 5. Playing with Console and Arcade Hardware
      1. Hacks 47-62
      2. Play LAN-Only Console Games Online
        1. Why Do You Need Console Tunneling?
        2. GameCube Options
        3. Xbox Options: XLink Versus XBConnect
        4. PlayStation 2 Tunneling
        5. The Future of Tunneling
      3. Hack the Nuon DVD Player/Gaming System
        1. Nuon’s Short Life and Resurrectory Jaunt
        2. Picking the Choicest Nuon Hardware
        3. Commercial and Homebrew Nuon Software
        4. The Nuon Boot Loader
      4. Play Import Games on American Consoles
        1. Nintendo Hardware
          1. Nintendo Entertainment System
          2. Super Nintendo Entertainment System
          3. Nintendo 64
          4. Nintendo GameCube
          5. Game Boy series
        2. Sega Hardware
          1. Sega Master System
          2. Sega Genesis
          3. Sega CD
          4. Sega Saturn
          5. Dreamcast
          6. Game Gear and Sega Nomad
        3. Sony Hardware
          1. PlayStation or PSone
          2. PlayStation 2
        4. Other Hardware
          1. TurboGrafx-16 or Turbo Duo
          2. 3DO
          3. SNK Neo Geo
          4. Microsoft Xbox
        5. Conclusion
      5. Find a Hackable Dreamcast
        1. Dreamcast History
        2. Getting the Right Dreamcast Version and Accessories
      6. Play Movies and Music on Your Dreamcast
        1. Watching Movies
        2. Playing Music
        3. Playing DC Music Without a TV
      7. Hack the Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit
        1. VMU History
        2. Acquiring Your VMU
        3. Arming Your VMU
        4. Choosing the Best VMU Games
      8. Unblur Your Dreamcast Video
      9. Use Your Dreamcast Online
        1. Finding the Right Hardware
        2. Choosing a DC Web Browser
        3. The Dreamcast for Network Infiltration
      10. Host Dreamcast Games Online
        1. Quake III
        2. Phantasy Star Online
      11. Burn Dreamcast-Compatible Discs on Your PC
      12. Burn Dreamcast Homebrew Discs
        1. Self-Booting DC Menu Systems for Homebrew Games
        2. Self-Booting DC Menu Systems
        3. The Best DC Homebrew Titles
          1. Beats Of Rage
          2. Ghetto Pong
          3. Alice
          4. Feet Of Fury
          5. RobotFindsKitten
      13. Buy Your Own Arcade Hardware
        1. Arcade Cabinet Hardware Basics
        2. Finding a JAMMA Arcade Cabinet
          1. Buying used U.S. JAMMA cabinets
          2. Buying used Japanese JAMMA cabinets
          3. Building your own JAMMA cabinet
      14. Configure Your Arcade Controls, Connectors, and Cartridges
        1. Arcade Control Panel Variations
          1. Basic, default three-button JAMMA
          2. SNK’s Neo Geo extended button configuration
          3. Capcom extra buttons
          4. Four-player extended JAMMA
          5. Choosing the right variation
      15. Reorient and Align Your Arcade Monitor
        1. Monitor Orientation
          1. Software rotation
          2. Physical rotation
        2. Screen Resolution
      16. Buy Cart-Based JAMMA Boards
        1. Major JAMMA Cartridge-Based Systems
          1. Neo Geo MVS
          2. Sega ST-V
          3. Capcom CPS2
          4. Other systems
        2. Buying JAMMA Systems and Carts
          1. eBay
          2. Hong Kong or Japanese arcade dealers
          3. Specialist message boards
      17. Programming Music for the Nintendo Entertainment System
        1. MCK/MML Workspace Setup
          1. Organize MCK/MML workspace
          2. Create and modify files
        2. Generating the NSF File
        3. Basic Song Setup
          1. Header credits
          2. Channel layout
          3. Tempo settings
          4. Volume settings
        4. Pulse Wave Channels (A and B)
          1. Duty cycle
          2. Programming
        5. Triangle Wave Channel (C)
        6. Noise Channel (D)
          1. Initializing and programming
        7. DPCM Channel (E)
          1. Creating DPCM samples
          2. Initializing and programming
        8. See Also
    9. 6. Playing Around the Game Engine
      1. Hacks 63-78
      2. Explore Machinima
        1. Isn’t That a Kind of Japanese Pornography?
        2. The Best Machinima Anywhere
        3. See Also
      3. Choose a Machinima Engine
        1. What Do You Need?
          1. Actors or programs
          2. Beg, build, borrow, or steal
          3. Demo or movie
        2. A Little Bit of This and That
          1. Included content
          2. The game community
          3. Available engine features
        3. Machinima Engine Recommendations
          1. Quake 2
          2. Half-Life
          3. Unreal Tournament 2004
          4. Neverwinter Nights
          5. Halo
          6. Half-Life 2
        4. All Dressed Up
      4. Film Your First Machinima Movie
        1. Put All Your Dominos in a Row
        2. The Practice of Acting
        3. Get That Demon Off My Set!
        4. Next Step, Garage Kubrick
      5. Improve Your Camera Control
        1. Changing Quake’s Yaw Speed
        2. Yaw Speed Step-Down Bindings
        3. See Also
      6. Record Game Footage to Video
        1. From PC to Video
        2. Alternatives to TV-Out
        3. See Also
      7. Speedrun Your Way Through Metroid Prime
        1. Speedrunning Basics
        2. Route Planning
        3. Speeding as Metroid’s Samus
          1. Metroid
          2. Metroid Prime
      8. Sequence-Break Quake
        1. Sequence Breaking in Speedruns
        2. Sequence-Breaking Quake
          1. Easy skill
          2. Nightmare skill
          3. Easy 100%
        3. Other Games
      9. Run Classic Game ROM Translations
        1. ROM Translation Legality
        2. Finding ROM Translation Groups and Sites
      10. Change Games with ROM Hacks
        1. The Best Individual ROM Hacks Ever
        2. Analyzing Level Hack Editing Software
      11. Apply ROM Hacks and Patches
        1. Direct IPS File Patching
        2. Emulator-Based IPS Autopatching
        3. The Best ROM Hack Repositories
      12. Create PS2 Cheat Codes
        1. Variable Hacking on the PlayStation 2
        2. Creating Your Own Codes
        3. When Is Gameshark Not Gameshark?
        4. See Also
      13. Hack Xbox Game Saves
        1. Xbox Memory Devices
        2. Making Your Own Mega X-Key
        3. Forbidden Fruit: More Extreme Xbox Save Hacking
        4. See Also
      14. Cheat on Other Consoles
        1. GameCube Variable Hacking
          1. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker hacks
          2. Animal Crossing hosted game hacks
          3. Super Smash Bros. Melee hacks
        2. Nintendo 64 Variable Hacking
        3. Game Boy/Game Boy Advance Hacking
        4. Old-School SNES, Genesis, and NES Hacking
      15. Modify PC Game Saves and Settings
        1. PC Game Hacking Overview
        2. PC Game Hacking Using Memory Finders
      16. Buff Your Saved Characters
        1. Code Disassembly for PC Game Hacking
        2. Packet Editors and Hacking
        3. Hacking Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver
      17. Create Console Game Levels
        1. Tony Hawk Series
        2. WWE Smackdown Series
        3. TimeSplitters Series
    10. 7. Playing Your Own Games
      1. Hacks 79-93
      2. Adventure Game Studio Editing Tips
        1. AGS Basics
        2. Running the AGS Editor
        3. Some of the Finest AGS-Created Games
      3. Create and Play Pinball Tables
        1. Visual Pinball Overview
        2. Editing Basics
        3. Further Table-Creation Resources
        4. Original Homebrew Tables
          1. F1
          2. The Great Rock N Roll Swindle
          3. Inner City Life
          4. Fight Night
      4. Put Your Face in DOOM
        1. Finding DOOM
        2. How WADs Work
        3. Replacing an Image
        4. Building a PWAD
        5. Launching Your New PWAD
      5. Create a Vehicle Model for Unreal Tournament 2004
        1. Modeling Considerations
        2. Creating Skeletons
        3. Exporting with ActorX
        4. A Brief Introduction to UnrealEd
        5. Importing Textures
        6. Importing Meshes
        7. Assigning Textures
        8. Assigning Collision Boxes
        9. “Rigidizing” the Mesh
        10. The Rest of the Story
      6. Add a Vehicle to Unreal Tournament 2004
        1. Creating a Class for the ‘Cuda
        2. Making Your Car Use the ‘Cuda Model
        3. Placing Your Car in a Map to Test
      7. Modify the Behavior of a UT2004 Model
        1. What Is Nitrous?
        2. Physics of the Nitrous Boost
        3. Triggering the Nitrous Boost
        4. Adding the Tailpipe Fire
        5. Hacking the Hack
      8. Download, Compile, and Create an Inform Adventure
        1. Modern IF Tools
        2. Creating a World
        3. The First Room
        4. The Second Room
      9. Decorate Your IF Rooms
        1. Something You Can’t Touch
        2. Something to Toss Around
        3. Something Mutable
        4. Making New Actions Obvious to the Player
      10. Add Puzzles to Your IF Games
        1. Designing the Puzzle
        2. Restricted Treasure
        3. On Sensor Fountains
      11. Add Nonplayer Characters to IF Adventures
        1. Discovering the Need for a Character
        2. Giving the Access Controller Some Personality
      12. Make Your IF NPCs Move
        1. Designing a Mobile Character
        2. Moving the Daemon Around
      13. Make Your IF NPCs Talk
        1. Detailing NPC Conversation
        2. See Also
      14. Create Your Own Animations
        1. Installing Python and PyGame
        2. Drawing Frames
          1. All about surfaces
          2. All about rectangles
          3. Applying rectangles to surfaces
        3. Drawing Images
        4. Simple Animation
        5. See Also
      15. Add Interactivity to Your Animations
        1. PyGame Input
        2. The Main Loop
        3. The Player Object
          1. Initialization
          2. Movement
          3. Drawing
        4. The Rest of the Code
        5. Movement Strategies
      16. Write a Game in an Afternoon
        1. Introduction and Initialization
        2. The Main Loop
        3. Input and Motion
        4. Collision Detection
        5. Game Objects
          1. The Player
          2. The Ball
          3. The Door
        6. Everything Else
        7. Hacking the Hack
    11. 8. Playing Everything Else
      1. Hacks 94-100
      2. Tweak Your Tactics for FPS Glory
        1. Move Wisely
          1. Keep a low profile
          2. Zig to the zag
          3. Back out of unfair conflict
          4. Be vewy quiet
        2. Attack Tactically
          1. The art of the circle strafe
          2. Grenade in the hole!
        3. Know Your Environment
          1. Learn pickup locations for fun and profit
          2. Go on, just learn the entire level
      3. Beat Any Shoot-Em-Up
        1. General Shmup Tips and Tactics
        2. Shmup Dodging Techniques
        3. Bombing Techniques
        4. Chaining and Scoring Techniques
        5. See Also
      4. Drive a Physics-Crazed Motorcycle
        1. Introducing the New Bike Ballet Flava
        2. Achieving World Record Times
        3. Hacking Elasto Mania Any Way You Can
        4. Running Elasto Mania on Alternative Operating Systems
      5. Play Japanese Games Without Speaking Japanese
        1. Ignoring Translation Altogether
        2. Understanding Japanese Writing
        3. The Most Important Game-Related Katakana
      6. Back Up, Modify, and Restore PlayStation Saved Games
        1. PlayStation 1 Memory Card Hacking
          1. Extracting saved games
          2. Editing saved games
          3. Finding saved games online
        2. PlayStation 2 Memory Card Hacking
          1. Extracting saved games
          2. Editing saved games
        3. Finding Saved Games Online
      7. Access Your Console’s Memory Card Offline
        1. GameCube Memory Card
          1. Extracting saved games
          2. Editing saved games
          3. Finding saved games online
        2. Xbox Memory Card Copying
          1. Extracting saved games
          2. Editing and finding saved games
        3. Other Memory Card Copying Options
          1. Sega Dreamcast
          2. Nintendo 64
          3. Game Boy/Game Boy Advance
      8. Overclock Your Console
        1. Overclocking Your Nintendo 64
        2. Sega Genesis Overclocking
        3. Further Console Overclocking Fun
    12. Index
    13. Colophon

Product information

  • Title: Gaming Hacks
  • Author(s): Simon Carless
  • Release date: October 2004
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780596007140