Troyseff @Troyseff

How to catch an engineer: Step 1: Place oscilloscope. Step 2: Wait.

Men only want one thing, and it's a set of German precision screwdrivers.

EXCLUSIVE: Xbox One has finally be HACKED!! After 12 years, it was thought to be “unhackable”. Here's a summary of what it means: • Markus Gaasedelen talks at RE//verse 2026 about the Xbox One's "unhackable" security. • A decade-long unhack streak comes to an end due to a hardware glitch on the boot ROM. • Bypassed MPU jails, randomized stalls, efuse/ECC protections, and crypto chain. Achieved PC hijack, supervisor execution, full efuse/key dump, decrypted stages (SP1, SP2, 2BL, firmware). Unpatchable on original fat models. • Game preservation must be done by others (he no longer plays games and does not intend to pirate them), but this hack allows for full decryption of games, apps, and other content. • Repairs are now possible, including unbricking NANDs, fixing firmware, and decouple/repair disc drives (e.g., swaps for emulation). DIY solutions for eMMC failures which can extend console life. • Only minimal setup is needed, custom tools for power traces, I2C diagnostics, efuse reads, GPIO taps. Glitch via crowbar voltage on North Bridge rail. • Requires 3-4 wires (efuse channel, GPIO, DAT anchor), cap removal, and used AI for boot ROM emulation to simulate attacks. • Glitch rate ~1/million; during days-long campaigns. • Limited to 2013 models; later consoles (S, X, Series) have been hardened further. youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4U…

Going to take the plunge and start doing a technical journal to document my projects. They’re usually hardware-related. I’d happily welcome any advice on the subject as I dive in!

@AWeirdPhysicist Right??? “Here’s a datasheet, here’s your serial debug tty, and here’s how you program it. Now write me a comprehensive driver for this IC” and BOOM

multiple reports of ppl reviving old games, abandonware and even hardware drivers for old tech with vibe coding software remix culture just kicking off and im here for it

if you are in software, 2026 is the best year to make a pivot to hardware

@robertorobotics Incredible work!

the result of a failed difficult project is often better than a successful beginner project. don't be afraid often, what you find, is that the hard thing isn't hard at all

@MarketingMax Bro you 100% got me. Follow earned

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Beautiful! "integrated circuit of integrated circuits" youtube.com/shorts/rmhnYAk…

Great mindset - that sort of thinking is exactly how I became a real deal engineer without a degree. I've found that many gatekeepers and naysayers are just on an ego trip and scared of being surpassed by someone who didn't spend 6 years getting their 2x EE degrees. So, I'm excited to follow your progress. And you may have had it in mind in your examples, but it sounded like you were talking about funtenna from Red Balloon Security (turning a PCB trace into an antenna for data exfil). redballoonsecurity.com/resources/rese…

Great points - I appreciate you taking the time to expand on your thoughts. I think it depends a lot on how big a scope you assign your agent. You could either take the fully hands-off “do it all for me” approach, or the single-stepped “teach me how to implement this feature I'm envisioning” approach. For me and my use case, I learn better from 1:1 instruction + working examples in front of me that I can manipulate to accomplish my goals. I'd rather start with a solid jumping-off point rather than trying to fit someone else’s square pegs into my project’s round holes. To get a little specific, this week I wanted to add in a pause-and-teleport-to-cursor feature to my little GBA project. I expect I would have to spend multiple nights researching, attempting, & iterating until I got it right. But, with my agents, I could put it in Plan mode, describe exactly what I have in mind, and it creates the instructional material for me that's exactly tailored to me and my problem. Now I don't have to watch a 30-hour video series hunting for the 5 or 6 scattered clips that pertain to my goal or read the entire 171-page AGB CPU Programming Manual. I was able to immediately leverage an expert in the field to come to my deskside and walk me through all the things I needed to understand. One of my backgrounds is embedded systems development of the same architecture as the GBA, so I have a good foundation going into a project such as having my very first game being for it. But my end goals are to get the game done, share it with as many people as possible and move on to the next project. I’d also prefer to complete more than just one or two of these projects in my lifetime, and I feel like that means not getting caught up in nuanced quirks like "What's the magical incantation I need to memorize in order to swap the background layer color palette on this 25+ year old system?" But, if I change my mind down the road, then everything is still there for me to go back and reference or learn from. All that being said, I can 100% agree that completely removing critical thinking from the process is hollow & soulless - you'd be cheating yourself out of any growth that way.

@scottastevenson I love it! I’ve been building a GBA development env these past few weeks

Troyseff @Troyseff

5 months ago

Started out as "Let'ssee if I can make a GBA game with AI real quick." Now it's a full-on game dev repo with cross-target builds for GBA, Windows, & Linux from one C code base and a VSCode Extension. #GBA #gamedev

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100% agree. I'm even publishing my first game for the @modretro [776] Chromatic — coming out this summer! So many great new retro games coming... x.com/i/status/20307…

Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson

5 months ago

Underrated side-effect of AI: we are about to get a cambrian explosion of new games for retro consoles Took me 5-6 prompts to make a working game with music in assembly on SNES We’ll see “Steam for Super Nintendo” before the decade is out.

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Here we go on an adventure!

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